Asterisk Wildcard Error

[Pooch87]

When Creating a Custom URL Category, I am entering a wildcard infront of the url *lans.com.au

However when attempting to apply this wildcard, I am getting this error

URLBlock -> list '*lans.com.au' is invalid. Consecutive asterisks (*) in a URL wildcard pattern can severely impact performance and is not supported. Instead, use a single asterisk or multiple carets (^) to indicate consecutive tokens. To learn more about wildcard entries, go to: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/url-filtering-wildcards. URLBlock -> list is invalid

[JoeAndreini · Accepted solution]

I suspect the error you are seeing is misleading.

from the page you linked: "Wildcard characters must be the only character within a token" - "*lans" would be an invalid token

Do you mean "*.lans" or maybe more accurately "^.lans"

[Remo]

Hi @Pooch87

As @JoeAndreini already wrote, the asteriks needs to be the only character in a token. Tokens are separated by one of these characters: . / ? & = ; +

So your example would be valid like this: *.lans.com.au

This is probably not what you want to filter on. So you have to create a custom application. This way you are able to use exactly this filter which gives you the mentionned error with the url filtering feature.