Blocking by AppID don't work as expected

[User_333]

Hi

To block a webpage like Facebook, I have the follow two possibilities.

1) Block it by the Url Filter

2) Block it by the AppID

Since the URL Filter just looks at the URL and no other content. Access to Facebook will only be blocked if I try to access it by "www.facebok.com". But access via "http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&rurl=translate.google.ch&sl=de&tl=en&u=http..." will not recognize it as the Facebook URL --> no blocking

If I use the AppID to block Facebook, I am expecting even blocking this Google translate URL since the content is still Facebook. But this isn't the case. I don't get any Facebook app in my traffic log.

So, what is the exact difference between URL Filtering and AppID's (for "Website"-AppID's) and how can I block all this even if the user uses Google translate?

[mrajdev]

As far as I know chaining of url via google translate will not block for both url and app-id. I would suggest to contact your system engineer to check on this and put in a feature request if it is not currently supported.

Thanks

[DavePalo]

Hi,

As a temporary workaround, I've recently found that if you were to create a custom URL category containing "*.facebook.com" it would match both "www.facebook.com" and  "http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&rurl=translate.google.ch&sl=de&tl=en&u=http..."

Regards,

Dave