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URL inspection on non-web browsing applications

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One of my customers asked me a question about URL inspection on non-web browsing applications. The question was, if he has a Security Policy that allows multiple applications (web and non-web) and he also has a URL Profile attached to that policy, will the firewall inspection all traffic that is allowed through that policy even though some of it is non-web traffic.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thx

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L7 Applicator

While URL filtering does apply to applications that are not "web-browsing", the underlying protocol must be HTTP. URL filtering only applies to traffic which has an HTTP request and response. If you had a policy that was scanning all trust-to-untrust traffic regardless of application, you could look at your URL filtering logs to see the applications present. You will see things like facebook-base, flash, youtube-base, etc.

Hope this helps,

Greg

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L7 Applicator

While URL filtering does apply to applications that are not "web-browsing", the underlying protocol must be HTTP. URL filtering only applies to traffic which has an HTTP request and response. If you had a policy that was scanning all trust-to-untrust traffic regardless of application, you could look at your URL filtering logs to see the applications present. You will see things like facebook-base, flash, youtube-base, etc.

Hope this helps,

Greg

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