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I have been working to enable Safe Search Enforcement for all of our users, but was having issues due YouTube being blocked. Since I couldn't find a solution anywhere else, I created a bit of code to update the user's cookies to put YouTube into Restricted Mode and send them along their way - basically with the following code: var expiration = new Date(); expiration.setTime(expiration.getTime()+(12*60*60*1000)); document.cookie = "PREF=f2=8000000&f5=30&f4=4000000; expires=" + expiration.toGMTString() + "; path=/;";   It's a bit hacked together (I'm sure there's some edge cases I'll have missed), but I figure it might come in handy for someone. A full writeup is at http://www.eugenemdavis.net/forcing-youtube-restricted-mode-javascript.html   Let me know if there is a better solution floating around out there.   ... View more

I am retrieving URL log entries via the XML API. I can successfully get logs when I skip none, but when I try to skip a larger number (for example, 5000), the firewall replies with error 17 "skip value too large". <response status="error" code="17"><msg><line>skip value too large</line></msg></response> There is no limit according to the Retrieving Logs section of the PAN-OS XML API Usage Guide (section 2.8) - and it seems implied that you can use this to retrieve additional sets of logs (since the max number of logs is limited to 5000). An example of the HTTP request I use is: https://hostname/api/?type=log&key=changeme&log-type=url&query=((action+eq+block-url)+or+(action+eq+block-continue)+or+(action+eq+alert))+and+(receive_time+geq+'2015%2F10%2F05+00%3A00%3A00')+and+(receive_time+leq+'2015%2F10%2F06+00%3A00%3A00')&nlogs=4999&skip=4999 As far as I can tell, I am using the skip parameter - is there a bug with the API, or am I using the skip value incorrectly? I need a way to pull the logs into my script (without having to manually download them into CSV).   Update: I did some experimentation to figure out where the exact cutoff point is for the skip value - it appears to be occurring when the skip value hits 1102. ... View more

When getting the details of a URL filtering object, I have noticed that the allowed categories are left empty in the XML (barring any custom URL categories). Is there anyway in the API to retrieve them? I came up with a work-around of getting the list of all the categories from a "Deny All" rule I made, letting me filter out all the blocked/continue/alert categories and retain only the allowed categories - but this means I have to make sure no-one ever changes this URL filter object. There is a location in the API to retrieve categories (/config/predefined/url-categories) - but I discovered that it doesn't actually have all of the PAN-DB categories (for instance, it is missing abused-drugs). ... View more