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URL Blocking Tests

url settings


Testing the URL blocking:

Test Conditions Results
1 1 domain in 'Forbid' : www.microsoft.com
URL blocking enabled
Set to 'Use Domains Filtering'
'Always Block' selected
Browsing www.google.com is un-hindered. Visiting www.microsoft.com returns the page "You are not authorized to view this page...HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden"

The following URLs are also blocked, as expected:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/germany/default.mspx
2 1 domain in 'Forbid' : www.microsoft.com
1 domain in 'Trust' : www.google.com
URL blocking enabled
Set to 'Use Domains Filtering'
'Always Block' selected
Same as 1)
3 1 domain in 'Forbid' : www.microsoft.com
1 domain in 'Trust' : www.google.com
URL blocking enabled
'Always Block' selected
Set to 'Use Domains Filtering'
Tick 'Disable all web traffic except for Trusted Domains'
Microsoft is still blocked
Google is unblocked
http://www.msn.com/ is blocked
http://www.asp.net is blocked
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ is blocked
4 1 domain in 'Trust' : www.google.com
URL blocking enabled
'Always Block' selected
Set to 'Use Domains Filtering'
Tick 'Disable all web traffic except for Trusted Domains'
Same as 3)
5 1 domain in 'Trust' : www.google.com
URL blocking enabled
'Always Block' selected
Set to 'Use Keyword Filtering'
Keywords: 'micro'
Here http://www.google.com/ is unblocked but googles for microsoft that contain micro in the URL do not:

e.g. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=microsoft&btnG=Google+Search is blocked

Google is unblocked
http://www.msn.com/ is unblocked
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ is blocked
http://www.asp.net is unblocked
Any URL with micro is blocked as expected


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