Add URL List Application elements to manually block or allow URLs

The action that you select in the Access rules determines whether the URLs in the URL List Application are blocked or allowed.

When you use URL List Applications in combination with category-based URL filtering, you can allow individual URLs that are included in a blocked category. Using URL List Applications to allow URLs only affects other URL-based filtering. It does not exclude the traffic from other inspection checks. Traffic to allowed URLs might still be terminated if deep inspection is enabled and the traffic matches Situations in the Inspection Policy.

There is no limit on the number of URL List Applications that you can create or on the number of URLs that you can add to each URL List Application. You can enter URLs as whole URLs or partial URLs. Partial URLs must end with a slash (/). The URLs in the list can match all URLs in a domain, all URLs in a specified path, or exact URLs.

When you add an exact URL, only the specified URL matches. Other URLs in the same domain or path do not match. For example, if you add the exact URL www.example.com/index.html, connections to www.example.com/main.html do not match.

When you add domains or paths, connections might match more than one URL. For example:

• if you add the exact URL www.example.com/path/index.html and the path example.com/path/, both URLs match if the engine detects a request to http://www.example.com/path/index.html.
• If you add a domain name followed by a slash, such as example.com/, the URL List also matches connections to subdomains of example.com, such as login.example.com or www.example.com.

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