Add / Edit web address window

The web address or address mask of the website to which access is to be blocked or allowed.

Used to block or allow user access to websites.

You can choose one of the following options:

• Allow. If you select this option, Web Policy Management allows user access to the website even if it belongs to a blocked category or blocking of all websites is enabled.
• Block. If you select this option, Web Policy Management blocks user access to the website even if it belongs to an allowed category.

You can specify the scope to which to apply the website access settings.

You can choose one of the following options:

• Website mask. If you select this option, Web Policy Management allows or blocks access by the user to all web pages of the specified website.

  For example, if the Web address mask field contains the address example.com, Web Policy Management allows or blocks access to all the web pages of example.com website, including news.example.com, market.example.com, and mail.example.com.

• Specified web address. If you select this option, Web Policy Management allows or blocks user access only to the specified page of the website indicated in the Web address mask field.

  For example, if you specify the URL mail.example.com/login in the Web address mask field, Web Policy Management allows or blocks access only to the specified login page that is used to sign in to the webmail account. This rule will not apply to other pages of the website.

Allows applying to the exclusion of one of existing templates with the specified set of settings.

You can choose one of the following options:

• Entire website – when this option is selected, Web Policy Management allows or blocks access to the domain specified in the Web address mask field. For example, if the Web address mask field contains the address example.com, Web Policy Management will allow or block access to all the web pages of the domain example.com, including news.example.com, market.example.com, and mail.example.com.
• Specified web page – when this option is selected, Web Policy Management allows or blocks access to the specific page indicated in the Web address mask field and to all web addresses that contain this page. For example, if the Web address mask field contains the address example.com/hl, Web Policy Management will allow or block access to this page as well as to web addresses that contain it, such as example.com/hl/example1.html.
• Specified web address – when this option is selected, Web Policy Management allows or blocks access to the specific web address indicated in the Web address mask field. For example, if you specify the URL mail.example.com/login in the Web address mask field, Web Policy Management allows or blocks access only to the specified login page that is used to sign in to the webmail account. This rule will not apply to other pages of the website.