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Re: [FW-1] Websense



Hi,

is there also a way to use the Websense-UFP protocol to filter HTTPS (not http) requests? How about filtering http access to webservers which use port 81,85,8080 or anything else?

If yes, how can this be done?


Regards,
Egonle

[email protected] wrote:

>Jim,
>
>Remember that when you implement a HTTP Resource rule, such as the one used
>to integrate with Websense, the FireWall shifts to using the HTTP Security
>Server to handle the requests.  One primary thing about the HTTP Security
>Server is that it ignores any NAT rules you might have and alters the
>request so that the source IP address is the external IP of the FireWall
>itself.  If you've set your rules to deny any requests destined for the
>external IP, then the return HTTP requests will be blocked.  So, your
>stealth rule needs to follow after the HTTP rules in order to get this to
>work.  You may also need to check your routing as well since this is a high
>availability situation.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Previti, James [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:26 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [FW-1] Websense
>
>
>We have a Checkpoint Firewall1 fail-over pair (v4.1sp5a) we are trying to
>integrate with Websense (v4.4) to filter Web traffic.  The Checkpoint
>platform
>is Nokia IP440 and the Websense platform is Windows 2000.  After following
>the
>documentation and setting up Websense and the corresponding firewall obects
>and
>rules and testing, we found that the firewall is passing traffic to the web
>but
>no access can be established.  If anyone has seen similar behavior I would
>like
>to hera about it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim Previti
>Network Management Supervisor
>
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