topic Re: Guidance on Spark Firewall URL Exception in Spark Firewall (SMB)

Guidance on Spark Firewall URL Exception

drkmtr — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 04:12:27 GMT

A very beginner question here, so apologies.

What is the best way to provide and exclusion for a URL, as per this the attached log file image.

Thanks in advance.

URL Filtering - Reject -HTTPS - Rule 5 - dropbox.com rejected

Application Control - Reject - HTTPS - Rule 5 - Dropbox was rejected

Re: Guidance on Spark Firewall URL Exception

G_W_Albrecht — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:52:28 GMT

Where did you set to reject drop box ?

Re: Guidance on Spark Firewall URL Exception

drkmtr — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 22:08:56 GMT

Thanks for response.

Nothing explicitly set, just using default plan and rules.

Re: Guidance on Spark Firewall URL Exception

G_W_Albrecht — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:36:44 GMT

Should work if you uncheck File Sharing Apps, can you try that?

Re: Guidance on Spark Firewall URL Exception

the_rock — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:14:36 GMT

Maybe something like what I attached? I know customer who did exactly like that and worked fine. Different site mind you, but you get the idea : - )

Andy

Re: Guidance on Spark Firewall URL Exception

drkmtr — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:03:32 GMT

Thanks for responses.

Unchecking File Sharing Apps was a consideration, however I didn't prefer that option due to the rest of the Allows it does.

In the end I did similar to the_rock's suggestion in that I created an Application & URL group which included the application and a couple of URL's. Then created the outgoing allow rule using that.

Thanks again.