Download File Type Selection
Download File Type Selection
It sure would be nice to have another control of which file types can be downloaded instead of the current IE interface in group policies which restricts us to a yes/no setting
You can control the types of files that are accessed by using regular expressions in the PWB URL filter. Use the regular expression to match the end of the URL to deny access to the type of file.
For example to prevent downloading of ZIP and EXE type files, put this in your URL filter file.
+all
-\.zip$
-\.exe$
The "+all" allows all URLs, the "\." interrupts the "." as literal, the "exe" or "zip" is the type of file, and the "$" is the regular expression to match the end.
This allows only URLs that end with ".zip", or ".exe" to be denied, while URLs that simply contain ".zip", or ".exe" to be allowed.
--Scott
For example to prevent downloading of ZIP and EXE type files, put this in your URL filter file.
+all
-\.zip$
-\.exe$
The "+all" allows all URLs, the "\." interrupts the "." as literal, the "exe" or "zip" is the type of file, and the "$" is the regular expression to match the end.
This allows only URLs that end with ".zip", or ".exe" to be denied, while URLs that simply contain ".zip", or ".exe" to be allowed.
--Scott