PWB filters

[northbayteky]

"-all" denies all URLs unless a URL is specifically allowed with "+".

You could also use the [Security]OnlyAccessHTTP=True or [Security]OnlyAccessInternet=True.

--Scott

We used to use a pac file and point IE to it. I've taken a text version of the pac file which contains all the allowed URLs. Should I start with -all and then the list of allowed URLS with the + in front of each?

If I construct the URL file that way, will the allowed URLs be limited? Here's an example of some of the URLs in the list:
referenceusa.com
abcmouse.com
ancestrylibrary.com
amazonaws.com
quipugroup.net
fliphtml5.com
consensu.org

In other words, will this allow all the pages within each domain allowed? Will I need to all +all in front of each domain?

[Scott]

"-all" assumes all URLs will be denied, "+all" assumes all URLs will be allowed.

If you are trying to limit PWB to a specific set of URLs start with "-all".

-all
+referenceusa.com
+abcmouse.com
+ancestrylibrary.com
+amazonaws.com
+quipugroup.net
+fliphtml5.com
+consensu.org

--Scott

[northbayteky]

That did it. You are awesome

[northbayteky]

If you are using the URL filter to prevent access to the C drive with -C:\\ in your filter file, you may have trouble if a web site attempts to use the Internet Explorer internal web resources such as the cancel page. You may want to add the resource into your URL filter file before the -C:\\.

...
+res://c:\windows\system32\shdoclc.dll/navcancl.htm
-C:\\
...

This will prevent an error if the web page tries to access the resource. Make sure your path is correct, or shorten the URL to +res://.

--Scott

Never mind!

I tried adding the +FileName.html to the URL file and that worked.

[northbayteky]

...

For example, old URL file

...
-C:\
-D:\
...

Convert to:

...
-C:\\
-D:\\
...


--Scott

Well this just confounded me for the last few hours. We have a "special" setup in which the home page is just an html file with two links. I kept getting access denied. When I changed the entry to +C: (no backslash) the local html page finally displayed.

Of course YMMV, but I wanted to add my experience as a possibility.