SRX UTM: Enhanced Web Filtering - Redirect

Hi Folks,

I was recently asked in regards to Enhanced Web Filtering...

Is there any way to remove the "CATEGORY: Enhanced_Social_Networking_and_Personal_Sites REASON:BY_PRE_DEFINED" message?

And by the way to the person who posted that, your email shows up to me as noreply-comment@blogger.com. So doesn't show on the blog as a comment and I cant reply. Google "noreply-comment@blogger.com". You will find out how to fix. 
 
Anyway the answer is yes! There is a way to solve the issue.
We will test 3 scenarios while trying to access Playboy.
Playboy category wise is:

profile wf-e-profile {
    category {
        Enhanced_Adult_Content {
            action block;
 


Scenario 1) You have no custom-block-message or block-message

You get this when your message is blocked.



Message still there so no good.

Scenario 2) You have a custom-block-message

set security utm feature-profile web-filtering juniper-enhanced profile wf-e-profile custom-block-message "BLOCKED BY ENHANCED!" 

You get this when your message is blocked.
 
 


Message still there so no good.

Scenario 3) You have a   block-message using a redirect URL.

set security utm feature-profile web-filtering juniper-enhanced profile wf-e-profile block-message type custom-redirect-url
set security utm feature-profile web-filtering juniper-enhanced profile wf-e-profile block-message url https://sites.google.com/site/sorryurblocked/

Note: If you dont use both lines you get the scenario 1 result.
 
You get this when your message is blocked.

 

So there is a way to remove the message - build your own redirect page!
I whipped up the one above in all of 5 minutes on Google Sites.
Yeah its crap but it does the job and proves the test.
I'll leave it up in case anyone wants to test with it.
https://sites.google.com/site/sorryurblocked/ 

One final point to note is that if you have the custom-block-message and  block-message active in the config it will use the block-message
Hope that answer the question.

Model: srx100h
JUNOS Software Release [12.1R5.5]
 

2 comments:

  1. This is excellent. I have been searching for a way to use different web-filtering policies for user groups, without having every user need to authenticate. Now I can by using this to create my own redirect for users (not logged in) who hit a restricted or filtered resource. Creating a customer redirect page, I can then prompt the user to enter authentication credentials via UAC all within my custom redirect. Thank you!!

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  2. Thanks Stephen, glad you found it useful!

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