Policy Bypass

Policy Bypass enables you to ignore specified sites on your policy routes.

Add a policy bypass

  1. Navigate to Policy > Manage Policy Definition > Web Policy Routes. The Manage Policy Routes page is displayed.

  2. Select the Policy Bypass tab. A list of the policy bypasses you have already configured is displayed.

  3. Click New. The Add HTTP Header Bypass dialog is displayed.

  4. In the Header field, enter an HTTP header you want to bypass. It will be used to identify the sites to be ignored. This field is not case-sensitive.

  5. In the Value field, enter a matching header value. This field is not case-sensitive.

    You may use wildcards according to the rules. For example, to bypass ExampleHeader as the User-Agent header, the string could be Example*.

     

    Rules for using wildcard characters

    Use * (asterisk) to represent 0 or more characters.

  6. From the Direction drop-down menu, specify a direction of the communication that is to be bypassed:

    • Request or response

    • Request only

    • Response only

    • Response if in request

    • Both if in request

  7. Click Add.

  8. Apply the configuration.

 

If you change any configuration or policy settings, you must Apply Configuration for the new settings to take effect. You can do this either from the Changes Made panel, or System > Configuration > Apply Configuration. See Apply new configuration for more information.

If you use Peer Gateways (i.e. when multiple Gateways are peered), any configuration changes from a local Gateway can then be applied to all the peers at the same time. See Configure Peer Gateways for more information.