Web Access Control in WinGate allows you to manually classify which category URLs and web sites requested by users should be placed in. Manual classifications can be set against:
You can classify an entire web site into a particular category if needed. A site is defined as the domain name portion of a URL (the portion of the URL preceeding the resource string).
For example a site could be defined as wingate.com. This site would then include all URLs that contained http://wingate.com (e.g. http://wingate.com/sales.htm, http://wingate.com/example.asp etc).
Similarly, a site could be defined as help.wingate.com which would match on all URLs that begin with help.wingate.com (e.g. http://help.wingate.com/sales.htm, http://help.wingate.com/example.asp etc).
A URL is the full path to a web site resource (e.g. http://wingate.com/index.html).
When you use the Manual Classifier to set the category for a URL or site, WinGate will always apply that classification. This is regardless of whether the URL or site has been classified into a different category by any other content classification systems that you may have installed (e.g. PureSight for WinGate).
When matching against text, simply enter the site or full URL you want classified in the text field. Select the Use pattern matching check box if you wish to pattern match the URL or site in the text field. You can use the WinGate wild cards of *(asterisk) or ?(question mark) to define a pattern that should be matched.
The question mark wildcard is used to indicate a match of a single character. While an asterisk allows you to widen the pattern match value further, as the match will include one or more characters from where the asterisk is placed in the value.
e.g. For a URL match you could enter http://wingate.com/index*
This would match against any URL that contained http://wingate.com/index, such as http://wingate.com/index.html, http://wingate.com/index.php, http://wingate.com/index.asp etc.
When using the pattern match method, normal punctuation marks such as a . (period) -(hyphen) or ,(comma) etc. are considered as valid characters. This however excludes the WinGate wildcards, ? (question mark) or *(asterisk).
If you are attempting to match against a WinGate global data list, click the Select list button to open up the list of available pre configured global data lists.
Manual classifications are applied in a first come, first served basis. This means that you need to be careful with the way that you classify and order each URL or site.
You can use basic Full-Text Searches against the page title and body to find matching articles. Use the following search modifiers to refine your query:
