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Trend Micro Web Security supports three match modes for approved/blocked URLs.
Match Mode
Description
Approve/Block URLs from the domain
Looks for a specific website and all its directories and files.
Note
Note
In Trend Micro Web Security, this match mode is called "Web".
Guidelines:
  • There is no need to include http:// or https:// in the URL because it is automatically stripped.
  • Typing a website (URL with the domain name) includes all its directories and files.
    For example, example.com matches:
    • example.com/content/file.htm
    • app.example.com/content/file.htm
    • appexample.com/content/file.htm
    But it does not match:
    • example.com.jp/content/file.htm
  • To limit the scope to the subdomains of a domain, add a period (.) before the domain name.
    For example, .example.com matches app.example.com/content/file.htm but not appexample.com /content/file.htm.
Approve/Block the URL
Limits the search to the input as a whole. Use strings to target a specific website, page, or file.
Note
Note
In Trend Micro Web Security, this match mode is called "String".
Approve/Block URLs that contain this keyword
Looks for occurrence of the keyword anywhere in a URL.
For example, sex would be considered a match for http://www.example.com/sexton.htm.
Trend Micro Web Security automatically adds an asterisk (*) at the beginning and end of a keyword. As such, exercise caution when adding extra asterisks to the keyword as this increases the chance of false-positives.
Note
Note
In Trend Micro Web Security, this match mode is called "Keyword".
The main differentiation among the three types of match modes is the way Trend Micro Web Security transforms the input values provided by administrators, and Trend Micro Web Security uses three different icons to distinguish them.
General guidelines:
  • Separate multiple entries with spaces.
  • Multi-byte encoded and non-ASCII characters are accepted.
    URL Input Type
    Examples
    Web (Internationalized domain names)
    عربي.امارات
    Keyword
    κήπος
    उद्यान
    String
    網路家庭.tw/
  • Characters are case-insensitive.