Dell SonicWALL Secure Mobile Access 8.5Administration Guide 3536 Define a name for the policy in the Policy Name field.7 In the Service drop-down list, choose either Web (HTTP) or Secure Web (HTTPS).8 In the URL field, add the URL string to be enforced in this policy.9 In the Status drop-down list, click on an access action, either Allow or Deny.10 Click Accept.Policy URL Object Field ElementsWhen creating an HTTP/HTTPS policy, the administrator must enter a valid host URL in the URL field. Inaddition, the administrator can enter the port, path and wildcard elements to this field. The following chartprovides an overview of standard URL field elements:NOTE: In addition to standard URL elements, the administrator can enter the port, pathand wildcard elements to the URL field. For more information on using these additionalelements, see Policy URL Object Field Elements on page 353.If a path is specified, the URL policy is recursive and applies to all subdirectories. If, forexample “www.mycompany.com/users/*” is specified, the user is permitted access to anyfolder or file under the “www.mycompany.com/users/” folder.Table 40. Standard URL field elementsElement UsageHost Can be a hostname that should be resolved or an IP address. Host information hasto be present.Port If port is not mentioned, then all ports for that host are matched. Specify aspecific port or port range using digits [0-9], and/or wildcard elements. Zero “0”must not be used as the first digit in this field. The least possible numbermatching the wildcard expression should fall within the range of valid portnumbers such as [1-65535].Path This is the file path of the URL along with the query string. A URL Path is made ofparts delimited by the file path separator ‘/’. Each part might contain wildcardcharacters. The scope of the wildcard characters is limited only to the specificpart contained between file path separators.Usernames %USERNAME% is a variable that matches the username appearing in a URLrequested by a user with a valid session. Especially useful if the policy is a groupor a global policy.Wildcard Characters The following wildcard characters are used to match one or more characterswithin a port or path specification.* – Matches one or more characters in that position.^ – Matches exactly one character in the position.[!] – Matches any character in that position not listed incharacter set. For example [!acd], [!8a0][] – Matches any character falling within the specified ASCII range. Canbe an alphanumeric character. For example, [a-d], [3-5], [H-X]
