Tag Archives: WebBlocker

How to permit Google Fonts through your Watchguard WebBlocker content filter proxy

Out of the box, the Watchguard Firewall WebBlocker content filter does not permit Google Fonts to download and be viewed through the proxy and into your network.  This creates a problem because a lot of websites now use embedded fonts to properly render the website.

To fix this, do the following:

  1. Log into the Watchguard Firewall
  2. Presuming you have already setup a Firewall proxy and are using the WebBlocker to filter content…
  3. Go to Firewall->Proxy Actions, and EDIT the current proxy you have custom defined.
  4. Go to HTTP RESPONSE->CONTENT TYPES
  5. ADD the following new actions (below).  You will need to add ALL FIVE to make this work properly.
  6. Save

Add the following actions:

googlefonts

How to permit ZIP files through your Watchguard WebBlocker content filter proxy

Out of the box, the Watchguard Firewall WebBlocker content filter does not permit ZIP files to be downloaded inside your network.

To fix this, do the following:

  1. Log into the Watchguard Firewall
  2. Presuming you have already setup a Firewall proxy and are using the WebBlocker to filter content…
  3. Go to Firewall->Proxy Actions, and EDIT the current proxy you have custom defined.
  4. Go to HTTP RESPONSE->CONTENT TYPES
  5. ADD a new action, (ALLOW OR AV SCAN), Pattern match, application/x-zip-compressed
  6. Save
  7. Retry downloading your ZIP file (you may need to close out of your web browser and open it, and try again but this should solve the ZIP file downloading).

How to permit YouTube videos and other videos to play through a Watchguard WebBlocker proxy

Out of the box, the Watchguard Firewall WebBlocker content filter does not permit YouTube (and other streaming videos) to play through the proxy and into your network.

To fix this, do the following:

  1. Log into the Watchguard Firewall
  2. Presuming you have already setup a Firewall proxy and are using the WebBlocker to filter content…
  3. Go to Firewall->Proxy Actions, and EDIT the current proxy you have custom defined.
  4. Go to HTTP RESPONSE->CONTENT TYPES
  5. ADD a new action, (ALLOW OR AV SCAN), Pattern match, video/*
  6. Save
  7. Retry playing your video (you may need to close out of your web browser and open it, and try another video, but this should solve the YouTube and other streaming video issues).

How to allow the YouTube app to play videos through a Watchguard WebBlocker firewall proxy

If you are having problems with iPhones or iPads (or any other device) playing through your Watchguard WebBlocker proxy (via your Watchguard firewall), the fix is very simple.

Presuming you have one of the latest firmwares (11.6.x as of today) and are using WebBlocker with a proxy combined with the content filtering…

Log into the Watchguard

Go to Firewall->Proxy Actions

Select and Edit the proxy setup you are using in your network.  (you must NOT be using a predefined one, you must make your own).

Go to HTTP Proxy Exceptions

add the following:

*.apple.com

*.youtube.com

so that your entries look like this:

proxy action

Save your changes.

Re-test your app and the application should play.

This worked perfectly on our network and our i-Devices.