{"id":238,"date":"2012-12-22T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2012-12-22T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T21:02:54","slug":"how-to-permit-zip-files-through-your-watchguard-webblocker-content-filter-proxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/how-to-permit-zip-files-through-your-watchguard-webblocker-content-filter-proxy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to permit ZIP files through your Watchguard WebBlocker content filter proxy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Out of the box, the Watchguard Firewall WebBlocker content filter does not permit\u00a0ZIP files to be downloaded inside your network.<\/p>\n

To fix this, do the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Log into the Watchguard Firewall<\/li>\n
  2. Presuming you have already setup a Firewall proxy and are using the WebBlocker to filter content…<\/li>\n
  3. Go to Firewall->Proxy Actions, and EDIT the current proxy you have custom defined.<\/li>\n
  4. Go to HTTP RESPONSE->CONTENT TYPES<\/li>\n
  5. ADD a new action, (ALLOW OR AV SCAN), Pattern match, application\/x-zip-compressed<\/li>\n
  6. Save<\/li>\n
  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).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Out of the box, the Watchguard Firewall WebBlocker content filter does not permit\u00a0ZIP files to be downloaded inside your network. To fix this, do the following: Log into the Watchguard Firewall Presuming you have already setup a Firewall proxy and are using the WebBlocker to filter content… Go to Firewall->Proxy Actions, and EDIT the current proxy you have custom defined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[105,68,70],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watchguard-firewall","tag-watchguard-firewall","tag-webblocker","tag-zip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}