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Wildcard usage methods. Is it available ?

Hi All,

General built-in Web categories are not enough for creating special in-depth web policies for non english spoken countries.
Other than english languages foreign ones has its unique words, sentences even letters affects the domain names accordingly.
These variables creates hardness for preparing secure network through policies.

Is there any option available to resolve this kind of requirements in the Sophos Xg devices?

How to use wildcards and/or asterisks in Sophos Firewall and/or Cloud Endpoint Protection?

Exanple usage;


To block any host for site.com use:
*.site.com

Another example when streaming-media category is blocked, The settings below allow access to youtube.

*.youtube.com
*.ytimg.com
*.youtube.com/watch
*.googlevideo.com
Then following characters are considered separators:
./?&=;+
Every substring that is separated by the characters listed above is considered a token. A token can be any number of ASCII characters that does not contain any separator character or *. For example, the following patterns are valid:
*.yahoo.com   => Tokens are: "*", "yahoo" and "com" 
www.*.com     => Tokens are: "www", "*" and "com"
www.yahoo.com/search=*  => Tokens are: "www", "yahoo", "com", "search", "*"
Thanks all.


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  • Hello Can,

    Thank you for contacting the Sophos Community.

    The XG only supports the use of ASCII characters, supporting another type of Character would be a Feature Request.

    There’s however an RFC that goes on how to convert non-ASCII characters( RFC 3490).

    Regards,

  • Thanks   Can we use ASCII-chars only as a wildcard in Sophos Firewall ?

    Also using Sophos Endpoint protection. If this kind of feature supported in there that suits too.


    May you give an example usage.  

    For example i am in need of ;  


    *watchlive.* > A rule syntax includes all the domain names which "watchlive" sentence in it.  

    0day*.* > A rule syntax includes all the domain names which "0day" sentence in it.    

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  • Thanks   Can we use ASCII-chars only as a wildcard in Sophos Firewall ?

    Also using Sophos Endpoint protection. If this kind of feature supported in there that suits too.


    May you give an example usage.  

    For example i am in need of ;  


    *watchlive.* > A rule syntax includes all the domain names which "watchlive" sentence in it.  

    0day*.* > A rule syntax includes all the domain names which "0day" sentence in it.    

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