How to whitelist websites in WFilter?

In WFilter NG firewall, whitelist a website is very simple. You simply need to put the domain in the allowed list of “web filter”. Screenshot as below:

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However, real world webpages can be complicated. For example, webpage A also includes resources from website B. So webpage A can not display correctly unless website B is also whitelisted.

To find out the domains of website B, you have to solutions:

Solution one: check the blocking events in WFilter.

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In “realtime bandwidth”, click the bandwidth number of the testing client. You will be able to check the “blocking events”. All recent blocked domains/IP will be listed. So, you can find out the external domains.

Solution two: check network activites in browser.

By press F12, you will be able to check network activites of your browser. So you know which resources/urls are not loaded.

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With the above two solutions, you can find the extra domains to be whitelisted. You need to add these domains to the allowed list in web filter.

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