Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

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Proxies and caching
Web caching
Add a wildcard expression for URLs to a web cache bypassing list
You can add a wildcard expression to a bypassing list in a web cache rule to exclude URLs from web
caching.
1 Go to Policy | Rule Sets.
2 On the rule sets tree, select the rule set that contains rules for web caching , for example Web Cache.
The rules appear on the settings pane.
3 Find the rule that uses a bypassing list to exclude URLs from caching, for example, Skip caching
URLs that are in Web Cache URL Bypass List, and click on the list name.
Note: A yellow triangle by the list name indicates that this list is empty and you need to fill the entries.
The Edit List (Wildcard Expression) window opens.
4 Click Add. The Add Wildcard Expression window opens.
5 In the Wildcard expression field, type a wildcard expression.
Note: To add multiple wildcard expressions at once, click Add multiple and type every wildcard
expression in a new line.
6 [Optional] In the Comment field, type a comment on the wildcard expression.
7 Click OK. The window closes and the wildcard expression appears on the whitelist.
8 Click Save Changes.
For more information on how to maintain a list, see List maintenance. For the types of wildcard
expressions that are allowed in the list, see Wildcard expressions.
Add a media type to a web cache bypassing list
You can add a media type to a bypassing list used in a web cache rule to exclude web objects of this
type from web caching.
1 Go to Policy | Rule Sets.
2 On the rule sets tree, select the rule set that contains rules for web caching , for example Web Cache.
The rules appear on the settings pane.
3 Find the rule that uses a bypassing list to exclude web objects that belong to a particular media type
from caching, for example, Skip caching media types that are in Web Cache Media Type
Blocklist, and click on the list name.
The Edit List (MediaType) window opens.
4 Click Edit. And Edit window opens. It displays a list of group folders with media types.
5 Expand the group folder with the media type you want to add, for example, Document, and select
the media type, for example, application/vnd/ms-excel.
Note: To add multiple media types at once, select multiple media types or one or multiple group folders.
6 Click OK. The window closes and the media type appears on the whitelist.
7 Click Save Changes.
For more information on how to maintain a list, see List maintenance.
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