Block Pages

Web Security Help | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.8.x

Related topics:

Blocking graphical advertisements

Blocking embedded pages

Working with block pages

Creating alternate block messages

Using an alternate block page on another machine

Determining why a request was blocked

When Websense Web Security blocks a website, it displays a block page in the client's browser.

Block pages are constructed from HTML files, by default, made up of 3 main sections.

The header explains that the site is blocked.

The top frame contains a block message showing the requested URL and the reason the URL was blocked.

The bottom frame presents any options available to the user, such as the option to go back to the previous page, or to click a Continue or Use Quota Time button to view the site.

If the site is blocked because it belongs to a category in the Security Risk class (see Risk classes), a security block page is displayed.

In Websense Web Security Gateway and Gateway Anywhere deployments, Super Administrators can enable an enhanced version of the block page that includes a link to Websense ACEInsight.

Enable the link on the Settings > General > Filtering page.

Users can click the link find more information about URLs blocked for security reasons.


	Note IPv6 only clients do not display a block page correctly. The user is blocked from the site as expected but will receive a browser error rather than a block page. Dual-stack IPv6 clients receive the normal block page.

Default block page files are included with your Websense software. You can use these default files or create your own custom versions.


	Note In Websense Web Security Gateway Anywhere deployments, changes to the on-premises block pages do not affect hybrid block pages. See Customizing hybrid block pages.

Customize the default files to change the block message (see Working with block pages).

Configure Websense software to use block messages (default or custom) hosted on a remote web server (see Using an alternate block page on another machine).