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SurfControl Web Filter v5.5 Administrator’s Guide 121
C
USTOM
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ATEGORIZATION
Using Custom Categorization
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• Find Destination - Allows you to search for a URL in the Monitored Destinations or VCA / Manual
Categorizations panels.
VCA SETTINGS TAB
To configure settings for the VCA:
1 In the Custom Categorization dialog, click the VCA Settings tab.
Figure 10-2 VCA Settings tab
2 Select the location of the Spider Files in the Spider Settings text box. In a default installation the
location will be:
C:\Program Files\SurfControl\Web Filter\SpiderFiles
This setting can also be changed via the VCA Control Panel application. See "The VCA Service
Settings" on page 124 for more details.
3 You can select any of the following options:
• Observe Robot Exclusion Policy - Some destinations contain a text file that describes exactly
what each spider (or robot) can access on the destination. If you choose to ignore this policy then
the spider will try to access unauthorized areas on the destination. This may result in your IP
address being banned by the destination.
• Cache retrieved web pages - Adds any pages directly retrieved during the VCA run to the local
web page cache, if available.
• Impersonate Internet Explorer - The VCA will identify itself as Internet Explorer when making
requests to servers. If you clear this item the VCA will identify itself as SurfControl. Some
destinations are inaccessible unless you impersonate Internet Explorer, although destinations can
also ignore requests that originate from Internet Explorer. This option is selected by default.