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HTTPS Inspection
HTTPS Inspection
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Why is HTTPS inspection needed?
HTTPS inspection is a key part of On-Premise Appliance filtering. Generally, you should only exclude trusted sites fr...
Default HTTPS Inspection Policies
When your organisation starts using Smoothwall On-Premise Appliance to filter devices, these default HTTPS Inspection...
Change the frequency and message of the HTTPS inspection warning
When your Smoothwall Appliance uses HTTPS inspection and users have installed the Certificate Authority on their devi...
Change the HTTPS Inspection certificate
For HTTPS inspection to work, users must install a valid certificate from Smoothwall On-Premise Appliance onto their ...
Add HTTPS Inspection Policies
HTTPS inspection allows Smoothwall On-Premise Appliance to scan all content on a webpage to apply web filtering. Befo...
Download and install the Certificate Authority on BYO devices
When HTTPS inspection is enabled, users with Bring Your Own (BYO) device clients filtered by the On-premise Appliance...
Allow access for WebSockets
Using the WebSocket API (WebSockets), you can send messages to a server and receive responses without polling the ser...
Troubleshoot HTTPS website access and TLS errors
Users may see a Transport Layer Security (TLS) or handshake error when accessing HTTPS websites, if you apply filteri...
Mobile Apps not working when the browser version is allowed
This article outlines how to stop App versions of allowed websites from failing to connect. You can apply these ste...