• Windows Updates fail due to "HTTP parsing error encountered"

    alan weir
    alan weir
    XG 19.5.0 GA. I am attempting to run windows update however the update cannot complete. The web filter log is showing "HTTP parsing error encountered". Windows updates are excluded from HTTPS scanning, zero day protections, and policy checks as the…
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  • Some websites get ERR_TIMED_OUT

    FJay
    FJay
    Hello I have been looking for this problem for a while now. Support was useless. On 2 different sites, at random moments, some websites are returning ERR_TIMED_OUT . Site https://www.bankinter.com/ or another one point on a server on Azure. …
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  • help with DPI

    Ario Rezaei
    Ario Rezaei
    Hello everyone, I am brand new to Sophos. I have a home license version deployed in my home lab and evaluating to see if I want to move my business over to sophos from fortinet. My issue is I don't think DPI is working. From everything I read, it…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • gmail Attachments

    Mahmoud Nasr
    Mahmoud Nasr
    Hello i'm not able to download any gmail attachment and i'm already using allow all in web and application policies it was working till yesterday and now it's not and i didn't make any changes can someone please help me?
    • over 1 year ago
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  • URL Referrer Blocking

    BenjaminMiller
    BenjaminMiller
    We want to allow access to YouTube search but lock down certain search terms. The way the YouTube search works is circumventing the URL/Content search so XG is not blocking it. If you then refresh the results page it then blocks it. Anyone know how to…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • Telegram Messenger Not Connecting When Any Web Policy is Active

    tscott_16
    tscott_16
    I'm needing to allow Telegram Messenger on the network but it refuses to connect whenever a web filtering policy is applied, even if it's just the default Allow All policy. I don't see anything being blocked in the logs. I have tried switching between…
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  • Web User notification customization - cannot change top and footer images

    LeonardoM
    LeonardoM
    Good afternon, I have two clusters of XGS 2100 running with the latest firmware ( 19.5.0 GA-Build197 ). As per object, I am not able to change the top and footer images of the Web User notification. I tried both with JPG and JPEG (8-bit), respecting…
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  • web filtering with advertisements/pop ups logs

    Guilherme Silva1
    Guilherme Silva1
    Hello, Guys, I have the following situation: In the user's web filtering logs, I have several records of accesses to URLs that the user did not actually access. For example, in the logs there is an access by user X to a certain URL, and in fact what…
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  • Ad Blocking lists

    Sophos Rules
    Sophos Rules
    Sophos is awesome and amazing and like other people here have requested it would be amazing if we could import adblocking lists like this one. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts If you can already achieve this could someone please help me. I found…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • Sophos Firewall blocking my website which is using cloudflare dns

    Mark Alex
    Mark Alex
    Hi there folks, I am a new user to the firewall using it because I have many sites of my own and a lot of important data on my PC so after reading reviews I decided to use the firewall to protect all of it from brute force attacks and viruses but some…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • How to get SSL certificate working for Web Filter notifications?

    Discipulus
    Discipulus
    Hello there, I just enabled a web filter policy to block various websites, but I'm having issues with the user notification options. I have installed a valid LetsEncrypt SSL certificate and it's working great for the user portal. However when a webpage…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • How configure SSL/TLS inspection settings for smartphone apps

    Naoki_I
    Naoki_I
    Hello there. I am using XG firewall home edition in my house. Some of the iOS apps are not available with SSL/TLS inspection enabled. When disabled, they can be used. I checked LogViewer and in some cases it is Error and in other cases it is not Error…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • Guest Network - XG port 8090 (IPS error messages) not accessible

    Nathan_K
    Nathan_K
    I have my network segmented and am using web filtering on our GUEST network to ensure that certain content is not accessible to visitors or my kids. I have Captive Portal enabled in Administration on my GUEST network, however; when a someone tries to…
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  • Silently drop requests to denied URL categories?

    gavo_nz
    gavo_nz
    Hi, Is there is way in XG to silently drop requests to URLs in blocked categories (via the web filter or otherwise), rather than presenting the user the block message? I know I can block in firewall rules based on FQDN, and silently drop, but I would…
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  • Sophos Firewall: How to restrict Gmail access to a custom domain

    Vivek Jagad
    Vivek Jagad
    Disclaimer : This information is provided as-is for the benefit of the Community. Please contact Sophos Professional Services if you require assistance with your specific environment. Table of Contents Overview Add a firewall rule Allow…
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  • Sophos XG Website blocked

    Denis Saric
    Denis Saric
    Hello People, i have currently a problem with opening two Website. The Website is www.existenzgruender.de with the IP 46.254.122.16 From any other Client, without Firewall, the Website can be opend. We have the same Problem with www.nexxt…
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  • Possible to apply "warn" action to an FQDN host group?

    LRSFC_DanJ
    LRSFC_DanJ
    Is it possible in the web filtering to apply a "warn" action with an FQDN host group as the activity? The specific situation I am thinking of is there is a website we want to configure as "warn", but then if the user chooses to proceed, then we need to…
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    • over 2 years ago
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  • Email blocked with web filtering

    Anesu Dangarembwa
    Anesu Dangarembwa
    We have a Sophos XG 310 , firmware v19.0.1 , The firewall is blocking emails, with web filtering, we have not configured any policy to block emails, Instead we configured a policy to allow outlook.com , office 365. but if we put web filtering on the firewall…
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Web User Notifications Customization W/ Country Groups

    djdrastic
    djdrastic
    Hi we have been locking down the outgoing web requests to certain countries via Country groups via some default rules at the top of the chain of LAN-WAN rules . Occasionally we've had a user request for certain urls to be unblocked and use the exclusions…
    • over 2 years ago
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  • i need to allow youtube for specific user in web policy we are using ip based policy.so please help me .

    satyabrata bastia
    satyabrata bastia
    Hi. i need to allow youtube for specific user in web policy we are using ip based policy.so please help me .
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Google Meet Issues

    Ben Chappill
    Ben Chappill
    Hi All, Spent weeks with "support" to get Google Meet recordings to reliably work but haven't got anywhere, the final straw for me was after nearly 20 hours across multiple phone calls they asked me to reboot the firewall, despite a reboot being carried…
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    • over 2 years ago
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  • HTTPS decryption exception for dropbox server

    Eduardo Noubleau
    Eduardo Noubleau
    Hello everyone, I´m trying to sync my local files using the dropbox app, but it looks like there´s an url that I have to add into the https decryption exception. Has someone the complet list of the url used by dropbox that doesn´t accept the https decryption…
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    • over 2 years ago
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  • Troubles syncing with the cloud servers

    Eduardo Noubleau
    Eduardo Noubleau
    Hello, I have a MacBook Pro device, and I'm having troubles to sync my local files with cloud servers, like iCloud, dropbox, OneDrive, Goodnotes. I don't know if it's something related to https decryption or something like that. Has someone an idea…
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  • Sophos Firewall: Chrome failing to install or update

    Joshua Ford1
    Joshua Ford1
    Disclaimer : This information is provided as-is for the benefit of the Community. Please contact Sophos Professional Services if you require assistance with your specific environment. Table of Contents Overview What URLs are used for Chrome…
    • over 3 years ago
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  • Sophos Firewall - How to manage multiple web exclusions over multiple firewalls

    BoreasJeff
    BoreasJeff
    Hello, I’m seeing that our Sophos XG firewalls are blocking M365 install and updates. What is the best way to push the M365 exceptions out to all firewalls? We currently have about 25 XG firewalls. I found the article Sophos Firewall: Configure web…
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