Re: ISA, HTTPS, and Hotmail

From: "Jim Harrison" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 09:52:52 -0700

I don't envy you your job!  I've seen the joy of trying to balance access
lists for the public library; trying to keep the Internet raceway running at
full speed while patching the guardrails is no easy task.

The good news is that, while they _can_ use https to make their initial
Hotmail connection, there's no real need to do so.  Hotmail will accept
https connections for sign-in, but drops the user back to http for the rest
of the session.  Thus, no benefit for using HTTPS to Hotmail.

I would recommend following Tom's suggestion.

Jim Harrison
MCP(2K), A+, Network+, PCG

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carter, Elizabeth" <ecarter@xxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 8:32 AM
Subject: [isalist] ISA, HTTPS, and Hotmail


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This may be a simple issue, but we need some assistance.  We are a boarding
high school and have blocked access to HTTPS sites with a protocol rule for
the Student group on ISA.  We do not want them going to sites such as
https://safeweb.com to bypass our internet content filtering which runs on a
Compaq Tasksmart server.  We do have the ports open on our Cisco router and
the site is open on our Tasksmart filter/cache server so adults have access
to https sites.  However, we DO want the students to be able to use Hotmail
accounts.  Is there a way to allow access to this particular https site
without having to open all https sites?  Thanks for any help you can
provide.

*****************************************
Elizabeth C. Carter
Director of Information Technology
Virginia Episcopal School
400 VES Road
Lynchburg, VA  24503
434-385-3665 office
434-385-3667 fax



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