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 http://www.ISAserver.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')