Re: ISA, HTTPS, and Hotmail

  • From: "Carter, Elizabeth" <ecarter@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ISAserver.org Discussion List]'" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:22:22 -0400

Perhaps I'm not making myself clear.  The admin's, adults, etc. are fine as
they are, the https protocol rule does not apply to them.  But the student
group is unable to log on to Hotmail, they are blocked because of the https
rule, apparently hotmail requires it to log on?   

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

 



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 12:53 PM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] Re: ISA, HTTPS, and Hotmail


http://www.ISAserver.org


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



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