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How to Use WebsensePing to determine the category or filtering disposition for a URL

The WebsensePing utility can be used to perform a variety of diagnostics. WebsensePing can mock a request from the firewall to Websense filtering components to help determine how Websense software resolves URLs without proxy or firewall involvement. Because WebsensePing does not rely on data passed from other network applications or services, it can test internal [...]

How to Find the Category of a URL with WebsensePing

At times, you may need to determine the category for a particular URL. While this can be done by browsing to the site, and then reporting on your activity, there is a faster and easier way to find this information for individual sites: the WebsensePing utility.This utility provides the category under which the site is [...]

How to Use TestLogServer with Websense Express

TestLogServer is a command-line utility that displays log traffic sent to Websense Log Server. TestLogServer listens on port 55805, which is the same port used by Websense Log Server. Here is an example of traffic displyed by the TestLogServer: time=Fri Jul 30 09:15:41 2004 version=3 server=10.1.1.1 source=127.0.0.1 dest=199.181.132.250 protocol= “http” url= “http://espn.com/” port= “80″ category= [...]