Adding and Managing Allowed Hosts

Use the Allowed Hosts setting to add and manage domains to crawl and audit. If your Web application uses multiple domains, add those domains here. For example, if you were scanning "WIexample.com," you would need to add "WIexample2.com" and "WIexample3.com" here if those domains were part of your Web presence and you wanted to include them in the scan.

You can also use this feature to scan any domain whose name contains the text you specify. For example, suppose you specify www.myco.com as the scan target and you enter "myco" as an allowed host. As the sensor scans the target site, if it encounters a link to any URL containing "myco," it will pursue that link and scan that site's server, repeating the process until all linked sites are scanned. For this hypothetical example, the sensor would scan the following domains:

Adding Allowed Hosts

To add allowed hosts:

  1. Click MANAGE.

  2. In the SPECIFY ALLOWED HOST dialog box, type a URL in the Name box.

    Important! When you specify the URL, do not include the protocol designator (such as http:// or https://).

  3. (Optional) To use a regular expression to represent a URL, select Use Regular Expression.

  4. Do one of the following:

    • To save the allowed host to the list, click the check mark icon ().

      The URL is added to the allowed hosts list. To add another allowed host, return to Step 2.

    • To clear the fields and start over, click the retry icon () and return to Step 2.

  5. When the list of allowed hosts is complete, click OK.

Editing or Removing Hosts

To edit or remove an allowed host:

  1. Select a host from the Allowed Hosts list.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • To edit the host name or regular expression, click MANAGE.

      The SPECIFY ALLOWED HOST dialog box opens. For more information about using this dialog box, see Adding Allowed Hosts.

    • To remove the host from the allowed hosts list, click REMOVE.

See Also

Configuring Scan Details