APPLYING GROUP POLICIES

摘要

Information corresponding to a set of signatures is maintained, and for each signature in the set, an associated group policy of a network is maintained. A message from a device on the network is intercepted, and the message includes a header. At least a portion of the header matches a signature in the set of signatures. Responsive to determining that the portion of the header matches the signature, the matched signature's associated group policy of the network is applied to the device on the network.

主权项

1. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:
intercepting, by a network gateway on a network, a message from a client device on the network, the message comprising a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET message and further comprising a header having a user agent string; determining that at least a portion of the header matches a particular signature in a set of signatures by matching a substring of the user agent string to the particular signature, wherein the particular signature includes a wildcard character that can be matched to one or more of a plurality of characters in the user agent string; and responsive to determining that the portion of the header matches the particular signature, applying a group policy associated with the matched signature to the client device on the network.