I have a test set up with a Cisco ASA, Websense Web Security v7 server and client machine.
When trying to block websites using Websense categories (e.g. news & media), Websense only seems to block the sites when prefixed with http:// . If a user prefixes the same site with https:// then the site doesn't get blocked.
This happens with any category. Also, when checking the logs, it seems the sites with an https:// are sometimes being listed under the same blocked category (e.g news & media) yet are permitted due to the https:// prefix. Other times they're listed under the Miscellaneous category.
When I block https explicitly from the Protocol section it does successfully block the sites, but obviously I don't want that as there are https sites which need to be accessed.
Any ideas? Has this ever happened to anyone? I went through the KB already but it was of no help.