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    BUG: urls with word PDF is not working (blocking)

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      magan_patel
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      Hello,
      I recently installed pfsense at our office, everything was working fine untill i upgrade to latest version of pfsense 2.4.3 (Community Edition).

      After this it is blocking all the url with word pdf
      e.g. http://example.com/test-pdf-test
      http://example.com/promo.pdf

      It only comes in with HTTP protocol with HTTPS it works fine.

      can you help, where I should o look to fix this?
      Thanks in advance

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        pfSense itself does not inspect the contents of HTTP or HTTPS requests, so it is impossible for the base installation to have any effect of that nature.

        It may be an add-on package you have like squid or snort/suricata causing that issue. If you have one of those installed, make a post in a specific category: The Cache/Proxy category for squid, or the IDS/IPS category for snort or suricata.

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