Caching Proxy Help

About PICS Filters

PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) filters allow the proxy to restrict access to certain Web pages based on labels from a PICS-compliant rating service. Rating service bureaus provide codes that describe the content of the Web site and rate how explicit the content is. The Caching Proxy uses these labels and the criteria you have set in PICS filters to determine if the information will be served to a client or not.

In addition to filtering served Web sites based on PICS ratings, you can configure PICS filters to do the following:

The PICS Filters configuration page is used to create a new PICS filter or to edit, copy, or delete an existing PICS filter. The order of the filters is significant: they will be evaluated in the order in which they are listed.

Related information