Remove URL(s) from a specified URL Category

Note: Before you use this API, make sure to create the URL Categories override file by copying the file /usr/share/fa/data/plugins/panorama/url_categories.json to this location: /home/afa/.fa/plugins/panorama/.

  1. Login as afa user.
    (rw-r--r-- permissions are required for the url_categories.json file (644)).

  2. Run: 

    mkdir /home/afa/.fa/plugins/panorama/

  3. Run:

    cp /usr/share/fa/data/plugins/panorama/url_categories.json /home/afa/.fa/plugins/panorama/

  4. Run:

    chmod 644 /home/afa/.fa/plugins/panorama/url_categories.json

Remove URL(s) from a specified URL Category in the URL Categories override file. Currently only Panorama devices are supported. Use the URL-categories-controller API GET /{category} method to return the list of available URL Categories.

For further information about the URL Categories override file see (optional) Enhance URL Category accuracy.

Resource Name: /api/v1/plugins/{brand}/URLcategory/{category}/URL

Request Method: DELETE

Request URL Parameters:

Element

Type

Description
brand
Mandatory

string

Brand name code. Only "panorama" is supported.

category
Mandatory

string Specified URL Category to remove URL(s) from.

Request Body Parameters:

Element

Type

Description
body
Mandatory 		string

A JSON list of URLs to be removed from the URL Category.

For example:

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[
       "www.bing.com", 
       "www.google.com"
]

Response parameters

Element

Type

Description
categories map of objects

The list of URL categories after URLs have been deleted, each populated by:

  • URL Category name

  • URLs and their IPs

Response:

Status codes:

Code

Description
200

ActiveChange was triggered

400

Input validation failure
403

Authentication failure
500

Failed to complete operation.

Request cURL examples 

curl -X DELETE "https://localhost1/afa/api/v1/plugins/panorama/URLCategory/search-engines/URL" -H "accept: */*" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "[ \"www.bing.com\", \"www.google.com\"]"

Response example for 200

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{
  "categories": {
    "job-search": {
      "urls": {
        "www.indeed.com": [
          "169.45.207.200"
        ],
        "www.monster.com": [
          "65.9.100.58"
        ],
        "www.simplyhired.com": [
          "169.45.226.49"
        ]
      }
    },
    "abortion": {
      "urls": {
        "www.prochoice.org": [
          "130.211.137.150"
        ],
        "www.prochoiceamerica.org": [
          "104.198.98.23"
        ],
        "www.prolifeaction.org": [
          "104.21.63.237"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}