Parental Controls - block all sites with a domain?

It seems Parental Controls requires that each site within a domain must be explicitly blocked. Is there a way to block all sites within a domain? Some sites use many, many urls (for load balancing, specific applictaions, etc.) For example, facebook uses many sites - fs1.facebook.com, fs2.facebook.com... Just blocking www.facebook.com does not block the rest of these.

Thanks.

MacBook, iMac Core 2 Duo 24", iBook G4, iMac FP, iMac DV SE, iMac Bondi Blue, Mac OS X (10.5.2), Airport Extreme/Express/AppleTV

Posted on Apr 28, 2008 11:41 AM

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Jun 13, 2008 2:16 PM in response to Glynn

The wildcard character "*" did not work as hoped or expected in Parental Controls on my 10.5.3 system. I had hoped to block all myspace pages with the entry "http://*.myspace.com" but the site remains wide open to my browser. If I enter "http://profiles.myspace.com" and "http://messages.myspace.com" and "http://www.myspace.com" then those specific URLs are blocked. I wish it were possible to block the entire site with one entry using a wildcard.

Apr 28, 2008 12:19 PM in response to Chuck Coulson1

Go to the Parental Controls system preference, select the appropriate user account and unlock the preference so you can make changes, then select the Content tab. At the lower part of the screen, you'll see a radio button for "Allow access to only these websites". Click the "+" button and you can put in your own URLs. Whether or not the wildcard Glynn suggested will work I don't know.

Regards.

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