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      <div class="N1H-Heading1"><a name="642060">Creating alternate block messages</a></div>
      <div class="IN-TopicInfo"><a name="635623">Administrator Help&nbsp;| Forcepoint Web Security and Forcepoint URL Filtering&nbsp;| v8.5.x</a></div>
      <div class="B-Body"><a name="596921">You can create your own HTML files to supply the text that appears in the top frame of the block page. Use existing HTML files, create alternate files from scratch, or make copies of </a><span class="B-Bold">block.html</span> to use as a template.</div>
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              <div class="B1-Bullet1_inner"><a name="596952">Create different block messages for each of 3 protocols: HTTP, FTP, and Gopher.</a></div>
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              <div class="B1-Bullet1_inner"><a name="596972">Host the files on the web protection machine, or on your internal web server (see </a><span class="LEM-LinkEmphasis"><a href="block_page_remote.aspx" title="Using an alternate block page on another machine">Using an alternate block page on another machine</a></span>).</div>
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      <div class="B-Body"><a name="607947">After creating alternate block message files, you must configure web protection software to display the new messages (see </a><span class="LEM-LinkEmphasis"><a href="filtering_explain.aspx" title="Configuring filtering settings">Configuring filtering settings</a></span>). During this process, you can specify which message is used for each of the configurable protocols.</div>
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