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Cisco Secure Access Help Manage Destination Lists Control Access to Custom URLs Block a URL URL Normalization

Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

URL Normalization

URLs normalize automatically using the following criteria:

URL Normalization
Protocol Schema (the protocol should be stripped) hxxp://xyz.com/test → xyz.com/test
Username: Password (should be stripped) user: pass@xyz.com → xyz.com
Ports (should be stripped) xyz.com:8080/abc → xyz.com/abc
Trailing slashes (stripped from the end of the URL) xyz.com/abc/ → xyz.com/abc