Issue with Chromebooks and iBoss filtering and Encrypted Searches

[Fry, James]

Our iBoss filtering system has a global setting to not allow students to do an encrypted search on google.

From what I know about Chromebooks is that they do encrypted connections for everything Google.

With encrypted google seaches students can do a search and the filter cannot check to filter what is returned or do image filtering. It will still block links they go to but not the preview

Is there a way in the Chromebook management to have the chromebook not do anything to www.google.com and let it be an unencrypted search, only as http and not https but let all the Drive and other apps work encrypted

The filter is fine and google works with docs.google.com or mail.google.com, etc.

Any help or suggestions or if you are a chromebook district are you having similar issues

thanks

Jim Fry

Novi Schools

--
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”~ William Butler Yeats

[George Sorrells]

Are you sure there isn't a "redirect" option on iboss?  I was looking into different filters, for that same reason, and iboss was one that was recommended, because you could re-direct any https://google.com to http://google.com.

[Ryan Collins]

Google wants you to use DNS for this, so it's not a Chromebook setting:

Google SafeSearch and SSL Search for Schools

http://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186669?hl=en 

To utilize the no SSL option for your network, configure the DNS entry for www.google.com to be a CNAME for nosslsearch.google.com.
We will not serve SSL search results for requests that we receive on this VIP. If we receive a search request over port 443, the certificate handshake will complete successfully, but we will then redirect the user to a non-SSL search experience along with an initial message explaining so.

BTW, if you don't do this in DNS, then anyone who signs into Chrome on the computer would also be able to bypass the filter for searches.