US Patent 8732828 Referrer-specific network management

Methods and systems for providing destination-specific network management are described. One example method includes receiving from a client within a network, a request to access a resource associated with a destination address outside the network, the received request including referrer information; determining that the destination address corresponds to an unclassified destination; determining whether the received request's referrer information corresponds to a referrer entity that is included in a set of approved referrers; and selectively blocking the network request to access the resource at the destination address based upon a result of the determining.