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Proxy Configuration

Your Web Gateway acts as a proxy server on your network.

You can control the behaviour of your Gateway proxy in several ways. You can:

• Configure your Gateway to work in Explicit or Transparent mode
• Define the port your Gateway listens for incoming connections
• Apply authentication to establish the identity of users and what authentication method to use
• Use an upstream proxy to connect to the internet
• Configure progress server settings to provide users with useful information on file downloads
• Customise block and progress pages by adding your company or corporate logo
• Provide your users with information on acceptable Internet usage by configuring and displaying an Acceptable Use Page
• Improve the categorisation of URLs, by configuring your Gateway to submit unknown URLs to Clearswift
• Apply your security policy to users working remotely
• Manage cache
• Configure HTTPS settings
• Configure Transaction logging

Tell me about...

• Proxy modes

  Your Gateway proxy needs to be configured for Explicit or Transparent mode. For details of these modes, configuration options including network considerations, see the Proxy Mode topic.

• Proxy Authentication

  You can configure your Gateway to validate user identities by a number of means. See the User Authentication topic for background and task information on configuring authentication.

• Applying security policy to remote users

  You can configure your Gateway to apply security policy to remote users. See the Working with Remote Users topic for background and task information about configuring your Gateway and remote client devices.

• Using an upstream proxy

  See the Upstream Proxy topic for background and task information on configuring an upstream proxy.

• Progress pages and how I configure them

  A Progress page can be used to provide user information including server address details, file sizes, and page update frequencies. See the Progress Pages topic for background and task information on configuring Progress Pages.

• The Acceptable Use page and how I configure it

  You can provide users with guidance on acceptable Internet usage. See the Acceptable Use Page topic for more information.

• URL categorisation and the URL database

  You can configure your Gateway to submit unknown URLs to Clearswift and help with URL categorisation. For information on this, and guidancde on URL database rollback and update, see the About the URL Database topic.

• How I can manage the proxy cache

  For information on managing cache, including enabling and disabling, clearing, and setting cache bypass, see the About Cache topic.

How do I...

• Configure the listening port?

  For detailed steps on defining the listening port, see the Configuring the Listening Port topic.

• Add a logo to block and progress pages?

  For detailed steps on adding a logo, see the Adding a Corporate Logo topic.

• Configure Transaction Logging?

  For detailed steps on how configure transaction logging, including enabling, disabling, and configuring FTP settings, see the Configuring Transaction Logging topic.

See also...

• The Applying the Current Configuration topic for making sure your proxy configuration changes get applied.
• The Applying Policy to Peer Gateways topic for making sure that proxy configuration changes get applied across your peered Gateways.