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Subject:    RE: [Sidewinder] Without SmartFilter, is using Squid WebProxy useful?
From:       sidewinder-admin () adeptech ! com
Date:       2004-04-07 13:13:38
Message-ID: 200404071817.i37IH0527552 () aag ! adeptech ! com
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It's actually TRANSPARENT mode I'm looking for, but other than that, I'm in agreement with you.  I think that's the route I'm going to take.  I like using Squid at home on my Linux firewall, but I'm not as convinced it's right for the services my company provides for our internal customers.

Thanks for the information.

----- Original Message -----
From: sidewinder-admin@adeptech.com
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:43:43 -0500
To: <sidewinder@adeptech.com>
Subject: RE: [Sidewinder] Without SmartFilter, is using Squid WebProxy useful?

> If you want to do this - why not use the HTTP proxy in Non-Transparent mode?
> 
> In 6.1 (with application defencses) you can achieve more granularity through
> the GUI and don't have to learn the concepts of quid.conf
> You can do the allowed ports to get to http://www.wherever.com:5000 and have
> all the MIME, Virus and URL filtering (pattern matching).
> 
> This is different to previous versions - the HTTP proxy is re-written from
> the ground up, and I hear has some fantastic performance figures (900Mbps in
> HTTP1.1 persistent connection mode. 6500 connections per second) and the same
> proxy is used for tranparent and non-transparent traffic (5.x and 6.0 had the
> nt_http proxy).
> 
> You can also chose to run the HTTP proxy cloned on other ports - and treat
> differently in the ACLs as they are distinct proxies on different ports. In
> previous versions you had to rely on generic tcp proxies (or edit nss.conf
> and other files), chose new proxy -> other -> and then proxy to use.
> 
> For the thread that was talking about passing HTTPS over the HTTP proxy - I
> remember seeing an "Allow HTTPS over HTTP proxy" option, or something like
> that... I don't have the GUI open at the moment to check. 
> 
> M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sidewinder-admin@adeptech.com [mailto:sidewinder-admin@adeptech.com] 
> Posted At: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:47 AM
> Posted To: Sidewinder News
> Conversation: [Sidewinder] Without SmartFilter, is using Squid WebProxy
> useful?
> Subject: Re: [Sidewinder] Without SmartFilter, is using Squid WebProxy
> useful?
> 
> 
> There are still a number of useful options available in Squid, including
> the caching.  You can define what ports people can go to and cannot go to
> (ie http://www.whatever.com:5000) and other things.
> 
> Cheers,
> SJ
> 
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 sidewinder-admin@adeptech.com wrote:
> 
> > Is there any reason to use the Squid-based WebProxy if we don't have a
> > subscription to SmartFilter?  It seems like if I'm not going to use
> > SmartFilter, I might was well use the less complicated http proxy.
> >
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