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This article describes the setup of a http proxy chained to a content filter (think " | This article describes the setup of a http proxy chained to a content filter (think " | ||
- | There are many cases, where is not desirable to grant unlimited Internet access to certain groups of people. The most obvious group are children, either at home, or in schools, whom you want to protect from hitting upon too explicit imagery or language. Or perhaps you just want to block certain sites from them.\\ | + | There are many cases, where is not desirable to grant unlimited Internet access to certain groups of people. The most obvious group are children, either at home, in schools |
Other uses for a content-filtering web proxy would be companies that want to limit the accessibility of the Internet facility they allow their employees. Content filtering does not stop at blocking undesirable content - blocking viruses in downloaded materials and malicious HTML code is another form of filtering incoming web traffic.\\ | Other uses for a content-filtering web proxy would be companies that want to limit the accessibility of the Internet facility they allow their employees. Content filtering does not stop at blocking undesirable content - blocking viruses in downloaded materials and malicious HTML code is another form of filtering incoming web traffic.\\ | ||
A web proxy is what you need in this case. The proxy server intercepts all browser requests for web pages, and in co-operation with one or more filtering programs, decides whether the browser will or won't be able to retrieve the full content it was requesting. | A web proxy is what you need in this case. The proxy server intercepts all browser requests for web pages, and in co-operation with one or more filtering programs, decides whether the browser will or won't be able to retrieve the full content it was requesting. | ||
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Ideally, you would want a solution where such a filtering proxy server is installed on the Internet Gateway Server, and the desktop computers would not have to be be reconfigured to make use of the proxy. This is called // | Ideally, you would want a solution where such a filtering proxy server is installed on the Internet Gateway Server, and the desktop computers would not have to be be reconfigured to make use of the proxy. This is called // | ||
- | I will show you how you can use [[http:// | + | I will show you how you can use [[http:// |
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- | <note tip>This article focuses on the configuration of a transparent proxy on a gateway/ | + | <note tip>This article focuses on the configuration of a transparent proxy on a gateway/ |
===== How it works ===== | ===== How it works ===== |