Application Setup
WCCP
Overview Use WCCP routers to enforce transparent proxy. Stop setting proxy in client browsers and transparently redirect traffic flows in real-time. Global Enabled Enable or Disable this section. TRUE: Enable transparent redirection. FALSE: Disable ...
System configuration
Overview Use 'System configuration' to tune various parameters with respective network infrastructure. By this tuning you can improve overall Internet service performance and manage your secure port utilization. Enabling System configuration section ...
Proxy chain
Overview The Proxy chain section allows you to selectively forward requests through another proxy, SOCKS4 or SOCKS5 firewalls. You can also use ICP (Internet Cache Protocol) and CARP (Cache Array Routing Protocols) to share cache with peer or sibling ...
Prefetching
Overview Use Prefetching to enhance user experience. SafeSquid can analyze HTML pages, to identify links to embedded content, and initiate the fetch and cache process while still serving the initial HTML pages. Create entries in the Prefetch ...
Network settings
Overview Configure the basic Network Infrastructure. Configure the Sockets on which SafeSquid will Listen and accept connections from clients. Manage SafeSquid's outgoing connections through existing IPs of your host system. Listen Setup SafeSquid’s ...
Integration of LDAP
Integration of LDAP Here I am integrating my Active Directory with the following information: Active Directory FQDN: ad.safesquid.test IP Address: 192.168.221.1 Username: administrator@safesquid.test Domain of Active Directory: safesquid.test Basedn ...
FTP browsing
Overview FTP Browsing section lets you configure how the FTP connections are established, and results are displayed. SafeSquid can provide support for anonymously browsing FTP Servers, anonymously. This can be useful when the client (some of the ...
Caching
Overview Allows you to add/remove cache stores, and configure: Global cache options. What objects are cacheable or un-cacheable? How cacheable objects are distributed between various stores? Minimum and maximum size of the objects to be stored. ...
Access restrictions
Overview Use Access Restriction to Allow/Deny access to SafeSquid's service for specific users/user groups. This allows you to specify the Access rights for various users and profile them into user groups for unique processing in other sections. In ...
Accelerators
Accelerators Use accelarators to optimize resource utilization and improve response time. Caching Content Caching improves bandwidth efficiency. A page or file, when requested by a user, is served to the user and a copy of it is also maintained ...
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