Enables the web proxy service.

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The web proxy service is disabled by default.

Enable web proxy on the client-side appliance with auto-discovery and pass-through rules to use a single-ended Web proxy to transparently intercept all traffic bound to the Internet. Web proxy improves performance by providing optimization services such as web object caching and SSL decryption to enable content caching and logging services.

The proxy cache is separate from the RiOS data store. When objects for a given website are already present in the cache, the system terminates the connection locally and serves the content from the cache. This saves the connection setup time and also reduces the bytes to be fetched over the WAN. The cache content is persistent and will survive SteelHead reboots and service restarts.

You can also use domain labels with the web proxy in your in-path rules to reduce the load to the proxy using a finer, more granular traffic selection.

The SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead is required to manage web proxy operations. See the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead User’s Guide for more information.

SteelHead CX

in-path rule auto-discover, in-path rule pass-through, show web-proxy status