Configuring The Explicit Web Proxy - Fortinet FortiGate Series Administration Manual

Configuring the explicit web proxy

Configuring the explicit web proxy
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IP Address Enter the host's IP address (IPv4). Available if Type is Address (A).
IPv6 Address Enter the host's IP address (IPv6). Available if Type is IPv6 Address (AAAA).
Canonical Name Enter the host's fully qualified domain name. Available if Type is
Canonical Name (CNAME).
Preference Enter the MX preference value. Range 0 to 65 535. Available if Type is
Mail Exchange (Mx).
TTL (seconds) Enter the TTL value. Enter 0 to use the Zone TTL value.
You can use the Web Proxy settings and FortiGate interface settings to enable explicit
HTTP and HTTPS proxying on one or more interfaces. When enabled, the FortiGate unit
becomes a web proxy server. All HTTP and HTTPS session received by interfaces with
Explicit web proxy enabled are intercepted by the explicit web proxy relayed to their
destinations.
To use the explicit proxy, users must add the IP address of a FortiGate interface and the
explicit proxy port number to the proxy configuration settings of their web browsers.
On FortiGate units that support WAN optimization you can also enable web caching for
the explicit proxy.
To enable explicit web proxy on an interface, go to System > Network > Interface, select
the interface, and enable explicit web proxy. If VDOMs are enabled, only interfaces that
belong to the current VDOM and have explicit web proxy enabled will be displayed. If you
enable the web proxy on an interface that has VLANs on it, the VLANs will only be
enabled for web proxy if you manually enable each of them. Web proxy is not in the Global
Network section when VDOMs are enabled.
Note: To enable protection profiles for explicit web proxy traffic, you must configure 2
VDOMs and use inter-VDOM routing to pass the web traffic between them.
Web proxies are configured for each VDOM when VDOMs are enabled.
For a more complete description of the FortiGate web proxy see the
Optimization, Web Cache, and Web Proxy User
To configure web proxies go to System > Network > Web Proxy.
Figure 88: Configuring Web Proxy settings
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