Manual Http/Ftp Proxy Configuration; Manual Proxy Configuration Of Mozilla Firefox - ESET GATEWAY SECURITY Installation Manual

5.2. Manual HTTP/FTP proxy configuration

The manual proxy configuration (see Figure 5-2) is characterized by explicitly configuring the
proxied user agent to listen on a specific port and address of the parent proxy.
Figure 5-2. Scheme of ESET Gateway Security as a manual proxy
With this configuration, the proxy server usually modifies transferred requests and/or
responses, i.e., non-transparent mode. The manual proxying functionality of esets_http has been
tested with a wide range of common user agents (i.e., proxy caches) such as Squid Proxy Cache
and SafeSquid, as well as web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Netscape, and Konqueror.
In general, any HTTP user agent which supports manual parent proxy settings will cooperate
with the esets_http module. In the next section, we describe the manual proxy configuration
setting of esets_http with Mozilla Firefox and Squid Web Proxy Cache, as these are the most
common HTTP user agent applications.

5.2.1. Manual proxy configuration of Mozilla Firefox

The manual HTTP/FTP proxy configuration of esets_http with Mozilla Firefox is illustrated by
the left hand side of Figure 5-2.
This configuration allows ESET Gateway Security to be installed anywhere within the local
network, including the gateway server and the user agent's computer.
In the example below, esets_http is configured to listen on port 8080 of a computer with local
network IP address 192.168.1.10, by specifying the following parameters in the [http] section of
the ESETS configuration file:
agent_enabled = yes
listen_addr = "192.168.1.10"
listen_port = 8080
The parameter 'listen_addr' can also be the host name which is visible from the local
network.
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