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When setting up a regular proxy service, make sure it serves only your clients and prevents unauthorized access to it by creating a firewall that allows only your clients to use a proxy, otherwise, it may be used as an open proxy.

Works as HTTP firewall (deny access to undesirable web pages) Īllows filtering web content (by specific parameters, like source address, a destination address, port, URL, HTTP request method) scan outbound content, e.g., for data leak protection.

To increase access speed to resources (it takes less time for the client to get the object).There can be many potential purposes of proxy servers: If the proxy has not requested a file, it downloads that from the original server. Then, if there is another request for the same URL, it can use the response that it has, instead of asking the origin server for it again. Parent proxy support – allows to specify another proxy server, (if they don’t have the requested object ask their parents, or to the original server) Ī proxy server usually is placed at various points between users and the destination server ( also known as the origin server) on the Internet.Ī Web proxy (cache) watches requests coming from clients, saving copies of the responses for itself.Logging facility – allows to get and store information about the proxy operation.Direct Access List – to specify which resources should be accessed directly, and which - through another proxy server.Cache access list to specify which objects to cache, and which not.Access list by source, destination, URL, and requested method (HTTP firewall).Transparent proxy – the customer does not know about the proxy being enabled and there isn’t a necessity for any additional configuration for the web browser of the client.Regular HTTP proxy – customer (itself) specifies what is a proxy server for him.

MikroTik RouterOS implements the following proxy server features: The proxy server performs the Internet object cache function by storing requested Internet objects, i.e., data available via HTTP and FTP protocols on a system positioned closer to the recipient in the form of speeding up customer browsing by delivering them requested file copies from the proxy cache at local network speed. MikroTik RouterOS performs proxying of HTTP and HTTP-proxy (for FTP and HTTP protocols) requests.