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SONICWALL SONICOS STANDARD 3.0 ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE
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Chapter 11: Configuring Web Proxy Settings
Network > Web Proxy
A Web proxy server intercepts HTTP requests and determines if it has stored copies of the requested
Web pages. If it does not, the proxy completes the request to the server on the Internet, returning the
requested information to the user and also saving it locally for future requests.
Setting up a Web proxy server on a network can be cumbersome, because each computer on the
network must be configured to direct Web requests to the server.
If you have a proxy server on your network, instead of configuring each computer’s Web browser to
point to the proxy server, you can move the server to the WAN and enable Web Proxy Forwarding.
The SonicWALL security appliance automatically forwards all Web proxy requests to the proxy server
without requiring all the computers on the network to be configured.