Course PROXY SERVER

Syllabus

• introduction to proxy server issues (types and functions of proxy servers, computer network architecture with a proxy server, description of communication between the server and devices in the network); advantages and disadvantages, possibilities of using individual types and functions of a proxy server; Squid installation, first steps after installation and basic settings needed to start a non-transparent proxy server; basic (manual) configuration of clients (internet browsers Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Opera, Safari and Google Chrome) for communication with a proxy server; practical configuration of Squid proxy server (detailed configuration of individual ACLs (Access Control Lists) in several case studies - content filtering based on source and destination IP address or domain, keywords, date/time, ports, protocols, browsers used by clients, users); advanced (semi-automatic and automatic, centralized) configuration of clients (internet browsers Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox) for communication with a proxy server using PAC (Proxy auto-config) + HTTP server, WPAD + DHCP server technologies; automatic, centralized administration of all installations of Mozilla applications (Firefox) in a computer network (e.g. administration of proxy settings, protection of administrator-defined settings against changes by users, centralized definition of other settings for all installations in a computer network); searching for and removing problems with a proxy server (analysis of Squid server logs, or analysis of network traffic).