WinGate informations

[tisali-17]

Hello !

I have to compare some proxy solutions and I have some questions about WinGate.

1) Is it possible to import blacklists
2) Is it possible to update automatically the blacklists ?
3) Does it have add-ons possibilities ?

Thank you for your responses

[MattP]

Hi,

It will depend on the format of your blacklists, if they're in a text file in the following format then you can use link to them from a global data list in WinGate:
(matching on site)
wingate.com
facebook.com
youtube.com

Or (matching on URL)
http://www.wingate.com/
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.youtube.com/

Or (with pattern matching)
*winGate.com
*facebook.com
*youtube.com

When you update a text file the changes will be reflected immediately, and the benefit is that whoever is updating/maintaining the text files does not have to log in to the WinGate console.

There are currently two plug-ins for WinGate, Kaspersky AV for WinGate and PureSight for WinGate. KAV is an anti-malware plug-in, PureSight functions as a classifier that categorises requested sites/URLs into categories which you can then use in your web access rules to control access.

Regards,

Matt

[tisali-17]

Thank you !

So what if I take the blacklist from that URL ? http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=download&file=bigblacklist

Will it be updated automatically when they change something on the list ?

[adrien]

we currently do automatic list updates in our systems for several lists which we then use in WinGate (e.g. TOR exit node lists etc)

You can use command line to retrieve a URL to a file, which can then be used by WinGate if it's in the correct format.

List files to be used by WinGate have 1 entry per line.

Regards

Adrien

[tisali-17]

Thank you very much ! That was really helpfull for me !