NAT & WWWproxy on port 80

[ekkas2]

Is it ok to have your proxy service on port 80?
If so do you just enable transparent redirection on WWWproxy:80
for non-proxy clients to be cached?

Thanks

[adrien]

hi

it's normally no problem to run the WWW proxy on port 80. Normally the only reason you'd run it on a different port would be to avoid port conflicts with other web server software running on that machine.

Yes, enabling intercepts on the proxy on port 80 will intercept connections through WinGate (not to WinGate) on port 80 and forward them up to whatever port the WWW proxy is running on. So it's possible to have the WWW proxy running on a port other than 80, but have it intercept port 80 connections, yet still not interfere with a web server running on that machine.

Adrien