Question about www proxy redirect option

[bikikitty]

I noticed that the www proxy had the option said "transparent redirection", just wonder what exactly it is and how to use it?

Because I had an actual envirement like this:

Only one computer, installed wingate server, use USB ADSL MODEM to access internet

I notice, when I set up the browser( such as IE) to use the proxy which point to the Wingate www proxy(127.0.0.1:80), the wingate www proxy can cache the content what I surf to. Otherwise, if I leave the proxy setting of browser BLANK, it means the browser directly access the internet though gateway, the wingate www proxy do not cache anything.

Need to know, on the Wingate Server(not client machine), how can I use the www proxy cache without setting the browser's proxy setting, is it possible?

[Pascal]

Not currently, no. You need to set the browser to proxy on the WinGate Server itself.

Transparent Redirection (In Version 6 and upwards renamed to Intercepts) allows WinGate to redirect traffic coming in on a known port to a proxy. So, if your client computers are using NAT, and you have Transparent Redirection on in the WWW Proxy Service; your client machine's traffic on port 80 will be redirected through the WWW Proxy Service. Main benefit is you can then use more advanced policies, use plugins, etc.

[bikikitty]

Thank you!
Another question, I use wingate5.2.3 as the www proxy.

But I noticed the web page alway retain the content of two days ago, even though I pressed the refresh button many times( IE browser).

On the Cache Management option page, I set the Number of days before rechecking HTML to 2 days.

What's the solution?

[Pascal]

I set the Number of days before rechecking HTML to 2 days.

Offhand, that seems like the problem. (Having it set to two days) I'm not in the office at the moment, but will check it tomorrow.

Does it refresh if you force a refresh? (For example, press Ctrl-F5 or hold Ctrl when clicking Refresh)

[bikikitty]

Ctrl + F5 can make it refresh.

Wonder If it means that Wingate always check the web page update once two days, for the more frequently update web site, we need to force a refresh by manual. Can Wingate check the website update more intelligently?

Anyway, that's a method.

Thank you!

[Pascal]

In the meantime though, you can reduce that date/time to a lower number. That determines how frequently it checks the page 'freshness' when doing a request.