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Your enterprise has deployed proxy servers for providing a secure and restrictive browsing sessions by adhering to organization employee internet policy. Your enterprise complies to have an uninterrupted web experience, for mission-critical work. However, at times due to various reasons can cause in...

User authentication in SafeSquid is required for granular and user/group based policy configurations. Kerberos provides a centralized authentication server whose function is to authenticate users to SafeSquid. The Kerberos Authentication mechanism identifies a user that has already "logged" or "sign...

Client Scenario: I want to have all private categories in a separate file with all the list of websites each category has. Example: Private categories Company Blacklist, Company Whitelist, Admins etc. Company Blacklist has URL’s: rediff.com, yahoo.com, Instagram.com facebook.com Category file Compa...

The extended.log (NCSA / Extended log format) records maximum details of each request handled by the proxy application. Extended logs will be helpful for generation of reports to analyze the user activities. However sometimes information in extended logs can become overwhelming and you may find it d...

SafeSquid allows to download the latest or previously saved configuration file. This can be useful to if you want local copy of your configuration file or if you want to restore configuration back to an older dated policy. This can also be used to review policy configuration or compare configuration...

To bypass dynamic categorization custom categories are created with “.” In front of a category. However in the latest release of SafeSquid version 2022.0826.1621.3 for the ‘.category’ default(vendor back) categories are applied to its referrer. You can follow below setup to replicate the issue. Turn...

2nd Option:
You can restart your SafeSquid server to clear monit state files, however, Restarting SafeSquid server might not be an ideal solution if the proxy server is in production.

The older version of the SafeSquid ISO installer suggests a default partition layout with /boot partition size of 232 megabytes. This was sufficient for older versions of the operating system (older than ubuntu 18.04 LTS) however, with newer versions of ubuntu /boot partitions get utilized rather qu...

For SafeSquid version 2022.0802.1537.3 Monit service malfunctions. Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring processes, Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. Example Monit can start SafeSquid service if it does not run or ...

When using websites without sub-domains there are no categorization issue, everything works accordingly. Example: https://youtube.com belongs to a custom category YouTube. image.png Add youtube.com to custom categories GOOGLE SERVICES, test_category1 and test_category2 image.png when searched for yo...