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Web Proxy Profile

Web Proxy Profile

You can create web proxy profiles that can add, remove, and change HTTP headers. The web proxy profile can be added to the web proxy global configuration.

Go to Proxy Settings > Web Proxy Profile to change the web proxy profiles.

Hover over the leftmost edge of the column heading to display the Configure Table icon, which you can use to select the columns to display or to reset all the columns to their default settings. You can also drag column headings to change their order.

The following options are available:

Create New

Create a web proxy profile. See Create or edit a web proxy profile.

Edit

Edit the selected web proxy profile. See Create or edit a web proxy profile.

Delete

Remove the selected web proxy profile.

Search

Enter a search term to find in the list.

Name

The name of the web proxy profile.

Strip Encoding

Whether the profile strips out unsupported encoding from request headers and correctly block banned words.

Log Header Change

Whether the profile allows changes to the log header.

Pass

Which HTTP headers will be forwarded in forwarded requests.

Add

Which HTTP headers will be added in forwarded requests.

Remove

Which HTTP headers will be removed from forwarded requests.

Ref.

Displays the number of times the object is referenced to other objects.

To view the location of the referenced object, select the number in Ref., and the Object Usage window appears displaying the various locations of the referenced object.

Web Proxy Profile

Web Proxy Profile

You can create web proxy profiles that can add, remove, and change HTTP headers. The web proxy profile can be added to the web proxy global configuration.

Go to Proxy Settings > Web Proxy Profile to change the web proxy profiles.

Hover over the leftmost edge of the column heading to display the Configure Table icon, which you can use to select the columns to display or to reset all the columns to their default settings. You can also drag column headings to change their order.

The following options are available:

Create New

Create a web proxy profile. See Create or edit a web proxy profile.

Edit

Edit the selected web proxy profile. See Create or edit a web proxy profile.

Delete

Remove the selected web proxy profile.

Search

Enter a search term to find in the list.

Name

The name of the web proxy profile.

Strip Encoding

Whether the profile strips out unsupported encoding from request headers and correctly block banned words.

Log Header Change

Whether the profile allows changes to the log header.

Pass

Which HTTP headers will be forwarded in forwarded requests.

Add

Which HTTP headers will be added in forwarded requests.

Remove

Which HTTP headers will be removed from forwarded requests.

Ref.

Displays the number of times the object is referenced to other objects.

To view the location of the referenced object, select the number in Ref., and the Object Usage window appears displaying the various locations of the referenced object.