Internets of Interest: 18^th Sep

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 18^th Sep:

Fast Introduction to SOCKS Proxy

Introduction
In the Blue Coat for­ums I often see people ask ques­tions about SOCKS that show they haven’t taken the time to learn what it is. This is a fast intro­duc­tion to what SOCKS is.

Delete the X-​​Bluecoat-​​via Header on Your ProxySG

If you have noticed that your Blue Coat ProxySG inserts a HTTP header in every trans­ac­tion, you might want to delete this to reduce inform­a­tion leak­age to pub­lic networks

Checking Connectivity on Your Blue Coat ProxySG

A very simple tool in your Proxy SG to check that you can access resources. It only works for HTTP but it provides a good check. I use this a lot in net­works where ICMP has been dis­abled for security.

Loading Policy Configuration in the Local File

A com­mon ques­tion in the Blue Coat for­ums is “how do I load this con­fig snip­pet into con­fig­ur­a­tion. The ques­tion most often comes from people who are new to SGOS and have been using the Virtual Policy Manager. This quick note shows you how to load a con­fig snip­pet that removes the X-​​Bluecoat-​​Via header