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Content blocked with Surf Protection switched off

Hi,

I tested the Surf Protection and included the categorie finance.

After getting response from one client, that he couldn't reach the bank, I removed finance but he still cannot reach the bank.

Then I deactivated the filter. No success.
Then I removed all filter profiles. No Success.
Then I switched the HTTP-Proxy off and on, but he still gets the message:
"Content blocked ...."

What else can I do to remove the blocking?

Walter

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0 Tmor over 23 years ago

did u clear the cache on the local machine? Internet Explorer has a nasty habit of caching the pages, not sure about other browsers.

hope that helps.

[size="1"][ 26 July 2002, 08:09: Message edited by: Tmor ][/size]
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0 wk_03 over 23 years ago in reply to Tmor

Tmor,

thanks. It's the easyest things, that make you look for a long time. But I didn't think at the client's browser.

Btw, does anyone have a description, how SurfProtection works, how the blocked URLs are maintained and how often they are updated?
The online help and the manual give not much information.

cu
Walter
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0 Rayzor over 23 years ago in reply to wk_03

WK:

There is a doc on this site explaining the setup of surf protection...with Astaro security linux

http://docs.astaro.org/docs_v3/setups/Surf_Protection_User_Authentication.pdf

Hopefully this will help with your setup...

as for How it works...it is produced by Cobion....you can get information from there Web site....at

http://www.cobion.com

Rayzor
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0 wk_03 over 23 years ago in reply to Rayzor

As far as I understood from the Cobion description all URL requests are going through their server or some mirrors.

How does this effect speed of surfing?

cu
Walter
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0 oliver.desch over 23 years ago in reply to wk_03

wk,

do you feel any decrease?

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0 wk_03 over 23 years ago in reply to oliver.desch

Oliver,

no, for small users with low traffic I think it is unnoticable, but I try to understand the theory and wonder how it will work for large application with much traffic.

Do you have a mirror of the cobion site on your servers? Are there more servers in Europe or Germany?

You see, I'm just curious.

cu
Walter
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0 oliver.desch over 23 years ago in reply to wk_03

wk,

Astaro developed a special cache, which stores
once fetched information for a day - longer
wouldn't make sense because many of the indexed
pages move daily! The request is directed to
Astaro Servers, which are synchronized with Cobion databases.

I think even on large installation it will work
pretty fast!

You can find a whitepaper about the technology on
www.astaro.com in the product section!

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