LITA Regional Institute: Proxy Web Servers and Authentication
San Antonio, TX February 22, 2001
Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > Proxies for Filtering
Other forms of filtering
- Filtering based on Content-type headers; browser string headers
- Prevent certain file types from being downloaded or stop specified web browsers from functioning.
- Removing Cookie headers, ad graphics
- Block personalization functions and web advertising. Protect privacy by removing identifying information from requests.
- Virus protection on web requests
- Scan incoming files for viruses to prevent them from being downloaded to local machines.
- Character code translation
- Translate web pages on the fly into different character sets.