Transparent Deployment
This deployment involves configuring the firewall or router to route all port 80 and port 443 traffic to the Web Appliance. In this mode, web traffic filtering is transparent to users. Unlike Explicit Deployment, you are not required to configure end user browsers.
- Inspects HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
- Only the firewall and/or the router requires configuration.
- If it fails, only the firewall and/or the router must be reconfigured.
Operation

- Users
make HTTP/HTTPS requests from their clients that are sent out to the LAN.
- The router
receives all network traffic and bounces all HTTP/HTTPS requests to the Web Appliance
.
- The Web Appliance
assesses URLs, blocks disallowed requests, checks if allowed URL requests are currently cached, and passes URL requests that are not cached out to the LAN.
- The router
passes all HTTP/HTTPS requests from the Web Appliance
out through the firewall
to retrieve the URLs from the internet
.
- The Web Appliance
receives the new pages or files and caches them; it passes the pages or files of allowed requests back to the users
.
- The users
receive only safe and allowed pages and files or a notification page.
Configuration
http://ws1000
must resolve to
http://ws1000.example.com
). For more information, please see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303650. Firefox users may need to type their
password repeatedly unless browser settings are reconfigured.