Configuring protocol options, Configuring Http options | Intel 1520

address you want to use in this ﬁeld and press CTRL-X to save your changes and return to the previous screen.

✔To see whether the appliance is in reverse or forward proxy mode, select view-mode, and press Enter. A message displays at the bottom of the screen that indicates reverse or forward proxy enabled.

✔To set the appliance for reverse proxy, select rev-proxy, and press Enter.

✔To set the appliance for forward proxy, select forw-proxy, and press Enter.

Note	To use both forward and reverse proxy, set the appliance to reverse. If
	you are running in non-transparent mode, the proxy port is 80.

4In some cases, you are prompted to conﬁrm the action before it is performed. To continue with the action, be sure that y appears after the prompt when you press Enter. After pressing Enter, press CTRL-X to return to the previous screen. To cancel the operation, be sure n appears after the prompt and press Enter. Or you can press ESC to exit the screen.

Configuring protocol options

You can set HTTP, NNTP, and FTP conﬁguration options. You can also set ﬁlter rules and remap rules. Filter rules let you deny or allow particular URL requests and keep or strip header information. Remap rules let you create a set of document routing rewrite rules for reverse proxy caching so that the appliance can handle relative path requests.

Configuring HTTP options

You can view the current conﬁguration settings and remove HTTP headers.

▼Conﬁguring HHTP options

1 Select the conﬁg menu, and press Enter.

2 Select protocols, and press Enter.

3 Select http, and press Enter.

4 Select the conﬁguration option you want to use, and press Enter:

✔To view the current HTTP conﬁguration settings, select view, and press Enter.

✔To remove HTTP headers, select remove, and press Enter. You can remove the following headers:

From:	identiﬁes the user’s email address
Referer:	identiﬁes the Web link followed by the user

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Intel NetStructure 1520 Cache Appliance Copyright 2000, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved Contents Configuring the Appliance Using the Command-Line Interface Troubleshooting Problems 109 Error Messages 151 Changing network address configuration on the NIC Contents 106 Preface Bold Who should read this manualConventions used in this manual Convention Purpose Introduction Chapter Web proxy cache What is an Intel NetStructure Cache Appliance?Why use this caching appliance? Flexible cache architecture Intel NetStructure Cache Appliance features Broad protocol support Secure, single-point administrationMultithreading process support High-speed caching To find out about … See … How to use this guideSnmp Network Management Performance reportingPage Getting Started Starting the system for the first time Controls and physical features on your system Command-line interface‚ on Hhmmss Getting Started Accessing the Manager UI Dashboard Using Monitor and Configure mode Monitor mode frame Configure mode frame Verifying that caching works Using online helpAccessing the command-line interface Changing passwordsPage Monitoring Appliance Performance Using the Dashboard Accessing monitor pages Alert light Condition Description Resolving alarmsDashboard alert lights Exposing node detail Changing the selected node Using the Node Using the ARM Using the GraphsUsing the Protocols Using the Cache Using the Mrtg Using the Other Configuring the Appliance Using the Server Basics Accessing configure pages Setting general options NetStructure Cache sectionOption Description What are virtual IP addresses? Setting Web management optionsSetting virtual IP addressing options Using virtual IP addressing for node failover Adding entries to the Virtual IP address list Setting browser auto configuration options Setting throttling of network connectionsConfiguring load-shedding Enabling Snmp agents Option Definition Configuring Http Configuring Nntp Name and port see Option Definition FTP Configuring FTP Cache activation Freshness Storage For IMS If Modified Since revalidation requests Following table describes the variable conﬁguration options Variable content Using the Security Using the RoutingLink displays the Change Administrator’s Password Setting Http parent caching options Establishing ICP peers Setting ICP options Field Description Option Description Setting server accelerator options Using the Host Database Checking transparencyChecking Wccp Configuring the host database Another invalid hostname message to the user Using the Snapshots Configuring DNS Reaching the Snapshots Using the Command-Line Interface Starting the command-line interface Using the appliance after initial start-upStarting the appliance the first time To do this Do this Navigating the command-line interface Changing network addresses configuration Using the setup menu Changing the controller speed and transmission mode Changing the DNS address and domain nameChanging the gateway address Using the main menu Configuring time zone settingsConfiguring date and time settings Viewing current network address settings Checking the status of the Server and Manager Starting the applianceStopping the appliance Viewing and maintaining versions of the software Installing a new version of the appliance software Application upgrade Patch upgrade OS/Application upgradeRunning a different version of the appliance software Deleting a version of the appliance software Clearing statistics Halting the System Rebooting the System Resetting to factory settings Using the config menuPreparing a cache disk Setting general controls Configuring Http options Configuring protocol options Configuring Nntp options Conﬁguring Nntp servers Tag Description Following table describes the tags you can use in a rule Tag Description Examples Conﬁguring Nntp access If access is Authenticator is User is Pass is Following table lists the access directive options Configuring FTP options Configuring Secure Socket Layer SSL port Primary Destination Allowed Value Setting filter rules Action Value Secondary Specifier Allowed Value Setting remap rules Target Enabling caching for different protocols Configuring the cache Setting object freshness options Setting disk storage options Following table shows the options Configuring caching rules Request URL method use one of the following Destip=112.12.12.12 scheme=ftp action=never-cache Controlling client access to the appliance Configuring security options Controlling access to the Manager UI Configuring routing options Configuring and maintaining ICP peersViewing and modifying ICP rules Following table describes each ﬁeld Mcttl Example Enabling and disabling ICP Viewing current ICP settings Setting the ICP port number Setting the ICP query timeoutEnabling and disabling multicast in ICP Controlling parent proxy caching Action Tag Allowed Value Secondary Specifiers Allowed Value Action Tag Allowed Value Configuring Wccp options Enabling and disabling transparent redirection Configuring the Adaptive Redirection Module ARM Rule Description Configuring ARM bypass rules Rule Format Bypass rules have the following format Configuring load-shedding options Configuring the host database options Option Description Configuring logging options Progress Using the monitor menuViewing Node statistics Statistic Description Cache Statistics Description Viewing Protocol statisticsStatistic Description Network Server Statistics Description Client Statistics Description Operations Statistics Description Queries OriginatingFrom this Node From ICP Peers Viewing Cache statistics Viewing Other statistics Statistic Description Using the expert menu Using the save menu Using the load menuUsing the logoff menu Troubleshooting Problems Rebooting your system from the CLI Rebooting your system Upgrading software Page Appendix a Caching Solutions and Performance Day in the life of a cache request Web proxy caching Cache miss Ensuring cached object freshness Last-Modiﬁed / Date header test Revalidating objectsHttp object freshness tests Expires header test Default test Deciding whether to serve Http objectsRevalidate rules Configuring Http revalidation Configuring Http freshness options Configuring Http cachability Caching Http alternatesTo cache or not to cache? Directive source Caching directives Transparent proxy caching Interception strategies Serving requests transparently Using a layer 4-aware switch to filter transparency requests Using a WCCP-enabled router for transparency Using policy-based routing to filter transparency requests ARM redirection Using a router to ﬁlter Http requests Adaptive interception bypass Appliance adaptive bypassMore about bypass rules Destination bypass Configuring bypass optionsStatic and dynamic adaptive bypass Source bypass Server acceleration Advantages of server acceleration How server acceleration worksRetrieving requested documents Whereas the corresponding proxy request would look like this Web server redirects Understanding server acceleration mapping rules User Request Translated Request Examples of rules and translations User Request Origin Server Header Translated Header Http cache hierarchies Understanding cache hierarchies Miss ICP cache hierarchies Bombay Nntp cache hierarchies News article caching Appliance as a news server Appliance as a caching proxy news serverSupporting several parent news servers Several servers supplying different groups Blocking particular groupsClustering Several news servers supplying the same groups Pull the overview information for speciﬁed groups Maintaining the cache updates and feedsTransparency Posting Take a partial feed push for speciﬁed groups Configuring Access controlPull the articles for speciﬁed groups Dynamically subscribe to speciﬁed groups Carrier-class architecture Self-tuning DataFlow coreObeying Nntp control messages Client bandwidth throttling Fast space reclamation Fine-grained parallelismRaw-disk object store Alias-free caching Fast kernel packet engine AlarmsAdvanced protocol features High-availability Monitor Dashboard Virtual IP failover Node fault tolerance Expansion capabilitiesLoad shedding Centralized administration Client ACL Page Appendix B Error Messages Title Code Description Html messages sent to clients Appendix B Error Messages 153 Message Description Standard Http response messages Appendix B Error Messages 155 Page Glossary DNS ISP POP Wccp Page Index News server features