Monthly Archives: July 2015


Decrypt SSL the proper way.

The v2.15.071712 or above improve the SSL decrypt method and help you to implement SSL decryption. 1) Build a certificate not the default one. Using the default certificate is not the good way, you have to create a new certificate with correct settings. see – Create a self-signed certificate for […]

17-07-2015 13-07-30

17-07-2015 12-52-18

The certificate center

The certificate center is an Artica section designed to store all SSL certificates that should be used by the system ( Web services, Proxy service, Reverse-Proxy services, Mail services )   On the TOP menu, click on System.   Under the maintain section, click on “Certificates center” link     […]


16-07-2015 10-10-54

Send HotSpot self-register members to Artica Meta

When using the HotSpot feature in Artica, members are added to the database temporary. If you need to grab self-registerĀ members, you can ask the HotSpot service to send email addresses to Artica Meta. To use this feature both Meta server and Artica Proxy must use the v2.15.071610 or above. On […]


Run Artica proxy on a small machine

Is it possible to run Artica proxy on a server/virtual machine 1 CPU and 350 MB memory ? This is a proof of Concept in 2015 but yes it is possible with Artica 1.9.022001 or above. With one CPU when playing with the Web interface the system will increase it’s […]

15-07-2015 23-54-28

Anti-Exploits

Anti-Exploits allows to build rules that blocks the most common exploits, SQL injections, file injections, spam and user agents used by hackers and bandwidth hoggers. When a rule of a group matches, the reverse proxy die the connection and produce a HTTP 403 error.   Select your Web site.   […]

14-07-2015 16-12-20

14-07-2015 02-41-27

Enforce caching of your remote web sites

The reverse Proxy is able to cache content in order to deliver it without need to forward connections to the next hope web server. This feature increase dramatically your Web server performance because the front-end reverse proxy is able to serve web page without query your web servers. To cache […]


Follow X-Forwarded-For HTTP Header

This feature is available on Artica v2.15.071321 or above. If you using a Load-balancer ( eg HaProxy) or you need to connect your own proxy to Artica-Proxy server you may use this feature in order to force Artica Proxy to checks the x-Forwarded-For HTTP header. The x-Forwarded-For HTTP header allows […]

13-07-2015 21-36-25

13-07-2015 14-20-33

Retreive ACL rules by a group

With Artica v2.15.071314 or above, the ACL groups list display rules used for each group. In “Your Proxy” section, you can display the link “Proxy objects“   The “Proxy objects” section list all added groups The “Rules” column display the number of rules that use the object Click on the […]