Yearly Archives: 2015


Centralize personal Web filtering categories

Personal Web filtering categories can be centralized if you using Artica v2.17.072400 or above on both Meta server and Artica clients. With Meta you can create a personal category that will be replicated on all Artica clients specified in an Artica Meta Groups. 1) Create your categories trough Artica Meta […]

24-07-2015 01-28-01

Bypass a computer from authentication method

This post explain how to disable authentication for certain proxy objects while enabled for others. For example, I want machineA to pass the proxy without authentication and machineB is still being authenticated. To perform this rule you need to know how to define your whitelisted internal computer. Your computer can […]


Reload Proxy services in public mode

Sometimes you need to reload the proxy service without need to establish an administrator session on the Artica Web console Interface. This to reload Active Directory groups or cached acls.. This feature is available on Artica v2.17.072214 or above. You can enable a specific link that allows you to use […]

22-07-2015 14-25-56

19-07-2015 01-50-00

Use the local LDAP database and authenticate

If you did not want to connect the Artica proxy to an Active Directory server or a remote LDAP server, you can use the local database to create users, groups in order to authenticate your members. 1) Create members On the top menu, click on on Local Members   A new […]


The Partial content list

Most video,audio players, update agent (Microsoft, Google)  request small chunks of the file at a time, and then request more later. 206 partial content is  sent when the user-agent specifically requests a specific range of the file, rather than the entire file. In many cases the proxy is not able […]

18-07-2015 19-56-59

18-07-2015 17-28-50

Connect to meta server trough the console

To connect an artica proxy to the meta server , you need first to run the install wizard. Without executing the installation wizard, process will failed. Choose Meta menu   Select Join a meta server   Set the IP address of the Meta server   Set the listen port of […]


The Skype macro

The Skype macro allows to allow or deny using Skype trough the proxy using ACLs. On the TOP menu, click on Your Proxy Select Complete ACLs link Create a new ACL Set the name and the ACL action.   Choose items tabs. Click on New Proxy object Choose Macro: Skype object […]

17-07-2015 18-35-20

17-07-2015 14-24-22

How to decrypt all Internet web sites ?

To decrypt all internet Web sites, you need to use SSL Rules. On the TOP click on “Your Proxy” Choose SSL rules Click on New rule. Set the rule name. Turn ON the Uncrypt SSL option Click on Add button   Click on the created rule, Click on link object. […]


Install the Proxy certificate on Internet Explorer

This Article is based on Artica v.2.15.071713 or above. See: Automatically Deploy Proxy certificate to FireFox/Internet Explorer When using SSL MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE, you should install Proxy certificate in order to avoid Browsers warning on a non-trusted certificate Create a self-signed certificate for the proxy Go on a client Workstation. Type the […]

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17-07-2015 13-07-30

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 […]