Design and Configuration of App Supportive Indirect Internet Access using a Transparent Proxy Server
Journal Title: International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) - Year 2014, Vol 4, Issue 10
Abstract
Nowadays apps satisfy a wide array of requirements but are particularly very useful for educational institutions trying to realize their mobile learning systems or for companies wishing to bolster their businesses. A company/institute that wants to perform web filtering, caching, user monitoring etc. and allow Internet access only after authentication might use an explicit proxy. It has been observed that most of the apps that need to connect to the Internet through an explicit proxy, do not work whatsoever. In this paper, a solution has been proposed to get the apps working without having to avoid the use of a proxy server. The solution is developed around transparent proxy and makes use of a captive portal for authentication. Oracle VM VirtualBox was used to develop a test bed for the experiment and pfSense was used as the firewall which has both proxy server and captive portal services integrated on a single platform. When tested, Windows 8 apps as well as Ubuntu apps worked well without sacrificing proxy server services such as web filtering. The proposed solution is widely applicable and cost-effective as it uses open source software and essentially the same hardware as used for explicit proxy deployments.
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Pranjal Sharma , T. Benith
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