Forwarding specific URL http requests to local proxy web caching server

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Hello there,
we want to forward in LAN/VLAN http requests to dl.google.com to a LAN web caching proxy server running on 192.168.8.5:3128
How can we achieve this with the Balance One?

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Forwarding via web proxy is either on or off at a wan port level. You enable it in Service Forwarding.
So if you had a spare wan port you could use outbound policies to forward traffic for just dl.google.com via that WAN which has proxy enabled…

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Thanks Martin,
I think we will setup the web caching server to listen on port 80 & 443 & redirect traffic through a local DNS record.

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Thanks Martin,
I think we will setup the web caching server to listen on port 80 & 443 & redirect traffic through a local DNS record.

The DNS local record trick did not work… while I can run the Proxy to listen on port 80, avoiding the port redirection issue, I should find a way to forward all requests to dl.google.com to the LAN proxy…

Do you think this can be done somehow? Basically all Internet traffic would flow through the Balance One WANs with the exception of requests to dl.google.com that would be forwarded through the proxy

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Reading your solution, I guess it is the only option available… Could be handy to have this as a future feature… any request to specific FQDN might be routed to a local proxy…