Performance impact from enabling HTTP/HTTPS Proxy functionality

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Solution ID	sk92482
Technical Level
Product	Application Control, Cluster - 3rd party, ClusterXL, HTTPS Inspection, IPS, Security Gateway, URL Filtering
Version	R75, R75.40, R75.40VS, R75.45, R75.46, R75.47, R76, R77, R77.10, R77.20, R77.30, R80, R80.10, R80.20, R80.30, R80.40, R81
OS	Gaia, SecurePlatform 2.6
Platform / Model	All
Date Created	15-Mar-2013
Last Modified	30-Nov-2020

Symptoms

Performance impact after enabling HTTP/HTTPS Proxy

Cause

Enabling the HTTP/HTTPS proxy functionality can impact a performance in situations where proxied traffic would otherwise be accelerated by SecureXL.

In order to proxy the connection, the FireWall creates 2 separate connections:

one from the client to the proxy
and another between the proxy and the destination

Because of this, SecureXL cannot accelerate these packets.

It is further relevant to note that the HTTP/HTTPS proxy is NOT a caching proxy. It does not cache commonly visited web pages to provide faster local access to hosts on the LAN.

Solution

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