[c-nsp] Forwarding http traffic to web filtering service

[Adrian Chadd]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007, Aman Chugh wrote:
> Just wanted to jump in after reading the thread, I had integreated my Cisco
> IOS firewall router using a url filter with websense, I would like to know
> if I can integreate web proxy on the internet with my Cisco IOS firewall and
> which web proxies on the internet provide this service.  Would web browsing
> become slow if the We are in India and web proxy is located in US.

Probably? :) Definitely would be slow if you implement it naively.
Ie, you want it to be local so web requests from you to other local sites
(ie, which don't have to go out to the US in the first place) stay quick.
Using a web proxy in the US for requests that are routed out towards the
US won't hurt.

Why can't you just run a web proxy local?



Adrian