Websense 101

How can I Bypass Websense?

Many businesses and government institutions use a content filtering program such as Websense to keep employees from visiting certain websites while at work. These programs can either prohibit the use of certain websites or monitor all of the sites that employees do visit while in the office. Websense is designed to block websites in several categories, such as adult material, entertainment, drugs, games, sports, internet communication, peer-to-peer file sharing, gambling, instant messaging, health, illegal, shopping, job search, internet telephony, religion, special events, travel, violence, weapons, advertisements, freeware and software download, pay-to-surf, malicious websites, and many more.

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This post was written by admin on September 23, 2008

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How does a proxy server work?

When you use a web proxy to connect to certain website URL, your browser never connects to that website URL directly. Instead, it always connects to the proxy server, and asks it to get the website for you.

A proxy server receives from you a request for an internet service, such as a request for a webpage. The proxy server looks in its local cache of previously downloaded web pages. If it finds the page, it returns it to you without needing to forward the request to the Internet. If the page is not in the cache, the proxy server, acting as a client, requests the page from the internet. When the page is returned, the proxy server forwards it to you.
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This post was written by admin on September 16, 2008

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