Application proxy

WinGate has numerous proxy network services to support clients who wish to specify a proxy that should be used by a particular application, when it makes requests to the Internet. Each proxy network service is designed to handle proxy requests for a particular application protocol.

WinGate provides the following proxy services for user applications:

• WWW Proxy service

  The WWW Proxy service is designed to handle proxy requests from clients based on the HTTP Protocol. Since it specializes in handle web requests from users Internet browsers, it is the most common proxy used in WinGate. As such it is installed by default in WinGate to listen for proxy web requests on port 80 from clients on the LAN.

• FTP Proxy service

  The FTP Proxy Service provides connectivity for FTP client applications that support the username@hostname method of firewall traversal. This includes the common Windows command-line FTP client, and other common FTP applications such as Filezilla, and CuteFTP configured to use a proxy. It is not installed by default.

• RTSP Proxy service

  The RTSP Proxy Service provides proxy services for WinGate user applications that use the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). RTSP is used to transfer streaming data with real-time properties like audio and video. Client RTSP applications such as RealPlayer and Quicktime can be configured to use the RTSP proxy. It is not installed by default.

• Telnet Proxy service

  WinGate provides a Telnet proxy services to client applications that wish to use Telnet via proxy. It is not installed by default.

• POP3 Proxy service

  The POP3 Proxy service can be installed to provide collection of mail from remote POP3 servers on the Internet, for users who have their email client set to use a proxy. It is not installed by default.

Configuring clients to use the application proxy services

• On WinGate

  1. Install the appropriate proxy service(s) that you want clients to use.

  2. Check on the Bindings tab of the proxy service to see that the appropriate network interface is bound to the service so it can listen for proxy requests from clients on the LAN. All proxy network services in WinGate will bind any network adapters that have their usage marked as Internal by WinGate automatically so they can listen for client proxy requests from the LAN automatically after installation.

     Read more about network interface usage

  3. Check that the Service port in use by the service is set to the same that the client application will be using in their request. Proxy network services will use the common application protocol port designed for the application it is based on (e.g. HTTP 80, FTP 21, Telnet 23 etc.) by default. This can be changed in the service properties if required.

• On the client

  1. Configure each application to use the LAN IP address of the WinGate Server as its proxy server.

  2. Configure the application to make its proxy request to the same port in use by the corresponding proxy service in WinGate (Service Port).