F5 acting like a Web Proxy Server for internet traffic

Hi Fabián,

If you want something a little less sophisticated than SWG, a Virtual Server can be configured with an http-explicit profile attached. This profile was introduced at 11.5.4 IIRC.

You'll need to configure the profile to use a DNS Reslolver and if you want to proxy more than http turn on a few other non default settings.

The configuration for the profile will look something like this:

ltm profile http http-explicit-BLAH {
    app-service none
    defaults-from http-explicit
    explicit-proxy {
        default-connect-handling allow
        dns-resolver BLAH-dns-resolver
        tunnel-name http-tunnel
    }
    proxy-type explicit
}

You won't be able to do all the fancy stuff that SWG can do, but if all you need is to point your browser at it it'll work.

S