Portal Link with Proxy Server

Our internal network uses an explicit proxy server to reach the internet. Workstation browsers know that *.int.company.com can be accessed directly but all other site go through the proxy server.

 

I have a portal link for website.int.company.com. This website makes use of Google charts to draw some line graphs. It does this by calling:

 

• http://www.google.com/jsapi
• http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,300
• http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.0/jquery.min.js
• http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js

Accessing website.int.company.com from a computer on the internal network works great because the browser knows to talk to the proxy server to reach the google links. Accessing the site from the Portal page fails because the big-ip tries to connect to google directly – it is not proxy aware.

 

From what I can see, a Proxy Host and Proxy Port can be defined for the Portal link. The help says that this “Specifies the proxy host that the portal access resource uses”, so I created three resource links:

 

• www.google.com 80 /jsapi
• .googleapis.com 80 /*
• html5shim.googlecode.com 80 /*

…and I entered the proxy host and port as:

 

• Proxy Host: proxyserver.int.company.com
• Proxy Port: 80

I have also tried http://proxyserver.int.company/com as well as just the IP address however the traffic does not seem to be heading towards the proxy server. I’m guessing the format of the proxy host and port is incorrect???

 

Any thoughts?

 

(Testing in a lab with 11.5.1 HF2)