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Bypass HTTPS Inspection

Business challenge​

The HTTPS inspection Bypass option enables you to define specific websites that are not subject to decryption as they flow through the proxy. Some websites may include personal identification information that should not be decrypt. In order to avoid liability for inspecting this type of information, you may want to specify some or all of these sites for decryption bypass. The selected sites will not be decrypt even if the category or categories that the sites belong to are selected for SSL analysis.

To bypass SSL inspection, follow the following step:

Access the SafeSquid User Interface​

clicking on configure in safesquid interface

clicking on search

searching "BYPASS SSL INSPECTION"

Edit policy to Enable as TRUE (Inspection Policies)​

search results for "BYPASS SSL INSPECTION" and clicking on edit to enable the rule as true

selecting the true value in enabled

clicking on save policy to save it

Edit policies and profiles to Enable as TRUE​

editing the default policies to bypass ssl inspection for applications and categories

How to create new policy to bypass HTTPS Inspection​

example of how to create new policy to bypass SSL inspection

Go to Request Types​

going to request types in request types section in sidebar

clicking on add new to create a new policy

writing comment for reference and entering regular expression of dropbox as an example to match all the dropbox websites

writing comment for reference and entering regular expression of dropbox as an example to match all the dropbox websites

enabling smart TLD as true to match all the dropbox websites

giving a unique name for the created request type in Added request Types

Go to Access Policies​

creating a new policy in access profiles

writing relevant comment, adding the created request type in request type parameter and mentioning the BYPASS SSL INSPECTION in Added profiles

click on save policy to save

note

Configure Proxy settings in drop box and upload/download files to validate the working

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