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  • Content Gateway SSL Certificate Verification
    • Introduction
    • SSL support and the Certificate Verification Engine (CVE)
    • CVE Best Practices
    • Certificate Verification Failures and Remediation Options
      • Certificate verification failures occur for the following reasons:
      • List of common certificate verification error messages
      • Remediation
      • SSL trusted certificate store
      • SSL transaction logging

        SSL transaction logs are sent to the same systems logs as those used by HTTP. Content Gateway transaction logging is described here.

      • Bypass options
        • SSL Decryption Category bypass and Hostname/IP address bypass
        • The SSL Incident List
        • Content Gateway ARM bypass

          See Interception bypass.

        • Explicit proxy PAC file bypass
        • Transparent proxy Access Control List (ACL) bypass

          See the vendor documentation for your transparent routing device.

        • SSL Verification Bypass

          See SSL Verification bypass.

    • Troubleshooting Certificate Verification Failures

      This section describes how to use resources in Content Gateway and on your PC to troubleshoot certificate verification failures.

    • Frequently Asked Questions

    • Additional Resources
    • Glossary

Explicit proxy PAC file bypass

See:

  • How do I specify in a PAC file a URL that will bypass Content Gateway?
  • PAC File Best Practices

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