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Zscaler and Transparent proxying - Part 1

I came across a scenario where i had to accomplish the following tasks Configure Transparent Proxy for the Guest Users of our network Devices may include Laptops Smartphones or Tablets Route the Traffic through an upstream proxy server (Zscaler cloud) Disable Authentication and SSL intercept for seamless internet access I had read about Squid Cache on several online resources. First task was getting a Unix server [Ubuntu] up and running. Install process is straight forward as is getting squid installed https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Squid # apt-get install squid Next came the configuration file, which is located at  /etc/squid3/squid.conf Additional details about it can be found in the documentation at  http://www.squid-cache.org . The following options are needed to get started The default port on which squid accepts traffic is 3128 By default squid is configured to block every traffic. however, the configuration files includes details about each...