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Mohamed_Dekhil
Mohamed_Dekhil
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April 7, 2026
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Transparent proxy policy and Proxy-based inspection policy

  • April 7, 2026
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I've a question regarding the Transparent proxy policy and Proxy-based inspection policy, since the Transparent proxy policy and the proxy-based policy are doing the same thing i mean the FortiGate buffering the traffic and the client communicate with the FortiGate and the FortiGate communicate with the remote server (2 Connections - Man in the middle topology) Why we use Transparent proxy then since the proxy-based inspection mode policy has the same function?

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ezhupa
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ezhupa
Staff
April 8, 2026

Hello,


Are you mentioning only proxy mode in a firewall policy, or talking about Explicit Proxy VS Transparent Proxy?
If the distincion is between explicit and transparent proxies, an explicit proxy requires devices/applications to be explicitly configured to use the proxy. A Transparent Proxy intercepts traffic without any client-side configuration.
Hence this would help in cases where no client-side configuration is possible and you would still want to proxy all the traffic.

Hope this helps!

 

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