Bloomberg Traffic through Cisco WSA

[SHABEEB KUNHIPOCKER]

Hello,

We have Cisco WSA deployed as transparent proxy. There users who accesses Bloomberg which uses non-http UDP and TCP ports. The customer wants to send this traffic through WSA. Does the WSA handle this type of traffic?.

Thanks

Shabeeb

[Ken Stieers]

No. Most of their traffic isn't http so putting it through the WSA just breaks it

[amojarra]

WSA is a web Proxy and supports HTTP/HTTPS and FTP for proxying.

If it uses any of above applications (HTTP/HTTPS/FTP) but deferent port number ( other than 80/443/21) WSA can handle them.

Long story short the Application layer is important in WSA.

Regards,

Amirhossein Mojarrad

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[fw_mon]

Hello Shabeeb,

Bloomberg support SOCKS v5, so it should work with WSA.

To configure it in the Bloomberg Connection Wizard go to Settings > Connect through a SOCKS Version 5 Proxy server.

Let us know how it worked

[SHABEEB KUNHIPOCKER]

Hello,

I tried to configure SOCKS proxy in Bloomberg and configured SOCKS policy in WSA. Eventhough I allowed the bllombeg ports and destinations in SOCKS policy it is not hitting the policy. I am getting the below error.

How can I allow bloomberg.net:8292?. In custom URL it is not accepting website:port syntax. Kindly advise.

[fw_mon]

Hello Shabeeb, check access log for the block reason. I wouldn't use web tracknig view for troubleshooting, it has some limitations, use logs directly instead.