WinGate is a sophisticated integrated Internet gateway and communications server designed to meet the control, security and communications needs of today’s Internet-connected businesses. WinGate’s comprehensive range of license options provides you the flexibility to choose the features and capabilities that best match your needs and budget, whether you need to manage an enterprise, small business, or home network. WinGate will share most types of Internet connections effortlessly, allowing multiple users to simultaneously surf the web, retrieve their email, or chat with online messaging, as if they were directly connected to the Internet. Whether it is a simple dialup modem or hi tech broadband solution, WinGate can help to make the most out of the connection.

WinGate will handle requests from a wide variety of Web applications and Internet protocols, such as Web browsers, Messaging software, FTP and SSL. WinGate also supports DirectPlay Internet games and Real Time Streaming Audio/Video.

With WinGate’s user database and policies, parents and administrators alike can limit and control users access to the web. Logging, auditing, and a real time activity and history viewer – detailed records of user activities can be easily examined. This makes WinGate an ideal choice for Internet cafes and network administrators who work in environments where Internet access needs to be monitored closely.

WinGate comes complete with a built in firewall to ensure that each Internet connection is kept safe from attacks by hackers and intruders from the Internet. Your network safety can be further enhanced with optional plug-in components, available seperately, which will scan incoming data for viruses, or filter out inappropriate content. This gives peace of mind to both parents and network administrators, so that you can be sure that your family or co-workers are using the Internet appropriately.

Key Functions. WinGate allows you to:
• Provide secure and managed Internet access for your entire network via a single or multiple shared internet connections
• Enforce advanced and flexible access-control and acceptable use policies
• Monitor usage in real time, and maintain per-user and per-service audit logs.
• Stop viruses, spam and inappropriate content from entering your network
• Provide comprehensive internet and intranet email services.
• Protect your servers from internal or external threats.
• Improve network performance and responsiveness with web and DNS caching
• Ease administration burdens on your internal networks.

Key Benefits. Using WinGate to actively manage the use of your Internet and network resources can provide many benefits, including:
• Improved Employee productivity
• Minimised time and resources required to maintain network integrity
• Reduced Employer liabilities
• Improved efficiency, responsiveness and reliability of network access

Changes in Version 6.6.2 Build 1315 (23 July 2009):
1. Added filtered packet capturing facility. Captures packets in pcap format on all interfaces.
2. Fixed an issue relating to HTTP 1.0 requests which did not contain a Host header
3. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy relating to certain sites using chunked transfers in some boundary cases which caused premature termination of the connection.
4. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy relating to the CONNECT command where some clients sent a CONNECT method with a message body.
5. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy where some sites don’t send properly chunked data which was causing the session to hang.
6. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy relating to connecting through an upstream proxy for CONNECT and FTP requests.
7. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy relating to connecting through an upstream proxy – no longer requires DNS.
8. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy where serving files from a UNC base path would result in a 404 file not found error
9. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy where reverse proxying to a server that required authentication would fail.
10. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy with auto-dialing.
11. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy relating to unhandled HTTP methods used by Outlook Web Access
12. Fixed an issue in the WWW proxy relating to authenticated access to FTP sites with user/pass in the URL.
13. A couple of minor tweaks to HTTP caching – now properly honours no-store directive, and allows revalidation with no-cache directive.
14. Fixed an issue where changes to a service configuration or network interfaces could cause port range settings to be lost until WinGate was restarted.
15. Fixed a problem with saving VPN settings which caused a VPN only install to no longer be a VPN only install.
16. Fixed a problem in the SMTP server where RCP files may get stuck in the PostIn folder.
17. Added code to cycle DNS resolver socket to satisfy some misguided DNS servers that start ignoring requests otherwise.
18. Fixed a problem with the installer on Vista, where the driver was not being properly updated.

Homepage – http://www.wingate.com

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