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# sk92482 - Performance impact after enabling HTTP/HTTPS Proxy on Security Gateway

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk92482 |
| Date Created | 2013-03-15 |
| Last Modified | 2025-01-29 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82, R81.20, R81.10 (EOS), R81 (EOS) |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- After enabling HTTP/HTTPS Proxy on the Security Gateway, the CPU utilization increased to 70%-90% (depending on traffic and the HTTPS Inspection policy).

## Cause

Enabling the HTTP/HTTPS proxy functionality can impact the Security Gateway performance in situations where SecureXL would otherwise accelerate proxied traffic.

To proxy the connection, the Security Gateway creates two separate connections:

* The first connection is from the client to the proxy server.
* The second connection is between the proxy server and the destination.

Because of this, SecureXL cannot accelerate these packets.

**Note: The HTTP/HTTPS proxy is NOT a caching proxy**. It does not cache commonly visited web pages to provide faster local access to hosts on the LAN.

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