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Willow is a content-filtering proxy server. It bears one similarity to the
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many other pieces of software available for web filtering in that it is
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designed to filter web content. That, however, is where the similarities
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end. The differences between Willow and other solutions are significant, and
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these differences make Willow the first really usable internet filter.
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In addition to being the first web filter to really work, Willow was also
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designed to make life easy on network administrators. To this end Willow
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supports the following:
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* HTTPS tunneling
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* response caching
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* filtering based on any part of the request or response (domain, url,
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headers, etc.)
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* through-the-web management
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* authentication to a Windows NT/2000 domain
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* authentication through unix password files
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