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Launching web portal applications Working with the web portal
In the Tools area, you can connect to a web server or start a telnet session. You
can also check connectivity to a host or server on the network behind the
FortiGate unit. For more information, see
“Starting a session from the Tools area” .
Launching web portal applications
The FortiGate unit forwards client requests to servers on the Internet or internal
network. To use the web-portal applications, you add the URL, IP address, or
name of the server application to the My Bookmarks list (see
“Adding a bookmark
to the My Bookmarks list” ).
One or more of the following server applications may be available to you,
depending on whether they were installed by the server administrator:
• Web servers (HTTP/HTTPS) download HTML pages in response to web
browser requests.
• Telnet servers (TCP/IP Terminal Emulation Protocol) enable you to use your
computer as a virtual terminal to log in to a remote host.
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) servers enable you to transfer files between your
computer and a remote host.
• SMB/CIFS servers implement the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol to
support file sharing between your computer and a remote server host.
• VNC (Virtual Network Computing) servers enable you to remotely control
another computer, for example, accessing work from your home computer.
• RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) servers have a multi-channel protocol that
allows users to connect to computers running Microsoft Terminal Services.
• SSH (Secure Shell) servers enable you to exchange data between two
computers using a secure channel.
When you access any of these server applications, the server may prompt you for
a user name and password. To log in, you must have a user account created by
the server administrator.
URL re-writing
When a FortiGate unit forwards client requests to servers on the Internet or
internal network, there may be a requirement to access a site with a name or
address that should not be exposed. For HTTP/HTTPS, the FortiGate unit
employs an obfuscation technique that encrypts the hostname with a random key
using AES-128, then the corresponding hex value plus ‘Z’ is added at the
beginning to form the encoded name.
For example, in the case of the URL http://test.org/index.html , the FortiGate unit
would translate to the following:
https:///proxy/http/Z/index.html
Note: If you want to access a web server or telnet server without first adding a bookmark to
the My Bookmarks list, type the URL or IP address of the server into the appropriate field
under Tools instead (see
“Starting a session from the Tools area” ).
Note: Windows file sharing through SMB/CIFS is supported through shared directories.