Request Tab

This is the most commonly used tab after the Recipient Tab. This allows you to place restrictions on the request that a user can make when accessing a service. You can specify combinations of required and banned criteria in order to limit the requests your users can make.

If you choose to specify which requests the recipient has rights for then you specify filters and criteria. If you specify no included criteria, then there are no restrictions. This dialog follows the same logic as the Caching tabs, see there for details on how to customise this section.

So, you may think of this dialog as adding restrictions to the request.

You have access to a number of variables when specifying a criterion. Here is the list of variables that you have access to in setting up your criteria.

In this list, All means all services except DHCP.

Variable	Type	Services	Description
Client IP number	String	All	The IP address the user is connected from
Client port number	Number	All	The port number on the client’s machine.
Client NetBIOS name	String	All + DHCP	The network name of the machine connecting
Client MAC address	String	All + DHCP	The MAC address of the LAN adapter in the requesting machine
Client is a DHCP client	True/False	All	The connecting machine has an IP assigned by WinGate.
Server name	String	All	The name or IP of the server the client has asked to be connected to.
Server port number	Number	All	The port number on the server the client has asked to be connected to
User: Username	String	All	The username (in WinGate) of the client. This is the account to which data and time will be recorded
User: Authentication level	Number	All	The user authentication level. 0 = unknown user 1 = Assumed 2 = Authenticated
User: Bytes sent to client	Number	All	The number of bytes sent to date to the client from WinGate
User: Bytes received from client	Number	All	The number of bytes received to date from the client by WinGate
User: Bytes sent for client	Number	All	The number of bytes sent to date by WinGate on behalf of the client (e.g to servers)
User: Bytes received for client	Number	All	The number of bytes received to date by WinGate on behalf of the client (e.g to servers)
User: Seconds on line	Number	All	The number of seconds the user has been accessing WinGate to Date.
User: Account balance	Number	All	The user’s account balance
Session description	String	All	Description of session.
HTTP Protocol	String	WWW	The protocol the user has requested in the URL, e.g http, ftp, wais, ssl, gopher
HTTP Method	String	WWW	The HTTP command sent by the user, e.g. GET, HEAD, LIST, PUT, CONNECT, POST
HTTP Resource	String	WWW	The file requested by the user.
HTTP URL	String	WWW	The full URL
HTTP POST data	String	WWW	The contents of any form sent using the POST method.
HTTP Query string	String	WWW	The contents of the query string. This is normally the contents of a form posted by the GET method.
HTTP Header field	String	WWW	Any specified HTTP request header as defined in the HTTP protocol standard. You must supply the name of the field e.g “User-Agent”, “If-Modified-Since”, etc.
Is Non-proxy method	True/False	All Proxies	Whether the request was a non-proxy request.
Session was handed over	True/False	WWW	Whether the session was handed over from SOCKS.
POP3 Username	String	POP3	The username of the POP3 mailbox the user is accessing
FTP Username	String	FTP	The username on the FTP server the user is accessing
VDOLive File	String	VDOLive	The file requested by the VDOLive player
SOCKS Protocol version	Number	SOCKS	The SOCKS protocol version number - 4 or 5 are valid
SOCKS Command	Number	SOCKS	the SOCKS command 1 = connect 2 = bind 3 = UDP associate (SOCKS5 only)
SOCKS Address type	Number	SOCKS	the SOCKS address type (relevant for SOCKS5 requests only) 1 = IP4 2 = Name 3 = IP6 (not supported)

The variable type determines what comparisons you can make with that variable. If the variable is a number, you can check whether a number you specify is greater than, less than, or equal to the variable you select.

If the variable is a string, you can compare whether the variable you select is the same as, contains, begins or ends with the string you provide, or is empty.