Verifying the Browser Configuration

Now we can verify the browser and proxy configuration. In the browser you chose for browsing via the proxy, type www.google.com in the URL (address) bar and hit enter. You will see the country specific main Google page:

Google homepage

Now switch back to the browser running the console. You should see some activity in the server console viewer. You can enlarge the server console viewer to get a better look:

server console

Without going into too much detail at this stage, what you are seeing is the browser request for each interaction that the browser had with the requested host. You can see items such as the IP addresses, User agent (Browser), Request URL, request method, cookies, protocol scheme etc. This is by no means an exhaustive list of the data Composable Architecture Platform can detect but gives you a general idea.

The thing to take note of at this stage is that you can see all requests, including requests for images as well as JavaScript, CSS and other page elements. This is an important thing to be aware of when writing rules.