URL Offload Feature Overview and Configuration Guide

You can use URL offload to bypass a VPN or a proxy server for particular destinations, and then send this traffic direct to the Internet. Destinations to be bypassed (offloaded) are based on provided lists of endpoint URLs or IP addresses typically associated with a cloud based application service.

This feature is useful to speed up access to cloud services when your network architecture routes all traffic via a VPN, or to a proxy server by default. Use this feature to bypass a proxy or VPN link for certain URLs/IPs, by offloading them directly to an Internet link instead. This improves the performance of cloud services, reduces the bandwidth demands on VPN links, and reduces the session load on proxy servers.

This guide describes the URL offload feature, and how to configure it.