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Users in the company I work for are denied access to webmail via websense running on a web proxy. &nbsp;My question is this. &nbsp;If a business user was granted access to webmail - for example gmail - and downloaded or uploaded an attachment to or from gmail to his desktop within the corporate lan... would that attachment be subject to the scanning and filtering present on the proxy server?
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Users in the company I work for are denied access to webmail via websense running on a web proxy.  My question is this.  If a business user was granted access to webmail - for example gmail - and downloaded or uploaded an attachment to or from gmail to his desktop within the corporate lan... would that attachment be subject to the scanning and filtering present on the proxy server?

Webmail threats to corporate lan

Web browsers are applications used primarily to display documents, files and media from the Internet, identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that can be a page, image, video or other file. Some browsers require the use of add-ons or extensions to safely render the information they receive; others have systems built into them to perform the same functions.

Web Browsers

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program in the category of groupware environments used to access and manage a user's email. A web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions may internally act as an email client; as a whole, it is commonly referred to as webmail. Likewise, email client may be referred to a piece of computer hardware or software whose primary or most visible role is to work as an email client. Email clients can also have other systems, like calendars, notes and contact managers.