Implications of "do not use proxy settings for these addresses"

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What's the technical reason I would configure on the "proxy settings" of
Internet Explorer:
Exclusions, "Do not use proxy server beginning with:"

I am asking because currently in my organization we have that setting that
excludes our www.mycompany.com website.
Since this is an educational institution and I have thousands of students
that hit the website internally, in my view it would be safer let students
go through the proxy instead of by passing it, right ?

What do you think ?
 
If they are all allowed access to that website I don't see the point of
trying to loop back through the proxy which can also put more unnecessary
load on the proxy server. --- Steve
 
Magoo said:
What's the technical reason I would configure on the "proxy settings" of
Internet Explorer:
Exclusions, "Do not use proxy server beginning with:"

I am asking because currently in my organization we have that setting that
excludes our www.mycompany.com website.
Since this is an educational institution and I have thousands of students
that hit the website internally, in my view it would be safer let students
go through the proxy instead of by passing it, right ?

What do you think ?
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The reason I use it is when I have a machine internally on the network.
There is no need for clients to tie up bandwidth going out to our proxy
server, which can't find internal sites anyway. If your website is on
your LAN then I can't see the point of going via a proxy for it.
 
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