8 things you can do with a proxy

After having recently discussed all the different kinds of proxies that exist, it occurred to me that it might be nice to provide some examples of what you can do with proxies besides the obvious web...
Published Oct 08, 2008
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Carl_Brothers_2
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Oct 01, 2015
9 - Protocol Optimizations. As a full TCP Proxy, the F5 can interact with vrowser traffic in a different manner than it would any connection to a server that is in the same data center. As many other ADC vendors lack a proper understanding of TCP fundamentals, they have no IP invested to optimize the know challenges inherent to TCP connections. https://f5.com/resources/white-papers/optimize-wan-and-lan-application-performance-with-tcp-express