Lightboard Lessons: What is a Proxy?
The term ‘Proxy’ is a contraction that comes from the middle English word procuracy, a legal term meaning to act on behalf of another.
In networking and web traffic, a proxy is a device or server that acts on behalf of other devices. It sits between two entities and performs a service. Proxies are hardware or software solutions that sit between the client and the server and do something to requests and sometimes responses.
In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up the various types of proxies.
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Related:
- Encrypted malware vs. F5's full proxy architecture
- The Concise Guide to Proxies
- The Full-Proxy Data Center Architecture
- Three things your proxy can't do unless it's a full-proxy
- Back to Basics: The Many Modes of Proxies
Published Mar 15, 2017
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