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What’s proxying, then?

April 26, 2017proxying

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What’s proxying, then?

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>A. Proxying is the technique of having outgoing requests (eg for web >pages) passed to a ‘proxy server’, which performs the request on >behalf of the original client and then forwards the results. This can >be useful both if the clients can’t be given direct access to the >Internet, and because it allows the proxy server to perform caching >and reduce the external bandwidth needed. FTP, HTTP and gopher are >easy to proxy, given suitable clients. Telnet is virtually impossible >to proxy transparently.