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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Proxy and Reverse Proxy


  • Proxy
- Server installed between intranet and internet.
- Client PCs access to internet through proxy.
- Web servers could see only proxy IP address as request originated.
- It is called as forward proxy as well.


  • Reverse Proxy
- Server installed in front of multiple web servers.
- Receives http requests instead of web servers.
- It has L7 load balancer functionality and distributes http requests.
- It has cache server functionality as well. Cache web contents like html, css, javascript, xml or etc and return them instead of web servers only if they were not changed after cached.

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