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Re: Contests / Idea for a New Project

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Jun 19, 2003
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On 18 Jun 2003, at 21:33, 1evan at sbcglobal.net wrote:

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> 
> C. K. Lester wrote:
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> > Yeah, well, I still don't know what the heck an HTTP proxy is or should do.
> > :/
> 
> http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/p/proxy_server.html
> 
> A server that sits between a client application, such as a Web browser, 
> and a real server. It intercepts all requests to the real server to see 
> if it can fulfill the requests itself. If not, it forwards the request 
> to the real server.
> 
> Proxy servers have two main purposes:
> # Improve Performance: Proxy servers can dramatically improve 
> performance for groups of users. This is because it saves the results of 
> all requests for a certain amount of time. Consider the case where both 
> user X and user Y access the World Wide Web through a proxy server. 
> First user X requests a certain Web page, which we'll call Page 1. 
> Sometime later, user Y requests the same page. Instead of forwarding the 
> request to the Web server where Page 1 resides, which can be a 
> time-consuming operation, the proxy server simply returns the Page 1 
> that it already fetched for user X. Since the proxy server is often on 
> the same network as the user, this is a much faster operation. Real 
> proxy servers support hundreds or thousands of users. The major online 
> services such as Compuserve and America Online, for example, employ an 
> array of proxy servers.
> # Filter Requests: Proxy servers can also be used to filter requests. 
> For example, a company might use a proxy server to prevent its employees 
> from accessing a specific set of Web sites.
> 
> See the Server Types page in the quick reference section of Webopedia 
> for a comparison of server types.

The difference is:
That proxy type serves one ip and typically recieves incoming requests from 
only it. I want to recieve requests from everywhere, and relay to my ip, 
without them knowing my ip,,,, and those other things i mentioned.

Kat