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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 19 Jun 2003, at 13:29, Mark Moran wrote:

> 
> Kat (and others)
> 
> I believe the correct term for what you're talking about is "Reverse Proxy".

I have called it that also. But if people do not understand "proxy", they sure 
won't understand reversing one. That would be like a reverse gear on a 
motorcycle, who in their right mind would not just push the 800lb bike 
backwards out of a tight spot themselves? Rather like threads and goto in 
that regard.
 
> Try a google-search on that term (or "reverse HTTP proxy" may provide better
> results... haven't checked), and you should get some good explanations.
> 
> For a reverse proxy, all requests from the public for the http server are
> sent to that machine/proxy first, which then typically provides some
> checking/filtering, and then hands the request to the 'real' http server.
> Many reasons for doing this, one of the most pervasive being security.

Security is also the "reason" the hosting companies have denied letting me 
run one. They seem to think if it dials out only to me, millions of others will 
use it to dial out to flood ebay or something. Yeas, i know that is screwed 
thinking, but most of the world is this way.

Kat
 
> M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gertie at visionsix.com [mailto:gertie at visionsix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:39 PM
> To: EUforum
> Subject: Re: Contests / Idea for a New Project
> 
> 
> On 18 Jun 2003, at 21:33, 1evan at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> 
> > 
> > C. K. Lester wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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
> 
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