Proxy Servers

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Unit: 10 Lesson: 5

A server that mediates the communications between a client and another server.

Proxies often have filtering and tampering capabilities, as well as caching for improved performance. Proxies don't inspect traffic as it passes through like normal firewalls, but instead they completely deconstruct and reconstruct packets for forwarding given it confirms to the configured ruleset.

Think of proxies as more of a function than a class or family of network appliances.

Forward Proxies

Used for protocol-specific outbound traffic.

Reverse Proxies

Used for protocol-specific inbound traffic.

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