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Re: Reverse proxy ??
From: Brad Van Orden <Brad.VanOrden () netisi com>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:17:18 -0500
Eric Toll wrote:
I feel no one has clearly said what a Reverse Proxy is. Proxy: is a entity which takes client requests, goes and gets it on the net and saves it to its disk, (in case anyone else wants the same item - caching) then serves it up to the client. (FTP, WWW, etc) Reverse Proxy: Gee wilickers I've got 200+ users going out to a large web site all the time. I know what to do, I'll cache the whole site and I'll tell the proxy server (on my users behalf) to go out and start copying the whole entire site at midnight, tell it not to expire for 4 days, and save all this info to the proxy servers disk array. Now when everyone starts hitting this particular site, the content is served up via high speed local net, instead of going out across the internet connection.
These definitions appear to be the same thing to me. A reverse proxy is one a provider puts in front of his/her own web servers. The idea is to have multiple web servers and the reverse proxy distributes the load among them. This gains you bandwidth and high availability. It is transparent to the person doing the browsing. Regards, Brad Van Orden Net InfraStructure, Inc
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- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Joe Ippolito (Nov 01)
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- Re: Reverse proxy ?? Steve Anich (Nov 01)
- Re: Reverse proxy ?? Steven Osman (Nov 01)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Robyn Bailey (Nov 01)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Eric Toll (Nov 02)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Rafi Sadowsky (Nov 04)
- Re: Reverse proxy ?? Rui Pereira (Nov 04)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Anton J Aylward (Nov 04)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Don Tuer (Nov 05)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? dreamwvr (Nov 06)
- Re: Reverse proxy ?? Brad Van Orden (Nov 04)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Eric Toll (Nov 05)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? fernando_montenegro (Nov 05)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Eric Toll (Nov 05)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Scott, Richard (Nov 05)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Marcus J. Ranum (Nov 05)
- RE: Reverse proxy ?? Eric Toll (Nov 08)