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Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:58:39 +0000


On Jan 11, 2010, at 4:55 AM, James Hess wrote:

I don't agree  with "You never need a proxy in front of a server, it's only there to fail".

Again, reverse proxy *caches* are extremely useful in front of Web farms.  Pure proxying makes no sense.

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