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Proxies

What I learned about proxies so far.

Planted Aug 18, 2024

• seedling

A proxy is an “intermediary” between a client making an HTTP request, and a server responding to that request.

Generally speaking there are 2 types of proxies:

1. Forward proxies sit between the client and “the internet” (also called tunnels or gateways).
2. Reverse proxies sit between “the internet” and a server.

Resources

• MDN: Proxy servers and tunneling
• Cloudflare: A Primer on Proxies