RE: Reverse proxy ??

[Rafi Sadowsky <rafi () meron openu ac il>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, 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.
NO - this is a regular proxy which preloads it's cache

a reverse proxy is a one that accepts requests instead of your regular
HTTP server(s)  for security/performance or whatever

see Netscape definition of rev-proxy at
        http://devedge.netscape.com/docs/manuals/proxy/adminux/revpxy.htm#516588

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