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| rdfs:comment | - A proxy server is
- The proxy is essentially a secondary computer that filters and caches network traffic to provide security and increase web performance on highly requested information. It is configured by default to ward off traffic that might be considered a network threat, such as FTP flooding. More or less in game, it prevents the player from opening ports to expose the server to PortHack.exe.
- A proxy server has a variety of potential purposes, including:
* To keep machines behind it anonymous, mainly for security.
* To speed up access to resources (using caching). Web proxies are commonly used to cache web pages from a web server.
* To apply access policy to network services or content, e.g. to block undesired sites.
* To access sites prohibited or filtered by your ISP or institution.
* To log / audit usage, i.e. to provide company employee Internet usage reporting.
* To bypass security / parental controls.
* To circumvent Internet filtering to access content otherwise blocked by governments.
* To scan transmitted content for malware before delivery.
* To scan outbound content, e.g., for data loss prevention.
* To allow a web site to make w
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| abstract | - A proxy server is
- A proxy server has a variety of potential purposes, including:
* To keep machines behind it anonymous, mainly for security.
* To speed up access to resources (using caching). Web proxies are commonly used to cache web pages from a web server.
* To apply access policy to network services or content, e.g. to block undesired sites.
* To access sites prohibited or filtered by your ISP or institution.
* To log / audit usage, i.e. to provide company employee Internet usage reporting.
* To bypass security / parental controls.
* To circumvent Internet filtering to access content otherwise blocked by governments.
* To scan transmitted content for malware before delivery.
* To scan outbound content, e.g., for data loss prevention.
* To allow a web site to make web requests to externally hosted resources (e.g. images, music files, etc.) when cross-domain restrictions prohibit the web site from linking directly to the outside domains. A proxy server that passes requests and responses unmodified is usually called a gateway or sometimes tunneling proxy. A proxy server can be placed in the user's local computer or at various points between the user and the destination servers on the Internet. A reverse proxy is (usually) an Internet-facing proxy used as a front-end to control and protect access to a server on a private network, commonly also performing tasks such as load-balancing, authentication, decryption or caching.
- The proxy is essentially a secondary computer that filters and caches network traffic to provide security and increase web performance on highly requested information. It is configured by default to ward off traffic that might be considered a network threat, such as FTP flooding. More or less in game, it prevents the player from opening ports to expose the server to PortHack.exe.
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