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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is a proxy server
Date: 16 May 1997 10:01:34 GMT
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In article <5lg8s6$mrn@tofu.alt.net>,
	stevec@starnetc.com (stephen chan) writes:
> Beginner's question:
> 
> What exactly is a proxy server?

It's a program that accepts "can you go and do this for me"
requests - like "can you fetch the contents of this url".
There are lots of proxy servers out there, cached is pretty
good, as is socks5.

A client that uses a proxy has to explicitly know about the
proxy.

> Thanks everyone.
> Stephen
> 

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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