RE: Reverse proxy ??

Don Tuer (dtaadvionsys.com)
Wed, 03 Nov 1999 11:28:45 -0500

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Hello:

 I have to humbly disagree with Eric's definition of what Reverse Poxy is.
His definition actually describes what I would call HTTP acceleration or
on-command caching. "In on-command caching, the proxy server is setup to
automatically retrieve certain pages, or entire sites, at regular intervals."1

Reverse Proxy: Reverse proxy caching acts as a front end to publishing
servers. In the reverse proxy scenario, the reverse proxy server acts as a
proxy for the server, the proxy services requests on behalf of the server.

Don

1: Web Proxy Servers, Ari Luotonen, ISBN 0-13-680612-0

At 12:11 PM 11/2/99 -0500, you 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.
>
>
>Walter is right, I just thought I'd provide a real world example.
>
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>>>> "Joe Ippolito" <joejoesnet.com> 10/31/99 09:33PM >>>
>which may actually be more than one web server behind your firewall acting
>in a round-robin mode?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-firewall-wizardslists.nfr.net
>[mailto:owner-firewall-wizardslists.nfr.net]On Behalf Of Walter Boyd
>Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 3:02 AM
>To: firewall-wizardsnfr.net
>Subject: Re: Reverse proxy ??
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>Reverse Proxy, sometimes referred to as Web Acceleration, is the capability
>of taking an address outside your firewall, mapping it to a web server
>inside the firewall, and performing transparent caching of the web servers'
>static content in the process. The DNS address for the web server is the
>proxy address outside the firewall.
>
>Walter Boyd
>http://www.certifiednets.com/
>
>>>> Sandy Green <sand232yahoo.com> 10/28/99 05:27PM >>>
>There was a quetion here in this list about MS Proxy
>server with one or two NIC cards. In that context it
>was highlighted that with one NIC card "reverse
>proxy" will not be possible.
>
>But can someone explain as to what is reverse proxy ?
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