On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 10:51 +0530, Mehul Ved wrote: > > I am assuming that a forward proxy means something that receives > > requests and sends them on to another webserver or whatever to > handle > > them. > > Here's what apache's documentation[1] has to say on forward proxy > "An ordinary forward proxy is an intermediate server that sits between > the client and the origin server. In order to get content from the > origin server, the client sends a request to the proxy naming the > origin server as the target and the proxy then requests the content > from the origin server and returns it to the client. The client must > be specially configured to use the forward proxy to access other > sites." > > 1.http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html
there is a general confusion about what a forward proxy is and what a reverse proxy is and whether there is any difference between the two. For example there is this article: http://wiki.nognu.de/nginx_as_forward_proxy and in general this search result: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=nginx+forward+proxy please see the later results -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
