Copyright © 2001 Qusay H. Mahmoud
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How Proxy Servers Work?
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Receive a request from a Web browser, perform
the request, and return the results to the browser
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The request may be performed after some
authorization checks
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Example:
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You request
http://somesite.com/home.html
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Browser sends the request (GET
http://..etc
) to the proxy
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The proxy contact that “somesite” and issues a GET
request