A world of Proxies

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Proxy — An intermediary program which acts as both a server and a client for the purpose of making requests on behalf of other clients. Requests are serviced internally or by passing them on, with possible translation, to other servers.

— RFC 3507 (ICAP)

There are many kinds of proxies. In this chapter we'll go over which are the common ones that exist and that you may choose to build with rama.

It must be noted that many proxy servers will be a combination of different kinds and some are a superset of another one.

In specifically we'll discuss:



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