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- From: amann@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Angus Mann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Proxxy
- Date: 04 Mar 96 19:59:59 +1100
- Organization: Information Services, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- >Henrik Lauridsen wrote:
- >>
- >> In a message of 28 Feb 96 Remco van Hooff wrote to :
- >>
- >> RvH> Aminet:
- >> RvH> httpproxy.lha comm/tcp 103K+Caching Proxy V0.11beta for any
- >> RvH> Web-Browser
- >>
- >> This might be a stupid question, but what is a proxy?
- >>
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- >A "Proxy" is a person or thing that is authorized BY YOU to do
- >something. It acts AS you - this is your proxy. In internet terms, it
- >means that you authorize a "program" to act as your proxy (usually to
- >respond to firewall authorization prompts).
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- In this case it means that it caches web pages and sends the locally cached
- copy to a browser instead of retrieving the original via HTTP...
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