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- From: uwek@hnoss.ifi.uio.no (Uwe Sigurd Valentin Kubosch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Proxxy
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 09:46:27 +0100
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
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- > >> This might be a stupid question, but what is a proxy?
-
- > >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).
-
- > 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...
-
- Is this a way to let machines get access to the Internet even if
- only one machine on the LAN has actual Internet access?
-
-
- Provider
- |
- |
- My-machine(gateway?)
- (with internet access)----Another-machine
- (running proxxy)
- |
- |
- A-third-machine
-
- I wish...
-
-
-
- donV
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