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* [[Load balancer]] | * [[Load balancer]] | ||
* [[Symantec proxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG)]] | * [[Symantec proxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG)]] |
Revision as of 11:35, 9 July 2021
Proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers.
Common uses case are:
- Monitoring and filtering
- Content-control software usually based on different options:
- User authentication
- Risk scoring
- Filtering of encrypted data
- Bypassing filters and censorship
- Logging and eavesdropping
- Content-control software usually based on different options:
- Improving performance
Squid
- Reverse proxy:
Nginx
Varnish
tinyproxy
- Load balancer
- Symantec proxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG)
Activities
- Use
ncat
as a basic http proxy server. - Evaluate free open source proxy servers, such us Squid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_proxy_servers and commercial ones like Symantec ASG (Advanced Secure Gateway)[1]
- Evaluate content control software available in the market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_content-control_software_and_providers
Related terms
See also
- Reverse Proxy: nginx
- Proxy servers:
Squid
, Reverse proxy,Nginx
,HAProxy
,Varnish
, Load balancer, Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), Symantec proxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG), Traefik, tinyproxy, Proxyrack, Luminati Networks, SOCKS, Envoy Proxy
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