Proxy Services

Proxy Services - a server that acts on behalf of a client in order to access another service

• exist at almost every layer of the networking model

Web Proxy - an organization would direct all web traffic through it, allowing proxy server itself to retrieve the webpage data from the Internet. It would then cache this data

Reverse Proxy - service that might appear to be a single server to external clients, but actually represents many servers living behind it

• load balancing
• encryption and decryption