At the last IRCACHE workshop, we had a BOF on the technologies
involved. The term we came up with for the boxes who
speak on behalf of the content providers was "surrogate". There
is some on going discussion of the mechanics of making surrogates
work at "surrogates@equinix.com", thought the list is fairly
quiet at the moment. You can see the BOF description at
http://workshop.ircache.net/BOFs/bof2.html .
It turns out that the two are technically not quite the same thing,
though there are major overlaps. I would certainly encourage
a taxonomy draft to distinguish between the two.
regards,
Ted Hardie
> Ian Cooper wrote:
>
> > I'd been wondering about the specific difference (well, mostly in
> > terms of the later "reverse proxy"). We do need to document the terms
> > - my understanding is that they are both the same thing under
> > different names.
>
> A "normal proxy" and a "reverse proxy" is technically the same thing.
> The difference is in the application of the proxy when viewed from the
> network point location view.
>
> A normal proxy is for client access to internet resources.
>
> A reverse proxy is for internet access to local resources.
>
> The term reverse proxy is also used in proxy based firewalls to denotate
> the proxy component that forwards external requests to a DMZ or internal
> server.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Spare time Squid hacker
>
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