[2913] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: information about proxy servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sextl Jonas)
Tue Sep 10 19:58:19 1996
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 23:52:33 +0100 (GMT+0100)
From: Sextl Jonas <jonny@zimt02.dillingen.de>
To: Paul Ruijgrok <p.ruijgrok@trendsoft.nl>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3235AC7A.65F6@trendsoft.nl>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Paul Ruijgrok wrote:
Hallo,
> Does anybody know how proxy servers work. Where can I find more
> information about this topic.
These servers cache the access of WWW-documents on the disk and if
another request for an cached "object" arrives, it serves the cached
object from the disk instead of loading it from the web.
One of the best free proxy-servers can be found at
http://www.nlanr.net/Squid, but also apache has an option to act as a
proxy server. I think you can find it at http://www.apache.org
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul Ruijgrok (p.ruijgrok@trendsoft.nl)
>
Sextl Jonas (jonny@dillingen.de)
