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Article #5263Re: Proxxy
From: Angus Mann
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 08:59
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 08:59
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>Henrik Lauridsen wrote:
>>
>> In a message of 28 Feb 96 Remco van Hooff wrote to :
>>
>> RvH> Aminet:
>> RvH> httpproxy.lha comm/tcp 103K+Caching Proxy V0.11beta for any
>> RvH> Web-Browser
>>
>> 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...
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