Proxy and Reverse Proxy

less than 1 minute read

Every time I see the word “Proxy” I feel some kind of uneasy, not to mention how I feel when I see “Reverse Proxy”. Now looked it up at this intro

1 Proxy

A forward proxy, often called a proxy, is a server that sits in front of a group of client machines. The proxy server act like a middleman to commute with web servers on behalf of those clients. Alt text

2 Reverse-Proxy

A reverse proxy is a server that sits in front of one or more web servers, intercepting requests from clients.

Alt text

3 Compare

A forward proxy sits in front of a client and ensures that no origin server ever communicates directly with that specific client.

A reverse proxy sits in front of an origin server and ensures that no client ever communicates directly with that origin server.

You May Also Enjoy

TensorRL-LLM

October 30 2024

To understand NIM, you can not avoid deep undertanding of TRT-LLM, Triton and even vLLM. Those will be focus for the near future.

Lookahead

October 24 2024

Last blog about Medusa was going longer than I expected. So I will write separete blogs about lookahead and EAGLE1/2

Concurrency Execution

October 21 2024

It’s all over the internet about how KAN will revolutionize ML by replacing MLP. Here are my frist read about KAN

Boltzmann Machine

October 20 2024

I started learning ML with Andrew Ng’s course, and at the same time, I also took Neuron Network from Hinton. The second one is actually very hard for me and ...