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A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a user's device and internet resources. Proxy servers can improve transfer speeds by caching frequently requested files. They can also enhance security and privacy by hiding a user's IP address. Public proxy servers are free for anyone to use but may not provide anonymity. The document provides information on configuring an inner proxy server to route through an outer proxy server.

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Proxy How To2

A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a user's device and internet resources. Proxy servers can improve transfer speeds by caching frequently requested files. They can also enhance security and privacy by hiding a user's IP address. Public proxy servers are free for anyone to use but may not provide anonymity. The document provides information on configuring an inner proxy server to route through an outer proxy server.

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Proxies

What is a Proxy Server?A proxy server is a kind of buffer between your computer and the
Internet resources you are accessing. The data you request come to the proxy first, and
only then it transmits the data to you. I know many are looking for IP Maskers or
Scramblers, but honestly, it aint real easy for the simple fact that any website that you
visit needs your IP to send the info packets too. If its scrambled, you will get alot of
errors and crazy redirects :P My solution? Read on........... for a good list of Proxy servers
try here>> http://www.multiproxy.org/Why do I need to use proxy servers?Transfer speed
improvement. Proxy servers accumulate and save files that are most often requested by
thousands of Internet users in a special database, called “cache”. Therefore, proxy servers
are able to increase the speed of your connection to the Internet. The cache of a proxy
server may already contain information you need by the time of your request, making it
possible for the proxy to deliver it immediately.Security and privacy. Anonymous proxy
servers that hide your IP address thereby saving you from vulnerabilities concerned with
it. Sometimes you may encounter problems while accessing to web server when server
administrator restricted access from your IP or even from wide IP range (for example
restricting access from certain countries or geographical regions). So you try to access
those pages using an anonymous proxy server. What is a public proxy server?It is a proxy
server which is free and open for everybody on the Internet. Unfortunately most of them
are not anonymous.Free service trying to provide list of public HTTP proxy servers.
Usually provide small list of proxies with low percent of functioning servers due to
hosting restrictions on CPU time (they simply can't allow themselves to check many
proxies every second especially in parallel). The Solution?When using an anonymous
proxy server you don’t give a anybody chance to find out your IP address to use it in their
own interests. ;) If there is a need to make an (inner) proxy connect to the outside world
via another (outer) proxy server, you can use the same environment variables as are used
to redirect clients to the proxy to make inner proxy use the outer one: http_proxy
ftp_proxy gopher_proxy wais_proxy E.g. your (inner) proxy server's startup script could
look like this: #!/bin/shhttp_proxy=http://outer.proxy.server:8082/export
http_proxy/usr/etc/httpd -r /etc/inner-proxy.conf -p 8081This is a little ugly, so there are
also the following directives in the configuration file: http_proxy
http://outer.proxy.server/ ftp_proxy http://outer.proxy.server/ gopher_proxy
http://outer.proxy.server/ wais_proxy http://outer.proxy.server/

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