Build a Reverse Squid Proxy

Posted by mweber on May 26, 2008 7:02 AM EDT
beginlinux.com; By Mike Weber
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This scenario is designed to accelerate access to the web server and provide a layer of defense for the web server that did not exist previously.

The reverse proxy sits in front of your web server and receives the connection from the Internet when a user makes a request for the internal web server. Because you can now set up the internal web server to only accept connections for HTTP and HTTPS as well as restrict those options you will provide greater protection for the client.

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