Evaluation of Proxying

• Application level gateway
• Depends on specialised client programs or user procedures
• Can also work transparently with a help of a router transparent proxy
• Sometimes also associated with caching (e.g. ftp, http)
• Most web clients provide built-in support for proxying
• Some services (SMTP, NNTP) are by default designed to work with proxy-style gateways
• Proxy technology examples:
  • SOCKS
  • TIS
  • Microsoft Proxy Server

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