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by raincom 342 days ago
What's the difference between Reverse proxy and forward proxy? Is there something like "intermediate proxy"? Is this concept of L7 proxy, similar to DNAT/SNAT or Port forwarding in L3/L4?
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p_ing 342 days ago
TL;DR: Forward Proxy == protects clients; Reverse Proxy == protects server

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server#Forward_proxy_vs....

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