what's " proxy "? it often confuses me !?
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proxy server is mainly used to as his defination... in a cyber cafe you are using Internet on all the PC but actually one PC has internet but others believe that they have.. it means proxy shows internet that there is only one user from his side but actually it may be more.... and you may take more information from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/proxy_server.html
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proxy server is change your IP
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A proxy server is a computer that offers a computer network service to allow clients to make indirect network connections to other network services. A client connects to the proxy server, then requests a connection, file, or other resource available on a different server. The proxy provides the resource either by connecting to the specified server or by serving it from a cache. In some cases, the proxy may alter the client's request or the server's response for various purposes.\n\nA common proxy application is a caching web proxy. This provides a nearby cache of web pages and files available on remote web servers, allowing local network clients to access documents from the cache, according to their age, size, and access history. Two simple cache algorithms are Least Recently Used (LRU) and Least Frequently Used (LFU). LRU removes the documents that have been left the longest, while LFU removes the least popular documents. The algorithms can also be combined.\n\nSome censorware applications — which attempt to block offensive web content — are implemented as web proxies. Other web proxies reformat web pages for a specific purpose or audience; for example, Skweezer reformats web pages for cell phones and PDAs. Network operators can also deploy proxies to intercept computer viruses and other hostile content served from remote web pages.\n\nA special case of web proxies are "CGI proxies." These are web sites that allow a user to access a site through them. They generally use PHP or CGI to implement the proxying functionality. CGI proxies are frequently used to gain access to web sites blocked by corporate or school proxies. Since they also hide the user's own IP address from the web sites they access through the proxy, they are sometimes also used to gain a degree of anonymity, called "Proxy Avoidance."\n\nA growing subset of Web traffic uses HTTPS to create an encrypted tunnel. Regulations often require all Intranet and ASP applications handling sensitive data to use encryption. Traditional (HTTP) proxies can not cache encrypted traffic, hence provide no acceleration, control or bandwidth savings for SSL applications.\n\nSome HTTPS Proxies are specifically designed to operate in the middle of a client-server communication to decrypt, apply policy, cache and re-encrypt SSL traffic. As a result, these HTTPS Proxies can monitor, control and accelerate SSL traffic. These HTTPS Proxies can also apply malware scanning and content filtering to inhibit phishing, spyware and computer viruses hiding inside encrypted tunnels.\n\nThere are privacy concerns with SSL proxies. In essence, the IT department is conducting a Man-in-the-middle attack, potentially exposing sensitive corporate information, personal online banking information, etc. Countries such as Sweden have very strong privacy laws, which may require the proxy to handle corporate information with different policy than personal traffic.In Sweden, privacy laws apply to non-SSL proxies too. Personuppgiftslagen (PUL, a Swedish privacy law) doesn't differ between encrypted and unencrypted data. But as long as no details about the identity of the user is stored or collected, PUL doesn't apply, and unrestricted scanning of SSL information is allowed.\n\nContent filtering can differentiate this traffic. Additional compromise policy options include caching GIF and JPEG objects (which typically are user interface elements and lack confidential data), but exclude from caching HTML and TXT traffic.\n\nSometimes the term "SSL proxy" also refers to CGI web proxies that are accessible via encrypted SSL connections. In this case, SSL adds an extra layer of security on top of the CGI proxy system, lessening the chance of data interception.\n\nMany organizations — including corporations, schools, and families — use a proxy server to enforce acceptable network use policies (see censorware) or to provide security, anti-malware and/or caching s
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The idea of a proxy is to serve as an unique point to internet, that's because having a "real" IP for each computer means a lot of money.\n\nNow, they can also have Filtering features. If you want to bypass those filters, well, that depends on how the filters act.\n\nSay, if they only filter some sites by the domain name, you can bypass that filter by replacing the host name by it's address.\n\nIf they filter both, IP and names, you can use annonymizers, they simply browse the destination site for you, but the proxy only "view" that you are browsing the annonymizer site.\n\nBut those site are usually blocked.\n\nThe last thing is to use cache sites, like google or yahoo. simply search the site using yahoo or Google (or another Search site that keeps cache version of the pages).\n\nHope this helps
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well, i guess u better deal with another ISP that doesnt apply a Proxy ! even if u pay more! dont be ke7teh !! lol\nFind a ADSL connection, this way u can work with watever u want.\nGood luck\nhuS
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i strongly recommend not using a proxy, but if you absolutely have to go to http://www.tim2009.bravehost.com/psites.html
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The word proxy means "to act on behalf of another," and a proxy server acts on behalf of the client and the server. All requests from the clients to the Internet go to the proxy server first. The proxy evaluates them, and if allowed, re-establishes the requests on the outbound side to the Internet. Likewise, responses or initial requests coming from the Internet go to the proxy server to be evaluated. The proxy then talks to the client. Both client and server think they are communicating with one another, but, in fact, are dealing only with the proxy.\n\nWhereas a firewall is a piece of hardware and/or software which functions in a networked environment to prevent some communications forbidden by the security policy.
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This is a problem limited to servers/services that enable these people to do this. Services that use active-x to read the IP directly from the computer and not the IP of the proxy server these people are using, these trolls revert back to being powerless script kiddies still living with mum <sic> here is a address of a service that uses active-x where you can see how powerless these trolls become
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A proxy server is a computer network service that allows clients to make indirect network connections to other network services. A client connects to the proxy server, then requests a connection, file, or other resource available on a different server. The proxy provides the resource either by connecting to the specified server or by serving it from a cache. In some cases, the proxy may alter the client's request or the server's response for various purposes. A proxy server can also serve as a firewall.\n\nA proxy server receives a request for an Internet service (such as a Web page request) from a user. If it passes filtering requirements, the proxy server, assuming it is also a cache server, looks in its local cache of previously downloaded Web pages. If it finds the page, it returns it to the user without needing to forward the request to the Internet. If the page is not in the cache, the proxy server, acting as a client on behalf of the user, uses one of its own IP addresses to request the page from the server out on the Internet. When the page is returned, the proxy server relates it to the original request and forwards it on to the user.\n\nTo the user, the proxy server is invisible; all Internet requests and returned responses appear to be directly with the addressed Internet server. (The proxy is not quite invisible; its IP address has to be specified as a configuration option to the browser or other protocol program.) \n\nYou can see more detailed explainations at the following sites:\n\nhttp://www.stayinvisible.com/index.pl/proxy_servers_faq\nhttp://www.winthrop.edu/dacus/WAM/proxy_notes.html
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That means your company has put in a proxy server which means they can control which web sites you are allowed/approved to visit. If you have a legitimate need to visit a certain site that is coming up blocked, call your helpdesk or computer people, and ask them to help you. I had a user who was doing research on breast cancer but couldn't get to the sites because we banned the word "breast" and once she explained what she needed, we fixed it right up for her.\n\nIf you are trying to visit a site that's not work-related, then wait till you are at home on your own computer to do so. Companies have the right to decide how the computer equipment they furnish is being used. And any company that's gone to the trouble of setting up a proxy will probably be monitoring activity, too. You may get some suggestions on software or special web sites that let you bypass this security but if your job finds out, you'll probably get in trouble or maybe even lose your job.
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Production vs Entertainment... what you're doing in your office? if there is a proxy server installed into the internet's access is because the policy of the internet usage on the company limit the internet access just for productivity websites.  If you go to another websites using a proxy your IT will discover you and you can get fired.  Be careful, if you want to navigate to any place just wait to be on your home and do it with your computer.
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my son got suspened for 10 days trying to us a proxy server.\n\nBe careful.
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There are a ton of programs you can use for proxy servers. There are ones that you pay for like Secure Tunnel or Anonymizer or Findnot and list of free ones that you can manually set up or programs that find proxys for you like HideIP. \nIf the proxy uses a thing called socks5 you can download a free program like SOCKScap to run things like Yahoo Messenger, Bitcomet etc. through a proxy.
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Proxy is a device that stands between a PC and the internet, providing all the connections to the world wide web. What a proxy does is to receive all data from a requested site, so when you access web pages all data come from proxy. \n\n\nA proxy acts as an intermediate between local and remote system to access internet ,it also  stores the most recently used web pages which allows fast access to frequently used web pages
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I would not reccomend using a proxy server. Try Network Adress Translation unless you have a specific need of a proxy.  Here is a decent website to get you started\nhttp://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/
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Use proxy so you can enter
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get rid of proxy settings in either your router or your lan settings :D