Re: [squid-users] forward and reverse proxy - the difference

forward: office users -> squid -> the internet

reverse: world -> squid -> your webservers.

mike

At 06:30 PM 7/25/2007, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:

>Believe it or not, I got problem understanding the basics.
>
>What's the difference between forward and reverse proxy.
>
>When I read the article,
>
>http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2006/10/reverse-proxy-using-squid.html
>
>When I read paragraph 3,4 & 5, I think what is said about
>reverse proxy is equally applicable to forward proxy. Is there
>a simpler way to explain the difference between the two ?
>
>But of course, for forward proxy, I would not need to configure cache_peer.
>So why is there a need for 'vhost' and 'vport' directive ?
>
>Regards.
Received on Thu Jul 26 2007 - 01:18:43 MDT