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What types of proxy servers do you know?
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Answer from AI
- Forward Proxy: Acts as an intermediary for outgoing requests from clients to servers on the internet. Hides the client's IP address.
- Reverse Proxy: Acts as a gateway for incoming requests from the internet to one or more servers in a local network. Provides load balancing, caching, SSL termination.
- Transparent Proxy: Intercepts connections without any configuration on the client side. Often used for content filtering or traffic monitoring.
- SOCKS Proxy: Proxies operating at a lower level (session or presentation layer). Support protocols other than HTTP. SOCKS4 and SOCKS5.
- Anonymous Proxy: Hides information about the client from the target server. Can be high anonymity (High Anonymity), anonymous (Anonymous), or transparent (Transparent).
- Distorting Proxy: Sends an incorrect IP address to the target server, indicating that it is a proxy.
- High Anonymity Proxy: Does not identify itself as a proxy and does not transmit client information.