With over seven years of experience as a freelance technology writer and reporter, Tim Keary has a range of experience breaking down complex technologies into simple and accessible content. His work ...

Abstract: Web caching is used to reduce the network traffic by caching web pages at the proxy server level. Nowadays caching alone is not sufficient because of World Wide Web has evolved rapidly from ...

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With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft has built in a reverse-proxy feature. The Web Application Proxy securely publishes internal resources out to the Internet for access by both corporate-owned ...

A proxy server acts like a middle man between computers configured to use it and the rest of the Internet. An Internet request, such as a request to view a Web page, is first sent to the proxy server, ...

A proxy server sits between your computer and the Internet, taking requests from your Web browser and sending them on to servers using its own network address. This can help with security, since it ...

It’s funny how during the course of dealing with one incident, one often discovers other issues that also need to be addressed. A few weeks ago, my company was dealing with a Nimda virus infestation.