October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
481 pages
17h 35m
English
Reverse proxy is a firewall service that allows external users access to internally hosted web resources. This service takes the traditional proxy function and inverts it. Instead of hiding the identity of the client reaching out to the Internet, reverse proxy hides the identity of the web server accessed by the Internet (or external) client.
External users direct their queries to a public Internet IP address and a default or assigned port number as when accessing any service. However, the IP address is the address of a proxy server, not the actual web server hosting the requested resource. The proxy server then performs a function similar to network address translation (NAT) on the request to convert the ...
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