[Wolves] Okay what is a proxy?

[David Morley]

> 
> A proxy connects to (external) services on your behalf.  An example is
> Squid which is a web proxy.  Your browser connects to Squid which then
> requests the web page from the 'net.
> 
> This gives a few possibilities:
> 1/ Commonly accessed static pages and images are fetched once and stored
> within the cache on the proxy server.
> 
> 2/ It is possible to impose restriction on the web pages accessed by
> telling the proxy to redirect certain requests (see dansguardian and
> squidguard)
> 
> HTH
> 
> - --
> Ron Wellsted
> http://www.wellsted.org.uk
> ron at wellsted.org.uk

Thanks Ron