https://www.compilemymind.com/tags/proxy/ Recent content in Proxy on Compile My Mind Hugo en Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:56:53 +0300 https://www.compilemymind.com/posts/forward-proxy-vs-reverse-proxy/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:56:53 +0300 https://www.compilemymind.com/posts/forward-proxy-vs-reverse-proxy/ <p>A developer opens a website from a company laptop. The site sees a corporate IP address instead of the laptop&rsquo;s address. Later, a customer opens that company&rsquo;s application, but the request reaches an edge server instead of the application process that generates the page.</p> <p>Both requests passed through a proxy. The arrows even look similar. Yet the two proxies solve opposite boundary problems.</p> <p>A <strong>forward proxy acts on behalf of clients</strong>. A client or its network sends outbound traffic to the proxy, which chooses or contacts the destination. A <strong>reverse proxy acts on behalf of servers</strong>. A public client addresses the proxy as the service, and the proxy selects a private backend.</p>