terminology: proxy server?


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Hi everyone

can someone who knows the internet terminologies well enough tell me if this is considered a proxy server:

a website gets its page's data from a source

instead of getting it when the page loads, it now stores them all to a database in advance and retrieves directly from the database

so in other words, its caching the info first

is this proxy server?

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ISA Server does this, but it doesn't make it a proxy on its own :p

A proxy server lets more then one computer access external servers though one connection :p

I think that is right, I dont remember now :wacko:

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NeoMayhem is correct. Hermit, what you describe is an "acceleration server" or a caching server. A proxy server by definition will on your behalf make a request to the external website. Usually this is done so that there is only one point in a firewall that is exposed to the internet. Now proxy servers can be combined with caching servers and store local copies of pages so that it doesn't have to go out to the net if it already has the info in its cache.

Make sense?

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thx for the reply guys

ya i understand that the definition of proxy server is usually not used the way I have used it

but i m trying to see if i can fit my case to the definition,

here is what i got from webopedia.com

"a proxy server is a server that sits between a client application, such as a Web browser, and a real server. It intercepts all requests to the real server to see if it can fulfill the requests itself. If not, it forwards the request to the real server"

so in my case, if i say the proxy server is the local server that has the database, and the real server is the source server from outside, would that be good?

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