hermit Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMayhem Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trance Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermit Posted July 30, 2003 Author Share Posted July 30, 2003 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMayhem Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 Yes, it would be then ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermit Posted August 2, 2003 Author Share Posted August 2, 2003 anyone else has an answer for me? or can tell me what term i can use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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