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April 2010
Proxy Types
There are two main types of proxies: forward and
reverse
Forward proxies accept requests from clients and send
those requests to various origin content servers (OCS)
Reverse proxies are deployed in front of server farms
and serve content to clients directly, which decreases the
load on the server(s)
Blue Coat SG can be deployed in either forward or
reverse mode