Why is the Nginx webserver called a “reverse proxy”?
Why is the Nginx webserver called a "reverse proxy"? I know any "proxy" to be a "medium" and this touches a more basic question of "how can a medium be forward or reverse".
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Why is the Nginx webserver called a "reverse proxy"? I know any "proxy" to be a "medium" and this touches a more basic question of "how can a medium be forward or reverse".
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Why is the Nginx webserver called a "reverse proxy"? I know any "proxy" to be a "medium" and this touches a more basic question of "how can a medium be forward or reverse".
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Nginx is called a "reverse proxy" because it both gets requests from a user and brings the user internal data from a CGI. Think of Nginx like an M (one tip is the client, the middle is Nginx, and the other tip is the CGI). Actually it would best be called bilateral proxy instead just forward proxy or reverse proxy.
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Nginx is called a "reverse proxy" because it both gets requests from a user and brings the user internal data from a CGI. Think of Nginx like an M (one tip is the client, the middle is Nginx, and the other tip is the CGI). Actually it would best be called bilateral proxy instead just forward proxy or reverse proxy.
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Nginx is called a "reverse proxy" because it both gets requests from a user and brings the user internal data from a CGI. Think of Nginx like an M (one tip is the client, the middle is Nginx, and the other tip is the CGI). Actually it would best be called bilateral proxy instead just forward proxy or reverse proxy.
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Nginx is called a "reverse proxy" because it both gets requests from a user and brings the user internal data from a CGI. Think of Nginx like an M (one tip is the client, the middle is Nginx, and the other tip is the CGI). Actually it would best be called bilateral proxy instead just forward proxy or reverse proxy.
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Nginx is called a "reverse proxy" because it both gets requests from a user and brings the user internal data from a CGI. Think of Nginx like an M (one tip is the client, the middle is Nginx, and the other tip is the CGI). Actually it would best be called bilateral proxy instead just forward proxy or reverse proxy.
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