From the course: Cisco DevNet Associate (200-901) Cert Prep 4: Application Deployment and Security
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Learn about reverse proxy
From the course: Cisco DevNet Associate (200-901) Cert Prep 4: Application Deployment and Security
Learn about reverse proxy
- [Instructor] Let's talk about reverse proxy. In a forward proxy, we have a proxy server that intersects user requests and forwards it to their destination. As you can see, we're forwarding all the user requests on the left, processing through the forward proxy, and forcing them to the server. This is typically done in the enterprise environment where we're aggregating client requests for security and corporate policies. For example, if we detect a client who is making a request to a malicious site, we could reject that request from making its way out of our corporate network and thus harming our client. The reverse proxy is similar to a forward proxy in a reverse direction. In this case, the reverse proxy takes all of the client request, evaluate it, and forward the request to the backend server. What are some of the use cases for a reverse proxy? A reverse proxy could be a load balancer to route incoming traffic to a…
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