proxy gateway
proxy gateway
(networking)A proxy gateway often runs on a firewall machine. Its mainpurpose is to act as a barrier to the threat of crackers.It may also be used to hide the IP addresses of thecomputers inside the firewall from the Internet if they donot use official registered network numbers.
Web browsers can be configured to use a different proxy or noproxy for each URL access method (or "scheme") - FTP,Gopher, WAIS, news, and HTTP.
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