proxy server
Computing
noun
A server that filters requests between a client application and a remote server, chiefly for the purposes of efficiency (in handling communication that it can process without forwarding to the remote server), or to restrict access to the remote server by providing a firewall.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in Usenet (newsgroups).
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