什么是代理服务器以及如何设置代理服务器（国外英文资料）.doc

什么是代理服务器以及如何设置代理服务器（国外英文资料）Believe that filed Proxy server (Proxy), there are still quite a lot of attention, because both online BBS (BBS) or newsgroup, people often ask what is a Proxy server, or how to set up a Proxy server of this kind of problem, so, I think it is necessary to summarizeWhat is Proxy?What is Proxy? Proxy. Ordinary Internet access is a typical client and server structure: the user using the client program on your computer, such as a browser requests, distal WWW server program respond to the request and provide the corresponding data. The Proxy is between the client and the server, and for the server, Proxy is the client, Proxy makes the request, the server responds; For the client, the Proxy is the server that accepts the clients request and transfers the data from the server to the client. It ACTS like an agent in real life. So the Chinese name for Proxy Server is the Proxy Server.The working mechanism of the proxy serverThe working mechanisms of the proxy server is like our lives are often mentioned agents, assuming that your machine is A machine, you want to get the data provided by the server B, proxy server to C, then the specific connection process is like this.First of all, A machine need to machine B data, A directly with C machine connection is established, C machine receives A data request, establish connection with B machine, download A machine requested B data to the local machine, then send the data to A machine, agent task.The proxy server has four functions:First, improve access speed. Because the customer requirements of the data stored in a proxy server hard disk, so the next time the client or other data from the customers site and ask for the same purpose, will be directly read from the hard disk of proxy server, proxy server have played an important role in the cache, access to popular sites have a lot of customers, the advantage of the proxy server is more apparent.Second, Proxy can act as a firewall. For all users to use a p