forward: office users -> squid -> the internet reverse: world -> squid -> your webservers. mike At 06:30 PM 7/25/2007, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:
Believe it or not, I got problem understanding the basics. What's the difference between forward and reverse proxy. When I read the article, http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2006/10/reverse-proxy-using-squid.html When I read paragraph 3,4 & 5, I think what is said about reverse proxy is equally applicable to forward proxy. Is there a simpler way to explain the difference between the two ? But of course, for forward proxy, I would not need to configure cache_peer. So why is there a need for 'vhost' and 'vport' directive ? Regards.
