On Wed, Feb 06, 2008, Paul Cocker wrote: > Sorry if we're entering into "duh" territory here, but quite simply are > there non-performance benefits to be gained from a reverse proxy > configuration. I'm thinking in terms of security for the most part. Say, > a squid reverse proxy sitting in the DMZ in a reverse proxy > configuration for a website on the internal network. Yup. * centralised logging * ability to rewrite URLs * ability to distribute load across multiple backend servers * ability to do security checks on incoming URLs (looking for exploit attempts, for example.) > I see Apache can also do reverse proxy, which was surprising to me, or > is it not quite the same thing? Sort of. :) Adrian
