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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@kiwi.ics.uci.edu> on 1998/02/27 22:14:11 UTC

Re: Reverse proxy-server a buzzword which should show up in Apache Doc's

>The buzzword is Reverse Proxy Server, which means that instead of a proxy to 

It's a frickin' HTTP-to-HTTP gateway, which was described in the HTTP
spec a full year before this idiotic marketing term came out of Netscape.
All it does is confuse people.

....Roy