Proxy Chaining

 

A proxy is a server that acts as a gateway between your computer and your destination (website, IRC chat, etc.). These proxies receive requests from users to view, for example, a web page. The proxy will then forward the request to the internet, find your requested page,then send the web page back to you, the user. Most proxies come with a cache (sounds like “cash”) feature that saves former websitesthat were visited on that proxy. Think of cache as a proxy’s storage room. Each site that you make the proxy visit, it saves in its ownstorage area (cache). So if the user or someone else requests the same site again later on, the proxy will go back into its cache, find theweb page and send it back to the user. This saves time because the proxy doesn’t have to go search the Internet for the web page. It just pulls the site out of its cache.

Using Proxies

 

One of the easiest ways to hide your computer, and thus hide you, while on the web is to use proxies. Proxies act as a computer between you and the rest of the web. When you are surfing the web through a proxy, any web servers you connect to, actually think you are connecting from the proxy computer.