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Discussion on: Proxy VS Reverse Proxy

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Arnaud Dagnelies

Actually, I never quite understood why it's called a "reverse" proxy. It's just a normal proxy after all, with nothing "reversed". I wonder.

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Dusan Petkovic

Yea its a bit hard to reason about it, but maybe it can be thought as a normal proxy is to route your traffic to the internet, and a reverse proxy is for routing incoming traffic