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On the World Wide Web, a server which ‘stands in’ for another server, storing and forwarding files on behalf of a computer that might be slower or too busy to deal with the request itself. Many URLs (Web addresses) redirect the enquirer to a proxy server that then supplies the requested page.

In 1996, the authorities in Singapore imposed a legal requirement on local Internet providers to filter all traffic via a government-run proxy server that can block access to various sites - the first serious government attempt to censor the Internet.



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Every element in an HTML page, including the page itself, is transferred as a file via a TCP connection, so an HTTP proxy is simply an application that terminates the TCP connection at the server end and recreates it at the browser end, or vice-versa, for every file transferred during a browser session.
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