Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy vs CONNECT Tunnel is part of the Pro tier — advanced networking topics including BGP routing, Zero Trust, DDoS attacks, QUIC, TLS certificate chains, and more.
This scenario covers
The difference between forward proxies (Squid, corporate web filtering) and reverse proxies (nginx, Cloudflare) — HTTP CONNECT tunneling for HTTPS, transparent proxies, and how clients and servers see different IPs.
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