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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
How can proxy act as a gateway?

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Srikanth.V.Goutham
Surakshith.B
Shreyas.V
Amith Nayaka T.E
at Tuesday, October 20, 2009

1 comments:

tejus' thinking cap said...

A gateway is an intermediary that helps in communication between systems that use two different protocols,say. A proxy can play the role of a gateway to other systems that communicate using non-HTTP.
In communicating between a Web client and a FTP server, proxy acts as a gateway, because the client and server do not speak the same protocol. A Web client sends a request to an FTP server via a proxy. The request to the proxy is a regular HTTP request. The proxy first converts the Web client’s request into an FTP request. Similarly, the proxy can act as a gateway to a mail server and obtain a mail resource, say M. The proxy would return the file to the Web client in the form of an HTTP response.

October 23, 2009 at 4:22 AM

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