Talk:Proxy server

message: I think that this whole page could be cleaned up by sorting it into more defined and specific areas. At the moment it reads a lot more like a collection of peoples ideas. I am surprised that this page does not discuss or provide links to transport layer proxies, often known as PEPs (Performance Enhancing Proxies).
I think that the whole article could be better arranged by organising the information on this page into three distinct sections: Anonymizing web proxies, Packet Caching/Content filtering web proxies and, PEPs (Performance Enhancing Proxies)
Roy muzz (talk) 00:29, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganisation 

message: In this edit, it was claimed that the lead in the current article is plagiarized from here. However, that page is dated March 30, 2009 and the history shows that similar text has been in the lead of the Wikipedia article long before that date. In other words, it is extremely likely that the other website took the text from here. For example, here are some old versions of this article: December 31, 2008 and February 26, 2009. Johnuniq (talk) 10:19, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism claim not correct 

message: Okay, I didn't exactly get my answer when reading this. Say that you're IP Address-banned from a website. Can you use a proxy to use the site again? 66.60.210.32 (talk) 07:25, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes --h2g2bob (talk) 02:33, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proxy Help 

message: I've been making some big changes, mostly moving sections about. I've tried to split it into "what's it used for" and "how does it work". For reference, [ this] is the article before I started editing it. --h2g2bob (talk) 02:41, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Made some large edits 

message: "Most web filtering companies use an internet-wide crawling robot that assesses the likelihood that a content is a certain type (e.g. "This content is 70% chance of porn, 40% chance of sports, and 30% chance of news" could be the outcome for one web page)"
this makes 140%.
Tyzoid (talk) 12:43, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess the extra 40% is from news relating to sexy sports stars :) There's no reference on that section, and it could do with some tlc, so re-write (or remove) stuff which doesn't make sense. --h2g2bob (talk) 23:31, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percentages don't add up 

message: "In 2009 security a flaw..." should be "In 2009 a security flaw..."
Mario I Rossi (talk) 04:46, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, now .  Thanks! Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 10:13, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 5 January 2012 

message: Users will understand how it works with a simple diagram. More focus is needed on the legalities of proxy server. e.g: where it is legal and where it is not legal. Do this and your article can easily become a B class article.--WOLfan112 (talk) 18:31, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That's probably a good idea, but the request edit template is for use when you have a conflict of interest and have text ready to add. I have therefore deactivated it. SmartSE (talk) 17:32, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very little description of legalities of proxy servers 

message: Closing this discussion - no consensus for merge. Deb (talk) 09:08, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge Sephiroth storm (talk) 02:43, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

text: Do not merge: It is a special type of a proxy and deserves a separate article. A merger would also alongate the already long article of proxies. --Sae1962 (talk) 07:56, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[Reverse proxy]] into this article? 

message: This article does not mention the use of proxy servers to bypass copyright restrictions imposed by Google books and similar venues.  That is, it would appear that if you live in Japan, Gooogle books imposes Japanese copyright restrictions to all items in their library, regardless of the country of origin of the item.  Similarly, British copyright restrictions, or German, which may not match US restrictions on the exact same items.  So US viewers can see items that Italian viewers cannot, and perhaps vice versa for all I know.  Could someone with a greater knowledge of this, add this to this article.Wjhonson (talk) 17:49, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright restrictions 

message: Does anybody knows where the name "proxy" comes from? And its history? It would be nice to add it to the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.201.164.115 (talk) 16:55, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Do not ask others to do your research.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.86.58 (talk) 16:53, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name and history 

message: I searched wikipedia for Shared IP address and found it was redirecting here to Proxy server. However, because this page says nothing about shared addresses I changed the redirect to IP address#IP address translation. Could an informed editor expand that section to better explain what a shared address is and how they are used? Is there any connection with proxy servers? I came across the term when looking at web hosting offers. -84user (talk) 12:53, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think "shared IP address" has any special meaning beyond the meaning of the words that make it up, that is an IP address that is in some way shared. The meaning of the term "shared" will depend on the context. In the context of a hosting service it would mean an IP address that is shared between multiple domains (see []). In the context of clients it would mean an IP address that is shared by multiple client systems (though either proxies or NAT). Plugwash (talk) 14:54, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Shared IP address

message: I tried to find information about use of proxy server to translate from one computer language to another (it should be a better way to explain this...). For instance, see Apigee's API proxy server, which acts as a proxy for requests: a user/application connects to the server translating from SOAP API to a RESTful API.
Would it be correct to include this as a type of proxy server in the article, or is this not considered a proxy server (what else then)? Hyperkobling (talk) 23:43, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proxy server translating computer language 

message: Why are "Web proxy servers" presented as a different type than "CGI proxy" and "Suffix proxy"? Aren't the latter two just the two main examples of the former? -20:21, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Web proxy servers" vs. "CGI proxy" and vs. "Suffix proxy" 

message: Isn't one of the main use cases for Reverse proxies virtual hosting? Why isn't it mentioned in this article at all?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.213.19.14 (talk) 14:09, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Virtual hosting as use case for Reverse proxies 

message: Good thoughts!!! Dnjp31 (talk) 03:06, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helpful 

message: At 14:40 on 21 July MrOllie removed an addition titled "Rotating Proxies," saying that Wikipedia doesn't use blogs as sources for the type of information I was citing. (I had included inline citations to a self-published blog.) WP:RS helps me understand this. Now I want to ask if the two citations I had made, to define a rotating proxy and an elite-anonymity proxy, are necessary at all. That's because in the existing "Proxy Server" article I find definitions of these terms by other contributors which, without inline citation, apparently meet the reliability standard. One is the opening paragraphs, which define a proxy, and the only thing I add to that in my proposed addition is that IP addresses may rotate. As to anonymity, the subsection titled "Access control" includes the definition of "elite or high-anonymity proxies" which I was also attempting to add.
Might I rely on these internal definitions which already meet editorial standards? That is, what if I re-added my section on rotating proxies without any inline citations? This would provide the information on rotating and elite proxies without any suggestion of self-promotion by the blog. What would other Wikipedia users say?
Doubtnot93 (talk) 23:15, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of Proposed Section Added to Existing Proxy Server Article 

message: It's not linked to any other articles, or defined in this one. Azbookmobile (talk) 21:31, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not linked in the lead, but it is linked in the rest of the article.  I don't see why it shouldn't be linked in the lead, given what the lead of MOS:LEAD says, so I've linked it there as well. Guy Harris (talk) 03:13, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's "load balancing"? 

message: A "proxy" server is just the shortened name for "web proxy". There are NO proxies that exist that proxy traffic other than http/s and FTP traffic, so everywhere where the articles references different types for different traffic is incorrect. This is a common misconception with people who did not start their career in the 90s when "web" proxies first came out. Back then they were referred to as web proxies but over time it was shortened to just "proxy". Due to this, a lot of youngsters aren't aware of this, and assume that it proxies all traffic. If you doubt what I say, here is a question to answer yourself: Think of ANY application you have ever used, and think where you configure proxy details, can you think of one app that uses SMTP, SMB or any other protocol and you configure it with proxy details? The answer is no. The only type of apps where you can specify proxy details are browsers, FTP apps, or other apps that use http/s for its communication. This should be enough for you to realise that proxies don't exist for other protocols. Even reverse proxies only work with http/s. Any traffic that comes in over a different protocol is either handled by a load balancer or firewall, some of which are layer 7 aware, but these are not proxies.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.200.24.25 (talk) 02:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is incorrect when referencing different types of proxies