What is Http_proxy in Linux?
What is Httpproxy in Linux?
A proxy is a server which acts as an intermediary between your local system and the internet. When you type your in your browser. It's first sends your information to the proxy and then proxy transfers it to google. The reason for using a proxy is to hide your ip address, and to do this proxy does not need to have root privileges. Here is how it works. You connect to and proxy receives all your request. Proxy receives your request (say ) and asks its local system where this site is hosted. So your proxy now has the ip of webmail.somesite.com. Now it's time to actually send this information to its host. So here comes the tricky part. The proxy has no idea where to send this information and it doesn't really matter what IP address to send it to. Instead it just connects to random ip addresses and sends the request on. This random source is called the loopback. The trick lies in the fact that your computer will recognize this loopback address (as if your computer is directly connected to a different ip address). Your computer connects to the loopback source as if it were connecting to a different ip address and all your requests go through the proxy server. That's how your ip address is hidden. There are many ways you can use proxy server. Here are few: 1) Using it to speed up your downloads. 2) To bypass firewalls. 3) For security. Now we know about HTTPproxy in linux so why to go to some other OS? Well that's another story. It just so happens that when linux was being developed, Httpproxy was considered as a security hole and this hole got patched by adding it into kernel. But there is no guarantee that it wont get patched again in future. So it would be wise to stay on top of things like any other software.
Can I use httpproxy in windows? So you want to use proxy server in windows but cant get it right. First thing you should do is try google.com in your proxy. You might be surprised to see how long it takes to load the page with a proxy. Another thing you need to do is to create a batch file. So here it is
@echo off. Ping www.
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