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azaras 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Reverse proxy deep dive (2024)

Nowadays, "reverse" is suppressed in most ways. I have heard that Nginx is a proxy more often than a reverse proxy.

daveguy 11 months ago | [–]

How about service proxy vs web proxy rather than reverse proxy and proxy? Makes more clear that one is a proxy on the service side and the other is a proxy on the client side. Service proxy and Client proxy might be even better.

Valodim 11 months ago | [–]

Except in the configuration where you use the reversep_proxy directive, of course

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