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Originally Posted by djchapple
Being both old and network illiterate I have no idea why anybody should use a proxy server or what they do.
Can anyone give me simple (less than 5 sides of A4 paper!) explanation?
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as chip said ^ it is a cache
you ask for a page, the proxy is searched, if a copy of the page is held on the proxy server, you get the copy.
That should be faster for you, and cheaper for VM, because the page request is handled within the internal network...