Proxy Servers

[strandedthinker]

Hello,
I was wondering if anybody can give me information about proxy servers?

-Paul

[tampabay420]

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/proxy_server.html

Proxy servers have two main purposes:
# Improve Performance: Proxy servers can dramatically improve performance for groups of users. This is because it saves the results of all requests for a certain amount of time. Consider the case where both user X and user Y access the World Wide Web through a proxy server. First user X requests a certain Web page, which we'll call Page 1. Sometime later, user Y requests the same page. Instead of forwarding the request to the Web server where Page 1 resides, which can be a time-consuming operation, the proxy server simply returns the Page 1 that it already fetched for user X. Since the proxy server is often on the same network as the user, this is a much faster operation. Real proxy servers support hundreds or thousands of users. The major online services such as Compuserve and America Online, for example, employ an array of proxy servers.
# Filter Requests: Proxy servers can also be used to filter requests. For example, a company might use a proxy server to prevent its employees from accessing a specific set of Web sites.

And now that you know what they are? Here is a list of Proxy servers (public) (the number at the end "for example ':80'" is the port in wich to connect to the proxy)


206.49.33.250:8080
207.167.236.137:80
207.61.38.67:8000
209.47.38.116:8000
210.12.86.181:80
210.163.167.162:80
210.204.118.194:8080
210.21.93.141:3128
210.219.227.52:8080
210.242.164.150:80
210.254.8.52:8000
210.74.254.35:80
210.8.92.2:80
210.82.40.243:8080
210.92.128.194:8080
210.96.65.4:80
211.114.116.60:80
211.15.62.123:8000
211.165.192.8:80
211.21.111.227:8080
211.233.21.166:8080
211.45.21.165:8080
211.93.108.113:8080
212.12.157.130:8000
212.251.36.62:80
212.38.132.122:80
212.49.87.254:3128
212.60.65.206:8080
213.121.248.138:80
213.16.133.130:80
213.176.28.6:80
213.25.170.98:8080
213.25.29.12:80
213.25.43.242:80
213.25.43.242:8080
216.72.196.21:80
216.72.63.198:80
216.72.63.198:8080
216-238-112-40.dsl.ct.thebiz.net:80
217.153.114.66:8080
217.66.203.82:3128
217-127-248-37.uc.nombres.ttd.es:3128
218.5.133.146:80
219.163.108.18:8080
223-mail.internet.ve:8080
4.22.156.10:80
61.11.26.150:80
61.131.48.219:80
61.133.63.129:80
61.138.130.229:8080
61.142.169.98:80
61.159.224.11:80
61.159.235.36:8080
61.180.73.66:8080
61.185.255.4:3128
61.32.11.130:8080
64-132-153-94.gen.twtelecom.net:8000
865host1.starwoodbroadband.com:80
acode-u.org:8080

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here is an interesting thread-> http://www.thehackerschoice.com/foru...42b0315e1bb713
we've been trying to figure out the whole daisy chaining proxies "thing" --- any ideas?
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