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Atlanta, GA    May 30, 2003

Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > Interception Proxies > How do they work?

Follow the network path: normal web transaction

  1. Requests leaves client machine destined towards origin server.
  2. Network routers and switches move the transaction to the origin server.
  3. Received by the origin server: the IP address of the request is that of the client machine.