Re: How many firewalls is too many?

From: paul blitz (paul.blitz_at_centia.co.uk)
Date: 07/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:33:19 +0100

> If you configure IE to use a proxy server the IE will just pass the
hostname
> to the proxy and let the proxy figure out the IP address.

More so than that: the client passes the whole URL to the proxy server, and
the proxy goes and finds it (which starts with it figuring out the hostname)

Paul

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