4 docs tagged with "http"

www was never special — it's an ordinary hostname that happens to be famous. I found out none of my own sites answer to it, which turned a terminology question into a reason to build a scanner.

A practical mental model for distinguishing forward proxies, reverse proxies, gateways, routers, tunnels, and ordinary application dependencies by examining boundaries, control, and point of view.

A map of everything that happens between bytes arriving on a network card and a populated request object in your handler — the phases, the boundaries between them, and what each boundary destroys.

Trace the early web history of client-side proxies, caching, firewalls, and server-side accelerators to understand how the term reverse proxy emerged and why the name still causes confusion.