3 docs tagged with "web-infrastructure"

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.

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.