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title: "What is the Proxy Server ?"  
description: "What is the Proxy Server ?"  
author: "Prakash nidhi Verma"  
published: 2018-06-14  
updated: 2020-09-20  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/23429/what-is-the-proxy-server  
category: "internet"  
tags: ["web services", "security", "internet"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the Proxy Server ?

Proxy server is a terms which means between a client computer and the Internet, and provide indirect network services to a client.

The responsibility of a proxy server is to contact a server which is request an action and pass the response back to you.it's acts as intermediary between Server and client like a requesting machine.

Type of proxy server :

- Web proxy

- Transparent proxy

- Anonymous proxy

- Distorting proxy

- Tunneling proxy

- Forward/Reverse proxy

- Open proxy

## Answers

### Answer by Prakash nidhi Verma

Proxy server is a terms which means between a client computer and the Internet, and provide indirect network services to a client.

The responsibility of a proxy server is to contact a server which is request an action and pass the response back to you.it's acts as intermediary between Server and client like a requesting machine.

Type of proxy server :

- Web proxy

- Transparent proxy

- Anonymous proxy

- Distorting proxy

- Tunneling proxy

- Forward/Reverse proxy

- Open proxy


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