The US National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, defines a proxy server as “a server that services the requests of its clients by forwarding those requests to other servers.” ...

WPAD certainly isn't new technology. In fact, it's been around for many years. However, it seems that many system administrators are unaware of its magic. Simply put, WPAD allows you to offer proxy ...

You can disable it using the following methods, but you must use an admin account. Disable WPAD by disabling WINS/NetBT name resolution Stop WPAD using a host file entry Group Policy Editor Registry ...

With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft has built in a reverse-proxy feature. The Web Application Proxy securely publishes internal resources out to the Internet for access by both corporate-owned ...

As the use of Web-based applications and the traffic they generate continues to accelerate, IT staffs are deploying proxy appliances to safeguard against the liability, productivity and security risks ...

Sun Microsystems recently said it will soon open source the core components of Sun Java System Web Proxy and Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 under the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. The ...

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Inner source is the idea of using open source techniques to develop internal tools, using platforms such as GitHub for collaboration. Engineers across a company identify common issues and technologies ...

A security vulnerability in the web proxy Squid can allow the software to leak credentials. An update corrects this.

Recently I had to capture some HTTP and HTTPS requests and responses for documentation I was writing. My first thought was to use the HTTP Inspector from ActiveState Komodo 4.0. Unfortunately, HTTP ...