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<h4>Proxy:</h4>
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 A proxy is a method of handling remote data transfer across the <a href="WWW">Web</a>. If a <a href="Server">Server</a> is instructed by a <a href="Client">Client</a> to download a particular <a href="WWW">Web</a> page which is not on the local drive, the <a href="Server">Server</a> will emulate the actions of a <a href="Client">Client</a> to communicate with the <a href="Server">Server</a> on the machine which does have the file to download the file. Such <a href="Client">Client</a> emulation is known as proxying.
 Although most proxying goes on at <a href="ISP">Internet Service Providers</a>, locally networked machines may send page requests to a <a href="Server">Server</a> on the network control machine, the only one connected to the <a href="WWW">Web</a>, which proxies to the <a href="ISP">Internet Service Provider</a>.
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