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Web Proxy

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Securing your web browsing - part 1 This is a guide to setting up a remote proxy web server. It assumes that you are familiar with using the linux command line, ssh and general configuration of linux machines. For a political discussion of these issues, please see my blog What happens when you access a web page? We are so used to the ease of using the internet, we rarely stop and think about how it all works. So, here is a simplified version of what happens when you access a website on the internet. The sequence we are interested in is : look up the ip address using DNS. eg convert…

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