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What is a proxy HTTP request?
A HTTP proxy speaks the HTTP protocol, it’s especially made for HTTP connections but can be abused for other protocols as well (which is kinda standard already) The browser (CLIENT) sends GET http://SERVER/path HTTP/1.1 to the PROXY. Now the PROXY will forward the actual request to the SERVER.
What do proxy logs show?
Proxy server logs contain the requests made by users and applications on your network. This does not only include the most obvious part : web site request by users but also application or service requests made to the internet (for example application updates).
What does a HTTPS proxy do for an HTTP request?
HTTPS proxy is a relayer, which receives special HTTP request (CONNECT verb) and builds an opaque tunnel to the destination server (which is not necessarily even an HTTPS server). Then the client sends SSL/TLS request to the server and they continue with SSL handshake and then with HTTPS (if requested).
Can a proxy server validate a destenation certificate?
The HTTP proxy server does not see everything and does not validate destenation servers certificate whatsoever. There can be some confusion with this whole http, https, proxy thing. It is possible to connect to a HTTP proxy with https. In this case, the communication between the client and the proxy is encrypted.
How to use JVM as a proxy server?
The JVM allows proxy properties http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort for specifying a HTTP proxy server and https.proxyHost and https.proxyPort for specifying a HTTPS proxy server . I was wondering whether there are any advantages of using a HTTPS proxy server compared to a HTTP proxy server ?
What do you need to know about fiddler proxy?
Fiddler is a web debugging proxy that logs all HTTP (s) traffic between your client machine and a server. It allows you to inspect the HTTP requests and responses in the raw format that in which is it sent and received.