What is a Proxy Server?
If you build up with your Computer, an Internet connection, for example, a web page, send as a Client, your IP-address that belongs to your PC is, similar to a digital fingerprint.
- If you access as a Client to a website, send a request to the Server on which the content of the website, and the Server sends back the content to you.
- A Proxy Server is a Server that is connected between your PC and the targeted Server. He acts as a kind of middle man.
- If you send with activated Proxy-Server a request, it first arrives at the Proxy Server. This sends the request with its own IP address. The content from the target server are sent back to the Proxy Server and then forwarded to you.
What is the purpose of a Proxy Server?
A Proxy Server can serve a variety of purposes:
- It is obvious that you can hide with a Proxy Server, your identity. It will not be sent to your own IP address, but that of the proxy.
- Proxy Server can also Cache and serve. Websites or content that are often needed can be stored on the Proxy Server. So not every request that arrives at the Proxy, to the target Server managed. If the requested contents in the Proxy is a Cache, it is sent directly back to you.
- If use a Proxy Server that is in a foreign country, you can't pretend the target Server that the request came from Germany. So you can, for example, the GEMA Lock in to YouTube to bypass or Hulu in Germany watch.
- The extent to which the so-called Bypass of the Proxy Lock is legal, we have you settled.
- And in a further practical tip we can tell, of course, as you are such a Proxy Server set up. Probably the best known Proxy Service Tor.
Proxy: GEMA-lock bypass
