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Transparent Proxy? What does this mean?

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Nighthawk69

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Hi there..

I just setup WinProxy for my network and it works great! No special configuring for different applications is needed! The one question I have is: what is a TRANSPARENT proxy? WinProxy says that is what it uses.

Some info would be appreciated.

Thanks,
 
It means that the proxy stuff is happening automatically. Original proxies had to have specific mappings, entered manually. Since you pretty much just load-and-go, and it's "invisable" to the user, it's a "transparent" proxie...there's no other configuration from the end-user.

FWIW

Scott
 
Another way to see it:

It (Winproxy) runs NAT, but in the program it's got it's proxy server hooked into anything going across port 80, so it's giving people proxy access without telling them.
 
It's like every PC hooked up to the proxy is directly connected to the internet. That's why it's called a transparent proxy, the PC's in the network can't 'see' it.
 
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