Chapter 8. Proxy Deployment

Typical proxy users include individual departments such as academic units of a university, entire enterprises, and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In this chapter, we discuss various alternatives for deploying forward proxy caching in enterprise and ISP networks. The general problem considered here is a mechanism to deliver a client request to the proxy instead of the origin server specified in the requested URL.

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