IT lexicon Networking Reverse proxy

Reverse proxy

Networking På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

Server that accepts incoming traffic and forwards it to a backend.

Common jobs: TLS termination, load balancing, caching, compression, security filtering. nginx, HAProxy, Traefik, Caddy. Different from a forward proxy: forward hides the client, reverse hides the server.

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