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Old 10-18-2005, 09:24 AM  
psili
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It's kind of like a middle man between your connection and a connection to something else.

You --> Proxy --> Site

The site will see the request come from the proxy and not you.

There's more to it than that, but that's kinda it in a nutshell.
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