Proxy Server in Golang
What is a Proxy Server?
Proxy means someone has the power or authority to do something for someone else or pretends to be someone else. Let us see this with a simple example, if you are living with Bob and currently he is not at home and you are alone and suppose the phone rang and you picked up the call and caller said, “Hi, this is Martin, may I speak to Bob”. As Bob was not at home so you pretended to be Bob and had a discussion with caller on behalf of Bob. So here, you are pretending to be Bob and the caller is not aware that he is not speaking to Bob.
A Proxy server is simply a server that pretends to be an original server for clients.
Types of Proxy Server
Proxy servers are of different types based on the behavior of the server. Some are mentioned below.
- Forward Proxy
- Reverse Proxy
- Anonymous Proxy
- Tor Onion Proxy
There are many more proxy servers. We will see some in detail.
