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| − | + | '''Proxy server''' is a server which services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. | |
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| − | + | == Overview == | |
| − | + | Proxy servers are widely used by organizations and individuals for different purposes: | |
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| − | + | * Internet sharing (like [[NAT]]); | |
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| − | == | + | == HTTP proxies == |
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| − | + | ''These proxy servers are using HTTP.'' | |
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| − | + | Example request (direct; with relative URI): | |
| − | + | <pre> | |
| − | + | GET / HTTP/1.1 | |
| − | + | Host: cryptome.org | |
| − | + | User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/3.0 | |
| − | + | Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 | |
| − | + | Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate | |
| − | + | Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 | |
| − | + | Keep-Alive: 300 | |
| − | + | Connection: keep-alive | |
| − | + | If-Modified-Since: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:59:19 GMT | |
| − | + | If-None-Match: "e01922-62e9-45937059ec2de" | |
| − | + | Cache-Control: max-age=0 | |
| − | + | </pre> | |
| − | + | Example request (using proxy; with absolute URI): | |
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| − | + | GET http://cryptome.org/ HTTP/1.1 | |
| − | + | Host: cryptome.org | |
| − | + | User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/3.0 | |
| − | + | Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 | |
| − | + | Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate | |
| − | + | Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 | |
| − | + | Keep-Alive: 300 | |
| − | + | Proxy-Connection: keep-alive | |
| − | + | If-Modified-Since: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:59:19 GMT | |
| − | + | If-None-Match: "e01922-62e9-45937059ec2de" | |
| − | + | Cache-Control: max-age=0 | |
| − | + | </pre> | |
| − | + | ''Note:'' this HTTP request was intercepted on the way to proxy server. | |
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| − | + | According to RFC 2068 (section 5.1.2): | |
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| − | + | The absoluteURI form is required when the request is being made to a proxy. | |
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| − | + | == HTTPS proxies == | |
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| − | + | ''The same as above, but using HTTPS (HTTP over SSL/TLS).'' | |
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| − | + | Sometimes HTTP proxies that support CONNECT method are called ''"HTTPS proxies"''. These HTTP proxies can tunnel almost every TCP-based protocol. | |
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| − | + | Example request: | |
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| − | + | CONNECT home.netscape.com:443 HTTP/1.0 | |
| − | + | User-agent: Mozilla/1.1N | |
| − | + | </pre> | |
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| + | == SOCKS proxies == | ||
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| + | SOCKS is an Internet protocol that allows client-server applications to transparently use the services of a network firewall. | ||
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| + | == Web proxies (CGI proxies) == | ||
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| + | These are web sites that allow a user to access a site through them. They generally use PHP or CGI to implement the proxy functionality. | ||
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| + | == Proxy detection == | ||
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| + | [[Category:Anti-Forensics]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Network Forensics]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Encryption]] | ||
Revision as of 14:06, 15 October 2008
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Proxy server is a server which services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers.
Contents |
Overview
Proxy servers are widely used by organizations and individuals for different purposes:
- Internet sharing (like NAT);
- Traffic compression;
- Accelerating service requests by retrieving content from cache;
- and many others.
Proxy servers are often used for malicious purposes (such as fraud).
HTTP proxies
These proxy servers are using HTTP.
Example request (direct; with relative URI):
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: cryptome.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/3.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive If-Modified-Since: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:59:19 GMT If-None-Match: "e01922-62e9-45937059ec2de" Cache-Control: max-age=0
Example request (using proxy; with absolute URI):
GET http://cryptome.org/ HTTP/1.1 Host: cryptome.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/3.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Proxy-Connection: keep-alive If-Modified-Since: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:59:19 GMT If-None-Match: "e01922-62e9-45937059ec2de" Cache-Control: max-age=0
Note: this HTTP request was intercepted on the way to proxy server.
According to RFC 2068 (section 5.1.2):
The absoluteURI form is required when the request is being made to a proxy.
HTTPS proxies
The same as above, but using HTTPS (HTTP over SSL/TLS).
Sometimes HTTP proxies that support CONNECT method are called "HTTPS proxies". These HTTP proxies can tunnel almost every TCP-based protocol.
Example request:
CONNECT home.netscape.com:443 HTTP/1.0 User-agent: Mozilla/1.1N
SOCKS proxies
SOCKS is an Internet protocol that allows client-server applications to transparently use the services of a network firewall.
Web proxies (CGI proxies)
These are web sites that allow a user to access a site through them. They generally use PHP or CGI to implement the proxy functionality.