The Anatomy of a Proxy Server | The Backend Engineering Show
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In this video I’ll illustrate how a proxy server works under the hood. I Will go through how connection establishment works without a proxy, with an HTTP proxy and finally with HTTPS proxy in tunnel mode and TLS termination mode.
0:00 Intro
1:00 Connection Establishment without a Proxy
5:00 Connection Establishment with an HTTP Proxy
15:22 Connection Establishment with an HTTPS Proxy (Tunnel mode)
19:50 Connection Establishment with an HTTPS Proxy (TLS Termination)
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