In Praise Of Proxy Servers
To be honest, I've never really known much about proxy servers. I've never really needed them. I don't need to get around any Intrernet filters, I don't live in China and, to the best of my knowledge, don't have a great deal to hide. Thus, what's the need for a proxy server, eh?
Well, today I found a good use for one. I was transferring a website across to a new server and the nameservers were causing me hassle, making it hard for me to edit the website. The problem was, I was looking at the old website, as seen below:
There's even a nice wee message to tell you it's the wrong one! But that's done me no good, of course, so I needed to take some action. I had a few options:
- Wait. Not my strongpoint;
- Try to access through an I.P. address. This is probably not possible;
- Guess that what I'm doing will work. This is always a bad assumption;
- Set up the website on my local server. Unfortunately, this would take a while;
- Use a proxy server. It was the quickest option and clearly worth a try.
It's not something that was guaranteed to work, but it did, as you can see from the picture below:
Obviously, the advert was added by the proxy server - they need to make money somehow, I guess. I was then able to edit to my heart's content. See, proxy servers can serve legitimate purposes!
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