Reverse Proxy

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

GlossaryL1 — what DictionaryL2 — how used ThesaurusL3 — relations Universaleverything

Reverse proxies take public HTTP requests and pass them to back-end webservers to send the content to it, so the proxy can then send the content to the end-user.

MWE

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Network95%rule-basedr:entity.network.gear.v1

?unassignedlast reviewed —

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Reverse Proxies
possessive: Reverse Proxy's
pluralpossessive: Reverse Proxies'

Continue to:Dictionary →How is this term used per framework?Thesaurus →How does this term relate to other terms?Universal →Everything in one page.