--- title: Reverse Proxy vs. Forward Proxy: The Differences | daily.dev description: Reverse proxy vs Forward Proxy: The Differences Back to blog1666902057.72391514e Iveta Vistorskyte. In general, proxies are intermediaries between a user and a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/reverse-proxy-vs-forward-proxy-the-differences-k5s5ziyot twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Reverse Proxy vs. Forward Proxy: The Differences | daily.dev og:description: Reverse proxy vs Forward Proxy: The Differences Back to blog1666902057.72391514e Iveta Vistorskyte. In general, proxies are intermediaries between a user and a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/reverse-proxy-vs-forward-proxy-the-differences-k5s5ziyot og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K5S5zIYOt.png og:image:alt: Reverse Proxy vs. Forward Proxy: The Differences og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Reverse Proxy vs. Forward Proxy: The Differences **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 7 min read · 39 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Reverse proxy vs Forward Proxy: The Differences Back to blog1666902057.72391514e Iveta Vistorskyte. In general, proxies are intermediaries between a user and a web server. In this article, we’ll explain the differences between the forward vs reverse proxy servers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@eddyar** · 0 upvotes > Great explanation! 👏 --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#crawling](https://daily.dev/tags/crawling) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/reverse-proxy-vs-forward-proxy-the-differences-k5s5ziyot) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Reverse Proxy vs. Forward Proxy: The Differences","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/reverse-proxy-vs-forward-proxy-the-differences-k5s5ziyot","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/reverse-proxy-vs-forward-proxy-the-differences-k5s5ziyot"},"datePublished":"2022-10-27T20:21:05.960Z","dateModified":"2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z","description":"Reverse proxy vs Forward Proxy: The Differences Back to blog1666902057.72391514e Iveta Vistorskyte. 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