I love the idea of open source, web-presence, communication, & making things work.
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Proxy is Essentially, a middle man. When dealing with computers the concept is largely the same. A web proxy is simply a bit of software that will relay a HTTP request for you.
This post is about - Proxies Made Easy or as my good friend at very good security say - "Proxies Demystified.."
HTTP Proxies are an essential component when using the internet day to day - load balancers, routers, content
Recently I wanted to checkout the Diaspora project, and to my despair I faced lot of problems
installing it in Windows OS.
I could not install it on Windows, and I did'nt want to invest lot of time , as it was not important and I was trying
this only for killing my time. However, I installed it on a VM (Ubuntu) and faced a few problems.
Port forwarding allows remote computers (for example, computers on the Internet) to
connect to a specific computer or service within a private local-area network (LAN).
Source:Wiki
Here is my version of local port forwarding. I created a script for finding me a local unused port