Brief History of the 47906Proxy: The proxy was developed initially as a port forwarder, or simply a forwarding proxy. What is a forwarder proxy, and how is it used? Three use cases are included below the 47906Proxy demonstration applet (the use cases include Tunneling, Application level Protocol Sniffing, and Network Latency Trending). In addition a code snip-it has been included below the proxy to allow for a cut and paste usage on your website.
USE CASE 1:
Firewall hopping.
Firewall hopping is some times called tunneling, this will allow an application to access a port on a remote machine behind a firewall, without the need or requirement to poke a hole in the firewall. Additionally, forwarding proxies can add additional checking and validation to ensure that the individual trying to tunnel has the privileges and rights to do that.
USE CASE 2:
Protocol Sniffing
This allows a very high level of stream sniffing, or application layer protocol sniffing. Frequently this is much more desirable than low level packet capture sniffing.
USE CASE 3:
Performance Monitoring
This allows for data flow rate analysis, and latency analysis at a much higher level than a packet sniffer.
