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What's a proxy server good for? Lots of stuff. If you're developing your own protocols, a browser with a generic proxy server can let you test those protocols without modifications to the browser. Most people don't do that sort of thing though. 🙂 On networks with firewalls to the Internet, a proxy server is frequently placed on the firewall to allow requests to come into it, so that it can make calls to the outside world on behalf of the users on the protected side of the firewall. Most internal traffic on a network is kept from passing through the firewall system for security reasons. A proxy server is a way around that. Steve