What level of anonymity does CGI Proxy support?
As for anonymity, CGI proxies are the same, as the HTTP proxies: 1. Transparent – these proxies are not anonymous. They, first, let a web server know that there is used a proxy server and, secondly, “give away” an IP-address of a client. The task of such proxies, as a rule, is information caching and/or support of Internet access for several computers via single connection. 2. Anonymous – these proxy servers let a remote computer (web-server) know, that there is used a proxy, however, they do not pass an IP-address of a client. 3. Distorting – unlike the previous type, they transfer an IP-address to a remote web-server, however, this address is a phantom: randomly generated by a proxy server or any fixed (not your) IP. So, these proxies distort your IP address from the point of view of a web-server. 4. High anonymous (elite) they do not send your IP-address to a remote computer. Also, they do not inform that there is used any proxy server! So, a web-server “thinks that it works directl
