This is not the proxy server for America Online, we do not run the proxy server for the United Arab Emirates, this isn't ProxyVote, note the difference in spelling, we don't sell proxy software or hardware solutions, and we are not a public proxy site. Please do not send us e-mail about your company's proxy server! I know it won't let you play Quake on the internet and there may be certain sites you just can't get to from where you are. That's why your system administrator installed it. There's nothing I can do about it.

ProxyVote is at www.proxyvote.com. not www.proxy.net. Spelling counts on the Internet.

If you'd like to have a firewall or proxy server installed and configured, that's something we can help you with.

Definition of Proxy from the Web Words Web Site

proxy - or proxy server - A technique used to cache information on a Web server and acts as an intermediary between a Web client and that Web server. It basically holds the most commonly and recently used content from the World Wide Web for users in order to provide quicker access and to increase server security. This is common for an ISP especially if they have a slow link to the Internet. Proxy servers are also constructs that allow direct Internet access from behind a firewall. They open a socket on the server, and allow communication via that socket to the Internet. For example, if your computer is inside a protected network, and you want to browse the Web , you would set up a proxy server on a firewall. The proxy server would be configured to allow requests from your computer, trying for port 80, to connect to its port 1080, and it would then redirect all requests to the proper places.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Proxy \Prox"y\, n.; pl. Proxies. [Contr. from procuracy. Cf. Proctor.]

1. The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.

I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself. --Burke.

2. The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.
Every peer . . . may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence. --Blackstone.

3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.

4. (Eng. Law) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. --Burrill.

5. (Eccl.) See Procuration. [Obs.]