• radar@programming.dev
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    11 hours ago

    Reverse proxy doesn’t really get you much security. If there is an application level issue a reverse proxy will not help

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      4 hours ago

      Hmmm, I’m a bit rusty on this but can’t one put an auth gate in front of the application, handled by the reverse proxy?

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        4 hours ago

        You can, that would actually give you security. Not sure how many people do that. I assumed a straight reverse proxy without any auth