Proxy, what is it?

This may be the stupidest question. I have seen many people talk about proxy. I know what it is. But how do you use it? Is it a script? Do you need a website?

Here is a good Unity Forum thread on Networks and Proxy Servers. Is that what you are referring to?

This isn't really the best place for a question like this. It's not a bad question or anything, you will get a better answer from a more generic networking page or simply searching the web since servers and such aren't Unity specific.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&defl=en&q=define:Proxy+server&sa=X&ei=AZJETd3_G4OKlwfFw603&ved=0CBwQkAE

http://serverfault.com/ (This might be useful, but I doubt it.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network

http://www.tech-faq.com/how-to-setup-a-proxy-server.html

Ok this was a while ago. Yes not the best place. N one else has to answer this, I got this fixed with help from the forms. Took a while.