Web Proxy

What is a web proxy? How it works step by step

You point your browser at a web proxy on port 8080, browse for an hour, then open the access log expecting a list of pages. Every line reads CONNECT github.com:443 and stops there. No URLs, no page titles, nothing. Three people will now tell you three different things about what happened, because "web proxy" describes at least three separate pieces of software. One of them rewrites the HTML you receive. One never tousches it. One is sitting in your office router whether you configured it or not