[CTX] [ALL] Terminology

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Terminology

delegated

A server process of DeleGate and the standard file name of a DeleGate program; the trailing "d" implies "daemon" or server (by convention on Unix)

specialist

A DeleGate configured to talk a specified client-side protocol (with SERVER=proto)

generalist

Also called MASTER-DeleGate which can talk arbitrary client-side protocol which will be determined at run-time (with SERVER="delegate") where clients are DeleGate which use this DeleGate as an upstream proxy (pointing by a MASTER parameter).

bound DeleGate

DeleGate bound to a specified destination server (with SERVER=proto://host)

unbound DeleGate

DeleGate not bound to any destination server (without SERVER=proto://host)

P-DeleGate (ex. HTTP-DeleGate)

DeleGate communicate with clients in protocol P

Q/P-DeleGate (ex. FTP/HTTP-DeleGate)

DeleGate communicate with clients in protocol P and communicate with servers in protocol Q

P proxy (ex. HTTP proxy)

A proxy server which communicates with clients in protocol P

ProtoList

a list of protocols

HostList

a list of hosts or networks

dstHostList

a HostList of destination (servers)

srcHostList

a HostList of source (clients)

item(N) (ex. gethostbyname(2))

reference to item described in the section N of Unix online manuals

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