Google App Engine is an easy way to set up a proxy server for testing code and learning how to use a proxy.
Tip
If you use a public proxy server such as Google App Engine, then your data will not be private. A public proxy is suitable for testing, but you will need to use a secure proxy server that you own for production applications.
Create a New Application with Google App Engine:
There are detailed instructions at , including how to add authentication, because the proxy server will be publicly accessible. Even with added authentication, this proxy server is not sufficiently secure for a production application!
A simple proxy server is known as a forward proxy, which retrieves a resource from another server and sends it to the original client making the request.
A reverse proxy server also retrieves resources on behalf of a client and returns them to the client as if they come from the proxy server itself, not from their actual...