A map to understand the difference between the forward reverse proxy

Requestor must first figure out which side with respect to the agent is, usually resources (client)

• Forward proxy
  to access the resources they have to tell the Proxy, let Proxy fetches the data back to you, Proxy services in the Client,
  commonly used in the operation over the wall and across the authority;

• The reverse proxy
  also access the resources they have to tell the Proxy, let Proxy fetches the data back to you, but to serve the Proxy Server, it sends the request to the appropriate Server after receiving a complete,
  this is not the time Client according to know what the rules and do not know which one is the last in its Server service, so called reverse proxy,
  commonly used for load balancing, security control.