8 Things You Can Do With A Proxy

I came across this article in a developers forum and thought it was rather unique at taking a look at other functions proxies are capable of.

Many of us take for granted our proxy protects us from web threats, but there's a lot more the typical proxy can do as well. Some of them are obvious, like URL rewriting, but functions like data scrubbing may not be something you're doing today. DLP (data leakage protection) is still relatively new to proxies, and may be something you need to look at, especially with newer privacy laws coming out all the time (For example, Nevada is all set to have a new privacy law around email - which includes webmail - making it illegal to send any personal information that's not encrypted via email).