Question : What is the difference between a web cache and a web proxy?

What is the difference between a web cache and a web proxy?
Are there any web sites which explain this?
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Answer : What is the difference between a web cache and a web proxy?

Web caching is a way to store data so that you save on bandwidth when requesting the same page again.  The documents are stored locally (cached).  This make web browsing to frequent pages quicker and saves from going across the wire.  The cache is updated when a page changes (or if you change your IE setttings to Check for newer version of web pages on every visiti (in internet options.  A web proxy forwards requests to the server to retrieve the data (web page) the end user is requesting.  Where you may think they are the same is you web proxy may cache the page from the first request and then subsequently deliver that page on any subsequent requests.

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Juan