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# ForwardFrame

This resource is tha base class for the ProxyFrame and the MirrorFrame classes. It uses the w3c HTTP client side API to forward requests to either some other server, or some proxy.

Before configuring the caching part of this resource, you should read the Jigsaw's client API reference manual, which defines all the properties supported.

## Inherits

The ForwardFrame class inerits from the following classes:

- Resource
- FramedResource
- ResourceFrame
- ProtocolFrame
- HTTPFrame

## Attributes description

The ForwardFrame defines the following attributes:

- local-root
- received-by
- trace-request

`local-root`

semantics
  The follow up root resource, when the received request is targeted explicitly to the server. This followup root resource, is given by its name, and should already exist in the root resource store.
type
  This attribute is an editable StringAttribute
default value
  This attribute defaults to null.

`received-by`

semantics
  The String that the proxy will emit as the received-by part of the Via header.
type
  This attribute is an editable StringAttribute
default value
  This attribute defaults to null.

`trace-request`

semantics
  Should this frame try to trace how the request has been processed
type
  This attribute is an editable BooleanAttribute
default value
  This attribute defaults to null.

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