🔗 Free / Open Source HTTP proxy servers
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- Apache
- offers an HTTP proxy module
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- Ziproxy
- forwarding, non-caching, compressing HTTP proxy server. Its main feature is on-the-fly image and text (re)compression.
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- Polipo
- a (mostly) HTTP/1.1-compliant proxy supporting IPv6, targeted for small groups of users; author attempted to make pipelined connection logic that “worked” in the real world with all the broken origin servers out there
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- PERL HTTP::Proxy
- Pure-PERL HTTP proxy implementation
- nginx
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- WWWOffle
- its main purpose is to enable disconnected operation, and allows for content modification aimed to this purpose
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- Varnish
- the main purpose of Varnish is high-performance HTTP reverse-proxying and content acceleration
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- HTTP Anti Virus Proxy
- focus of the project is !ClamAV integration
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- Transproxy
- Linux / FreeBSD specific transparent proxy
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- Shweby
- ICAP support is the main focus of this project. Its design limits its applicability to very small groups of users
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- Small Screen Proxy
- this project’s focus is content adaptation for small-screen devices such as handlehds and PDAs
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- Paros Proxy
- this Java-based project focuses on allowing security auditing and content modification of web applications
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- NTLM Authorization Proxy Server
- this non-caching proxy’s purpose is to act an authentication scheme gateway between NTLM (server-side) and Basic (client-side) to enable non-NTLM-aware clients to authenticate against NTLM-only servers.
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- HAProxy
- despite the name, it’s a reverse-proxy and load-balancer, meant for HTTP but also able to do TCP port-forwarding.
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- Apache Traffic Server
- Traffic Server is fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server. Formerly a commercial product (created by Inktomi, later acquired by Yahoo!) is now an Apache Incubator Project.
🔗 Discontinued projects
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- Proximitron
- small yet quite powerful proxy for MS-Windows platforms, designed mainly for personal use
🔗 Commercial HTTP proxy offerings
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- Blue Coat Systems (previously named
- CacheFlow, now part of Broadcom)
- offers a family of appliances
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- Cisco Wide Area Application Services
- (aka WAAS)
- is the umpteenth attempt by Cisco to provide transparent acceleration services for HTTP and non-HTTP traffic
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- WinGate HTTP Proxy
- runs on MS-Windows systems, its main purpose is to allow a small group of users to share a single network link
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- ANON Proxy Server
- despite the name, anonymity is an optional part of this software. HTTP(s) and Socks
- tinyproxy
🔗 Free (as in beer) products
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- FreeProxy Internet Suite
- runs on MS-Windows, aimed mainly at small groups, offers a wide range of connectivity options and protocols
🔗 Discontinued products
🔗 Squid-based commercial products
See Squid based products on the main site.
🔗 Discontinued products
🔗 Anonymizers
- Proxybolt (free)
- Privoxy (free)
- The Onion Router (aka TOR) (free)