Polipo

Polipo is a faster, leaner proxy for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP ) enables caching and filtering functionality.

Features

Polipo is written in the C programming language. It is designed to operate on very few clients or for local use ( "private proxy" ) and correspondingly lean.

Functionality

He dominated SOCKS, HTTP 1.1, IPv4 and IPv6. With the ability to caching, byte range requests, HTTP pipelining and bundling of requests (simulated Multiplexing), it can provide a much more reactive browsing experience.

Software License

Polipo is released as free software under the terms of the MIT License. It is platform independent and designed operational. For all major operating system platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) prebuilt binaries are available on the official website; and likewise for FreeBSD and OpenWrt. In popular GNU / Linux distributions, it can be installed either directly from the standard repositories.

History

Juliusz Chroboczek Polipo began to write and published on 3 February 2003, the first version 0.1. It was designed along the lines of WWWOFFLE from dissatisfaction with the inadequacies of the same. On 7 February 2007 Polipo was released 0.9.99.2, which was declared on March 6, unchanged from version 1.0.0. Christopher Davis worked in the summer of 2009 as part of a Stipendiates of the Google Summer of Code, with the support of the EFF and the Tor Project to improve the portability of Polipo. Juliusz handed over in December 2009, the management of the project to Christopher, but continues to contribute to the project.

Mobile devices

Furthermore, it is also used on mobile devices such as laptops or embedded devices such as routers because of its thinness and speed. This computer platforms used Polipo for example to filter out advertising and forwarding of TCP connection requests, such as surfing or e- mailing, to a proxy DNS cache or a downstream dedicated DNS resolver as pdnsd.