Tinyproxy

Developer(s)	Banu
Initial release	1998
Stable release	1.6.4  (August 24, 2008) [+/−]
Preview release	1.7.0  (March 21, 2008) [+/−]
Written in	C
Operating system	POSIX
Platform	Cross-platform
Development status	Active
Type	proxy server
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://www.banu.com/tinyproxy/

Tinyproxy is a HTTP proxy server daemon for POSIX operating systems. Designed to be fast and small, it is useful when an HTTP proxy is required, but the system resources for a larger proxy are unavailable. Because of this reason, it has been put to uses such as a tether on the iPhone^[1], and on the OpenWrt^[2].

Tinyproxy is primarily designed to run on Unix-like systems. Released under the GNU General Public License, Tinyproxy is free software^[3] and has been developed for a number of years. It is currently being maintained at Banu as a publicly accessible project. Ohloh analyses it to be a project with "mature, well-established codebase and increasing year-over-year development activity."^[4]

Contents 1 Features 2 Availability in OS distributions 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Features

• Anonymous mode: Allows specification of individual HTTP headers that should be allowed through, and which should be blocked.
• Remote monitoring: Tinyproxy can be monitored remotely to view logs and access details.
• Load average monitoring: Tinyproxy can be configured to refuse connections after the server load reaches a certain point.
• Access control: Tinyproxy can be configured to only allow connections from certain subnets or IP addresses.
• Secure: With some configuration, Tinyproxy can be made to run without any special privileges, thus minimizing the chance of system compromise. Furthermore, it was designed with an eye towards preventing buffer overflows.^{[citation needed]}
• Small footprint: Tinyproxy requires very little in the way of system resources - the memory footprint tends to be around 2MB with glibc, and the CPU load increases linearly with the number of simultaneous connections (depending on the speed of the connection). Therefore, Tinyproxy can be run on a spare, older machine without any impact on performance.

[edit] Availability in OS distributions

Tinyproxy is available in various operating systems such as Ubuntu^[5], Debian^[6], Gentoo Linux^[7], FreeBSD^[8] and OpenBSD^[9].

[edit] See also

• Proxy server
• Squid cache

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Tinyproxy project homepage