Polipo
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Polipo is a discontinued lightweight caching and forwarding web proxy server. It has a wide variety of uses, from aiding security by filtering traffic; to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources; to speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests. It can be configured to use on-disk cache and serve cached content when offline and perform various forms of content filtering.
Developer(s) | Juliusz Chroboczek |
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Written in | C |
Operating system | Windows, OS X, Linux, OpenWrt, FreeBSD, OpenBSD[2] |
Type | web cache, proxy server |
License | MIT License (free software)[3] |
Website | www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/ |
To minimize latency, Polipo both pipelines multiple resource requests and multiplexes multiple transactions onto the same TCP/IP connection.[4] Polipo is HTTP 1.1-compliant, supports IPv4, IPv6, traffic filtering and privacy-enhancement.
Polipo is free software[5] released under the MIT License.[6]
Polipo ceased to be maintained on 6 November 2016[7] due to the increasingly widespread use of encryption (i.e. HTTPS) making caching proxies obsolete.[8]