tinyproxy/README

Tinyproxy
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Tinyproxy is a small, efficient HTTP/SSL proxy daemon released under the
GNU General Public License.  Tinyproxy is very useful in a small network
setting, where a larger proxy would either be too resource intensive, or
a security risk.  One of the key features of Tinyproxy is the buffering
connection concept.  In effect, Tinyproxy will buffer a high speed
response from a server, and then relay it to a client at the highest
speed the client will accept.  This feature greatly reduces the problems
with sluggishness on the Internet.  If you are sharing an Internet
connection with a small network, and you only want to allow HTTP
requests to be allowed, then Tinyproxy is a great tool for the network
administrator.

For more info, please visit:

<https://www.banu.com/tinyproxy/>


Installation
------------

To install this package under a UNIX derivative, read the INSTALL file.
Tinyproxy uses a standard GNU `configure` script. Basically you should
be able to do:

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./configure
make
make install
----

in the top level directory to compile and install Tinyproxy. There are
additional command line arguments you can supply to `configure`. They
include:

--enable-debug::
    If you would like to turn on full debugging support.

--enable-xtinyproxy::
    Compile in support for the XTinyproxy header, which is sent to any
    web server in your domain.

--enable-filter::
    Allows Tinyproxy to filter out certain domains and URLs.

--enable-upstream::
    Enable support for proxying connections through another proxy server.

--enable-transparent-proxy::
    Allow Tinyproxy to be used as a transparent proxy daemon.

--enable-static::
    Compile a static version of Tinyproxy.

--with-stathost=HOST::
    Set the default name of the stats host.


Support
-------

If you are having problems with Tinyproxy, please submit a bug report
using Tinyproxy as the product at:

<https://www.banu.com/bugzilla/>

You may also wish to subscribe to the Tinyproxy mailing lists. To do so
please visit:

<https://www.banu.com/mailman/listinfo/tinyproxy-announce-list>

<https://www.banu.com/mailman/listinfo/tinyproxy-users-list>

<https://www.banu.com/mailman/listinfo/tinyproxy-developers-list>

for more information on how to subscribe and post messages to the lists.


Contributing
------------

If you would like to contribute a feature, or a bug fix to the Tinyproxy
source, please send a patch (preferably as a unified diff. i.e. `diff
-u` against the 'master' branch of the Tinyproxy source code git
repository to 'tinyproxy-developers-list'.  Please include a description
of what your patch does.

Tinyproxy's git repository is <git://www.banu.com/tinyproxy.git>. The
following command creates a local copy:

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git clone git://www.banu.com/tinyproxy.git
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The easiest and preferred way to create a patch for submission is to
check in your changes locally and use `git format-patch` to generate a
mbox-style commit file that contains the diff along with the commit
message and author information.  Such a format-patch file can be
integrated into the upstream repository, automatically keeping the
commit message and author information.

You can also meet developers and discuss development issues and patches
in the `#tinyproxy` IRC channel on Freenode (`irc.freenode.net`).