DESCRIPTION
tinyproxy is a small, efficient HTTP/SSL proxy daemon released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). tinyproxy is very useful in a small network setting, where a larger proxy like Squid 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.
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:
./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-socks This turns on SOCKS support for using
tinyproxy across a fire wall.
--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
Options for file locations etc.
--with-stathost=HOST Set the default name of the stats host
--with-config=FILE Set the default location of the
configuration file
Once you have completed your installation, if you would like to report your success please execute the report.sh script in the doc directory. This will send an email to the authors reporting your version, and a few bits of information concerning the memory usage of tinyproxy. Alternatively, you could just send an email stating the version, whichever you prefer.
SUPPORT
If you are having problems with tinyproxy, please submit a bug to the tinyproxy Bug Tracking system hosted by SourceForge and located at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2632
You may also wish to subscribe to the tinyproxy-user mailing list. To do so please visit:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tinyproxy-users
for more information on how to subscribe and post messages to the list.
Please recompile tinyproxy with full debug support (--enable-debug) and include a copy of the log file, and any assert errors reported by tinyproxy. Note that tinyproxy will output memory statistics to standard error if compiled with debugging support so you might want to redirect the output to a file for later examination. Also, if you feel up to it, try running tinyproxy under your debugger and report the error your received and a context listing of the location. Under gdb you would run tinyproxy like so:
gdb tinyproxy
(gdb) run -c location_of_tinyproxy_conf -d 2>/dev/null
Now access the port tinyproxy is on until you receive a break in the gdb. You can now type:
(gbd) l
to produce a context listing of the location of the error. Send a copy to the authors.
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO tinyproxy
If you would like to contribute a feature, or a bug fix to the tinyproxy source, please send a diff (preferable a unified diff. i.e. "diff -u") against the latest release of tinyproxy. Also, if you could include a brief description of what your patch does.