4 Tinyproxy is a small, efficient HTTP/SSL proxy daemon released under the
5 GNU General Public License. Tinyproxy is very useful in a small network
6 setting, where a larger proxy would either be too resource intensive, or
7 a security risk. One of the key features of Tinyproxy is the buffering
8 connection concept. In effect, Tinyproxy will buffer a high speed
9 response from a server, and then relay it to a client at the highest
10 speed the client will accept. This feature greatly reduces the problems
11 with sluggishness on the Internet. If you are sharing an Internet
12 connection with a small network, and you only want to allow HTTP
13 requests to be allowed, then Tinyproxy is a great tool for the network
16 For more info, please visit:
18 https://www.banu.com/tinyproxy/
24 To install this package under a UNIX derivative, read the INSTALL file.
25 Tinyproxy uses a standard GNU `configure` script. Basically you should
34 in the top level directory to compile and install Tinyproxy. There are
35 additional command line arguments you can supply to `configure`. They
38 --enable-debug If you would like to turn on full
40 --enable-xtinyproxy Compile in support for the XTinyproxy
41 header, which is sent to any web
42 server in your domain.
43 --enable-filter Allows Tinyproxy to filter out certain
45 --enable-upstream Enable support for proxying connections
46 through another proxy server.
47 --enable-transparent-proxy
48 Allow Tinyproxy to be used as a
49 transparent proxy daemon
50 --enable-static Compile a static version of Tinyproxy
52 --with-stathost=HOST Set the default name of the stats host
58 If you are having problems with Tinyproxy, please submit a bug report
59 using Tinyproxy as the product at:
61 https://www.banu.com/bugzilla/
63 You may also wish to subscribe to the Tinyproxy mailing lists. To do so
66 https://www.banu.com/mailman/listinfo/tinyproxy-announce-list
67 https://www.banu.com/mailman/listinfo/tinyproxy-users-list
68 https://www.banu.com/mailman/listinfo/tinyproxy-developers-list
70 for more information on how to subscribe and post messages to the lists.
76 If you would like to contribute a feature, or a bug fix to the Tinyproxy
77 source, please send a patch (preferably as a unified diff. i.e. `diff
78 -u` against the "master" branch of the Tinyproxy source code git
79 repository to tinyproxy-developers-list. Please include a description
80 of what your patch does.
82 Tinyproxy's git repository is git://www.banu.com/tinyproxy.git. The
83 following command creates a local copy:
86 git clone git://www.banu.com/tinyproxy.git
89 The easiest and preferred way to create a patch for submission is to
90 check in your changes locally and use `git format-patch` to generate a
91 mbox-style commit file that contains the diff along with the commit
92 message and author information. Such a format-patch file can be
93 integrated into the upstream repository, automatically keeping the
94 commit message and author information.
96 You can also meet developers and discuss development issues and patches
97 in the #tinyproxy IRC channel on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).