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TINYPROXY(8) | Tinyproxy manual | TINYPROXY(8) |
NAME¶
tinyproxy - A light-weight HTTP proxy daemonSYNOPSIS¶
tinyproxy [-vldch]DESCRIPTION¶
tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP proxy daemon designed to consume a minimum amount of system resources. It listens on a given TCP port and handles HTTP proxy requests. Designed from the ground up to be fast and yet small, it is an ideal solution for use cases such as embedded deployments where a full featured HTTP proxy is required, but the system resources for a larger proxy are unavailable.OPTIONS¶
tinyproxy accepts the following options: -c <config-file>Use an alternate configuration file.
-d
Don’t daemonize and stay in the
foreground. Useful for debugging purposes.
-h
Display a short help screen of command line
arguments and exit.
-l
Display the licensing agreement.
-v
Display version information and exit.
SIGNALS¶
In addition to command-line options, there are also several signals that can be sent to tinyproxy while it is running to generate debugging information and to force certain events. SIGHUPForce Tinyproxy to do a garbage collection on
the current connections linked list. This is usually done automatically after
a certain number of connections have been handled.
TEMPLATE FILES¶
There are two occasions when Tinyproxy delivers HTML pages to the client on it’s own right: 1.When an error occurred, a corresponding
error page is returned.
2.When a request for the stathost is made, a
page summarizing the connection statistics is returned. (See STATHOST
below.)
TEMPLATE VARIABLES¶
There are several standard HTML variables that are available in every template file: requestThe full HTTP request line.
cause
The abbreviated cause of the error
condition.
clientip
The IP address of the client making the
request.
clienthost
The hostname of the client making the
request.
version
The version of Tinyproxy.
package
The package name. Presently, resolves to
tinyproxy.
date
The current date/time in HTTP format.
A detailed, plain English explanation of the
error and possible causes.
STATHOST¶
Tinyproxy returns a HTML page with connection statistics when it receives a HTTP request for a certain host — the stathost. The stathost name defaults to tinyproxy.stats and can be changed at runtime to any name or IP address with the configuration variable StatHost.FILES¶
/etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf, /var/run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid, /var/log/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.logBUGS¶
To report bugs in Tinyproxy, please visit <https://www.banu.com/tinyproxy/>.SEE ALSO¶
tinyproxy.conf(5)AUTHOR¶
Written by the Tinyproxy project team.COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Steven Young; Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Robert James Kaes; Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Mukund Sivaraman; Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Michael Adam.09/30/2012 | Version 1.8.3 |