Ziproxy
Ziproxy is a forwarding, non-caching, compressing, HTTP proxy server targeted for traffic optimization. The ziproxy software is regarded as lightweight in terms of memory and processing power consumption.
| Stable release | 3.3.1
/ December 3, 2014 |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Proxy server |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | ziproxy |
A forward proxy taking requests from an internal network and forwarding them to the Internet. Those on the internal network may not have a direct connection to the Internet.
This software works by recompressing pictures (such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, JPEG 2000), gzipping text and HTML/JS/CSS data optimization. Additionally it offers latency reduction by preemptive name resolution.
Further functionalities of compression are supplied by means of optimization of code, named HTMLopt, CSSopt and JSopt (HTML/CSS/JS) which are analogous with Minification (programming).
Currently there are ports being maintained by third parties for Debian, Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
See also
- Bandwidth management for measuring and controlling the communications (traffic, packets) on a network link
- Comparison of web servers
- Comparison of lightweight web servers
- Proxy server which discusses client-side proxies
- Reverse proxy which discusses origin-side proxies
- Web accelerator which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
External links
- Official project homepage
- Debian entry
- FreeBSD ports entry
- Gentoo-Portage entry
- Ziproxy for iPhone - iPhone as a Ziproxy client
- (in Portuguese) Ziproxy - Proxy de compactação e redução de imagens
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