Free proxy software for linux

WebGrab is a tool that acts as a CGI proxy. It simulates a Web browser and grabs data from external programs, and can exchange individual words or whole blocks.

The project can be run standalone or in conjunction with phpCMS.

The Zaval Proxy Suite is an easy-to-use solution that allows monitoring TCP-based protocols, such as HTTP, NNTP and others. It is extremely useful in software development and can be used as a debug tool. Another area of appliance is multiple connections logging with proxy facilities. As soon as its a pure java solution it can be used almost everywhere.

The Zaval Proxy functions as a proxy and transfers data between the server and the client writing incoming and outgoing traffic into log files. So you can see these raw data as is.

On start the Zaval Proxy Suite goes through configuration file and creates the specified number of proxy servers and the shutdown server.

"Proxy server" is a server socket listening on the specified port. When the client is connected proxy connects to the target server and transfers data between them logging entire traffic. On each connection 2 files are created - xxx-input (request data from the client) and xxx-output (response data from the server). The "xxx" means here the sequential number of the connection for the proxy server. The traffic is logged into the separate directory for each proxy.

Shutdown server is needed to close all open connections correctly and close the program.

So, in the particular case you should specify address of proxy server in client application (web browser, for example) and address of the target server in the proxy configuration file. You can create any number of proxy servers that run at the same time, however, they should use different port numbers.

Ircproxy is a transparent IRC content filtering application. It may be used whenever there is a need for monitoring IRC connections.

irc-proxy may be used to deny specific connections or to examine suspicious IRC traffic.

Whois Proxy provides a CGI or command line whois proxy tool.

Whois Proxy is a Perl whois tool for looking up the owners, technical contacts, abuse desk, IP address, NIC handle, or ASN of any domain on the internet.

A complete rewrite of the GeekTools whois proxy, it also runs either as a Web application or on the command line but has a few more features.

The Web interface is validated strict XHTML and CSS2.

Japt-Proxy is a JAVA based Caching Proxy for Debians APT-System. Japt-Proxy is very reliable and lightning fast. Japt-Proxy is usually used in environments where several Debian systems have to be kept up-to-date without downloading the same files over and over again from the debian mirrors. Mostly these environments are data centers, Linux-powered companies, schools, public authorities and so on.
Often Japt-Proxy is used because of small sized internet connections but it is also useful to install complete debian systems over the net (read: over the proxy). Even with high volume internet connections Japt-Proxy can dramatically reduce the time to install or update Debian on many machines.
Why Java?
I know there are people out there thinking "Hey? Why Java?". There are a bunch of reasons why people asking those questions. I have a simple answer to all those questions. The answer is, that Java enabled me to easily develop the fastest and most reliable APT-Proxy. Java and the Apache Software Foundation provides such good libraries for this job, that it wasnt very hard to bring up this tool.
If you dont trust, test it - the installation takes less than five minutes!
Doesnt a general proxy server supersede an APT-Proxy?
No, it doesnt. Japt-Proxy knows the characteristics of a Debian archive and their files. It knows, for example, that .deb files wont change, because newer files would have a new name (the version is always part of the filename), hence it wont recheck if there is a newer version of this specific file.
Furthermore you can configure the Japt-Proxy to delete old versions of a package in its cache directory - a general proxy cache would simple delete files that havent been requested for some time.
So, a general caching proxy like Squid is a perfect tool for caching "normal" internet traffic. If you need a proxy for faster APT access - Japt-Proxy is the right tool for you.
Main features:
- Caching of all apt requests from Debian archives
- Multi-threaded architecture which increases the download speed enormously when several machines are requesting packages
- Builds up a partial mirror directory automatically, with exactly the same directory structure and filenames as the original mirror
- Automatic and configurable cache cleanup (purging packages in cache if newer versions exists)
- Makes sources.list configuration easier for multiple machines - if you change your internet backend server you only have to make the change once in Japt-Proxy, instead of on all Debian machines
- Works with multiple architectures
- Backend support for HTTP and FTP
- existing .debs can be copied into the Japt-Proxy cache directory (from a CD or DVD for example) and will be used by the Proxy automatically

Net::Proxy is a Perl framework for proxying network connections in many ways.

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Proxy;

# proxy connections from localhost:6789 to remotehost:9876
# using standard TCP connections
my $proxy = Net::Proxy->new(
{ in => { type => tcp, port => 6789 },
out => { type => tcp, host => remotehost, port => 9876 },
}
);

# register the proxy object
$proxy->register();

# and you can setup multiple proxies

# and now proxy connections indefinitely
Net::Proxy->mainloop();

A Net::Proxy object represents a proxy that accepts connections and then relays the data transfered between the source and the destination.

The goal of this module is to abstract the different methods used to connect from the proxy to the destination.
A proxy is a program that transfer data across a network boundary between a client and a server. Net::Proxy introduces the concept of "connectors" (implemented as Net::Proxy::Connector subclasses), which abstract the server part (connected to the client) and the client part (connected to the server) of the proxy.

This architecture makes it easy to implement specific techniques to cross a given network boundary, possibly by using a proxy on one side of the network fence, and a reverse-proxy on the other side of the fence.

Shrew Proxy/Filter is a tiny proxy built on WEBricks HTTPProxyServer, extended for both URL and content filtering. Shrew Proxy/Filter is designed to be small, simple to configure, and easy to install.

It is extremely small, lightweight, and works quite well. All blacklists (both URL and content) are plain text, so most published lists can be simply dropped in and used.