[Howto] - Polipo 1.0.4 under OpenBSD
By my quick search for a fast and small HTTP-Proxy, which runs under OpenBSD, I’ve found the caching web proxy Polipo, which looks really good. Hence here is a short howto about the installation & configuration (which is really really fast & easy to do) of Polipo under OpenBSD.
Download
# cd /tmp/
# ftp http://freehaven.net/~chrisd/polipo/polipo-1.0.4.tar.gz
# tar xvfz polipo-1.0.4.tar.gz
Installation
# cd polipo-1.0.4
# make all
# make install
Configuration
For the configuration I used the sample configuration file "/tmp/polipo-1.0.4/config.sample" which I copied to /etc/polipo/config.conf.
For the configuration I used the sample configuration file "/tmp/polipo-1.0.4/config.sample" which I copied to /etc/polipo/config.conf.
# mkdir /etc/polipo
# cp config.sample /etc/polipo/config.conf
/etc/polipo/config.conf (changes marked in red)
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# Basic configuration
# Uncomment one of these if you want to allow remote clients to connect
# proxyAddress = "::0" # both IPv4 and IPv6 proxyAddress = "192.168.1.1" # IPv4 only # If you do that, you’ll want to restrict the set of hosts allowed to connect # allowedClients = "127.0.0.1, 134.157.168.57" # allowedClients = "127.0.0.1, 134.157.168.0/24" # Uncomment this if you want your Polipo to identify itself by something else than the host name #proxyName = "proxy.local" # Uncomment this if there’s only one user using this instance of Polipo # cacheIsShared = false # Uncomment this if you want to use a parent proxy # parentProxy = "squid.example.org:3128" # Uncomment this if you want to use a parent SOCKS proxy # socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050" # socksProxyType = socks5 ### Memory ### # Uncomment this if you want Polipo to use a ridiculously small amount of memory # (a hundred C-64 worth or so)
# chunkHighMark = 819200 # objectHighMark = 128 # Uncomment this if you’ve got plenty of memory # chunkHighMark = 50331648 # objectHighMark = 16384 ### On-disk data ### # Uncomment this if you want to disable the on-disk cache # diskCacheRoot = "" # Uncomment this if you want to put the on-disk cache in a non-standard location # diskCacheRoot = "~/.polipo-cache/" # Uncomment this if you want to disable the local web server # localDocumentRoot = "" # Uncomment this if you want to enable the pages under /polipo/index? # and /polipo/servers?. This is a serious privacy leak if your proxy # is shared. # disableIndexing = false # disableServersList = false ### Domain Name System ### # Uncomment this if you want to contact IPv4 hosts only (and make DNS queries somewhat faster) # dnsQueryIPv6 = no # Uncomment this if you want Polipo to prefer IPv4 to IPv6 for double-stack hosts # dnsQueryIPv6 = reluctantly # Uncomment this to disable Polipo’s DNS resolver and use the system’s # default resolver instead. If you do that, Polipo will freeze during # every DNS query: # dnsUseGethostbyname = yes ### HTTP ### # user authentication
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authCredentials=USER:PASSWORD # Uncomment this if you want to enable detection of proxy loops. # This will cause your hostname (or whatever you put into proxyName # above) to be included in every request: # disableVia=false # Uncomment this if you want to slightly reduce the amount of # information that you leak about yourself: censoredHeaders = from, accept-language censorReferer = maybe # Uncomment this if you’re paranoid. This will break a lot of sites, though # censoredHeaders = set-cookie, cookie, cookie2, from, accept-language # censorReferer = true # Uncomment this if you want to use Poor Man’s Multiplexing; increase # the sizes if you’re on a fast line. They should each amount to a few # seconds’ worth of transfer; if pmmSize is small, you’ll want # pmmFirstSize to be larger. # Note that PMM is somewhat unreliable. # pmmFirstSize = 16384 # pmmSize = 8192 # Uncomment this if your user-agent does something reasonable with # Warning headers (most don’t): # relaxTransparency = maybe # Uncomment this if you never want to revalidate instances for which # data is available (this is not a good idea): # relaxTransparency = yes # Uncomment this if you have no network: # proxyOffline = yes # Uncomment this if you want to avoid revalidating instances with a # Vary header (this is not a good idea): # mindlesslyCacheVary = true # no web interface #
localDocumentRoot="" |
Starting Polipo
# /usr/local/bin/polipo -c /etc/polipo/config.conf daemonise=true logFile="/var/log/polipo.log"
Now the proxy listen on 192.168.1.1:8123 and is ready for use ;-)
Now the proxy listen on 192.168.1.1:8123 and is ready for use ;-)
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