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Polipo is a discontinued lightweight caching and forwarding web proxy server. It has a wide variety of uses, from aiding security by filtering traffic; to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources; to speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests.
HAProxy is a free and open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and Proxy (forward proxy, [2] reverse proxy) for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers. [3] It is written in C [4] and has a reputation for being fast and efficient (in terms of processor and memory usage). [5]
The LAMP stack with Squid as web cache.. Squid is a caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy.It has a wide variety of uses, including speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, caching World Wide Web (WWW), Domain Name System (DNS), and other network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, and aiding security by filtering traffic.
Using the reverse proxy of a third party (e.g., Cloudflare, Imperva) places the entire triad of confidentiality, integrity and availability in the hands of the third party who operates the proxy. If a reverse proxy is fronting many different domains, its outage (e.g., by a misconfiguration or DDoS attack) could bring down all fronted domains. [7]
Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program and application firewall suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. Originally developed by an IT security company, it has a strong emphasis on security.
It is a lightweight, [5] high-performance [6] web server/reverse proxy licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to be fast and fully functional yet still light. Major features of Cherokee include a graphical administration interface named cherokee-admin, and a modular light-weight design.
Varnish is a reverse caching proxy [2] used as HTTP accelerator for content-heavy dynamic web sites as well as APIs.In contrast to other web accelerators, such as Squid, which began life as a client-side cache, or Apache and nginx, which are primarily origin servers, Varnish was designed as an HTTP accelerator.
Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", filtering web pages and removing advertisements. Privoxy can be customized by users, for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks. [ 2 ] Privoxy can be chained to other proxies and is frequently used in combination with Squid among others and can be used to bypass Internet censorship .