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 TINYPROXY(8)                  Version 1.10.0                   TINYPROXY(8)
 Tinyproxy manual                                           Tinyproxy manual

                                 09/01/2018



 NAME
      tinyproxy - A light-weight HTTP proxy daemon

 SYNOPSIS
      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
          Dont daemonize and stay in the foreground. Useful for debugging
          purposes.

      -h
          Display a short help screen of command line arguments and exit.

      -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.

      SIGHUP
          Force 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 its 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.)




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 Tinyproxy manual                                           Tinyproxy manual

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      The layout of both error pages and the statistics page can be
      controlled via configurable HTML template files that are plain HTML
      files that additionally understand a few template variables.

 TEMPLATE VARIABLES
      There are several standard HTML variables that are available in every
      template file:

      request
          The 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.

      In addition, almost all templates support:

      detail
          A detailed, plain English explanation of the error and possible
          causes.

      When Tinyproxy finds a variable name enclosed in braces, e.g.
      "{request}", then this is replaced by the value of the corresponding
      variable before delivery of the page.

 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.

      The stat file template can be changed at runtime through the
      configuration variable StatFile.




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 TINYPROXY(8)                  Version 1.10.0                   TINYPROXY(8)
 Tinyproxy manual                                           Tinyproxy manual

                                 09/01/2018



 FILES
      /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf, /var/run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid,
      /var/log/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.log

 BUGS
      To report bugs in Tinyproxy, please visit
      <https://tinyproxy.github.io/>.

 SEE ALSO
      tinyproxy.conf(5)

 AUTHOR
      This manpage was written by the Tinyproxy project team.

 COPYRIGHT
      Copyright (c) 1998-2018 the Tinyproxy authors.

      This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
      License version 2 or above. See the COPYING file for additional
      information.
































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