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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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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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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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