# adamfisk/LittleProxy

High performance HTTP proxy originally written by your friends at Lantern and now maintained by a stellar group of volunteer open source programmers.

Repository: https://github.com/adamfisk/LittleProxy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/littleproxy
Homepage: https://www.getlantern.org
Language: PHP
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-07-08T17:52:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5734, "days_push": 786, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2127, forks 730 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:16.951213+00:00)

## What it is
LittleProxy is a high-performance HTTP(S) proxy written in Java on top of the Netty networking library. It can be run standalone from the command line or embedded in Java projects via Maven, with support for request/response filtering and HTTPS man-in-the-middle interception through MITM extensions.

## Use cases
- embed an http proxy in a java application
- intercept and filter http requests and responses
- capture https traffic with a mitm proxy for testing
- run a local forward proxy on port 8080
- build a web debugging or recording proxy
- monitor outbound http traffic from a jvm app

## When to choose
- you need a programmable, embeddable HTTP proxy in a JVM project
- you want to filter or modify HTTP traffic with custom Java code
- you need HTTPS interception via MITM extensions like LittleProxy-mitm
- you want a stable, well-tested proxy built on Netty

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured end-user proxy GUI like Squid or mitmproxy
- your stack is not JVM-based
- you need SOCKS or non-HTTP protocol proxying
- you want a zero-code, configuration-only proxy setup

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, http-server, middleware, networking, security
- domain: networking, developer-tools, privacy, web-development, security
- platform: jvm, cross-platform, cli
- tags: http-proxy, netty, mitm, traffic-filtering, embeddable, java

## Member repositories
- adamfisk/LittleProxy (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.951213+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:52:28.633602+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/adamfisk/LittleProxy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.951213+00:00, sha 43127f9fac0d)
  - homepage: https://www.getlantern.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:26.573902+00:00, sha 98d90c3b65d9)
  - site_page: https://lantern.io/features (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:26.583844+00:00, sha 1853229d0c9a)
  - site_page: https://lantern.io/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:26.586979+00:00, sha 3e3196ca1476)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.