tinyproxy/tinyproxy

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Tinyproxy is a lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems, written in C. It supports connection buffering, domain/URL filtering, upstream proxying, transparent and reverse proxy modes, making it suitable for small networks where a full proxy would be too resource-intensive.

Use cases

• set up a lightweight HTTP proxy for a small network
• share an internet connection with HTTP-only access control
• run a transparent proxy with firewall rules
• proxy traffic through an upstream proxy server
• filter domains and URLs at the network level
• run a reverse proxy for a web server
• buffer fast server responses for slow clients

When to choose

• you need a minimal, low-resource HTTP/HTTPS proxy on Linux/BSD/macOS
• you want transparent or reverse proxying without heavy software like Squid
• you need simple domain/URL filtering for a small network

When to avoid

• you need advanced caching, authentication backends, or SOCKS5 features of a full proxy suite
• you need a Windows-native proxy
• you need extensive traffic inspection or TLS interception

Facets

service · maturity stable

proxy http-server networking security networking privacy self-hosted developer-tools bsd cli self-hosted http-proxy https-proxy transparent-proxy reverse-proxy lightweight-daemon posix c linux macos

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