Ziproxy

Ziproxy

Stable release	3.2.1 / February 8, 2012 (2012-02-08)
Operating system	Unix-like
License	GNU General Public License
Website	ziproxy.sourceforge.net

A forward proxy taking requests from an internal network and forwarding them to the Internet. Those on the internal network may not have a direct connection to the Internet.

Ziproxy is a forwarding, non-caching, HTTP proxy targeted for traffic optimization. The ziproxy software is regarded as lightweight in terms of memory and processing power consumption.

This software works by recompressing pictures (such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, JPEG 2000), gzipping text and HTML/JS/CSS data optimization. Additionally it offers latency reduction by preemptive name resolution.

Further functionalities of compression are supplied by means of optimization of code, named HTMLopt, CSSopt and JSopt (HTML/CSS/JS) which are analogous with Minification (programming).

Currently there are ports being maintained by third-parties for Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD.

See also

• Bandwidth management for measuring and controlling the communications (traffic, packets) on a network link
• Comparison of web servers
• Comparison of lightweight web servers
• Proxy server which discusses client-side proxies
• Reverse proxy which discusses origin-side proxies
• Web accelerator which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration

External links

• Official project homepage
• Debian entry
• FreeBSD ports entry
• Gentoo-Portage entry
• Ziproxy for iPhone - iPhone as a Ziproxy client
• (Portuguese) Ziproxy - Proxy de compactação e redução de imagens