small proxy

2017-05-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
Is there any small proxy that is supervision-friendly? My needs are modest: configure browser to use a port in 127..0.0.1 where a nice proxy would be listening; the proxy should redirect some connections (based on URL) to a previously established ssh tunnel, all other connections should pass

Re: small proxy

2017-05-23 Thread Kamil Cholewiński
On Tue, 23 May 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Basically, tinyproxy does this. What it does not do is sensible > logging. It seems to be brain damaged in this departement: it either > logs to syslog or to a file, which it insists in opening. /dev/stderr > does not work (it says that file has changed)

Re: small proxy

2017-05-23 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Is there any small proxy that is supervision-friendly? HAProxy? http://www.haproxy.org/ Not quite "small" and only recently "supervision-friendly", but it does wonders. Also it's not quite a forwa

Re: small proxy

2017-05-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> Is there any small proxy that is supervision-friendly? > > > HAProxy? http://www.haproxy.org/ > > Not quite "small" and only recently &qu

Re: small proxy

2017-05-23 Thread Roger Pate
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> Basically, tinyproxy does this. What it does not do is sensible >> logging. It seems to be brain damaged in this departement: it either >> logs to syslog or to a file, which it insists in open

Re: small proxy

2017-05-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Roger Pate wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Kamil Cholewiński > wrote: >> On Tue, 23 May 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: >>> Basically, tinyproxy does this. What it does not do is sensible >>> logging. It seems to be brain damaged in this departement: it eit

Re: small proxy

2017-05-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Your README doesn't mention logging. Is that what your version does? I replied too soon. I just saw it in "docs". You even stripped the silly PID file :) > Jorge

Re: small proxy

2017-05-30 Thread 39066dd5
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 01:07:13PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Is there any small proxy that is supervision-friendly? Polipo is no longer maintained but overall quite nice. Good support for pipelining etc.

Re: small proxy

2017-05-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 7:01 PM, <39066...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 01:07:13PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> Is there any small proxy that is supervision-friendly? > > Polipo is no longer maintained but overall quite nice. Good support for > pipelinin

Re: small proxy

2017-05-30 Thread 39066dd5
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 07:27:09PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 7:01 PM, <39066...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 01:07:13PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> Is there any small proxy that is supervision-friendly? > > > >

Re: small proxy

2017-05-30 Thread Laurent Bercot
The Polipo author's reasoning may apply to your application as well, my memory is essentially the value of HTTP proxies has declined a lot now that so much of the web is behind HTTPS. Yes. And if it is about HTTP, then the clients' ISPs will proxy the data for them. They may even add some extr

Re: small proxy

2017-05-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Laurent Bercot wrote: >> The Polipo author's reasoning may apply to your application as well, my >> memory is essentially the value of HTTP proxies has declined a lot now that >> so much of the web is behind HTTPS. > > > Yes. And if it is about HTTP, then the cli

Re: small proxy

2017-05-31 Thread Martin "eto" Misuth
Heh proxies, yeah I spent too much time tweaking my polipo and privoxy setups. On Tue, 30 May 2017 22:49:19 +0100 Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Laurent Bercot > wrote: > >> The Polipo author's reasoning may apply to your application as well, my > >> memory is essent

Re: small proxy

2017-05-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Martin "eto" Misuth wrote: > Heh proxies, > > yeah I spent too much time tweaking my polipo and privoxy setups. > > >> This kind of situation usually means that I'm trying to use the wrong >> tool. As said in the first mail, I need to redirect some targets to a >

Re: small proxy

2017-05-31 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Jorge Almeida: > As said in the first mail, I need to redirect some targets to a ssh tunnel, > and let everything else go its way. Rather than using a proxy, the solution > seems obvious: [...] ... use a Proxy Auto-Configuration script, as that is the function of PAC scripts. * http://jdebp.eu./F

Re: small proxy

2017-05-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Jorge Almeida: >> As said in the first mail, I need to redirect some targets to a ssh tunnel, >> and let everything else go its way. Rather than using a proxy, the solution >> seems obvious: [...] > > ... use a Proxy Auto-Configur