Ziproxy

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

Ziproxy

Stable release	3.3.2 / March 19, 2021 (2021-03-19)
Repository	svn.code.sf.net/p/ziproxy/code/
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	Proxy server
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.

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, Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• Bandwidth management for measuring and controlling the communications (traffic, packets) on a network link
• Comparison of 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^[usurped]
• Ziproxy for iPhone - iPhone as a Ziproxy client
• (in Portuguese) Ziproxy - Proxy de compactação e redução de imagens