[Eug-lug] Simple HTTP proxy for Windows?

[Ben Barrett]

Does cygwin violate part (a) for you?

ben


On 4/30/07, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a HTTP proxy server for Windows.
> I'm looking for something that's
>   (a) shockingly easy to install and configure,
>   (b) capable of processing multiple requests asynchronously.
>
> I'm not looking for any caching or rewriting features.
>
> I've been using tinyproxy [1], which I found on [2].  It claims to be
> multithreaded but in reality it single-threads all its requests.  I'm
> guessing that maybe Python on Windows doesn't do threading correctly
> or it blocks on slow I/O operations or something.
>
> The problem, of course, is that my employer has a VPN which is
> Windows-only.  I have a Doze box whose sole function is to forward
> traffic through the VPN.  Because tinyproxy single-threads everything,
> it takes 3-5x as long to load web pages through the proxy as it does
> on a Windows browser.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-June/210343.html
>
> [2] http://xhaus.com/alan/python/proxies.html
>
> --
> Bob Miller                              K<bob>
>                                         kbob at jogger-egg.com
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