A collaborative list of awesome proxy servers and resources.
A collaborative list of awesome proxy servers and resources. Feel free to contribute!
Index
What is
A proxy server, also known as a "proxy" or "application-level gateway", is a computer that acts as a gateway between a local network (for example, all the computers at one company or in one building) and a larger-scale network such as the internet. ^1
Types
Protocols
- SOCKS Proxy
- HTTP/HTTPS Proxy
- FTP Proxy
- DNS Proxy
- Anonymous Proxy
Proxy server (Forward Proxy)
A proxy server that passes unmodified requests and responses is usually called a gateway or sometimes a tunneling proxy.
A forward proxy is an Internet-facing proxy used to retrieve data from a wide range of sources.
Popular Proxy servers
Reverse Proxy
A reverse proxy is usually an internal-facing proxy used as a front-end to control and protect access to a server on a private network. A reverse proxy commonly also performs tasks such as load-balancing, authentication, decryption or caching.
Popular Reverse Proxies
SOCKS Proxy
SOCKS is an Internet protocol that exchanges network packets between a client and server through a proxy server. SOCKS5 additionally provides authentication so only authorized users may access a server. Practically, a SOCKS server proxies TCP connections to an arbitrary IP address, and provides a means for UDP packets to be forwarded. wikipedia
SOCKS protocol
Popular Implementations of SOCKS server
- Shadowsocks - A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.
- Dante - A free SOCKS server.
- microsocks - Tiny, portable SOCKS5 server with very moderate resource usage.
HTTP/HTTPS Proxy (HTTP tunnel)
HTTP tunneling is used to create a network link between two computers in conditions of restricted network connectivity including firewalls, NATs and ACLs, among other restrictions. The tunnel is created by an intermediary called a proxy server which is usually located in a DMZ. wikipedia
HTTP Proxy protocol
- RFC 7230 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing
Popular Implementations of HTTP tunnel
- XX-Net - a web proxy tool
- Tinyproxy - lightweight http(s) proxy daemon
- mitmproxy - mitmproxy is a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy.
- OpenProxy
- Privoxy
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