Awesome Proxy

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Index

• What is
• Types
• Protocols
• Proxy Server
• Reverse Proxy
• SOCKS Proxy
• HTTP/HTTPS Proxy
• FTP Proxy
• DNS Proxy

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

• Proxy server (Forward Proxy)
• Reverse Proxy

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.

• Proxy Server - wikipedia
• What is Proxy - quora

Popular Proxy servers

• squid

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.

• What Is a Reverse Proxy Server?

Popular Reverse Proxies

• NGINX Open Source / NGINX Plus
• Envoy Proxy
• Apache
• HAProxy
• Caddy
• Træfɪk
• Pound
• relayd
• ngrok
• Pipy

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

• SOCKS Protocol version 5 - rfc 1928
• SOCKS Protocol version 4

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

FTP Proxy

Popular Implementations of FTP Proxy

• ftp.proxy

DNS Proxy

What are DNS and the DNS Proxy?

Popular DNS Proxy servers

• dnsmasq