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A collaborative list of awesome proxy servers and resources. Feel free to contribute!
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A collaborative list of awesome proxy servers and resources. Feel free to contribute!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dariubs/awesome-proxy
• Owner: dariubs
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-01-02T07:31:45.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-11T08:42:48.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-19T17:10:57.832Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: awesome, awesome-list, dnsproxy, forward-proxy, http-proxy, https-proxy, proxy, proxy-server, reverse-proxy, socks
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• Stars: 199
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 34
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: readme.md
  • Contributing: contributing.md
  • License: license

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README

        
# Awesome Proxy

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A collaborative list of awesome proxy servers and resources. Feel free to contribute!







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## Index

- [What is](#what-is)

- [Types](#types)

- [Protocols](#protocols)

- [Proxy Server](#proxy-server-forward-proxy)

- [Reverse Proxy](#reverse-proxy)

- [SOCKS Proxy](#socks-proxy)

- [HTTP/HTTPS Proxy](#httphttps-proxy-http-tunnel)

- [FTP Proxy](#ftp-proxy)

- [DNS 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](https://kb.iu.edu/d/ahoo)

## Types

- [Proxy server (Forward Proxy) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server)

- [Reverse Proxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy)

![Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0qpxZ.png)

## 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server)

- [What is Proxy - quora](https://www.quora.com/What-is-proxy)

### Popular Proxy servers

- [squid](http://www.squid-cache.org/)

## 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?](https://www.nginx.com/resources/glossary/reverse-proxy-server/)

### Popular Reverse Proxies

- [NGINX Open Source](https://nginx.org/) / [NGINX Plus](https://nginx.com/)

- [Envoy Proxy](https://www.envoyproxy.io/)

- [Apache](http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/ApacheModProxy)

- [HAProxy](http://haproxy.1wt.eu/)

- [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/docs/proxy)

- [Træfɪk](https://traefik.io/)

- [Pound](http://www.apsis.ch/pound)

- [relayd](https://bsd.plumbing/)

- [ngrok](https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok)

- [Pipy](https://flomesh.io/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS)

### SOCKS protocol

- [SOCKS Protocol version 5 - rfc 1928](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1928.txt)

- [SOCKS Protocol version 4](https://www.openssh.com/txt/socks4.protocol)

### Popular Implementations of SOCKS server

- [Shadowsocks](https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html) - A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.

- [Dante](https://www.inet.no/dante/) - A free SOCKS server.

- [microsocks](https://github.com/rofl0r/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel)

### HTTP Proxy protocol

- [RFC 7230](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230) - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing

### Popular Implementations of HTTP tunnel

- [XX-Net](https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net) - a web proxy tool

- [Tinyproxy](https://tinyproxy.github.io/) - lightweight http(s) proxy daemon

- [mitmproxy](https://mitmproxy.org/) - mitmproxy is a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy.

- [OpenProxy](https://github.com/trimstray/OpenProxy)

- [Privoxy](http://www.privoxy.org/)

## FTP Proxy

### Popular Implementations of FTP Proxy

- [ftp.proxy](http://www.ftpproxy.org/)

## DNS Proxy

[What are DNS and the DNS Proxy?](https://www.watchguard.com/training/fireware/80/dnsprox2.htm)

### Popular DNS Proxy servers

- [dnsmasq](http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html)