[Gllug] Polipo - Was: Caching youtube videos

[Nix]

On 2 Oct 2008, David L. Neil Mailing list a. told this:

> Nix wrote:
>> Of course this just goes to show that you should be using Polipo instead
>> ;}
>
> Haven't come across this one before (which doesn't say a whole lot...).

It specializes in transport efficiency. unlike, say, wwwoffle (which
eliminates pipelining, doesn't cope with chunking properly and has all
sorts of horrible data-corruption bugs), Polipo often *increases* the
efficiency of data in transit, gzipping, chunking and pipelining even if
the client can't, seamlessly falling back if the far end messes up.

It's very nice. I can't think of a single webpage that failed to render
properly with it, again unlike wwwoffle.

(Also, unusually, it's designed to be installed *anywhere*: it doesn't
need a config file and doesn't need to be installed systemwide. Until
fairly recently it couldn't even write to syslog without going through
logger(1), but I fixed that :) )

> Am playing with TOR and thus installed Privoxy.
> 
> Care to make any comment about Polipo cf Privoxy in such applications,

I don't use Privoxy, or Tor, but
<http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/polipo.html#Privoxy>
might be helpful. It looks like it seriously damages transport
efficiency (no pipelining? What the hell?)

> and maybe running it on a small network 'gateway' m/c so as to service a
> number of TOR-ified FF browsers?

You want to use a SOCKS parent proxy:
<http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/polipo.html#SOCKS-parent-proxies>.
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