[Savannah-register-public] [task #8233] Submission of Transparent HTTP Proxy Relay

[Alexander Gattin]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?8233>

                 Summary: Submission of Transparent HTTP Proxy Relay
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: xrgtn
            Submitted on: Wednesday 06/04/2008 at 20:48
         Should Start On: Wednesday 06/04/2008 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Saturday 06/14/2008 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9851> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9851>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *Transparent HTTP Proxy Relay*
* System Name:  *transproxy*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later

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==== Description: ====
The transproxy is a lightweight transparent non-caching proxy relay daemon,
written in python.

The daemon handles HTTP/HTTPS requests by converting them into proxy-aware
form and forwarding (relaying) to another/upstream proxy with optional "Basic"
authentication header inserted. Replies are sent back mostly unmodified.

Transparent redirection of e.g. all outgoing HTTP traffic is possible on
GNU/Linux platform with iptables:
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080

Using iptables+transproxy has an effect of transparently "proxifying" all
application traffic, i.e. without need to reconfigure browsers, jabber
clients, without modifying http_proxy environment variables and so on.

This is most useful when you move between office/home zones and need to
switch between office and home proxies (or none proxy at all) accordingly.

There are alternative (caching) transparent proxy implementations like
squid/oops/delegate, but they are too much overhead for this purpose.


==== Other Software Required: ====
python, Python License, http://python.org/
linux/iptables, GPLv2, http://netfilter.org/


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/transproxy2.tar.gz






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