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TINYPROXY(8)		       Tinyproxy manual			  TINYPROXY(8)

NAME
       tinyproxy - A light-weight HTTP proxy daemon

SYNOPSIS
       tinyproxy [-vdch]

DESCRIPTION
       tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP	proxy daemon designed to consume a
       minimum amount of system	resources. It listens on a given TCP port and
       handles HTTP proxy requests. Designed from the ground up	to be fast and
       yet small, it is	an ideal solution for use cases	such as	embedded
       deployments where a full	featured HTTP proxy is required, but the
       system resources	for a larger proxy are unavailable.

OPTIONS
       tinyproxy accepts the following options:

       -c <config-file>
	   Use an alternate configuration file.

       -d  Don't  daemonize  and  stay in the foreground. Useful for debugging
	   purposes.

       -h  Display a short help	screen of command line arguments and exit.

       -v  Display version information and exit.

SIGNALS
       In addition to command-line options, there  are	also  several  signals
       that can	be sent	to tinyproxy while it is running to generate debugging
       information and to force	certain	events.

       SIGHUP
	   Force   Tinyproxy  to  do  a	 garbage  collection  on  the  current
	   connections linked list. This is usually done automatically after a
	   certain number of connections  have	been  handled.	 (Daemon  mode
	   only)

       SIGUSR1
	   Force  reload  of  config  file  and	filter list.  This is handy to
	   update the configuration if	Tinyproxy  is  running	in  foreground
	   without dropping active connections.

TEMPLATE FILES
       There  are  two	occasions  when	 Tinyproxy  delivers HTML pages	to the
       client on it's own right:

          When	an error occurred, a corresponding error page is returned.

          When	a request for the stathost is made,  a	page  summarizing  the
	   connection statistics is returned. (See STATHOST below.)

       The  layout  of	both  error  pages  and	 the  statistics  page	can be
       controlled via configurable HTML	template files	that  are  plain  HTML
       files that additionally understand a few	template variables.

TEMPLATE VARIABLES
       There  are  several standard HTML variables that	are available in every
       template	file:

       request
	   The full HTTP request line.

       cause
	   The abbreviated cause of the	error condition.

       clientip
	   The IP address of the client	making the request.

       clienthost
	   The hostname	of the client making the request.

       version
	   The version of Tinyproxy.

       package
	   The package name. Presently,	resolves to 'tinyproxy'.

       date
	   The current date/time in HTTP format.

       In addition, almost all templates support:

       detail
	   A detailed, plain English explanation of  the  error	 and  possible
	   causes.

       When   Tinyproxy	 finds	a  variable  name  enclosed  in	 braces,  e.g.
       "{request}", then this is replaced by the value	of  the	 corresponding
       variable	before delivery	of the page.

STATHOST
       Tinyproxy  returns  a  HTML  page  with	connection  statistics when it
       receives	a HTTP request for  a  certain	host  --  the  stathost.   The
       stathost	 name  defaults	 to  `tinyproxy.stats`	and  can be changed at
       runtime to any name or  IP  address  with  the  configuration  variable
       `StatHost`.

       The   stat  file	 template  can	be  changed  at	 runtime  through  the
       configuration variable `StatFile`.

FILES
       `/usr/local/etc/tinyproxy.conf`,		     `/var/run/tinyproxy.pid`,
       `/var/log/tinyproxy.log`

BUGS
       To      report	   bugs	     in	     Tinyproxy,	     please	 visit
       <https://tinyproxy.github.io/>.

SEE ALSO
       tinyproxy.conf(5)

AUTHOR
       This manpage was	written	by the Tinyproxy project team.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1998-2020 the Tinyproxy authors.

       This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU  General	Public
       License	version	 2  or	above.	See  the  COPYING  file	for additional
       information.

Version	1.11.2			  2024-05-08			  TINYPROXY(8)

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