This project implements a basic HTTP proxy, forwarding requests from clients to origin servers. At the moment caching is not implemented.

./configure [--enable-debug]

make

make check

make install

1> {ok, HttpProxyService} = http_proxy:start(3128, []).
{ok,<0.51.0>}

2> http_proxy:close(HttpProxyService).
ok

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Multiple proxy services may be run with each having a process listening on the socket and a pool of accept servers. Each incoming TCP connection from a user agent (UA) spawns a finite state machine (FSM) process which forwards HTTP requests to a process in the origin server pool selected through pg2. An FSM is spawned for the connection to the origin server.

An accept server handles opening a TCP connection from a UA and hands the socket off to the UA connect FSM. The UA connect FSM reads the HTTP request from the socket and sends it to an origin server process which passes it as an argument to a newly spanwed origin connect FSM process. The origin connect FSM process opens a socket and sends the request to the actual origin server. A reply is sent directly to the UA connect FSM which sends it to the socket of the UA connection.

Everything here is distributed under the Apache License v2.0.