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+Polipo is a small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a
+proxy server). While Polipo was designed to be used by one person or a small
+group of people, there is nothing that prevents it from being used by a larger
+group.
+
+Polipo has some features that are, as far as I know, unique among currently
+available proxies:
+  * Polipo will use HTTP/1.1 pipelining if it believes that the remote server
+    supports it, whether the incoming requests are pipelined or come in
+    simultaneously on multiple connections (this is more than the simple usage
+    of persistent connections, which is done by e.g. Squid); Polipo will cache
+    the initial segment of an instance if the download has been interrupted,
+    and, if necessary, complete it later using Range requests;
+  * Polipo will upgrade client requests to HTTP/1.1 even if they come in as
+    HTTP/1.0, and up- or downgrade server replies to the client's capabilities
+    (this may involve conversion to or from the HTTP/1.1 chunked encoding);
+  * Polipo has complete support for IPv6 (except for scoped (link-local)
+    addresses).
+  * Polipo can optionally use a technique known as Poor Man's Multiplexing to
+    reduce latency even further.
+
+In short, Polipo uses a plethora of techniques to make web browsing (seem)
+faster.