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diff --git a/network/polipo/README b/network/polipo/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f9c4c2f41b --- /dev/null +++ b/network/polipo/README @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +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. |