Re: What is Polipo's future?

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Subject: Re: [Polipo-users] What is Polipo's future?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:52:28 +0200
From: Mika Suomalainen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

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1) https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

It seems to provide Polipo,
> % apt-cache policy polipo polipo: Installed: 1.0.4.1-1.1
> Candidate: 1.0.4.1-1.1 Version table: *** 1.0.4.1-1.1 0 500 
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 500 
> http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/ sid/main amd64 Packages 
> 500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 100 
> /var/lib/dpkg/status

And

> % aptitude show polipo Package: polipo New: yes State: installed 
> Automatically installed: no Version: 1.0.4.1-1.1 Priority: optional
> Section: web Maintainer: Erinn Clark <[email protected]>
> Uncompressed Size: 803 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4), dpkg (>=
> 1.15.4) | install-info Description: a small, caching web proxy
> Polipo is a caching web proxy (a web cache) designed to be used by
> one person or a small group of people. It is similar in spirit to
> WWWOFFLE, but the implementation techniques are more like the ones
> used by Squid.
> 
> Polipo has some features that are unique among currently available
>  proxies:
> 
> o 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);
> 
> o Polipo will cache the initial segment of an instance if the 
> download has been interrupted, and, if necessary, complete it later
> using Range requests;
> 
> o 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);
> 
> o Polipo has fairly complete support for IPv6 (except for scoped 
> (link-local) addresses).
> 
> Optionally, Polipo can use a technique known as Poor Man's 
> Multiplexing to reduce latency. Homepage: 
> http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/


On 17.02.2012 21:17, grarpamp wrote:
>> 1) You should try adding Tor project repository to your 
>> sources.list. They seem to have working Polipo and it was 
>> upgraded some weeks ago.
> 
> Umm, really? Where? As far as I know it was removed when the 
> current polipo maintainer claimed ownership back, and then 
> seemingly departed.
> 
>> 5) This list helps and I am sure that Tor project  can provide 
>> support too, because they include Polipo in their Vidalia 
>> bundle.
> 
> Inclusion does not imply support. Current Firefox releases have
> the long time SOCKS5 bug fixed so Tor has no real need for such a
> shim. Unless you want the cache, which of course doesn't work with
> TLS, which is taking over plaintext, which is why we really need
> that TLS shim I mentioned. I'm sure someone can turn it into a
> GSOC project.
> 
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