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Looking for an http proxy server written in Python

John Abel john.abel at pa.press.net
Tue Nov 18 22:35:32 EST 2003 
You might want to have a look at Willow from www.digitallumber.com.

Regards

John

Chris Gray wrote:

>Thanks, Alan,
>
>Your resource page is very helpful and your "Why" section explains exactly
>why I'm interested in this.  At first blush it looks like httpMonitor is
>most in line with what I'm planning, namely, the ability to do arbitrary
>processing on requests and responses.
>
>The problem I've run across so far is transparency and performance.  I've
>written my own proxy server and experimented with WebDebug and found that
>some things slow down considerably and other things don't seem to pass
>through at all.  I want, as much as possible, for the proxy to pass
>requests and responses through in a way that makes no difference to the
>client, but gives me a hook to hang selective logging, storage, and other
>processing on.
>
>That's why I specified production-quality and HTTP/1.1 compliance.  If I
>could just find a proxy server that forwarded requests and responses
>seamlessly, I'd be happy.
>
>Thanks again,
>Chris
>
>"Okey dokey.. free my mind. Right, no problem, free my mind, free my mind,
>no problem, right... "  -The Matrix
>
>On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Alan Kennedy wrote:
>
>  
>
>>[Chris Gray]
>>    
>>
>>>I'm looking for a
>>>production-quality proxy server fully compliant with HTTP/1.1 written in
>>>Python.
>>>
>>>If there isn't, is there anything that comes close?
>>>      
>>>
>>That depends on what you want the proxy to do.
>>
>>Check the following page for a list of python http proxies.
>>
>>http://xhaus.com/alan/python/proxies.html
>>
>>If there's nothing there that catches your eye, then give a clearer
>>indication of what you need the proxy to do.
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>--
>>alan kennedy
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