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