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