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Ziproxy is a forwarding, non-caching, compressing, HTTP proxy server targeted for traffic optimization. The ziproxy software is regarded as lightweight in terms of memory and processing power consumption. This software works by recompressing pictures (such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, JPEG 2000), gzipping text and
HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaSc ...
/ JS/ CSS data optimization. Additionally it offers latency reduction by preemptive name resolution. Further functionalities of compression are supplied by means of optimization of code, named ''HTMLopt'', ''CSSopt'' and ''JSopt'' (
HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaSc ...
/ CSS/ JS) which are analogous with
Minification (programming) Minification (also minimisation or minimization) is the process of removing all unnecessary characters from the source code of interpreted programming languages or markup languages without changing its functionality. These unnecessary characters ...
. Currently there are ports being maintained by third parties for Debian, Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.


See also

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Bandwidth management Bandwidth management is the process of measuring and controlling the communications (traffic, packets) on a network link, to avoid filling the link to capacity or overfilling the link,https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/BWro ...
for measuring and controlling the communications (traffic, packets) on a network link *
Comparison of web servers Web server software allows computers to act as web servers. The first web servers supported only static files, such as HTML (and images), but now they commonly allow embedding of server side applications. Some web application frameworks include s ...
* Comparison of lightweight web servers *
Proxy server In computer networking, a proxy server is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting a resource and the server providing that resource. Instead of connecting directly to a server that can fulfill a reques ...
which discusses client-side proxies *
Reverse proxy In computer networks, a reverse proxy is the application that sits in front of back-end applications and forwards client (e.g. browser) requests to those applications. Reverse proxies help increase scalability, performance, resilience and securi ...
which discusses origin-side proxies * Web accelerator which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration


External links


Official project homepage

Debian entry



Gentoo-Portage entry

Ziproxy for iPhone
- iPhone as a Ziproxy client *
Ziproxy - Proxy de compactação e redução de imagens
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