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/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/CSS/JS) which are analogous with Minification (programming).
Currently there are ports being maintained by third parties for Debian, Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
See also
Bandwidth management for measuring and controlling the communications (traffic, packets) on a network link Comparison of web servers Proxy server which discusses client-side proxies Reverse proxy which discusses origin-side proxies Web accelerator which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
External links Official project homepage Debian entry FreeBSD ports entry
Ziproxy for iPhone - iPhone as a Ziproxy client Ziproxy - Proxy de compactação e redução de imagens