async_http_proxy

A simple HTTP proxy ( no support for HTTPS yet).

How to run?

You can either

docker-compose up - It would run the proxy on your localhost on port 8080 in a container
HTTP_PROXY_PORT=<port-of-your-choice> python3 proxy.py

How to test?

There is a small testsuite in tests.py, that tests for sanity of the proxy. You can run it with the following commands.

pip install -r test_requirements.txt
pytest tests.py

How to use it

You can set the proxy at the application level eg. for your browser that allow for setting browser specific HTTP_PROXY (such as Firefox) or $http_proxy variable for commandline applications.

At the moment, docker based proxy does not work if HTTP_PROXY is set at os level. If you intent to set the HTTP_PROXY for the entire os I suggest running proxy as a python process on the host. computer.

Stats

Once the proxy is up and running, you can go to http://localhost:8080/stats to see the following information as json

uptime
bytes transferred

License

Released under Apache 2.0. Please see License to see full terms.