Web-Proxy-Server

Developing a Web-Proxy Server which enables Website Caching, Blocking Features and other functionalities

Requirements

Project is made to be used in Python 3. The Browser's network settings should be set to use the manual proxy with localhost as the name and Port Number used is 8080 (I have been using Firerox as my browser for this project)

HTTP and HTTPS Requests

There are 2 types of requests -:

HTTP Requests
HTTPS Requsts

Measure Time taken to retrieve a request from Server and Cache

When the first request is made, server retrieves the file and saves it in the cache. When that file is needed again, file in cache is used. Retrieving the file from cache is quite fast as compared to retrieving file from the server.

Websockets

I tested Websockets functionality using the website https://www.websocket.org/echo.html This website lets you do an HTML5 WebSocket test against the echo server :

Blocking URLs

This proxy has a functionality of blocking URLs using a simple command. By blocking a URL, if a user tries to access a website which is blocked, user is not allowed to access it and the activity of the user is printed in the logs along with the date and time when the user tried to access the bloced website. In the below pictures, I blocked Facebook and Twitter website. The result :