SIMPLEPROXY(1)

💖 SIMPLEPROXY 💖

okay bestie, welcome to simpleproxy — it's in the General Commands Manual section (manual page 1, iykyk). It's a simple tcp socket proxy and honestly? she's iconic for it.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

simpleproxy [-7] [-v] [-V] [-d] [-i] [-u] -P <POP3 users file> -L
[<local host>:]<local port> -R <remote host>:<remote port> [-S <proxy
host>:<proxy port>]

like yes, that's a lot of flags, but we're gonna go through every single one, no skips, fr fr 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically, the simpleproxy program is out here acting as a simple tcp proxy. it opens a listening socket on the local machine and forwards any connection to the remote host. that's the whole vibe. lowkey simple, highkey useful. 💅

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

simpleproxy accepts the following options — all of them, we're not gatekeeping:

• -V — version information. she's introducing herself. 🎀
• -v — makes simpleproxy write activity information to syslog or stderr. she's a yapper, she tells you what's happening.
• -7 — makes simpleproxy strip the 8th bit. bye bye, 8th bit. 💀
• -i — use this flag when starting simpleproxy from INETD.
• -d — by default simpleproxy does not detach itself from the control terminal and writes all messages to stderr. this option will detach it from the terminal and make it write messages to syslog. it's giving "i don't need you anymore, i'm independent now" energy.
• -L [<local host>:]<local port> — local host and port name or number to bind for listening. the host name is optional, so no pressure if you don't have one. 🦋
• -R <remote host>:<remote port> — remote host and port name or number. this is where the traffic's going, bestie.
• -P <POP3 users list> — if specified, simpleproxy will load the list of users from the <filename> (one per line — one user, one line, keep it tidy 🎀). after this it will be forwarding POP3 sessions only if the client is trying to authenificate as this user.
• -S <proxy host>:<proxy port> — HTTPS proxy server host and port name or number. proxy-ception, we love to see it.
• -a <HTTPS Auth User>:<HTTPS Auth Password> — authenticate to the HTTPS proxy server with the given userid and password. this option performs BASIC HTTP authentication as specified in RFC 2617. used only in conjunction with -S. don't forget your plus-one. 💖
• -A <HTTP Auth User>:<HTTP Auth Password> — requires HTTP proxy authentication. the client browser must supply username and password to use this proxy. this option performs BASIC HTTP authentication as specified in RFC 2617. gatekeeping your proxy, periodt. 🔥
• -u — URLs of visited pages are emitted on stdout. it is used for logging or for remote lecturing — if the output is redirected to a remote command that changes a dynamic web page, it is possible to synchronize all the learner web browsers to the same page visited by the instructor. (see the "simple remote lecturing" project on sourceforge). literally syncing up the whole class, main character instructor energy 👑
• -t <trace file> — if specified, simpleproxy will dump all data that passes through the connection to the specified file. every last byte. no secrets. 🙈

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💀 BUGS 💀

only tcp ports are supported. that's it. that's the bug. udp girlies, this one's not for you, sorry bestie 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

inetd(1M), services(4), http://www.crocodile.org/software.html

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

• Vadim Zaliva <lord@crocodile.org>
• Vladimir Karpinsky <vlad@noir.crocodile.org>
• Vadim Tymchenko <verylong@noir.crocodile.org>
• Renzo Davoli <renzo at cs dot unibo dot it>

legends, all of them 💜

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⭐ CONTRIBUTORS ⭐

• Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
• Cedric Tefft <cedric@earthling.net>
• Christophe Bothamy <cbothamy@sourceforge.net>
• Ulf Harnhammar <metaur@telia.com>

the whole group chat showed up to help, we love a collaborative moment 🧚✨

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that reading session bestie 💅 this was Version 3.6 of the simpleproxy manual page, peeking out on the General Commands Manual shelf — go forth and proxy responsibly 🎀🦋💖