ZIPROXY(1)

ziproxy 💅✨

okay bestie, so this is the ziproxy manual page, section 1 of the manual, and honestly? she's an icon. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ziproxy — a compressing HTTP proxy server 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ziproxy <-d|-i|-k> [-c config_file] [-u user_name] [-g group_name] [-p
pid_filename] [-h]

like. look at her. one of -d, -i or -k is mandatory, the rest are optional, no cap 💀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so ziproxy is a forwarding, non-caching and compressing HTTP proxy server. say that three times fast, i dare you 😭

basically what she does is she squeezes images by converting them to lower quality JPEGs, and she compresses (gzip) HTML and other text-like data. it's giving "make the internet smaller so it fits through your sad little pipe" and honestly? she ate 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). a summary of options is included below, and yes i am listing every single one, we do not skip 💖

• -d, --daemon-mode — the one you use when you're running in standalone mode 🧚
• -i, --inetd-mode — the one you use when you're running from inetd or xinetd 🌸
• -k, --stop-daemon — stops the daemon. bye girl 💀👋
• -c, --config-file config_file — full path to the ziproxy.conf file, for when you want to use your own instead of the default one 📁
• -u, --user user_name — run the daemon as the specified user. and heads up: if the group is unspecified but a user_name is specified, she uses user_name's group 👑
• -g, --group group_name — run the daemon as the specified group 🎀
• -p, --pid-file pid_filename — use the specified PID file for daemon control 🦋
• -h, --help — displays a summarized help, aka the little cheat sheet 🌈

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

ziproxylogtool(1) — go read her too, she's part of the family 💜

✨ AUTHOR ✨

ziproxy was written by Juraj Variny and Daniel Mealha Cabrita 🫶

this manual page was written by Marcos Talau <marcostalau@gmail.com> ✨

and that's the whole vibe check bestie 💖 this was the ziproxy page from the ZIPROXY manual, dated April 17, 2010 — iykyk, periodt 🌸🎀