proxy(8)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the proxy(8) page from the Universal proxy server manual. The main character here is proxy — an HTTP proxy gateway service. periodt. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

proxy [-d][-a] [-l[[@]logfile]] [-pport] [-iinternal_ip] [-eexternal_ip]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

proxy is an HTTP gateway service that supports HTTPS plus FTP over HTTPS. it’s giving gateway energy, fr fr. 💅

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -I — Inetd mode. Standalone service only.
• -d — Daemonize. Detach the service from the console and run it in the background.
• -t — Be silenT. Do not log start/stop/accept error records.
• -u — Never ask for username authentication.
• -e — External address. IP address of the interface the proxy should initiate connections from. By default, the system decides which address to use according to the routing table.
• -niPATH — (Linux only) Switch to the network namespace identified by PATH before opening the listening socket. The current namespace is saved and restored immediately after binding, so outgoing connections run in the original namespace unless -ne is also given.
• -nePATH — (Linux only) Switch to the network namespace identified by PATH after the listening socket has been bound (and after restoring from -ni if applicable). Both options accept any namespace file path (e.g. /var/run/netns/myns or /proc/PID/ns/net) and require CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
• -i — Internal address. IP address the proxy accepts connections to. By default, connections to any interface are accepted — which is usually unsafe. Unix domain sockets can be specified with -iunix:/path/to/socket syntax (e.g., -iunix:/var/run/proxy.sock). On Linux, abstract sockets use -iunix:@socketname syntax.
• -a — Anonymous. Hide information about the client.
• -a1 — Anonymous. Show fake information about the client.
• -p — Port. The port the proxy listens on for incoming connections. Default is 3128.
• -l — Log. By default logging is to stdout. If logfile is specified, logging is to file. Under Unix, if @ precedes logfile, syslog is used for logging. The synopsis shape is -l[[@]logfile].
• -S — Increase or decrease stack size. You may want to try something like -S8192 if you experience 3proxy crashes.

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🫶 CLIENTS 🫶

You should use a client with HTTP proxy support, or configure a router to redirect HTTP traffic to the proxy — that’s transparent proxy, iykyk. Configure the client to connect to internal_ip and port. HTTPS support allows you to use almost any TCP-based protocol. If you need to limit clients, use 3proxy(8) instead.

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💀 BUGS 💀

Report all bugs to 3proxy@3proxy.org.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

3proxy(8), ftppr(8), socks(8), pop3p(8), tcppm(8), udppm(8), syslogd(8), https://3proxy.org/

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

3proxy is designed by Vladimir Dubrovin <vlad@3proxy.org>

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later, bestie 💅 — this page is 3proxy 0.9, dated May 2026. byeee 🎀