proxy(8)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to proxy(8), aka the Universal proxy server manual 💅

htproxy — it's an HTTP proxy gateway service, and it's literally the moment 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So htproxy is an HTTP gateway service, no cap — and the slay part is that it also does HTTPS and FTP over HTTPS support 🦋✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -I — Inetd mode. This one's for standalone service only, periodt.
• -d — Daemonize, bestie. It detaches the service from the console and runs it in the background like it's got main character energy 💅
• -t — Be silenT 🔇 Do not log start/stop/accept error records. Not a single peep.
• -u — Never ask for username authentication. Like, ever. We don't do that here 🙈
• -e — External address. This is the IP address of the interface the proxy should initiate connections from. By default tho, the system decides which address to use in accordance with 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. iykyk.
• -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. Slay but make it privileged ✨
• -i — Internal address. The IP address the proxy accepts connections to. By default, connections to any interface are accepted. It´s usually unsafe ⚠️ (fr fr, be careful). 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 client 🫥
• -a1 — Anonymous. Show fake information about client 🎭 (yes, there's a difference, and yes, it's iconic)
• -p — Port. The port the proxy listens for incoming connections on. Default is 3128 🔥
• -l — Log. By default logging is to stdout. If logfile is specified, logging is to file. Under Unix, if ´@´ preceeds logfile, syslog is used for logging 📝
• -S — Increase or decrease stack size. You may want to try something like -S8192 if you experience 3proxy crashes 😭 (no seriously, try it)

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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 a transparent proxy, bestie ✨). Configure the client to connect to internal_ip and port. The HTTPS support allows you to use almost any TCP-based protocol — it's giving versatile 💅 If you need to limit clients, use 3proxy(8) instead.

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💀 BUGS 💀

Report all bugs to 3proxy@3proxy.org 🐛 (they want to know, fr)

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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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okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and proxy 🌈✨ this was 3proxy 0.9, from May 2026 — proxy(8) out, mwah 💅🫶