aiohttpproxy

Simple caching HTTP proxy based on the Python aiohttp asynchronous-I/O HTTP module.

Currently only GET requests to HTTP URLs are proxied.

Installation

aiohttpproxy requires Python 3.4 or later.

Install using your favorite Python packager:

$ easy_install-3.4 aiohttpproxy-0.0.1/
$ pip-3.4 install git+https://github.com/jmehnle/aiohttpproxy.git

Usage

The proxy is controlled entirely from the command-line, with the following syntax:

usage: aiohttpproxy [-h] [-l LEVEL] [--port PORT] --cache-path PATH
                    [--cache-max-size SIZE] [--cache-max-entries COUNT]
                    [--cache-max-age SECONDS]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l LEVEL, --log-level LEVEL
                        Log level (critical, error, warning, info, debug)
  --port PORT           TCP port to listen on (default: 8080)
  --cache-path PATH     Cache directory
  --cache-max-size SIZE
                        Max total cache size in bytes
  --cache-max-entries COUNT
                        Max number of cache entries
  --cache-max-age SECONDS
                        Max age of cache entries

Sample invocation:

$ mkdir /var/tmp/aiohttpproxy.cache
$ aiohttpproxy --log-level info \
    --cache-path /var/tmp/aiohttpproxy.cache \
    --cache-max-size 1048576 --cache-max-entries 1000 --cache-max-age 60

... limits the number of cached responses to 1000 and their total content size to 1MB, and expires cache entries after 60 seconds.

Terminate the proxy with Ctrl+C or by sending SIGINT.

Copyright

(C) 2014 Julian Mehnle julian@mehnle.net