Middleman filtering proxy server

Features

• Supports the HTTP 1.1 and FTP protocols.

• Intuitive Web interface for configuring and managing the proxy.

• HTTP and FTP content caching; uses refresh algorithms similar to Squid.

• Image and embedded object prefetching for faster page loading.

• File rewriting with Perl compatible regular expression substitution.

• Redirection using regular expression substitution on requested URL's.

• Host, file, and MIME-type filtering.

• Can process files with any external program.

• Keep-alive connection pooling to avoid overhead of reconnecting to Web and FTP servers.

• Can forward through HTTP and SOCKS4 proxies; supports NTLM and Basic authentication.

• Can limit Internet usage to certain times; can limit bandwidth usage within arbitrary time periods.

• Can block content using DNS blacklist services.

• Can block inappropriate content using a unique keyword scoring system

• Many URL commands to view information about a requested URL and temporarily change proxy settings; URL command to view changes made to a file with the file rewriting feature.

• Supports gzip and deflate content encodings.

• Can upload files to FTP servers.

• Can delete or rename files, and make or remove directories on FTP servers.

• Multi-threaded design allows proxy server to take advantage of SMP systems.

Download

The latest version of Middleman can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53542

Documentation

The most recent documentation is available online from http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/middle-man/middleman/README.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html

Screenshots

• Cache manager

• Editing a rewrite entry

• Adding a limits entry

• Showing changes made to a Webpage

• Browsing an FTP directory

Reporting bugs and requesting features

If you would like to report a bug or request a new feature, please use the trackers on the Sourceforge project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/middle-man