3 polipo \- a caching web proxy
19 Polipo is a caching HTTP proxy. It listens to requests for web pages
20 from your browser and forwards them to web servers, and forwards the
21 servers' replies to your browser. In the process, it optimises and
22 cleans up the network traffic.
24 By default, Polipo listens on TCP port 8123. Please configure your
25 web browser to use the proxy on
31 Display help and exit.
34 Display the list of configuration variables and exit.
37 Purge the on-disk cache and exit.
40 Select an alternate configuration file.
43 Change the value of a configuration variable.
47 The default location of Polipo's configuration file.
49 .B /etc/polipo/forbidden
50 The default location of the list of forbidden URLs.
53 The default location of the on-disk cache.
55 .B /usr/share/polipo/www/
56 The default root of the local web space.
60 write out all in-memory objects to disk and reload the forbidden URLs file.
63 write out all in-memory objects to disk, discard all in-memory
64 objects, and reload the forbidden URLs file.
66 .B SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGHUP
67 write out all in-memory objects to disk and quit.
69 The internal web server will follow symbolic links that point outside
70 the local document tree. You should run Polipo in a chroot jail if that
73 There is no reason to run Polipo as root.
74 .SH FULL DOCUMENTATION
75 The full manual for Polipo is maintained in a texinfo file, and is
76 normally available through a web server internal to Polipo. Please
77 make sure that Polipo is running, and point your favourite web browser
80 http://localhost:8123/
82 Alternatively, you may type
93 Polipo was written by Juliusz Chroboczek.