HttpProxy

One day I realized that I need a proxy server to constrain my kids from wildness of the internet. And the project was born. Since I love programming in Go I decided to give it a shot. Moreover I found excellent goproxy [1] package which did almost all of the work. The HttpProxy package supports white and black lists as well as more flexible rule list, see below. I hope you'll find it useful.

White/black lists

HttpProxy supports white and black lists. Eeach of them can be specified in separate files, e.g. whitelist.txt and blacklist.txt. The content of those files is a list of sites you want to have, e.g.

google.com
amazon.com

Please note that HttpProxy will use pattern as is, therefore if site has multiple domains it is better to use its base URL address, e.g. amazon.com. But due to "as is" nature of those lists you can pass any regular expression patterns, e.g.

^www.amazon.com$

which stands for site which always starts with www and ends with com.

Rule list

Suppose you want to restrict access to certain sites with some policy, e.g. only between 9am and noon. To do so create a rules.txt file with the following content

www.facebook.com,9,12
www.myspace.com,12,15

The HttpProxy will read its content and apply this rules to the proxy.

Usage

To build the executable just run

go build

To run it, you may invoke it from your command line or use run.sh script Finally, you'll need to configure your browser accordingly to use the proxy.

References

[1] github.com/elazarl/goproxy

License

This software is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0