Tinyproxy is a lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy server designed to be fast and small. It is useful for scenarios where you need to set up a proxy server quickly and easily.
Recently I used it to check what happens when a set of Azure domains are blocked (i.e. management.azure.com) and it worked like a charm.
In this post, we will go through the steps required to install and configure tinyproxy on Ubuntu.
Install tinyproxy#
To install tinyproxy on Ubuntu, run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tinyproxy
Configure tinyproxy#
To configure tinyproxy, create a file named tinyproxy.conf. You can use the following configuration as a starting point:
Port 8080
Listen 127.0.0.1
Timeout 600
Allow 127.0.0.1
Filter "./tinyproxy.filter"
Configure the filter#
To configure the filter, create a file named tinyproxy.filter. You can use the following configuration as a starting point:
# filter the following domains
tiktok.com
Start tinyproxy#
To start tinyproxy, run the following command:
sudo tinyproxy -d -c tinyproxy.conf
Verify tinyproxy#
To verify that tinyproxy is running, run the following curl command:
https_proxy=127.0.0.1:8080 http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8080 curl -i https://www.bing.com
and to check that it’s filtering the domains, run the following curl command:
https_proxy=127.0.0.1:8080 http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8080 curl -i https://www.tiktok.com
wich should result in a HTTP/1.1 403 Filtered response.
Hope it helps!
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