Extensible Proxy

Implemented features :

• HttpMessage listeners
  • Requests before they are processed
  • Responses with their corresponding requests
• HttpMessage processor, to forbid or modify requests or responses
• Keep-Alive full support
• Chunk encoding full support
• MultiThreaded architecture
• One thread for each distinct connection
• Man-in-the-middle automatic support for the CONNECT http Method
• HTTP or HTTPS on the same TCP/IP port (ssl socket upgrade)
• Default processor :
  • Cleanup requests with compressed content encoding
• Java 5 is mandatory
• All I/O are done using Java NIO

Limits :

• Http message bodies are entirely read in memory before being sent back (in a future release, they will be stored on disk)
• Current architecture is not suitable with a high number of users (in a future release, I'll use multiplexing to process requests in order to keep the number of threads low)
• Man-in-the-middle approach for HTTPS can not be desactivated

Warning :

• Listeners and processors must be fast, for listeners use deferred execution (something like Swing invokeLater for example)