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diff --git a/network/polipo/README b/network/polipo/README index f9c4c2f41b..33007a22ea 100644 --- a/network/polipo/README +++ b/network/polipo/README @@ -1,23 +1,25 @@ -Polipo is a small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a -proxy server). While Polipo was designed to be used by one person or a small -group of people, there is nothing that prevents it from being used by a larger -group. +Polipo is a small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP +proxy, a proxy server). While Polipo was designed to be used by one +person or a small group of people, there is nothing that prevents it +from being used by a larger group. -Polipo has some features that are, as far as I know, unique among currently -available proxies: - * Polipo will use HTTP/1.1 pipelining if it believes that the remote server - supports it, whether the incoming requests are pipelined or come in - simultaneously on multiple connections (this is more than the simple usage - of persistent connections, which is done by e.g. Squid); Polipo will cache - the initial segment of an instance if the download has been interrupted, - and, if necessary, complete it later using Range requests; - * Polipo will upgrade client requests to HTTP/1.1 even if they come in as - HTTP/1.0, and up- or downgrade server replies to the client's capabilities - (this may involve conversion to or from the HTTP/1.1 chunked encoding); - * Polipo has complete support for IPv6 (except for scoped (link-local) - addresses). - * Polipo can optionally use a technique known as Poor Man's Multiplexing to - reduce latency even further. +Polipo has some features that are, as far as I know, unique among +currently available proxies: + * Polipo will use HTTP/1.1 pipelining if it believes that the remote + server supports it, whether the incoming requests are pipelined + or come in simultaneously on multiple connections (this is more + than the simple usage of persistent connections, which is done by + e.g. Squid); Polipo will cache the initial segment of an instance + if the download has been interrupted, and, if necessary, complete + it later using Range requests; + * Polipo will upgrade client requests to HTTP/1.1 even if they + come in as HTTP/1.0, and up- or downgrade server replies to the + client's capabilities (this may involve conversion to or from the + HTTP/1.1 chunked encoding); + * Polipo has complete support for IPv6 (except for scoped + (link-local) addresses). + * Polipo can optionally use a technique known as Poor Man's + Multiplexing to reduce latency even further. -In short, Polipo uses a plethora of techniques to make web browsing (seem) -faster. +In short, Polipo uses a plethora of techniques to make web browsing +(seem) faster. |