gnh1201/caterpillar

Caterpillar Proxy - The simple web debugging proxy (formerly, php-httpproxy)

You can connect all physical and logical channels with communication capabilities to the web! Imagine a wide range of mediums, from web archives to satellites and quantum communication! Caterpillar Proxy supports your imagination by enabling the implementation of extensions for Connectors, Filters, and RPC methods.

Use cases

• Build a network tunnel using Python and the LAMP(PHP) stack.
• K-Anonymity for Spam Filtering: Case with Mastodon, and Misskey
• [YouTube Video] File Upload Vulnerability Attack Test (Caterpillar Proxy)

How it works

Basic structure

You <-> Proxy client (Python) <-> Parasitized proxy server (Optional, PHP/LAMP) <-> On the Web

For example, build a simple web debugging proxy on the shared servers.

Stateful mode

This project supports two modes of connection. The default is stateless. You can use the stateful mode to avoid being constrained by transfer capacity limits. See the Stateful mode (github.com/gnh1201/caterpillar wiki).

(Optional) Before to use

If you have a server that will be parasitized and you want to proxy it, you should upload the index.php file to a shared server. The index.php file is located in the assets/php directory within this repository.

How to use

1. Write a file .env(Linux) or settings.ini(Windows). Like this:

[settings]
PORT=5555
SERVER_URL=localhost
SERVER_CONNECTION_TYPE=
CA_KEY=ca.key
CA_CERT=ca.crt
CERT_KEY=cert.key
CERT_DIR=certs/
OPENSSL_BINPATH=openssl
CLIENT_ENCODING=utf-8
USE_EXTENSIONS=wayback.Wayback,bio.PyBio

Note: If using Caterpillar Proxy (Python) alone, set SERVER_URL=localhost. Otherwise, use the endpoint URL of the Worker script (PHP or Java), e.g., SERVER_URL=http://example.org.

• (Optional) Create a certificate for SSL decryption

chmod +x configure_certs.sh
./configure_certs.sh
sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates
sudo cp ca.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/caterpillar-ca.crt
sudo update-ca-certificates

2. Run python3 server.py and set HTTP(S) proxy in your web browser (e.g. Firefox, Chromium)

3. Test 100MB/SSL, 1GB/SSL, 10GB/SSL download and check the speed.

4. Enjoy it

5. (Optional) With Cloudflare, we can expect to accelerate the 4x speed and reduce the network stuck.

Extensions

• Web Console Available
• Fediverse (e.g., Mastodon): See the Fediverse (github.com/gnh1201/caterpillar wiki).
• Wayback (Private browsing with Google or Wayback cache): See the Wayback (github.com/gnh1201/caterpillar wiki).

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• Pan Art by @yeohangdang@i.peacht.art: Image File
• GitHub Sponsors

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