---
name: "FilterProxy"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "filterproxy"
version: "0.30-6.3"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/FilterProxy"
---

# FilterProxy(8)

a filtering web proxy

## NAME

filterproxy - a filtering web proxy

## SYNOPSIS

**filterproxy** \[*-h*-k*-f*\<file\>*-p*\<port\>*-n\]*\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **filterproxy** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**filterproxy** is a perl script that acts as a generic web proxy. It is unique in that it allows "Modules" to be installed that can perform arbitrary transofrmations on HTML (or any other mime-type). Currently it filters ads, and compresses HTML content (for a 5-1 speedup on modems!)  Configuration is done with web forms.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **-h**

  Show summary of options.

- **-f \<file\>**

  Specify an alternate config file (default is /etc/filterproxy/filterproxy.conf)

- **-p \<port\>**

  Specify the port to which FilterProxy will bind (default is 8888)

- **-n**

  Do not daemonize: stay connected to the terminal from which it was started and print debugging messages.\

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt \<charon@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).