Pound

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Pound

http://www.apsis.ch/pound/
Pound is a reverse HTTP proxy, load balancer, and SSL wrapper. It proxies client HTTPS requests to HTTP backend servers, distributes the requests among several servers while keeping sessions, supports HTTP/1.1 requests even if the backend server(s) are HTTP/1.0, and sanitizes requests. Pound proxies HTTO _and HTTPS requests simultaneously. In addition, it knows about failed back-end servers and can redirect requests according to their availability. It can run as setuid/setgid and/or in a chroot jail. Pound does not access the hard-disk at all (except for reading the certificate file on start, if required, and the pid file) and should thus pose no security threat to any machine. It needs at least the configuration file (read-only) and, optionally, the HTTPS server certificate (read-only).

Documentation

User manpage and README included in the distribution

Related Projects

• HAproxy
• Stunnel
• Squid
• Apache
• Zope

Download

Download version 1.8 (beta)
released on 4 November 2004

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Internet-application:security
• Security:firewall
• Security:internet
• Use:internet-application
• Use:security

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
GPLv2	Janet Casey	23 July 2002

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Robert Segall	Maintainer
Frank DENIS	Contributor
Gurkan Sengun	Contributor
Ken Lalonde	Contributor

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Bug Tracking,Developer,Support	E-mail	mailto:roseg@apsis.ch

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to build	OpenSSL (-lssl)
Required to build	pthreads (-lpthread; pthreads is not a library but a compilation flag on OpenBSD)
Weak prerequisite	pthreads (-lcrypt
Weak prerequisite	-lsocket and/or -lnsl)

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 10 November 2004.

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