A Multi-Threaded HTTP Proxy Server with Cache

Features:

• Multi-threaded (synchronized using semaphore and mutex)
• HTTP GET request support
• LRU Cache with time-to-live using a Doubly Linked-List
• Traffic caching provides a massive ~96% improvement in response times from avg. ~951ms to <40ms.

Deployment:

• compile: make release
• run: ./build/release/proxy_server    # -nocache: disable cache
• config. browser proxy setting to HTTP://127.0.0.1:5555 on the client side.