Top 3 C http-proxy Projects

httptunnel

3 396 2.7 C

Bidirectional data stream tunnelled in HTTP requests.

Project mention: Actual SSH over HTTPS | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-23

Corkscrew works for a specific use case:
1. you're behind an HTTP proxy, and
2. the HTTP proxy support the CONNECT method
Around 20 years ago I did a short contract which had #1 but not #2. Thankfully, there's a tool for this, too. Of course it requires some set up on the server side:
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/httptunnel

iwnet

5 171 6.9 C

Pure C Asynchronous HTTP/IO library providing websockets, SSL, routing, reverse proxy.
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
ts-warp

6 92 9.2 C

Transparent proxy server and traffic wrapper

Project mention: TS-Warp 1.20 - Transparent Socks proxy server and traffic Wrapper - is out | /r/u_mezantrop | 2023-05-18

I have released TS-Warp 1.20 - Transparent Socks proxy server and traffic Wrapper. The strongest features are: Natively works on macOS, Linux, FreeBSD; Socks server chains; Transparent and/or native Socks proxy modes

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).