devgateway/polipo repository overview

⁠Polipo Image for Docker

This image is built on Alpine Linux with IPv6 support (using Musl libc). Polipo has been abandoned after release 1.1.1, but it's still great software. This unofficial release 1.1.2 includes patches from upstream and DG's tweaks to support build on newer systems.

⁠Ports

Polipo is configured to listen on port 3128.

⁠User

Polipo runs as user nobody, uid 65534.

⁠Volume

⁠/var/cache/polipo

Path to the disk cache directory. Polipo will store files up to a certain size in its disk cache.

⁠Purging Disk Cache

Run /usr/lib/cache-purge.sh in the container. It will make Polipo flush memory cache to disk, trim the files, and reload.

⁠Environment Variables

⁠DISK_CACHE_TRUNCATE_SIZE

Size in bytes to which on-disk objects are truncated.

Default: 1048576

⁠DISK_CACHE_TRUNCATE_TIME

Time after which on-disk objects are truncated.

Default: 4d12h

⁠DISK_CACHE_UNLINK_TIME

Time after which on-disk objects are removed.

Default: 32d

⁠MAX_DISK_CACHE_ENTRY_SIZE

Maximum size of objects cached on disk.

Default: -1 (unlimited)

⁠See Also

• Polipo Manual⁠
• Polipo Source Code⁠
• Polipo Docker Container Source Code⁠

⁠Copyright

Copyright 2018, Development Gateway

See COPYING for details.