Can Windows server be a proxy server?

I'm trying to use a Windows server as a "proxy" server for my home network.

The setup is: Windows server acting as the gateway (it doesn't have a firewall). A router that acts as the primary proxy (it has a firewall, and it's the gateway for my home network). My home network, which uses wireless N routers. Basically I want the server to connect to the router via ethernet, and forward traffic to the internet. I've already configured the server to be the default gateway, and the router to be the default gateway for my home network. I am assuming that I have to use something like squid to achieve this, but I have no experience with it, and all my attempts to do so have failed. Can anyone help me with this? Squid is a great tool, but you can achieve this by installing the IP Helper package, which is the default Squid package for Windows. You can also use other packages, such as SquidGuard, which is specifically for Windows.

What is a good free proxy server?

A proxy is a server that translates a connection from one protocol to another. If I am trying to access example.com from my own computer, the browser will make an HTTP connection to some internet website, and send its GET request to that website. If example.com is behind a proxy (for example Google's), that proxy will be contacted first, and will reply with the IP of example. As I type that domain into my browser, my computer will connect to example.com and will display the website.

I would like to share a few of my favorite free proxy sites. The first is This is a wonderful service, but it's really expensive. You have to choose whether to pay by credit card or cash, but either way, you're paying over a thousand dollars for a proxy service. These proxies are good, because they are anonymous. However, there are several services listed at the top of the page, which seem less reliable. At that price, it's understandable if any of them turn out to be a botnet. (I recommend against purchasing from these services, although I'm no expert.)

Of the less expensive, reliable services, I've tried and The first time I tried it, the proxy didn't work. I had to wait until their new proxy was released, at which point it worked correctly. With their slower but free proxy, I was often unable to reach my desired website or server. But I think that this was a problem that I was having because I'm using Google's cache. Maybe unblock-us is now working better. The service is still recommended, just not as highly as others, like For you can select "unblock the entire world" or "unblock the United States." Both are reliable.

I've heard that Google searches for "free proxy" give thousands of results. The problem with many of the ones that you get redirected to is that they are very slow.

What is the best lightweight reverse proxy?

I have heard many things about nginx and lighttpd, but I have not found any real concrete results. I am looking for something which is small, fast, and can be easily installed on any platform.

Update: I would also like to know which of the above is the best for a single server environment. If I have a single server and want to use one of these services for both SSL and non-SSL, would I have to install both nginx and lighttpd? I'm trying to avoid this, but I am not sure if I will have to do it.

How do I create a proxy server in Windows?

I want to create a proxy server on my Windows machine.

The reason I need it is for development, so that I can connect to localhost using the browser (using 127.0.1:8888 instead of localhost), while the code compiles and runs on another computer. However, I am having issues setting up the proxy server properly and also with connecting through it.

As far as I understand it, my router is using TCP port 8080 to forward TCP requests to port 80 on the proxy server. I used the command netsh user=adminitUserName password=PasswordHere to give the user adminit access to the remote system. I changed the network adapter properties from "Ethernet-Connection-Status" to "Connected" and also to "Binary", which isn't exactly right since most browsers can accept different protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP). Then I added the following code to my batch file so that the machine listens to port 8080 for incoming connections (the program runs in notepad):
@ECHO OFF. Echo %HOSTNAME%. Echo Using port 8080. :: Create the new socket connection. Netsh http add service address=%IP%:%HTTPPORT% show all. :: Run your program. Here I would be running nuitka start "" %LAUNCHER%. This only works when I use 127.1:8080 (which means the computer's original IP instead of the proxy server's IP). If I change the line to %IP%:8888 it returns an error, which I gather means that the port it set up cannot be reached. So how should I set this up?

Your NATing and proxying looks correct. There's no firewall on the target system. If your program exits at once then you're likely not listening to the remote socket. Run netstat -aon