webcache

Simple Web Cache Server

It stores remote web items, so you may use them then without worrying about original availability.

Just use URL http://your_webcache_instance?url=https://example.com/example.jpg instead https://example.com/example.jpg .

Run

./webcache -i :8080 -p passwords.json path_to_store

passwords.json:

{"my_username": "my_password"}

But I recommend protecting your instance with Nginx with SSL and some request size limiting.

Usage

If you use a browser and webcache runs with passwords file: Firstly, visit to main page to authorize.

Store and get remote item from webcache:

curl -u my_username:my_password 'http://localhost:8080?url=https://example.com/example.jpg'

Get item from webcache if it exists (and webcache runs with passwords file):

curl 'http://localhost:8080?url=https://example.com/example.jpg'

Store remote item for 10 hours and get it from webcache:

curl -u my_username:my_password 'http://localhost:8080?url=https://example.com/example.jpg&ttl=10h'

Store large remote item in background:

curl -u my_username:my_password 'http://localhost:8080?url=https://example.com/big_example.jpg&background'

Delete item from webcache:

curl -u my_username:my_password -X DELETE 'http://localhost:8080?url=https://example.com/example.jpg'

Put local item to webcache:

curl -u my_username:my_password -T local_example.jpg 'http://localhost:8080?url=https://example.com/example.jpg'