Polipo Polipo is a caching web proxy designed to be used as a personal cache or a cache shared among a few users. The latest version of Polipo can be found on the Polipo web page. This manual was written by Juliusz Chroboczek. 1 Background 1.1 The web and HTTP The web is a wide-scale decentralised distributed hypertext system, something that’s obviously impossible to achieve reliably. The web is a