WebCleaner – filtering HTTP proxy software

Last Updated on November 17, 2022

WebCleaner is a filtering HTTP proxy. It removes adverts, compresses documents, deanimates GIFs, can use SquidGuard filter lists, and more.

It is easy to configure with a web interface.

WebCleaner enhances your privacy and efficiency on the web. It comes with several ready-to-use filters to remove advertisements and unwanted HTML content, compresses documents on-the-fly, disables animated GIF images and more.

Features include:

• Remove unwanted HTML (adverts, flash, etc).
• Exact HTML filtering, parsing all HTML data.
• JavaScript filtering which eliminates all JavaScript obfuscation, popups, and document.write() stuff, but the other JavaScript functions still work as usual.
• Popup blocker.
• Disable animated GIFs.
• Filter images by size, remove banner adverts.
• Compress documents on-the-fly (with gzip).
• Reduce images to low-bandwidth JPEGs.
• Remove/add/modify arbitrary HTTP headers.
• Configurable over web interface.
• Usage of SquidGuard blacklists.
• Antivirus filter module.
• Detection and correction of known HTML security flaws.
• Basic, Digest and (untested) NTLM proxy authentication support.
• Per-host access control.
• HTTP/1.1 support (persistent connections, pipelining).
• HTTPS support (both forwarding and filtering).

Website: webcleaner.sourceforge.net
Support: FAQ
Developer: Bastian Kleineidamt
License: GNU GPL v2

WebCleaner is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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