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#### 1.7.3 WWWOFFLE

WWWOFFLE, an elegant personal proxy, is the primary model for Polipo.

WWWOFFLE has more features than can be described here. It will censor banner ads, clean your HTML, decorate it with random colours, schedule fetches for off-peak hours.

Unfortunately, the HTTP traffic that WWWOFFLE generates is disgusting. It will open a connection for every fetch, and forces the client to do the same.

WWWOFFLE only caches complete instances.

I used WWWOFFLE for many years, and frustration with WWWOFFLE’s limitations is the main reason why I started Polipo in the first place.