HTTP Proxy

Kong is a cloud-native fast scalable and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway or API Middleware). Made available as an open-source project in 2015 its core values are high performance and extensibility. Actively maintained Kong is widely used in production at companies ranging from startups to Global 5000 as well as government organizations.

Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy which is almost (but not quite - were getting there) a fully-featured HTTP/1.1 proxy. Squid offers a rich access control authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications. Squid offers a rich set of traffic optimization options most of which are enabled by default for simpler installation and high performance.

Vegur is a proxy application meaning that it takes care of receiving HTTP requests and forwarding them to another server similarly for responses.