>>> Polipo also caches things in memory.
>> Right.
> that's strange i didn't notice it until now; i've been using polipo for
> at least a year now.
> any way to disable this in-memory caching, or at least break it?
No.
Polipo is fundamentally a caching proxy: it's designed entirely around
the in-memory cache.
Polipo does not use any I/O buffers: it reads directly into the cache,
and writes directly from the cache. There's no notion of uncached
data in Polipo, uncacheable data is treated like cached data that must
not be reused.
As some people have noted, this makes Polipo unsuitable for proxying
streaming data. Polipo should be able to automatically detect
streaming and uncacheable data, and switch to a tunnelling mode (only
performing chunking/unchunking on the fly). There's no chance I'll
implement that in the next few months.
Juliusz
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