Rammerhead: Proxy
Rammerhead Proxy Guide
How It Works (Simplified)
- You visit a Rammerhead proxy website.
- You enter a destination URL (e.g.,
youtube.com). - Rammerhead loads the page through its server, intercepting and rewriting all content and requests.
- The target website sees the proxy server’s IP, not yours.
Abstract
Rammerhead Proxy is a high-performance, open-source HTTP/HTTPS proxy designed for transparent interception, traffic manipulation, and testing of web applications. It emphasizes extensibility, speed, and flexible scripting for request/response inspection and modification. This paper describes its architecture, core components, protocol handling, security implications, extensibility mechanism, typical use cases, performance characteristics, and best-practice deployment considerations.
1. The URL Rewriting Engine
When you access a Rammerhead instance, your request goes to a scrambler. Instead of keeping the original URL visible (even in an encoded form), Rammerhead rewrites every single hyperlink, form action, and AJAX request on the page. For example: rammerhead proxy
- Original URL:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming - Rammerhead Rewrite:
https://rammerhead-server.xyz/6f9a2e8c/p/r/gaming
The /p/r/gaming segment looks like random routing data to a filter, but to the Rammerhead server, it decodes back to the original Reddit path. Rammerhead Proxy Guide
How It Works (Simplified)