Credits

OpenFlare draws on the excellent ideas, architectures, and technical implementations of many open-source projects during design and development. Below are the key open-source projects referenced in OpenFlare's core underlying engines, security mechanisms, and frontend/backend frameworks. We thank these projects and their communities.

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1. OpenResty

• Positioning: a high-performance web platform based on Nginx and Lua.
• Role in OpenFlare: the edge gateway of the global data plane. All public web traffic is first received by OpenResty, where high-concurrency HTTPS handshakes, WAF security rule matching, anti-CC human verification, and finally reverse proxy forwarding are performed.
• Link: OpenResty official site

2. FRP (Fast Reverse Proxy)

• Positioning: a high-performance reverse proxy application focused on intranet penetration.
• Role in OpenFlare: the underlying tunnel engine of the intranet penetration subsystem. The relay-side manager openflare-relay guards and schedules the frps engine, while the intranet client openflared auto-generates TOML config locally and guards multiplexed frpc child processes.
• Link: fatedier/frp (GitHub)

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3. Anubis (PoW solution)

• Positioning: a lightweight human-verification protection solution based on Proof of Work.
• Role in OpenFlare: provides the core invisible anti-CC human challenge capability for the gateway WAF.

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4. gin-template

• Positioning: a modern full-stack development scaffold template based on Go Gin and frontend builds.
• Role in OpenFlare: provides a canonical, unified frontend/backend system architecture prototype for the OpenFlare control plane (Server).

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