OpenFlare/docs/en/guide/credits.md

Credits

OpenFlare is essentially a solution integration project. During its design and implementation phases, it drew inspiration from the exceptional concepts, architectural designs, and technical achievements of numerous open-source projects. Below are the key upstream open-source projects OpenFlare relies on for its core engine, security mechanisms, and backend/frontend system frameworks, along with our sincere thanks to these projects and their active communities.

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1. OpenResty

• Project Positioning: A high-performance Web platform based on Nginx and Lua.
• Role in OpenFlare: Acts as the edge gateway for the global Data Plane. All public web traffic is received by OpenResty first, where high-concurrency HTTPS handshakes, WAF security rule evaluations, and PoW CC verification are performed before executing reverse proxies.
• Project Link: OpenResty Official Website

2. FRP (Fast Reverse Proxy)

• Project Positioning: A high-performance reverse proxy application focused on intranet penetration.
• Role in OpenFlare: Serves as the underlying tunnel engine for the intranet penetration subsystem. The relay-side manager openflare-relay is responsible for running and scheduling the frps engine, while the intranet client openflared is responsible for generating TOML configurations locally and running the multiplexed frpc subprocesses.
• Project Link: fatedier/frp (GitHub)

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3. Anubis (PoW Solution)

• Project Positioning: A lightweight human-machine verification and protection solution based on Proof of Work (PoW).
• Role in OpenFlare: Provides the core seamless PoW CC challenge capabilities for the gateway WAF.

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4. gin-template

• Project Positioning: A modern full-stack development boilerplate based on Go Gin and frontend builds.
• Role in OpenFlare: Provided the standard, unified backend/frontend system architecture baseline for the OpenFlare control plane (Server).