Suppose you want to open port 8080 on a public host and forward all TCP packets to port 80 on machine 192.168.1.2 in the local network. In this case you install proxy on a public host and run it the following command:
./proxy 8080 192.168.1.2 80
proxy -l 8080 -h 192.168.1.2 -p 80
Input parser and output parser are commands through which incoming and outgoing packets can be forwarded. For example to use a "tee" command to log all incoming http data in incoming.txt file you can start proxy with the following options:
The parser command will receive data from socket to its standard input and should send parsed data to the standard output. It should also flush its output at a reasonable rate to not withhold network communication.