can I use curl as a proxy server and will it use my bandwidth?

I'm pretty sure there's a way to use curl in php t开发者_开发百科o make a proxy server so my question is more, will that use my bandwidth? if there is a way to have it not use my bandwidth how would that look?

Any data transfer eats your bandwidth. So, you are out of luck.

The only possiblity is to strip redundant stuff and compress everything going through - this might save up to 50% of the bandwidth.

I am not sure if I understood your question.

Even if you are connecting via a proxy server, your bandwidth will be used. It is just that the server at the other end will have no idea about the IP address (or other details) of your system (it will have the details of the proxy instead).