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1 Web proxy
2 Reverse Proxy
3 Compatibility
4 External links
Squid is a popular open source Proxy server and web cache. It has a variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS, and other network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources.

It is primarily designed to run on Unix-like systems.

Squid has been in development for many years and is very complete, robust, and open source ( GPL). It supports many protocols, although it is primarily used for HTTP and FTP.

Some support is available for TLS, SSL, and HTTPS [1].

1 Web proxy

Caching is a way to store requested Internet objects (i.e., data available via the HTTP, FTP, and gopherGopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. It was released in 1991 by Paul Lindner and Mark McCahill of the University of Minnesota. Origin The source of the name "Gopher" is claimed to be three-fold: protocols) on a system closer to the requesting site. Web browserA web browser is a software package that enables a user to display and interact with documents hosted by web servers. Popular browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. A browser is the most commonly used kind of user agent. The lars can then use the local Squid cache as a proxy HTTP server, reducing access time as well as bandwidthAnalog Bandwidth is the width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band f f. It can also be used to describe a signal, in which case the meaning is the width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit. It is usually notated B, W, consumption. This is often useful for ISPs to increase speed to their customers, and LANs that share an Internet connection. Because it is also a proxy (i.e. it behaves like a client on behalf of the real client), it provides some anonymity and security.

A client program (e.g. browser) either has to explicitly specify the proxy server it wants to use (typical for ISP customers), or it could be using a proxy without any extra configuration: "transparent caching,", in which case all outgoing HTTP requests are intercepted by Squid and all responses are cached. The latter is typically a corporate set-up (all clients are on the same LAN).

Squid has some features that can further help anonymize connections, such as disabling or changing specific header fields in a client's HTTP requests. See the documentation for header_access and header_replace for further details.

2 Reverse Proxy

The above set-up - caching the contents of an unlimited number of webservers for a limited number of clients - is the classical one. Another set-up is 'reverse-proxy' or 'webserver acceleration' (using httpd_accel_host). In this set-up, the cache serves an unlimited number of clients for a limited number of - or just one - web servers.

Suppose slow.example.com is a 'real' web server, and www.example.com is a Squid cache server that 'accelerates' it. The first time any page was requested from www.example.com, the cache server would get the actual page from slow.example.com, but for the next hour/day/year (matter of cache configuration) every next request would get this stored copy directly from the accelerator. Result: less traffic on the source server, which means less CPU usage, less memory usage and less bandwidth.

It is possible for a single Squid server to serve both as a normal and a reverse proxy simultaneously.



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