Squid
Squid is a high performance Web proxy cache that can be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in bandwith usage. Squid runs on all popular Unix and Windows platforms.
| Tags | Internet Web HTTP Servers Proxy Servers |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases
- 27 Oct 2008 22:06
Changes: Basic HTTP/1.1 support. Many other small additions.
- 27 Oct 2008 22:10
Changes: Squid-3 is the next generation Squid HTTP proxy largely rewritten in C++. This release features, along with many other small things, an ICAP client that can be used to integrate virus scanners and other content inspection or modification tasks.
- 21 Mar 2008 16:23
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 29 Sep 2006 02:19
Changes: A wccp2_weight directive was added. Numeros COSS fixes and improvements were done. WCCP2 hash based assignment and weighted assignments are supported. Many small fixes were made to better detect invalid configurations. An FTP related memory leak was fixed. SNMP mib updates were done for some minor missing details. Those harmless ETag loop warnings have been silenced. Squid no longer crashes on certain malformed HTTP responses. A number of other minor and cosmetic bugfixes were made.
- 19 Jul 2006 09:56
Changes: Performance was increased with kqueue/epoll support. The reverse proxy setup was simplified and improved. Transparent interception setup was simplified. WCCPv2 support was added. Vary/ETag based caching was added to improve caching of negotiatiated content. Access logs are customizable. "Negotiate" authentication scheme support has been added. Linux TPROXY is supported. Support for proxying of Microsoft Integrated Login sessions was added. X-Forwarded-For headers are optionally followed for flexible access controls in cache hierarchies. A lot more was done.
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Great software!
We have been using Squid for 5 years as a transparent proxy, it regularly saves us about 10-25% of bandwidth. It's also a quick and easy solution to stop those pesky users who insist on using IE!
Squid
Here at work we run squid as a transparent proxy, caching everything but .html cgi php asp etc etc etc - we notice a huge increase in speed.
With the introduction of NTDS authentication, squid far out ranks any other proxy server.
We run squid on a P3-800 with 2gb of ram - We don't bother caching to disk just directly to memory. Makes for super fast browsing and around 10% saved bandwidth.
If you decide to use this i would recommend looking at something called SquidGuard. These two combined produce a fantastic open source service.
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If you use a web browser, you want this. Its cacheing is noticably better than Netscape's. It seems to do a good job of continuing downloads that were interrupted.
Squid
We've been using Squid in a computer lab environment (3 labs
actually, all going through the same proxy server). We
generally see about 10-15% bandwidth savings, but a 3 to 4x
speed improvement between hits and misses.