Lusca Alternatives

Lusca is described as 'Fork of the Squid -2 development tree. The Lusca project aims to fix the shortcomings in the Squid-2 codebase whilst maintaining the the Squid-2 functionality and stability' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Lusca for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Safari. The best Lusca alternative is Proxomitron, which is free. Other great apps like Lusca are Polipo, TinyProxy, Varnish and 3proxy.

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  1. Proxomitron icon
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    For those who have not yet been introduced, meet the Proxomitron: a free, highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy.

    22 Proxomitron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Proxomitron is the most popular Windows alternative to Lusca.

    • Proxomitron is the most popular free alternative to Lusca.

    • Proxomitron is Free and ProprietaryLusca is Free and Open Source
  2. Polipo icon
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    A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server). Polipo can be used in place of ad-filtering, privacy-enhancing proxies such as Junkbuster, Privoxy or WWWOFFLE. As Polipo has much more refined HTTP support, it doesnt impose the speed tax usually...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Polipo is the most popular Linux alternative to Lusca.

    • Polipo is the most popular Open Source alternative to Lusca.

    • Polipo is Free and Open SourceLusca is also Free and Open Source
  3. TinyProxy icon
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    Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.

    28 TinyProxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Varnish icon
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    Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator.

    21 Varnish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. 3proxy icon
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    3Proxy tiny free proxy server is really tiny cross-platform (Win32/Win64&Unix) freeware proxy servers set. It includes HTTP proxy with HTTPS and FTP support, SOCKSv4/SOCKSv4.5/SOCKSv5 proxy (socks/socks.exe), POP3 proxy, SMTP proxy, AIM/ICQ proxy (icqpr/icqpr.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • 3proxy is the most popular Mac alternative to Lusca.

    • 3proxy is Free and Open SourceLusca is also Free and Open Source
  6. Proximodo icon
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    Proximodo is a loopback proxy server, seemingly a fork of proxomitron though likely abandonware. Unlike Proxomitron its developer is not existentially challenged. Additionally Proximodo can use Proxomitron filters. Unfortunately it does not support SSL connections.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. CCProxy icon
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    Want to share Internet connection? Get every computer online through a single Internet connection? Maximize the efficiency of your Internet access on a limited budget? Look no further! Get CCProxy, a small Internet sharing software!

    7 CCProxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. WinGate icon
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    WinGate Proxy Server is a highly capable integrated Proxy server, firewall and email server designed for access control, security and communications needs. What you do get is all the features of Standard license for 3 concurrent users.

    13 WinGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Acrylic is a local DNS proxy for Windows which improves the performance of your computer by caching the responses coming from your DNS servers and helps you fight unwanted ads through a custom HOSTS file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. GlimmerBlocker icon
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    The problem with other ad-blockers for Safari is that they are implemented as awful hacks: as an InputManager and/or ApplicationEnhancer. This compromises the stability of Safari and very often create problems when Apple releases a new version of Safari.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Safari
     
  11. SquidMan icon
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    SquidMan is a MacOS X graphical installer and manager for the Squid proxy cache. It is designed to operate as a "personal" proxy server.

    7 SquidMan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    gate - Performance & scalable I/O forward & reverse HTTP proxy based on node.js + V8 a real alternative to Squid & NGINX

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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