Alternatives to Squid for all platforms with any license

  • Privoxy

    Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing...

    • There is no similarity between the two applications. Squid is a caching proxy. Privoxy is not. Guest • 9 days ago Disagree   Agree
    • Squid is a caching proxy. Privoxy is a non-caching software. There is no overlap in the use-cases for those types of software. Guest • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • Privoxy doesn't cache web content. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • No caching function. Primary usage of squid. Guest • Nov 2016 • 6 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • squid increases speed by storing caching specific http, curl requests. Guest • Feb 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It accomplishes the same thing except for one feature: the caching aspect. Guest • Aug 2015 • 5 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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  • Varnish

    Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator. You can install it on your HTTP server and it makes your application more accessible. ...

    • It is an alternative for the server-side use of squid. It is not suitable for the client-side functionality Guest • Aug 2018 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • Proxomitron

    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. ...

    • Discontinued
      Last version, 4.5, released on June 2003, is still downloadable from the official website

    Free Windows

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  • CacheGuard-OS

    CacheGuard OS is an Appliance oriented Operating System dedicated to Web traffic Security and Optimization.

    Commercial $ $ $ Windows VirtualBox VMware vSphere Hypervisor Microsoft Hyper-V Server Proxmox Virtual Environment

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  • Polipo

    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...

    • Discontinued
      From the official website, "Polipo is obsolete. When it was first written, Polipo was probably the best HTTP proxy available. Since then, the web protocols have changed, and Polipo hasn't kept up — it has no support for HTTP/2.0 or the WebSocket protocol. Polipo will no longer be maintained."

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

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  • TinyProxy

    Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • 3proxy

    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...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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  • Artica Proxy

    Artica Proxy is an appliance that claim to manage Squid-cache proxy with all features that Squid Cache provides. With the Artica Web interface you can monitor, manage...

    Free Open Source Linux

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Comment by Artemp
about Squid · Oct 2013 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

No open source proxy server alternative for Windows? :(

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