Alternatives to Squid for Linux 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...

    • No caching function. Primary usage of squid. Guest • Nov 2016 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees 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 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • Privoxy doesn't cache web content. Guest • Apr 2017 Disagree   Agree
    • squid increases speed by storing caching specific http, curl requests. Guest • Feb 2016 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It accomplishes the same thing except for one feature: the caching aspect. Guest • Aug 2015 • 4 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 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Linux

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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    • Discontinued From the official website, "Polipo is obsolete.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."

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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...

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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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  • 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...

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  • Apache Traffic Server

    Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP. Caching Improve your response time, while reducing server...

    • ATS has an event driven architecture where as Squid runs single-threaded. ATS scales much better than Squid. Guest • Apr 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Mac Linux Self-Hosted FreeBSD

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  • ExaProxy

    ExaProxy is a a high-performance non-caching proxy. It is able to filter HTTP traffic using third party scripts in your favorite programming language.

    Free Mac Linux BSD

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  • gate.js

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

    Free Personal Mac Linux BSD

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