
Squid
a caching and forwarding web proxy.
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What is Squid?
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.
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Said about Squid as an alternative
Easy and fast to configure, just change the LAN's in the first part of the Notepad to include yours.
tomh2092
They are both proxy servers.
Tags
- Cache
- Caching Proxy
- bandwidth-limiter
- Web Cache
- proxy-server
- FTP
- Proxy
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File SharingRecent user activities on Squid
tenrai thinks HandyCache is an alternative to Squid
jeroenvb3 Downvoted a comment on Privoxy as an alternative to Squid
squid increases speed by storing caching specific http, curl requests.jeroenvb3 Upvoted a comment on Privoxy as an alternative to Squid
Squid is a caching proxy. Privoxy is a non-caching software. There is no overlap in the use-cases for those types of software.
No open source proxy server alternative for Windows? :(
There are
Polipo and
Proximodo .
Here the result of filters.
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