SquidMan Alternatives

SquidMan is described as 'MacOS X graphical installer and manager for the Squid proxy cache. It is designed to operate as a "personal" proxy server' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are seven alternatives to SquidMan for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and FreeBSD apps. The best SquidMan alternative is Squid, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SquidMan are Polipo, TinyProxy, Apache Traffic Server and CacheGuard-OS.

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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.

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SquidMan alternatives page was last updated Dec 8, 2017
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    Squid

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    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.

    24 Squid alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    Properties

    1.  No registration required
    2.  No Tracking
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  HTTP Proxy
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    Squid VS SquidMan

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    • Squid is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to SquidMan.

    • Squid is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SquidMan.

    • Squid is Free and Open SourceSquidMan is Free and Proprietary
    • Squid is Privacy focusedSquidMan is not according to our users
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    Polipo

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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...

    19 Polipo alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    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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    TinyProxy

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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.

    29 TinyProxy alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    TinyProxy Features

    1.  Cascade proxy
    2.  HTTP Proxy
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    Apache Traffic Server

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    Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP.

    18 Apache Traffic Server alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD

    Apache Traffic Server Features

    1.  Load balancing
    2.  HTTPS Support
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    CacheGuard-OS

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    All CacheGuard products and services are focused on delivering secured and optimized Web contents to our clients. To achieve that goal we made CacheGuard OS which is our core product. Once installed on a virtual or hardware machine, CacheGuard OS turns it into a powerful Web...

    138 CacheGuard-OS alternatives
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    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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    CacheGuard-OS VS SquidMan

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    • CacheGuard-OS is the most popular commercial alternative to SquidMan.

    • CacheGuard-OS is Paid and ProprietarySquidMan is Free and Proprietary

  7. Lusca

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    Lusca is a 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.

    12 Lusca alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued
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  9. gate.js

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

    16 gate.js alternatives

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    gate.js Features

    1.  Nginx
    2.  HTTP Proxy
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