Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 Edition, Eighth Edition

Chapter 22. Setting Up a Proxy Server

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• What Is a Proxy Server?

• Installing Squid

• Configuring Clients

• Access Control Lists

• Specifying Client IP Addresses

• Sample Configurations

• Reference

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There are two things in this world that you can never have enough of: time and bandwidth. Fedora comes with a proxy server—Squid—that enables you to cache web traffic on your server so that websites load faster and users consume less bandwidth.

What Is a Proxy Server?

A proxy server lies between client machines—the desktops in your company—and the Internet. As clients request websites, they do not connect directly to the web and send the HTTP request. Instead, they connect to the local proxy server. The proxy then forwards ...