Squid is a caching and forwarding web proxy. Squid is quite versatile and can serve multiple purposes, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS, and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, to aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including TLS/SSL, Internet Gopher, and HTTPS.
The advantages of the Squid proxy server are as follows:
- Caching: Caching frequently requested web pages, media files, and other content accelerates response time and reduces bandwidth congestion.
- Open source: Squid was originally designed to run as a daemon on Unix-like ...
