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Squid is a FOSS package licensed under the GNU GPL and is primarily used as a web proxy server and cache.

Squid is a FOSS package licensed under the GNU GPL primarily used as a web proxy server and cache.

In addition to its primary usages for web proyying and caching, it supports FTP and has limited support for several other protocols, including TLS, SSL, HTTPS and Gopher.

It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests (reverse proxy); to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources (regular proxy); to improving security by filtering traffic (layer 7 firewall).

Squid's homepage is here, and its Wikipedia entry is here.

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Is NFS caching suitable for caching large files (200kb to 50mb?)

I have a 1TB disk on one server that 4 other servers frequently access via NFS to distribute the files over HTTP. I'm seeing a high load on the central server and want to cache these files on the local servers as they rarely change. Is NFS caching…
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remove squid clearly

I'm hardly trying to remove squid completly, to reinstall it clearly. (Debian 6). So i used as root: apt-get remove --purge squid apt-get remove --purge squid3 but find / -name…
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Limit Internet access to White-Listed Sites?

We have need for certain computers to have their Internet access limited to a list of sites, denying access to all others (white-listing). Some of these sites use HTTPS, so the solution needs to support both HTTP and HTTPS. I'm not super concerned…
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can I make squid working over socks proxy

client <== http proxy ==> squid server <===== via socks5 proxy===> internet Is there any possibility to make squid server access internet through socks5 proxy?
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squid bypass for a domain

I'm using squid with adzap, it's possible that squid/adzap does not cache for a particular domain eg. cnn.com. This is my squid.conf file: # # Recommended minimum configuration: # acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 #acl…
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Disabling the Squid Error pages

I've just started looking at using Squid for a project and can't seem to see an easy way of disabling the Squid error pages (e.g. "Name Error: The domain name does not exist"). We use a custom browser which handles that scenario in our way, so the…
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Configure Windows update through proxy?

I have a squid proxy server and my clients are running on windows xp. How can I make Windows XP reach the windows update sites through proxy? In short, through the proxy, windows can not download updates. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Network user usage alerting options?

My company is offering public wireless in a number of locations. Access is controlled by an OpenBSD box running pf and Squid in transparent proxy mode. Using a tool like SARG, I can easily generate an HTML report that shows IP addresses and amount…
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How can I force Squid Proxy to use a specific gateway for internet access?

I've been finally able to set my ubuntu 10.04 server as transparent proxy using squid. It works exactly like I wanted but I have a serious problem... On both ethernet cards I have the chance to get on the internet (two different isps) but I'd like…
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Is this a good way to install SQUID on Windows?

Questions about controlling and/or logging web access seem to crop up quite frequently, and SQUID always gets mentioned. I use SQUID on Windows at many offices, but it's not the easiest app to configure. Over the years I've come up with a simplified…
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Setup a proxy (Not reverse proxy) using Varnish/Squid

I need to setup a proxy server where we can request remote urls and get them served locally. Basically what I need is mysever:8000/varnish/serverfault.com get me serverfault.com served from my local varnish or myserver:8080/squid/serverfault.com get…
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How to make squid send a old cache(maybe stale) to client when website is down

I am using squid as proxy. But when the website is down and the cache is exceed the max time config in squid.conf, can I just let squid send the old to client before squid revaliadate it. If squid can do this, how to config?
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How to setup equivalent USVIDEO.ORG DNS-Proxy on Linux

I have a VPS in the USA running Ubuntu. I want to setup something similar to http://www.usvideo.org Basically, USVIDEO is a DNS service that allows Canadians to access American content like Hulu, Netflix, NBC, and etc (restricted by geographical…
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redirecting some url requests to a LAN proxy

I use a linux based router which has dnsmasq and iptables. On a LAN machine I have squid proxy. I want to know if requests for certain urls can be forwarded to the proxy, while other urls are allowed directly to the WAN. For example the request for…
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Squid selects parent depending on requested URL?

I have a basic squid configuration that connects to the Internet directly, I need a way to use a parent peer depending on the URL. So for example: I configure it to use a local proxy that links it to local machines for any URL with .local TLD If a…
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