Varnish (software)
Varnish is a reverse caching proxy used as HTTP accelerator for content-heavy dynamic web sites as well as APIs. In contrast to other web accelerators, such as Squid, which began life as a client-side cache, or Apache and nginx, which are primarily origin servers, Varnish was designed as an HTTP accelerator. Varnish is focused exclusively on HTTP, unlike other proxy servers that often support FTP, SMTP, and other network protocols.
| Developer(s) | Poul-Henning Kamp, Redpill-Linpro, Varnish Software |
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| Written in | C |
| Operating system | BSD, Linux, Unix |
| Type | HTTP accelerator |
| License | two-clause BSD license |
| Website | varnish-cache |
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