Linux Magazine: Transparent Proxying with Squid

“If you’ve ever looked into setting up a web cache for your
office or campus, you’re probably familiar with Squid. Available
from http://www.squid-cache.org, Squid is a full-featured web proxy
cache licensed under the GNU Public License.

“Squid is often used as a reverse proxy, caching and serving a
site’s web pages to reduce demands on its web server… But Squid
is also an effective proxy. By caching popular content–keeping a
copy of remote web pages on a local server–Squid can reduce
bandwidth consumption and serve (cached) web pages faster…”

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