Proxy Server Review -- Squid
"Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects."
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-1.html#ss1.1
Availability
Information: http://www.squid-cache.org/
- Proxy Type
- Transparent Proxy, Non-transparent Proxy, Rewriting Proxy (with code development)
- Platforms
- Available for a wide variety of UNIX platforms. Must be compiled.
- "Recent Versions of Squid will compile and run on Windows/NT with the GNU-Win32 package. However, Squid does not yet perform well on Windows/NT."
- Pricing
- Freely available (GNU General Public License). Commercial support available.
Proxy Characteristics
- Bandwidth Conservation
- Yes.
- Statistics
- Yes. More than you could ever want.
- Filtering
- Yes. Very flexible.
- Remote Resource Access
- Yes.
Comments
- Very powerful and complex software. It may be over-kill for most situations.
- Requires extensive knowledge of UNIX environment and the process of compiling and installing programs under UNIX.