About:
Squid is a high performance Web proxy cache that can be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in bandwith usage. Squid runs on all popular Unix and Windows platforms.

Author:
Squid Hackers <info __at__ squid __dash__ cache __dot__ org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.54/10.00 (34 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.squid-cache.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.squid-cache.org/[..]Versions/v2/2.7/squid-2.7.STABLE5.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.squid-cache.org/[..]ersions/v2/2.7/squid-2.7.STABLE5.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/changesets/
Bug tracker:
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/

Trove categories: [change]

[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Internet :: Proxy Servers, Internet :: WWW/HTTP, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
2.x The current Squid-2 version suitable for production use.	2.7.STABLE5	27-Oct-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
3.x	3.0.STABLE10	27-Oct-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Pre Pre-releases	2.5.PRE4	04-Mar-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

Red Hat: Updated squid packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Apr 13th 2008 15:05 Debian: New squid packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Feb 10th 2008 14:26 Red Hat: Updated squid packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Dec 27th 2007 14:29 Red Hat: An updated squid package fixes a security vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Apr 8th 2007 01:56 Red Hat: Updated squid package fixes a security vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Mar 7th 2006 08:53

Debian: New squid packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Sep 30th 2005 07:02 SuSE: New squid packages fix remote denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Sep 16th 2005 07:53 Red Hat: Updated Squid package fixes security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Sep 16th 2005 07:46 Debian: New squid packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Sep 13th 2005 13:00 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Great software!
by Chris Horry - Mar 16th 2006 06:30:49

We have been using Squid for 5 years as a transparent proxy, it regularly saves us about 10-25% of bandwidth. It's also a quick and easy solution to stop those pesky users who insist on using IE!

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[»] you want this
by Chouser - Feb 8th 2000 15:04:13

If you use a web browser, you want this. Its cacheing is noticably better than Netscape's. It seems to do a good job of continuing downloads that were interrupted.

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[»] Squid
by kapella - May 20th 1999 08:16:37

We've been using Squid in a computer lab environment (3 labs
actually, all going through the same proxy server). We
generally see about 10-15% bandwidth savings, but a 3 to 4x
speed improvement between hits and misses.

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[»] Squid
by lloydp - Feb 25th 2003 03:22:44

Here at work we run squid as a transparent proxy, caching everything but .html cgi php asp etc etc etc - we notice a huge increase in speed. With the introduction of NTDS authentication, squid far out ranks any other proxy server. We run squid on a P3-800 with 2gb of ram - We don't bother caching to disk just directly to memory. Makes for super fast browsing and around 10% saved bandwidth. If you decide to use this i would recommend looking at something called SquidGuard. These two combined produce a fantastic open source service.

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