Squid is a high-performance Web proxy cache application that can be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in bandwith usage.
The Squid project runs on all popular Unix and Windows platforms.
Squid supports:
- proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs
- proxying for SSL
- cache hierarchies
- ICP, HTCP, CARP, Cache Digests
- transparent caching
- WCCP (Squid v2.3 and above)
- extensive access controls
- HTTP server acceleration
- SNMP
- caching of DNS lookups
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Here are some key features of "Squid":
· a full-featured Web proxy cache
· designed to run on Unix systems
· free, open-source software
· the result of many contributions by unpaid (and paid) volunteers
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· CVE-2009-0801 : NAT interception vulnerability to malicious clients.
· NCSA helper DES algorithm password limits
· SMP scalability
· Helper Multiplexer and On-Demand
· Helper Name Changes
· Multi-Lingual manuals
· Solaris 10 pthreads Support
· Surrogate/1.0 protocol extensions to HTTP
· Logging Infrastructure Updated
· Client Bandwidth Limits
· Better eCAP support
· Cache Manager access changes
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