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Squid is a FOSS package licensed under the GNU GPL and is primarily used as a web proxy server and cache.

Squid is a FOSS package licensed under the GNU GPL primarily used as a web proxy server and cache.

In addition to its primary usages for web proyying and caching, it supports FTP and has limited support for several other protocols, including TLS, SSL, HTTPS and Gopher.

It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests (reverse proxy); to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources (regular proxy); to improving security by filtering traffic (layer 7 firewall).

Squid's homepage is here, and its Wikipedia entry is here.

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How can I prevent squid from being detected?

I've set up a proxy server on AWS in the US in order to allow me to browse the american internet from the UK, however I would like to hide this so that the reverse end cannot detect I am using squid. Is this possible, and if so, how?
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The Story of secure user-authentication in squid

once upon a time, there was a beautiful warm virtual-jungle in south america, and a squid server lived there. here is an perceptual image of the network: | | …
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Best practice for proxying package repositories

I have a collection of CentOS servers in my corporate network. For security reasons, most servers do not have general outbound internet access unless it is a core functional requirement for the server. This creates a challenge when I need to update…
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Getting Squid and TPROXY with IPv6 working on CentOS 7

I'm having trouble getting TPROXY working with Squid and IPv6 on a CentOS 7 server. I was previously using a generic intercept setup with NAT, but it was limited to IPv4 only. I'm now expanding the setup to include IPv6 with TPROXY. I've been using…
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how to make squid work like proxy only, without caching anything

Possible Duplicate: How to prevent squid from caching and just filter? I want to make squid work purely as a proxy, so that it does not cache anything. Is such a usage of squid possible? How do I do this? I am using v3.1 of Squid on Cent OS 6.2-…
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How to prevent squid from caching and just filter?

I have set a proxy server on my network. I only want to filter the web traffic. So, I have Squid as a proxy and Qlproxy as the filter : http://www.quintolabs.com/qlicap_info.php My server have only about 640MB of RAM... So, Squid cache frequently.…
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Is there any way to cache HTTPS requests in a proxy server?

We are using Squid proxy server in our environment and we want to cache HTTPS requests. Is there any way to configure Squid or in general a proxy server to cache HTTPS requests?
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Getting Squid to authenticate with kerberos and Windows 2008/2003/7/XP

This is something I setup recently and was quite a big pain. My environment was getting squid to authenticate a Windows 7 client against a Windows 2008 Server invisibly. NTLM is not really an option, as using it requires a registry change on each…
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Squid HTTPS Tunnelling using CONNECT very slow

I use squid on my network to cache content. I launch chrome with a command line switch that tells it to use the proxy. For the most part this works great as squid caches a large amount of content and with a limited number of users it performs…
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Varnish versus other reverse proxies

I'm working with an organisation that has deployed Varnish as a caching reverse proxy for all of their web traffic. Their traffic make up is a lot of customer-generated dynamic websites, with the usual collection of static assets hanging off the…
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What is a good SQUID Logs Analyzer?

Can anyone recommend me a good tool for analyzing squid logs ? I'm currently using SARG. Is there something better? I need to easily see what sites were visited/denied, when and by whom. There is a list of squid analyzers. Some of them seem to be…
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How to enable SOCKS5 for Squid proxy?

Squid'd default is to operate as an HTTP proxy; however, this FAQ https://docstore.mik.ua/squid/FAQ-4.html#ss4.10 says "No changes are necessary to use Squid with socks5. Simply add the usual -Dbind=SOCKSbind etc., to the compile line and -lsocks to…
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Using Squid as a maven repository

Does someone know how to use Squid to proxify maven repositories ? What are the configuration files for that ? The main problem is that maven client issue HTTP request with headers which control the cache behavior (and I want to bypass that). Here…
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How can I balance incoming web traffic amongst N apache servers?

I am looking to use something like Heartbeat/Squid/Varnish/etc to balance the amount of incoming traffic amongst the internal apache instances. This would have to be software and not hardware as all my stuff is run on VPS. I don't have a lot of…
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How to setup client for squid transparent proxy?

Server Details Squid Transparent Proxy Version: 3.3.8 OS: Ubuntu Server 14.04 Server IP: 192.168.1.3 Squid config file (excluding comments using grep) root@ubuntu:~# grep -v '^$\|^\s*\#' /etc/squid3/squid.conf acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports…
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