Squid Proxy Server with Webmin GUI on Linux Stream 8

Squid Proxy Server is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It is used by hundreds of Internet Providers worldwide to provide their users with the best possible web access.

Squid optimizes the data flow between client and server to improve performance and caches frequently-used content to save bandwidth. Squid can also route content requests to servers in a wide variety of ways to build cache server hierarchies that optimize network throughput.

The fast, lightweight, and small memory footprint Squid Proxy Server use a variety of techniques:

• Squid will upgrade client requests to HTTP/1.1 even if they come in as old HTTP/1.0.
• Squid does HTTP 1.1 pipelining well, so it can reduce internet communication latency.
• Squid will make web browsing faster or at least appear to have less latency.
• Squid will cache the initial segment of a download and can complete it later, using Range requests in case of interrupts.
• Squid can, to some extent, substitute for filtering and privacy-enhancing proxies such as Privoxy or WWWOFFLE, it provides capabilities to block or redirect requests, censor HTTP request headers, and referrer information.
• Squid has complete support for IPv6.
• Since Squid can speak both IPv4 and IPv6, Squid can be used as a bridge between the IPv4 and IPv6 Internets.
• Squid can speak the SOCKS 4 and SOCKS 5 protocols.
• Squid serves as a web cache.

Built-in Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd in this Squid Proxy Server solution and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

Get this to save on your bandwidth through content caching and ease the load on your servers.

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