What is Squid?

• A caching proxy for

  • HTTP, HTTPS (tunnel only)
  • FTP
  • Gopher
  • WAIS (requires additional software)
  • WHOIS (Squid version 2 only)

• Supports transparent proxying

• Supports proxy hierarchies (ICP protocol)

• Squid is not an origin server!

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