Squid (software)
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Squid is a caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy. It has a wide variety of uses, including speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, and aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including Internet Gopher, SSL,[6] TLS and HTTPS. Squid does not support the SOCKS protocol, unlike Privoxy, with which Squid can be used in order to provide SOCKS support.
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| Developer(s) | Duane Wessels, Henrik Nordström, Amos Jeffries, Alex Rousskov, Francesco Chemolli, Robert Collins, Guido Serassio and volunteers[1] |
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| Initial release | July 1996 (1996-07) |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C++[3] |
| Operating system | BSD, Linux, Unix, Windows[4] |
| Type | Proxy server |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[5] |
| Website | www |
Squid was originally designed to run as a daemon on Unix-like systems. A Windows port was maintained up to version 2.7. New versions available on Windows use the Cygwin environment.[7] Squid is free software released under the GNU General Public License.