Squid

What is Squid?

A robust web proxy software, Squid enables businesses to enhance content delivery and optimize online traffic. With its extensive capabilities, Squid provides access control, authorization, and a comprehensive logging environment for developing web proxies. The software's caching and forwarding mechanisms aim to build current and next-generation technologies for efficient content delivery and caching, helping to improve web performance and increase browsing speeds

Highlights

• Access control and authorization features for developing web proxies
• Caching and forwarding capabilities for optimizing content delivery
• Traffic optimization tools activated by default
• Ability to embed the caching system into home devices or office firewalls
• Suitability for use as a large-scale web proxy to improve broadband and dial-up internet access
• Support for delivering static, dynamic, and streaming content to website customers
• Filtering traffic to enhance site security and facilitate resource sharing