- Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU.
- To have your Mac detect whether a proxy is necessary and automatically configure the proxy settings, enable the “Auto Proxy Discover” checkbox. Your Mac will use the Web Proxy Auto Discover protocol, or WPAD, to automatically detect whether a proxy is necessary. This setting may be used on business or school networks, for example.
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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.
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 |
Stable release | |
Repository | https://github.com/squid-cache/squid |
Written in | C++ |
Operating system | BSD, Linux, Unix, Windows[3] |
Type | Proxy server |
License | GNU GPLv2[4] |
Website | www.squid-cache.org |
Communication between browsers and Squid. Most web browsers available today support proxying and are easily configured to use a Squid server as a proxy. Some browsers support advanced features such as lists of domains or URL patterns that shouldn't be fetched through the proxy, or JavaScript automatic proxy configuration. There are three ways to configure browsers to use Squid.
The LAMP (software bundle) with Squid as web cache.
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.
![Proxy Proxy](/uploads/1/3/4/7/134745350/273445599.png)
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.
History[edit]
Squid was originally developed as the Harvest object cache,[8] part of the Harvest project at the University of Colorado Boulder.[9][10] Further work on the program was completed at the University of California, San Diego and funded via two grants from the National Science Foundation.[11] Duane Wessels forked the 'last pre-commercial version of Harvest' and renamed it to Squid to avoid confusion with the commercial fork called Cached 2.0, which became NetCache.[12][13] Squid version 1.0.0 was released in July 1996.[12]
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Squid is now developed almost exclusively through volunteer efforts.
Basic functionality[edit]
After a Squid proxy server is installed, web browsers can be configured to use it as a proxy HTTP server, allowing Squid to retain copies of the documents returned, which, on repeated requests for the same documents, can reduce access time as well as bandwidth consumption. This is often useful for Internet service providers to increase speed to their customers, and LANs that share an Internet connection. Because the caching servers are controlled by the web service operator, caching proxies do not anonymize the user and should not be confused with anonymizing proxies.
A client program (e.g. browser) either has to specify explicitly the proxy server it wants to use (typical for ISP customers), or it could be using a proxy without any extra configuration: 'transparent caching', in which case all outgoing HTTP requests are intercepted by Squid and all responses are cached. The latter is typically a corporate set-up (all clients are on the same LAN) and often introduces the privacy concerns mentioned above.
Squid has some features that can help anonymize connections, such as disabling or changing specific header fields in a client's HTTP requests. Whether these are set, and what they are set to do, is up to the person who controls the computer running Squid. People requesting pages through a network which transparently uses Squid may not know whether this information is being logged.[14] Within UK organisations at least, users should be informed if computers or internet connections are being monitored.[15]
Reverse proxy[edit]
The above setup—caching the contents of an unlimited number of webservers for a limited number of clients—is the classical one. Another setup is 'reverse proxy' or 'webserver acceleration' (using http_port 80 accel vhost). In this mode, the cache serves an unlimited number of clients for a limited number of—or just one—web servers.
As an example, if slow.example.com is a 'real' web server, and www.example.com is the Squid cache server that 'accelerates' it, the first time any page is requested from www.example.com, the cache server would get the actual page from slow.example.com, but later requests would get the stored copy directly from the accelerator (for a configurable period, after which the stored copy would be discarded). The end result, without any action by the clients, is less traffic to the source server, meaning less CPU and memory usage, and less need for bandwidth. This does, however, mean that the source server cannot accurately report on its traffic numbers without additional configuration, as all requests would seem to have come from the reverse proxy. A way to adapt the reporting on the source server is to use the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header reported by the reverse proxy, to get the real client's IP address.
It is possible for a single Squid server to serve both as a normal and a reverse proxy simultaneously. For example, a business might host its own website on a web server, with a Squid server acting as a reverse proxy between clients (customers accessing the website from outside the business) and the web server. The same Squid server could act as a classical web cache, caching HTTP requests from clients within the business (i.e., employees accessing the internet from their workstations), so accelerating web access and reducing bandwidth demands.
Media-range limitations[edit]
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For example, a feature of the HTTP protocol is to limit a request to the range of data in the resource being referenced. This feature is used extensively by video streaming websites such as YouTube, so that if a user clicks to the middle of the video progress bar, the server can begin to send data from the middle of the file, rather than sending the entire file from the beginning and the user waiting for the preceding data to finish loading.
Partial downloads are also extensively used by Microsoft Windows Update so that extremely large update packages can download in the background and pause halfway through the download, if the user turns off their computer or disconnects from the Internet.
The Metalink download format enables clients to do segmented downloads by issuing partial requests and spreading these over a number of mirrors.
Squid can relay partial requests to the origin web server. In order for a partial request to be satisfied at a fast speed from cache, Squid requires a full copy of the same object to already exist in its storage.
If a proxy video user is watching a video stream and browses to a different page before the video completely downloads, Squid cannot keep the partial download for reuse and simply discards the data. Special configuration is required to force such downloads to continue and be cached.[16]
Supported operating systems[edit]
Squid can run on the following operating systems:
- OS/2 (including ArcaOS and eComStation)[17]
- Windows[18]
See also[edit]
- Web accelerator which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
- Proxy server which discusses client-side proxies
- Reverse proxy which discusses origin-side proxies
References[edit]
- ^'Who looks after the Squid project?'.
- ^'Squid version 4'. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^'What is the Best OS for Squid?'.
- ^'Squid License'.
- ^'Squid Project Logo'. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- ^'Squid FAQ: About Squid'. 13 February 2007. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
- ^'Squid 3.5 for Windows'. February 2019.
Current build is based on Squid 3.5.1 build for Cygwin Windows 64 bit
- ^C.Mic Bowman, Peter B. Danzig, Darren R. Hardy, Udi Manper, Michael F. Schwartz, The Harvest information discovery and access system, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Volume 28, Issues 1–2, December 1995, Pages 119–125. doi:10.1016/0169-7552(95)00098-5
- ^Squid intro, on the Squid website
- ^Harvest cache now available as an 'httpd accelerator', by Mike Schwartz on the http-wg mailing list, Tue, 4 April 1995, as forwarded by Brian Behlendorf to the Apache HTTP Server developers' mailing list
- ^'Squid Sponsors'. Archived from the original on 11 May 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
The NSF was the primary funding source for Squid development from 1996–2000. Two grants (#NCR-9616602, #NCR-9521745) received through the Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research (ANIR) Division were administered by the University of California San Diego
- ^ abDuane Wessels Squid and ICP: Past, Present, and Future, Proceedings of the Australian Unix Users Group. September 1997, Brisbane, Australia
- ^'netcache.com'. Archived from the original on 12 November 1996. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
- ^See the documentation for header_access and header_replace for further details.
- ^See, for example, Computer Monitoring In The Workplace and Your Privacy
- ^'Squid Configuration Reference'. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ^OS/2 Ports by Paul Smedley, OS/2 Ports
- ^https://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/Windows
Further reading[edit]
- Wessels, Duane (2004). Squid: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly Media. ISBN978-0-596-00162-9.
- Saini, Kulbir (2011). Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide. Packt Publishing. ISBN978-1-849-51390-6.
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External links[edit]
- Official website
- Squid reverse proxy — Create a reverse proxy with Squid
- Configuration Manual — ViSolve Squid Configuration Manual Guide
- Configuration Manual — Authoritative Squid Configuration Options
- 'Solaris Setup'. Archived from the original on 15 January 2008. — Setup squid on solaris
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This recipe describes how to install and configure Squid as a transparent proxyon pfSense® software.
Install the Package¶
First, install the Squid package.
- Click System > Package Manager
- Click Available Packages
- Enter
squid
in the search bar and click search or scroll down until the squid package listing is visible - Click the install button on the far right
- Click Confirm when prompted (“Confirmation Required to install package pfSense-pkg-squid”)
- Wait for the installer to download, install, and do post-installtasks for squid, such as creating the cache directories.
![Squid Squid](/uploads/1/3/4/7/134745350/910754013.png)
Configure the Squid Package¶
After the installation has finished, the Squid proxy server may beconfigured.
- Click on the Local Cache tab.
- Hard disk cache size (in MB): Set this as needed, but keep it a reasonablesize. 3000 (3GB) may be a good place to start.
- Hard disk cache location: Should be
/var/squid/cache
but may bemoved if needed - Memory cache size: The amount of RAM that squid should claim forcaching. Use as much as can be spared, as this is much faster thancaching to disk. It should not exceed 50% of the installed RAM,however.
- Hard disk cache location: The directory where the cache will be stored.If using a non-default location enter it here.
- Minimum object size: Can be left at 0 to cache everything, but maybe raised if small objects are not desired in the cache.
- Maximum object size: Objects larger than this setting will not besaved on disk. If speed is more desirable than saving bandwidth,this should be set to a low value.
- Do Not Cache: Set a list of domains that should never be cached.This may also be left blank.
- Click Save.
- Click on Services > Squid Proxy Server
- Set the options on the General tab as desired.
- Proxy Interface(s): Select which interface(s) the proxy will listenon. LAN is probably the desired setting.
- Allow users on interface: If this is checked, the subnets for theinterfaces selected in the last step will automatically haveaccess. There will be no need to add them on the Access Controltab.
- Transparent Proxy: Check this to have pfSense software automaticallyredirect outbound HTTP (tcp/80) traffic through the proxy.
- Enabled logging: Check this if logging is needed, be sure to put apath in the following box
- Log Store Directory: Should be
/var/squid/log
unless anotherlocation is absolutely necessary. - Proxy Port: Leave this as 3128. There is no need to change theport number for the transparent proxy to work.
- The remaining settings may be left at their defaults, or changedif desired. It is likely best to leave them alone until the proxyis operational and tested.
- Click Save.
- Click on the ACLs tab (optional for most)
- If any other subnets will pass through the proxy aside from thesubnet for the interface squid is using, enter them here.
- Click Save.
That’s it! Squid should be up and running. The status of the squid proxycan be checked by clicking Status > Services.
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Also available are:
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- Lightsquid package to view web access reports from the squid log.
- squidGuard package for who wish to have more fine-grained controlover what web resources may be viewed by clients.