Squid (software)
Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests; to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources; to aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including TLS, SSL, Internet Gopher and HTTPS.
Squid was originally designed to run on Unix-like systems. The Windows port was maintained up to version 2.7 but more current versions are not being developed. Released under the GNU General Public License, Squid is free software.
It is used by the Wikimedia Foundation on Wikipedia.
Read more about Squid (software): History, Reverse Proxy, Media-range Limitations, Supported Platforms, Performance
Famous quotes containing the word squid:
“air or vacuum, snow or shale, squid or wolf, rose or lichen,
each is accepted into as much light as it will take,”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)