Squid Internet Object Cache

Squid offers high performance proxy caching for Web clients, It supports FTP, Gopher, and HTTP requests. The cache software, available only in source, is more than an order of magnitude faster than the CERN httpd and other popular Internet caches, because it never needs to fork (except for FTP), is implemented with non-blocking I/O, keeps meta data and hot objects in VM, caches DNS lookups. Squid caches can be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in bandwith usage. Squid runs on all popular Unix platforms.

• Year-2000 Information
• Features
• Platforms
• Documentation including a Users Guide, and a FAQ
• Contacting Us
• Developers Corner
• Logfile Analysis Scripts
• Related software and links
• Squid Home Page Mirror Sites.
• Squid Benchmarking Results.

Squid-users mailing List

Source Distributions

Squid 2

Squid-2 is the same as Squid-1.2, and we're finally done ``beta testing.'' In order to make things simpler with our new scheme for generating releases, we jumped from version 1.2 to 2.

Squid-1.1.

Version 1.1 is no longer officially supported. Please consider upgrading to Squid-2.

Squid-1.NOVM.

Version 1.1 is no longer officially supported. Please consider upgrading to Squid-2, which has the ``NOVM'' features built-in.

The Squid FTP site is squid.nlanr.net. International users will probably want to use one of the Mirror Sites.

Squid is derived from software developed on the ARPA-funded Harvest Project.

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