SQUID Proxy On RHEL5/CentOS - Everything That You Should Know About [Part 1]
The main feature or duty of a proxy server could be a gateway that receives
HTTP requests from clients and forwards the request to the destination and relays the answer back to the requestor. Squid is most popular open-source software that brings this to us. It
also has
some excellent features for doing something else such as web access
controlling,
bandwidth controlling, restriction policies, and content caching and
filtering. Actually people install SQUID to pursuit 2 goals: first
reduce the bandwidth
charges by content caching and second for restricting access to
particular
contents. The following guide explains advantages of using Squid and will show you how to
install, configure, control, and maintain the Squid Proxy Server on
RHEL5 and CentOS Linux.
