What is Squid?
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What is Squid?
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Squid is a high-performance proxy and caching server for Web clients. It supports FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects. Squid handles requests in a single non-blocking, I/O-driven process. To improve performance, it keeps meta data cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests.
Squid supports SSL, extensive access controls, and full request logging. By using the lightweight Internet Cache Protocol, Squid caches can be arranged in a hierarchy or mesh for additional bandwidth savings.
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