Description
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 GPL.
Squid alternatives and similar tools
Based on the "Web" category.
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Caddy
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS -
Nginx
An official read-only mirror of http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/ which is updated hourly. Pull requests on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed. The proper way to submit changes to nginx is via the nginx development mailing list, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/contributing_changes.html -
Algernon
Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support -
Lighttpd
lighttpd2 on github for easier collaboration - main repo still on lighttpd.net
Updating dependencies is time-consuming.
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