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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.

Code Quality Rank: L1
Programming language: C++
License: GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Tags: Web    

Squid alternatives and similar tools

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  • Caddy

    Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
  • Nginx

    9.6 8.9 L1 Squid VS Nginx
    The official NGINX Open Source repository.
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  • envoy

    Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
  • Apache

    Mirror of Apache HTTP Server. Issues: http://issues.apache.org
  • uWSGI

    6.8 7.6 L2 Squid VS uWSGI
    uWSGI application server container
  • Algernon

    Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, Ollama, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis, SQLite and PostgreSQL support ++
  • Cherokee

    Cherokee Web Server
  • Lighttpd

    lighttpd2 on github for easier collaboration - main repo still on lighttpd.net
  • Hiawatha

    DISCONTINUED. Hiawatha is an open source webserver with security, easy to use and lightweight as the three key features. Hiawatha supports among others (Fast)CGI, IPv6, URL rewriting and reverse proxy. It has security features no other webserver has, like blocking SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks and exploit attempts. The built-in monitoring tool makes it perfect for large scale deployments.
  • Varnish

    The project homepage

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