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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

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Caddy

9.8 9.4 Squid VS Caddy

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Nginx

9.5 8.9 L1 Squid VS Nginx

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envoy

9.5 10.0 Squid VS envoy

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

7.2 9.3 L2 Squid VS Apache

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

6.9 7.5 L2 Squid VS uWSGI

uWSGI application server container
Algernon

6.1 9.3 Squid VS Algernon

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

4.4 0.0 L3 Squid VS Cherokee

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Lighttpd

4.3 7.8 L3 Squid VS Lighttpd

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

3.8 2.4 L2 Squid VS Hiawatha

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

2.9 6.8 Squid VS Varnish

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