[plug] naive question: what is squid?

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Tamara Thompson wrote:

> I haven't seen it defined on any of the Linux pages ...so far.
> 
> I'll trade you a funny for an answer in english:

Its a proxy cache. In even more english, its a deamon that runs on an
internet server that intercepts all web page requests fron a user and if
the page isn't contained locally (in the cache) it then goes and retrieves
it for the user. In general its used to speed up internet connections
while cutting down on usage, it also helps with security, because from the
outside of the network it looks as though the proxy server (squid)
requested the page rather than the person who actually did.

Does that help??
Peter

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