[plug] Proxy server recommendation

[William Kenworthy]

Squid with http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/

Works great on 56k modems as well.

BillK


On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 05:47 +0930, Onno Benschop wrote:
> Russell S. Albee wrote:
> 
> >I'd be interested in hearing recommendations on which proxey server you think is
> >best.  I'm planning on setting up a proxy server on my ADSL connection primarly
> >for cache reasons (save d/l bandwidth), but also "just because" (I'm a network
> >geek and this stuff is fun.)
> >
> On my personal workstation I run a daisy chain of Privoxy and Squid. The 
> former removes advertising, the latter caches my traffic.
> 
> However, it should be noted that. While squid supports compressed data 
> transfer, privoxy does not, so you either get a feed that is gzipped and 
> remove the ads locally, or you get a plain uncompressed feed without ads.
> 
> I haven't found a better solution yet.
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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