Squid Proxy on Ubuntu 22.04

This Squid proxy caching server for Azure has been optimised for speed and high performance.

Squid offers a rich set of traffic optimization options, most of which are enabled by default.

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.

Squid can implement caching and proxying of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) requests and caching of Domain Name Server (DNS) lookups, and perform transparent caching. Squid also supports a wide variety of caching protocols, such as Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), the Hyper Text Caching Protocol (HTCP), the Cache Array Routing Protocol (CARP), and the Web Cache Coordination Protocol (WCCP).

Squid Proxy Features

Set ACL for which networks have access to internet

Block/Allow access to certain websites

Block/Allow Content Based on MIME Types (e.g image, text, mpeg)

Set time in which users can access the internet at certain times in the day

Cache frequently accessed websites, cache files/media

Hide users internal IP Addresses

Load balance with other Squid proxies

Clustering

Traffic Interception with WCCP

Set authentication to get users to Authenticate (LDAP, Active Directory, RADIUS, POP3, DB, etc)

Allow/Block IM (Instant Messaging)

Block coin-mining scripts from using CPU/memory on users browsers. A new modern trend.

Adaptation protocol (C-ICAP / eCAP)

Caching Dynamic Content

Fully Transparent Interception with Squid-2, TPROXYv2 and WCCP

Configuring multiple interception ports using WCCPv2

WCCP2 and NAT on a private internal network

PHP Redirectors

SMP Carp Cluster

Torrent filtering

Webwasher integration - prevent downloading of virus-infected files or to filter out adult content

Setup / Documentation / Support

Follow our post configuration setup guide on: Setup Squid Proxy on Azure

Disclaimer: Squid is licensed under GNU GPL license. No warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this software. Use at your risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to anyone resulting from the use of this software rest entirely with the user.

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