Squid is software that caches Internet data. It does this by accepting
requests for objects that people want to download and handling their requests
in their place. In other words, if a person wants to download a web page,
they ask squid to get the page for them. Squid then connects to the remote
server (for example
http://squid.nlanr.net/) and requests the
page. It then transparently streams the data through itself to the client
machine, but at the same time keeps a copy. The next time someone wants that
page, squid simply reads it off disk, transferring the data to the client
machine almost immediately. Squid currently handles the HTTP, FTP, GOPHER,
SSL and WAIS protocols. It doesn't handle things like POP, NNTP, RealAudio
and others.
The Squid Users guide is copyright Oskar Pearson oskar@is.co.za
If you like the layout (I do), I can only thank William Mee
and hope he forgives me for stealing it
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