Using Squid proxy
Squid is a web proxy application with a variety of configurations and uses. Squid has a large number of access controls, and supports different protocols, such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSL, and so on.
In this section we will see how to use Squid as an HTTP proxy.
Getting Ready
To install and use Squid on a particular system on a network, ensure that the particular system has enough physical memory, because Squid also works as a cache proxy server and thus needs space to maintain the cache.
We are using a Ubuntu system for our example and Squid is available in Ubuntu repositories, so we need to ensure that our system is up to date. For doing this we run the following command:
apt-get update
After that, run the following command:
apt-get upgrade
How to do it...
To install and configure Squid on our system, we have to take the following steps:
The first step is to install the
squidpackage, and to do so, we run the command as follows:
As soon as the installation of Squid completes, it...
