Chapter 9. Squid in Reverse Proxy Mode

So far, we have learned to use Squid for caching the requests to various websites on the Internet, and for hiding a number of clients behind a single or a hierarchy of proxy servers. The Squid proxy server can also act as an origin server accelerator in which it accepts normal HTTP requests and forwards the cache misses to the origin servers. This is commonly known as surrogate mode. In this chapter, we'll learn about configuring Squid in reverse proxy mode.

In this chapter, we will learn about:

• Reverse proxy mode

• Configuring Squid as a server surrogate (also known as an accelerator)

• Access controls in reverse proxy mode

• Example configurations

So let's get started...