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open source/free web based proxy project

is there any open source or free "web based proxy" server project that I can look into? I looking for one that don't required configuring browser sock..etc and having web basad interface. Does squid able to do that? ...

Efficiency of web proxy scripts vs. http proxy?

I was wondering which class would be more efficient: PHP (Glype, PHProxy), CGI (CGIProxy), or javascript based scripts that run on a webserver, or an http proxy run through squid. Assuming neither class was doing any caching, would one or the other be much more efficient at handling web browsing? And how could I write a simple script to...

Java 6 NTLM proxy authentication and HTTPS - has anyone got it to work?

I have a Java application (not an applet) that needs to access a web service. Proxies for the web service have been generated with JAX-WS, and seem to work fine. In one scenario it needs to talk through a web proxy server (actually Squid 3.0), which is set to require NTLM authentication. Running on Sun's JRE 1.6.0_14, everything works f...

Why is squid good for REST architectures ?

In this article, it is argued that Use Memcache if you frequently fetch random entities from a database, and Squid if you use a REST architecture. Please explain why (with regard to Squid). ...

How to use Squid(Proxy and reverse proxy) with joomla

hi i want some optimization tips on joomla performance i used memcache but i dont now how to use proxy and reverse proxy () with joomla please help Thanks ...

HTML <meta> tag and squid

Does the HTML tag: <META http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache"> <META http-equiv="expires" content="0"> <META http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> also instruct squid to not cache that particular page? Or is it only telling the user's browser to not cache it locally in his/her machine? ...

Setting outbound 'Expires:' in Squid server's HTTP header

I'm having a problem where items served by my Squid server are being cached by Limelight for too long, sometimes days. It happens when a piece of content has been static for a long time (weeks) and then undergoes numerous changes in a matter of hours. Limelight gets its content from our Squid server and I'm told that if I can add 'Expi...

Rotating Proxies for web scraping

I've got a python web crawler and I want to distribute the download requests among many different proxy servers, probably running squid (though I'm open to alternatives). For example, it could work in a round-robin fashion, where request1 goes to proxy1, request2 to proxy2, and eventually looping back around. Any idea how to set this up?...

Squid asks for username and password when using NTLM

I have a proxy running squid and dansguardian on Ubuntu 9.10 server. It is joined to active directory and login succeeds. I've setup squid and dansguardian to use ntlm and it seems working. When I try to connect, it asks for password and when I provide my domain username and password, I can start browsing. However, it may be annoying fo...

squid url_rewrite with cookie

I have a squid 3.0 deployed which has a url_rewriter program which rewrites certain HTTP requests. I now need to modify this prpogram to rewrite along with the cookie setting code. As much as I have seen the url_rewrite_program documentation, it appears that I may not be able to set a cookie along with the 302 response. Is this correct...

Squid is GPL2, must a bundled external_acl_type application also be GPL2?

Yes, I know you're not a lawyer. But writing software these days means understanding the bazillion licenses that we use day in and day out. I'm struggling currently with Squid's GPL V2 License. Squid is a client side caching proxy server with flexible authorization capabilities. One of these authorization capabilities is to allow an ...

Can Squid cause my pages to not use the latest file?

I just setup a wordpress blog and I am having a really hard time editing templates. The problem is that I will edit a template and upload the new version, refresh the page and some of the updated template files work and some are still showing the old file, at first I though maybe I uploaded the wrong file but I even downloaded the file ...

Squid client purge utility

Hi all I've been using the purge utility ie. squidclient -m PURGE http://www.mysite.com/ The above command will purge that exact link but it leaves everything else under it in the cache. (eghttp://www.mysite.com/page1) I was wondering is there a way to purge every document under that url? Thanks in Advance Ruth ...

Block anything with a particular file extension - SQUID ACL

Hello, I want to block a particular file extension acl mp3_ext url_regex s-i *.mp3 Where .mp3 is the file extension Thanks Jean ...

Squid configuration for proxy server

I have a server with 10 ip's that I want to give access to some friends via authentication but I'm stuck on squid's config file. Let's say I have these ip's available on my server: 212.77.23.10 212.77.1.10 68.44.82.112 And I want to allocate each one of them to a different user like so: 212.77.23.10 goes to user manilodisan using pas...

Reverse Proxy dynamic webserver loading

Is there any way to dynamically load and unload webservers from a reverse proxy? For example let's say I have a cluster of 100 apache servers and I want to patch the servers. I would like the have a setup where I have a pool of updated servers and a pool of "being updated" servers. I would like the reverse proxy be aware of what is bei...

Limiting upload bandwith from client to proxy using Squid

I am trying to limit the upload bandwith from all clients to my squid proxy acting as a transparent proxy. I tried to use delay_pools for this, but my clients are still able to upload at full speed. Is there a way to create a delay_pool that will limit the bandwidth between my client and the proxy server? Thanks, Ariel ...

How to block all connection in squid

How do I block all connections from clients to any website? I have had the client computers to use my linux machine with squid installed as a proxy server. I am new to squid and I have installed it in my linux box. I wanted to see if it is really working. How should I configure squid.conf to block all client request to the proxy. If I c...

Ubuntu 9.10 and Squid 2.7 Transparent Proxy TCP_DENIED

Hi, We've spent the last two days trying to get squid 2.7 to work with ubuntu 9.10. The computer running ubuntu has two network interfaces: eth0 and eth1 with dhcp running on eth1. Both interfaces have static ip's, eth0 is connected to the Internet and eth1 is connected to our LAN. We have followed literally dozens of different tutori...

Squid change cache key

Lets say you want to serve different content from the same url but still want to be able to use squid caching. For example caching a logged in users homepage vs another user. Is there anyway to append a cookie to the request url before throwing it into the squid's cache? ...