This is often useful for Internet service providers to increase speed to their customers, and LANs that share an Internet connection. Squid is now developed almost exclusively through volunteer efforts.Īfter a Squid proxy server is installed, web browsers can be configured to use it as a proxy HTTP server, allowing Squid to retain copies of the documents returned, which, on repeated requests for the same documents, can reduce access time as well as bandwidth consumption. SquidNT, a port of the Squid proxy server was merged into the main Squid project in September 2006. Squid version 1.0.0 was released in July 1996. Duane Wessels forked the 'last pre-commercial version of Harvest' and renamed it to Squid to avoid confusion with the commercial fork called Cached 2.0, which became NetCache. Further work on the program was completed at the University of California, San Diego and funded via two grants from the National Science Foundation. Squid was originally developed as the Harvest object cache, part of the Harvest project at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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