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Using a Squid proxy

Using a Squid proxy - Linux Tutorial

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Using a Squid proxy

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- [Narrator] A Squid proxy lets you consolidate internet access through a single host and helps you conserve internet bandwidth by caching some files that were previously requested by clients using the proxy. This can be a useful set of features for an organization that wants to filter network traffic or just make sure it comes from one particular host for management purposes. Squid can block access to particular domains for the client that provides access to and it can be used as part of the solution to ensure that only authorized devices or users are allowed to access the internet. It's also useful for a situation where internet bandwidth is limited or expensive. The modern web has a lot of repetitive, fairly large files, Java script libraries, web fonts, even image assets. For one person browsing, this doesn't represent a lot of traffic but in an organization of hundreds, each person downloading their own copy of these things starts to add up to a lot of wasted bandwidth. And if…

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