Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL. http://www.squid-cache.org
This project provides MSI Windows Installer for Squid Proxy Server. It enables Squid installation in just a few clicks. Current build is based on the latest Squid 3.5.24 build for Cygwin Windows 64 bit.
- Download Squid 3 for Windows MSI installer at http://squid.diladele.com
- Run it and click "Next" button till the product is installed
Please have a look at the tutorial describing How to Install Squid 3.5 on Windows.
In case you need a high-quality HTTP(s) traffic filtering solution on Windows, we recommend Diladele Web Safety running in Docker.
Web Safety for Squid Proxy is an ICAP web filtering server that integrates with Squid proxy server and provides rich content and web filtering functionality to sanitize Internet traffic passing into an internal home/enterprise network. It may be used to block illegal or potentially malicious file downloads, remove annoying advertisements, prevent access to various categories of web sites and block resources with adult/explicit content.
To try it out please have a look at the Windows 10 tutorial.
For Windows 7 please have a look here.
Squid documentation can be found at http://www.squid-cache.org In case of any errors in the installer only, please send an email to [email protected] or post your question in the following google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/quintolabs-content-security-for-squid-proxy
For squid specific questions please use one of Squid mailing lists http://www.squid-cache.org/Support/mailing-lists.html.
Please contact [email protected]
We admire people working on Squid Cache server, who deliver great product to all of us.