Re: Squid information

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 tarang@sscomp.co.ae wrote:

> Can any one please send me the benefits of Squid against Netscape proxy
> v3.5 and Microsoft Proxy?

It costs nothing, you get excellent support direct from the people who
write it (if you ask nicely) and the source is open so you can add any
features it lacks and bugs get fixed 'while you wait'... it scales well,
is very extensively used and tested in production systems, et cetera.

> Also One very important information I need is that, Is there any URL
> access control list subscription such as Smart Filter or Websense
> available on Squid running on a Compaq Alpha Server running on tru64
> Unix?

You're after a service that provides lists of sites to which access is
to be controlled, I presume - if these services can provide you with a
text file of URLs or domains then Squid can control access directly from
this. There are more sophisticated methods available, but you'd have to
read the Squid web site for more details.

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