[buug] squid over commercial proxy server

johnd john at jjdev.com
Wed Oct 1 15:59:15 PDT 2003


Yea, that's part of what I meant by extensibility, and I think that it
carries a lot of weight.


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:33:10PM -0500, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure how much weight this carries, but having the source means you
> can fix problems yourself, if you have the skills.
> 
> I know that my firm has very, very stringent security requirements.  We
> use squid.  I'm sure other examples abound of commercial companies using
> squid over closed-source solutions.
> 
> brian
> 
> johnd said:
> > Does anyone have any references to any articles that would help
> > me to convince the IT group where I work to go with squid over a
> > commercial
> > proxy solution?
> >
> > The only arguments I can come up with are cost and extensibility.
> >
> > I can't really say squid will be more reliable or faster than something
> > else because I really have no experience with anything else.
> >
> >
> >
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