Chapter 25. Proxying and Reverse Proxying

IN THIS CHAPTER

• What Is a Proxy Server?

• Installing Squid

• Configuring Clients

• Access Control Lists

• Specifying Client IP Addresses

• Example Configurations

• Reference

You can never have enough of two things in this world: time and bandwidth. Ubuntu comes with a proxy serverSquidthat enables you to cache web traffic on your server so that websites load faster and users consume less bandwidth.