SquidMan Alternatives

SquidMan is described as 'MacOS X graphical installer and manager for the Squid proxy cache. It is designed to operate as a "personal" proxy server' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are seven alternatives to SquidMan for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best SquidMan alternative is Squid, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SquidMan are Polipo, TinyProxy, CacheGuard Gateway and Apache Traffic Server.

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  1. Squid icon

    Squid

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    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.

    24 Squid alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    • Squid is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to SquidMan.

    • Squid is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SquidMan.

    • Squid is Free and Open SourceSquidMan is Free and Proprietary
    • Squid is Privacy focusedSquidMan is not according to our users
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    Polipo

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    A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server). Polipo can be used in place of ad-filtering, privacy-enhancing proxies such as Junkbuster, Privoxy or WWWOFFLE. As Polipo has much more refined HTTP support, it doesnt impose the speed tax usually...

    19 Polipo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. TinyProxy icon

    TinyProxy

     10 likes

    Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.

    28 TinyProxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. CacheGuard Gateway icon

    CacheGuard Gateway

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    CacheGuard Gateway is a free and open-source Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and a Quality of Service (QoS) platform designed to optimize WAN traffic. To obtain a CacheGuard Gateway appliance, download CacheGuard-OS and install it on...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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  6. Apache Traffic Server icon

    Apache Traffic Server

     3 likes

    Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
     

  7. Lusca

     1 like

    Lusca is a fork of the Squid -2 development tree. The Lusca project aims to fix the shortcomings in the Squid-2 codebase whilst maintaining the the Squid-2 functionality and stability.

    12 Lusca alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     

  9. gate.js

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    gate - Performance & scalable I/O forward & reverse HTTP proxy based on node.js + V8 a real alternative to Squid & NGINX

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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