Introduction to Squid Proxy Server Fundamentals
Overview of Caching Servers
Caching servers function as specialized systems that store frequently accessed web content including pages, images, and files using memory and disk storage. These servers act as intermediaries, delivering cached content to users rapidly while significantly reducing network traffic from origin servers. Most caching so ...
Posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:34:08 +0000 by roshanjameer
Building a Simple HTTP Proxy Server in C on Linux
This article demonstrates how to implement a basic HTTP proxy server using C language socket programming and process management on Linux. The implementation supports the GET method of the HTTP 1.0 protocol.
The proxy listens on a user-specified port, which can be configured at startup by running ./proxy <port> in the terminal.
Architectur ...
Posted on Tue, 12 May 2026 19:12:26 +0000 by markduce