Squid proxy alternative?

proxie

Hello,

I’ve got a spare VPS and I’m wanting to setup a browser based proxy, I’ve used squid in the past but I’m wondering is there anything else out there which people have used that is better or just as good as?

Thanks,
Anthony

mksh

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-route-web-traffic-securely-without-a-vpn-using-a-socks-tunnel

mrlongshen

@mksh said:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-route-web-traffic-securely-without-a-vpn-using-a-socks-tunnel

Thanks you.

eva2000

Haven't used myself but if you mean use as a forward proxy, you can do that with Caddy web server and the http.forwardproxy plugin https://caddyserver.com/docs/http.forwardproxy

rm_

mksh said: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-route-web-traffic-securely-without-a-vpn-using-a-socks-tunnel

The SSH SOCKS server is terrible at handling multiple requests in parallel, that is if you visit some website which loads resources from multiple domains (maybe including advertising), if one of those loads slowly or has issues, the entire site will likely stop loading, and even including anything you try to open at the same time in other tabs of the same browser.

I migrated from Squid to the srelay SOCKS proxy, that one works well in such situations. But of course use it over a VPN.

NanoG6

3proxy (https://3proxy.ru/ or https://github.com/z3APA3A/3proxy) is very lightweight and easy to configure