Posts in Year 2022
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SETUP SQUID WEB PROXY SERVER ON LINUX
Sometimes you need to setup a proxy server so that you can mask your IP address for making web requests using your browser. In some situations, you may want to intercept every web request and reject some requests such as rejecting social media websites at work. Sometimes you want only authorized users to access the internet at your workplace and want to monitor their web access. One may also need to cache web requests to build their own content delivery network. In such scenarios, you can install a web proxy like Squid on Linux. Setting it up on a Debian or Ubuntu system is very easy and this post will show you how. However, this post is limited to setting up the Squid proxy server only as a HTTP/FTP proxy and not for caching. That would be a different post for the future. Read More → |
| Posted on by Vikas N. Kumar. |
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SETUP SOCKS PROXY SERVER ON LINUX
A SOCKS proxy server is useful to mask your IP address especially when you want to connect to TCP/UDP ports that are not running on ports 80 and 443, such as IRC or SSH or a cryptocurrency node such as Bitcoin, Ethereum or Dogecoin node. Setting it up on a Debian or Ubuntu system is very easy and this post will show you how. Read More → |
| Posted on by Vikas N. Kumar. |
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