[Wolves] Filtering Software

[Mo Awkati]

 --- Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote: 

> Squid is a proxy server ie the browser(s) connect to
> squid, squid then
> goes and fetches the pages from the web servers,
> copies it to a local
> disk cache and then serves them back to the client
> browsers.  If all
> requests are passed through the proxy, it is
> possible to filter out any
> undesirable requests.
> 
> It can also save bandwidth as if 2 (or more)
> browsers request the same
> page, the required page can be served fro the local
> disk copy instead of
> fetching it again (and again, and again .....)
> 
> -- 
> Ron Wellsted


Thanks Ron for the explanation

Cheers

Mo




	
	
		
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