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ilembitov

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 124

Proxy software on standalone machines for web caching?

Hi, all. AFAIK, there are a lot of browsers that don't have built-in caching facilites: uzbl, surf and the latest xxx-term. I believe that the recommended workaround here is to use a proxy, like squid. However, I believe there should be more lightweight alternatives - I want to run this proxy on my laptop for my daily browsing. What would you recommend? Polipo? Or is there anything else to consider?

Runiq

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 1,053

Re: Proxy software on standalone machines for web caching?

From the polipo manual: Other HTTP proxies

Thanks for letting me know, I was about to install squid but I think I'm gonna switch to polipo now.

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brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: Proxy software on standalone machines for web caching?

Polipo is simple and nice. I use it in combination with Privoxy (on my gateway).
I tried Squid, but it's too heavy to configure, and slow to start. I may be useful for big networks, but for home comuting I'd do with polipo.

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Ramonet

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Registered: 2010-09-06

Posts: 1

Re: Proxy software on standalone machines for web caching?

But the problem in privoxy installation !!!!

(1/1) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading privoxy                            [######################] 100%
chown: invalid user: `privoxy:privoxy'
install: invalid user `privoxy'
error: command failed to execute correctly

got this error after every installation !!!
can't find any problem running CHOWN for tor
user privoxy does not exist any way help me please