What is the difference between Apache Traffic Server and squid?

What is Apache traffic control?

How does it work?

Apache is an HTTP server which runs on Linux. It is used by websites to serve web pages to the world and to protect them from hackers.

It works by listening on a network port. It has a feature called ProxyPass which allows a web page or directory of files to be mapped to the same network port so that users cannot differentiate between requests and replies. The reason for this is that Apache runs in a sandbox environment which is meant to only allow certain applications (like PHP) to run on it.

Apache traffic control makes all the requests appear as if they are coming from the domain that you setup for your proxy rule. This prevents an attacker from discovering anything about the source IP, because they would have no idea where to look.

All requests that Apache receives through port 80 must come from one of three locations: The real request source IP Address : 127.1 (localhost) The local virtual host's IP Address : ::1 (127.1) The IP address assigned to your web server : YourServerIP (example: 10.5)

Note that you don't have to give yourself a real IP address if you prefer not to. You can tell Apache not to accept real IP addresses and only accept the address of your virtual host, by adding this to your configuration: ProxyRequests off AcceptEnv noproxy ProxyPass / "". This allows a secure connection to a public web site on your machine without knowing the IP address of your box. It will also mask your external IP when queried by 3rd party software.

For more information on this configuration directive, see this document at the w3.org website.

The following two settings are also important for working with Apache Traffic control: SetEnvIf RequestHeader X-Forwarded-For .

How does Apache Traffic Server work?

I have been reading about Apache Traffic Server recently and I am having a hard time understanding how it works.

It seems to be a combination of Squid and Apache which is odd as squid can do the same thing. In fact when I read the article I linked to above, the author states "this was written for Apache Traffic Server".

So in this article I will try to explain the basic functions of traffic server and how they are used. In the next post I will give some details on how to install traffic server and configure it to work with other software.

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What is the difference between Apache Traffic Server and squid?

Both Apache Traffic Server and squid are web proxies.

Both can store data on the disk (in case of Squid) or on a remote server (Squid) and both can be used for caching. They also have an API. But what is the difference between them? I use Squid, and I am wondering why is it not possible to configure Apache Traffic Server, since they are both proxies.

Traffic Server is specifically designed for web caching. It allows you to add caching to web sites without having to deploy more software or hardware (assuming you already have an Apache installation). It works by adding your site's pages to a database that is regularly checked by a web server process. This process then returns appropriate responses to users based on the contents of the database. It has no need for custom web server software - that's what it does.

Squid, on the other hand, is a general purpose web proxy. It accepts requests from clients and passes them on to your web server, and does not store cache information. It also has many other useful features (such as logging) that are useful for other purposes.

In short, Squid is a general purpose web proxy. Trafic Server is a web caching proxy.