I recently came across a problem that is not an uncommon problem that small businesses face. I came up with several solutions to their problems and I thought I would take a minute to discuss one of those solutions. This customer has a business requirement to use a proxy server for all outgoing web traffic. This on the face of it seems like a simple problem, there are many good proxy vendors out their such as my favorite vendor Blue Coat. There are many free alternatives such as Squid Caching Proxy server.
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