About SquidMan
SquidMan is a MacOS X graphical installer and manager for the Squid proxy cache. It is designed to operate as a "personal" proxy server.When you run Squid on a MacOS X computer, it can:
- cache downloaded content, reducing network traffic and improving browsing performance on slow links
- act as a proxy server for other computers on your subnet
- restore the operation of some MacOS X applications that normally fail through authenticated proxy servers
What's New - Announcing SquidMan 2.5 (July 4, 2009)
I'm pleased to announce the release of a new version of SquidMan that includes Squid 3.0.Squid 3.0 supports many new features, but none of these are yet supported in SquidMan. This release is designed to just build the new squid into the old SquidMan engine.
If you're upgrading from an earlier version of SquidMan, please note that some of the values in the template used by older versions of SquidMan are incompatible with the new version of squid, and will generate errors or at least warnings when squid is started. Thus, this version of SquidMan needs to replace the template file. If you have ever modified the template to add your own customisations, your changes will be lost during the upgrade. If you have modified the template from the default, be sure to save the old template before upgrading to SquidMan 2.5. After the upgrade, you will need to merge your changes back into the new template.
The major changes in SquidMan 2.5 are:
- upgraded to Squid 3.0STABLE16
- resolved a long-standing issue where SquidMan would sometimes say squid was not running, when in fact it was
What Was New
in version 2.0 (released 22 Nov, 2007):- upgraded to Squid 2.6STABLE16
- compatible with Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4)
- dropped support for MacOS X 10.3
System Requirements
The current release of SquidMan requires MacOS X 10.4 or higher.Feedback
You can mail me at the address below with feedback, suggestions or bug reports about SquidMan. Because I have a regular job, and write software in my spare time, please don't be offended if I don't reply.Downloads
The current and all previous releases of SquidMan can be downloaded here. The SquidMan download includes documentation on how to install and use SquidMan.- version 2.5 (3.7M) (compatible with 10.4 and 10.5)
- version 2.0 (3.2M) (compatible with 10.4 and 10.5)
- version 1.8 (1.9M) (last release for MacOS X 10.3)
- version 1.61 (1.6M) (last release for Mac OS X 10.2)
- version 1.52 (1.1M)
- version 1.51 (1.1M)
- version 1.50 (1.4M)
- version 1.1 (1.0M)
SquidMan is Copyright © 2003-2009 Tony Gray and may be freely distributed. The icon is by Samuel Krueger ("pixeljerk").
