Squid and Privoxy

de Mark Carter 06/25/2006 04:03

I'm shooting from the hip here, so don't take what I'm saying too
seriously ...

I have Privoxy set up on my XP machine. It's getting a bit clunky
despite being a relatively fresh install, so I thought I'd try out
Privoxy on Xubuntu Dapper. For some reason
apt-get install privoxy
didn't work. AFAIK I've jiggled source.list to work correctly.

Frustrated with the non-cooperativeness of apt-get, I decided to try out
Squid instead. After the obligatory chicken-sacrifices (not too many
this time) to the Gods Of Software Configuration, I managed to get Squid
running as a proxy for XP.

Gut reaction is that my current config using Squid seems faster than
Privoxy, even though Squid is running on something of a clunker of a
machine. Not sure why that is (maybe just my imagination). I hear that
there's some tricks that can be pulled in html that block the transfer
of more data until other data has been transmitted. One use of this is
to force content viewers to view adverts. So maybe Privoxy was being
tapped out by stuff like that; dunno.