On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 16:01 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm thinking of running squid on my laptop. Is this a silly > idea?
I don't think so :). > The problem I'm trying to solve is that I get network access > in a couple of different places. Some places I have direct > access to the net and others I need to go via a proxy. I > also run Firefox with the Session Saver plugin and I'm getting > sick of having to switch the Firefox connection settings over > between a proxy and direct connection. > > Squid would solve the problem by allowing Firefox to connect to > a local proxy and then have that proxy to connect to any > upstream proxies if it finds them or direct to the net if it > doesn't. > > Is this a good idea? Is there a better way of solving this > problem? I think its a good solution. :). I run one all the time, to insulate me from various bits of cruft, allow me to switch browsers more easily (shared cache :)) and naturally, for testing squid. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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