How to set up Squid as a transparent web proxy on CentOS or RHEL
In a previous tutorial , we have seen the method of creating a gateway using iptables . This tutorial will focus on turning the gateway into a transparent proxy server. A proxy is called "transparent" when clients are not aware that their requests are processed through the proxy. I originally wrote this tutorial for xmodulo.com There are several benefits of using a transparent proxy. First of all, for end users, a transparent proxy can enhance their web browsing performance by caching frequently accessed web content, while introducing minimal configuration overhead for them. For administrators, it can be used to enforce various administrative policies such as content/URL/IP filtering, rate limiting, etc. A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a client and a destination server. The client sends requests to the proxy server which then evaluates the requests and takes necessary actions. In this tutorial, we will be setting up a web proxy server using Squid ...