Unfortunately just grabbing the Windows binaries off the squid website and following their instructions won't work for everyone, but it only takes a small number of simple configuration changes to get ...

Proxy servers accept and forward Internet requests on behalf of a host. Using a proxy server in front of a host can be done for a number of reasons, including content filtering and location security.

I've written a simple, step-by-step tutorial on getting a web caching proxy (squid in particular) working on a desktop machine running Windows. An excerpt is below: So what is squid or a caching proxy ...