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Subject: Re: Reverse proxy recommendation
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> great.
>
> But, we would like to tighten up security.  I know you can do this with
> squid, apache and a few others.  Could someone please make a
> recommendation on what solutions they have used or seen in the past?

squid works fine for reverse proxy, is very fast, you may turn disk cache 
off a it doesn't make much sense (unless the servers behind are slow).

in squid you may specify lots of rules as with forward proxy - it could be 
used for security.