Introductory concepts

What is squid ?
Squid is a HTTP/1.0 compliant + HTTP/1.1 extension proxy cache, supporting HTTP clients and HTTP, FTP, Gopher and WAIS servers

Where did it come from ?
Squid is derived from the Harvest Broker project

Who currently maintains squid ?
Duane Wessels <wessels@squid-cache.org>
Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
Adrian Chadd <adrian@squid-cache.org>
.. with a growing group of regular contributors