[squid-users] What is in a name? Squid vs SQuID

[Alex Rousskov]

On 10/3/22 13:52, Grant Taylor wrote:

> I ran across the following statement referring to Squid in an ancient 
> Sys Admin article talking about Linux Transparent Proxy.
> 
>> Source Quench Introduced Delay (SQuID) is a popular freeware proxy 
>> server for UNIX machines (see "Software Resources" sidebar for more 
>> information).
> 
> Where the "Software Resources" sidebar has:
> 
>>  Squid can be obtained from any of following sites:
>>
>> http://squid.nalanr.net
>> ftp://squid.nlanr.net
>>
>> The Squid Web site also contains a wealth of installation and 
>> configuration information. Squid manuals are also available from this 
>> site.
> 
> Does anyone know any history on Squid's name?  Was SQuID the proper name 
> for the Squid caching proxy at one point in time?  Or is this perhaps a 
> bad expansion in the article?

There is no relationship between the SQuID concept (RFC 1016) and our 
Squid Cache. I double-checked with Duane, the Squid creator. I bet the 
author of that article thought that Squid is an acronym and found a 
matching acronym in RFC 1016 :-).


HTH,

Alex.



> Link - Linux Transparent Proxy (Sys Admin, May 1999, Volume 8, Issue 5, 
> Article 3)
>   - https://www.muppetwhore.net/sysadmin/html/v08/i05/a3.htm
> 
> 
> 
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