[squid-users] How configurable would be squid as some sort of content server?

[Amos Jeffries]

On 7/02/2023 2:15 pm, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>   Past the basic installation and utility, can squid be possibly used to:
>
>   1) decrypt responses once they arrive from the Internet, and
>   2) encrypt requests going out,
>   3) make all incoming pages as javascript free as possible (no adds, …)
>   4) programmably configure where certain content should be stored
> based on the site serving it
>   5) use a data base to know where to find previously cached content
>   6) turn all webp images into png
>   7) somehow transparently inject some code between squid and the
> browser, which depending on the site/URL would from just forward it to
> heavily alter the content
>   . . .
>   I would say some people may have had such needs.

Squid is a proxy. Most of what you are asking about is content 
adaptation. Squid does not do that itself, but can use adaptation 
services with ICAP or eCAP.

Cheers
Amos