Proxy Server Software

Hello, We are in the process of setting up a new server environment. Does anybody have a recommendation for Proxy server software?

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lsud00d

Forward or reverse? I'm assuming you mean forward.

Free/opensource, or proprietary?

What are your business requirements? Budget? Users? Server capacity? Network pipes? Amount of offices and locations?

Users should not know a forward web proxy is there unless you are doing block pages. Otherwise, a proxy could be very visible in a bad way if not done correctly.

If reverse, what kind of web applications are you fronting? Will it require custom login pages, varying authentication schemes, separate identity management, fitting into a DMZ network scenario, federation?

Also, do you have any admins with *nix skills?

yagerlegi

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer thoroughly.

It will be for both forward /reverse. It will be a web application that will require a user to login.
looking for free/open source.
There should be about 100 users- in 10 different locations.

Sorry, I don’t have any linux skills.

lsud00d

Nginx has some reverse proxy features and is available on Windows natively
Squid is a forward proxy utilizing Apache and can be installed on Windows with some effort

Both of these tools are free but run optimally on linux so YMMV.