On Tue, 10 May 2005, Mark Romer wrote:
Do you have any data or experience-based estimates about how many companies use Squid?
It's very hard to tell as there is no registration of who is using Squid, but experience indicate it is very common among companies having their own UNIX IT staff.
Is use biased towards small companies, large companies, tech companies, non-tech companies?
My experience indicates mainly small tech companies, ISPs and large companies.
small non-tech companies in my experience rarely install Squid unless they have a Linux/FreeBSD sawy IT admin, but quite some may be running networking/firewalliing appliances of different kinds where Squid is included and then often without knowing they use Squid.
And how many prefer to use static vs. auto vs. script for configuration of browsers?
In the large companies segment using Squid my estimate is approximate 50/50 automated proxy settings via login scripts vs proxy.pac scripts. Very few rely on static per-client config. It also seems very few companies are using automatic proxy discovery mechanisms but this may be an underestimate.
In ISPs static configuration or automatic proxy discovery is the most common, if not counting automatic interception of port 80.
Automatic interception of port 80 is also quite common in all four cases, more so in the smaller companies/ISPs, forcing all port 80 traffic via the proxy without requiring client configuration.
Regards Henrik
