Alright, we’re getting somewhere. A plain curl is about as slow as a default squid config curl: P.S. I sent you a Skype request --- # time curl http://httpbin.org/ip { "origin": "59.167.202.249" } real 0m5.513s user 0m0.002s sys 0m0.001s # time curl http://httpbin.org/ip --proxy http://localhost:12222 { "origin": "::1, 59.167.202.249" } real 0m5.469s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.001s _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users