SquidMan is a MacOS X graphical installer and manager for the Squid proxy cache. It is designed to operate as a "personal" proxy server.

When you run Squid on a MacOS X computer, it can:

* cache downloaded content, reducing network traffic and improving browsing performance on slow links
* act as a proxy server for other computers on your subnet
* restore the operation of some MacOS X 10.2 system services that normally fail through authenticated proxy servers, such as Software Update