Setup a web proxy server with Docker

Stefan Pöltl
4 min readFeb 21, 2022

In this post I show you how to setup a web proxy with Docker in no time. But first of all we should ask ourselves why do we actually want to do that?

Example code: https://github.com/stefpe/squid_proxy

Why a proxy?

A proxy is sitting between a client(sending a request ) and a server(responding to the client). The proxy acts as client in…

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