Setting up Squid content caching proxy for Jazz Source Control on Microsoft Windows platform

This is a supplemental document to our article Using content caching proxies for Jazz Source Control (includes additional information on using a content caching Proxy for Rational Team Concert). This document focuses and includes configuration details of Squid Caching Proxy Server on Microsoft Windows Environment.

Setting up Squid on Microsoft Windows with HTTPS as Accelerator Proxy

Squid can compile and run on Windows as a system service using the Cygwin emulation environment, or can be compiled in Windows native mode using the MinGW + MSYS development environment. Windows NT 4 SP4 and later are supported. In this document we use Cygwin.

Pre-requisites

• Squid Installer - You can download Windows installer from squid-cache wiki. Download the supported version for specific version of RTC as per System Requirement. For RTC v6.0.3 the minimum supported version of Squid is 3.3.3.
• Cygwin - This article includes steps to download and install Cygwin
• OpenSSL and CURL - openssl is necessary to generate a certificate for SSL communication. CURL we have used to to verify squid installation. Both can be installed through Cygwin. Instructions included in this article

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