Hi there, I have one major complaint about squid. I manage an intranet and I need to be able to quickly and succinctly see whats in the cache and, sometimes pull objects from the cache (you would be amazed at home many people will download important docs, and have computers die...), as well as monitoring unwanted sites etc.
I have found a great little utility.. but's it's slow.. dosen't work with a running cache, and it's output is hard to control. It's called purge, (you may or may not be aware of it.) The authors site is here:http://www.cache.dfn.de/DFN-Cache/Development/purge.html (GNU I believe) What I want to see is a search cache option built into the proxy itself (or through cachemgr.cgi). A nice web interface to this tool would be great, being able to select individual sites for perusal through the cache itself. And pluck items, as well as do regex search, Add ACL's all from a webpage. I know some of this functionality (especially the sort of add/site blocking) is available through packages like squidguard, but being able to browse the current cache and purge/pluck object would ease site managers life alot This seems like basic functionality to me, and a lot of people agree, that this would be a huge benefit to all squid users out there. I don't know what you guys can do with these suggestions, (If I wern't so busy this trimester and wasn't such a dunce with C/C++ I would gladdly help develop this, as it seems fairly simple to implement (CGI web wise... I have no idea about the internals of Squid, all I do know that these features are present in some form). Anyway as you move towards a stable 3 release this would be a great thing to add. Thanks for listening and continue the great work, on one of the finest pieces of software (fullstop) available to anyone who uses a network. Kind regards Joel Pauling Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand
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