🔗 squidclient Tool
This tool is a command line utility for performing web requests.
It also has the ability to send cache manager requests to Squid proxies.
The squidclient tool is no longer distributed with
Squid 7 and later. Squid-4 and later offer access to the cache
manager over HTTP, which can be accessed using any web browser
or command line tools such as curl
To access it:
curl -u user:pass http://127.0.0.1:3128/squid-internal-mgr/menu
(user can be any, pass is the password set with cachemgr_passwd in squid.conf.)
Replace menu with the cache manager report you are interested in,
and 127.0.0.1 with host running squid. Make sure that the cache’s http_access
rules grant access to the cache itself.
🔗 Cache manager access from squidclient
this section is for historic reference only.
A simple way to test the access to the cache manager is:
squidclient mgr:info
If you are using a port other than 3128 on your Squid you will need to use the -p option to specify it.
See squidclient -h for more options.
To send a manager password (more on that below) there are two ways depending on your Squid version.
- squidclient version 3.1.* and older you add @ then the password
to the URL. So that it looks like this
mgr:info@admin. - squidclient version 3.2.* use the proxy login options -u and w to pass your admin login to the cache manger.