Re: Browsing the cache

From: Duane Wessels <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:37:19 -0600

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, David Diaz i Torrico wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a proxy running on a linux, just to share the internet access with
> the localnet, this proxy is not connected all the 24h a day and I would
> like to know, how users can browse around the web pages in the cache
> without having to be on-line, the files usually are on cache, since most
> part of pages visited are always the same.

There is a squid.conf option called 'offline_mode'. You can
turn it on when squid goes offline, then all cached requests
come back immediately without trying to validate any of them.

> I would also know how to browse around the cache, I watched the FAQ, and
> the archives and saw ppl asking for the same but I didn't see any reference
> to any program or method to do that.

We think thats a bad idea in general because the cache may contain
senstive information. browsing the cache may violate some users
privacy.

Duane W.
Received on Tue Aug 10 1999 - 14:27:07 MDT

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