Re: [squid-users] Manually expire content

Alternatively, if you're doing this from within an application (java,
perl, whatever), you can open up a connection to the squid server
port and issue the following http request:

PURGE /thedocument HTTP/1.0

Followed by 2 "\n"s.

Aaron Chu

On May 30, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Visolve squid wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 01:04 +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm planning to use squid to cache content from a content-rewriting
>> proxy (running apache).
>>
>> The proxy sucks content from a live site and replaces specific
>> text strings.
>>
>> So, http://proxy.example.com/?id=12345 might map to the site
>> http://squid-cache.org replacing all instances of the word "squid"
>> with
>> "foobar". I want squid to cache this.
>>
>> Is it possible to manually expire content in the squid cache when
>> changes are made to the content-rewriting in the proxy?
>>
>> Basically, I'd like to be able to say something like:
>>
>> Expire all content containing the query string "id=12345"
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> R.
>
> Hello Robin,
>
> You can try with purge tool.This is squid related software.
> The purge tool is a kind of magnifying glass into your squid-2 cache.
> You can use purge to have a look at what URLs are stored in which file
> within your cache. The purge tool can also be used to release objects
> which URLs match user specified regular expressions. A more
> troublesome
> feature is the ability to remove files squid does not seem to know
> about
> any longer.
>
> Thanks,
> Visolve Squid Team,
> http://squid.visolve.com
>
Received on Wed May 31 2006 - 12:20:34 MDT