Re: [squid-users] An Old Question: Cache Query/Extraction

> The Squid cache index is keyed on an MD5 hash of the URL (16 bytes
> "random" data), not even preserving the requested hostname in a
> meaningful manner.

I guessed so but I was thinking a specialized tool could do the indexing
for whoever wants/needs it. Maybe I'll try making a couple short scripts
for that purpose and for searching the index and retrieving the targets. I
was wishing somebody had done something similar before :-D

--On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 01:23 +0200 Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:

> mån 2009-09-14 klockan 15:08 +0100 skrev Genaro Flores:
>
>> Ah, thanks. I reckon there have been no changes since I last asked the
>> question. Although 'purge' does look promising (except for efficiency
>> and that I doubt it can do anything to decrease the time required to
>> perform multiple queries).
>
> This is because there is no searchable index with the data you look for.
> So each object has to be opened to find the exact properties.
>
> The Squid cache index is keyed on an MD5 hash of the URL (16 bytes
> "random" data), not even preserving the requested hostname in a
> meaningful manner.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Tue Sep 15 2009 - 17:06:13 MDT