Re: [squid-users] wget/telnet 80 retrieving URLs

Well.. you could tell your favorite commant line browser (wget, lynx,
etc) to use the proxy..

ot telnet to the proxy port and issue a GET using a full URL and
HTTP/1.0 protocol tag..

or use the client program distributed with Squid.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

Joerg Fritsch wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> if some URL does not show up on the LAN behind a squid I can:::
>
> Loginto the squidbox, and do a telnet to port 80, GET and so on && I can do
> wget or lynx (do not want lynx *gg*).
> However these methods do not use the cache. They only prove that the box is
> able to retrieve this URL from it's position, but they do not prove that the
> squid software / cache is able to retrieve any URL I want.
>
> So now my question:::
> Is there a commandline method to make squid retrieving a certain URL,
> thereby proving that not only the box is physically able to retrieve it but
> tha squid-cache also ?
>
> Pls do not reply I shouuld install X11 and Mozilla on my squid-cache ;-)))
>
> Thanks,
> --Joerg
Received on Sat Oct 20 2001 - 18:20:23 MDT