Re: [squid-users] adding content to cache

Squid indexes content by its URL, so in all honesty, the best way to
get an object into squid's storage is to just request it through the
proxy. This is easily scriptable via the curl and wget command-line
tools, or frameworks like perl's LWP.

-C

On May 9, 2009, at 10:04 PM, Laurent Luce wrote:

>
> Actually, I am looking at a way of adding it directly to the squid
> cache. Basically, take the file and add it to the cache. I am looking
> into patching Squid to provide an API to do that. How complicated do
> you think it is if I want to add the file content along with the
> metadata directly into the cache ?
>
> Laurent
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeff Pang <pangj_at_arcor.de>
> To: Laurent Luce <laurentluce49_at_yahoo.com>
> Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2009 9:39:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] adding content to cache
>
> Laurent Luce:
>> I am looking for a way to manually add content to the cache. Is
>> there an API to do that ?
>>
>> For example, I have the following file image.gif and I want to add
>> it to the proxy cache so it can be served from there when needed.
>>
>
> You could use a tool like wget to pass requests through Squid then
> the object will be cached if it is cachable.
> wget has some good arguments like "-p" or "-m" which even can be
> used to cache the whole site.
>
> -- Jeff Pang
> DingTong Technology
> www.dtonenetworks.com
>
Received on Mon May 11 2009 - 13:54:50 MDT