1squidclient(1)              General Commands Manual             squidclient(1)
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NAME

6       squidclient -- a simple HTTP web client
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SYNOPSIS

9       squidclient   [-arsv][-A   string  ][-g  count]  [-h  remote-host]  [-H
10       'string']  [-i  IMS]  [-I   ping-interval]   [-j   'Host-header']   [-l
11       local-host] [-m method] [-p port] [-P file] [-t count] [-T timeout] [-u
12       proxy-user] [-U www-user] [-V version]  [-w  proxy-password]  [-W  www-
13       password] url
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DESCRIPTION

16       squidclient is a tool providing a command line interface for retrieving
17       URLs.  Designed for testing any HTTP 0.9, 1.0, or  1.1  web  server  or
18       proxy.   This  tool  can  be combined with scripts to perform any basic
19       HTTP operation.  Some additional features for access to the Squid proxy
20       object cache and management information are provided.
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OPTIONS

23       -a     Do NOT include Accept: header.
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25       -A 'string'
26              Send string as User-Agent: header. To omit the header completely
27              set string to empty ('').
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29       -g count
30              Ping mode, perform count iterations  (0  to  loop  until  inter‐
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34              Retrieve URL from cache on hostname.  Default is localhost.
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52              Request  method, default is GET. Squid also supports a non-stan‐
53              dard method called PURGE. You can use that to purge  a  specific
54              URL  from  the  cache.   You  need to have purge access setup in
55              squid.conf similar to manager access. Here is an example:
56                    acl purge method PURGE
57                    http_access deny purge !localhost
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59       -p port
60              Port number of cache.  Default is 3128.
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67       -s     Silent.  Do not print data to stdout.
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81       -v     Verbose. Print outgoing message to stderr.
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89       -V version
90              HTTP Version. Use '-' for HTTP/0.9 omitted case
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SEE ALSO

93       cachemgr.cgi(8), squid(8)
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AUTHOR

96       Derived from Harvest. Further developed by by numerous individuals from
97       the  internet  community.  Development  is  led by Duane Wessels of the
98       National Laboratory for Applied Network  Research  and  funded  by  the
99       National Science Foundation.
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103                             Squid Web Client Tool              squidclient(1)