Due to a screwup of backups, I have a want to retrieve some webpages and objects from the cached copies I know exist in my own personal squid cache. I'm running squid 2.5.STABLE14. I played around with squidclient mgr:offline_toggle and refresh_pattern, but can't convince it not to keep using IMS queries, and/or things like google (without ? and cgi-bin in the url) that are simply always TCP_MISS. Without applying any patches or running a different version, is there a way to convince it to really and truly ignore all expires, age, etag etc related headers and if there is a local cache copy at all, do not consult the web at all, not even for an if-modified-since query? Or perhaps is there a squid commandline query tool, or an option to wget, curl or lynx that I missed to tell it to tell squid just grab the cached copy no questions asked? Related of course, is there a tool that shows what is currently in the cache? I found this FAQ entry from squid 1: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidLogs#head-f2cf2b26556b6ca0a963b749898b0a38f4254e0b which won't apply here. squidclient cache_object://localhost/vm_objects won't get it because the machine has been restarted since I last loaded the pages in question, and squidclient cache_object://localhost/objects doesn't get the URL. -- Tim Connors
