Re: squidclient parsing

[Francesco Chemolli <gkinkie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 7, 2017, at 21:56, John Refwe <johnrefwe@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi!

Hi John

 

I am trying to automate using certain statistics from the squidclient. I had two questions.

 

1) Is it possible to ask squid to respond in a different format than the text dump it currently gives back? For example, JSON or XML response

An effort to add multi-format output has been stared a few years back; it failed to deliver any useful results.

2) If the answer to number 1 is no, are there any recommendations for how to parse the response?

Responses are formatted, and they require relatively little context for interpretation. It depends on what you need to do, really.

2) Are there any off the shelf tools/libraries (like cURL or python requests library) that are able to use the squid_cache:// protocol?

Recent squid versions also offer cachemgr output on http:// protocol. IIRC you need to request http://name.of.squid.server/squid-internal-mgr/<page> 

The cache_object:// protocol is HTTP anyway.

HTH,

  Francesco

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