searching caches

I had a long look through the FAQ's, but could not find an answer to the
following:

> I sent the original message to squid@ircache.net, Alex Rousskov was
> kind enough to respond and suggest sending to
> squid-users. He thought that "Squid does not have such a
> functionality. It is possible to write a stand-alone program that will
> search through the cache for pages satisfying some criteria. However,
> that is not trivial. You will save yourself a lot of
> time if somebody else has already written such a tool."
>
>
>
original message:

> hi
>
> sorry if this is the wrong approach to asking this question about
> squid
>
> I wonder if your software, or a related product, offers the following
> functionality. Does it have a search engine capable of searching
> through the content of pages that are contained in the cache?
>
> My situation is that we have a number of clients that are proxying
> through a http proxy which is then connected to the wider network.
> I'd
> like to offer a search engine on the proxy/cache that will search the
> cache, rather than the wider network, for documents that meet the
> search
> criteria. Preferably, the client should be given the original URL of
> these pages so that they can force a renewed load if the page has been
> outdated.
>
> If no documents are found, then the client can perhpas connect to an
> external search engine to search the wider network.
>
> Our situation is generated by the client being on the end of a
> moderately fast satellite broadcast. Some clients will have a low
> rate
> phone connection to request items to be put onto the broadcast, but
> not
> everyone will have this facility. There is a proxy/cache monitoring
> all
> transmissions on the broadcast, so the receive only sites can get
> access
> to documents requested by other (bi-directional) sites, but they need
> a
> search engine into the proxy cache to know what might lurk there
>
> hope you can help
>
>
> cheers
>
> Bill Blair
Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 19:42:59 MST