Viewing web pages of a user

sunils1973 · 01-05-2011, 09:37 AM

Suppose when I install squid proxy server

Can I view the web pages visited by a particular user/machine in a particular session?

I think we can analise the information by the log files of squid. But can I view the page(static)?

P42 · 01-20-2011, 09:10 AM

i don't think you can know which web pages a user accessed without analyzing the logfiles.
if squid will display a page to you that was cached for another user? i think you can configure that.

sunils1973 · 01-20-2011, 11:59 AM

Is it possible with help of log file

For example from a log entry, A particular user has visited a site at a time. But it is a text entry. Can I retrieve the page(cached)?

TB0ne · 01-20-2011, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by sunils1973

Is it possible with help of log file

For example from a log entry, A particular user has visited a site at a time. But it is a text entry. Can I retrieve the page(cached)?

Sure...go ahead and write a program to parse the log file, and download/save all the web pages for you.

sunils1973 · 01-21-2011, 08:15 AM

OK Thank u

but up to what time the cached pages will be there? I think after sometime ( may be hours or days) The cached pages will be replaced with new contents. For getting the page corresponding to the particular session, the cache status should be saved. For this case In addition to the log files, which files/directories should I copy.

With this logfiles and cache files/directories, can I script from another machine?

TB0ne · 01-21-2011, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by sunils1973

OK Thank u

but up to what time the cached pages will be there? I think after sometime ( may be hours or days) The cached pages will be replaced with new contents. For getting the page corresponding to the particular session, the cache status should be saved. For this case In addition to the log files, which files/directories should I copy.

With this logfiles and cache files/directories, can I script from another machine?

Spell out your words.

And since this will be a program that YOU write, you can make it do whatever you'd like. It's not going to pull the web pages from the Squid cache, since that's not what you asked. You asked if you could read the log file, and cache the web pages based on the links...the answer to that is yes.

sunils1973 · 01-21-2011, 11:40 AM

Sorry! my aim is to pull the web pages from squid cache