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It is the Squid internal subsystem that provides a
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common way for registering, finding and triggering management actions.
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It interfaces with the outside world through the normal Squid HTTP
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server, responding requests made with the `/squid-internal-mgr` well-known URL path,
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or with the now deprecated [ `cache_object:` URL scheme](/Features/CacheManager/CacheObjectScheme)
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It interfaces with the outside world via HTTP
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responding requests made with the `/squid-internal-mgr` well-known URL path
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(e.g. http://127.0.0.1:3128/squid-internal-mgr/menu) ,
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or (until Squid 6.5) with the [ `cache_object:` URL scheme](/Features/CacheManager/CacheObjectScheme)
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Sometimes it is confused with the [Cache Manager CGI](/Features/CacheManager/CacheManagerCgi).
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Squid packages come with some tools for accessing the cache manager:
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- [squidclient](/Features/CacheManager/SquidClientTool)
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is a command line utility for performing web requests. It also has a
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special ability to send cache manager requests to Squid proxies.
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is a command line utility for performing web requests.
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It also has the ability to send cache manager requests to Squid proxies.
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It has been removed from Squid 7.
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- [CacheMgrJs](./CacheMgrJs) is a javascript-based tool
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being developed as an alternative to the CGI tool
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- (deprecated) [cachemgr.cgi](./CacheManagerCgi)
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is a CGI utility for online browsing of the manager reports. It can
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be configured to interface with multiple proxies so provides a
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convenient way to manage proxies and view statistics without logging
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into each server.
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It has been removed from Squid 7.
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Given that the Cache Manager uses plain HTTP, it's possible - and in fact easy -
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to develop custom tools
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to develop custom tools. The most common one is curl, e.g.
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`curl -u user:pasword http://127.0.0.1:3128/squid-internal-mgr/menu`
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## Controlling access to the cache manager
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