[squid-users] how to obtain info about actual active downloads?

[Chris Bennett]

Hi Rafael,

> as if I am not mistaken the data get's written to the log
> *after* each session is completed

You are correct about squids access_log file, but sqtop uses squid's
manager interface to report on active HTTP(S) connections.  i.e for
the download of a large (1GB) file, sqtop will report that item,
attributed to the IP & user (if known) that originated the request,
for the whole duration of the download, including current and average
speed.  It answers the question "who is using proxy bandwidth *right
now*?" compared to other reports that analyse logs and report on
historical usage.

The screenshot on sqtop's page should give you an idea of what it
presents:
  http://sqtop.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/images/scr1_ui_big.png

Hopefully that makes it clearer?

Regards,

Chris