[squid-users] squidclient -h 127.0.0.1 -p 3128 mgr:info shows access denined

Mon Jul 22 18:13:17 UTC 2024

Can you try supplying a username to curl? It's also common practice to
put flags ('-u user:redacted') before arguments (the URL)

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 5:12 PM Jonathan Lee <jonathanlee571 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info
>
> I tried it and this also failed. Dang
>
> Shell Output - curl localhost:3128/squid-internal-mgr/info -u :redacted
>
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>
>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
> 100  3773  100  3773    0     0  90756      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 94325
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
> <html><head>
> <meta type="copyright" content="Copyright (C) 1996-2023 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors">
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> <title>ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved</title>
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> However I get a new error when attempting to connect over a web browser
>
> ERROR
>
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
> ________________________________
>
> Invalid Request error was encountered while trying to process the request:
>
> GET /squid-internal-mgr HTTP/1.1
> Host: lee_family.home.arpa:3128
> Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
> Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Safari/605.1.15
> Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> Connection: keep-alive
> DNT: 1
>
> Some possible problems are:
>
> Request is too large.
>
> Content-Length missing for POST or PUT requests.
>
> Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed.
>
> HTTP/1.1 Expect: feature is being asked from an HTTP/1.0 software.
>
> Your cache administrator is
>
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2024, at 04:42, Andrey K <ankor2023 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, Jonathan,
>
> > curl http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-mgr/info
>
> > Where would I place the password?
>
> I use the following configuration:
> http_access allow localhost  manager
> cachemgr_passwd redacted config
>
> The command to read the current running config is:
> curl localhost:3128/squid-internal-mgr/config -u :redacted
>
>
> Kind regards,
>       Ankor.
>
>
>
>
> чт, 18 июл. 2024 г. в 17:07, Alex Rousskov <rousskov at measurement-factory.com>:
>>
>> On 2024-07-18 00:55, Jonathan Lee wrote:
>>
>> > curl http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-mgr/info
>> >
>> > Where would I place the password?
>>
>> See "man curl" or online manual pages for curl. They will point you to
>> two relevant options: --user and --proxy-user. AFAICT, your particular
>> cache manager requests are sent _to_ the proxy (as if it were an origin
>> server) rather than _through_ the proxy. Thus, you should use --user.
>>
>> As I keep saying on this thread, due to Squid complications related to
>> Bug 5283, specifying seemingly correct client parameters may not be
>> enough to convince Squid to accept the cache manager request. I
>> recommend the following procedure:
>>
>> 1. List the corresponding http_port directive first, before any other
>> http_port, https_port, and ftp_port directives. Do not use interception
>> of any kind for this cache manager port.
>>
>> 2. Use curl with absolute squid-internal-mgr URLs with http scheme (like
>> you show above). Do _not_ use "curl --proxy" or similar. Do not use
>> https scheme.
>>
>> 3. In that absolute mgr URL, use the host name that matches
>> visible_hostname in squid.conf. If you do not have visible_hostname in
>> squid.conf, add it. This is not required, but, due to Squid bugs, it is
>> often much easier to get this to work with visible_hostname than without it.
>>
>> 4. Make (passwordless) mgr:info use case working first, before trying to
>> get password-protected pages working.
>>
>> 5. When you do specify a username and a password, remember that you are
>> sending this request to an (equivalent of) a service running on an
>> origin server, _not_ a proxy (hence --user rather than --proxy-user).
>>
>>
>> If you cannot figure it out despite carefully going through the above
>> steps, share (privately if needed) a pointer to compressed ALL,9
>> cache.log while reproducing the problem with throw-away credentials on
>> an idle Squid with a single curl request. Mention which step you got
>> stuck on.
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Alex.
>>
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