[squid-users] Status page error

[Alex Rousskov]

On 2025-04-11 01:08, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 11/04/25 03:47, Jonathan Lee wrote:
>> Hello fellow Squid users,
>>
>> Does anyone use pfSense squid package that knows a possible solution 
>> to this issue ? I have went as far as to remove all custom config and 
>> go to complete splice all and it still occurs with or without cache 
>> enabled and or squid guard enabled. It is something I just don’t know 
>> how to correct it. I worked on testing it in command line a while back 
>> but could not find a way to get the status page working again.
> 
>> Bug #15410: cache_object://URL Scheme is removed in Squid-6 - pfSense 
>> Packages - pfSense bugtracker <https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15410>
> 
> As discussed in that bug report the "cache_object://" scheme has been 
> replaced by "http://(visible_hostname):3128/squid-internal-mgr/"
> 
> * The scheme can be "https://" so long as the proxy listening port is 
> configured with the https_port directive.

... and as long as you are not using SMP Squid: SMP Squids do not yet 
support responding to certain(*) cache manager requests received on TLS 
connections.

Alex.

(*) Affected (i.e. TLS-incompatible) cache manager reports are the ones 
that do not fully aggregate reported information across SMP kids and, 
hence, have "by kidN" wrappers around kid-specific reports. For example, 
mgr:mem.



> * visible_hostname should be replaced by the contents of the 
> visible_hostname directive, or listening IP address. This is just one of 
> the many reasons that directive **needs** to be a DNS resolvable domain 
> name.
> 
> * The port 3128 can be another forward-proxy or an 'accel' mode port if 
> you wish. Cannot be an 'intercept' or 'tproxy' *_port, nor an https_port 
> with SSL-Bump enabled.
> 
> 
> FTR; What we are familiar with as an "index page" is not provided by the 
> Squid cache manager by default. I provide a basic UI at 
> <https://github.com/yadij/cachemgr.js> that makes accessing the reports 
> a bit easier for humans.
> 
> 
> HTH
> Amos
> 
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