Squid Overlord controls a Squid service, including its configuration, lifetime, and logs interrogation. It facilitates black-box functionality testing by isolating generic HTTP proxy test case logic from Squid manipulation specifics. This overlord is a Perl script and a web service with RESTish API.
url=https://github.com/measurement-factory/squid-overlord/raw/stable/overlord.pl
curl -L $url | sudo -u nobody perl -
Use the right username if your Squid effective user is different from nobody.
| Method | URI | Description |
|---|---|---|
| POST | /reset | Shuts down Squid if it is running. Starts Squid with the configuration file created from the POST request body. |