Squid CLI

A little utility to grab content from the web, as well as profile websites.

HTTP GET (url command)

Sends a GET request to specified link. In this case, a request was sent to linktree.edavalos.com/links

Ping (profile command)

Sends a specified ammount of requests to a website, returning the delay for each one and packet sizes. Below are some example results.

Results from a small website: linktree.edavalos.com

Results from a medium website: google.com

Results from a large website: github.com/mtxrii

Results from an invalid url

Usage & Compilation

To compile this yourself, you'll need Go.

Once installed, navigate to the root directory and run

go build

Alternatively you can use the makefile. If you have GNU/Make or are on Unix, simply run

make

Help

There are three commands:

• squid url <full url> - sends a get request and prints the results
• squid profile <ammount> <full url> - sends specified number of requests to specified url and profiles speeds
• squid help (cmd) - pulls up help menu