Blue Coat ProxySG - How to find objects in the cache of the appliance.

There are a number of ways to determine if an object is being cached by the proxysg. Two methods are:
1. Querying the cache directly.
2. Inspecting the logs.

1. Querying the cache directly:
To find/view/see if an object is being cached we can query the cache directly by browsing to the absolute path of the object without the specification of the protocol. For example, if we were to browse to www.cisco.com we can find the object "home.min.js" is requested. The absolute path of this object is:
http://www.cisco.com/web/fw/j/home.min.js

Using this information we verify if the Blue Coat proxySG is caching this object. Simply attach the absolute path of the object to the Blue Coat URL minus the protocol. For example:
https://proxysg ip address:8082/CE/Info/http/www.cisco.com/web/fw/j/home.min.js

If the object is found then you should see a page with statistics regarding the object such as that below:


2. Inspecting the logs.

An object can also be verified to be in the cache by inspecting or looking at the logs. To do this start a tail in the management console or on the CLI:






In this scenario we have browsed to Cisco.com having been there before. As you can see we have many "HITS" indicating the object is being served from the proxy. There are also misses indicating the corresponding object has not been cached.