Technical Note: Purging of specific cached content

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Description

This article gives the command to purge specific cached content.

Scope

FortiCache OS v4.1 and above.

Solution

execute webcache delete [pattern_type] [pattern_string]

For [pattern_type], there are 3 choices:

1. Simple - a simple string following the pattern [domain_string]:[port_string]/[path_string]
2. Wildcard - a wild card match following the pattern [domain_wildcard]:[port_wildcard]/[path_wildcard]
3. regexp - a perl regular expression

For example, to delete all cached content from www.domain.com/path

execute webcache delete simple www.domain.com:80/path

For example, to delete all content from .com www sites

execute webcache delete wildcard www.*.com:*/*

To verify the status of a purge request

execute webcache delete status