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f6e9a3ee 1## Copyright (C) 1996-2019 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors
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2##
3## Squid software is distributed under GPLv2+ license and includes
4## contributions from numerous individuals and organizations.
5## Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.
6##
9cef6668 7
0f74202c 8COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 9 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 10 ----------------------------
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11
12 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
13 This documentation can also be found online at:
14 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
15
16 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
17 FAQ and other documentation:
18 http://www.squid-cache.org/
19 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
20 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
21
22 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
23 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
24 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
25
26 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
27 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
28 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
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cccac0a2 30COMMENT_END
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592a09dc 32COMMENT_START
33 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 34 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 35 supported.
36
37 For example,
38
39 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
40
41 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
42 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
43 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
44 configuration files.
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46 Values with byte units
47
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48 Squid accepts size units on some size related directives. All
49 such directives are documented with a default value displaying
50 a unit.
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51
52 Units accepted by Squid are:
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53 bytes - byte
54 KB - Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
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55 MB - Megabyte
56 GB - Gigabyte
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58 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
59
60 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
61 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
62 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
63 disable that support.
64
65 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
66 files using the syntax:
67 parameters("/path/filename")
68 For example:
69 acl whitelist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/whitelist.txt")
70
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71 Conditional configuration
72
73 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
74 depend on conditions:
75
76 if <CONDITION>
77 ... regular configuration directives ...
78 [else
79 ... regular configuration directives ...]
80 endif
81
82 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
83 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
84 configuration directives.
85
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86 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
87
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88 These individual conditions types are supported:
89
90 true
91 Always evaluates to true.
92 false
93 Always evaluates to false.
94 <integer> = <integer>
95 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
96
97
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98 SMP-Related Macros
99
100 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
101
102 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
103 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
104
105 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
106 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
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107 across all Squid processes of the current service instance.
108
109 ${service_name} expands into the current Squid service instance
110 name identifier which is provided by -n on the command line.
111
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112 Logformat Macros
113
114 Logformat macros can be used in many places outside of the logformat
115 directive. In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros,
116 where they are supported. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) when
117 the transaction does not yet have enough information and a value is needed.
118
119 There is no definitive list of what tokens are available at the various
120 stages of the transaction.
121
122 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
123 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
124 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
125 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
126
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128
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129# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
130NAME: broken_vary_encoding
131TYPE: obsolete
132DOC_START
133 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
134DOC_END
135
136NAME: cache_vary
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
140DOC_END
141
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142NAME: error_map
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
146DOC_END
147
148NAME: external_refresh_check
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
152DOC_END
153
96598f93 154NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
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155TYPE: obsolete
156DOC_START
157 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
158DOC_END
159
96598f93 160NAME: refresh_stale_hit
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161TYPE: obsolete
162DOC_START
163 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
164DOC_END
165
6eb545bc 166# Options removed in 4.x
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167NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
168TYPE: obsolete
169DOC_START
170 Replace with dstdomain ACLs and cache_peer_access.
171DOC_END
172
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173NAME: ie_refresh
174TYPE: obsolete
175DOC_START
176 Remove this line. The behaviour enabled by this is no longer needed.
177DOC_END
178
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179NAME: sslproxy_cafile
180TYPE: obsolete
181DOC_START
182 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cafile= instead.
183DOC_END
184
185NAME: sslproxy_capath
186TYPE: obsolete
187DOC_START
188 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options capath= instead.
189DOC_END
190
191NAME: sslproxy_cipher
192TYPE: obsolete
193DOC_START
194 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cipher= instead.
195DOC_END
196
197NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
198TYPE: obsolete
199DOC_START
200 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cert= instead.
201DOC_END
202
203NAME: sslproxy_client_key
204TYPE: obsolete
205DOC_START
206 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options key= instead.
207DOC_END
208
209NAME: sslproxy_flags
210TYPE: obsolete
211DOC_START
212 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options flags= instead.
213DOC_END
214
215NAME: sslproxy_options
216TYPE: obsolete
217DOC_START
218 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
219DOC_END
220
221NAME: sslproxy_version
222TYPE: obsolete
223DOC_START
1cc44095 224 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
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225DOC_END
226
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227# Options removed in 3.5
228NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
229TYPE: obsolete
230DOC_START
231 Remove this line. Use always_direct or cache_peer_access ACLs instead if you need to prevent cache_peer use.
232DOC_END
233
a8f70484 234# Options removed in 3.4
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235NAME: log_access
236TYPE: obsolete
237DOC_START
238 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
239DOC_END
240
241NAME: log_icap
242TYPE: obsolete
243DOC_START
244 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
245DOC_END
246
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247# Options Removed in 3.3
248NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
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249TYPE: obsolete
250DOC_START
2d4eefd9 251 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now configured by 'cache_miss_revalidate'.
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252DOC_END
253
76f44481 254# Options Removed in 3.2
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255NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
256TYPE: obsolete
257DOC_START
258 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, this multiple-IP algorithm is not longer relevant.
259DOC_END
260
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261NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
262TYPE: obsolete
263DOC_START
264 Remove this line. Squid is now HTTP/1.1 compliant.
265DOC_END
266
74d81220 267NAME: dns_v4_fallback
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268TYPE: obsolete
269DOC_START
74d81220 270 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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271DOC_END
272
74d81220 273NAME: emulate_httpd_log
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274TYPE: obsolete
275DOC_START
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276 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
277DOC_END
278
279NAME: forward_log
280TYPE: obsolete
281DOC_START
282 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
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283DOC_END
284
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285NAME: ftp_list_width
286TYPE: obsolete
287DOC_START
288 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
289DOC_END
290
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291NAME: ignore_expect_100
292TYPE: obsolete
293DOC_START
294 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
295DOC_END
296
297NAME: log_fqdn
298TYPE: obsolete
299DOC_START
300 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
301DOC_END
302
303NAME: log_ip_on_direct
304TYPE: obsolete
305DOC_START
306 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
307DOC_END
308
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309NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
310TYPE: obsolete
311DOC_START
312 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
313DOC_END
314
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315NAME: referer_log referrer_log
316TYPE: obsolete
317DOC_START
318 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
319DOC_END
320
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321NAME: update_headers
322TYPE: obsolete
323DOC_START
324 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
325DOC_END
326
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327NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
328TYPE: obsolete
329DOC_START
330 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
331DOC_END
332
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333NAME: useragent_log
334TYPE: obsolete
335DOC_START
336 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
337DOC_END
338
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339# Options Removed in 3.1
340NAME: dns_testnames
341TYPE: obsolete
342DOC_START
343 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
344DOC_END
345
346NAME: extension_methods
347TYPE: obsolete
348DOC_START
349 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
350DOC_END
351
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352# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
353NAME: zero_buffers
354TYPE: obsolete
355DOC_NONE
356
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357# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
358NAME: incoming_rate
359TYPE: obsolete
360DOC_NONE
361
362NAME: server_http11
363TYPE: obsolete
364DOC_START
365 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
366DOC_END
367
368NAME: upgrade_http0.9
369TYPE: obsolete
370DOC_START
371 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
372DOC_END
373
374NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
375TYPE: obsolete
376DOC_START
377 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
378DOC_END
379
380# Options Removed in 3.0
381NAME: header_access
382TYPE: obsolete
383DOC_START
384 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
385 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
386DOC_END
387
388NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
389TYPE: obsolete
390DOC_START
391 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
392DOC_END
393
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394NAME: wais_relay_host
395TYPE: obsolete
396DOC_START
397 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
398DOC_END
399
400NAME: wais_relay_port
401TYPE: obsolete
402DOC_START
403 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
404DOC_END
405
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406COMMENT_START
407 OPTIONS FOR SMP
408 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
409COMMENT_END
410
411NAME: workers
412TYPE: int
413LOC: Config.workers
414DEFAULT: 1
415DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
416DOC_START
417 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
418 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
419 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
420 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
421
422 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
423 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
424DOC_END
425
426NAME: cpu_affinity_map
427TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
428LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
429DEFAULT: none
430DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
431DOC_START
432 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
433
434 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
435
436 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
437
438 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
439 four even cores, starting with core #1.
440
441 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
442 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
443
444 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
445
446 See also: workers
447DOC_END
448
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449NAME: shared_memory_locking
450TYPE: YesNoNone
451COMMENT: on|off
452LOC: Config.shmLocking
453DEFAULT: off
454DOC_START
455 Whether to ensure that all required shared memory is available by
456 "locking" that shared memory into RAM when Squid starts. The
457 alternative is faster startup time followed by slightly slower
458 performance and, if not enough RAM is actually available during
459 runtime, mysterious crashes.
460
461 SMP Squid uses many shared memory segments. These segments are
462 brought into Squid memory space using an mmap(2) system call. During
463 Squid startup, the mmap() call often succeeds regardless of whether
464 the system has enough RAM. In general, Squid cannot tell whether the
465 kernel applies this "optimistic" memory allocation policy (but
466 popular modern kernels usually use it).
467
468 Later, if Squid attempts to actually access the mapped memory
469 regions beyond what the kernel is willing to allocate, the
470 "optimistic" kernel simply kills Squid kid with a SIGBUS signal.
471 Some of the memory limits enforced by the kernel are currently
472 poorly understood: We do not know how to detect and check them. This
473 option ensures that the mapped memory will be available.
474
475 This option may have a positive performance side-effect: Locking
476 memory at start avoids runtime paging I/O. Paging slows Squid down.
477
478 Locking memory may require a large enough RLIMIT_MEMLOCK OS limit,
479 CAP_IPC_LOCK capability, or equivalent.
480DOC_END
481
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482NAME: hopeless_kid_revival_delay
483COMMENT: time-units
484TYPE: time_t
485LOC: Config.hopelessKidRevivalDelay
486DEFAULT: 1 hour
487DOC_START
488 Normally, when a kid process dies, Squid immediately restarts the
489 kid. A kid experiencing frequent deaths is marked as "hopeless" for
490 the duration specified by this directive. Hopeless kids are not
491 automatically restarted.
492
493 Currently, zero values are not supported because they result in
494 misconfigured SMP Squid instances running forever, endlessly
495 restarting each dying kid. To effectively disable hopeless kids
496 revival, set the delay to a huge value (e.g., 1 year).
497
498 Reconfiguration also clears all hopeless kids designations, allowing
499 for manual revival of hopeless kids.
500DOC_END
501
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41bd17a4 503 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 504 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
505COMMENT_END
506
41bd17a4 507NAME: auth_param
508TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 509IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5c112575 510LOC: Auth::TheConfig.schemes
cccac0a2 511DEFAULT: none
512DOC_START
41bd17a4 513 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
514 schemes supported by Squid.
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66c583dc 516 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 517
41bd17a4 518 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
519 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
520 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
521 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
522 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
523 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
524 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
525 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
526 program entry).
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41bd17a4 528 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
529 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
530 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
531 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
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41bd17a4 533 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
534 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
535 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
536 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
537 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
538 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
539 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
540 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
541 type acl.
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41bd17a4 543 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
544 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
545 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
546 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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547 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
548 authentication disabled.
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551
552 "program" cmdline
66c583dc 553 Specifies the command for the external authenticator.
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555 By default, each authentication scheme is not used unless a
556 program is specified.
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558 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers for
559 more details on helper operations and creating your own.
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561 "key_extras" format
562 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for
563 the authentication helper. "Quoted" format values may contain
564 spaces and logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro
565 can be used. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if
566 the helper request is sent before the required macro
567 information is available to Squid.
568
569 By default, Squid uses request formats provided in
570 scheme-specific examples below (search for %credentials).
571
572 The expanded key_extras value is added to the Squid credentials
573 cache and, hence, will affect authentication. It can be used to
574 autenticate different users with identical user names (e.g.,
575 when user authentication depends on http_port).
576
577 Avoid adding frequently changing information to key_extras. For
578 example, if you add user source IP, and it changes frequently
579 in your environment, then max_user_ip ACL is going to treat
580 every user+IP combination as a unique "user", breaking the ACL
581 and wasting a lot of memory on those user records. It will also
582 force users to authenticate from scratch whenever their IP
583 changes.
584
585 "realm" string
586 Specifies the protection scope (aka realm name) which is to be
587 reported to the client for the authentication scheme. It is
588 commonly part of the text the user will see when prompted for
589 their username and password.
590
591 For Basic the default is "Squid proxy-caching web server".
592 For Digest there is no default, this parameter is mandatory.
593 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
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595 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
596 [queue-size=N] [on-persistent-overload=action]
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598 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If
599 you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
600 a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it down. When
601 password verifications are done via a (slow) network you are
602 likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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604 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact
605 amount run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup
606 and reconfigure. Squid will start more in groups of up to
607 idle=N in an attempt to meet traffic needs and to keep idle=N
608 free above those traffic needs up to the maximum.
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610 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests
611 the helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers
612 who only supports one request at a time. Setting this to a
613 number greater than 0 changes the protocol used to include a
614 channel ID field first on the request/response line, allowing
615 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallel
616 without waiting for the response.
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618 Concurrency must not be set unless it's known the helper
619 supports the input format with channel-ID fields.
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621 The queue-size option sets the maximum number of queued
622 requests. A request is queued when no existing child can
623 accept it due to concurrency limit and no new child can be
624 started due to numberofchildren limit. The default maximum is
625 2*numberofchildren. Squid is allowed to temporarily exceed the
626 configured maximum, marking the affected helper as
627 "overloaded". If the helper overload lasts more than 3
628 minutes, the action prescribed by the on-persistent-overload
629 option applies.
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630
631 The on-persistent-overload=action option specifies Squid
632 reaction to a new helper request arriving when the helper
633 has been overloaded for more that 3 minutes already. The number
634 of queued requests determines whether the helper is overloaded
635 (see the queue-size option).
636
637 Two actions are supported:
638
639 die Squid worker quits. This is the default behavior.
640
641 ERR Squid treats the helper request as if it was
642 immediately submitted, and the helper immediately
643 replied with an ERR response. This action has no effect
644 on the already queued and in-progress helper requests.
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646 NOTE: NTLM and Negotiate schemes do not support concurrency
647 in the Squid code module even though some helpers can.
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649 "keep_alive" on|off
650 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
651 the NTLM or Negotiate schemes then you can try setting this
652 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
653 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
654 are supported by the proxy.
9e7dbc51 655
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658 "utf8" on|off
659 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
660 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
661 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
662 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
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664 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
665
666IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_BASIC
667 === Basic authentication parameters ===
668
41bd17a4 669 "credentialsttl" timetolive
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670 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
671 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
672 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
673 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.
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675 NOTE: setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
676 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
677 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
678 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
679 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
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681 "casesensitive" on|off
682 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases
683 are case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled
684 using both lower and upper case letters, but some are case
685 sensitive. This makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL
686 processing and similar.
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688ENDIF
689IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_DIGEST
690 === Digest authentication parameters ===
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41bd17a4 692 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
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693 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
694 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
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41bd17a4 696 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
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697 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
698 valid for.
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41bd17a4 700 "nonce_max_count" number
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702 used.
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41bd17a4 704 "nonce_strictness" on|off
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706 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
707 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
708 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 709
41bd17a4 710 "check_nonce_count" on|off
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712 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
713 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
714 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
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41bd17a4 716 "post_workaround" on|off
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718 incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing the
719 same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
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66c583dc 721ENDIF
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723 === Example Configuration ===
724
725 This configuration displays the recommended authentication scheme
726 order from most to least secure with recommended minimum configuration
727 settings for each scheme:
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41bd17a4 729#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 730#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
e0855596 731#
66c583dc 732#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 733#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 734#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
735#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
736#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
737#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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740#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
66c583dc 741#
41bd17a4 742#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 743#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 744#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 745DOC_END
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41bd17a4 747NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
5db226c8 748IFDEF: USE_AUTH
41bd17a4 749TYPE: time_t
750DEFAULT: 1 hour
00ef8d82 751LOC: Auth::TheConfig.garbageCollectInterval
41bd17a4 752DOC_START
753 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 754 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 755 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
756 have good reason to.
757DOC_END
cccac0a2 758
41bd17a4 759NAME: authenticate_ttl
5db226c8 760IFDEF: USE_AUTH
41bd17a4 761TYPE: time_t
762DEFAULT: 1 hour
00ef8d82 763LOC: Auth::TheConfig.credentialsTtl
41bd17a4 764DOC_START
765 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
766 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
767 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
768 TTL are removed from memory.
769DOC_END
cccac0a2 770
41bd17a4 771NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
5db226c8 772IFDEF: USE_AUTH
41bd17a4 773TYPE: time_t
00ef8d82 774LOC: Auth::TheConfig.ipTtl
c35dd848 775DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 776DOC_START
777 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
778 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
779 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
780 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 781 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 782 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
783 environment with relatively static address assignments.
784DOC_END
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3d1e3e43 786COMMENT_START
787 ACCESS CONTROLS
788 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
789COMMENT_END
790
41bd17a4 791NAME: external_acl_type
792TYPE: externalAclHelper
793LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 794DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 795DOC_START
41bd17a4 796 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
797 to look up the status
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262eaf9a 799 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT /path/to/helper [helper arguments]
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41bd17a4 801 Options:
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41bd17a4 803 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
cd0fd8a9 804 for 1 hour)
4f8d0a65 805
41bd17a4 806 negative_ttl=n
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808 as ttl)
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810 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
811 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
812 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
813
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815 default limit is 262144 entries. Each cache entry usually
816 consumes at least 256 bytes. Squid currently does not remove
817 expired cache entries until the limit is reached, so a proxy
818 will sooner or later reach the limit. The expanded FORMAT
819 value is used as the cache key, so if the details in FORMAT
820 are highly variable, a larger cache may be needed to produce
821 reduction in helper load.
4f8d0a65 822
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824 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
2ccfb9a7 825 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
4f8d0a65 826
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828 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
829 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
830 of this type. (default 0)
4f8d0a65 831
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833 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
834 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
835 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
836 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
4f8d0a65 837
41bd17a4 838 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
839 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
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842 queued requests. A request is queued when no existing
843 helper can accept it due to concurrency limit and no
844 new helper can be started due to children-max limit.
845 If the queued requests exceed queue size, the acl is
846 ignored. The default value is set to 2*children-max.
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848 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers.
849
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850 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
851 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 852
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855 of the accepted codes. Although note that at the time of any external ACL
856 being tested data may not be available and thus some %macro expand to '-'.
857
858 In addition to the logformat codes; when processing external ACLs these
859 additional macros are made available:
7b0ca1e8 860
ec2d5242 861 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
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864 'acl ... external' line, separated by spaces (an
865 "argument string"). see acl external.
866
867 If there are no ACL arguments %DATA expands to '-'.
868
869 If you do not specify a DATA macro inside FORMAT,
870 Squid automatically appends %DATA to your FORMAT.
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872 or nothing in this case.
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875 argument inside the argument string. If an explicit
876 encoding modifier is used (e.g., %#DATA), then Squid
877 encodes the whole argument string as a single token
878 (e.g., with %#DATA, spaces between arguments become
879 %20).
880
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882
883 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
884 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
885 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
886 %USER_CA_CERT_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
887
888
889 NOTE: all other format codes accepted by older Squid versions
890 are deprecated.
0db8942f 891
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894
0638f4a2 895 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values
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897
898 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
899 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
900 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
901
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903 each value in requests against whitespaces.
904
905 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
906 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
907
908 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
909
910 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
911 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
912 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
913 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
914 of the response relating to its request.
915
916
917 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
918 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
919 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
920
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41bd17a4 922 General result syntax:
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925
926 Result consists of one of the codes:
927
928 OK
929 the ACL test produced a match.
930
931 ERR
932 the ACL test does not produce a match.
933
934 BH
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937
938 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
939 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
cccac0a2 940
41bd17a4 941 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 943 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 944
41bd17a4 945 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
5269ec0e 946
05e52854 947 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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949 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
950
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952 does not alter existing tags.
5269ec0e 953
41bd17a4 954 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
cd0fd8a9 955 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 956
cd0fd8a9 957 clt_conn_tag= Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
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959 for this kv-pair.
457857fe 960
05e52854 961 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
6a566b9c 962
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964 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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966 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
967 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 968
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970
5269ec0e 971 user=John%20Smith
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972 user="John Smith"
973 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
cccac0a2 974DOC_END
975
41bd17a4 976NAME: acl
977TYPE: acl
978LOC: Config.aclList
cb4f4424 979IF USE_OPENSSL
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980DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
981DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
982DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
983DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
984DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
985ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 986DEFAULT: all src all
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987DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
988DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
989DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
2c56ee3c 990DEFAULT: CONNECT method CONNECT
29503899 991DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, to_localhost, and CONNECT are predefined.
cccac0a2 992DOC_START
41bd17a4 993 Defining an Access List
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995 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
996 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
997 they are read from.
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999 acl aclname acltype argument ...
1000 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 1001
375eeb3b 1002 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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1005 ACL Options
1006
1007 Some acl types supports options which changes their default behaviour:
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1009 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
1010 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
1011 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
1012 without -i.
1013
1014 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
1015 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
1016 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
1017 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
1018 without any warnings or lookups.
1019
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1021 Perform a list membership test, interpreting values as
1022 comma-separated token lists and matching against individual
1023 tokens instead of whole values.
1024 The optional "delimiters" parameter specifies one or more
1025 alternative non-alphanumeric delimiter characters.
1026 non-alphanumeric delimiter characters.
1027
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1029 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
1030 is a valid domain name)
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1033 to access some external data source.
1034 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
1035 don't are marked as [fast].
1036 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
1037 for further information
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1039 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
1040
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1041 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
1042 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 1043 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 1044 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
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1047 acl aclname arp mac-address ...
1048 acl aclname eui64 eui64-address ...
b3567eb5 1049 # [fast]
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1051 #
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1053 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other
1054 # BSD variants.
41bd17a4 1055 #
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1057 # and Squid built with --enable-eui for MAC/EUI addresses to be
1058 # available for this ACL.
1059 #
1060 # Squid can only determine the MAC/EUI address for IPv4
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1062 # different subnet, then Squid cannot find out its address.
1063 #
a85f0df5 1064 # IPv6 protocol does not contain ARP. MAC/EUI is either
abe01913 1065 # encoded directly in the IPv6 address or not available.
a85f0df5 1066endif
653d9927 1067 acl aclname clientside_mark mark[/mask] ...
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1069 # DEPRECATED. Use the 'client_connection_mark' instead.
1070
1071 acl aclname client_connection_mark mark[/mask] ...
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1073 #
1074 # mark and mask are unsigned integers (hex, octal, or decimal).
1075 # If multiple marks are given, then the ACL matches if at least
1076 # one mark matches.
1077 #
1078 # Uses netfilter-conntrack library.
1079 # Requires building Squid with --enable-linux-netfilter.
1080 #
1081 # The client, various intermediaries, and Squid itself may set
1082 # CONNMARK at various times. The last CONNMARK set wins. This ACL
1083 # checks the mark present on an accepted connection or set by
1084 # Squid afterwards, depending on the ACL check timing. This ACL
1085 # effectively ignores any mark set by other agents after Squid has
1086 # accepted the connection.
1087
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1089 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 1090 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 1091 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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1093 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 1094 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 1095 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 1096 #
41bd17a4 1097 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
1098 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
1099 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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1102 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 1103 # [fast]
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1105 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
1106 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
1107 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
1108 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
1109 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
1110 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 1111
6db78a1a 1112 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
a85f0df5 1113 acl aclname peername_regex [-i] regex-pattern ...
b3567eb5 1114 # [fast]
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1116 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
1117
375eeb3b 1118 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 1119 # [fast]
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1121 # S - Sunday
1122 # M - Monday
1123 # T - Tuesday
1124 # W - Wednesday
1125 # H - Thursday
1126 # F - Friday
1127 # A - Saturday
1128 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
1129
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1131 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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1132 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
1133 # regex matching on URL login field
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1134 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
1135 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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1138 # ranges are alloed
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1139 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
1140 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
1141
3cc0f4e7 1142 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # *_port name [fast]
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1145
1146 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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1149 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 1151 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1152 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 1154 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1155 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 1156 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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d4c6acac 1158 acl aclname ident [-i] username ...
41bd17a4 1159 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1160 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 1161 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 1162
41bd17a4 1163 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
1164 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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1166 # supplied credentials [slow]
1167 #
1168 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 1169 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
1170 #
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1172 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
1173 #
41bd17a4 1174 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
1175 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
1176 # in access.log.
1177 #
1178 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
1179 # to check username/password combinations (see
1180 # auth_param directive).
1181 #
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1183 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 1184 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 1185
41bd17a4 1186 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 1187 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 1188 # Example:
1189 #
1190 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 1192 acl aclname maxconn number
1193 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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1195 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
1196 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 1197
41bd17a4 1198 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
1199 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
1200 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 1201 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 1202 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
1203 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
1204 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
1205 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
1206 # request is denied)
1207 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
1208 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
1209 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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1212 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
1213 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
1214 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
1215
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41bd17a4 1217 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
1218 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 1219 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 1220 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1221 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 1222
41bd17a4 1223 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1224 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1225 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1226 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 1227
375eeb3b 1228 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1229 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1230 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1231 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1232 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1233 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1234 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 1235
41bd17a4 1236 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1237 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1238 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1239 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 1240
375eeb3b 1241 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1242 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1243 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 1244
41bd17a4 1245 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1246 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
2927ae41 1247 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1248
41bd17a4 1249 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1250 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
2927ae41 1251 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1252
d4c6acac 1253 acl aclname ext_user [-i] username ...
41bd17a4 1254 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1255 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1256 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1257
0ab50441 1258 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
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1259 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [fast]
1260 # DEPRECATED. Only the first tag will match with this ACL.
1261 # Use the 'note' ACL instead for handling multiple tag values.
cccac0a2 1262
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1263 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
1264 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1265 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1266 #
1267 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1268 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1269 # http_reply_access.
1270
76ee67ac 1271 acl aclname note [-m[=delimiters]] name [value ...]
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1272 # match transaction annotation [fast]
1273 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
1274 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
1275 # also has one of the given values.
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1276 # If the -m flag is used, then the value of the named
1277 # annotation is interpreted as a list of tokens, and the ACL
1278 # matches individual name=token pairs rather than whole
1279 # name=value pairs. See "ACL Options" above for more info.
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1280 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
1281 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
1282
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1283 acl aclname annotate_transaction [-m[=delimiters]] key=value ...
1284 acl aclname annotate_transaction [-m[=delimiters]] key+=value ...
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1285 # Always matches. [fast]
1286 # Used for its side effect: This ACL immediately adds a
1287 # key=value annotation to the current master transaction.
1288 # The added annotation can then be tested using note ACL and
1289 # logged (or sent to helpers) using %note format code.
1290 #
1291 # Annotations can be specified using replacement and addition
1292 # formats. The key=value form replaces old same-key annotation
1293 # value(s). The key+=value form appends a new value to the old
1294 # same-key annotation. Both forms create a new key=value
1295 # annotation if no same-key annotation exists already. If
1296 # -m flag is used, then the value is interpreted as a list
1297 # and the annotation will contain key=token pair(s) instead of the
1298 # whole key=value pair.
1299 #
1300 # This ACL is especially useful for recording complex multi-step
1301 # ACL-driven decisions. For example, the following configuration
1302 # avoids logging transactions accepted after aclX matched:
1303 #
1304 # # First, mark transactions accepted after aclX matched
1305 # acl markSpecial annotate_transaction special=true
1306 # http_access allow acl001
1307 # ...
1308 # http_access deny acl100
1309 # http_access allow aclX markSpecial
1310 #
1311 # # Second, do not log marked transactions:
1312 # acl markedSpecial note special true
1313 # access_log ... deny markedSpecial
1314 #
1315 # # Note that the following would not have worked because aclX
1316 # # alone does not determine whether the transaction was allowed:
1317 # access_log ... deny aclX # Wrong!
1318 #
1319 # Warning: This ACL annotates the transaction even when negated
1320 # and even if subsequent ACLs fail to match. For example, the
1321 # following three rules will have exactly the same effect as far
1322 # as annotations set by the "mark" ACL are concerned:
1323 #
1324 # some_directive acl1 ... mark # rule matches if mark is reached
1325 # some_directive acl1 ... !mark # rule never matches
1326 # some_directive acl1 ... mark !all # rule never matches
1327
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1329 acl aclname annotate_client [-m[=delimiters]] key+=value ...
75d47340 1330 #
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1331 # Always matches. [fast]
1332 # Used for its side effect: This ACL immediately adds a
1333 # key=value annotation to the current client-to-Squid
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1335 # and all future master transactions on the annotated connection.
1336 # See the annotate_transaction ACL for details.
1337 #
1338 # For example, the following configuration avoids rewriting URLs
1339 # of transactions bumped by SslBump:
1340 #
1341 # # First, mark bumped connections:
1342 # acl markBumped annotate_client bumped=true
1343 # ssl_bump peek acl1
1344 # ssl_bump stare acl2
1345 # ssl_bump bump acl3 markBumped
1346 # ssl_bump splice all
1347 #
1348 # # Second, do not send marked transactions to the redirector:
1349 # acl markedBumped note bumped true
1350 # url_rewrite_access deny markedBumped
1351 #
1352 # # Note that the following would not have worked because acl3 alone
1353 # # does not determine whether the connection is going to be bumped:
1354 # url_rewrite_access deny acl3 # Wrong!
1355
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1357 # Matches the name of any icap_service, ecap_service,
1358 # adaptation_service_set, or adaptation_service_chain that Squid
1359 # has used (or attempted to use) for the master transaction.
1360 # This ACL must be defined after the corresponding adaptation
1361 # service is named in squid.conf. This ACL is usable with
1362 # adaptation_meta because it starts matching immediately after
1363 # the service has been selected for adaptation.
1364
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1366 # Matches transaction's initiator [fast]
1367 #
1368 # Supported initiators are:
1369 # esi: matches transactions fetching ESI resources
1370 # certificate-fetching: matches transactions fetching
1371 # a missing intermediate TLS certificate
1372 # cache-digest: matches transactions fetching Cache Digests
1373 # from a cache_peer
1374 # htcp: matches HTCP requests from peers
1375 # icp: matches ICP requests to peers
1376 # icmp: matches ICMP RTT database (NetDB) requests to peers
1377 # asn: matches asns db requests
1378 # internal: matches any of the above
1379 # client: matches transactions containing an HTTP or FTP
1380 # client request received at a Squid *_port
1381 # all: matches any transaction, including internal transactions
1382 # without a configurable initiator and hopefully rare
1383 # transactions without a known-to-Squid initiator
1384 #
1385 # Multiple initiators are ORed.
1386
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1388 # matches a transaction "component" [fast]
1389 #
1390 # Supported transaction components are:
1391 # request: transaction has a request header (at least)
1392 # response: transaction has a response header (at least)
1393 # ALE: transaction has an internally-generated Access Log Entry
1394 # structure; bugs notwithstanding, all transaction have it
1395 #
1396 # For example, the following configuration helps when dealing with HTTP
1397 # clients that close connections without sending a request header:
1398 #
1399 # acl hasRequest has request
1400 # acl logMe note important_transaction
1401 # # avoid "logMe ACL is used in context without an HTTP request" warnings
1402 # access_log ... logformat=detailed hasRequest logMe
1403 # # log request-less transactions, instead of ignoring them
1404 # access_log ... logformat=brief !hasRequest
1405 #
1406 # Multiple components are not supported for one "acl" rule, but
1407 # can be specified (and are ORed) using multiple same-name rules:
1408 #
1409 # # OK, this strange logging daemon needs request or response,
1410 # # but can work without either a request or a response:
1411 # acl hasWhatMyLoggingDaemonNeeds has request
1412 # acl hasWhatMyLoggingDaemonNeeds has response
1413
cb4f4424 1414IF USE_OPENSSL
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1415 acl aclname ssl_error errorname
1416 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1417 #
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1419 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1420 #
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1421 # The following can be used as shortcuts for certificate properties:
1422 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1423 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1424 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1425 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1426 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1427 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1428 #
1429 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1430 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1431 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1432 #
1433 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1434 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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72b12f9e 1436 acl aclname server_cert_fingerprint [-sha1] fingerprint
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1438 #
1439 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1440 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1441 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1442 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1443 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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1447 # Never matches and should not be used outside the ssl_bump context.
1448 #
1449 # At each SslBump step, Squid evaluates ssl_bump directives to find
1450 # the next bumping action (e.g., peek or splice). Valid SslBump step
1451 # values and the corresponding ssl_bump evaluation moments are:
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1453 # SslBump2: After getting SSL Client Hello info.
1454 # SslBump3: After getting SSL Server Hello info.
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4f6990ec 1456 acl aclname ssl::server_name [option] .foo.com ...
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1457 # matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
1458 #
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1459 # The ACL computes server name(s) using such information sources as
1460 # CONNECT request URI, TLS client SNI, and TLS server certificate
1461 # subject (CN and SubjectAltName). The computed server name(s) usually
1462 # change with each SslBump step, as more info becomes available:
1463 # * SNI is used as the server name instead of the request URI,
1464 # * subject name(s) from the server certificate (CN and
1465 # SubjectAltName) are used as the server names instead of SNI.
1466 #
1467 # When the ACL computes multiple server names, matching any single
1468 # computed name is sufficient for the ACL to match.
1469 #
1470 # The "none" name can be used to match transactions where the ACL
8d9e6d7f 1471 # could not compute the server name using any information source
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1473 # the ACL evaluation time.
1474 #
1475 # Unlike dstdomain, this ACL does not perform DNS lookups.
1476 #
1477 # An ACL option below may be used to restrict what information
1478 # sources are used to extract the server names from:
1479 #
1480 # --client-requested
1481 # The server name is SNI regardless of what the server says.
1482 # --server-provided
1483 # The server name(s) are the certificate subject name(s), regardless
1484 # of what the client has requested. If the server certificate is
1485 # unavailable, then the name is "none".
1486 # --consensus
1487 # The server name is either SNI (if SNI matches at least one of the
1488 # certificate subject names) or "none" (otherwise). When the server
1489 # certificate is unavailable, the consensus server name is SNI.
1490 #
1491 # Combining multiple options in one ACL is a fatal configuration
1492 # error.
1493 #
1494 # For all options: If no SNI is available, then the CONNECT request
1495 # target (a.k.a. URI) is used instead of SNI (for an intercepted
1496 # connection, this target is the destination IP address).
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1498 acl aclname ssl::server_name_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
1499 # regex matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
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1501 acl aclname connections_encrypted
1502 # matches transactions with all HTTP messages received over TLS
1503 # transport connections. [fast]
1504 #
1505 # The master transaction deals with HTTP messages received from
1506 # various sources. All sources used by the master transaction in the
1507 # past are considered by the ACL. The following rules define whether
1508 # a given message source taints the entire master transaction,
1509 # resulting in ACL mismatches:
1510 #
1511 # * The HTTP client transport connection is not TLS.
1512 # * An adaptation service connection-encryption flag is off.
1513 # * The peer or origin server transport connection is not TLS.
1514 #
1515 # Caching currently does not affect these rules. This cache ignorance
1516 # implies that only the current HTTP client transport and REQMOD
1517 # services status determine whether this ACL matches a from-cache
1518 # transaction. The source of the cached response does not have any
1519 # effect on future transaction that use the cached response without
1520 # revalidation. This may change.
1521 #
1522 # DNS, ICP, and HTCP exchanges during the master transaction do not
1523 # affect these rules.
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1525 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1526 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1527 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1528 #
1529 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1530 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1531 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1532 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1533 #
1534 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1535 # and slow otherwise.
1536
1537 acl aclname all-of acl1 acl2 ...
1538 # match all of the acls [fast or slow]
1539 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1540 #
1541 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1542 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1543 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1544 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1545 #
1546 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1547 # and slow otherwise.
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1549 Examples:
1550 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1551 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1552 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1553 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1554 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 1555
41bd17a4 1556NOCOMMENT_START
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1558# Recommended minimum configuration:
1559#
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ee776778 1561# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1562# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1563# should be allowed
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1564acl localnet src 0.0.0.1-0.255.255.255 # RFC 1122 "this" network (LAN)
1565acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1566acl localnet src 100.64.0.0/10 # RFC 6598 shared address space (CGN)
7c392424 1567acl localnet src 169.254.0.0/16 # RFC 3927 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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1568acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1569acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1570acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1571acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1573acl SSL_ports port 443
1574acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1575acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1576acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1577acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1578acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1579acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1580acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1581acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1582acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1583acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
41bd17a4 1584NOCOMMENT_END
1585DOC_END
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d3d92daa 1587NAME: proxy_protocol_access
3d674977 1588TYPE: acl_access
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1589LOC: Config.accessList.proxyProtocol
1590DEFAULT: none
c390580b 1591DEFAULT_DOC: all TCP connections to ports with require-proxy-header will be denied
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1592DOC_START
1593 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1594 information regarding real client IP address using PROXY protocol.
1595
1596 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1597 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1598 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1599 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1600 * PROXY protocol connection header.
1601
1602 This directive is solely for validating new PROXY protocol
1603 connections received from a port flagged with require-proxy-header.
1604 It is checked only once after TCP connection setup.
1605
1606 A deny match results in TCP connection closure.
1607
1608 An allow match is required for Squid to permit the corresponding
1609 TCP connection, before Squid even looks for HTTP request headers.
1610 If there is an allow match, Squid starts using PROXY header information
1611 to determine the source address of the connection for all future ACL
1612 checks, logging, etc.
1613
1614 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1615
c390580b 1616 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
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1617 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
1618 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1619 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1620 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1621 based on the client's source addresses.
1622
1623 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1624 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1625DOC_END
1626
1627NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1628TYPE: acl_access
1629IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
3d674977 1630LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1631DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
9353df52 1632DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
3d674977 1633DOC_START
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1634 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1635 information regarding real client IP address.
1636
3d674977 1637 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
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1638 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1639 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1640 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1641 * PROXY protocol connection header.
3d674977 1642
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1644 directive which is checked before this.
1645
3d674977 1646 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
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1647 directive, then we trust the information it provides regarding
1648 the IP of the client it received from (if any).
1649
1650 For the purpose of ACLs used in this directive the src ACL type always
1651 matches the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
1652
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1653 On each HTTP request Squid checks for X-Forwarded-For header fields.
1654 If found the header values are iterated in reverse order and an allow
1655 match is required for Squid to continue on to the next value.
1656 The verification ends when a value receives a deny match, cannot be
1657 tested, or there are no more values to test.
1658 NOTE: Squid does not yet follow the Forwarded HTTP header.
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1659
1660 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1661 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1662 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1663 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1664 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
1665 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1668 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1669
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1670 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1671
c390580b 1672 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
70a16fea 1673 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
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1674 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1675 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1676 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1677 based on the client's source addresses.
1678
1679 For example:
1680
1681 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1682 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1683 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1684 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
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1686
1687NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1688COMMENT: on|off
1689TYPE: onoff
1690IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1691DEFAULT: on
1692LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1693DOC_START
1694 Controls whether the indirect client address
1695 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1696 direct client address in acl matching.
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1698 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1699 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1701
1702NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1703COMMENT: on|off
1704TYPE: onoff
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1706DEFAULT: on
1707LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1708DOC_START
1709 Controls whether the indirect client address
1710 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1711 direct client address in delay pools.
1712DOC_END
1713
1714NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1715COMMENT: on|off
1716TYPE: onoff
1717IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1718DEFAULT: on
1719LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1720DOC_START
1721 Controls whether the indirect client address
1722 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1723 direct client address in the access log.
1724DOC_END
1725
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1726NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1727COMMENT: on|off
1728TYPE: onoff
1729IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1730DEFAULT: off
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1731LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1732DOC_START
1733 Controls whether the indirect client address
1734 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1735 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1736
1737 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1738 mode ports.
1739
1740 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1741 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
16ae256c 1742 of follow_x_forwarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1743 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1746NAME: spoof_client_ip
1747TYPE: acl_access
1748LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1749DEFAULT: none
1750DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1751DOC_START
1752 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1753 defined access lists.
1754
1755 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1756
1757 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1758 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1759
1760 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1761
1762 This clause supports fast acl types.
1763 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1764DOC_END
1765
41bd17a4 1766NAME: http_access
1767TYPE: acl_access
1768LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1769DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1770DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1771DOC_START
1772 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1773
8a2f40dd 1774 To allow or deny a message received on an HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP port:
41bd17a4 1775 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1776
41bd17a4 1777 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1778
41bd17a4 1779 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1780 the request.
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41bd17a4 1782 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1783 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1784 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1785 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1787 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1790 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1791
41bd17a4 1792NOCOMMENT_START
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1794#
1795# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1796#
e0855596 1797# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1798http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1800# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1801http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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1804http_access allow localhost manager
1805http_access deny manager
1806
41bd17a4 1807# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1808# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1809# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1810#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1812#
1813# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1814#
c8f4eac4 1815
ee776778 1816# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1817# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1818# from where browsing should be allowed
1819http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1820http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1821
41bd17a4 1822# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1823http_access deny all
1824NOCOMMENT_END
1825DOC_END
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1828TYPE: acl_access
1829LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1830DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1831DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1833 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1834
1835 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1836 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1837 output.
1838
1839 If not set then only http_access is used.
1840DOC_END
1841
41bd17a4 1842NAME: http_reply_access
1843TYPE: acl_access
1844LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1845DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1846DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1847DOC_START
1848 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1849
41bd17a4 1850 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1851
41bd17a4 1852 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1853 all replies.
1a224843 1854
41bd17a4 1855 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1856 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1857 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1859 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1860 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1861DOC_END
1862
41bd17a4 1863NAME: icp_access
1864TYPE: acl_access
1865LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1867DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1868DOC_START
41bd17a4 1869 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1870 access lists
5473c134 1871
41bd17a4 1872 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1873
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1875 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1876 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1877
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1879 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1881# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1883#icp_access deny all
5473c134 1884DOC_END
1885
41bd17a4 1886NAME: htcp_access
1887IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1888TYPE: acl_access
1889LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1891DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1892DOC_START
41bd17a4 1893 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1894 access lists
5473c134 1895
41bd17a4 1896 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1897
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1899 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
5473c134 1900
0b48417e 1901 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1902 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1903 using the htcp option.
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1906 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1908# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1910#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1911DOC_END
5473c134 1912
41bd17a4 1913NAME: htcp_clr_access
1914IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1915TYPE: acl_access
1916LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1918DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1919DOC_START
1920 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1922 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1923
41bd17a4 1924 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1927 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1929# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1930acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1931htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1932htcp_clr_access deny all
5473c134 1933DOC_END
1934
41bd17a4 1935NAME: miss_access
1936TYPE: acl_access
1937LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1938DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1939DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1940DOC_START
18d1eddf 1941 Determines whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
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1943 For example;
1944 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1945 a parent.
5473c134 1946
638402dd 1947 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1948 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1949 miss_access allow all
5473c134 1950
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1952 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1953 objects (HITs).
1954
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1956 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1958 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1959 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1960DOC_END
1961
1962NAME: ident_lookup_access
1963TYPE: acl_access
1964IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1966DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1967LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1968DOC_START
41bd17a4 1969 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1970 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1971 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1972 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1973 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1974 any requests.
5473c134 1975
41bd17a4 1976 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1977 can follow this example:
5473c134 1978
4daaf3cb 1979 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1980 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1981 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1982
4daaf3cb 1983 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1984 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1985 the correct result.
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1987 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1988 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1989DOC_END
5473c134 1990
5b0f5383 1991NAME: reply_body_max_size
1992COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1993TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1994DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1995DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1996LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1997DOC_START
1998 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1999 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
2000 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
2001 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
2002 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
2003 for this reply.
2004
2005 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
2006 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
2007 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
2008 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
2009 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
2010 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
2011 and they will receive a partial reply.
2012
2013 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
2014 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
2015 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
2016 use this option if you have downstream caches.
2017
2018 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
2019 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
2020 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
2021 the size of your largest error page.
2022
2023 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
2024 no limit imposed.
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2026 Configuration Format is:
2027 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
2028 ie.
2029 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
2030
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2034TYPE: on_unsupported_protocol
2035LOC: Config.accessList.on_unsupported_protocol
2036DEFAULT: none
2037DEFAULT_DOC: Respond with an error message to unidentifiable traffic
2038DOC_START
2039 Determines Squid behavior when encountering strange requests at the
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2041 CONNECT tunnel. Controlling Squid reaction to unexpected traffic is
2042 especially useful in interception environments where Squid is likely
2043 to see connections for unsupported protocols that Squid should either
2044 terminate or tunnel at TCP level.
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2046 on_unsupported_protocol <action> [!]acl ...
2047
56d089f3 2048 The first matching action wins. Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2050 Supported actions are:
2051
2052 tunnel: Establish a TCP connection with the intended server and
2053 blindly shovel TCP packets between the client and server.
2054
2055 respond: Respond with an error message, using the transfer protocol
2056 for the Squid port that received the request (e.g., HTTP
2057 for connections intercepted at the http_port). This is the
2058 default.
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2060 Squid expects the following traffic patterns:
2061
2062 http_port: a plain HTTP request
2063 https_port: SSL/TLS handshake followed by an [encrypted] HTTP request
2064 ftp_port: a plain FTP command (no on_unsupported_protocol support yet!)
2065 CONNECT tunnel on http_port: same as https_port
2066 CONNECT tunnel on https_port: same as https_port
2067
9155253a 2068 Currently, this directive has effect on intercepted connections and
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2070 cannot know the intended destination of other traffic.
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2072 For example:
2073 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving non-HTTP traffic:
2074 acl foreignProtocol squid_error ERR_PROTOCOL_UNKNOWN ERR_TOO_BIG
2075 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving nothing:
2076 acl serverTalksFirstProtocol squid_error ERR_REQUEST_START_TIMEOUT
2077 # tunnel everything that does not look like HTTP:
2078 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel foreignProtocol
2079 # tunnel if we think the client waits for the server to talk first:
2080 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel serverTalksFirstProtocol
2081 # in all other error cases, just send an HTTP "error page" response:
2082 on_unsupported_protocol respond all
2083
2084 See also: squid_error ACL
2085DOC_END
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2088TYPE: AuthSchemes
2089IFDEF: USE_AUTH
2090LOC: Auth::TheConfig.schemeAccess
2091DEFAULT: none
2092DEFAULT_DOC: use all auth_param schemes in their configuration order
2093DOC_START
2094 Use this directive to customize authentication schemes presence and
2095 order in Squid's Unauthorized and Authentication Required responses.
2096
2097 auth_schemes scheme1,scheme2,... [!]aclname ...
2098
2099 where schemeN is the name of one of the authentication schemes
2100 configured using auth_param directives. At least one scheme name is
2101 required. Multiple scheme names are separated by commas. Either
2102 avoid whitespace or quote the entire schemes list.
2103
2104 A special "ALL" scheme name expands to all auth_param-configured
2105 schemes in their configuration order. This directive cannot be used
2106 to configure Squid to offer no authentication schemes at all.
2107
2108 The first matching auth_schemes rule determines the schemes order
2109 for the current Authentication Required transaction. Note that the
2110 future response is not yet available during auth_schemes evaluation.
2111
2112 If this directive is not used or none of its rules match, then Squid
2113 responds with all configured authentication schemes in the order of
2114 auth_param directives in the configuration file.
2115
2116 This directive does not determine when authentication is used or
2117 how each authentication scheme authenticates clients.
2118
2119 The following example sends basic and negotiate authentication
2120 schemes, in that order, when requesting authentication of HTTP
2121 requests matching the isIE ACL (not shown) while sending all
2122 auth_param schemes in their configuration order to other clients:
2123
2124 auth_schemes basic,negotiate isIE
2125 auth_schemes ALL all # explicit default
2126
2127 This directive supports fast ACLs only.
2128
2129 See also: auth_param.
2130DOC_END
2131
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2133 NETWORK OPTIONS
2134 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2135COMMENT_END
2136
2137NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 2138TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 2139DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 2140LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 2141DOC_START
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2143 hostname:port [mode] [options]
2144 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 2145
2146 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
2147 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
2148 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
2149 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
2150 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 2151 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 2152 address, so you can use the port number alone.
2153
2154 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
2155 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
2156
2157 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
2158 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
2159 be plain proxy ports with no options.
2160
2161 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
2162
c7b1dd5d 2163 Modes:
5b0f5383 2164
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2166 traffic to this Squid port.
2167 NP: disables authentication on the port.
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2170 of outgoing connections using the client IP address.
2171 NP: disables authentication on the port.
5b0f5383 2172
7f45065d 2173 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 2174
caf3666d 2175 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 2176 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 2177 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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2179 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
2180
7a957a93 2181 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
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2184 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
2185
2186
2187 Accelerator Mode Options:
2188
5b0f5383 2189 defaultsite=domainname
2190 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
2191 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
2192 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 2193
cf673853 2194 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 2195
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2197 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
2198 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
2199 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
2200 produce a FATAL error.
2201 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
5b0f5383 2202
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2204 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 2205
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2207 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 2208
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2210 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
2211 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
2212 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 2213
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2215
7f45065d 2216 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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2218
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2220 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
2221 never_direct was used.
2222
2223 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
2224 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
2225 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
2226 http_access rules when using this.
2227
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2229 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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2231
2232 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
2233 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
2234 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
2235 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
2236 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
2237 certificate will be selfsigned.
2238 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
2239 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
2240 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
2241 years.
2242 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
2243 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
2244
2245 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
2246 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
2247 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 2248 default value is 4MB.
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2250 TLS / SSL Options:
c7b1dd5d 2251
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2253 to be used in the TLS handshake ServerHello.
c7b1dd5d 2254
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2256 feature it must allow HTTP server usage, along with
2257 any additional restrictions imposed by your choice
2258 of options= settings.
2259
2260 When OpenSSL is used this file may also contain a
2261 chain of intermediate CA certificates to send in the
2262 TLS handshake.
2263
2264 When GnuTLS is used this option (and any paired
2265 tls-key= option) may be repeated to load multiple
2266 certificates for different domains.
2267
2268 Also, when generate-host-certificates=on is configured
2269 the first tls-cert= option must be a CA certificate
2270 capable of signing the automatically generated
2271 certificates.
2272
2273 tls-key= Path to a file containing private key file (PEM format)
2274 for the previous tls-cert= option.
2275
2276 If tls-key= is not specified tls-cert= is assumed to
2277 reference a PEM file containing both the certificate
2278 and private key.
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c7b1dd5d 2280 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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2282 additional settings. If those settings are
2283 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
2284 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 2285
943c5f16 2286 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 2287 being:
7905e7be 2288
3d96b0e8 2289 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 2290
3d96b0e8 2291 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1f1f29e8 2292
3d96b0e8 2293 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1f1f29e8 2294
3d96b0e8 2295 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1f1f29e8 2296
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2298 Always create a new key when using
c7b1dd5d 2299 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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2302 Enable ephemeral ECDH key exchange.
2303 The adopted curve should be specified
2304 using the tls-dh option.
2305
36092741 2306 NO_TICKET
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2308 Some servers may have problems
2309 understanding the TLS extension due
2310 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2311
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2313 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2314 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2315 strength to some attacks.
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2317 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2318 more complete list.
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2320 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
2321 requesting a client certificate.
2322
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2324 client certificates. If not configured clientca will be
2325 used. May be repeated to load multiple files.
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2327 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
2328 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
86a84cc0 2329 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
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2331 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
2332 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
2333 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
2334
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2336 File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral DH key
2337 exchanges, optionally prefixed by a curve for ephemeral ECDH
2338 key exchanges.
2339 See OpenSSL documentation for details on how to create the
2340 DH parameter file. Supported curves for ECDH can be listed
2341 using the "openssl ecparam -list_curves" command.
2342 WARNING: EDH and EECDH ciphers will be silently disabled if
2343 this option is not set.
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2344
2345 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
2346 DELAYED_AUTH
2347 Don't request client certificates
2348 immediately, but wait until acl processing
2349 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
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2350 NO_SESSION_REUSE
2351 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
2352 will result in a new SSL session.
2353 VERIFY_CRL
2354 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
2355 certificates.
2356 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
2357 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
2358 client certificate chain.
2359
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2360 tls-default-ca[=off]
2361 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is OFF.
8b253b83 2362
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2363 tls-no-npn Do not use the TLS NPN extension to advertise HTTP/1.1.
2364
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2365 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
2366
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2367 Other Options:
2368
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2369 connection-auth[=on|off]
2370 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
2371 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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2372 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
2373
5b0f5383 2374 disable-pmtu-discovery=
2375 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
2376 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
2377 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
2378 support is enabled.
2379 always disable always PMTU discovery.
2380
2381 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
2382 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
2383 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
2384 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
2385 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
2386 have such setup and experience that certain clients
2387 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
2388 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
2389
81b6e9a7 2390 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
2391 the port specification (port or addr:port)
2392
68924b6d 2393 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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2394 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections.
2395 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
2396 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 2397 timeout the time before giving up.
2398
d3d92daa 2399 require-proxy-header
151ba0d4 2400 Require PROXY protocol version 1 or 2 connections.
d3d92daa 2401 The proxy_protocol_access is required to whitelist
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2402 downstream proxies which can be trusted.
2403
5b0f5383 2404 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
2405 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
2406 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
2407 visible on the internal address.
2408
2409NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 2410
5b0f5383 2411# Squid normally listens to port 3128
2412http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
2413NOCOMMENT_END
2414DOC_END
2415
2416NAME: https_port
339e4d7a 2417IFDEF: USE_GNUTLS||USE_OPENSSL
65d448bc 2418TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 2419DEFAULT: none
339e4d7a 2420LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 2421DOC_START
51e09c08 2422 Usage: [ip:]port [mode] tls-cert=certificate.pem [options]
5b0f5383 2423
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2424 The socket address where Squid will listen for client requests made
2425 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 2426
859741ed 2427 This is most useful for situations where you are running squid in
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2428 accelerator mode and you want to do the TLS work at the accelerator
2429 level.
5b0f5383 2430
2431 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
9155253a 2432 each with their own certificate and/or options.
5b0f5383 2433
51e09c08 2434 The tls-cert= option is mandatory on HTTPS ports.
379e8c1c 2435
9155253a 2436 See http_port for a list of modes and options.
5b0f5383 2437DOC_END
2438
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2439NAME: ftp_port
2440TYPE: PortCfg
2441DEFAULT: none
8ea0d847 2442LOC: FtpPortList
434a79b0 2443DOC_START
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2444 Enables Native FTP proxy by specifying the socket address where Squid
2445 listens for FTP client requests. See http_port directive for various
2446 ways to specify the listening address and mode.
2447
2448 Usage: ftp_port address [mode] [options]
2449
2450 WARNING: This is a new, experimental, complex feature that has seen
2451 limited production exposure. Some Squid modules (e.g., caching) do not
2452 currently work with native FTP proxying, and many features have not
2453 even been tested for compatibility. Test well before deploying!
2454
2455 Native FTP proxying differs substantially from proxying HTTP requests
2456 with ftp:// URIs because Squid works as an FTP server and receives
2457 actual FTP commands (rather than HTTP requests with FTP URLs).
2458
2459 Native FTP commands accepted at ftp_port are internally converted or
2460 wrapped into HTTP-like messages. The same happens to Native FTP
2461 responses received from FTP origin servers. Those HTTP-like messages
2462 are shoveled through regular access control and adaptation layers
2463 between the FTP client and the FTP origin server. This allows Squid to
2464 examine, adapt, block, and log FTP exchanges. Squid reuses most HTTP
2465 mechanisms when shoveling wrapped FTP messages. For example,
2466 http_access and adaptation_access directives are used.
2467
2468 Modes:
2469
3cc0f4e7 2470 intercept Same as http_port intercept. The FTP origin address is
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2472 intercepted connection.
2473
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2474 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
2475 connections using the client IP address.
2476 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
2477
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2478 By default (i.e., without an explicit mode option), Squid extracts the
2479 FTP origin address from the login@origin parameter of the FTP USER
2480 command. Many popular FTP clients support such native FTP proxying.
2481
2482 Options:
2483
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2484 name=token Specifies an internal name for the port. Defaults to
2485 the port address. Usable with myportname ACL.
2486
aea65fec 2487 ftp-track-dirs
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2488 Enables tracking of FTP directories by injecting extra
2489 PWD commands and adjusting Request-URI (in wrapping
2490 HTTP requests) to reflect the current FTP server
aea65fec 2491 directory. Tracking is disabled by default.
8a2f40dd 2492
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2493 protocol=FTP Protocol to reconstruct accelerated and intercepted
2494 requests with. Defaults to FTP. No other accepted
2495 values have been tested with. An unsupported value
2496 results in a FATAL error. Accepted values are FTP,
2497 HTTP (or HTTP/1.1), and HTTPS (or HTTPS/1.1).
2498
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2499 Other http_port modes and options that are not specific to HTTP and
2500 HTTPS may also work.
2501DOC_END
434a79b0 2502
41bd17a4 2503NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2504TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 2505DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 2506LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 2507DOC_START
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2508 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
2509 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 2510
41bd17a4 2511 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 2512
41bd17a4 2513 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 2514 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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2516 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2517 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 2518 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 2519 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 2520
41bd17a4 2521 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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2522 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2523 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 2524
41bd17a4 2525 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
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2526 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2527 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2528 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2529 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
cccac0a2 2530
41bd17a4 2531 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2532 matching line.
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2533
2534 Only fast ACLs are supported.
cccac0a2 2535DOC_END
2536
41bd17a4 2537NAME: clientside_tos
2538TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 2539DEFAULT: none
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2540LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
2541DOC_START
5f53baab 2542 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value for packets being transmitted
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2543 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2544
2545 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2546
2547 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2548 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2549
2550 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2551 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2552 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
2553 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2554
2555 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
2556 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
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2558 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
2559 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2560 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2561 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2562 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
2563
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2565 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2566DOC_END
2567
2568NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
2569TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2570IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2571DEFAULT: none
2572LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
2573DOC_START
2574 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
2575 on the server side, based on an ACL.
2576
2577 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2578
2579 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2580 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2581
2582 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2583 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2584 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2585 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
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2586
2587 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2588DOC_END
2589
244da4ad 2590NAME: mark_client_packet clientside_mark
425de4c8 2591TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2592IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2593DEFAULT: none
2594LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 2595DOC_START
244da4ad 2596 Allows you to apply a Netfilter MARK value to packets being transmitted
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2597 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2598
244da4ad 2599 mark_client_packet mark-value [!]aclname ...
425de4c8 2600
244da4ad 2601 Example where normal_service_net uses the MARK value 0x00
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2602 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2603
2604 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2605 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
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2607 mark_client_packet 0x20 good_service_net
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2608
2609 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
2610 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
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2611
2612 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2613 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 2614DOC_END
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2616NAME: mark_client_connection
2617TYPE: acl_nfmark
2618IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
2619DEFAULT: none
2620LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfConnmarkToClient
2621DOC_START
2622 Allows you to apply a Netfilter CONNMARK value to a connection
2623 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2624
2625 mark_client_connection mark-value[/mask] [!]aclname ...
2626
2627 The mark-value and mask are unsigned integers (hex, octal, or decimal).
2628 The mask may be used to preserve marking previously set by other agents
2629 (e.g., iptables).
2630
2631 A matching rule replaces the CONNMARK value. If a mask is also
2632 specified, then the masked bits of the original value are zeroed, and
2633 the configured mark-value is ORed with that adjusted value.
2634 For example, applying a mark-value 0xAB/0xF to 0x5F CONNMARK, results
2635 in a 0xFB marking (rather than a 0xAB or 0x5B).
2636
2637 This directive semantics is similar to iptables --set-mark rather than
2638 --set-xmark functionality.
2639
2640 The directive does not interfere with qos_flows (which uses packet MARKs,
2641 not CONNMARKs).
2642
2643 Example where squid marks intercepted FTP connections:
2644
2645 acl proto_ftp proto FTP
2646 mark_client_connection 0x200/0xff00 proto_ftp
2647
2648 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2649 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2650DOC_END
2651
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2652NAME: qos_flows
2653TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 2654IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 2655DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 2656LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 2657DOC_START
575cb927 2658 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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2659 connections to the client, based on where the reply was sourced.
2660 For platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
425de4c8 2661 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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2663 By default this functionality is disabled. To enable it with the default
2664 settings simply use "qos_flows mark" or "qos_flows tos". Default
2665 settings will result in the netfilter mark or TOS value being copied
2666 from the upstream connection to the client. Note that it is the connection
2667 CONNMARK value not the packet MARK value that is copied.
2668
2669 It is not currently possible to copy the mark or TOS value from the
2670 client to the upstream connection request.
2671
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2672 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
2673 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2674 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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2676 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255.
2677 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2678 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2679 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
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2680
2681 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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2683 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
2684
2685 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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2686
2687 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
2688
2689 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
2690
2691 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
2692
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2693 miss=0xFF[/mask] Value to mark cache misses. Takes precedence
2694 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2695 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2696 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 2697
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2698 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
2699 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2700 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2701 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2702 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 2703
575cb927 2704 disable-preserve-miss
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2705 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2706 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2707 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2708 and masked with miss-mark.
2709 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2710 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2711 (MARK target).
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2712
2713 miss-mask=0xFF
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2714 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2715 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2716 the TOS sent towards clients.
2717 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2718 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2719
2720 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2721 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2722 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2723 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2725DOC_END
2726
41bd17a4 2727NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2728TYPE: acl_address
2729DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2730DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2731LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2732DOC_START
2733 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2734 based on the username or source address of the user making
2735 the request.
7f7db318 2736
41bd17a4 2737 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 2738
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2739 For example;
2740 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2742 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2743 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2744
2745 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2746 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2747
2748 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2749 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2750
2751 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2752 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2753
41bd17a4 2754 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2755 matching line.
cccac0a2 2756
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2757 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
2758 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2759 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2760
2761
2762 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2763 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2764 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2765 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 2766
2dd51400 2767 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 2768 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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2769 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option and the
2770 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 2771
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2773 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 2774DOC_END
6db78a1a 2775
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2776NAME: host_verify_strict
2777TYPE: onoff
2778DEFAULT: off
2779LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2780DOC_START
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2781 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2782 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2783 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2784
2785 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2786 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2787 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2788
2789 When set to ON:
2790 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2791 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2792
2793 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2794 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2795 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2796 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2797 and Request-URI components:
2798
2799 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2800 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2801 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2802 or FQDN.
2803
2804 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2805 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2806
2807
2808 When set to OFF (the default):
2809 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2810 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2811
2812 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2813
2814 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2815
2816 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2817 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2818
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2819 * Intercepted requests which fail verification are sent
2820 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2821 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2822
2823 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2824 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2825
bfe4e2fe 2826
7177edfb 2827 SECURITY NOTE:
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2828
2829 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2830 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2831 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2832 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2833
2834 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2835 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2836 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2837 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2838 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2839
2840DOC_END
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2842NAME: client_dst_passthru
2843TYPE: onoff
2844DEFAULT: on
2845LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2846DOC_START
2847 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2848 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2849 source using the HTTP Host header.
2850
2851 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2852 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2853 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2854 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2855
2856 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2857 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2858 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2859
2860 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2861 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2862 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2863
2864 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2865DOC_END
2866
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2867COMMENT_START
2868 TLS OPTIONS
2869 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2870COMMENT_END
2871
2872NAME: tls_outgoing_options
2873IFDEF: USE_GNUTLS||USE_OPENSSL
2874TYPE: securePeerOptions
2fbb02b1 2875DEFAULT: min-version=1.0
7e62a74f 2876LOC: Security::ProxyOutgoingConfig
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2877DOC_START
2878 disable Do not support https:// URLs.
2879
2880 cert=/path/to/client/certificate
51e09c08 2881 A client X.509 certificate to use when connecting.
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2882
2883 key=/path/to/client/private_key
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2884 The private key corresponding to the cert= above.
2885
2886 If key= is not specified cert= is assumed to
2887 reference a PEM file containing both the certificate
2888 and private key.
195f8adb 2889
195f8adb 2890 cipher=... The list of valid TLS ciphers to use.
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2891
2892 min-version=1.N
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2893 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit.
2894 To control SSLv3 use the options= parameter.
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2895 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
2896
3f5b28fe 2897 options=... Specify various TLS/SSL implementation options.
195f8adb 2898
3f5b28fe 2899 OpenSSL options most important are:
7905e7be 2900
3f5b28fe 2901 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
7905e7be 2902
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2903 SINGLE_DH_USE
2904 Always create a new key when using
2905 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
7905e7be 2906
ce0adf1a 2907 NO_TICKET
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2908 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2909 Some servers may have problems
2910 understanding the TLS extension due
2911 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2912
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2913 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2914 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
7905e7be 2915 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
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2916 strength to some attacks.
2917
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2918 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation
2919 for a more complete list.
2920
2921 GnuTLS options most important are:
2922
2923 %NO_TICKETS
2924 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2925 Some servers may have problems
2926 understanding the TLS extension due
2927 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2928
2929 See the GnuTLS Priority Strings documentation
2930 for a more complete list.
2931 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Priority-Strings
2932
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2934 cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2935 the peer certificate. May be repeated to load multiple files.
2936
2937 capath= A directory containing additional CA certificates to
195f8adb 2938 use when verifying the peer certificate.
86a84cc0 2939 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
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2940
2941 crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2942 verifying the peer certificate.
2943
2944 flags=... Specify various flags modifying the TLS implementation:
2945
2946 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2947 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2948 verify.
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2949 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2950 Don't verify the peer certificate
2951 matches the server name
2952
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2953 default-ca[=off]
2954 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is ON.
8b253b83 2955
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2956 domain= The peer name as advertised in its certificate.
2957 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2958 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2959 used.
2960DOC_END
2961
41bd17a4 2962COMMENT_START
2963 SSL OPTIONS
2964 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2965COMMENT_END
2966
2967NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
cb4f4424 2968IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2969TYPE: onoff
2970DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2971LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2972DOC_START
41bd17a4 2973 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2974 messages.
cccac0a2 2975DOC_END
2976
41bd17a4 2977NAME: ssl_engine
cb4f4424 2978IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2979TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2980LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2981DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2982DOC_START
41bd17a4 2983 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2984 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2985DOC_END
2986
10a69fc0 2987NAME: sslproxy_session_ttl
cb4f4424 2988IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2989DEFAULT: 300
2990LOC: Config.SSL.session_ttl
2991TYPE: int
2992DOC_START
2993 Sets the timeout value for SSL sessions
2994DOC_END
2995
2996NAME: sslproxy_session_cache_size
cb4f4424 2997IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2998DEFAULT: 2 MB
2999LOC: Config.SSL.sessionCacheSize
3000TYPE: b_size_t
3001DOC_START
3002 Sets the cache size to use for ssl session
3003DOC_END
3004
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3005NAME: sslproxy_foreign_intermediate_certs
3006IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
3007DEFAULT: none
3008LOC: Config.ssl_client.foreignIntermediateCertsPath
3009TYPE: string
3010DOC_START
3011 Many origin servers fail to send their full server certificate
3012 chain for verification, assuming the client already has or can
3013 easily locate any missing intermediate certificates.
3014
3015 Squid uses the certificates from the specified file to fill in
3016 these missing chains when trying to validate origin server
3017 certificate chains.
3018
3019 The file is expected to contain zero or more PEM-encoded
3020 intermediate certificates. These certificates are not treated
3021 as trusted root certificates, and any self-signed certificate in
3022 this file will be ignored.
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3024
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3025NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign_hash
3026IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
3027DEFAULT: none
3028LOC: Config.SSL.certSignHash
3029TYPE: string
3030DOC_START
3031 Sets the hashing algorithm to use when signing generated certificates.
3032 Valid algorithm names depend on the OpenSSL library used. The following
3033 names are usually available: sha1, sha256, sha512, and md5. Please see
3034 your OpenSSL library manual for the available hashes. By default, Squids
3035 that support this option use sha256 hashes.
3036
3037 Squid does not forcefully purge cached certificates that were generated
3038 with an algorithm other than the currently configured one. They remain
3039 in the cache, subject to the regular cache eviction policy, and become
3040 useful if the algorithm changes again.
3041DOC_END
3042
4c9da963 3043NAME: ssl_bump
cb4f4424 3044IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
caf3666d 3045TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 3046LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
8f165829 3047DEFAULT_DOC: Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
4c9da963 3048DEFAULT: none
3049DOC_START
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3050 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
3051 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
3052 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
3053 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
3054 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
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3055 depending on the first matching bumping "action".
3056
3057 ssl_bump <action> [!]acl ...
caf3666d 3058
8f165829 3059 The following bumping actions are currently supported:
caf3666d 3060
5d65362c 3061 splice
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3062 Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
3063 This is the default action.
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3064
3065 bump
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3066 When used on step SslBump1, establishes a secure connection
3067 with the client first, then connect to the server.
3068 When used on step SslBump2 or SslBump3, establishes a secure
3069 connection with the server and, using a mimicked server
3070 certificate, with the client.
caf3666d 3071
5d65362c 3072 peek
1110989a 3073 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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3074 certificate while preserving the possibility of splicing the
3075 connection. Peeking at the server certificate (during step 2)
3076 usually precludes bumping of the connection at step 3.
caf3666d 3077
5d65362c 3078 stare
1110989a 3079 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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3080 certificate while preserving the possibility of bumping the
3081 connection. Staring at the server certificate (during step 2)
3082 usually precludes splicing of the connection at step 3.
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3083
3084 terminate
3085 Close client and server connections.
3086
1110989a 3087 Backward compatibility actions available at step SslBump1:
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3088
3089 client-first
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3090 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
3091 client first, then connect to the server. This old mode does
3092 not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does not
3093 work with intercepted SSL connections.
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3094
3095 server-first
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3096 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
3097 server first, then establish a secure connection with the
3098 client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
3099 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections, but does
3100 not allow to make decisions based on SSL handshake info.
caf3666d 3101
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3102 peek-and-splice
3103 Decide whether to bump or splice the connection based on
d620ae0e 3104 client-to-squid and server-to-squid SSL hello messages.
8f165829 3105 XXX: Remove.
caf3666d 3106
caf3666d 3107 none
8f165829 3108 Same as the "splice" action.
caf3666d 3109
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3110 All ssl_bump rules are evaluated at each of the supported bumping
3111 steps. Rules with actions that are impossible at the current step are
3112 ignored. The first matching ssl_bump action wins and is applied at the
3113 end of the current step. If no rules match, the splice action is used.
652fcffd 3114 See the at_step ACL for a list of the supported SslBump steps.
4c9da963 3115
e0c0d54c 3116 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 3117 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
e0855596 3118
652fcffd 3119 See also: http_port ssl-bump, https_port ssl-bump, and acl at_step.
caf3666d 3120
e0855596 3121
f3fece95 3122 # Example: Bump all TLS connections except those originating from
638402dd 3123 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 3124
f3fece95 3125 acl broken_sites ssl::server_name .example.com
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3126 ssl_bump splice localhost
3127 ssl_bump splice broken_sites
3128 ssl_bump bump all
4c9da963 3129DOC_END
3130
4c9da963 3131NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
cb4f4424 3132IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
4c9da963 3133DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3134DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 3135LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
3136TYPE: acl_access
3137DOC_START
3138 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
3139
3140 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 3141 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 3142 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
3143
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3144 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
3145 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 3146 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
3147
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3148 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3149 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3150 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 3151
3152 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 3153 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
4c9da963 3154
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3155 SQUID_X509_V_ERR_INFINITE_VALIDATION error cannot be bypassed
3156 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
3157
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3158 SECURITY WARNING:
3159 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
3160 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
3161 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 3162
638402dd 3163 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 3164DOC_END
3165
aebe6888 3166NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
cb4f4424 3167IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
aebe6888 3168DEFAULT: none
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3169POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
3170POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
3171POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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3172TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
3173LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
3174DOC_START
3175
69742b76 3176 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 3177
69742b76 3178 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
638402dd 3179
aebe6888 3180 signTrusted
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3181 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
3182 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
3183 default for trusted origin server certificates.
638402dd 3184
aebe6888 3185 signUntrusted
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3186 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
3187 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
3188 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 3189
aebe6888 3190 signSelf
69742b76 3191 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 3192 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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3193 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
3194 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
aebe6888 3195
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3196 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3197
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3198 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
3199 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
3200 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
3201 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
3202 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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3204 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
3205 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
3206 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
3207 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
3208 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
3209 bump-server-first is used.
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3210DOC_END
3211
638402dd 3212NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
cb4f4424 3213IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3214DEFAULT: none
3215TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
3216LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
3217DOC_START
3218
3219 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
3220
69742b76 3221 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 3222
fb2178bb 3223 setValidAfter
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3224 Sets the "Not After" property to the "Not After" property of
3225 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 3226
fb2178bb 3227 setValidBefore
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3228 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
3229 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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3231 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
3232 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
3233 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
3234 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
3235 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
3236 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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3238 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3239
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3240 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
3241 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
3242 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
3243 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
3244 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
3245 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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3247 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
3248 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
3249 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
3250 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
3251 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
3252 bump-server-first is used.
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3253DOC_END
3254
41bd17a4 3255NAME: sslpassword_program
cb4f4424 3256IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 3257DEFAULT: none
3258LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
3259TYPE: string
5473c134 3260DOC_START
41bd17a4 3261 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
3262 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
3263 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
3264 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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3265
3266 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
3267 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
3268 keys.
5473c134 3269DOC_END
3270
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3271COMMENT_START
3272 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
3273 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3274COMMENT_END
3275
3276NAME: sslcrtd_program
3277TYPE: eol
3278IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
3279DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
3280LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
3281DOC_START
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3282 Specify the location and options of the executable for certificate
3283 generator.
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3284
3285 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program can use a disk cache to improve response
3286 times on repeated requests. To enable caching, specify -s and -M
3287 parameters. If those parameters are not given, the program generates
3288 a new certificate on every request.
3289
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3290 For more information use:
3291 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
3292DOC_END
3293
3294NAME: sslcrtd_children
3295TYPE: HelperChildConfig
3296IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
3297DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
3298LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
3299DOC_START
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3300 Specifies the maximum number of certificate generation processes that
3301 Squid may spawn (numberofchildren) and several related options. Using
3302 too few of these helper processes (a.k.a. "helpers") creates request
3303 queues. Using too many helpers wastes your system resources. Squid
3304 does not support spawning more than 32 helpers.
3305
3306 Usage: numberofchildren [option]...
3307
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3308 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3309 tuning.
3310
3311 startup=N
3312
3313 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
3314 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3315 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3316
3317 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
3318 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
3319
3320 idle=N
3321
3322 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3323 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3324 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3325 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3326
3327 queue-size=N
3328
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3329 Sets the maximum number of queued requests. A request is queued when
3330 no existing child is idle and no new child can be started due to
3331 numberofchildren limit. If the queued requests exceed queue size for
3332 more than 3 minutes squid aborts its operation. The default value is
3333 set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3334
3335 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
3336DOC_END
3337
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3338NAME: sslcrtvalidator_program
3339TYPE: eol
cb4f4424 3340IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3341DEFAULT: none
3342LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
3343DOC_START
3344 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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3345 process.
3346
3347 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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3348
3349 Options:
638402dd 3350 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results. The default is 60 secs
14798e73 3351 cache=n limit the result cache size. The default value is 2048
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3352DOC_END
3353
3354NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
3355TYPE: HelperChildConfig
cb4f4424 3356IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
413bb969 3357DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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3358LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
3359DOC_START
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3360 Specifies the maximum number of certificate validation processes that
3361 Squid may spawn (numberofchildren) and several related options. Using
3362 too few of these helper processes (a.k.a. "helpers") creates request
3363 queues. Using too many helpers wastes your system resources. Squid
3364 does not support spawning more than 32 helpers.
3365
3366 Usage: numberofchildren [option]...
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3367
3368 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3369 tuning.
3370
3371 startup=N
3372
3373 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
3374 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3375 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3376
3377 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
3378 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
3379
3380 idle=N
3381
3382 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3383 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3384 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3385 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3386
3387 concurrency=
3388
3389 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
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3390 parallel. A value of 0 indicates the certficate validator does not
3391 support concurrency. Defaults to 1.
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3392
3393 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3394 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3395 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3396 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3397 to that request.
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3398
3399 queue-size=N
3400
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3402 no existing child can accept it due to concurrency limit and no new
3403 child can be started due to numberofchildren limit. If the queued
3404 requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes squid aborts its
3405 operation. The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3406
3407 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
3408DOC_END
3409
cccac0a2 3410COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3411 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 3412 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3413COMMENT_END
3414
41bd17a4 3415NAME: cache_peer
3416TYPE: peer
3417DEFAULT: none
3418LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 3419DOC_START
41bd17a4 3420 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 3421
41bd17a4 3422 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 3423
41bd17a4 3424 For example,
2b94f655 3425
41bd17a4 3426 # proxy icp
3427 # hostname type port port options
3428 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 3429 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 3430 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
3431 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 3432 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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3433 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
3434
3435 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
3436
3437 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
3438 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
3439 For web servers this is usually 80
3440
3441 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
3442 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
3443 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
3444
3445
3446 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
3447
3448 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
3449 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
3450
3451
3452 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
3453
3454 multicast-responder
3455 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
3456 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
3457 replies will be accepted from it.
3458
3459 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
3460 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
3461
3462 background-ping
3463 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
3464 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
3465 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
3466
3467
3468 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
3469
3470 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
3471 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
3472
3473
3474 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
3475 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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3477 list of options described below.
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18191440 3479 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 3480
18191440 3481 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 3482 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 3483 only-clr.
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3485 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
3486 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 3488 htcp=no-purge-clr
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3489 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
3490 they do not result from PURGE requests.
3491
18191440 3492 htcp=forward-clr
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3493 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
3494
3495
3496 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
3497
3498 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
3499 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
3500
3501
3502 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
3503 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
3504 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
3505
3506 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3507 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
3508 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3509
3510 weighted-round-robin
3511 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3512 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
3513 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
3514 Usually used for background-ping parents.
3515 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3516
3517 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
3518 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
3519 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
3520
3521 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
3522
3523 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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3525 multicast-siblings
3526 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
3527 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 3528 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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3529 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
3530 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
3531 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
3532 members of the same multicast group.
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3534
3535 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
3536
3537 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
3538 peer-selection mechanisms.
3539 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
3540 larger weights are favored more.
3541 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
3542 protocol is not in use.
3543
3544 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
3545 times of parents.
3546 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
3547 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
3548 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
3549
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3550 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
3551 to this address.
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3552 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
3553 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
3554 hosts, you must configure other group members as
3555 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
3556
3557 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
3558 delay pools.
3559
3560 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
3561 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
3562 than the Squid default location.
3563
3564
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3566
3567 carp-key=key-specification
3568 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
3569 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
3570 scheme, host, port, path, params
3571 Order is not important.
3572
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3573 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
3574
3575 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
3576 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
3577 is a web server.
3578
3579 forceddomain=name
3580 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
3581 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
3582 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
3583 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
3584
3585 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
3586
3587 no-netdb-exchange
3588 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
3589
3590
3591 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
3592
3593 login=user:password
3594 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3595 requires proxy authentication.
3596
3597 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
3598 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
3599
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3600 login=PASSTHRU
3601 Send login details received from client to this peer.
3602 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
3603 without alteration to the peer.
3604 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
3605
3606 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
3607 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
3608 connection-auth options are also used.
ee0b94f4 3609
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3610 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
3611 Authentication is not required by this option.
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3613 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
3614 to pass on, but username and password are available
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3615 from an external ACL user= and password= result tags
3616 they may be sent instead.
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3617
3618 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
3619 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
3620 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
3621 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
3622 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
3623
3624 login=*:password
3625 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
3626 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
3627 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
3628 needed to identify each user.
3629 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
3630 information which is added to the username. This can
3631 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
3632 the login=username:password option above.
3633
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3634 login=NEGOTIATE
3635 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3636 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3637 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
3638 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
3639
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3640 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
3641 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3642 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3643
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3644 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
3645 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3646 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3647 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
3648 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
3649 used.
3650
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3651 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
3652 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3653 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3654
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3655 connection-auth=on|off
3656 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
3657 connection oriented authentication, and any such
3658 challenges received from there should be ignored.
3659 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
3660 of the peer.
3661
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3662 auth-no-keytab
3663 Do not use a keytab to authenticate to a peer when
3664 login=NEGOTIATE is specified. Let the GSSAPI
3665 implementation determine which already existing
3666 credentials cache to use instead.
3667
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3668
3669 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
3670
0ff7e52d 3671 tls Encrypt connections to this peer with TLS.
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3672
3673 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
51e09c08 3674 A client X.509 certificate to use when connecting to
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3675 this peer.
3676
3677 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
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3678 The private key corresponding to sslcert above.
3679
3680 If sslkey= is not specified sslcert= is assumed to
3681 reference a PEM file containing both the certificate
3682 and private key.
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3684 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
3685 to this peer.
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3686
3687 tls-min-version=1.N
3688 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
3f5b28fe 3689 SSLv3 use the tls-options= parameter.
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3690 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
3691
3f5b28fe 3692 tls-options=... Specify various TLS implementation options.
943c5f16 3693
3f5b28fe 3694 OpenSSL options most important are:
1f1f29e8 3695
3f5b28fe 3696 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 3697
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3698 SINGLE_DH_USE
3699 Always create a new key when using
3700 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1f1f29e8 3701
ce0adf1a 3702 NO_TICKET
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3703 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3704 Some servers may have problems
3705 understanding the TLS extension due
3706 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3707
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3708 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
3709 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
3710 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
3711 strength to some attacks.
3712
3713 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
3714 more complete list.
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3715
3716 GnuTLS options most important are:
3717
3718 %NO_TICKETS
3719 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3720 Some servers may have problems
3721 understanding the TLS extension due
3722 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3723
3724 See the GnuTLS Priority Strings documentation
3725 for a more complete list.
3726 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Priority-Strings
3727
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3728 tls-cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
3729 the peer certificate. May be repeated to load multiple files.
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3730
3731 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
3732 use when verifying the peer certificate.
86a84cc0 3733 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
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3734
3735 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
3736 verifying the peer certificate.
3737
3738 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
3739
41bd17a4 3740 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
3741 Accept certificates even if they fail to
3742 verify.
1f1f29e8 3743
41bd17a4 3744 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
3745 Don't verify the peer certificate
3746 matches the server name
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3747
3748 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
3749 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
3750 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
3751 used.
3752
bad9c5e4 3753 front-end-https[=off|on|auto]
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3754 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
3755 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
3756 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
3757 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
3758 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
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3759
3760 tls-default-ca[=off]
3761 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is ON.
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3763 tls-no-npn Do not use the TLS NPN extension to advertise HTTP/1.1.
3764
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3765 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
3766
3767 connect-timeout=N
3768 A peer-specific connect timeout.
3769 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
3770
3771 connect-fail-limit=N
3772 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
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3774 count towards this limit. Default is 10.
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3775
3776 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
3777 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
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3779 of this option may result in forwarding loops. One way
3780 to prevent peering loops when using this option, is to
3781 deny cache peer usage on requests from a peer:
3782 acl fromPeer ...
3783 cache_peer_access peerName deny fromPeer
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3785 max-conn=N Limit the number of concurrent connections the Squid
3786 may open to this peer, including already opened idle
3787 and standby connections. There is no peer-specific
3788 connection limit by default.
3789
3790 A peer exceeding the limit is not used for new
3791 requests unless a standby connection is available.
3792
3793 max-conn currently works poorly with idle persistent
3794 connections: When a peer reaches its max-conn limit,
3795 and there are idle persistent connections to the peer,
3796 the peer may not be selected because the limiting code
3797 does not know whether Squid can reuse those idle
3798 connections.
3799
3800 standby=N Maintain a pool of N "hot standby" connections to an
3801 UP peer, available for requests when no idle
3802 persistent connection is available (or safe) to use.
3803 By default and with zero N, no such pool is maintained.
3804 N must not exceed the max-conn limit (if any).
3805
3806 At start or after reconfiguration, Squid opens new TCP
3807 standby connections until there are N connections
3808 available and then replenishes the standby pool as
3809 opened connections are used up for requests. A used
3810 connection never goes back to the standby pool, but
3811 may go to the regular idle persistent connection pool
3812 shared by all peers and origin servers.
3813
3814 Squid never opens multiple new standby connections
3815 concurrently. This one-at-a-time approach minimizes
3816 flooding-like effect on peers. Furthermore, just a few
3817 standby connections should be sufficient in most cases
3818 to supply most new requests with a ready-to-use
3819 connection.
3820
3821 Standby connections obey server_idle_pconn_timeout.
3822 For the feature to work as intended, the peer must be
3823 configured to accept and keep them open longer than
3824 the idle timeout at the connecting Squid, to minimize
3825 race conditions typical to idle used persistent
3826 connections. Default request_timeout and
3827 server_idle_pconn_timeout values ensure such a
3828 configuration.
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3829
3830 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
3831 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
3832 but different ports.
3833 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
a5bb0c26 3834 directives to identify the peer.
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3835 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3836 peername ACL type.
3837
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3838 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3839 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3840 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
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3842 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
3843
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41bd17a4 3846NAME: cache_peer_access
3847TYPE: peer_access
3848DEFAULT: none
a5bb0c26 3849DEFAULT_DOC: No peer usage restrictions.
41bd17a4 3850LOC: none
3851DOC_START
a5bb0c26 3852 Restricts usage of cache_peer proxies.
cccac0a2 3853
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3855 cache_peer_access peer-name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3856
3857 For the required peer-name parameter, use either the value of the
3858 cache_peer name=value parameter or, if name=value is missing, the
3859 cache_peer hostname parameter.
3860
3861 This directive narrows down the selection of peering candidates, but
3862 does not determine the order in which the selected candidates are
3863 contacted. That order is determined by the peer selection algorithms
3864 (see PEER SELECTION sections in the cache_peer documentation).
3865
3866 If a deny rule matches, the corresponding peer will not be contacted
3867 for the current transaction -- Squid will not send ICP queries and
3868 will not forward HTTP requests to that peer. An allow match leaves
3869 the corresponding peer in the selection. The first match for a given
3870 peer wins for that peer.
3871
3872 The relative order of cache_peer_access directives for the same peer
3873 matters. The relative order of any two cache_peer_access directives
3874 for different peers does not matter. To ease interpretation, it is a
3875 good idea to group cache_peer_access directives for the same peer
3876 together.
3877
3878 A single cache_peer_access directive may be evaluated multiple times
3879 for a given transaction because individual peer selection algorithms
3880 may check it independently from each other. These redundant checks
3881 may be optimized away in future Squid versions.
3882
3883 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3884 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
dd9b1776 3885
41bd17a4 3886DOC_END
dd9b1776 3887
41bd17a4 3888NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3889TYPE: hostdomaintype
3890DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3891DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3892LOC: none
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3894 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3895 about specific domains to the peer.
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3897 Usage:
3898 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
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3900 For example:
3901 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3902 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
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3904 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3905 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3906DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3908NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3909COMMENT: (seconds)
3910DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3911TYPE: time_t
3912LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3913DOC_START
3914 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3915 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3916 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3917 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3918 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3919 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3920
41bd17a4 3921 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3922 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3923 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3924 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3925 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3926 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3927 instead of to your parents.
3928DOC_END
cccac0a2 3929
437823b4 3930NAME: forward_max_tries
6c367206 3931DEFAULT: 25
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3932TYPE: int
3933LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3934DOC_START
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3935 Limits the number of attempts to forward the request.
3936
3937 For the purpose of this limit, Squid counts all high-level request
3938 forwarding attempts, including any same-destination retries after
3939 certain persistent connection failures and any attempts to use a
3940 different peer. However, low-level connection reopening attempts
3941 (enabled using connect_retries) are not counted.
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3eebd267 3943 See also: forward_timeout and connect_retries.
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3944DOC_END
3945
41bd17a4 3946COMMENT_START
3947 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3948 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3949COMMENT_END
3950
3951NAME: cache_mem
3952COMMENT: (bytes)
3953TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3954DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3955LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3956DOC_START
41bd17a4 3957 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3958 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3959 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3960 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3961
3962 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3963 for:
3964 * In-Transit objects
3965 * Hot Objects
3966 * Negative-Cached objects
3967
3968 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3969 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3970 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3971 priority.
3972
3973 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3974 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3975 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3976 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3977 not needed for in-transit objects.
3978
3979 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3980 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3981 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3982 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3983 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3984 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3985 objects.
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3987 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3988 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3989 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3990 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
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41bd17a4 3993NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3994COMMENT: (bytes)
3995TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3996DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3997LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3998DOC_START
41bd17a4 3999 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
4000 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
4001 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
4002 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
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4005NAME: memory_cache_shared
4006COMMENT: on|off
4007TYPE: YesNoNone
4008LOC: Config.memShared
4009DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 4010DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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4011DOC_START
4012 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
4013
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4014 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
4015 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
4016 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
4017 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
4018 caching is enabled).
4019
65b81b27 4020 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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4021 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
4022 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
4023 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
4024 and GCC-style atomic operations).
4025
4026 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
4027 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
4028 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
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4030
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4031NAME: memory_cache_mode
4032TYPE: memcachemode
4033LOC: Config
4034DEFAULT: always
638402dd 4035DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 4036DOC_START
ea21d497 4037 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 4038
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4039 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
4040
4041 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
4042 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
4043 a second time before cached in memory.
4044
4045 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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4047
41bd17a4 4048NAME: memory_replacement_policy
4049TYPE: removalpolicy
4050LOC: Config.memPolicy
4051DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 4052DOC_START
41bd17a4 4053 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
4054 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 4055
638402dd 4056 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 4057DOC_END
6b698a21 4058
41bd17a4 4059COMMENT_START
4060 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
4061 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4062COMMENT_END
6b698a21 4063
41bd17a4 4064NAME: cache_replacement_policy
4065TYPE: removalpolicy
4066LOC: Config.replPolicy
4067DEFAULT: lru
4068DOC_START
4069 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
4070 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 4071
41bd17a4 4072 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
4073 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
4074 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
4075 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 4076
638402dd 4077 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 4078
41bd17a4 4079 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 4080
41bd17a4 4081 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
4082 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
4083 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
4084 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 4085
41bd17a4 4086 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
4087 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
4088 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
4089 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 4090
41bd17a4 4091 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
4092 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
4093 replacement policies.
7d90757b 4094
41bd17a4 4095 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 4096 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 4097 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 4098
41bd17a4 4099 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
4100 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
4101 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 4102DOC_END
0976f8db 4103
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4104NAME: minimum_object_size
4105COMMENT: (bytes)
4106TYPE: b_int64_t
4107DEFAULT: 0 KB
4108DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
4109LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
4110DOC_START
4111 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
4112 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
4113 means all responses can be stored.
4114DOC_END
4115
4116NAME: maximum_object_size
4117COMMENT: (bytes)
4118TYPE: b_int64_t
4119DEFAULT: 4 MB
4120LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
4121DOC_START
499f852c 4122 Set the default value for max-size parameter on any cache_dir.
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4123 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
4124
4125 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
4126 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
4127 hits).
4128
4129 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
4130 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
4131
4132 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
4133 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
4134 See cache_replacement_policy for a discussion of this policy.
4135DOC_END
4136
41bd17a4 4137NAME: cache_dir
4138TYPE: cachedir
4139DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4140DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 4141LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 4142DOC_START
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4143 Format:
4144 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 4145
41bd17a4 4146 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
4147 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 4148
41bd17a4 4149 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
4150 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
4151 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 4152
41bd17a4 4153 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
4154 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
4155 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
4156 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
4157 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 4158
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4159 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
4160 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
4161 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
4162
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4163
4164 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 4165
41bd17a4 4166 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
4167 been there.
0976f8db 4168
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4169 Usage:
4170 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 4171
41bd17a4 4172 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
4173 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
4174 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
4175 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
4176 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 4177
56fba4d0 4178 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 4179 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 4180
56fba4d0 4181 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 4182 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
4183 is 256.
0976f8db 4184
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4185
4186 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 4187
41bd17a4 4188 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
4189 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
4190 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 4191
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4192 Usage:
4193 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 4194
41bd17a4 4195 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 4196
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4197
4198 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 4199
41bd17a4 4200 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
4201 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
4202 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 4203
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4204 Usage:
4205 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 4206
41bd17a4 4207 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 4208
41bd17a4 4209 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
4210 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
4211 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 4212
41bd17a4 4213 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
4214 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
4215 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 4216
41bd17a4 4217 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
4218 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
4219 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
4220 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
4221 time.
0976f8db 4222
e2851fe7 4223
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4224 ==== The rock store type ====
4225
4226 Usage:
e51ce7da 4227 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes [options]
e2851fe7 4228
2e55f083 4229 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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4230 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots.
4231 A single entry occupies one or more slots.
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4233 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
4234 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
4235 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
4236 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
4237 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
4238
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4239 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
4240 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
4241 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
4242 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
4243 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
4244 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
4245 expected swap wait time.
4246
df881a0f 4247 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 4248 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 4249 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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4250 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
4251 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
4252 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
4253 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
4254 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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4255 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
4256 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
4257 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
4258 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
4259 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
4260 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
4261
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4262 slot-size=bytes: The size of a database "record" used for
4263 storing cached responses. A cached response occupies at least
4264 one slot and all database I/O is done using individual slots so
4265 increasing this parameter leads to more disk space waste while
4266 decreasing it leads to more disk I/O overheads. Should be a
4267 multiple of your operating system I/O page size. Defaults to
4268 16KBytes. A housekeeping header is stored with each slot and
4269 smaller slot-sizes will be rejected. The header is smaller than
4270 100 bytes.
4271
df881a0f 4272
638402dd 4273 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
0976f8db 4274
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4275 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
4276
4277 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
4278 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
4279 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
4280 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
73656056 4281 (e.g. Rock).
638402dd 4282 Defaults to 0.
0976f8db 4283
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4284 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
4285 supports.
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4286 The value in maximum_object_size directive sets
4287 the default unless more specific details are
4288 available (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 4289
41bd17a4 4290 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 4291 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 4292
bebc043b 4293NOCOMMENT_START
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4294
4295# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
4296#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 4297NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 4298DOC_END
0976f8db 4299
41bd17a4 4300NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
4301TYPE: string
4302LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
4303DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 4304DOC_START
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4305 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
4306 object will fit into more than one.
4307
4308 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
4309 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
4310 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
4311 cache_dir.
4312
4313 Algorithms:
4314
4315 least-load
4316
4317 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
4318 sizes and disk speeds.
4319
4320 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
4321 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
4322 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
4323
4324 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
4325 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
4326 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
4327 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
4328
4329
4330 round-robin
4331
4332 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
4333 disk sizes.
4334
4335 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
4336 cache_dir is used.
4337
4338 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
4339 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
4340 max-size parameters.
4341
4342 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
4343 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
4344 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
4345
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4346 If several cache_dirs use similar min-size, max-size, or other
4347 limits to to reject certain responses, then do not group such
4348 cache_dir lines together, to avoid round-robin selection bias
4349 towards the first cache_dir after the group. Instead, interleave
4350 cache_dir lines from different groups. For example:
4351
4352 store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin
4353 cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000
4354 cache_dir rock /ssd1 ... max-size=99999
4355 cache_dir rock /hdd2 ... min-size=100000
4356 cache_dir rock /ssd2 ... max-size=99999
4357 cache_dir rock /hdd3 ... min-size=100000
4358 cache_dir rock /ssd3 ... max-size=99999
6b698a21 4359DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4361NAME: max_open_disk_fds
4362TYPE: int
4363LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
4364DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 4365DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 4366DOC_START
41bd17a4 4367 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
4368 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
4369 descriptors are open.
4370
4371 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 4372DOC_END
0976f8db 4373
41bd17a4 4374NAME: cache_swap_low
4375COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 4376TYPE: int
41bd17a4 4377DEFAULT: 90
4378LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
638402dd 4379DOC_START
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4380 The low-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4381 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4382
4383 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4384 above this low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization
4385 near the low-water mark.
4386
4387 As swap utilization increases towards the high-water mark set
4388 by cache_swap_high object eviction becomes more agressive.
4389
4390 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4391 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
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4392 the rate continues to scale in agressiveness by multiples of
4393 this above the high-water mark.
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4394
4395 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4396 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4397 numbers closer together.
4398
5f662601 4399 See also cache_swap_high and cache_replacement_policy
638402dd 4400DOC_END
41bd17a4 4401
4402NAME: cache_swap_high
4403COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4404TYPE: int
4405DEFAULT: 95
4406LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 4407DOC_START
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4408 The high-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4409 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4410
4411 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4412 above the low-water mark set by cache_swap_low and attempts to
4413 maintain utilization near the low-water mark.
4414
4415 As swap utilization increases towards this high-water mark object
4416 eviction becomes more agressive.
4417
4418 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4419 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
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4420 the rate continues to scale in agressiveness by multiples of
4421 this above the high-water mark.
41bd17a4 4422
4423 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4424 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4425 numbers closer together.
638402dd 4426
5f662601 4427 See also cache_swap_low and cache_replacement_policy
6b698a21 4428DOC_END
0976f8db 4429
5473c134 4430COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 4431 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 4432 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4433COMMENT_END
0976f8db 4434
41bd17a4 4435NAME: logformat
4436TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 4437LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 4438DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4439DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 4440DOC_START
41bd17a4 4441 Usage:
0976f8db 4442
41bd17a4 4443 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 4444
41bd17a4 4445 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 4446
41bd17a4 4447 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 4448
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4449 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all
4450 components but the formatcode are optional and usually unnecessary,
4451 especially when dealing with common codes.
6b698a21 4452
bec110e4 4453 % [encoding] [-] [[0]width] [{arg}] formatcode [{arg}]
0976f8db 4454
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4455 encoding escapes or otherwise protects "special" characters:
4456
4457 " Quoted string encoding where quote(") and
4458 backslash(\) characters are \-escaped while
4459 CR, LF, and TAB characters are encoded as \r,
4460 \n, and \t two-character sequences.
4461
4462 [ Custom Squid encoding where percent(%), square
4463 brackets([]), backslash(\) and characters with
4464 codes outside of [32,126] range are %-encoded.
4465 SP is not encoded. Used by log_mime_hdrs.
4466
4467 # URL encoding (a.k.a. percent-encoding) where
4468 all URL unsafe and control characters (per RFC
4469 1738) are %-encoded.
4470
4471 / Shell-like encoding where quote(") and
4472 backslash(\) characters are \-escaped while CR
4473 and LF characters are encoded as \r and \n
4474 two-character sequences. Values containing SP
4475 character(s) are surrounded by quotes(").
4476
4477 ' Raw/as-is encoding with no escaping/quoting.
4478
4479 Default encoding: When no explicit encoding is
4480 specified, each %code determines its own encoding.
4481 Most %codes use raw/as-is encoding, but some codes use
4482 a so called "pass-through URL encoding" where all URL
4483 unsafe and control characters (per RFC 1738) are
4484 %-encoded, but the percent character(%) is left as is.
5473c134 4485
41bd17a4 4486 - left aligned
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4487
4488 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
4489 [width_min][.width_max]
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4490 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
4491 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 4492
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4493 {arg} argument such as header name etc. This field may be
4494 placed before or after the token, but not both at once.
5473c134 4495
41bd17a4 4496 Format codes:
5473c134 4497
3ff65596 4498 % a literal % character
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4499 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
4500 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
4501 a similar internal error identifier.
4502 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
c7bcf010 4503 note The annotation specified by the argument. Also
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4504 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
4505 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
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4506 If no argument given all annotations logged.
4507 The argument may include a separator to use with
4508 annotation values:
4509 name[:separator]
4510 By default, multiple note values are separated with ","
4511 and multiple notes are separated with "\r\n".
4512 When logging named notes with %{name}note, the
4513 explicitly configured separator is used between note
4514 values. When logging all notes with %note, the
4515 explicitly configured separator is used between
4516 individual notes. There is currently no way to
4517 specify both value and notes separators when logging
4518 all notes with %note.
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4519
4520 Connection related format codes:
4521
41bd17a4 4522 >a Client source IP address
4523 >A Client FQDN
4524 >p Client source port
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4525 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
4526 >la Local IP address the client connected to
4527 >lp Local port number the client connected to
f123f5e9 4528 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
244da4ad 4529 >nfmark Client connection netfilter packet MARK set by Squid
8652f8e7 4530
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4531 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
4532 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
4533
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4534 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
4535 <A Server FQDN or peer name
4536 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 4537 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 4538 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
f123f5e9 4539 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
244da4ad 4540 <nfmark Server connection netfilter packet MARK set by Squid
f4b68e1a 4541
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4542 >handshake Raw client handshake
4543 Initial client bytes received by Squid on a newly
4544 accepted TCP connection or inside a just established
4545 CONNECT tunnel. Squid stops accumulating handshake
4546 bytes as soon as the handshake parser succeeds or
4547 fails (determining whether the client is using the
4548 expected protocol).
4549
4550 For HTTP clients, the handshake is the request line.
4551 For TLS clients, the handshake consists of all TLS
4552 records up to and including the TLS record that
4553 contains the last byte of the first ClientHello
4554 message. For clients using an unsupported protocol,
4555 this field contains the bytes received by Squid at the
4556 time of the handshake parsing failure.
4557
4558 See the on_unsupported_protocol directive for more
4559 information on Squid handshake traffic expectations.
4560
4561 Current support is limited to these contexts:
4562 - http_port connections, but only when the
4563 on_unsupported_protocol directive is in use.
4564 - https_port connections (and CONNECT tunnels) that
4565 are subject to the ssl_bump peek or stare action.
4566
4567 To protect binary handshake data, this field is always
4568 base64-encoded (RFC 4648 Section 4). If logformat
4569 field encoding is configured, that encoding is applied
4570 on top of base64. Otherwise, the computed base64 value
4571 is recorded as is.
4572
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4573 Time related format codes:
4574
41bd17a4 4575 ts Seconds since epoch
4576 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
4577 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4578 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4579 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4580 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4581 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 4582 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
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4583 tS Approximate master transaction start time in
4584 <full seconds since epoch>.<fractional seconds> format.
4585 Currently, Squid considers the master transaction
4586 started when a complete HTTP request header initiating
4587 the transaction is received from the client. This is
4588 the same value that Squid uses to calculate transaction
4589 response time when logging %tr to access.log. Currently,
4590 Squid uses millisecond resolution for %tS values,
4591 similar to the default access.log "current time" field
4592 (%ts.%03tu).
3ff65596 4593
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4594 Access Control related format codes:
4595
4596 et Tag returned by external acl
4597 ea Log string returned by external acl
4598 un User name (any available)
4599 ul User name from authentication
4600 ue User name from external acl helper
4601 ui User name from ident
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4602 un A user name. Expands to the first available name
4603 from the following list of information sources:
4604 - authenticated user name, like %ul
4605 - user name supplied by an external ACL, like %ue
4606 - SSL client name, like %us
4607 - ident user name, like %ui
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4608 credentials Client credentials. The exact meaning depends on
4609 the authentication scheme: For Basic authentication,
4610 it is the password; for Digest, the realm sent by the
4611 client; for NTLM and Negotiate, the client challenge
4612 or client credentials prefixed with "YR " or "KK ".
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4613
4614 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 4615
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4616 REQUEST
4617
4618 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
4619 [http::]>rm Request method from client
4620 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
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4621
4622 [http::]ru Request URL received (or computed) and sanitized
4623
4624 Logs request URI received from the client, a
4625 request adaptation service, or a request
4626 redirector (whichever was applied last).
4627
4628 Computed URLs are URIs of internally generated
4629 requests and various "error:..." URIs.
4630
4631 Honors strip_query_terms and uri_whitespace.
4632
4633 This field is not encoded by default. Encoding
4634 this field using variants of %-encoding will
4635 clash with uri_whitespace modifications that
4636 also use %-encoding.
4637
4638 [http::]>ru Request URL received from the client (or computed)
4639
4640 Computed URLs are URIs of internally generated
4641 requests and various "error:..." URIs.
4642
4643 Unlike %ru, this request URI is not affected
4644 by request adaptation, URL rewriting services,
4645 and strip_query_terms.
4646
4647 Honors uri_whitespace.
4648
4649 This field is using pass-through URL encoding
4650 by default. Encoding this field using other
4651 variants of %-encoding will clash with
4652 uri_whitespace modifications that also use
4653 %-encoding.
4654
d6df21d2 4655 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
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4656 [http::]>rs Request URL scheme from client
4657 [http::]<rs Request URL scheme sent to server or peer
fa450988 4658 [http::]>rd Request URL domain from client
f42ac6e6 4659 [http::]<rd Request URL domain sent to server or peer
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4660 [http::]>rP Request URL port from client
4661 [http::]<rP Request URL port sent to server or peer
4662 [http::]rp Request URL path excluding hostname
4663 [http::]>rp Request URL path excluding hostname from client
4664 [http::]<rp Request URL path excluding hostname sent to server or peer
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4665 [http::]rv Request protocol version
4666 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
4667 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
4668
5aca9cf2 4669 [http::]>h Original received request header.
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4670 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4671 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
4672 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
4673 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
4674 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
4675 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
4676 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4677 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 4678 Optional header name argument as for >h
d6df21d2 4679
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4680 RESPONSE
4681
4682 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
4683 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
4684
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4685 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
4686 as for >h
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4688 [http::]mt MIME content type
4689
4690
4691 SIZE COUNTERS
4692
4693 [http::]st Total size of request + reply traffic with client
4694 [http::]>st Total size of request received from client.
4695 Excluding chunked encoding bytes.
4696 [http::]<st Total size of reply sent to client (after adaptation)
4697
4698 [http::]>sh Size of request headers received from client
4699 [http::]<sh Size of reply headers sent to client (after adaptation)
4700
4701 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
4702 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
4703
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4704 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
4705 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
4706 transfer encoding and control messages.
4707 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
4708 received bodies.
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4711
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4712 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
4713 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
4714 and stops when the last response byte is received.
d5430dc8 4715 [http::]<tt Total time in milliseconds. The timer
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4716 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
4717 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
4718 with the last I/O with the last peer.
4719
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4720 Squid handling related format codes:
4721
4722 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
4723 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
4724
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4725 SSL-related format codes:
4726
4727 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
4728
4729 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
4730 a connection and for any request received on
4731 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
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4732 corresponding SslBump mode ("splice", "bump",
4733 "peek", "stare", "terminate", "server-first"
4734 or "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option
4735 for more information about these modes.
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4736
4737 A "none" token is logged for requests that
4738 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
bf352fb2 4739 a "none" rule.
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4740
4741 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
4742 logged.
4743
4f6990ec 4744 ssl::>sni SSL client SNI sent to Squid.
cedca6e7 4745
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4746 ssl::>cert_subject
4747 The Subject field of the received client
4748 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4749 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4750 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4751 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
4752
4753 ssl::>cert_issuer
4754 The Issuer field of the received client
4755 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4756 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4757 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4758 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
4759
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4760 ssl::<cert_subject
4761 The Subject field of the received server
4762 TLS certificate or a dash ('-') if this is
4763 not available. Consider encoding the logged
4764 value because Subject often has spaces.
4765
8f1c6091 4766 ssl::<cert_issuer
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4767 The Issuer field of the received server
4768 TLS certificate or a dash ('-') if this is
4769 not available. Consider encoding the logged
4770 value because Issuer often has spaces.
4771
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4772 ssl::<cert
4773 The received server x509 certificate in PEM
4774 format, including BEGIN and END lines (or a
4775 dash ('-') if the certificate is unavailable).
4776
4777 WARNING: Large certificates will exceed the
4778 current 8KB access.log record limit, resulting
4779 in truncated records. Such truncation usually
4780 happens in the middle of a record field. The
4781 limit applies to all access logging modules.
4782
4783 The logged certificate may have failed
4784 validation and may not be trusted by Squid.
4785 This field does not include any intermediate
4786 certificates that may have been received from
4787 the server or fetched during certificate
4788 validation process.
4789
4790 Currently, Squid only collects server
4791 certificates during step3 of SslBump
4792 processing; connections that were not subject
4793 to ssl_bump rules or that did not match a peek
4794 or stare rule at step2 will not have the
4795 server certificate information.
4796
4797 This field is using pass-through URL encoding
4798 by default.
4799
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4800 ssl::<cert_errors
4801 The list of certificate validation errors
4802 detected by Squid (including OpenSSL and
4803 certificate validation helper components). The
4804 errors are listed in the discovery order. By
4805 default, the error codes are separated by ':'.
4806 Accepts an optional separator argument.
4807
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4808 %ssl::>negotiated_version The negotiated TLS version of the
4809 client connection.
4810
4811 %ssl::<negotiated_version The negotiated TLS version of the
4812 last server or peer connection.
4813
4814 %ssl::>received_hello_version The TLS version of the Hello
4815 message received from TLS client.
4816
4817 %ssl::<received_hello_version The TLS version of the Hello
4818 message received from TLS server.
4819
4820 %ssl::>received_supported_version The maximum TLS version
4821 supported by the TLS client.
4822
4823 %ssl::<received_supported_version The maximum TLS version
4824 supported by the TLS server.
4825
4826 %ssl::>negotiated_cipher The negotiated cipher of the
4827 client connection.
4828
4829 %ssl::<negotiated_cipher The negotiated cipher of the
4830 last server or peer connection.
4831
5038f9d8 4832 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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4833 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
4834
4835 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
4836 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
4837 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
4838 transaction is in progress.
4839
c28b9a0e 4840 If adaptation is enabled the following codes become available:
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4842 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
4843 meta-information from the last eCAP
4844 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
4845 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
4846 argument.
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4848 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
4849 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
4850 the order of transaction start time. Each time
4851 value is recorded as an integer number,
4852 representing response time of one or more
4853 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
4854 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
4855 being retried or repeated, its time is not
4856 logged individually but added to the
4857 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
4858 adapt::all_trs.
4859
4860 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
4861 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
4862 individual transactions are never added
4863 together. Instead, all transaction response
4864 times are recorded individually.
4865
4866 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
4867 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
4868 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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4870 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
4871
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4872logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
4873logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
4874logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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4875logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
4876logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
4877
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4878 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
4879 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
4880 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
4881
4882 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
4883 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 4884
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4886
41bd17a4 4887NAME: access_log cache_access_log
4888TYPE: access_log
4889LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 4890DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 4891DOC_START
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4892 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
4893 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
4894 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
4895
4896 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
4897 access_log none [acl acl ...]
4898
4899 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 4900 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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4901
4902 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
4903 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
4904 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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4905
4906 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 4907 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
4908 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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4909 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
4910
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4911 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
4912
4913 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
4914 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
4915 to 'squid'.
4916
4917 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
4918 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
4919 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
4920 should flush records before the buffer becomes
4921 full to avoid overflows under normal
4922 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
4923 module-dependent though). The on-error option
4924 controls overflow handling.
4925
4926 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
4927 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
4928 affected log records. The default 'die' action
4929 kills the affected worker. The drop action
4930 support has not been tested for modules other
4931 than tcp.
4932
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4933 rotate=N Specifies the number of log file rotations to
4934 make when you run 'squid -k rotate'. The default
4935 is to obey the logfile_rotate directive. Setting
4936 rotate=0 will disable the file name rotation,
4937 but the log files are still closed and re-opened.
4938 This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4939 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
4940 Only supported by the stdio module.
4941
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4942 ===== Modules Currently available =====
4943
bb7a1781 4944 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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4945 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
4946
4947 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
4948 each request.
4949 Place: the filename and path to be written.
4950
4951 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
4952 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
4953 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
4954
4955 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
4956
4957 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
4958 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
4959 Place Format: facility.priority
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4961 where facility could be any of:
4962 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
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4964 And priority could be any of:
4965 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
4966
4967 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
4968 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4969 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 4970
2bf4e8fa 4971 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 4972 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 4973 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4974 Place Format: //host:port
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4976 Default:
82b7abe3 4977 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 4978DOC_END
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4980NAME: icap_log
4981TYPE: access_log
4982IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4983LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
4984DEFAULT: none
4985DOC_START
4986 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
4987 transaction.
4988
4989 The icap_log option format is:
4990 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
4991 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
4992
4993 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
4994 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
4995 features.
4996
4997 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
4998 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
4999 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
5000 log line.
5001
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5002 ICAP log supports many access.log logformat %codes. In ICAP context,
5003 HTTP message-related %codes are applied to the HTTP message embedded
5004 in an ICAP message. Logformat "%http::>..." codes are used for HTTP
5005 messages embedded in ICAP requests while "%http::<..." codes are used
5006 for HTTP messages embedded in ICAP responses. For example:
5007
5008 http::>h To-be-adapted HTTP message headers sent by Squid to
5009 the ICAP service. For REQMOD transactions, these are
5010 HTTP request headers. For RESPMOD, these are HTTP
5011 response headers, but Squid currently cannot log them
5012 (i.e., %http::>h will expand to "-" for RESPMOD).
5013
5014 http::<h Adapted HTTP message headers sent by the ICAP
5015 service to Squid (i.e., HTTP request headers in regular
5016 REQMOD; HTTP response headers in RESPMOD and during
5017 request satisfaction in REQMOD).
5018
5019 ICAP OPTIONS transactions do not embed HTTP messages.
5020
5021 Several logformat codes below deal with ICAP message bodies. An ICAP
5022 message body, if any, typically includes a complete HTTP message
5023 (required HTTP headers plus optional HTTP message body). When
5024 computing HTTP message body size for these logformat codes, Squid
5025 either includes or excludes chunked encoding overheads; see
5026 code-specific documentation for details.
5027
5028 For Secure ICAP services, all size-related information is currently
5029 computed before/after TLS encryption/decryption, as if TLS was not
5030 in use at all.
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5032 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
5033
5034 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
5035
5036 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
5037 option in Squid configuration file.
5038
5039 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
5040
5041 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
5042 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
5043
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5044 icap::>st The total size of the ICAP request sent to the ICAP
5045 server (ICAP headers + ICAP body), including chunking
5046 metadata (if any).
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5048 icap::<st The total size of the ICAP response received from the
5049 ICAP server (ICAP headers + ICAP body), including
5050 chunking metadata (if any).
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5052 icap::<bs The size of the ICAP response body received from the
5053 ICAP server, excluding chunking metadata (if any).
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5055 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
5056 milliseconds). The timer starts when
5057 the ICAP transaction is created and
5058 stops when the transaction is completed.
5059 Similar to tr.
5060
5061 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
5062 timer starts when the first ICAP request
5063 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
5064 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
5065 is received.
5066
5067 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
5068 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
5069 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
5070 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
5071 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
5072 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
5073
5074 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
5075
5076 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
5077
5078 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
5079
5080 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
5081 definition, is called icap_squid:
5082
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5088NAME: logfile_daemon
5089TYPE: string
5090DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
5091LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
5092DOC_START
5093 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
5094 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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5096 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
5097 L<data>\n - logfile data
5098 R\n - rotate file
5099 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 5100 O\n - reopen file
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5101 F\n - flush file
5102 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
5103 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
5104
5105 No responses is expected.
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5106DOC_END
5107
8ebad780 5108NAME: stats_collection
3ff65596 5109TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 5110LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
3ff65596 5111DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5112DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 5113COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
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5115 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
5116 in performance counters.
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5117
5118 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5119 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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5121
41bd17a4 5122NAME: cache_store_log
5123TYPE: string
df2eec10 5124DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5125LOC: Config.Log.store
5126DOC_START
5127 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
5128 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 5129 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 5130 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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5131 disable it (the default).
5132
5133 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
5134 of modules supported.
5135
e0855596 5136 Example:
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5137 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5138 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 5139DOC_END
5140
41bd17a4 5141NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
5142TYPE: string
5143LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 5144DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5145DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 5146DOC_START
41bd17a4 5147 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
5148 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
5149 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
5150 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
5151 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
5152 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
5153 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
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41bd17a4 5155 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
5156 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
5157 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
5158 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
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41bd17a4 5160 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
5161 these swap logs will have names such as:
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41bd17a4 5163 cache_swap_log.00
5164 cache_swap_log.01
5165 cache_swap_log.02
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41bd17a4 5167 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
5168 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
5169 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
5170 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
5171 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
5172 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
5173 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 5174DOC_END
5175
41bd17a4 5176NAME: logfile_rotate
5177TYPE: int
5178DEFAULT: 10
5179LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 5180DOC_START
efc23871 5181 Specifies the default number of logfile rotations to make when you
41bd17a4 5182 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
5183 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
5184 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
5185 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
5186 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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5188 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
5189 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
5190
66f92ffc 5191 Note, from Squid-4 this option is only a default for access.log
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5192 recorded by stdio: module. Those logs can be rotated separately by
5193 using the rotate=N option on their access_log directive.
5194
41bd17a4 5195 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
5196 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
5197 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
5198 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
5199 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
5200 <pid>'.
62493678 5201
41bd17a4 5202DOC_END
5473c134 5203
41bd17a4 5204NAME: mime_table
5205TYPE: string
5206DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
5207LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
5208DOC_START
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5209 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
5210
5211 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
5212 examples and formatting information if you do.
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5214
41bd17a4 5215NAME: log_mime_hdrs
5216COMMENT: on|off
5217TYPE: onoff
5218LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
5219DEFAULT: off
5220DOC_START
5221 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
5222 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
5223 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
5224 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
5225 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
5226DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5228NAME: pid_filename
5229TYPE: string
5230DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
5231LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 5232DOC_START
41bd17a4 5233 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 5234DOC_END
5235
41bd17a4 5236NAME: client_netmask
5237TYPE: address
5238LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 5239DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 5240DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 5241DOC_START
41bd17a4 5242 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
5243 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
5244 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
5245 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 5246DOC_END
5247
41bd17a4 5248NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 5249TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 5250LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 5251DEFAULT: on
5252DOC_START
41bd17a4 5253 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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5254 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
5255
5256 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
5257 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 5258DOC_END
5259
41bd17a4 5260NAME: buffered_logs
5261COMMENT: on|off
5262TYPE: onoff
5263DEFAULT: off
5264LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 5265DOC_START
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5266 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
5267 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
5268 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
5269 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
5270 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
5271 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
5272
5273 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
5274 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
5275 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
5276
fb0c2f17 5277 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 5278DOC_END
0976f8db 5279
2b753521 5280NAME: netdb_filename
5281TYPE: string
221faecb 5282DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 5283LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 5284IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 5285DOC_START
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5286 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
5287 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
5288
2b753521 5289 To disable, enter "none".
5290DOC_END
5291
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5292COMMENT_START
5293 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
5294 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5295COMMENT_END
5296
5297NAME: cache_log
5298TYPE: string
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5299DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
5300LOC: Debug::cache_log
5301DOC_START
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5302 Squid administrative logging file.
5303
5304 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
5305 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
5306 rotated with "debug_options"
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5307DOC_END
5308
5309NAME: debug_options
5310TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 5311DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 5312DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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5313LOC: Debug::debugOptions
5314DOC_START
5315 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
5316 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
5317 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
5318 log file, so be careful.
5319
5320 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 5321 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
62493678 5322
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5323 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
5324 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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5325 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
5326 events affecting Squid.
5327DOC_END
5328
5329NAME: coredump_dir
5330TYPE: string
5331LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 5332DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 5333DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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5334DOC_START
5335 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5336 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5337 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5338 and coredump files will be left there.
5339
5340NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 5341
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5342# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5343coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
5344NOCOMMENT_END
5345DOC_END
5346
5347
41bd17a4 5348COMMENT_START
5349 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
5350 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5351COMMENT_END
5352
5353NAME: ftp_user
5354TYPE: string
5355DEFAULT: Squid@
5356LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 5357DOC_START
41bd17a4 5358 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 5359 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 5360 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 5361
41bd17a4 5362 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
5363 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
5364 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 5365 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 5366 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 5367DOC_END
0976f8db 5368
41bd17a4 5369NAME: ftp_passive
5370TYPE: onoff
5371DEFAULT: on
5372LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 5373DOC_START
41bd17a4 5374 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
5375 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 5376
5377 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
5378DOC_END
5379
5380NAME: ftp_epsv_all
5381TYPE: onoff
5382DEFAULT: off
5383LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
5384DOC_START
5385 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
5386
5387 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
5388 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
5389 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
5390
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5391 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
5392 useful.
a689bd4e 5393 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
5394 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
5395
5396 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
5397 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
5398
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5399 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
5400DOC_END
5401
5402NAME: ftp_epsv
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5403TYPE: ftp_epsv
5404DEFAULT: none
5405LOC: Config.accessList.ftp_epsv
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5406DOC_START
5407 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
5408
5409 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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5410 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
5411 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
5412 will never be needed.
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5414 EPSV is often required to interoperate with FTP servers on IPv6
5415 networks. On the other hand, it may break some IPv4 servers.
5416
5417 By default, EPSV may try EPSV with any FTP server. To fine tune
5418 that decision, you may restrict EPSV to certain clients or servers
5419 using ACLs:
5420
5421 ftp_epsv allow|deny al1 acl2 ...
5422
5423 WARNING: Disabling EPSV may cause problems with external NAT and IPv6.
51ee534d 5424
ddf5aa2b 5425 Only fast ACLs are supported.
51ee534d 5426 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 5427DOC_END
9e7dbc51 5428
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5429NAME: ftp_eprt
5430TYPE: onoff
5431DEFAULT: on
5432LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
5433DOC_START
5434 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
5435
5436 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
5437 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
5438 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
5439
5440 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
5441 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
5442
5443 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
5444 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
5445 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
5446 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
5447
5448 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
5449 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
5450DOC_END
5451
41bd17a4 5452NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
5453TYPE: onoff
5454DEFAULT: on
5455LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
5456DOC_START
5457 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
5458 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
5459 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
5460 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
5461 connection turn this off.
5462DOC_END
9e7dbc51 5463
41bd17a4 5464NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
5465TYPE: onoff
5466DEFAULT: on
5467LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
5468DOC_START
5469 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
5470 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
5471 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
5472 the FTP protocol.
5473
5474 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
5475 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
5476 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
5477 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
5478 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
5479DOC_END
5480
5481COMMENT_START
5482 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
5483 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5484COMMENT_END
5485
5486NAME: diskd_program
5487TYPE: string
5488DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
5489LOC: Config.Program.diskd
5490DOC_START
5491 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
5492 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
5493 diskd as one of the store io modules.
5494DOC_END
5495
5496NAME: unlinkd_program
5497IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
5498TYPE: string
5499DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
5500LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
5501DOC_START
5502 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
5503DOC_END
5504
5505NAME: pinger_program
41bd17a4 5506IFDEF: USE_ICMP
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5507TYPE: icmp
5508DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
5509LOC: IcmpCfg
41bd17a4 5510DOC_START
5511 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
5512DOC_END
5513
cc192b50 5514NAME: pinger_enable
5515TYPE: onoff
5516DEFAULT: on
7a9d36e3 5517LOC: IcmpCfg.enable
cc192b50 5518IFDEF: USE_ICMP
5519DOC_START
5520 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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5521 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
5522 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 5523DOC_END
5524
5525
41bd17a4 5526COMMENT_START
5527 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
5528 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5529COMMENT_END
5530
5531NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
5532TYPE: wordlist
5533LOC: Config.Program.redirect
5534DEFAULT: none
5535DOC_START
2c7aad89 5536 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 5537 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
5538
2c7aad89 5539 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 5540
b11724bb 5541 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
5269ec0e 5542
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5544 the helper.
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5545 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
5546
24eac830 5547 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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5548
5549 The result code can be:
5550
5551 OK status=30N url="..."
5552 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
5553 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
5554 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
5555 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
5556 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
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5558 OK rewrite-url="..."
5559 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
5560 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
5561 the client as the response to its request.
5562
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5563 OK
5564 When neither of url= and rewrite-url= are sent Squid does
5565 not change the URL.
5566
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5567 ERR
5568 Do not change the URL.
5569
5570 BH
4ded749e 5571 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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5572 a result being identified. The 'message=' key name is
5573 reserved for delivering a log message.
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5574
5575
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5576 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5577 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5578 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5579 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5580 The TAG is treated as a regular annotation but persists across
5581 future requests on the client connection rather than just the
5582 current request. A helper may update the TAG during subsequent
5583 requests be returning a new kv-pair.
41bd17a4 5584
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5585 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5586 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5587 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5588 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5589 of the response relating to its request.
5590
5591 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
5592 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 5593
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5594 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
5595 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
5596 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
5597 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
5598 interface.
41bd17a4 5599
5600 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
5601DOC_END
5602
5603NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 5604TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 5605DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 5606LOC: Config.redirectChildren
5607DOC_START
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5608 Specifies the maximum number of redirector processes that Squid may
5609 spawn (numberofchildren) and several related options. Using too few of
5610 these helper processes (a.k.a. "helpers") creates request queues.
5611 Using too many helpers wastes your system resources.
5612
5613 Usage: numberofchildren [option]...
5614
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5615 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5616 tuning.
5617
5618 startup=
5619
5620 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5621 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5622 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5623
5624 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5625 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5626
5627 idle=
5628
5629 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5630 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5631 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5632 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5633
5634 concurrency=
41bd17a4 5635
41bd17a4 5636 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
5637 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
5638 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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5639
5640 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5641 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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5642 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5643 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5644
5645 queue-size=N
5646
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5647 Sets the maximum number of queued requests. A request is queued when
5648 no existing child can accept it due to concurrency limit and no new
5649 child can be started due to numberofchildren limit. The default
5650 maximum is zero if url_rewrite_bypass is enabled and
5651 2*numberofchildren otherwise. If the queued requests exceed queue size
5652 and redirector_bypass configuration option is set, then redirector is
5653 bypassed. Otherwise, Squid is allowed to temporarily exceed the
5654 configured maximum, marking the affected helper as "overloaded". If
5655 the helper overload lasts more than 3 minutes, the action prescribed
5656 by the on-persistent-overload option applies.
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5657
5658 on-persistent-overload=action
5659
5660 Specifies Squid reaction to a new helper request arriving when the helper
5661 has been overloaded for more that 3 minutes already. The number of queued
5662 requests determines whether the helper is overloaded (see the queue-size
5663 option).
5664
5665 Two actions are supported:
5666
5667 die Squid worker quits. This is the default behavior.
5668
5669 ERR Squid treats the helper request as if it was
5670 immediately submitted, and the helper immediately
5671 replied with an ERR response. This action has no effect
5672 on the already queued and in-progress helper requests.
41bd17a4 5673DOC_END
5674
5675NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
5676TYPE: onoff
5677DEFAULT: on
5678LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
5679DOC_START
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5680 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
5681 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
5682 any Host: header in redirected requests.
5683
5684 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
5685 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
5686 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
5687
41bd17a4 5688 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
5689 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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5690
5691 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
5692 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
5693 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 5694DOC_END
5695
5696NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
5697TYPE: acl_access
5698DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5699DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 5700LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
5701DOC_START
5702 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 5703 sent to the redirector processes.
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5704
5705 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5706 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5707DOC_END
5708
5709NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
5710TYPE: onoff
5711LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
5712DEFAULT: off
5713DOC_START
5714 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
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5715 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off' and the
5716 redirector queue grows too large, the action is prescribed by the
5717 on-persistent-overload option. You should only enable this if the
5718 redirectors are not critical to your caching system. If you use
41bd17a4 5719 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
5720 users may have access to pages they should not
5721 be allowed to request.
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5722
5723 Enabling this option sets the default url_rewrite_children queue-size
5724 option value to 0.
41bd17a4 5725DOC_END
5726
fe7966ec 5727NAME: url_rewrite_extras
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5728TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5729LOC: Config.redirector_extras
5730DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5731DOC_START
5732 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5733 rewriter helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5734 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5735 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5736 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5737DOC_END
5738
32fd6d8a 5739NAME: url_rewrite_timeout
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5740TYPE: UrlHelperTimeout
5741LOC: Config.onUrlRewriteTimeout
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5742DEFAULT: none
5743DEFAULT_DOC: Squid waits for the helper response forever
5744DOC_START
5745 Squid times active requests to redirector. The timeout value and Squid
5746 reaction to a timed out request are configurable using the following
5747 format:
5748
ced8def3 5749 url_rewrite_timeout timeout time-units on_timeout=<action> [response=<quoted-response>]
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5750
5751 supported timeout actions:
ced8def3 5752 fail Squid return a ERR_GATEWAY_FAILURE error page
32fd6d8a 5753
ced8def3 5754 bypass Do not re-write the URL
32fd6d8a 5755
ced8def3 5756 retry Send the lookup to the helper again
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5758 use_configured_response
5759 Use the <quoted-response> as helper response
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5760DOC_END
5761
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5762COMMENT_START
5763 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
5764 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5765COMMENT_END
5766
5767NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
5768TYPE: wordlist
5769LOC: Config.Program.store_id
5770DEFAULT: none
5771DOC_START
5772 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
5773 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
5774
5775 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
5776
b11724bb 5777 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
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5778
5779
5780 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
5781
5782 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
5783
5784 The result code can be:
5785
5786 OK store-id="..."
5787 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
5788
5789 ERR
5790 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
5791
5792 BH
61beade2 5793 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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5794 a result being identified.
5795
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5796 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5797 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5798 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5799 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5800 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation for this
5801 kv-pair
a8a0b1c2 5802
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5803 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore
5804 additional whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
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5805
5806 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5807 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5808 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5809 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5810 of the response relating to its request.
5811
5812 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
5813 returned from the helper and not the URL.
5814
5815 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
5816 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
5817
5818 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
5819DOC_END
5820
fe7966ec 5821NAME: store_id_extras
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5822TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5823LOC: Config.storeId_extras
5824DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5825DOC_START
5826 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5827 StoreId helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5828 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5829 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5830 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5831DOC_END
5832
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5833NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
5834TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5835DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
5836LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
5837DOC_START
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5838 Specifies the maximum number of StoreID helper processes that Squid
5839 may spawn (numberofchildren) and several related options. Using
5840 too few of these helper processes (a.k.a. "helpers") creates request
5841 queues. Using too many helpers wastes your system resources.
5842
5843 Usage: numberofchildren [option]...
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5844
5845 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5846 tuning.
5847
5848 startup=
5849
5850 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5851 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5852 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5853
5854 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5855 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5856
5857 idle=
5858
5859 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5860 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5861 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5862 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5863
5864 concurrency=
5865
5866 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
5867 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
5868 is a old-style single threaded program.
5869
5870 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5871 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
5872 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5873 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5874
5875 queue-size=N
5876
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5878 when no existing child can accept it due to concurrency limit and no
5879 new child can be started due to numberofchildren limit. The default
5880 maximum is 2*numberofchildren. If the queued requests exceed queue
5881 size and redirector_bypass configuration option is set, then
5882 redirector is bypassed. Otherwise, Squid is allowed to temporarily
5883 exceed the configured maximum, marking the affected helper as
5884 "overloaded". If the helper overload lasts more than 3 minutes, the
5885 action prescribed by the on-persistent-overload option applies.
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5886
5887 on-persistent-overload=action
5888
5889 Specifies Squid reaction to a new helper request arriving when the helper
5890 has been overloaded for more that 3 minutes already. The number of queued
5891 requests determines whether the helper is overloaded (see the queue-size
5892 option).
5893
5894 Two actions are supported:
5895
5896 die Squid worker quits. This is the default behavior.
5897
5898 ERR Squid treats the helper request as if it was
5899 immediately submitted, and the helper immediately
5900 replied with an ERR response. This action has no effect
5901 on the already queued and in-progress helper requests.
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5903
5904NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
5905TYPE: acl_access
5906DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5907DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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5908LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
5909DOC_START
5910 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
5911 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
5912 are sent.
5913
5914 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5915 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5916DOC_END
5917
5918NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
5919TYPE: onoff
5920LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
5921DEFAULT: on
5922DOC_START
5923 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
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5924 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off' and the helper
5925 queue grows too large, the action is prescribed by the
5926 on-persistent-overload option. You should only enable this if the
5927 helpers are not critical to your caching system. If you use
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5928 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
5929 option, users may not get objects from cache.
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5930 This options sets default queue-size option of the store_id_children
5931 to 0.
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5932DOC_END
5933
41bd17a4 5934COMMENT_START
5935 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
5936 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5937COMMENT_END
5938
f04b37d8 5939NAME: cache no_cache
5940TYPE: acl_access
5941DEFAULT: none
70706149 5942DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
f04b37d8 5943LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 5944DOC_START
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5945 Requests denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5946 and their responses will not be stored in the cache. This directive
5947 has no effect on other transactions and on already cached responses.
f04b37d8 5948
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5949 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5950 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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5951
5952 This and the two other similar caching directives listed below are
5953 checked at different transaction processing stages, have different
5954 access to response information, affect different cache operations,
5955 and differ in slow ACLs support:
5956
5957 * cache: Checked before Squid makes a hit/miss determination.
5958 No access to reply information!
5959 Denies both serving a hit and storing a miss.
5960 Supports both fast and slow ACLs.
5961 * send_hit: Checked after a hit was detected.
5962 Has access to reply (hit) information.
5963 Denies serving a hit only.
5964 Supports fast ACLs only.
5965 * store_miss: Checked before storing a cachable miss.
5966 Has access to reply (miss) information.
5967 Denies storing a miss only.
5968 Supports fast ACLs only.
5969
5970 If you are not sure which of the three directives to use, apply the
5971 following decision logic:
5972
5973 * If your ACL(s) are of slow type _and_ need response info, redesign.
5974 Squid does not support that particular combination at this time.
5975 Otherwise:
5976 * If your directive ACL(s) are of slow type, use "cache"; and/or
5977 * if your directive ACL(s) need no response info, use "cache".
5978 Otherwise:
5979 * If you do not want the response cached, use store_miss; and/or
5980 * if you do not want a hit on a cached response, use send_hit.
5981DOC_END
5982
5983NAME: send_hit
5984TYPE: acl_access
5985DEFAULT: none
5986DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5987LOC: Config.accessList.sendHit
5988DOC_START
5989 Responses denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5990 (but may still be cached, see store_miss). This directive has no
5991 effect on the responses it allows and on the cached objects.
5992
5993 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5994 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives.
5995
5996 Unlike the "cache" directive, send_hit only supports fast acl
5997 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5998
5999 For example:
6000
6001 # apply custom Store ID mapping to some URLs
6002 acl MapMe dstdomain .c.example.com
6003 store_id_program ...
6004 store_id_access allow MapMe
6005
6006 # but prevent caching of special responses
6007 # such as 302 redirects that cause StoreID loops
6008 acl Ordinary http_status 200-299
6009 store_miss deny MapMe !Ordinary
6010
6011 # and do not serve any previously stored special responses
6012 # from the cache (in case they were already cached before
6013 # the above store_miss rule was in effect).
6014 send_hit deny MapMe !Ordinary
6015DOC_END
6016
6017NAME: store_miss
6018TYPE: acl_access
6019DEFAULT: none
6020DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
6021LOC: Config.accessList.storeMiss
6022DOC_START
6023 Responses denied by this directive will not be cached (but may still
6024 be served from the cache, see send_hit). This directive has no
6025 effect on the responses it allows and on the already cached responses.
6026
6027 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
6028 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives. See the
6029 send_hit directive for a usage example.
6030
6031 Unlike the "cache" directive, store_miss only supports fast acl
6032 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 6033DOC_END
6034
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6035NAME: max_stale
6036COMMENT: time-units
6037TYPE: time_t
6038LOC: Config.maxStale
6039DEFAULT: 1 week
6040DOC_START
6041 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
6042 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
6043 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
6044DOC_END
6045
41bd17a4 6046NAME: refresh_pattern
6047TYPE: refreshpattern
6048LOC: Config.Refresh
6049DEFAULT: none
6050DOC_START
6051 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 6052
6b698a21 6053 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
6054 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 6055
41bd17a4 6056 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
6057 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
6058 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
6059 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
6060 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 6061
41bd17a4 6062 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
6063 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
6064 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 6065
41bd17a4 6066 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
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6067 expiry time will be considered fresh. The value is also used
6068 to form Cache-Control: max-age header for a request sent from
6069 Squid to origin/parent.
9e7dbc51 6070
41bd17a4 6071 options: override-expire
6072 override-lastmod
6073 reload-into-ims
6074 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 6075 ignore-no-store
6076 ignore-private
570d3f75 6077 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 6078 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 6079 store-stale
a0ec9f68 6080
41bd17a4 6081 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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6082 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
6083 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
6084 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
6085 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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6087 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
6088 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
6089 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
6090 the object fresh for that period of time.
6091
41bd17a4 6092 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
6093 that were modified recently.
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6095 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
6096 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
6097 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
6098 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
6099 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
6100 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 6101
41bd17a4 6102 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
6103 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6104 this feature could make you liable for problems which
6105 it causes.
9bc73deb 6106
41bd17a4 6107 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
6108 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
6109 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
6110 liable for problems which it causes.
6111
6112 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
6113 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
6114 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
6115 liable for problems which it causes.
6116
41bd17a4 6117 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
6118 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
6119 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
6120 if one is available.
6121
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6122 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
6123 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
6124 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
6125 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
6126 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
6127
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6128 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
6129 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
6130 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
6131
41bd17a4 6132 Basically a cached object is:
6133
fb41bbb2 6134 FRESH if expire > now, else STALE
41bd17a4 6135 STALE if age > max
6136 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
6137 FRESH if age < min
6138 else STALE
6139
6140 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
6141 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
6142 match the default will be used.
6143
6144 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
6145 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
6146 used.
6147
41bd17a4 6148NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 6149
638402dd 6150#
e0855596 6151# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 6152#
41bd17a4 6153refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
6154refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 6155refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 6156refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
6157NOCOMMENT_END
6158DOC_END
6159
6160NAME: quick_abort_min
6161COMMENT: (KB)
6162TYPE: kb_int64_t
6163DEFAULT: 16 KB
6164LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
6165DOC_NONE
6166
6167NAME: quick_abort_max
6168COMMENT: (KB)
6169TYPE: kb_int64_t
6170DEFAULT: 16 KB
6171LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
6172DOC_NONE
6173
6174NAME: quick_abort_pct
6175COMMENT: (percent)
6176TYPE: int
6177DEFAULT: 95
6178LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
6179DOC_START
6180 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
6181 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
6182 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
6183 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
6184 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
6185 downloads.
6186
6187 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2d4eefd9 6188 quick_abort values to the amount of data transferred until
41bd17a4 6189 then.
6190
6191 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
6192 it will finish the retrieval.
6193
6194 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
6195 it will abort the retrieval.
6196
6197 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
6198 it will finish the retrieval.
6199
6200 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
6201 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
6202 to '0 KB'.
6203
6204 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
6205 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
6206DOC_END
60d096f4 6207
41bd17a4 6208NAME: read_ahead_gap
6209COMMENT: buffer-size
6210TYPE: b_int64_t
6211LOC: Config.readAheadGap
6212DEFAULT: 16 KB
6213DOC_START
6214 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
6215 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
6216DOC_END
53e738c6 6217
41bd17a4 6218NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 6219IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 6220COMMENT: time-units
6221TYPE: time_t
6222LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 6223DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 6224DOC_START
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6225 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
6226 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
6227 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
6228 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
6229 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
6230 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
6231
6232 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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6233
6234 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6235 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6236 causes.
41bd17a4 6237DOC_END
53e738c6 6238
41bd17a4 6239NAME: positive_dns_ttl
6240COMMENT: time-units
6241TYPE: time_t
6242LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
6243DEFAULT: 6 hours
6244DOC_START
6245 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
6246 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
6247 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
6248DOC_END
c4ab8329 6249
41bd17a4 6250NAME: negative_dns_ttl
6251COMMENT: time-units
6252TYPE: time_t
6253LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
6254DEFAULT: 1 minutes
6255DOC_START
6256 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
6257 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
6258 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
6259 much below 10 seconds.
6260DOC_END
7df0bfd7 6261
41bd17a4 6262NAME: range_offset_limit
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6263COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
6264TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 6265LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 6266DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 6267DOC_START
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6268 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
6269
6270 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
6271 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
6272 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
6273 the result is NOT cached.
6274
41bd17a4 6275 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
6276 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
6277 sending anything to the client.
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6278
6279 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
6280 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
6281 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
6282 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
6283
6284 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
6285
6286 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
6287 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
6288
6289 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 6290 client requested. (default)
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6291
6292 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 6293 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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6294
6295 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
6296
6297 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
6298 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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6299 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
6300 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 6301DOC_END
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41bd17a4 6303NAME: minimum_expiry_time
6304COMMENT: (seconds)
6305TYPE: time_t
6306LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
6307DEFAULT: 60 seconds
6308DOC_START
6309 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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6310 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
6311 The default is 60 seconds.
6312
6313 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
6314 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
6315 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
6316
6317 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
6318 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 6319DOC_END
c68e9c6b 6320
41bd17a4 6321NAME: store_avg_object_size
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6322COMMENT: (bytes)
6323TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 6324DEFAULT: 13 KB
6325LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
6326DOC_START
6327 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
6328 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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6329
6330 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
6331 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
6332 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
6333 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
6334
6335 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
6336 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 6337DOC_END
6338
41bd17a4 6339NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
6340TYPE: int
6341DEFAULT: 20
6342LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
6343DOC_START
6344 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
6345 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
6346 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
6347DOC_END
6348
6349COMMENT_START
6350 HTTP OPTIONS
6351 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6352COMMENT_END
6353
f04b37d8 6354NAME: request_header_max_size
6355COMMENT: (KB)
6356TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 6357DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 6358LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
6359DOC_START
6360 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
6361 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
6362 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
6363 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
6364 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
6365DOC_END
6366
6367NAME: reply_header_max_size
6368COMMENT: (KB)
6369TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 6370DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 6371LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
6372DOC_START
6373 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
6374 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
6375 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
6376 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
6377 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
6378DOC_END
6379
6380NAME: request_body_max_size
6381COMMENT: (bytes)
6382TYPE: b_int64_t
6383DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 6384DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 6385LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
6386DOC_START
6387 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
6388 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
6389 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
6390 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
6391 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
6392 be no limit imposed.
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6393
6394 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
6395 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 6396DOC_END
6397
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6398NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
6399COMMENT: (bytes)
6400TYPE: b_size_t
6401DEFAULT: 512 KB
6402LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
6403DOC_START
6404 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
6405 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
6406 a large file.
6407DOC_END
6408
41bd17a4 6409NAME: broken_posts
626096be 6410IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 6411TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 6412DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6413DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 6414LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 6415DOC_START
41bd17a4 6416 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
6417 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 6418
41bd17a4 6419 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
6420 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 6421
41bd17a4 6422 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 6423
41bd17a4 6424 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
6425 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
6426 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
6427 a request with an extra CRLF.
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6429 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6430 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6431
41bd17a4 6432Example:
6433 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
6434 broken_posts allow buggy_server
6435DOC_END
cccac0a2 6436
22fff3bf 6437NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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6438COMMENT: on|off
6439TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6440IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 6441DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 6442LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 6443DOC_START
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6444 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
6445 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
6446
6447 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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6448DOC_END
6449
41bd17a4 6450NAME: via
626096be 6451IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 6452COMMENT: on|off
6453TYPE: onoff
6454DEFAULT: on
6455LOC: Config.onoff.via
6456DOC_START
6457 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
6458 replies as required by RFC2616.
6459DOC_END
4cc6eb12 6460
41bd17a4 6461NAME: vary_ignore_expire
6462COMMENT: on|off
6463TYPE: onoff
6464LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
6465DEFAULT: off
6466DOC_START
6467 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
6468 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
6469 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
6470 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
6471 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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6472
6473 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
6474 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 6475DOC_END
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41bd17a4 6477NAME: request_entities
6478TYPE: onoff
6479LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
6480DEFAULT: off
6481DOC_START
6482 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
6483 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
6484 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 6485
41bd17a4 6486 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
6487 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
6488 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
6489 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
6490 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 6491DOC_END
6b53c392 6492
41bd17a4 6493NAME: request_header_access
626096be 6494IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6495TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 6496LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 6497DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6498DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 6499DOC_START
41bd17a4 6500 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 6501
41bd17a4 6502 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6503 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6504 causes.
0976f8db 6505
41bd17a4 6506 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
6507 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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6508 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
6509 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
6510
6511 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
6512 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
6513 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
6514 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
6515 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
6516
6517 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
6518 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
6519 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
6520
6521 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
6522 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
6523 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
6524 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
6525
6526 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
6527 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
6528 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
6529 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
6530 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
6531 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 6532
41bd17a4 6533 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
6534 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 6535
41bd17a4 6536 request_header_access From deny all
6537 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 6538 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 6539
41bd17a4 6540 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
6541 you should use:
5401aa8d 6542
41bd17a4 6543 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 6544 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 6545 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 6546 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
6547 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
6548 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 6549 request_header_access Host allow all
6550 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 6551 request_header_access Pragma allow all
6552 request_header_access Accept allow all
6553 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
6554 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
6555 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 6556 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 6557 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 6558
638402dd 6559 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 6560
638402dd 6561 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 6562DOC_END
6563
41bd17a4 6564NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 6565IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6566TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 6567LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 6568DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6569DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 6570DOC_START
41bd17a4 6571 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 6572
41bd17a4 6573 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6574 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6575 causes.
934b03fc 6576
41bd17a4 6577 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
6578 server to the client.
934b03fc 6579
41bd17a4 6580 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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6581 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
6582 documentation.
cccac0a2 6583
41bd17a4 6584 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
6585 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 6586
41bd17a4 6587 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 6588 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
6589 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 6590
41bd17a4 6591 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
6592 you should use:
cccac0a2 6593
41bd17a4 6594 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 6595 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 6596 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
6597 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
6598 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
6599 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
6600 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
6601 reply_header_access Date allow all
6602 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 6603 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
6604 reply_header_access Location allow all
6605 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 6606 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 6607 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
6608 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 6609 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 6610 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 6611 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 6612
638402dd 6613 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 6614
41bd17a4 6615 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
6616 performed).
cccac0a2 6617DOC_END
6618
75e4f2ea 6619NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 6620IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6621TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 6622LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 6623DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 6624DOC_START
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6625 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
6626 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 6627
41bd17a4 6628 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 6629 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 6630 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 6631
41bd17a4 6632 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 6633
41bd17a4 6634 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6635DOC_END
cccac0a2 6636
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6637NAME: reply_header_replace
6638IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6639TYPE: http_header_replace
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6640LOC: Config.reply_header_access
6641DEFAULT: none
6642DOC_START
6643 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
6644 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
6645
6646 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
6647 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
6648 with some fixed string.
6649
6650 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
6651
6652 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6653DOC_END
6654
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6655NAME: request_header_add
6656TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
6657LOC: Config.request_header_add
6658DEFAULT: none
6659DOC_START
cde8f31b 6660 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value [ acl ... ]
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6661 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
6662
6663 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
6664 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
6665 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
6666 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
6667 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
6668
6669 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
6670 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
6671 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
6672 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
6673 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
6674 header field values are not merged.
6675
6676 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
6677 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
6678 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
6679
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6680 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
6681 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
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6682 ACLs in the ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion to
6683 happen. The request_header_add supports fast ACLs only.
6684
6685 See also: reply_header_add.
6686DOC_END
6687
6688NAME: reply_header_add
6689TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
6690LOC: Config.reply_header_add
6691DEFAULT: none
6692DOC_START
6693 Usage: reply_header_add field-name field-value [ acl ... ]
6694 Example: reply_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
6695
6696 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP responses (i.e., response
6697 headers delivered by Squid to the client). This option has no effect on
6698 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in
6699 ICAP terminology is post-cache RESPMOD. This option does not apply to
6700 successful CONNECT replies.
6701
6702 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
6703 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
6704 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
6705 HTTP rules. If the response to be modified already contains a
6706 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
6707 header field values are not merged.
6708
6709 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
6710 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
6711 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
6712
6713 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
6714 injection to matching responses. As always in squid.conf, all
6715 ACLs in the ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion to
6716 happen. The reply_header_add option supports fast ACLs only.
6717
6718 See also: request_header_add.
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6719DOC_END
6720
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6721NAME: note
6722TYPE: note
6723LOC: Config.notes
6724DEFAULT: none
6725DOC_START
6726 This option used to log custom information about the master
6727 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
6728 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
6729 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
6730 authentication information.
6731 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
6732
6733 note key value acl ...
6734 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
6735DOC_END
6736
41bd17a4 6737NAME: relaxed_header_parser
6738COMMENT: on|off|warn
6739TYPE: tristate
6740LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
6741DEFAULT: on
6742DOC_START
6743 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
6744 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
6745 what the sending application intended even if the message
6746 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
6747 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 6748
41bd17a4 6749 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
6750 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 6751
41bd17a4 6752 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
6753 or response to be rejected.
6754DOC_END
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6756NAME: collapsed_forwarding
6757COMMENT: (on|off)
6758TYPE: onoff
6759LOC: Config.onoff.collapsed_forwarding
6760DEFAULT: off
6761DOC_START
6762 This option controls whether Squid is allowed to merge multiple
6763 potentially cachable requests for the same URI before Squid knows
6764 whether the response is going to be cachable.
6765
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6766 When enabled, instead of forwarding each concurrent request for
6767 the same URL, Squid just sends the first of them. The other, so
6768 called "collapsed" requests, wait for the response to the first
6769 request and, if it happens to be cachable, use that response.
6770 Here, "concurrent requests" means "received after the first
6771 request headers were parsed and before the corresponding response
6772 headers were parsed".
6773
6774 This feature is disabled by default: enabling collapsed
6775 forwarding needlessly delays forwarding requests that look
6776 cachable (when they are collapsed) but then need to be forwarded
6777 individually anyway because they end up being for uncachable
6778 content. However, in some cases, such as acceleration of highly
6779 cachable content with periodic or grouped expiration times, the
6780 gains from collapsing [large volumes of simultaneous refresh
6781 requests] outweigh losses from such delays.
6782
6783 Squid collapses two kinds of requests: regular client requests
6784 received on one of the listening ports and internal "cache
6785 revalidation" requests which are triggered by those regular
6786 requests hitting a stale cached object. Revalidation collapsing
6787 is currently disabled for Squid instances containing SMP-aware
6788 disk or memory caches and for Vary-controlled cached objects.
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6789DOC_END
6790
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6791NAME: collapsed_forwarding_access
6792TYPE: acl_access
6793DEFAULT: none
6794DEFAULT_DOC: Requests may be collapsed if collapsed_forwarding is on.
6795LOC: Config.accessList.collapsedForwardingAccess
6796DOC_START
6797 Use this directive to restrict collapsed forwarding to a subset of
6798 eligible requests. The directive is checked for regular HTTP
6799 requests, internal revalidation requests, and HTCP/ICP requests.
6800
6801 collapsed_forwarding_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6802
6803 This directive cannot force collapsing. It has no effect on
6804 collapsing unless collapsed_forwarding is 'on', and all other
6805 collapsing preconditions are satisfied.
6806
6807 * A denied request will not collapse, and future transactions will
6808 not collapse on it (even if they are allowed to collapse).
6809
6810 * An allowed request may collapse, or future transactions may
6811 collapse on it (provided they are allowed to collapse).
6812
6813 This directive is evaluated before receiving HTTP response headers
6814 and without access to Squid-to-peer connection (if any).
6815
6816 Only fast ACLs are supported.
6817
6818 See also: collapsed_forwarding.
6819DOC_END
6820
daed75a9 6821NAME: shared_transient_entries_limit collapsed_forwarding_shared_entries_limit
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6822COMMENT: (number of entries)
6823TYPE: int64_t
daed75a9 6824LOC: Config.shared_transient_entries_limit
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6825DEFAULT: 16384
6826DOC_START
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6827 This directive limits the size of a table used for sharing current
6828 transaction information among SMP workers. A table entry stores meta
6829 information about a single cache entry being delivered to Squid
6830 client(s) by one or more SMP workers. A single table entry consumes
6831 less than 128 shared memory bytes.
8f7dbf74 6832
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6833 The limit should be significantly larger than the number of
6834 concurrent non-collapsed cachable responses leaving Squid. For a
6835 cache that handles less than 5000 concurrent requests, the default
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6836 setting of 16384 should be plenty.
6837
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6838 Using excessively large values wastes shared memory. Limiting the
6839 table size too much results in hash collisions, leading to lower hit
6840 ratio and missed SMP request collapsing opportunities: Transactions
6841 left without a table entry cannot cache their responses and are
6842 invisible to other concurrent requests for the same resource.
6843
6844 A zero limit is allowed but unsupported. A positive small limit
6845 lowers hit ratio, but zero limit disables a lot of essential
6846 synchronization among SMP workers, leading to HTTP violations (e.g.,
6847 stale hit responses). It also disables shared collapsed forwarding:
6848 A worker becomes unable to collapse its requests on transactions in
6849 other workers, resulting in more trips to the origin server and more
6850 cache thrashing.
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6851DOC_END
6852
41bd17a4 6853COMMENT_START
6854 TIMEOUTS
6855 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6856COMMENT_END
6857
6858NAME: forward_timeout
6859COMMENT: time-units
6860TYPE: time_t
6861LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
6862DEFAULT: 4 minutes
6863DOC_START
6864 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
6865 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 6866DOC_END
6867
41bd17a4 6868NAME: connect_timeout
6869COMMENT: time-units
6870TYPE: time_t
6871LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
6872DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 6873DOC_START
41bd17a4 6874 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6875 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
6876 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 6877DOC_END
6878
41bd17a4 6879NAME: peer_connect_timeout
6880COMMENT: time-units
6881TYPE: time_t
6882LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
6883DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 6884DOC_START
41bd17a4 6885 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
6886 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
6887 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
6888 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
6889DOC_END
7f7db318 6890
41bd17a4 6891NAME: read_timeout
6892COMMENT: time-units
6893TYPE: time_t
6894LOC: Config.Timeout.read
6895DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6896DOC_START
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6897 Applied on peer server connections.
6898
6899 After each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
41bd17a4 6900 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
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6901 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT.
6902
6903 The default is 15 minutes.
41bd17a4 6904DOC_END
cccac0a2 6905
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6906NAME: write_timeout
6907COMMENT: time-units
6908TYPE: time_t
6909LOC: Config.Timeout.write
6910DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6911DOC_START
6912 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
6913 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
6914 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
6915 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
6916 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
6917 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
6918 default is 15 minutes.
6919DOC_END
6920
41bd17a4 6921NAME: request_timeout
6922TYPE: time_t
6923LOC: Config.Timeout.request
6924DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6925DOC_START
6b2a2108 6926 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 6927 connection establishment.
6928DOC_END
cccac0a2 6929
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6930NAME: request_start_timeout
6931TYPE: time_t
6932LOC: Config.Timeout.request_start_timeout
6933DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6934DOC_START
6935 How long to wait for the first request byte after initial
6936 connection establishment.
6937DOC_END
6938
97b32442 6939NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 6940TYPE: time_t
97b32442 6941LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 6942DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6943DOC_START
6944 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 6945 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 6946DOC_END
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6948NAME: ftp_client_idle_timeout
6949TYPE: time_t
6950LOC: Config.Timeout.ftpClientIdle
6951DEFAULT: 30 minutes
6952DOC_START
6953 How long to wait for an FTP request on a connection to Squid ftp_port.
6954 Many FTP clients do not deal with idle connection closures well,
6955 necessitating a longer default timeout than client_idle_pconn_timeout
6956 used for incoming HTTP requests.
6957DOC_END
6958
41bd17a4 6959NAME: client_lifetime
6960COMMENT: time-units
6961TYPE: time_t
6962LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
6963DEFAULT: 1 day
6964DOC_START
6965 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6966 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
6967 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
6968 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
6969 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
6970 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
6971 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 6972
41bd17a4 6973 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
6974 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
6975 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
6976 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
6977 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
6978 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 6979DOC_END
6980
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6981NAME: pconn_lifetime
6982COMMENT: time-units
6983TYPE: time_t
6984LOC: Config.Timeout.pconnLifetime
6985DEFAULT: 0 seconds
6986DOC_START
6987 Desired maximum lifetime of a persistent connection.
6988 When set, Squid will close a now-idle persistent connection that
6989 exceeded configured lifetime instead of moving the connection into
6990 the idle connection pool (or equivalent). No effect on ongoing/active
6991 transactions. Connection lifetime is the time period from the
6992 connection acceptance or opening time until "now".
6993
6994 This limit is useful in environments with long-lived connections
6995 where Squid configuration or environmental factors change during a
6996 single connection lifetime. If unrestricted, some connections may
6997 last for hours and even days, ignoring those changes that should
6998 have affected their behavior or their existence.
6999
7000 Currently, a new lifetime value supplied via Squid reconfiguration
7001 has no effect on already idle connections unless they become busy.
7002
7003 When set to '0' this limit is not used.
7004DOC_END
7005
41bd17a4 7006NAME: half_closed_clients
7007TYPE: onoff
7008LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 7009DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 7010DOC_START
41bd17a4 7011 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
7012 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
7013 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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7014 fully-closed TCP connection.
7015
7016 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
7017 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
7018
abdf1651 7019 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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7020 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
7021 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
7022 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 7023DOC_END
7024
97b32442 7025NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 7026TYPE: time_t
97b32442 7027LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 7028DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 7029DOC_START
41bd17a4 7030 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
7031 proxies.
7032DOC_END
cccac0a2 7033
41bd17a4 7034NAME: ident_timeout
7035TYPE: time_t
7036IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 7037LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 7038DEFAULT: 10 seconds
7039DOC_START
7040 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 7041
41bd17a4 7042 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
7043 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
7044 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 7045DOC_END
7046
41bd17a4 7047NAME: shutdown_lifetime
7048COMMENT: time-units
7049TYPE: time_t
7050LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
7051DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 7052DOC_START
41bd17a4 7053 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
7054 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
7055 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
7056 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
7057 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 7058DOC_END
0976f8db 7059
cccac0a2 7060COMMENT_START
7061 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
7062 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7063COMMENT_END
7064
7065NAME: cache_mgr
7066TYPE: string
7067DEFAULT: webmaster
7068LOC: Config.adminEmail
7069DOC_START
7070 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 7071 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 7072DOC_END
7073
abacf776 7074NAME: mail_from
7075TYPE: string
7076DEFAULT: none
7077LOC: Config.EmailFrom
7078DOC_START
7079 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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7080 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
7081
7082 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 7083DOC_END
7084
d084bf20 7085NAME: mail_program
7086TYPE: eol
7087DEFAULT: mail
7088LOC: Config.EmailProgram
7089DOC_START
7090 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 7091 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 7092 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 7093 mail-program recipient < mailfile
7094
d084bf20 7095 Optional command line options can be specified.
7096DOC_END
7097
cccac0a2 7098NAME: cache_effective_user
7099TYPE: string
5483d916 7100DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 7101LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 7102DOC_START
7103 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
7104 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 7105 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 7106 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 7107DOC_END
7108
cccac0a2 7109NAME: cache_effective_group
7110TYPE: string
7111DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7112DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 7113LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
7114DOC_START
64e288bd 7115 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
7116 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
7117 from the groups membership.
7118
e3d74828 7119 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
7120 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
7121 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 7122 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 7123 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 7124 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 7125 group.
64e288bd 7126
7127 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
7128 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
7129 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 7130DOC_END
7131
d3caee79 7132NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
7133COMMENT: on|off
7134TYPE: onoff
7135DEFAULT: off
7136LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
7137DOC_START
7138 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
7139DOC_END
7140
cccac0a2 7141NAME: visible_hostname
7142TYPE: string
7143LOC: Config.visibleHostname
7144DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7145DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 7146DOC_START
7147 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 7148 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 7149 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
7150 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
7151 names with this setting.
7152DOC_END
7153
cccac0a2 7154NAME: unique_hostname
7155TYPE: string
7156LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
7157DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7158DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 7159DOC_START
7160 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 7161 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
7162 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 7163DOC_END
7164
cccac0a2 7165NAME: hostname_aliases
7166TYPE: wordlist
7167LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
7168DEFAULT: none
7169DOC_START
7f7db318 7170 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 7171DOC_END
0976f8db 7172
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7173NAME: umask
7174TYPE: int
7175LOC: Config.umask
7176DEFAULT: 027
7177DOC_START
7178 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
7179 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
7180
7181 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
7182 your value with 0.
7183DOC_END
7184
cccac0a2 7185COMMENT_START
7186 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
7187 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7188
7189 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
7190 announcement service. This service is provided to help
7191 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
7192 create cache hierarchies.
7193
7194 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
7195 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
7196 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
7197
7198 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
7199 following information from this configuration file:
7200
7201 http_port
7202 icp_port
7203 cache_mgr
7204
7205 All current information is processed regularly and made
7206 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
7207COMMENT_END
7208
7209NAME: announce_period
7210TYPE: time_t
7211LOC: Config.Announce.period
7212DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7213DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 7214DOC_START
638402dd 7215 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 7216
e0855596 7217 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 7218
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7219 Example:
7220 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 7221DOC_END
7222
cccac0a2 7223NAME: announce_host
7224TYPE: string
7225DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
7226LOC: Config.Announce.host
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7227DOC_START
7228 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
7229
7230 See also announce_port and announce_file
7231DOC_END
cccac0a2 7232
7233NAME: announce_file
7234TYPE: string
7235DEFAULT: none
7236LOC: Config.Announce.file
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7237DOC_START
7238 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
7239 registration messages.
7240DOC_END
cccac0a2 7241
7242NAME: announce_port
ae870270 7243TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 7244DEFAULT: 3131
7245LOC: Config.Announce.port
7246DOC_START
638402dd 7247 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 7248
638402dd 7249 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 7250DOC_END
7251
8d6275c0 7252COMMENT_START
7253 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
7254 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7255COMMENT_END
7256
cccac0a2 7257NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 7258TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 7259DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7260DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 7261LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 7262DOC_START
7263 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
7264 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
7265 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
7266 an identification token.
7267DOC_END
7268
7269NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 7270COMMENT: on|off
7271TYPE: onoff
7272DEFAULT: off
7273LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
7274DOC_START
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7275 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
7276 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
7277
cccac0a2 7278 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
7279DOC_END
7280
7281NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 7282IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
799b66d1 7283COMMENT: libxml2|expat
cccac0a2 7284TYPE: string
7285LOC: ESIParser::Type
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7286DEFAULT: auto
7287DEFAULT_DOC: Selects libxml2 if available at ./configure time or libexpat otherwise.
cccac0a2 7288DOC_START
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7289 Selects the XML parsing library to use when interpreting responses with
7290 Edge Side Includes.
7291
7292 To disable ESI handling completely, ./configure Squid with --disable-esi.
cccac0a2 7293DOC_END
0976f8db 7294
9edd9041 7295COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 7296 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 7297 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7298COMMENT_END
7299
7300NAME: delay_pools
7301TYPE: delay_pool_count
7302DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 7303IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7304LOC: Config.Delay
7305DOC_START
7306 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
7307 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
7308 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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7309
7310 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
7311 configuration details.
9edd9041 7312DOC_END
7313
7314NAME: delay_class
7315TYPE: delay_pool_class
7316DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 7317IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7318LOC: Config.Delay
7319DOC_START
7320 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
7321 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
7322 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
7323 and here would be:
7324
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7325 Example:
7326 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
7327 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
7328 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
7329 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
7330 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 7331
7332 The delay pool classes are:
7333
7334 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
7335 bucket.
7336
7337 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
7338 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 7339 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 7340
7341 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
7342 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
7343 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
7344 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 7345 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 7346
7347 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
7348 additional limit on a per user basis. This
7349 only takes effect if the username is established
7350 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
7351 http_access rules.
7352
7353 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
7354 external_acl's tag= reply).
7355
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7356
7357 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
7358 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
7359 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
7360
9edd9041 7361 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
7362 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
7363 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
7364 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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7365
7366 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
7367 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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7368
7369 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7370 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
7371
7372 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 7373DOC_END
7374
7375NAME: delay_access
7376TYPE: delay_pool_access
7377DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7378DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 7379IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7380LOC: Config.Delay
7381DOC_START
7382 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
7383
7384 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
7385 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
7386 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
7387 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
7388
7389 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
7390 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
7391
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7392 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
7393 delay_access 1 deny all
7394 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
7395 delay_access 2 deny all
7396 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
7397
7398 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
7399
9edd9041 7400DOC_END
7401
7402NAME: delay_parameters
7403TYPE: delay_pool_rates
7404DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 7405IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7406LOC: Config.Delay
7407DOC_START
7408 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
7409 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 7410 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 7411
0b68481a 7412 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6e7502cc 7413 delay_class pool 1
0b68481a 7414 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 7415
7416 For a class 2 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7417 delay_class pool 2
0b68481a 7418 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 7419
7420 For a class 3 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7421 delay_class pool 3
0b68481a 7422 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 7423
7424 For a class 4 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7425 delay_class pool 4
0b68481a 7426 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 7427
7428 For a class 5 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7429 delay_class pool 5
0b68481a 7430 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 7431
0b68481a 7432 The option variables are:
9edd9041 7433
7434 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
7435 number specified in delay_pools as used in
7436 delay_class lines.
7437
fdb47ac6 7438 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 7439 (class 1, 2, 3).
7440
fdb47ac6 7441 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 7442 buckets (class 2, 3).
7443
fdb47ac6 7444 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 7445 (class 3).
7446
fdb47ac6 7447 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 7448 (class 4).
7449
fdb47ac6 7450 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 7451 (class 5).
7452
7453 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
7454 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
7455 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
7456 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
7457
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7458 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
7459
7460
9edd9041 7461 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 7462 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 7463 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
7464
6e7502cc 7465 delay_parameters 1 none 8000/8000
0b68481a 7466
c3e31a3a 7467 Note that 8 x 8K Byte/sec -> 64K bit/sec.
9edd9041 7468
6e7502cc 7469 Note that the word 'none' is used to represent no limit.
9edd9041 7470
0b68481a 7471
9edd9041 7472 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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7473 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
7474 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
7475 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 7476 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
7477 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
7478 large downloads more significantly:
7479
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7480 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
7481
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7482 Note that 8 x 32K Byte/sec -> 256K bit/sec.
7483 8 x 8K Byte/sec -> 64K bit/sec.
7484 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800 bit/sec.
9edd9041 7485
9edd9041 7486
7487 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 7488 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 7489
0b68481a 7490 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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7491
7492
7493 See also delay_class and delay_access.
7494
9edd9041 7495DOC_END
7496
7497NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
7498COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 7499TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 7500DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 7501IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7502LOC: Config.Delay.initial
7503DOC_START
7504 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
7505 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
7506 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
7507 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
7508 "seen" by squid).
7509DOC_END
7510
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7511COMMENT_START
7512 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
7513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7514COMMENT_END
7515
7516NAME: client_delay_pools
7517TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
7518DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 7519IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7520LOC: Config.ClientDelay
7521DOC_START
7522 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
7523 preceed other client_delay_* options.
7524
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7525 Example:
7526 client_delay_pools 2
7527
7528 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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7529DOC_END
7530
7531NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
7532COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 7533TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 7534DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 7535IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7536LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
7537DOC_START
7538 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
7539 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
7540 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
7541 buckets are periodically deleted up.
7542
7543 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
7544 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
7545 from client_delay_parameters.
7546
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7547 Example:
7548 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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7549DOC_END
7550
7551NAME: client_delay_parameters
7552TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
7553DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 7554IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7555LOC: Config.ClientDelay
7556DOC_START
7557
7558 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
7559 following format:
7560
7561 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
7562
7563 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
7564
7565 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
7566
7567 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
7568 speed_limit additions.
7569
7570 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
7571 examples.
7572
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7573 Example:
7574 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
7575 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
7576
7577 See also client_delay_access.
7578
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7579DOC_END
7580
7581NAME: client_delay_access
7582TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
7583DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7584DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 7585IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7586LOC: Config.ClientDelay
7587DOC_START
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7588 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
7589 request:
7590
7591 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
7592
7593 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
7594 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
7595 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
7596 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
7597 limited.
7598
7599 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
7600 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
7601 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
7602 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
7603
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7604 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7605 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
7606 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
7607 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
7608
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7609 Please see delay_access for more examples.
7610
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7611 Example:
7612 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
7613 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
7614
7615
7616 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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7617DOC_END
7618
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7619NAME: response_delay_pool
7620TYPE: response_delay_pool_parameters
7621DEFAULT: none
7622IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
7623LOC: Config.MessageDelay
7624DOC_START
7625 This option configures client response bandwidth limits using the
7626 following format:
7627
7628 response_delay_pool name [option=value] ...
7629
7630 name the response delay pool name
7631
7632 available options:
7633
7634 individual-restore The speed limit of an individual
7635 bucket(bytes/s). To be used in conjunction
7636 with 'individual-maximum'.
7637
7638 individual-maximum The maximum number of bytes which can
7639 be placed into the individual bucket. To be used
7640 in conjunction with 'individual-restore'.
7641
7642 aggregate-restore The speed limit for the aggregate
7643 bucket(bytes/s). To be used in conjunction with
7644 'aggregate-maximum'.
7645
7646 aggregate-maximum The maximum number of bytes which can
7647 be placed into the aggregate bucket. To be used
7648 in conjunction with 'aggregate-restore'.
7649
7650 initial-bucket-level The initial bucket size as a percentage
7651 of individual-maximum.
7652
7653 Individual and(or) aggregate bucket options may not be specified,
7654 meaning no individual and(or) aggregate speed limitation.
7655 See also response_delay_pool_access and delay_parameters for
7656 terminology details.
7657DOC_END
7658
7659NAME: response_delay_pool_access
7660TYPE: response_delay_pool_access
7661DEFAULT: none
7662DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
7663IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
7664LOC: Config.MessageDelay
7665DOC_START
7666 Determines whether a specific named response delay pool is used
7667 for the transaction. The syntax for this directive is:
7668
7669 response_delay_pool_access pool_name allow|deny acl_name
7670
7671 All response_delay_pool_access options are checked in the order
7672 they appear in this configuration file. The first rule with a
7673 matching ACL wins. If (and only if) an "allow" rule won, Squid
7674 assigns the response to the corresponding named delay pool.
7675DOC_END
7676
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8d6275c0 7678 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 7679 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7680COMMENT_END
7681
8d6275c0 7682NAME: wccp_router
7683TYPE: address
7684LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 7685DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7686DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 7687IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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7688DOC_START
7689 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
7690 Squid.
7691
7692 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
7693
7694 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
7695
7696 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
7697 which version of WCCP to use.
7698DOC_END
df2eec10 7699
8d6275c0 7700NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 7701TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 7702LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 7703DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7704DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 7705IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7706DOC_START
8d6275c0 7707 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
7708 Squid.
cccac0a2 7709
8d6275c0 7710 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 7711
8d6275c0 7712 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 7713
8d6275c0 7714 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
7715 which version of WCCP to use.
7716DOC_END
7717
7718NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 7719TYPE: int
8d6275c0 7720LOC: Config.Wccp.version
7721DEFAULT: 4
7722IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 7723DOC_START
8d6275c0 7724 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
7725 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
7726 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
7727 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
7728 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 7729
8d6275c0 7730 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
7731 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
7732 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
7733 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 7734DOC_END
7735
8d6275c0 7736NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
7737TYPE: onoff
7738LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
7739DEFAULT: on
7740IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7741DOC_START
7742 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
7743 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
7744DOC_END
cccac0a2 7745
8d6275c0 7746NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 7747TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 7748LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 7749DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7750IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7751DOC_START
699acd19 7752 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 7753 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7754
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7755 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7756 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7757
8d6275c0 7758 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7759 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 7760DOC_END
7761
8d6275c0 7762NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 7763TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 7764LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 7765DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7766IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7767DOC_START
699acd19 7768 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 7769 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
7770 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7771
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7772 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7773 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7774
8d6275c0 7775 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7776 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 7777
699acd19 7778 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 7779 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
7780 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
7781 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 7782DOC_END
7783
8d6275c0 7784NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 7785TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 7786LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 7787DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 7788IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7789DOC_START
8d6275c0 7790 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
7791 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7792
451c4786 7793 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 7794 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 7795
8d6275c0 7796 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
7797 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
7798DOC_END
cccac0a2 7799
8d6275c0 7800NAME: wccp2_service
7801TYPE: wccp2_service
7802LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 7803DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 7804DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 7805IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7806DOC_START
7807 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
7808 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
7809 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
7810 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
7811 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
7812 using the wccp2_service_info option.
7813
7814 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
7815 just specifying the service id will suffice.
7816
7817 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
7818 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
7819
7820 Examples:
7821
7822 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
7823 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
7824 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
7825 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 7826DOC_END
7827
7828NAME: wccp2_service_info
7829TYPE: wccp2_service_info
7830LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
7831DEFAULT: none
7832IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7833DOC_START
7834 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
7835 traffic you wish to have diverted.
7836
7837 The format is:
7838
7839 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
7840 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
7841
7842 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
7843 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 7844 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 7845 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
7846 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
7847 + ports_source
7848
7849 The port list can be one to eight entries.
7850
7851 Example:
7852
7853 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
7854 priority=240 ports=80
7855
7856 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
7857 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
7858DOC_END
7859
7860NAME: wccp2_weight
7861TYPE: int
7862LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
7863DEFAULT: 10000
7864IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7865DOC_START
7866 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
7867 hash proportional to their weight.
7868DOC_END
7869
7870NAME: wccp_address
7871TYPE: address
7872LOC: Config.Wccp.address
7873DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7874DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7875IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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7876DOC_START
7877 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
7878 interface address.
7879
7880 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7881DOC_END
df2eec10 7882
8d6275c0 7883NAME: wccp2_address
7884TYPE: address
7885LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
7886DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7887DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7888IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7889DOC_START
7890 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
7891 interface address.
7892
7893 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7894DOC_END
7895
7896COMMENT_START
7897 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
7898 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7899
7900 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
7901COMMENT_END
7902
7903NAME: client_persistent_connections
7904TYPE: onoff
7905LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
7906DEFAULT: on
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7907DOC_START
7908 Persistent connection support for clients.
7909 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7910 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
7911DOC_END
8d6275c0 7912
7913NAME: server_persistent_connections
7914TYPE: onoff
7915LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
7916DEFAULT: on
7917DOC_START
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7918 Persistent connection support for servers.
7919 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7920 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 7921DOC_END
7922
7923NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
7924TYPE: onoff
7925LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 7926DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 7927DOC_START
7928 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
7929 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
7930 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
7931DOC_END
7932
7933NAME: detect_broken_pconn
7934TYPE: onoff
7935LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
7936DEFAULT: off
7937DOC_START
7938 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
7939 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
7940 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
7941 has mostly been seen on redirects.
7942
7943 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
7944 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
7945 after 10 seconds timeout.
7946DOC_END
7947
7948COMMENT_START
7949 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
7950 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7951COMMENT_END
7952
7953NAME: digest_generation
7954IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7955TYPE: onoff
7956LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
7957DEFAULT: on
7958DOC_START
7959 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
7960 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 7961 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 7962DOC_END
7963
7964NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
7965IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7966TYPE: int
7967LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
7968DEFAULT: 5
7969DOC_START
7970 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
7971 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
7972 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
7973DOC_END
7974
7975NAME: digest_rebuild_period
7976IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7977COMMENT: (seconds)
7978TYPE: time_t
7979LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
7980DEFAULT: 1 hour
7981DOC_START
749ceff8 7982 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 7983DOC_END
7984
7985NAME: digest_rewrite_period
7986COMMENT: (seconds)
7987IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7988TYPE: time_t
7989LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
7990DEFAULT: 1 hour
7991DOC_START
749ceff8 7992 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 7993 disk.
7994DOC_END
7995
7996NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
7997COMMENT: (bytes)
7998TYPE: b_size_t
7999IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
8000LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
8001DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
8002DOC_START
8003 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
8004 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
8005 default swap page.
8006DOC_END
8007
8008NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
8009COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
8010IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
8011TYPE: int
8012LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
8013DEFAULT: 10
8014DOC_START
8015 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
8016 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
8017DOC_END
8018
1db9eacd 8019COMMENT_START
5473c134 8020 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 8021 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8022COMMENT_END
8023
5473c134 8024NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 8025TYPE: u_short
5473c134 8026LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 8027DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8028DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 8029IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 8030DOC_START
87630341 8031 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
8032 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
8033 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
8034 set to "0" (disabled)
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8035
8036 Example:
8037 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 8038DOC_END
8039
5473c134 8040NAME: snmp_access
8041TYPE: acl_access
8042LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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8043DEFAULT: none
8044DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 8045IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 8046DOC_START
5473c134 8047 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 8048
5473c134 8049 All access to the agent is denied by default.
8050 usage:
8d6275c0 8051
5473c134 8052 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 8053
b3567eb5
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8054 This clause only supports fast acl types.
8055 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 8056
5473c134 8057Example:
8058 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
8059 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 8060DOC_END
8061
5473c134 8062NAME: snmp_incoming_address
8063TYPE: address
8064LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 8065DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 8066DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 8067IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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8068DOC_START
8069 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
8070
8071 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
8072 messages from SNMP agents.
8073
8074 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
8075 available network interfaces.
8076DOC_END
df2eec10 8077
5473c134 8078NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
8079TYPE: address
8080LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 8081DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 8082DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 8083IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 8084DOC_START
638402dd 8085 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 8086
5473c134 8087 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
8088 agents.
cccac0a2 8089
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8090 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
8091 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
8092 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
8093 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 8094
5473c134 8095 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 8096 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 8097DOC_END
8098
5473c134 8099COMMENT_START
8100 ICP OPTIONS
8101 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8102COMMENT_END
8103
8104NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 8105TYPE: u_short
5473c134 8106DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8107DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 8108LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 8109DOC_START
5473c134 8110 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
8111 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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8112
8113 Example:
8114 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 8115DOC_END
8116
5473c134 8117NAME: htcp_port
8118IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 8119TYPE: u_short
87630341 8120DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8121DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 8122LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 8123DOC_START
5473c134 8124 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 8125 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 8126 4827.
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8127
8128 Example:
8129 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 8130DOC_END
8131
8132NAME: log_icp_queries
8133COMMENT: on|off
8134TYPE: onoff
8135DEFAULT: on
8136LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
8137DOC_START
8138 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
8139 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
8140 up or to simplify log analysis.
8141DOC_END
8142
5473c134 8143NAME: udp_incoming_address
8144TYPE: address
8145LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 8146DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 8147DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 8148DOC_START
8149 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
8150 caches.
8151
8152 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
8153
8154 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
8155 a specific interface/address.
8156
8157 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
8158 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
8159
8160 see also; udp_outgoing_address
8161
8162 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8163 have the same value since they both use the same port.
8164DOC_END
cccac0a2 8165
5473c134 8166NAME: udp_outgoing_address
8167TYPE: address
8168LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 8169DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 8170DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 8171DOC_START
8524d4b2 8172 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 8173 caches.
cccac0a2 8174
5473c134 8175 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 8176
8524d4b2 8177 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
8178 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
8179 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 8180 caches.
8181
8524d4b2 8182 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
8183 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
8184
8185 see also; udp_incoming_address
8186
5473c134 8187 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 8188 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 8189DOC_END
8190
3d1e3e43 8191NAME: icp_hit_stale
8192COMMENT: on|off
8193TYPE: onoff
8194DEFAULT: off
8195LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
8196DOC_START
8197 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
8198 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
8199 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
8200 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
8201 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
8202 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
8203 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
8204DOC_END
8205
5473c134 8206NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 8207TYPE: int
5473c134 8208DEFAULT: 4
8209LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 8210DOC_START
5473c134 8211 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
8212 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 8213DOC_END
8214
5473c134 8215NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 8216COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 8217TYPE: int
8218DEFAULT: 400
8219LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 8220DOC_START
5473c134 8221 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
8222 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 8223DOC_END
8224
cccac0a2 8225NAME: netdb_low
8226TYPE: int
8227DEFAULT: 900
8228LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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8229DOC_START
8230 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
8231
8232 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
8233
8234 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
8235 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
8236 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
8237 mark is reached.
8238DOC_END
cccac0a2 8239
8240NAME: netdb_high
8241TYPE: int
8242DEFAULT: 1000
8243LOC: Config.Netdb.high
8244DOC_START
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8245 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
8246
8247 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
8248
8249 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
8250 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
8251 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
8252 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 8253DOC_END
8254
cccac0a2 8255NAME: netdb_ping_period
8256TYPE: time_t
8257LOC: Config.Netdb.period
8258DEFAULT: 5 minutes
8259DOC_START
8260 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
8261 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
8262 network. The default is five minutes.
8263DOC_END
8264
cccac0a2 8265NAME: query_icmp
8266COMMENT: on|off
8267TYPE: onoff
8268DEFAULT: off
8269LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
8270DOC_START
8271 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
8272 replies, enable this option.
8273
8274 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 8275 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
8276 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 8277 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
8278 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
8279 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
8280 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
8281 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
8282DOC_END
8283
8284NAME: test_reachability
8285COMMENT: on|off
8286TYPE: onoff
8287DEFAULT: off
8288LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
8289DOC_START
8290 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
8291 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
8292 database, or has a zero RTT.
8293DOC_END
8294
5473c134 8295NAME: icp_query_timeout
8296COMMENT: (msec)
8297DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8298DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 8299TYPE: int
8300LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 8301DOC_START
5473c134 8302 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
8303 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
8304 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
8305 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
8306 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
8307 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 8308
5473c134 8309 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 8310DOC_END
8311
5473c134 8312NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
8313COMMENT: (msec)
8314DEFAULT: 2000
8315TYPE: int
8316LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 8317DOC_START
5473c134 8318 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
8319 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
8320 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
8321 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
8322 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
8323 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 8324DOC_END
8325
5473c134 8326NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
8327COMMENT: (msec)
8328DEFAULT: 5
8329TYPE: int
8330LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 8331DOC_START
5473c134 8332 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
8333 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
8334 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
8335 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
8336 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
8337 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
8338 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 8339DOC_END
8340
5473c134 8341NAME: background_ping_rate
8342COMMENT: time-units
8343TYPE: time_t
8344DEFAULT: 10 seconds
8345LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 8346DOC_START
5473c134 8347 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
8348 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 8349DOC_END
8350
5473c134 8351COMMENT_START
8352 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
8353 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8354COMMENT_END
8355
8356NAME: mcast_groups
8357TYPE: wordlist
8358LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 8359DEFAULT: none
8360DOC_START
5473c134 8361 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
8362 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 8363
5473c134 8364 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
8365 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
8366 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
8367 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
8368 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
8369 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
8370 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 8371
5473c134 8372 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
8373 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 8374
5473c134 8375 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
8376 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 8377
5473c134 8378 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 8379
5473c134 8380 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
8381DOC_END
8c01ada0 8382
5473c134 8383NAME: mcast_miss_addr
8384IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
8385TYPE: address
8386LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 8387DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 8388DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 8389DOC_START
8390 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
8391 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 8392
5473c134 8393 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
8394 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 8395DOC_END
8396
5473c134 8397NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
8398IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 8399TYPE: u_short
5473c134 8400LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
8401DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 8402DOC_START
5473c134 8403 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
8404 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
8405 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
8406DOC_END
cccac0a2 8407
5473c134 8408NAME: mcast_miss_port
8409IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 8410TYPE: u_short
5473c134 8411LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
8412DEFAULT: 3135
8413DOC_START
8414 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
8415 'mcast_miss_addr'.
8416DOC_END
cccac0a2 8417
5473c134 8418NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
8419IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
8420TYPE: string
8421LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
8422DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
8423DOC_START
8424 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
8425 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
8426DOC_END
8c01ada0 8427
5473c134 8428NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
8429COMMENT: (msec)
8430DEFAULT: 2000
8431TYPE: int
8432LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
8433DOC_START
8434 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
8435 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
8436 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
8437 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
8438 seconds.
cccac0a2 8439DOC_END
8440
5473c134 8441COMMENT_START
8442 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
8443 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8444COMMENT_END
8445
cccac0a2 8446NAME: icon_directory
8447TYPE: string
8448LOC: Config.icons.directory
8449DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
8450DOC_START
8451 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
8452 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
8453DOC_END
8454
f024c970 8455NAME: global_internal_static
8456TYPE: onoff
8457LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
8458DEFAULT: on
8459DOC_START
8460 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
8461 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
8462 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
8463 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
8464 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
8465 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
8466 the server generating a directory listing.
8467DOC_END
8468
5473c134 8469NAME: short_icon_urls
8470TYPE: onoff
8471LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
8472DEFAULT: on
8473DOC_START
8474 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
8475 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
8476 it's own name and port in the URL.
8477
8478 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
8479 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
8480DOC_END
8481
8482COMMENT_START
8483 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
8484 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8485COMMENT_END
8486
8487NAME: error_directory
8488TYPE: string
8489LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 8490DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8491DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 8492DOC_START
8493 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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8494 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
8495 the error/template files to another directory and point
8496 this tag at them.
8497
8498 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
8499 on error pages if used.
5473c134 8500
8501 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
8502 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 8503 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 8504 contributing your translation back to the project.
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8505 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
8506
8507 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
8508 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
8509DOC_END
8510
8511NAME: error_default_language
8512IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
8513TYPE: string
8514LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
8515DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8516DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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8517DOC_START
8518 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
8519 if no existing translation matches the clients language
8520 preferences.
8521
8522 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
8523
8524 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
8525 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
8526 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
8527 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 8528DOC_END
8529
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8530NAME: error_log_languages
8531IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
8532TYPE: onoff
8533LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
8534DEFAULT: on
8535DOC_START
8536 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
8537 auto-negotiate for translations.
8538
8539 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
8540 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 8541 of its error page translations.
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8542DOC_END
8543
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8544NAME: err_page_stylesheet
8545TYPE: string
8546LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
8547DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
8548DOC_START
8549 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
8550
8551 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
8552DOC_END
8553
5473c134 8554NAME: err_html_text
8555TYPE: eol
8556LOC: Config.errHtmlText
8557DEFAULT: none
8558DOC_START
8559 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
8560 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
8561 organizations Web page.
8562
8563 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
8564 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
8565 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
8566 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
8567DOC_END
8568
8569NAME: email_err_data
8570COMMENT: on|off
8571TYPE: onoff
8572LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
8573DEFAULT: on
8574DOC_START
8575 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
8576 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
8577 so that the email body contains the data.
8578 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
8579DOC_END
8580
8581NAME: deny_info
8582TYPE: denyinfo
8583LOC: Config.denyInfoList
8584DEFAULT: none
8585DOC_START
8586 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
8587 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 8588 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 8589
8590 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
8591 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
8592 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
8593 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
8594
8595 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
8596 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
8597 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
8598 the first authentication related acl encountered
8599 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
8600 acl processed on the last http_access line.
3af10ac0
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8601 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
8602 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 8603
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8604 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
8605 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
8606 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 8607
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8608 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
8609 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
8610 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
8611
5473c134 8612 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
8613 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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8614
8615 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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8616 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
8617 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
8618 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
8619 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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8620
8621 URL FORMAT TAGS:
8622 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
ea35939b 8623 %A - Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to
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8624 %B - FTP path URL
8625 %e - Error number
8626 %E - Error description
8627 %h - Squid hostname
8628 %H - Request domain name
8629 %i - Client IP Address
8630 %M - Request Method
05dbf66c 8631 %O - Unescaped message result from external ACL helper
15b02e9a
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8632 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
8633 %p - Request Port number
8634 %P - Request Protocol name
8635 %R - Request URL path
8636 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
8637 %U - Full canonical URL from client
8638 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
8639 %u - Full canonical URL from client
8640 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 8641 %x - Error name
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AJ
8642 %% - Literal percent (%) code
8643
5473c134 8644DOC_END
8645
8646COMMENT_START
8647 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
8648 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8649COMMENT_END
8650
8651NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 8652TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8653LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 8654DEFAULT: on
8655DOC_START
5473c134 8656 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
9967aef6 8657 (not cacheable request type) direct to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 8658
638402dd 8659 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 8660 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 8661
5473c134 8662 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
8663 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
8664 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 8665
638402dd
AJ
8666 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
8667 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
8668 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 8669DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 8670
5473c134 8671NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 8672TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8673LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 8674DEFAULT: off
8675DOC_START
5473c134 8676 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
8677 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
8678 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 8679
5473c134 8680 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
8681 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
8682 fails.
8683
8684 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
8685 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
8686 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 8687DOC_END
8688
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8689NAME: cache_miss_revalidate
8690COMMENT: on|off
8691TYPE: onoff
8692DEFAULT: on
8693LOC: Config.onoff.cache_miss_revalidate
8694DOC_START
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AJ
8695 RFC 7232 defines a conditional request mechanism to prevent
8696 response objects being unnecessarily transferred over the network.
8697 If that mechanism is used by the client and a cache MISS occurs
8698 it can prevent new cache entries being created.
8699
8700 This option determines whether Squid on cache MISS will pass the
8701 client revalidation request to the server or tries to fetch new
8702 content for caching. It can be useful while the cache is mostly
8703 empty to more quickly have the cache populated by generating
8704 non-conditional GETs.
96598f93
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8705
8706 When set to 'on' (default), Squid will pass all client If-* headers
2d4eefd9
AJ
8707 to the server. This permits server responses without a cacheable
8708 payload to be delivered and on MISS no new cache entry is created.
96598f93
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8709
8710 When set to 'off' and if the request is cacheable, Squid will
8711 remove the clients If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers from
2d4eefd9
AJ
8712 the request sent to the server. This requests a 200 status response
8713 from the server to create a new cache entry with.
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8714DOC_END
8715
5473c134 8716NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 8717TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 8718LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 8719DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8720DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 8721DOC_START
5473c134 8722 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 8723
5473c134 8724 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
8725 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
8726 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
8727 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
8728 something like:
0b0cfcf2 8729
5473c134 8730 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
8731 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 8732
5473c134 8733 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 8734
5473c134 8735 acl FTP proto FTP
8736 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 8737
5473c134 8738 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
8739 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
8740 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
8741 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
8742 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 8743
5473c134 8744 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
8745 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
8746 always_direct deny local-external
8747 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 8748
5473c134 8749 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
8750 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
8751 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
8752 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 8753
5473c134 8754 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
8755 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 8756 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 8757
b3567eb5
FC
8758 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8759 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 8760DOC_END
0976f8db 8761
5473c134 8762NAME: never_direct
8763TYPE: acl_access
8764LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
8765DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8766DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 8767DOC_START
5473c134 8768 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8769
8770 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
8771 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
8772
8773 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
8774 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
8775 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
8776 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
8777
8778 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 8779 never_direct deny local-servers
8780 never_direct allow all
8781
8782 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
8783 servers inside the firewall use something like:
8784
8785 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
8786 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
8787 always_direct deny local-external
8788 always_direct allow local-intranet
8789 never_direct allow all
8790
b3567eb5
FC
8791 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8792 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 8793DOC_END
0976f8db 8794
5473c134 8795COMMENT_START
8796 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
8797 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8798COMMENT_END
8799
65d448bc 8800NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 8801TYPE: int
8802DEFAULT: 6
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AJ
8803LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
8804DOC_START
8805 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8806 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8807 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8808DOC_END
cccac0a2 8809
65d448bc 8810NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 8811TYPE: int
8812DEFAULT: 4
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AJ
8813LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
8814DOC_START
8815 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8816 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8817 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8818DOC_END
cccac0a2 8819
8820NAME: incoming_dns_average
8821TYPE: int
8822DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
8823LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
8824DOC_START
8825 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8826 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8827 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8828DOC_END
cccac0a2 8829
65d448bc 8830NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8831TYPE: int
8832DEFAULT: 8
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AJ
8833LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
8834DOC_START
8835 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8836 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8837 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8838DOC_END
cccac0a2 8839
8840NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
8841TYPE: int
8842DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
8843LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
8844DOC_START
8845 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8846 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8847 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8848DOC_END
cccac0a2 8849
65d448bc 8850NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8851TYPE: int
8852DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 8853LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 8854DOC_START
5473c134 8855 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8856 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8857 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8858DOC_END
8859
8860NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 8861TYPE: string
8862DEFAULT: none
8863LOC: Config.accept_filter
8864DOC_START
0b4d4be5 8865 FreeBSD:
8866
5473c134 8867 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
8868 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
8869 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
8870
8871 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 8872 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 8873 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
8874
8875 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
8876 to Squid until there is some data to process.
8877 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
8878
8879 Linux:
8880
8881 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
8882 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
8883 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
8884 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
8885 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 8886EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 8887# FreeBSD
5473c134 8888accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 8889# Linux
8890accept_filter data
5473c134 8891DOC_END
8892
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8893NAME: client_ip_max_connections
8894TYPE: int
8895LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
8896DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 8897DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
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8898DOC_START
8899 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
8900 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
8901 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
8902
8903 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
8904 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
8905
8906 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
8907
8908 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
8909 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
8910DOC_END
8911
5473c134 8912NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
8913COMMENT: (bytes)
8914TYPE: b_size_t
8915DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 8916DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 8917LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
8918DOC_START
8919 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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AJ
8920 as easy to change your kernel's default.
8921 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 8922DOC_END
8923
8924COMMENT_START
8925 ICAP OPTIONS
8926 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8927COMMENT_END
8928
8929NAME: icap_enable
8930TYPE: onoff
8931IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8932COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8933LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 8934DEFAULT: off
8935DOC_START
53e738c6 8936 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 8937DOC_END
8938
8939NAME: icap_connect_timeout
8940TYPE: time_t
8941DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 8942LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 8943IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8944DOC_START
8945 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
8946 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
8947 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
8948
8949 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
8950 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
8951 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
8952DOC_END
8953
8954NAME: icap_io_timeout
8955COMMENT: time-units
8956TYPE: time_t
8957DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8958DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 8959LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 8960IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8961DOC_START
8962 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
8963 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
8964 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
8965 failure.
5473c134 8966DOC_END
8967
8968NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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8969COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
8970TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 8971IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 8972LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 8973DEFAULT: 10
8974DOC_START
8975 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
8976 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
8977 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
8978 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 8979 OPTIONS.
5473c134 8980
8981 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
8982 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
8983 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
8277060a
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8984
8985 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
8986 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
8987 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
8988 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
8989 value into ten time slots of equal length.
8990
8991 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
8992 effect on service failure expiration.
8993
8994 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
8995 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
8996 setting.
8997
8998 For example,
8999 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
9000 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 9001DOC_END
9002
5473c134 9003NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 9004TYPE: int
5473c134 9005IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9006LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 9007DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 9008DOC_START
5473c134 9009 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
9010 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
9011 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
9012 fetched.
cccac0a2 9013
5473c134 9014 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
9015 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 9016DOC_END
9017
5473c134 9018NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 9019TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9020IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9021COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 9022LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 9023DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 9024DOC_START
ac7a62f9 9025 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
9026 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
9027 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
9028 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
9029
9030 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
9031 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
9032 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
9033
9034 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
9035 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
9036Example:
9037icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 9038DOC_END
9039
5473c134 9040NAME: icap_preview_size
9041TYPE: int
9042IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9043LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 9044DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 9045DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 9046DOC_START
53e738c6 9047 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 9048 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 9049DOC_END
9050
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9051NAME: icap_206_enable
9052TYPE: onoff
9053IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9054COMMENT: on|off
9055LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
9056DEFAULT: on
9057DOC_START
9058 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
9059 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
9060 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
9061 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
9062
9063 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
9064 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
9065 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
9066 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
9067 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
9068
9069 Example:
9070 icap_206_enable off
9071DOC_END
9072
5473c134 9073NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
9074TYPE: int
9075IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9076LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 9077DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 9078DOC_START
53e738c6 9079 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 9080 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 9081DOC_END
9082
5473c134 9083NAME: icap_persistent_connections
9084TYPE: onoff
9085IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9086COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 9087LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 9088DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 9089DOC_START
5473c134 9090 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
9091 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 9092DOC_END
9093
22fff3bf 9094NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 9095TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 9096IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 9097COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 9098LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 9099DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 9100DOC_START
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9101 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
9102 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
9103 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
9104
9105 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 9106DOC_END
9107
22fff3bf 9108NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 9109TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 9110IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 9111COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 9112LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 9113DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 9114DOC_START
5473c134 9115 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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9116 the adaptation service.
9117
9118 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 9119 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
9120 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 9121DOC_END
9122
5473c134 9123NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 9124TYPE: string
5473c134 9125IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9126LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 9127DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 9128DOC_START
db49f682 9129 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 9130DOC_END
9131
5473c134 9132NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 9133TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9134IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9135COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 9136LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 9137DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 9138DOC_START
5473c134 9139 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 9140DOC_END
9141
5473c134 9142NAME: icap_service
9143TYPE: icap_service_type
9144IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9145LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 9146DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 9147DOC_START
a22e6cd3 9148 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 9149
c25c2836 9150 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 9151
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9152 id: ID
9153 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
9154 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
9155 services in squid.conf.
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9156
9157 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 9158 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
9159 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
9160 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 9161
c25c2836 9162 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
a22e6cd3 9163 ICAP server and service location.
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9164 icaps://servername:port/servicepath
9165 The "icap:" URI scheme is used for traditional ICAP server and
9166 service location (default port is 1344, connections are not
9167 encrypted). The "icaps:" URI scheme is for Secure ICAP
9168 services that use SSL/TLS-encrypted ICAP connections (by
9169 default, on port 11344).
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9170
9171 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
9172 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
9173 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
9174 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
9175 service_names differ.
9176
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9177 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
9178 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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9179
9180 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
9181 the following name=value options:
9182
9183 bypass=on|off|1|0
9184 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
9185 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
9186 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
9187 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
9188 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
9189 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
9190 returned to the HTTP client.
9191
9192 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
9193
9194 routing=on|off|1|0
9195 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
9196 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
9197 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
9198 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
9199 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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9200 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
9201 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
9202 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
9203
9204 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
9205 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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9206
9207 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
9208 response header is ignored.
9209
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9210 ipv6=on|off
9211 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
9212 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
9213 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
9214
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9215 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
9216 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
9217 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
9218 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
9219 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
9220 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
9221 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
9222
9223 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
9224 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
9225 workers may use a given service.
9226
9227 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
9228 otherwise it is set to "wait".
9229
9230
9231 max-conn=number
9232 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
9233 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
9234
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9235 connection-encryption=on|off
9236 Determines the ICAP service effect on the connections_encrypted
9237 ACL.
9238
9239 The default is "on" for Secure ICAP services (i.e., those
9240 with the icaps:// service URIs scheme) and "off" for plain ICAP
9241 services.
9242
9243 Does not affect ICAP connections (e.g., does not turn Secure
9244 ICAP on or off).
9245
4dd2c9d6 9246 ==== ICAPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
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9247
9248 These options are used for Secure ICAP (icaps://....) services only.
9249
4dd2c9d6 9250 tls-cert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
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9251 A client X.509 certificate to use when connecting to
9252 this ICAP server.
1b091aec 9253
4dd2c9d6 9254 tls-key=/path/to/ssl/key
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9255 The private key corresponding to the previous
9256 tls-cert= option.
9257
9258 If tls-key= is not specified tls-cert= is assumed to
9259 reference a PEM file containing both the certificate
9260 and private key.
1b091aec 9261
4dd2c9d6 9262 tls-cipher=... The list of valid TLS/SSL ciphers to use when connecting
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9263 to this icap server.
9264
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9265 tls-min-version=1.N
9266 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
3f5b28fe 9267 SSLv3 use the tls-options= parameter.
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9268 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
9269
4dd2c9d6 9270 tls-options=... Specify various OpenSSL library options:
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9271
9272 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
4dd2c9d6 9273
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9274 SINGLE_DH_USE
9275 Always create a new key when using
9276 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
4dd2c9d6 9277
1b091aec 9278 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
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9279 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
9280 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
9281 strength to some attacks.
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9282
9283 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
4dd2c9d6
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9284 more complete list. Options relevant only to SSLv2 are
9285 not supported.
1b091aec 9286
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9287 tls-cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
9288 the icap server certificate.
9289 Use to specify intermediate CA certificate(s) if not sent
9290 by the server. Or the full CA chain for the server when
435c72b0 9291 using the tls-default-ca=off flag.
86a84cc0 9292 May be repeated to load multiple files.
1b091aec 9293
4dd2c9d6 9294 tls-capath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
1b091aec 9295 use when verifying the icap server certificate.
86a84cc0 9296 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
1b091aec 9297
4dd2c9d6 9298 tls-crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
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9299 verifying the icap server certificate.
9300
4dd2c9d6 9301 tls-flags=... Specify various flags modifying the Squid TLS implementation:
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9302
9303 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
9304 Accept certificates even if they fail to
9305 verify.
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9306 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
9307 Don't verify the icap server certificate
9308 matches the server name
9309
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9310 tls-default-ca[=off]
9311 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is ON.
8b253b83 9312
4dd2c9d6 9313 tls-domain= The icap server name as advertised in it's certificate.
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9314 Used for verifying the correctness of the received icap
9315 server certificate. If not specified the icap server
9316 hostname extracted from ICAP URI will be used.
9317
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9318 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
9319 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 9320
5473c134 9321Example:
c25c2836 9322icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
1b091aec 9323icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icaps://icap2.mydomain.net:11344/reqmod routing=on
cccac0a2 9324DOC_END
9325
5473c134 9326NAME: icap_class
9327TYPE: icap_class_type
9328IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 9329LOC: none
5473c134 9330DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 9331DOC_START
a22e6cd3 9332 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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9333 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
9334 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 9335
62c7f90e 9336 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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9337 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
9338 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 9339DOC_END
9340
5473c134 9341NAME: icap_access
9342TYPE: icap_access_type
9343IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 9344LOC: none
cccac0a2 9345DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 9346DOC_START
a22e6cd3 9347 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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9348 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
9349 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 9350DOC_END
9351
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9352COMMENT_START
9353 eCAP OPTIONS
9354 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9355COMMENT_END
9356
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9357NAME: ecap_enable
9358TYPE: onoff
9359IFDEF: USE_ECAP
9360COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 9361LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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9362DEFAULT: off
9363DOC_START
9364 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
9365DOC_END
9366
9367NAME: ecap_service
9368TYPE: ecap_service_type
9369IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 9370LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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9371DEFAULT: none
9372DOC_START
9373 Defines a single eCAP service
9374
c25c2836 9375 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 9376
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9377 id: ID
9378 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
9379 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
9380 services in squid.conf.
9381
9382 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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9383 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
9384 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
9385 are not yet supported.
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9386
9387 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
9388 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
9389 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
9390 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
9391 the service provider.
9392
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9393 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
9394 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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9395
9396 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
9397 the following name=value options:
9398
9399 bypass=on|off|1|0
9400 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
9401 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
9402 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 9403 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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9404 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
9405 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 9406 HTTP client.
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9407
9408 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
9409
9410 routing=on|off|1|0
9411 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
9412 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
9413 returning a chain of services to be used next.
9414
9415 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
9416 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
9417
9418 Routing is not allowed by default.
9419
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9420 connection-encryption=on|off
9421 Determines the eCAP service effect on the connections_encrypted
9422 ACL.
9423
9424 Defaults to "on", which does not taint the master transaction
9425 w.r.t. that ACL.
9426
9427 Does not affect eCAP API calls.
9428
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9429 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
9430 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
9431
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9432
9433Example:
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9434ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
9435ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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9436DOC_END
9437
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9438NAME: loadable_modules
9439TYPE: wordlist
9440IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
9441LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
9442DEFAULT: none
9443DOC_START
9444 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
9445 preloaded module(s).
9446Example:
9447loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
9448DOC_END
9449
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9450COMMENT_START
9451 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
9452 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9453COMMENT_END
9454
9455NAME: adaptation_service_set
9456TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
9457IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9458LOC: none
9459DEFAULT: none
9460DOC_START
9461
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9462 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
9463 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
9464
9465 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
9466
9467 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
9468 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
9469 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
9470 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
9471 intact.
62c7f90e 9472
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9473 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
9474 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 9475
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9476 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
9477 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
9478
9479 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
9480 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
9481 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
9482 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
9483 transaction fails as well.
9484
9485 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
9486 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
9487 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
9488 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
9489 matters.
9490
9491 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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9492
9493Example:
9494adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
9495adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
9496DOC_END
9497
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9498NAME: adaptation_service_chain
9499TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
9500IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9501LOC: none
9502DEFAULT: none
9503DOC_START
9504
9505 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
9506 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
9507 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
9508
9509 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
9510
9511 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
9512 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
9513 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
9514 the previous service in the chain.
9515
9516 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
9517 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
9518
9519 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
9520 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
9521 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
9522
9523 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
9524 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
9525
9526 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
9527 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
9528 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
9529 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
9530
9531 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
9532
9533Example:
9534adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
9535DOC_END
9536
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9537NAME: adaptation_access
9538TYPE: adaptation_access_type
9539IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9540LOC: none
9541DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9542DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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9543DOC_START
9544 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
9545
9546 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
9547 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
9548
9549 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
9550 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
9551 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
9552 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
9553
9554 - services serving different vectoring points
9555 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
9556 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
9557 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
9558
9559 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
9560 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
9561 adaptation_service_set for details.
9562
9563 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
9564 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
9565 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
9566 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
9567
9568 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
9569 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
9570
9571 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
9572
9573Example:
9574adaptation_access service_1 allow all
9575DOC_END
9576
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9577NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
9578TYPE: int
9579IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9580LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
9581DEFAULT: 16
9582DOC_START
9583 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
9584 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
9585 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
9586 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
9587 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
9588 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
9589
9590 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
9591
9592 See also: icap_service routing=1
9593DOC_END
9594
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9595NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
9596TYPE: string
9597IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9598LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
9599DEFAULT: none
9600DOC_START
9601 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
9602 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
9603 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
9604 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
9605 with the master transaction.
9606
9607 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
9608 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
9609
9610 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
9611 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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9612 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
9613
9614 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
9615 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
9616 to provide an option with a name specified in
9617 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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9618
9619 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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9620 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
9621
9622 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
9623
9624Example:
9625# share authentication information among ICAP services
9626adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
9627DOC_END
9628
71be37e0 9629NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 9630TYPE: note
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9631IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9632LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
9633DEFAULT: none
9634DOC_START
9635 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
9636 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
9637 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
9638 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
9639
9640 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
9641 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
9642
9643 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
9644 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
9645 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
9646 example:
9647
9648 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
9649 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
9650
9651 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
9652 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
9653
9654 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
9655 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
9656
9657 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
9658 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
9659 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
9660 and double quotes. For example,
9661 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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9662
9663 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
9664 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
9665 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
9666 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
9667 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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9668DOC_END
9669
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9670NAME: icap_retry
9671TYPE: acl_access
9672IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9673LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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9674DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
9675DOC_START
9676 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
9677 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
9678 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
9679 that response are usually retriable.
9680
9681 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
9682
9683 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
9684 due to persistent connection race conditions.
9685
9686 See also: icap_retry_limit
9687DOC_END
9688
9689NAME: icap_retry_limit
9690TYPE: int
9691IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9692LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
9693DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9694DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 9695DOC_START
638402dd 9696 Limits the number of retries allowed.
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9697
9698 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
9699 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
9700 count against this limit.
9701
9702 See also: icap_retry
9703DOC_END
9704
9705
5473c134 9706COMMENT_START
9707 DNS OPTIONS
9708 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9709COMMENT_END
9710
9711NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 9712TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 9713DEFAULT: off
5473c134 9714LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 9715DOC_START
5473c134 9716 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
9717 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
9718 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 9719DOC_END
9720
5473c134 9721NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 9722TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 9723DEFAULT: on
5473c134 9724LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 9725DOC_START
5473c134 9726 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
9727 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
9728 Squid to be strict about the standard.
9729 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 9730DOC_END
9731
5473c134 9732NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 9733TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 9734DEFAULT: 5 seconds
9735LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
cccac0a2 9736DOC_START
5473c134 9737 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
9738 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 9739DOC_END
9740
5473c134 9741NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 9742TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 9743DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 9744LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
cccac0a2 9745DOC_START
5473c134 9746 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
9747 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
9748 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 9749DOC_END
9750
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9751NAME: dns_packet_max
9752TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 9753DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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9754DEFAULT: none
9755LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
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9756DOC_START
9757 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
9758 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
9759
9760 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
9761 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
9762 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
9763 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
9764 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
9765
9766 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
9767 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
9768 necessary.
9769
9770 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
9771 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
9772 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
9773 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
9774 sizes being advertised by Squid.
9775 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
9776 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
9777DOC_END
9778
5473c134 9779NAME: dns_defnames
9780COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 9781TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 9782DEFAULT: off
638402dd 9783DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 9784LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 9785DOC_START
5473c134 9786 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
9787 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
9788 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
9789 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 9790DOC_END
9791
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9792NAME: dns_multicast_local
9793COMMENT: on|off
9794TYPE: onoff
9795DEFAULT: off
9796DEFAULT_DOC: Search for .local and .arpa names is disabled.
9797LOC: Config.onoff.dns_mdns
9798DOC_START
9799 When set to on, Squid sends multicast DNS lookups on the local
9800 network for domains ending in .local and .arpa.
9801 This enables local servers and devices to be contacted in an
9802 ad-hoc or zero-configuration network environment.
9803DOC_END
9804
5473c134 9805NAME: dns_nameservers
5a1098fb 9806TYPE: SBufList
5473c134 9807DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9808DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5a1098fb 9809LOC: Config.dns.nameservers
cccac0a2 9810DOC_START
5473c134 9811 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
9812 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
9813 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 9814
5473c134 9815 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
9816 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
9817 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
9818 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 9819
5473c134 9820 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 9821DOC_END
9822
5473c134 9823NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 9824TYPE: string
5473c134 9825DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
9826LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 9827DOC_START
5473c134 9828 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
9829 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
9830 default locations:
9831 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
9832 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9833 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
9834 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9835 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
9836 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
9837 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
9838 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 9839
5473c134 9840 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
9841 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
9842 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
9843 character are comments.
cccac0a2 9844
5473c134 9845 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
9846 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
9847 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
9848 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
9849 definitions.
cccac0a2 9850DOC_END
9851
5473c134 9852NAME: append_domain
9853TYPE: string
9854LOC: Config.appendDomain
9855DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9856DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 9857DOC_START
5473c134 9858 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
9859 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
9860
9861 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
9862 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
9863 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
9864
9865Example:
9866 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 9867DOC_END
9868
5473c134 9869NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
9870TYPE: onoff
9871LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 9872DEFAULT: on
9873DOC_START
5473c134 9874 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
9875 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
9876 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
9877 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
9878 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 9879DOC_END
9880
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9881NAME: dns_v4_first
9882TYPE: onoff
9883DEFAULT: off
9884LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
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9885DOC_START
9886 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
9887 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
9888
9889 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
9890 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
9891 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
9892
9893 WARNING:
9894 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
9895 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
9896 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
9897DOC_END
9898
6bc15a4f 9899NAME: ipcache_size
9900COMMENT: (number of entries)
9901TYPE: int
9902DEFAULT: 1024
9903LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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9904DOC_START
9905 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
9906DOC_END
6bc15a4f 9907
9908NAME: ipcache_low
9909COMMENT: (percent)
9910TYPE: int
9911DEFAULT: 90
9912LOC: Config.ipcache.low
9913DOC_NONE
9914
9915NAME: ipcache_high
9916COMMENT: (percent)
9917TYPE: int
9918DEFAULT: 95
9919LOC: Config.ipcache.high
9920DOC_START
9921 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
9922DOC_END
9923
9924NAME: fqdncache_size
9925COMMENT: (number of entries)
9926TYPE: int
9927DEFAULT: 1024
9928LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
9929DOC_START
9930 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
9931DOC_END
9932
a58ff010 9933COMMENT_START
5473c134 9934 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 9935 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9936COMMENT_END
9937
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9938NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9939COMMENT: on|off
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9940TYPE: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9941DEFAULT: off
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9942LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
9943DOC_START
9944 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
9945 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
9946 parameter value is interpreted or used.
9947 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
9948 section for more details.
9949DOC_END
9950
5473c134 9951NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 9952COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9953TYPE: onoff
9954DEFAULT: on
9955LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 9956DOC_START
5473c134 9957 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
9958 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
9959 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
9960 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 9961DOC_END
9962
5473c134 9963NAME: memory_pools_limit
9964COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 9965TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 9966DEFAULT: 5 MB
9967LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 9968DOC_START
5473c134 9969 Used only with memory_pools on:
9970 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 9971
5473c134 9972 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
9973 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
9974 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
9975 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
9976 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
9977 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
9978 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 9979
89646bd7 9980 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 9981 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 9982
5473c134 9983 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 9984 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 9985
9986 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
9987 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
9988 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
9989 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 9990DOC_END
9991
5473c134 9992NAME: forwarded_for
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9993COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
9994TYPE: string
5473c134 9995DEFAULT: on
9996LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 9997DOC_START
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9998 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
9999 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 10000
5473c134 10001 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
10002
67c06f0d 10003 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 10004
10005 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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10006
10007 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
10008 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
10009
10010 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
10011 X-Forwarded-For header.
10012
10013 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 10014 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 10015DOC_END
10016
5473c134 10017NAME: cachemgr_passwd
10018TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
10019DEFAULT: none
638402dd 10020DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 10021LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 10022DOC_START
5473c134 10023 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 10024
5473c134 10025 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
10026
10027 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
10028 5min
10029 60min
10030 asndb
10031 authenticator
10032 cbdata
10033 client_list
10034 comm_incoming
10035 config *
10036 counters
10037 delay
10038 digest_stats
10039 dns
10040 events
10041 filedescriptors
10042 fqdncache
10043 histograms
10044 http_headers
10045 info
10046 io
10047 ipcache
10048 mem
10049 menu
10050 netdb
10051 non_peers
10052 objects
10053 offline_toggle *
10054 pconn
10055 peer_select
b360c477 10056 reconfigure *
5473c134 10057 redirector
10058 refresh
10059 server_list
10060 shutdown *
10061 store_digest
10062 storedir
10063 utilization
10064 via_headers
10065 vm_objects
10066
10067 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
10068 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
10069
10070 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
10071 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
10072 password to "none".
10073
10074 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
10075
10076Example:
10077 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
10078 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
10079 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 10080DOC_END
10081
5473c134 10082NAME: client_db
a58ff010 10083COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 10084TYPE: onoff
10085DEFAULT: on
10086LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 10087DOC_START
5473c134 10088 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
10089 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 10090DOC_END
10091
5473c134 10092NAME: refresh_all_ims
10093COMMENT: on|off
10094TYPE: onoff
10095DEFAULT: off
10096LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 10097DOC_START
5473c134 10098 When you enable this option, squid will always check
10099 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
10100 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
10101 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
10102 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 10103
5473c134 10104 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
10105 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 10106DOC_END
10107
5473c134 10108NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 10109IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 10110COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 10111TYPE: onoff
10112DEFAULT: off
10113LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 10114DOC_START
5473c134 10115 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
10116 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
10117 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
10118 feature could make you liable for problems which it
10119 causes.
10120
10121 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 10122DOC_END
10123
31ef19cd 10124NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 10125TYPE: int
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10126LOC: Config.connect_retries
10127DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 10128DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 10129DOC_START
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10130 Limits the number of reopening attempts when establishing a single
10131 TCP connection. All these attempts must still complete before the
10132 applicable connection opening timeout expires.
10133
10134 By default and when connect_retries is set to zero, Squid does not
10135 retry failed connection opening attempts.
31ef19cd 10136
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10137 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries. An attempt to configure a
10138 higher value results in the value of 10 being used (with a warning).
5473c134 10139
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10140 Squid may open connections to retry various high-level forwarding
10141 failures. For an outside observer, that activity may look like a
10142 low-level connection reopening attempt, but those high-level retries
10143 are governed by forward_max_tries instead.
5473c134 10144
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10145 See also: connect_timeout, forward_timeout, icap_connect_timeout,
10146 ident_timeout, and forward_max_tries.
a58ff010 10147DOC_END
10148
5473c134 10149NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 10150TYPE: onoff
5473c134 10151LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 10152DEFAULT: off
10153DOC_START
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10154 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
10155 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
10156 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
10157 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
10158
10159 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
10160 work around access control errors.
10161
10162 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
10163 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 10164DOC_END
10165
5473c134 10166NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 10167TYPE: string
5473c134 10168LOC: Config.as_whois_server
10169DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 10170DOC_START
5473c134 10171 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
10172 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 10173DOC_END
10174
5473c134 10175NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 10176TYPE: onoff
5473c134 10177LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 10178DEFAULT: off
10179DOC_START
5473c134 10180 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
10181 objects.
a58ff010 10182DOC_END
10183
5473c134 10184NAME: uri_whitespace
10185TYPE: uri_whitespace
10186LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
10187DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 10188DOC_START
5473c134 10189 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
10190 URI. Options:
a58ff010 10191
5473c134 10192 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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10193 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
10194 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
10195 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
10196
5473c134 10197 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
10198 Request" message.
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10199 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
10200 handling of HTTP request URL.
10201
5473c134 10202 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
10203 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
10204 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
10205 are in use.
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10206 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
10207 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
10208 URL field.
10209
5473c134 10210 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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10211 encoded according to RFC1738.
10212
5473c134 10213 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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10214 first whitespace.
10215
10216
10217 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
10218 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 10219DOC_END
a58ff010 10220
5473c134 10221NAME: chroot
10222TYPE: string
10223LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 10224DEFAULT: none
10225DOC_START
9f37c18a 10226 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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10227 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
10228 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
10229 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
10230 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 10231DOC_END
a58ff010 10232
5473c134 10233NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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10234TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
10235LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
10236DEFAULT: 0
10237DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 10238DOC_START
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10239 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
10240 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
10241 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
10242 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
10243 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
10244 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 10245
079a8480 10246 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 10247 reasons.
a0e23afd 10248
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10249 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
10250
a0e23afd 10251 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 10252DOC_END
a58ff010 10253
5473c134 10254NAME: high_response_time_warning
10255TYPE: int
10256COMMENT: (msec)
10257LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
10258DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 10259DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 10260DOC_START
10261 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
10262 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
10263 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 10264DOC_END
10265
5473c134 10266NAME: high_page_fault_warning
10267TYPE: int
10268LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
10269DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 10270DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 10271DOC_START
5473c134 10272 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
10273 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
10274 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
10275 per second.
10276DOC_END
cc9f92d4 10277
5473c134 10278NAME: high_memory_warning
10279TYPE: b_size_t
10280LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
f2228f3b 10281IFDEF: HAVE_MSTATS&&HAVE_GNUMALLOC_H
904971da 10282DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 10283DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 10284DOC_START
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10285 If the memory usage (as determined by gnumalloc, if available and used)
10286 exceeds this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 10287 the administrators attention.
10288DOC_END
4bf2a476 10289# TODO: link high_memory_warning to mempools?
cc9f92d4 10290
5473c134 10291NAME: sleep_after_fork
10292COMMENT: (microseconds)
10293TYPE: int
10294LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
10295DEFAULT: 0
10296DOC_START
10297 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
10298 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
10299 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
10300 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
10301 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
10302 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
10303 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
10304 until all the child processes have been started.
10305 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
10306 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 10307DOC_END
10308
b6696974 10309NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 10310IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
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10311COMMENT: on|off
10312TYPE: onoff
10313DEFAULT: on
10314LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
10315DOC_START
10316 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
10317 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
10318 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
10319 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
10320 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
10321 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
10322DOC_END
10323
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10324NAME: eui_lookup
10325TYPE: onoff
10326IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
10327DEFAULT: on
10328LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
10329DOC_START
10330 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
10331DOC_END
10332
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10333NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
10334TYPE: int
10335DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 10336DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
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10337LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
10338DOC_START
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10339 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
10340 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 10341
638402dd 10342 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
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10343
10344 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 10345 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
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10346DOC_END
10347
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10348NAME: force_request_body_continuation
10349TYPE: acl_access
10350LOC: Config.accessList.forceRequestBodyContinuation
10351DEFAULT: none
10352DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
10353DOC_START
10354 This option controls how Squid handles data upload requests from HTTP
10355 and FTP agents that require a "Please Continue" control message response
10356 to actually send the request body to Squid. It is mostly useful in
10357 adaptation environments.
10358
10359 When Squid receives an HTTP request with an "Expect: 100-continue"
10360 header or an FTP upload command (e.g., STOR), Squid normally sends the
10361 request headers or FTP command information to an adaptation service (or
10362 peer) and waits for a response. Most adaptation services (and some
10363 broken peers) may not respond to Squid at that stage because they may
10364 decide to wait for the HTTP request body or FTP data transfer. However,
10365 that request body or data transfer may never come because Squid has not
10366 responded with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150 (Please Continue) control message
10367 to the request sender yet!
10368
10369 An allow match tells Squid to respond with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150
10370 (Please Continue) control message on its own, before forwarding the
10371 request to an adaptation service or peer. Such a response usually forces
10372 the request sender to proceed with sending the body. A deny match tells
10373 Squid to delay that control response until the origin server confirms
10374 that the request body is needed. Delaying is the default behavior.
10375DOC_END
10376
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10377NAME: server_pconn_for_nonretriable
10378TYPE: acl_access
10379DEFAULT: none
10380DEFAULT_DOC: Open new connections for forwarding requests Squid cannot retry safely.
10381LOC: Config.accessList.serverPconnForNonretriable
10382DOC_START
10383 This option provides fine-grained control over persistent connection
10384 reuse when forwarding HTTP requests that Squid cannot retry. It is useful
10385 in environments where opening new connections is very expensive
10386 (e.g., all connections are secured with TLS with complex client and server
10387 certificate validation) and race conditions associated with persistent
10388 connections are very rare and/or only cause minor problems.
10389
10390 HTTP prohibits retrying unsafe and non-idempotent requests (e.g., POST).
10391 Squid limitations also prohibit retrying all requests with bodies (e.g., PUT).
10392 By default, when forwarding such "risky" requests, Squid opens a new
10393 connection to the server or cache_peer, even if there is an idle persistent
10394 connection available. When Squid is configured to risk sending a non-retriable
10395 request on a previously used persistent connection, and the server closes
10396 the connection before seeing that risky request, the user gets an error response
10397 from Squid. In most cases, that error response will be HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway)
10398 with ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT or ERR_WRITE_ERROR (peer connection reset) error detail.
10399
10400 If an allow rule matches, Squid reuses an available idle persistent connection
10401 (if any) for the request that Squid cannot retry. If a deny rule matches, then
10402 Squid opens a new connection for the request that Squid cannot retry.
10403
10404 This option does not affect requests that Squid can retry. They will reuse idle
10405 persistent connections (if any).
10406
10407 This clause only supports fast acl types.
10408 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
10409
10410 Example:
10411 acl SpeedIsWorthTheRisk method POST
10412 server_pconn_for_nonretriable allow SpeedIsWorthTheRisk
10413DOC_END
10414
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