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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 30 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
31 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 32
cccac0a2 33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
debd9a31 44
cccac0a2 45COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 46
592a09dc 47COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
60COMMENT_END
61
5473c134 62COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 63 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 64 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
65COMMENT_END
66
41bd17a4 67NAME: auth_param
68TYPE: authparam
69LOC: Config.authConfiguration
cccac0a2 70DEFAULT: none
71DOC_START
41bd17a4 72 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
73 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 74
41bd17a4 75 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 76
41bd17a4 77 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
78 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
79 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
80 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
81 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
82 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
83 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
84 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
85 program entry).
cccac0a2 86
41bd17a4 87 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
88 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
89 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
90 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 91
41bd17a4 92 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
93 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
94 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
95 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
96 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
97 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
98 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
99 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
100 type acl.
cccac0a2 101
41bd17a4 102 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
103 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
104 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
105 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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106 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
107 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 108
41bd17a4 109 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 110
41bd17a4 111 "program" cmdline
112 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
113 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
114 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
115 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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116 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
117 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 118
41bd17a4 119 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
120 program is specified.
cccac0a2 121
41bd17a4 122 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
123 this line to something like
307b83b7 124
41bd17a4 125 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 126
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127 "utf8" on|off
128 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
129 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
130 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
131 username & password to the helper.
132
41bd17a4 133 "children" numberofchildren
134 The number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
135 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
136 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
137 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
138 authenticator processes.
139 auth_param basic children 5
9e7dbc51 140
41bd17a4 141 "concurrency" concurrency
142 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
143 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
144 one request at a time. Setting this changes the protocol used to
145 include a channel number first on the request/response line, allowing
146 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallell without
147 wating for the response.
148 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
149 auth_param basic concurrency 0
0fdafae7 150
41bd17a4 151 "realm" realmstring
152 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
153 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
154 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
155 password). There is no default.
156 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 157
41bd17a4 158 "credentialsttl" timetolive
159 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
160 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
161 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
162 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
163 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
164 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
165 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
166 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
167 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 168
41bd17a4 169 "casesensitive" on|off
170 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
171 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
172 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
173 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
174 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 175
41bd17a4 176 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 177
41bd17a4 178 "program" cmdline
179 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
180 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
181 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
182 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
183 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
184 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
185 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 186
41bd17a4 187 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
188 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 189
41bd17a4 190 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
191 something like
cccac0a2 192
7ce93108 193 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 194
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195 "utf8" on|off
196 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
197 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
198 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
199 username & password to the helper.
200
41bd17a4 201 "children" numberofchildren
202 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
203 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
204 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
205 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
206 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
207 auth_param digest children 5
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 "realm" realmstring
210 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
211 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
212 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
213 password). There is no default.
214 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 215
41bd17a4 216 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
217 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
218 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 219
41bd17a4 220 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
221 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
222 valid for.
cccac0a2 223
41bd17a4 224 "nonce_max_count" number
225 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
226 used.
cccac0a2 227
41bd17a4 228 "nonce_strictness" on|off
229 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
230 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
231 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
232 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 233
41bd17a4 234 "check_nonce_count" on|off
235 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
236 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
237 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
238 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 239
41bd17a4 240 "post_workaround" on|off
241 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
242 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
243 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 244
41bd17a4 245 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 246
41bd17a4 247 "program" cmdline
248 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
249 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
250 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
251 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
252 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
253 is not used.
cccac0a2 254
41bd17a4 255 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 256
41bd17a4 257 "children" numberofchildren
258 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
259 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
260 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
261 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
262 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
263 processes.
cccac0a2 264
41bd17a4 265 auth_param ntlm children 5
cccac0a2 266
41bd17a4 267 "keep_alive" on|off
268 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
269 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
270 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
271 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
272 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 273
41bd17a4 274 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 275
41bd17a4 276 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 277
41bd17a4 278 "program" cmdline
279 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
280 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
281 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
282 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
283 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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284 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
285 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
286 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 287 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
288 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 289
41bd17a4 290 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 291
41bd17a4 292 "children" numberofchildren
293 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
294 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
295 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
296 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
297 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
298 processes.
299 auth_param negotiate children 5
d3803853 300
41bd17a4 301 "keep_alive" on|off
302 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
303 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
304 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
305 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
306 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 308 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 309
41bd17a4 310NOCOMMENT_START
311#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
312#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
313#auth_param negotiate children 5
314#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
315#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
316#auth_param ntlm children 5
317#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
318#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
319#auth_param digest children 5
320#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
321#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
322#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
323#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
324#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
325#auth_param basic children 5
326#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
327#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
328NOCOMMENT_END
329DOC_END
cccac0a2 330
41bd17a4 331NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
332TYPE: time_t
333DEFAULT: 1 hour
334LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
335DOC_START
336 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
337 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
338 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
339 have good reason to.
340DOC_END
cccac0a2 341
41bd17a4 342NAME: authenticate_ttl
343TYPE: time_t
344DEFAULT: 1 hour
345LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
346DOC_START
347 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
348 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
349 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
350 TTL are removed from memory.
351DOC_END
cccac0a2 352
41bd17a4 353NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
354TYPE: time_t
355LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
356DEFAULT: 0 seconds
357DOC_START
358 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
359 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
360 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
361 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
362 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
363 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
364 environment with relatively static address assignments.
365DOC_END
cccac0a2 366
3d1e3e43 367COMMENT_START
368 ACCESS CONTROLS
369 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
370COMMENT_END
371
41bd17a4 372NAME: external_acl_type
373TYPE: externalAclHelper
374LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 375DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 376DOC_START
41bd17a4 377 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
378 to look up the status
cccac0a2 379
41bd17a4 380 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 381
41bd17a4 382 Options:
cccac0a2 383
41bd17a4 384 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
385 for 1 hour)
386 negative_ttl=n
387 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
388 as ttl)
389 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
390 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
391 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
392 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
393 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
394 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
395 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
396 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
397 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 398 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
399 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
1de68cc1 400 the default is 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 401
41bd17a4 402 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 403
41bd17a4 404 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
405 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
406 %IDENT Ident user name
407 %SRC Client IP
408 %SRCPORT Client source port
409 %URI Requested URI
410 %DST Requested host
411 %PROTO Requested protocol
412 %PORT Requested port
413 %PATH Requested URL path
414 %METHOD Request method
415 %MYADDR Squid interface address
416 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
417 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
418 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
419 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
420 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
421 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 422
c68c9682 423 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 424 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 425 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 426 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 427 HTTP request header list member using ; as
428 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
429 character.
cccac0a2 430
c68c9682 431 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 432 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 433 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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434 %<{Hdr:;member}
435 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
436 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
437 character.
438
41bd17a4 439 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
440 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
441 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 442
41bd17a4 443 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
444 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
445 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
446 more details.
cccac0a2 447
41bd17a4 448 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 449
41bd17a4 450 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 451
41bd17a4 452 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 453
41bd17a4 454 user= The users name (login)
455 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
456 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
457 in error pages
458 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
459 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
460 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
461 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 462
41bd17a4 463 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
464 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 465
41bd17a4 466 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
467 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
468 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 469
41bd17a4 470 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
471 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
472 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 473DOC_END
474
41bd17a4 475NAME: acl
476TYPE: acl
477LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 478DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 479DOC_START
41bd17a4 480 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 481
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482 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
483 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
484 they are read from.
cccac0a2 485
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486 acl aclname acltype argument ...
487 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 488
375eeb3b 489 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 490
41bd17a4 491 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
492 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 493
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494 Some acl types require suspending the current request in order
495 to access some external data source.
496 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
497 don't are marked as [fast].
498 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
499 for further information
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500
501 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
502
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503 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address [fast]
504 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses [fast]
505 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
506 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address [fast]
cccac0a2 507
41bd17a4 508 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
509 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
510 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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511 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
512 # other *BSD variants.
513 # [fast]
41bd17a4 514 #
515 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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516 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
517 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
518
519 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
520 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
521 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 522 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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523 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
524 # regex matching client name [slow]
525 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 526 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 527 #
41bd17a4 528 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
529 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
530 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 531
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532 acl aclname src_as number ...
533 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 534 # [fast]
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535 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
536 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
537 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
538 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
539 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
540 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
541 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 542
6db78a1a 543 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 544 # [fast]
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545 # match against a named cache_peer entry
546 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
547
375eeb3b 548 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 549 # [fast]
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550 # day-abbrevs:
551 # S - Sunday
552 # M - Monday
553 # T - Tuesday
554 # W - Wednesday
555 # H - Thursday
556 # F - Friday
557 # A - Saturday
558 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
559
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560 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
561 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
562 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
563 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
e988aa40 564
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565 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
566 # ranges are alloed
567 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # local socket TCP port [fast]
568 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
e988aa40 569
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570 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
571
572 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 573
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574 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
575 # status code in reply [fast]
e988aa40 576
375eeb3b 577 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 578 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 579
375eeb3b 580 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 581 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 582 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 584 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 585 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 586 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 587 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 588
41bd17a4 589 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
590 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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592 # supplied credentials [slow]
593 #
594 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 595 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
596 #
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598 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
599 #
41bd17a4 600 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
601 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
602 # in access.log.
603 #
604 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
605 # to check username/password combinations (see
606 # auth_param directive).
607 #
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609 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 610 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 611
41bd17a4 612 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 613 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 614 # Example:
615 #
616 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 617
41bd17a4 618 acl aclname maxconn number
619 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
b3567eb5 620 # more than <number> HTTP connections established. [fast]
1e5562e3 621
41bd17a4 622 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
623 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
624 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 625 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 626 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
627 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
628 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
629 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
630 # request is denied)
631 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
632 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
633 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 634
375eeb3b 635 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 636 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
637 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 638 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 639 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
640 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 641
41bd17a4 642 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
643 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
644 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 645 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 646
375eeb3b 647 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 648 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
649 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 650 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 651 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
652 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
653 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 654
41bd17a4 655 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
656 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
657 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 658 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 659
375eeb3b 660 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 661 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 662 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 663
41bd17a4 664 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
665 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 666 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 667
41bd17a4 668 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
669 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 670 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 671
41bd17a4 672 acl aclname ext_user username ...
673 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 674 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 675 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 676
0ab50441 677 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 678 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
cccac0a2 679
41bd17a4 680Examples:
681acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
682acl myexample dst_as 1241
683acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
684acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
685acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 686
41bd17a4 687NOCOMMENT_START
688#Recommended minimum configuration:
41bd17a4 689acl manager proto cache_object
ee776778 690acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
41bd17a4 691acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ee776778 692#
693# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
694# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
695# should be allowed
696acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
697acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
698acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
699#
41bd17a4 700acl SSL_ports port 443
701acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
702acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
703acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
704acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
705acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
706acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
707acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
708acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
709acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
710acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
711acl CONNECT method CONNECT
712NOCOMMENT_END
713DOC_END
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715NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
716TYPE: acl_access
717IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
718LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
719DEFAULT: none
720DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
721DOC_START
722 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
723 find the original source of a request.
724
725 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
726 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
727 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
728 rightmost address being the most recent.
729
730 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
731 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
732 to see where that host received the request from. If the
733 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, and if
734 acl_uses_indirect_client is on, then we continue backtracking
735 until we reach an address for which we are not allowed to
736 follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
737 address in the list. (If acl_uses_indirect_client is off, then
738 it's impossible to backtrack through more than one level of
739 X-Forwarded-For addresses.)
740
741 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
742 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
743 be treated as the client address for access control, delay
744 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
745 delay_pool_uses_indirect_client and log_uses_indirect_client
746 options.
747
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749 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
750
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752
753 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
754 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
755 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
756 source address of the request. This may enable remote
757 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
758 based on the client's source addresses.
759
760 For example:
761
762 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
763 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
764 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
765 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
766DOC_END
767
768NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
769COMMENT: on|off
770TYPE: onoff
771IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
772DEFAULT: on
773LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
774DOC_START
775 Controls whether the indirect client address
776 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
777 direct client address in acl matching.
778DOC_END
779
780NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
781COMMENT: on|off
782TYPE: onoff
97a616ca 783IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR DELAY_POOLS
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785LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
786DOC_START
787 Controls whether the indirect client address
788 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
789 direct client address in delay pools.
790DOC_END
791
792NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
793COMMENT: on|off
794TYPE: onoff
795IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
796DEFAULT: on
797LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
798DOC_START
799 Controls whether the indirect client address
800 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
801 direct client address in the access log.
802DOC_END
803
41bd17a4 804NAME: http_access
805TYPE: acl_access
806LOC: Config.accessList.http
807DEFAULT: none
808DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
809DOC_START
810 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 811
41bd17a4 812 Access to the HTTP port:
813 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 814
41bd17a4 815 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 816
41bd17a4 817 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
818 the request.
cccac0a2 819
41bd17a4 820 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
821 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
822 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
823 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
824 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
825 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 826
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828 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
829
41bd17a4 830NOCOMMENT_START
831#Recommended minimum configuration:
832#
833# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
834http_access allow manager localhost
835http_access deny manager
836# Deny requests to unknown ports
837http_access deny !Safe_ports
838# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
839http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
840#
841# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
842# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
843# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
844#http_access deny to_localhost
845#
846# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
c8f4eac4 847
ee776778 848# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
849# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
850# from where browsing should be allowed
851http_access allow localnet
afb33856 852http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 853
41bd17a4 854# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
855http_access deny all
856NOCOMMENT_END
857DOC_END
7d90757b 858
41bd17a4 859NAME: http_reply_access
860TYPE: acl_access
861LOC: Config.accessList.reply
862DEFAULT: none
863DOC_START
864 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 865
41bd17a4 866 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 867
41bd17a4 868 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
869 all replies
1a224843 870
41bd17a4 871 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
872 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
873 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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875 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
876 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 877DOC_END
878
41bd17a4 879NAME: icp_access
880TYPE: acl_access
881LOC: Config.accessList.icp
882DEFAULT: none
883DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 884DOC_START
41bd17a4 885 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
886 access lists
5473c134 887
41bd17a4 888 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 889
41bd17a4 890 See http_access for details
891
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893 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 894NOCOMMENT_START
ee776778 895#Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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897#icp_access deny all
41bd17a4 898NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 899DOC_END
900
41bd17a4 901NAME: htcp_access
902IFDEF: USE_HTCP
903TYPE: acl_access
904LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
905DEFAULT: none
906DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 907DOC_START
41bd17a4 908 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
909 access lists
5473c134 910
41bd17a4 911 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 912
41bd17a4 913 See http_access for details
5473c134 914
0b48417e 915 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
916 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
917 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
918
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920 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
ee776778 921NOCOMMENT_START
922#Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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924#htcp_access deny all
ee776778 925NOCOMMENT_END
41bd17a4 926DOC_END
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41bd17a4 928NAME: htcp_clr_access
929IFDEF: USE_HTCP
930TYPE: acl_access
931LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
932DEFAULT: none
933DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
934DOC_START
935 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
936 on defined access lists
5473c134 937
41bd17a4 938 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 939
41bd17a4 940 See http_access for details
5473c134 941
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943 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 944#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
945acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
946htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 947DOC_END
948
41bd17a4 949NAME: miss_access
950TYPE: acl_access
951LOC: Config.accessList.miss
df2eec10 952DEFAULT: allow all
5473c134 953DOC_START
41bd17a4 954 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
955 a parent. For example:
5473c134 956
41bd17a4 957 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
958 miss_access allow localclients
959 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 960
41bd17a4 961 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
962 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 963
41bd17a4 964 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
965 to fetch MISSES from us.
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967 This clause only supports fast acl types.
968 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 969DOC_END
970
971NAME: ident_lookup_access
972TYPE: acl_access
973IFDEF: USE_IDENT
974DEFAULT: none
975DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 976LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 977DOC_START
41bd17a4 978 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
979 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
980 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
981 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
982 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
983 any requests.
5473c134 984
41bd17a4 985 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
986 can follow this example:
5473c134 987
4daaf3cb 988 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 989 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
990 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 991
4daaf3cb 992 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 993 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
994 the correct result.
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996 This clause only supports fast acl types.
997 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 998DOC_END
5473c134 999
5b0f5383 1000NAME: reply_body_max_size
1001COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1002TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1003DEFAULT: none
1004LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1005DOC_START
1006 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1007 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1008 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1009 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1010 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1011 for this reply.
1012
1013 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1014 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1015 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1016 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1017 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1018 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1019 and they will receive a partial reply.
1020
1021 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1022 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1023 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1024 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1025
1026 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1027 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1028 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1029 the size of your largest error page.
1030
1031 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1032 no limit imposed.
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1034 Configuration Format is:
1035 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1036 ie.
1037 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1038
5b0f5383 1039DOC_END
1040
1041COMMENT_START
1042 NETWORK OPTIONS
1043 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1044COMMENT_END
1045
1046NAME: http_port ascii_port
1047TYPE: http_port_list
1048DEFAULT: none
1049LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1050DOC_START
1051 Usage: port [options]
1052 hostname:port [options]
1053 1.2.3.4:port [options]
1054
1055 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1056 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1057 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1058 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1059 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
1060 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
1061 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
1062 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1063
1064 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1065 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1066
1067 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1068 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1069 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1070
1071 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1072
1073 Options:
1074
e77bdb4e 1075 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1076 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1077 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1078
1079 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1080 connections using the client IP address.
13b5cd0c 1081 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1082
1083 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1084 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1085
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1087 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1088 never_direct was used.
1089
5b0f5383 1090 defaultsite=domainname
1091 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1092 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1093 accelerators should consider the default.
1094 Implies accel.
1095
1096 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1097 domain support. Implies accel.
1098
1099 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1100 Implies accel.
1101
1102 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1103 than the http_port number. Implies accel.
1104
1105 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1106 Defaults to http.
1107
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1109 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1110 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1112
5b0f5383 1113 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1114 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1115 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1116 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1117 support is enabled.
1118 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1119
1120 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1121 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1122 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1123 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1124 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1125 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1126 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1127 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1128
b3567eb5 1129 sslBump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
4c9da963 1130 establish secure connection with the client and with
1131 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1132 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1133 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1134
1135 When this option is enabled, additional options become
1136 available to specify SSL-related properties of the
1137 client-side connection: cert, key, version, cipher,
1138 options, clientca, cafile, capath, crlfile, dhparams,
1139 sslflags, and sslcontext. See the https_port directive
1140 for more information on these options.
1141
1142 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1143 the SslBump feature.
1144
81b6e9a7 1145 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1146 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1147
68924b6d 1148 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
b2130d58 1149 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections
1150 idle is the initial time before TCP starts probing
1151 the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1152 timeout the time before giving up.
1153
5b0f5383 1154 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1155 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1156 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1157 visible on the internal address.
1158
1159NOCOMMENT_START
1160# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1161http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1162NOCOMMENT_END
1163DOC_END
1164
1165NAME: https_port
1166IFDEF: USE_SSL
1167TYPE: https_port_list
1168DEFAULT: none
1169LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1170DOC_START
1171 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1172
1173 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1174 requests.
1175
1176 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1177 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1178 accelerator level.
1179
1180 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1181 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1182
1183 Options:
1184
1185 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1186 defaultsite or vhost.
1187
1188 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1189 this port. Implies accel.
1190
1191 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1192 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1193 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1194 Implies accel.
1195
1196 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1197 Defaults to https.
1198
1199 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1200
1201 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1202 if not specified, the certificate file is
1203 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1204 key file.
1205
1206 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1207 1 automatic (default)
1208 2 SSLv2 only
1209 3 SSLv3 only
1210 4 TLSv1 only
1211
1212 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1213
1214 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1215 being:
1216 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1217 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1218 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1219 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1220 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1221 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1222 documentation for a complete list of options.
1223
1224 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1225 requesting a client certificate.
1226
1227 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1228 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1229 clientca will be used.
1230
1231 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1232 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1233
1234 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1235 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1236 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1237
1238 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1239 DH key exchanges.
1240
1241 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1242 DELAYED_AUTH
1243 Don't request client certificates
1244 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1245 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1246 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1247 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1248 to OpenSSL.
1249 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1250 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1251 will result in a new SSL session.
1252 VERIFY_CRL
1253 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1254 certificates.
1255 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1256 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1257 client certificate chain.
1258
1259 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1260
1261 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1262
1263 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1264 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1265
81b6e9a7 1266 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1267 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1268
5b0f5383 1269DOC_END
1270
41bd17a4 1271NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1272TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1273DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1274LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1275DOC_START
41bd17a4 1276 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1277 connections with, based on the username or source address
1278 making the request.
5473c134 1279
41bd17a4 1280 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1281
41bd17a4 1282 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1283 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1284
41bd17a4 1285 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1286 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2c73de90 1287 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1288 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1289
41bd17a4 1290 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1291 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1292 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1293
41bd17a4 1294 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1295 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1296 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1297 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1298
41bd17a4 1299 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1300 matching line.
cccac0a2 1301
41bd17a4 1302 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1303 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1304 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1305 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1306DOC_END
1307
41bd17a4 1308NAME: clientside_tos
1309TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1310DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1311LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1312DOC_START
41bd17a4 1313 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1314 connections with, based on the username or source address
1315 making the request.
1316DOC_END
cccac0a2 1317
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1318NAME: qos_flows
1319TYPE: QosConfig
7172612f 1320IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
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1322LOC: Config.zph
7172612f 1323DOC_START
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1324 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
1325 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced.
7172612f 1326
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1328 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1329 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
7172612f 1330
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1331 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - octet value 0x00-0xFF.
1332 Note that in practice often only values up to 0x3F are usable
1333 as the two highest bits have been redefined for use by ECN
1334 (RFC3168).
7172612f 1335
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1337
1338 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1339
1340 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1341
1342 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1343
1344
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1346
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1348 linux kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch.
1349 The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1350
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1352 If set, any HTTP response towards clients will
1353 have the TOS value of the response comming from the
1354 remote server masked with the value of miss-mask.
1355
1356 miss-mask=0xFF
1357 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the
1358 remote server, before copying the value to the TOS sent
1359 towards clients.
1360 Default: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
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1363
41bd17a4 1364NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1365TYPE: acl_address
1366DEFAULT: none
1367LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1368DOC_START
1369 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1370 based on the username or source address of the user making
1371 the request.
7f7db318 1372
41bd17a4 1373 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1374
41bd17a4 1375 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1376 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1377 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1378 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1379
17148b2f 1380 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1381 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1382 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1383 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1384 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1385
41bd17a4 1386 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1387 matching line.
cccac0a2 1388
41bd17a4 1389 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1390 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1391 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1392 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1393
1394
1395 IPv6 Magic:
1396
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1398 internets.
cc192b50 1399 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1400 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1401 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1402
1403 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1404 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1405 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1406
1407 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1408 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1409 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1410
1411 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1412 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1413
1414 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1415 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
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1417 WARNING:
1418 'dst ipv6' bases its selection assuming DIRECT access.
1419 If peers are used the peername ACL are needed to select outgoing
1420 address which can link to the peer.
1421
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1423 previously in the http_access rules to locate the destination IP.
1424 Some more magic may be needed for that:
1425 http_access allow to_ipv6 !all
1426 (meaning, allow if to IPv6 but not from anywhere ;)
1427
cccac0a2 1428DOC_END
1429
41bd17a4 1430COMMENT_START
1431 SSL OPTIONS
1432 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1433COMMENT_END
1434
1435NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1436IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1437TYPE: onoff
1438DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1439LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1440DOC_START
41bd17a4 1441 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1442 messages.
cccac0a2 1443DOC_END
1444
41bd17a4 1445NAME: ssl_engine
1446IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1447TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1448LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1449DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1450DOC_START
41bd17a4 1451 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1452 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1453DOC_END
1454
41bd17a4 1455NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1456IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1457DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1458LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1459TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1460DOC_START
41bd17a4 1461 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1462DOC_END
1463
41bd17a4 1464NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1465IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1466DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1467LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1468TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1469DOC_START
41bd17a4 1470 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1471DOC_END
1472
41bd17a4 1473NAME: sslproxy_version
1474IFDEF: USE_SSL
1475DEFAULT: 1
1476LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1477TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1478DOC_START
41bd17a4 1479 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1480DOC_END
1481
41bd17a4 1482NAME: sslproxy_options
1483IFDEF: USE_SSL
1484DEFAULT: none
1485LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1486TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1487DOC_START
41bd17a4 1488 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1489DOC_END
1490
41bd17a4 1491NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1492IFDEF: USE_SSL
1493DEFAULT: none
1494LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1495TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1496DOC_START
41bd17a4 1497 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1498DOC_END
1499
41bd17a4 1500NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1501IFDEF: USE_SSL
1502DEFAULT: none
1503LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1504TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1505DOC_START
41bd17a4 1506 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1507 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1508DOC_END
0976f8db 1509
41bd17a4 1510NAME: sslproxy_capath
1511IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1512DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1513LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1514TYPE: string
5473c134 1515DOC_START
41bd17a4 1516 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1517 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1518DOC_END
1519
4c9da963 1520NAME: ssl_bump
1521IFDEF: USE_SSL
1522TYPE: acl_access
1523LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1524DEFAULT: none
1525DOC_START
1526 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1527 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1528 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1529 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1530
1531 By default, no requests are bumped.
1532
1533 See also: http_port sslBump
1534
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1536 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4c9da963 1537NOCOMMENT_START
1538# Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1539# those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1540#
1541# acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1542# acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1543# acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1544# ssl_bump deny localhost
1545# ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1546# ssl_bump allow all
1547NOCOMMENT_END
1548DOC_END
1549
41bd17a4 1550NAME: sslproxy_flags
1551IFDEF: USE_SSL
1552DEFAULT: none
1553LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1554TYPE: string
5473c134 1555DOC_START
41bd17a4 1556 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1557 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1558 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1559 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1560 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1561DOC_END
1562
4c9da963 1563
1564NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1565IFDEF: USE_SSL
1566DEFAULT: none
1567LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1568TYPE: acl_access
1569DOC_START
1570 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1571
1572 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1573 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1574 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1575
1576 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1577 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1578 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1579
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1581 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1582 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 1583
1584 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1585 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1586 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1587 the connection may be insecure.
1588
1589 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1590
1591NOCOMMENT_START
1592#Default setting:
1593# sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1594NOCOMMENT_END
1595DOC_END
1596
1597
1598
41bd17a4 1599NAME: sslpassword_program
1600IFDEF: USE_SSL
1601DEFAULT: none
1602LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1603TYPE: string
5473c134 1604DOC_START
41bd17a4 1605 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1606 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1607 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1608 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
5473c134 1609DOC_END
1610
cccac0a2 1611COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1612 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1613 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1614COMMENT_END
1615
41bd17a4 1616NAME: cache_peer
1617TYPE: peer
1618DEFAULT: none
1619LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1620DOC_START
41bd17a4 1621 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 1622
41bd17a4 1623 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 1624
41bd17a4 1625 For example,
2b94f655 1626
41bd17a4 1627 # proxy icp
1628 # hostname type port port options
1629 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 1630 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 1631 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1632 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
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1634 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
1635
1636 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
1637
1638 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
1639 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
1640 For web servers this is usually 80
1641
1642 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
1643 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
1644 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
1645
1646
1647 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
1648
1649 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
1650 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
1651
1652
1653 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
1654
1655 multicast-responder
1656 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
1657 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
1658 replies will be accepted from it.
1659
1660 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
1661 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
1662
1663 background-ping
1664 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
1665 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
1666 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
1667
1668
1669 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
1670
1671 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
1672 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
1673
1674
1675 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
1676 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
1677 instead of 3130.
1678
1679 htcp-oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions.
1680
1681 htcp-no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
1682 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
1683 htcp-only-clr.
1684
1685 htcp-only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
1686 This cannot be used with htcp-no-clr.
1687
1688 htcp-no-purge-clr
1689 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
1690 they do not result from PURGE requests.
1691
1692 htcp-forward-clr
1693 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
1694
1695
1696 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
1697
1698 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
1699 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
1700
1701
1702 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
1703 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
1704 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
1705
1706 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
1707 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
1708 weight=N can be used to add bias.
1709
1710 weighted-round-robin
1711 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
1712 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
1713 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
1714 Usually used for background-ping parents.
1715 weight=N can be used to add bias.
1716
1717 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
1718 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
1719 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
1720
1721 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
1722
1723 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
1724
1725
1726 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
1727
1728 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
1729 peer-selection mechanisms.
1730 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1731 larger weights are favored more.
1732 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1733 protocol is not in use.
1734
1735 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
1736 times of parents.
1737 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1738 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1739 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
1740
1741 ttl=N Specify a IP multicast TTL to use when sending an ICP
1742 queries to this address.
1743 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1744 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1745 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1746 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
1747
1748 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
1749 delay pools.
1750
1751 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
1752 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
1753 than the Squid default location.
1754
1755
1756 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
1757
1758 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
1759 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
1760 is a web server.
1761
1762 forceddomain=name
1763 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
1764 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
1765 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
1766 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
1767
1768 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
1769
1770 no-netdb-exchange
1771 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
1772
1773
1774 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
1775
1776 login=user:password
1777 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
1778 requires proxy authentication.
1779
1780 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
1781 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
1782
1783 login=PROXYPASS
1784 Send login details received from client to this peer.
1785 Authentication is not required, nor changed.
1786
1787 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
1788 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
1789 connection-auth options are also used.
1790
1791 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
1792 Authentication is not required by this option.
1793 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
1794 to pass on, but username and password are available
1795 from either proxy login or an external ACL user= and
1796 password= result tags they may be sent instead.
1797
1798 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
1799 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
1800 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
1801 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
1802 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
1803
1804 login=*:password
1805 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
1806 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
1807 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
1808 needed to identify each user.
1809 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
1810 information which is added to the username. This can
1811 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
1812 the login=username:password option above.
1813
1814 connection-auth=on|off
1815 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
1816 connection oriented authentication, and any such
1817 challenges received from there should be ignored.
1818 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
1819 of the peer.
1820
1821
1822 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
1823
1824 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
1825
1826 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1827 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
1828 this peer.
1829
1830 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
1831 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
1832 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
1833 reference a combined file containing both the
1834 certificate and the key.
1835
1836 sslversion=1|2|3|4
1837 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
1838 1 = automatic (default)
1839 2 = SSL v2 only
1840 3 = SSL v3 only
1841 4 = TLS v1 only
1842
1843 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
1844 to this peer.
1845
1846 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
1847 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1848 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1849 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1850 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
1851 a more complete list.
1852
1853 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
1854 when verifying the peer certificate.
1855
1856 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
1857 use when verifying the peer certificate.
1858
1859 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
1860 verifying the peer certificate.
1861
1862 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
1863
41bd17a4 1864 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
1865 Accept certificates even if they fail to
1866 verify.
1867 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1868 Don't use the default CA list built in
1869 to OpenSSL.
1870 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
1871 Don't verify the peer certificate
1872 matches the server name
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1873
1874 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
1875 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
1876 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
1877 used.
1878
1879 front-end-https
1880 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
1881 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
1882 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
1883 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
1884 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
1885
1886
1887 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
1888
1889 connect-timeout=N
1890 A peer-specific connect timeout.
1891 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
1892
1893 connect-fail-limit=N
1894 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
1895 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
1896
1897 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
1898 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
1899 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
1900 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
1901 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
1902 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
1903 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
1904
1905 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
1906 peer. see also
1907
1908 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
1909 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
1910 but different ports.
1911 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
1912 directives to dentify the peer.
1913 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
1914 peername ACL type.
1915
1916 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
1917
41bd17a4 1918DOC_END
cccac0a2 1919
41bd17a4 1920NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
1921TYPE: hostdomain
1922DEFAULT: none
1923LOC: none
1924DOC_START
1925 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
1926 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 1927
41bd17a4 1928 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
1929 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 1930
41bd17a4 1931 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 1932
41bd17a4 1933 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 1934
41bd17a4 1935 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
1936 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
1937 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
1938 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
1939 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 1940
41bd17a4 1941 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
1942 either on the same or separate lines.
1943 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
1944 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
1945 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
1946 for all requests.
1947 * There are no defaults.
1948 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
1949 section.
1950DOC_END
dd9b1776 1951
41bd17a4 1952NAME: cache_peer_access
1953TYPE: peer_access
1954DEFAULT: none
1955LOC: none
1956DOC_START
1957 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
1958 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 1959
41bd17a4 1960 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 1961
41bd17a4 1962 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
1963 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
1964 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
1965DOC_END
dd9b1776 1966
41bd17a4 1967NAME: neighbor_type_domain
1968TYPE: hostdomaintype
1969DEFAULT: none
1970LOC: none
1971DOC_START
1972 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 1973
41bd17a4 1974 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
1975 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
1976 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
1977 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
1978 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
1979 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 1980
41bd17a4 1981EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 1982 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 1983 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
1984 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
1985DOC_END
6bf4f823 1986
41bd17a4 1987NAME: dead_peer_timeout
1988COMMENT: (seconds)
1989DEFAULT: 10 seconds
1990TYPE: time_t
1991LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
1992DOC_START
1993 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
1994 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
1995 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
1996 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
1997 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
1998 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 1999
41bd17a4 2000 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2001 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2002 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2003 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2004 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2005 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2006 instead of to your parents.
2007DOC_END
cccac0a2 2008
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2009NAME: forward_max_tries
2010DEFAULT: 10
2011TYPE: int
2012LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2013DOC_START
2014 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2015 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
2016DOC_END
2017
41bd17a4 2018NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2019TYPE: wordlist
2020DEFAULT: none
2021LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2022DOC_START
2023 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2024 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2025 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2026 list this option multiple times.
2027 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
cccac0a2 2028NOCOMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2029#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
2030hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 2031NOCOMMENT_END
2032DOC_END
0976f8db 2033
41bd17a4 2034COMMENT_START
2035 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2036 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2037COMMENT_END
2038
2039NAME: cache_mem
2040COMMENT: (bytes)
2041TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2042DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2043LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2044DOC_START
41bd17a4 2045 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2046 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2047 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2048 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2049
2050 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2051 for:
2052 * In-Transit objects
2053 * Hot Objects
2054 * Negative-Cached objects
2055
2056 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2057 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2058 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2059 priority.
2060
2061 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2062 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2063 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2064 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2065 not needed for in-transit objects.
2066
2067 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2068 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2069 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2070 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2071 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2072 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2073 objects.
6b698a21 2074DOC_END
0976f8db 2075
41bd17a4 2076NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2077COMMENT: (bytes)
2078TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2079DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2080LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2081DOC_START
41bd17a4 2082 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2083 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2084 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2085 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2086DOC_END
0976f8db 2087
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2088NAME: memory_cache_mode
2089TYPE: memcachemode
2090LOC: Config
2091DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2092DOC_START
ea21d497 2093 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2094
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2095 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2096
2097 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2098 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2099 a second time before cached in memory.
2100
2101 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2102DOC_END
2103
41bd17a4 2104NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2105TYPE: removalpolicy
2106LOC: Config.memPolicy
2107DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2108DOC_START
41bd17a4 2109 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2110 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2111
41bd17a4 2112 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2113DOC_END
6b698a21 2114
41bd17a4 2115COMMENT_START
2116 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2117 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2118COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2119
41bd17a4 2120NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2121TYPE: removalpolicy
2122LOC: Config.replPolicy
2123DEFAULT: lru
2124DOC_START
2125 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2126 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2127
41bd17a4 2128 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2129 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2130 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2131 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2132
41bd17a4 2133 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2134
41bd17a4 2135 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2136
41bd17a4 2137 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2138 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2139 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2140 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2141
41bd17a4 2142 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2143 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2144 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2145 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2146
41bd17a4 2147 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2148 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2149 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2150
41bd17a4 2151 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2152 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2153 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2154
41bd17a4 2155 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2156 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2157 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2158DOC_END
0976f8db 2159
41bd17a4 2160NAME: cache_dir
2161TYPE: cachedir
2162DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2163LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2164DOC_START
41bd17a4 2165 Usage:
0976f8db 2166
41bd17a4 2167 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2168
41bd17a4 2169 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2170 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2171
41bd17a4 2172 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2173 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2174 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2175
41bd17a4 2176 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2177 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2178 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2179 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2180 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2181
41bd17a4 2182 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2183
41bd17a4 2184 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2185 been there.
0976f8db 2186
41bd17a4 2187 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2188
41bd17a4 2189 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2190 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2191 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2192 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2193 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2194
41bd17a4 2195 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2196 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2197
41bd17a4 2198 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2199 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2200 is 256.
0976f8db 2201
41bd17a4 2202 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2203
41bd17a4 2204 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2205 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2206 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2207
41bd17a4 2208 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2209
41bd17a4 2210 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2211
41bd17a4 2212 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2213
41bd17a4 2214 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2215 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2216 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2217
41bd17a4 2218 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2219
41bd17a4 2220 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2221
41bd17a4 2222 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2223 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2224 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2225
41bd17a4 2226 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2227 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2228 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2229
41bd17a4 2230 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2231 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2232 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2233 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2234 time.
0976f8db 2235
41bd17a4 2236 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2237
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2238 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2239 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2240 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2241
41bd17a4 2242 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2243 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2244 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2245 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2246 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2247 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2248 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2249
41bd17a4 2250 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2251 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2252 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2253
41bd17a4 2254 Common options:
0976f8db 2255
41bd17a4 2256 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2257
41bd17a4 2258 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
2259 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
2260 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2261 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2262 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2263
41bd17a4 2264 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2265 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2266 option.
bebc043b 2267NOCOMMENT_START
df2eec10 2268# cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2269NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2270DOC_END
0976f8db 2271
41bd17a4 2272NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2273TYPE: string
2274LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2275DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2276DOC_START
41bd17a4 2277 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2278DOC_END
0976f8db 2279
41bd17a4 2280NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2281TYPE: int
2282LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2283DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2284DOC_START
41bd17a4 2285 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2286 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2287 descriptors are open.
2288
2289 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2290DOC_END
0976f8db 2291
41bd17a4 2292NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2293COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2294TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2295DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2296LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2297DOC_START
41bd17a4 2298 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2299 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2300 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2301DOC_END
0976f8db 2302
41bd17a4 2303NAME: maximum_object_size
2304COMMENT: (bytes)
2305TYPE: b_int64_t
2306DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2307LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2308DOC_START
41bd17a4 2309 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2310 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2311 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2312 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2313 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2314 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2315
41bd17a4 2316 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2317 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2318 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2319DOC_END
0976f8db 2320
41bd17a4 2321NAME: cache_swap_low
2322COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2323TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2324DEFAULT: 90
2325LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2326DOC_NONE
2327
2328NAME: cache_swap_high
2329COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2330TYPE: int
2331DEFAULT: 95
2332LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2333DOC_START
41bd17a4 2334
2335 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2336 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2337 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2338 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2339 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2340 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2341
2342 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2343 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2344 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2345DOC_END
0976f8db 2346
5473c134 2347COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2348 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2349 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2350COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2351
41bd17a4 2352NAME: logformat
2353TYPE: logformat
2354LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 2355DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2356DOC_START
41bd17a4 2357 Usage:
0976f8db 2358
41bd17a4 2359 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2360
41bd17a4 2361 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2362
41bd17a4 2363 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2364
41bd17a4 2365 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2366 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2367 as required according to their context and the output format
2368 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2369 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2370
41bd17a4 2371 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2372
41bd17a4 2373 " output in quoted string format
2374 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2375 # output in URL quoted format
2376 ' output as-is
5473c134 2377
41bd17a4 2378 - left aligned
2379 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2380 output is zero padded
2381 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2382
41bd17a4 2383 Format codes:
5473c134 2384
3ff65596 2385 % a literal % character
41bd17a4 2386 >a Client source IP address
2387 >A Client FQDN
2388 >p Client source port
2389 <A Server IP address or peer name
2390 la Local IP address (http_port)
2391 lp Local port number (http_port)
2392 ts Seconds since epoch
2393 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2394 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2395 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2396 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2397 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2398 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596
AR
2399 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
2400
2401 HTTP cache related format codes:
2402
2403 [http::]>h Request header. Optional header name argument
2404 on the format header[:[separator]element]
2405 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2406 as for >h
2407 [http::]un User name
2408 [http::]ul User name from authentication
2409 [http::]ui User name from ident
2410 [http::]us User name from SSL
2411 [http::]ue User name from external acl helper
2412 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2413 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
2414 [http::]Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2415 [http::]Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2416 [http::]mt MIME content type
2417 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2418 [http::]ru Request URL
2419 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2420 [http::]rv Request protocol version
2421 [http::]et Tag returned by external acl
2422 [http::]ea Log string returned by external acl
2423 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2424 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2425 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
2426 are not included
2427 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
2428 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
2429 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
2430 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
2431 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
2432 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
2433 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
2434 and stops when the last response byte is received.
2435 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
2436 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
2437 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
2438 with the last I/O with the last peer.
2439
2440 If ICAP is enabled, the following two codes become available (as
2441 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
2442
2443 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
2444 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
2445 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
2446 transaction is in progress.
2447
2448 icap::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response
2449 related to the HTTP transaction. Like
2450 <h, accepts an optional header name
2451 argument. Will not change semantics
2452 when multiple ICAP transactions per HTTP
2453 transaction are supported.
2454
2455 If adaptation is enabled the following two codes become available:
2456
2457 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
2458 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
2459 the order of transaction start time. Each time
2460 value is recorded as an integer number,
2461 representing response time of one or more
2462 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
2463 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
2464 being retried or repeated, its time is not
2465 logged individually but added to the
2466 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
2467 adapt::all_trs.
2468
2469 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
2470 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
2471 individual transactions are never added
2472 together. Instead, all transaction response
2473 times are recorded individually.
2474
2475 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
2476 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
2477 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 2478
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2480
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2482logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
2483logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2484logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2485DOC_END
2486
41bd17a4 2487NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2488TYPE: access_log
2489LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
02424612 2490DEFAULT: none
01ddaf65 2491DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 2492DOC_START
41bd17a4 2493 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2494 ICP request. The format is:
2495 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2496 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
5473c134 2497
41bd17a4 2498 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
2499 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2500 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
2501 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
5473c134 2502
41bd17a4 2503 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
2504 a logformat name should not be specified.
5473c134 2505
41bd17a4 2506 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
5473c134 2507
41bd17a4 2508 access_log syslog[:facility.priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
2509 where facility could be any of:
2510 authpriv, daemon, local0 .. local7 or user.
5473c134 2511
41bd17a4 2512 And priority could be any of:
2513 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
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2515 Default:
2516 access_log @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 2517DOC_END
5473c134 2518
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2520TYPE: access_log
2521IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
2522LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
2523DEFAULT: none
2524DOC_START
2525 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
2526 transaction.
2527
2528 The icap_log option format is:
2529 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2530 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
2531
2532 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
2533 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
2534 features.
2535
2536 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
2537 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
2538 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
2539 log line.
2540
2541 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
2542 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
2543 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
2544 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
2545 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
2546 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
2547 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
2548
2549 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
2550
2551 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
2552
2553 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
2554 option in Squid configuration file.
2555
2556 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
2557
2558 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
2559 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
2560
2561 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
2562 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
2563
2564 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
2565 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
2566 the socket).
2567
2568 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
2569 milliseconds). The timer starts when
2570 the ICAP transaction is created and
2571 stops when the transaction is completed.
2572 Similar to tr.
2573
2574 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
2575 timer starts when the first ICAP request
2576 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
2577 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
2578 is received.
2579
2580 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
2581 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
2582 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
2583 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
2584 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
2585 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
2586
2587 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
2588
2589 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
2590
2591 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
2592
2593 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
2594 definition, is called icap_squid:
2595
2596logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
2597
2598 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %icap::<last_h
2599DOC_END
2600
5b0f5383 2601NAME: log_access
2602TYPE: acl_access
2603LOC: Config.accessList.log
2604DEFAULT: none
2605COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2606DOC_START
2607 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2608 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2609 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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2610
2611 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2612 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 2613DOC_END
2614
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2615NAME: log_icap
2616TYPE: acl_access
2617IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
2618LOC: Config.accessList.icap
2619DEFAULT: none
2620DOC_START
2621 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
2622 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
2623DOC_END
2624
41bd17a4 2625NAME: cache_store_log
2626TYPE: string
df2eec10 2627DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2628LOC: Config.Log.store
2629DOC_START
2630 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2631 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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2632 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
2633 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 2634 disable it.
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2635NOCOMMENT_START
2636# cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
2637NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 2638DOC_END
2639
41bd17a4 2640NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2641TYPE: string
2642LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2643DEFAULT: none
2644DOC_START
41bd17a4 2645 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2646 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2647 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2648 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2649 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2650 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2651 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2652
41bd17a4 2653 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2654 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2655 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2656 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2657
41bd17a4 2658 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2659 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2660
41bd17a4 2661 cache_swap_log.00
2662 cache_swap_log.01
2663 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2664
41bd17a4 2665 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2666 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2667 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2668 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2669 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2670 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2671 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2672DOC_END
2673
41bd17a4 2674NAME: logfile_rotate
2675TYPE: int
2676DEFAULT: 10
2677LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2678DOC_START
41bd17a4 2679 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2680 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2681 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2682 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2683 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2684 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2685
41bd17a4 2686 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2687 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2688 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2689 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2690 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2691 <pid>'.
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2692
2693 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
2694 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 2695DOC_END
5473c134 2696
41bd17a4 2697NAME: emulate_httpd_log
2698COMMENT: on|off
2699TYPE: onoff
2700DEFAULT: off
2701LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
2702DOC_START
2703 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
2704 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
2705 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
2706 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
2707 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 2708DOC_END
2709
41bd17a4 2710NAME: log_ip_on_direct
2711COMMENT: on|off
2712TYPE: onoff
5473c134 2713DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 2714LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 2715DOC_START
41bd17a4 2716 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
2717 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
2718 prefer the old way set this to off.
2719DOC_END
5473c134 2720
41bd17a4 2721NAME: mime_table
2722TYPE: string
2723DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
2724LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
2725DOC_START
2726 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
2727 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
2728 information if you do.
5473c134 2729DOC_END
2730
41bd17a4 2731NAME: log_mime_hdrs
2732COMMENT: on|off
2733TYPE: onoff
2734LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
2735DEFAULT: off
2736DOC_START
2737 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
2738 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
2739 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
2740 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
2741 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
2742DOC_END
5473c134 2743
41bd17a4 2744NAME: useragent_log
2745TYPE: string
2746LOC: Config.Log.useragent
2747DEFAULT: none
2748IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 2749DOC_START
41bd17a4 2750 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
2751 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
2752 is disabled.
5473c134 2753DOC_END
2754
41bd17a4 2755NAME: referer_log referrer_log
2756TYPE: string
2757LOC: Config.Log.referer
2758DEFAULT: none
2759IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 2760DOC_START
41bd17a4 2761 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
2762 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
2763 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
2764 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
2765 and we accept both.
5473c134 2766DOC_END
2767
41bd17a4 2768NAME: pid_filename
2769TYPE: string
2770DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
2771LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 2772DOC_START
41bd17a4 2773 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 2774DOC_END
2775
41bd17a4 2776NAME: log_fqdn
2777COMMENT: on|off
2778TYPE: onoff
2779DEFAULT: off
2780LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 2781DOC_START
41bd17a4 2782 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
2783 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
2784 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
2785 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
2786 browsing.
5473c134 2787DOC_END
2788
41bd17a4 2789NAME: client_netmask
2790TYPE: address
2791LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
2792DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5473c134 2793DOC_START
41bd17a4 2794 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
2795 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
2796 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
2797 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 2798DOC_END
2799
41bd17a4 2800NAME: forward_log
2801IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
2802TYPE: string
2803DEFAULT: none
2804LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 2805DOC_START
41bd17a4 2806 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 2807
41bd17a4 2808 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 2809DOC_END
2810
41bd17a4 2811NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 2812TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 2813LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 2814DEFAULT: on
2815DOC_START
41bd17a4 2816 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
2817 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 2818DOC_END
2819
41bd17a4 2820NAME: buffered_logs
2821COMMENT: on|off
2822TYPE: onoff
2823DEFAULT: off
2824LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 2825DOC_START
41bd17a4 2826 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2827 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2828 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2829 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2830 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 2831DOC_END
0976f8db 2832
2b753521 2833NAME: netdb_filename
2834TYPE: string
2835DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2836LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 2837IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 2838DOC_START
2839 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
2840 To disable, enter "none".
2841DOC_END
2842
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2843COMMENT_START
2844 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
2845 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2846COMMENT_END
2847
2848NAME: cache_log
2849TYPE: string
2850DEFAULT: none
2851DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
2852LOC: Debug::cache_log
2853DOC_START
2854 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
2855 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
2856 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
2857DOC_END
2858
2859NAME: debug_options
2860TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 2861DEFAULT: ALL,1
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2862LOC: Debug::debugOptions
2863DOC_START
2864 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
2865 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
2866 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
2867 log file, so be careful.
2868
2869 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
2870 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
2871
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2873 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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2874 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
2875 events affecting Squid.
2876DOC_END
2877
2878NAME: coredump_dir
2879TYPE: string
2880LOC: Config.coredump_dir
2881DEFAULT: none
2882DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
2883DOC_START
2884 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
2885 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
2886 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
2887 and coredump files will be left there.
2888
2889NOCOMMENT_START
2890# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
2891coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
2892NOCOMMENT_END
2893DOC_END
2894
2895
41bd17a4 2896COMMENT_START
2897 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
2898 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2899COMMENT_END
2900
2901NAME: ftp_user
2902TYPE: string
2903DEFAULT: Squid@
2904LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 2905DOC_START
41bd17a4 2906 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
2907 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
2908 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 2909
41bd17a4 2910 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
2911 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
2912 depending on how the cache is used.
2913 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
2914 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 2915DOC_END
0976f8db 2916
41bd17a4 2917NAME: ftp_list_width
2918TYPE: size_t
2919DEFAULT: 32
2920LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
6b698a21 2921DOC_START
41bd17a4 2922 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
2923 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
2924 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
6b698a21 2925DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2926
41bd17a4 2927NAME: ftp_passive
2928TYPE: onoff
2929DEFAULT: on
2930LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 2931DOC_START
41bd17a4 2932 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
2933 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 2934
2935 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
2936DOC_END
2937
2938NAME: ftp_epsv_all
2939TYPE: onoff
2940DEFAULT: off
2941LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
2942DOC_START
2943 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
2944
2945 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
2946 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
2947 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
2948
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2950 useful.
a689bd4e 2951 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
2952 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
2953
2954 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
2955 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
2956
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2958DOC_END
2959
2960NAME: ftp_epsv
2961TYPE: onoff
2962DEFAULT: on
2963LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
2964DOC_START
2965 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
2966
2967 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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2968 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
2969 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
2970 will never be needed.
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2971
2972 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
2973 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
2974 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
2975
2976 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 2977DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2978
41bd17a4 2979NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
2980TYPE: onoff
2981DEFAULT: on
2982LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
2983DOC_START
2984 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
2985 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
2986 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
2987 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
2988 connection turn this off.
2989DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2990
41bd17a4 2991NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
2992TYPE: onoff
2993DEFAULT: on
2994LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
2995DOC_START
2996 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
2997 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
2998 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
2999 the FTP protocol.
3000
3001 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3002 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3003 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3004 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3005 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3006DOC_END
3007
3008COMMENT_START
3009 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3010 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3011COMMENT_END
3012
3013NAME: diskd_program
3014TYPE: string
3015DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3016LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3017DOC_START
3018 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3019 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3020 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3021DOC_END
3022
3023NAME: unlinkd_program
3024IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3025TYPE: string
3026DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3027LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3028DOC_START
3029 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3030DOC_END
3031
3032NAME: pinger_program
3033TYPE: string
3034DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3035LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3036IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3037DOC_START
3038 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3039DOC_END
3040
cc192b50 3041NAME: pinger_enable
3042TYPE: onoff
3043DEFAULT: on
3044LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3045IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3046DOC_START
3047 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3048 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3049 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3050DOC_END
3051
3052
41bd17a4 3053COMMENT_START
3054 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3055 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3056COMMENT_END
3057
3058NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3059TYPE: wordlist
3060LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3061DEFAULT: none
3062DOC_START
3063 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
3064 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3065
3066 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
3067
c71adec1 3068 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3069
3070 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3071 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3072 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3073 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3074
3075 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3076 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3077
3078 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3079 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
3080 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
3081
3082 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3083DOC_END
3084
3085NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
3086TYPE: int
3087DEFAULT: 5
3088LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3089DOC_START
3090 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
3091 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3092 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
3093 and other system resources.
3094DOC_END
3095
3096NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
3097TYPE: int
3098DEFAULT: 0
3099LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
3100DOC_START
3101 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3102 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3103 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3104
3105 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3106 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3107 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3108 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3109 to that request.
41bd17a4 3110DOC_END
3111
3112NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3113TYPE: onoff
3114DEFAULT: on
3115LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3116DOC_START
3117 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
3118 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
3119 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
3120
3121 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3122 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
3123DOC_END
3124
3125NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3126TYPE: acl_access
3127DEFAULT: none
3128LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3129DOC_START
3130 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3131 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3132 are sent.
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3133
3134 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3135 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3136DOC_END
3137
3138NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3139TYPE: onoff
3140LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3141DEFAULT: off
3142DOC_START
3143 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3144 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3145 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3146 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3147 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3148 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3149 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3150 users may have access to pages they should not
3151 be allowed to request.
3152DOC_END
3153
3154COMMENT_START
3155 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3156 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3157COMMENT_END
3158
f04b37d8 3159NAME: cache no_cache
3160TYPE: acl_access
3161DEFAULT: none
3162LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3163DOC_START
240887f0 3164 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3165 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3166 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3167
240887f0 3168 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3169 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3170
240887f0 3171 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3172
3173 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3174 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3175DOC_END
3176
3177NAME: refresh_pattern
3178TYPE: refreshpattern
3179LOC: Config.Refresh
3180DEFAULT: none
3181DOC_START
3182 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3183
6b698a21 3184 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3185 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3186
41bd17a4 3187 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3188 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3189 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3190 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3191 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3192
41bd17a4 3193 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3194 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3195 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3196
41bd17a4 3197 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3198 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3199
41bd17a4 3200 options: override-expire
3201 override-lastmod
3202 reload-into-ims
3203 ignore-reload
3204 ignore-no-cache
3205 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3206 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3207 ignore-private
3208 ignore-auth
3209 refresh-ims
a0ec9f68 3210
41bd17a4 3211 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3212 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3213 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3214 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3215 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
6468fe10 3216
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3217 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3218 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3219 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3220 the object fresh for that period of time.
3221
41bd17a4 3222 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3223 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3224
41bd17a4 3225 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3226 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3227 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3228 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3229
41bd17a4 3230 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3231 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3232 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3233 it causes.
9bc73deb 3234
41bd17a4 3235 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3236 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3237 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3238 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3239 send it anyway.
3240
3241 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3242 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3243 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3244 liable for problems which it causes.
3245
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3246 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3247 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3248 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3249 liable for problems which it causes.
3250
41bd17a4 3251 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3252 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3253 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3254 liable for problems which it causes.
3255
3256 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3257 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3258 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3259 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3260 it causes.
3261
3262 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3263 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3264 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3265 if one is available.
3266
3267 Basically a cached object is:
3268
3269 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3270 STALE if age > max
3271 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3272 FRESH if age < min
3273 else STALE
3274
3275 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3276 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3277 match the default will be used.
3278
3279 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3280 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3281 used.
3282
3283Suggested default:
3284NOCOMMENT_START
3285refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3286refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 3287refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 3288refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3289NOCOMMENT_END
3290DOC_END
3291
3292NAME: quick_abort_min
3293COMMENT: (KB)
3294TYPE: kb_int64_t
3295DEFAULT: 16 KB
3296LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3297DOC_NONE
3298
3299NAME: quick_abort_max
3300COMMENT: (KB)
3301TYPE: kb_int64_t
3302DEFAULT: 16 KB
3303LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3304DOC_NONE
3305
3306NAME: quick_abort_pct
3307COMMENT: (percent)
3308TYPE: int
3309DEFAULT: 95
3310LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3311DOC_START
3312 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3313 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3314 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3315 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3316 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3317 downloads.
3318
3319 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3320 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3321 then.
3322
3323 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3324 it will finish the retrieval.
3325
3326 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3327 it will abort the retrieval.
3328
3329 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3330 it will finish the retrieval.
3331
3332 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3333 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3334 to '0 KB'.
3335
3336 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3337 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3338DOC_END
60d096f4 3339
41bd17a4 3340NAME: read_ahead_gap
3341COMMENT: buffer-size
3342TYPE: b_int64_t
3343LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3344DEFAULT: 16 KB
3345DOC_START
3346 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3347 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3348DOC_END
53e738c6 3349
41bd17a4 3350NAME: negative_ttl
ac9cc053 3351IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 3352COMMENT: time-units
3353TYPE: time_t
3354LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 3355DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 3356DOC_START
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3357 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3358 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3359 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3360 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3361 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3362 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3363
3364 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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3365
3366 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3367 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3368 causes.
41bd17a4 3369DOC_END
53e738c6 3370
41bd17a4 3371NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3372COMMENT: time-units
3373TYPE: time_t
3374LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3375DEFAULT: 6 hours
3376DOC_START
3377 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3378 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3379 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3380DOC_END
c4ab8329 3381
41bd17a4 3382NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3383COMMENT: time-units
3384TYPE: time_t
3385LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3386DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3387DOC_START
3388 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3389 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3390 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3391 much below 10 seconds.
3392DOC_END
7df0bfd7 3393
41bd17a4 3394NAME: range_offset_limit
3395COMMENT: (bytes)
3396TYPE: b_int64_t
3397LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
3398DEFAULT: 0 KB
3399DOC_START
3400 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
3401 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
3402 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
3403 is NOT cached.
c4ab8329 3404
41bd17a4 3405 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3406 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3407 sending anything to the client.
a7ad6e4e 3408
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3409 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
3410 client requested. (default)
3411
41bd17a4 3412 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
3413 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
a7ad6e4e 3414
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3415 NP: Using -1 here will override any quick_abort settings that may
3416 otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
3417 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
3418 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 3419DOC_END
d95b862f 3420
41bd17a4 3421NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3422COMMENT: (seconds)
3423TYPE: time_t
3424LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3425DEFAULT: 60 seconds
3426DOC_START
3427 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
3428 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 3429 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 3430 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
3431 is most likely better to make your server return a
3432 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
3433 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
3434 often be best set to 0.
3435DOC_END
c68e9c6b 3436
41bd17a4 3437NAME: store_avg_object_size
3438COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 3439TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 3440DEFAULT: 13 KB
3441LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3442DOC_START
3443 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3444 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 3445DOC_END
3446
41bd17a4 3447NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3448TYPE: int
3449DEFAULT: 20
3450LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3451DOC_START
3452 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3453 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3454 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
3455DOC_END
3456
3457COMMENT_START
3458 HTTP OPTIONS
3459 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3460COMMENT_END
3461
f04b37d8 3462NAME: request_header_max_size
3463COMMENT: (KB)
3464TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3465DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3466LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
3467DOC_START
3468 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
3469 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3470 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
3471 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3472 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3473DOC_END
3474
3475NAME: reply_header_max_size
3476COMMENT: (KB)
3477TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3478DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3479LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
3480DOC_START
3481 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
3482 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3483 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
3484 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3485 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3486DOC_END
3487
3488NAME: request_body_max_size
3489COMMENT: (bytes)
3490TYPE: b_int64_t
3491DEFAULT: 0 KB
3492LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
3493DOC_START
3494 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
3495 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
3496 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
3497 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
3498 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
3499 be no limit imposed.
3500DOC_END
3501
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3502NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
3503COMMENT: (bytes)
3504TYPE: b_int64_t
3505DEFAULT: 64 KB
3506LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
3507DOC_START
3508 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
3509 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
3510 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
3511 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
3512 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
3513 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
3514
3515 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
3516 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
3517 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
3518 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
3519 as if dechunking was disabled.
3520
3521 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
3522 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
3523
3524 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
3525 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
3526 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
3527DOC_END
3528
41bd17a4 3529NAME: broken_posts
aa49962c 3530IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 3531TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 3532DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3533LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 3534DOC_START
41bd17a4 3535 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
3536 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 3537
41bd17a4 3538 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
3539 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 3540
41bd17a4 3541 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 3542
41bd17a4 3543 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
3544 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
3545 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
3546 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 3547
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3548 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3549 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3550
41bd17a4 3551Example:
3552 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
3553 broken_posts allow buggy_server
3554DOC_END
cccac0a2 3555
41bd17a4 3556NAME: via
3557IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3558COMMENT: on|off
3559TYPE: onoff
3560DEFAULT: on
3561LOC: Config.onoff.via
3562DOC_START
3563 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3564 replies as required by RFC2616.
3565DOC_END
4cc6eb12 3566
41bd17a4 3567NAME: ie_refresh
3568COMMENT: on|off
3569TYPE: onoff
3570LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
3571DEFAULT: off
3572DOC_START
3573 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
3574 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
3575 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
3576 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
3577 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
3578 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
3579 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
3580 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
3581 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
3582 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
3583 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
3584 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
3585 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
3586 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
3587 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
3588 force fresh content.
3589DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 3590
41bd17a4 3591NAME: vary_ignore_expire
3592COMMENT: on|off
3593TYPE: onoff
3594LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
3595DEFAULT: off
3596DOC_START
3597 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
3598 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
3599 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
3600 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
3601 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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3602
3603 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
3604 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 3605DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3607NAME: request_entities
3608TYPE: onoff
3609LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
3610DEFAULT: off
3611DOC_START
3612 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
3613 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
3614 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 3615
41bd17a4 3616 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
3617 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
3618 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
3619 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
3620 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 3621DOC_END
6b53c392 3622
41bd17a4 3623NAME: request_header_access
3624IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3625TYPE: http_header_access[]
3626LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3627DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 3628DOC_START
41bd17a4 3629 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 3630
41bd17a4 3631 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3632 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3633 causes.
0976f8db 3634
41bd17a4 3635 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3636 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3637 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3638 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3639 mangling.
934b03fc 3640
41bd17a4 3641 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3642 client to the server.
5401aa8d 3643
41bd17a4 3644 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3645 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3646 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 3647
41bd17a4 3648 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3649 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 3650
41bd17a4 3651 request_header_access From deny all
3652 request_header_access Referer deny all
3653 request_header_access Server deny all
3654 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3655 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3656 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 3657
41bd17a4 3658 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3659 you should use:
5401aa8d 3660
41bd17a4 3661 request_header_access Allow allow all
3662 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3663 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3664 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3665 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3666 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3667 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3668 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3669 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3670 request_header_access Date allow all
3671 request_header_access Expires allow all
3672 request_header_access Host allow all
3673 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3674 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3675 request_header_access Location allow all
3676 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3677 request_header_access Accept allow all
3678 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3679 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3680 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3681 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3682 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3683 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3684 request_header_access Title allow all
3685 request_header_access Connection allow all
3686 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3687 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 3688
41bd17a4 3689 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3690 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 3691
41bd17a4 3692 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3693 performed).
5401aa8d 3694DOC_END
3695
41bd17a4 3696NAME: reply_header_access
3697IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3698TYPE: http_header_access[]
3699LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 3700DEFAULT: none
3701DOC_START
41bd17a4 3702 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 3703
41bd17a4 3704 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3705 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3706 causes.
934b03fc 3707
41bd17a4 3708 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3709 server to the client.
934b03fc 3710
41bd17a4 3711 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3712 direction.
6b53c392 3713
41bd17a4 3714 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3715 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3716 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3717 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3718 mangling.
cccac0a2 3719
41bd17a4 3720 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3721 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3722 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 3723
41bd17a4 3724 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3725 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 3726
41bd17a4 3727 reply_header_access From deny all
3728 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3729 reply_header_access Server deny all
3730 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3731 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3732 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3733
41bd17a4 3734 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3735 you should use:
cccac0a2 3736
41bd17a4 3737 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3738 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3739 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3740 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3741 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3742 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3743 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3744 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3745 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3746 reply_header_access Date allow all
3747 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3748 reply_header_access Host allow all
3749 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3750 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3751 reply_header_access Location allow all
3752 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3753 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3754 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3755 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3756 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3757 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3758 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3759 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3760 reply_header_access Title allow all
3761 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3762 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3763 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 3764
41bd17a4 3765 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3766 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3767
41bd17a4 3768 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3769 performed).
cccac0a2 3770DOC_END
3771
41bd17a4 3772NAME: header_replace
3773IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3774TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3775LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3776DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3777DOC_START
3778 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3779 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 3780
41bd17a4 3781 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3782 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3783 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3784 option.
cccac0a2 3785
41bd17a4 3786 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 3787
41bd17a4 3788 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3789DOC_END
cccac0a2 3790
41bd17a4 3791NAME: relaxed_header_parser
3792COMMENT: on|off|warn
3793TYPE: tristate
3794LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
3795DEFAULT: on
3796DOC_START
3797 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
3798 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
3799 what the sending application intended even if the message
3800 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
3801 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 3802
41bd17a4 3803 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
3804 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 3805
41bd17a4 3806 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
3807 or response to be rejected.
3808DOC_END
7d90757b 3809
41bd17a4 3810COMMENT_START
3811 TIMEOUTS
3812 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3813COMMENT_END
3814
3815NAME: forward_timeout
3816COMMENT: time-units
3817TYPE: time_t
3818LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
3819DEFAULT: 4 minutes
3820DOC_START
3821 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
3822 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 3823DOC_END
3824
41bd17a4 3825NAME: connect_timeout
3826COMMENT: time-units
3827TYPE: time_t
3828LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
3829DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 3830DOC_START
41bd17a4 3831 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
3832 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
3833 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 3834DOC_END
3835
41bd17a4 3836NAME: peer_connect_timeout
3837COMMENT: time-units
3838TYPE: time_t
3839LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
3840DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3841DOC_START
41bd17a4 3842 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
3843 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
3844 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
3845 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
3846DOC_END
7f7db318 3847
41bd17a4 3848NAME: read_timeout
3849COMMENT: time-units
3850TYPE: time_t
3851LOC: Config.Timeout.read
3852DEFAULT: 15 minutes
3853DOC_START
3854 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
3855 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
3856 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
3857 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
3858 default is 15 minutes.
3859DOC_END
cccac0a2 3860
41bd17a4 3861NAME: request_timeout
3862TYPE: time_t
3863LOC: Config.Timeout.request
3864DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3865DOC_START
3866 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
3867 connection establishment.
3868DOC_END
cccac0a2 3869
41bd17a4 3870NAME: persistent_request_timeout
3871TYPE: time_t
3872LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
3873DEFAULT: 2 minutes
3874DOC_START
3875 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
3876 connection after the previous request completes.
3877DOC_END
cccac0a2 3878
41bd17a4 3879NAME: client_lifetime
3880COMMENT: time-units
3881TYPE: time_t
3882LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
3883DEFAULT: 1 day
3884DOC_START
3885 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
3886 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
3887 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
3888 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
3889 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
3890 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
3891 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 3892
41bd17a4 3893 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
3894 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
3895 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
3896 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
3897 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
3898 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 3899DOC_END
3900
41bd17a4 3901NAME: half_closed_clients
3902TYPE: onoff
3903LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 3904DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 3905DOC_START
41bd17a4 3906 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
3907 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
3908 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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3909 fully-closed TCP connection.
3910
3911 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
3912 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
3913
abdf1651 3914 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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3915 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
3916 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
3917 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 3918DOC_END
3919
41bd17a4 3920NAME: pconn_timeout
3921TYPE: time_t
3922LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
3923DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 3924DOC_START
41bd17a4 3925 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
3926 proxies.
3927DOC_END
cccac0a2 3928
41bd17a4 3929NAME: ident_timeout
3930TYPE: time_t
3931IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 3932LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 3933DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3934DOC_START
3935 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 3936
41bd17a4 3937 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
3938 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
3939 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 3940DOC_END
3941
41bd17a4 3942NAME: shutdown_lifetime
3943COMMENT: time-units
3944TYPE: time_t
3945LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
3946DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3947DOC_START
41bd17a4 3948 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
3949 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
3950 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
3951 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
3952 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 3953DOC_END
0976f8db 3954
cccac0a2 3955COMMENT_START
3956 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3957 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3958COMMENT_END
3959
3960NAME: cache_mgr
3961TYPE: string
3962DEFAULT: webmaster
3963LOC: Config.adminEmail
3964DOC_START
3965 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3966 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3967DOC_END
3968
abacf776 3969NAME: mail_from
3970TYPE: string
3971DEFAULT: none
3972LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3973DOC_START
3974 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3975 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3976 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3977 src/globals.h before building squid.
3978DOC_END
3979
d084bf20 3980NAME: mail_program
3981TYPE: eol
3982DEFAULT: mail
3983LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3984DOC_START
3985 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 3986 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 3987 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 3988 mail-program recipient < mailfile
3989
d084bf20 3990 Optional command line options can be specified.
3991DOC_END
3992
cccac0a2 3993NAME: cache_effective_user
3994TYPE: string
5483d916 3995DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 3996LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3997DOC_START
3998 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3999 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4000 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4001 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4002DOC_END
4003
cccac0a2 4004NAME: cache_effective_group
4005TYPE: string
4006DEFAULT: none
4007LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4008DOC_START
64e288bd 4009 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4010 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4011 from the groups membership.
4012
e3d74828 4013 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4014 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4015 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4016 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4017 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4018 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4019 group.
64e288bd 4020
4021 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4022 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4023 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4024DOC_END
4025
d3caee79 4026NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4027COMMENT: on|off
4028TYPE: onoff
4029DEFAULT: off
4030LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4031DOC_START
4032 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4033DOC_END
4034
cccac0a2 4035NAME: visible_hostname
4036TYPE: string
4037LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4038DEFAULT: none
4039DOC_START
4040 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4041 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4042 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4043 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4044 names with this setting.
4045DOC_END
4046
cccac0a2 4047NAME: unique_hostname
4048TYPE: string
4049LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4050DEFAULT: none
4051DOC_START
4052 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4053 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4054 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4055DOC_END
4056
cccac0a2 4057NAME: hostname_aliases
4058TYPE: wordlist
4059LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4060DEFAULT: none
4061DOC_START
7f7db318 4062 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4063DOC_END
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4065NAME: umask
4066TYPE: int
4067LOC: Config.umask
4068DEFAULT: 027
4069DOC_START
4070 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4071 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4072
4073 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4074 your value with 0.
4075DOC_END
4076
cccac0a2 4077COMMENT_START
4078 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4079 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4080
4081 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4082 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4083 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4084 create cache hierarchies.
4085
4086 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4087 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4088 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4089
4090 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4091 following information from this configuration file:
4092
4093 http_port
4094 icp_port
4095 cache_mgr
4096
4097 All current information is processed regularly and made
4098 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4099COMMENT_END
4100
4101NAME: announce_period
4102TYPE: time_t
4103LOC: Config.Announce.period
4104DEFAULT: 0
4105DOC_START
4106 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4107 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4108 messages.
4109
4110 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
4111 below.
4112
4113NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 4114#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
4115#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4116NOCOMMENT_END
4117DOC_END
4118
cccac0a2 4119NAME: announce_host
4120TYPE: string
4121DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4122LOC: Config.Announce.host
4123DOC_NONE
4124
4125NAME: announce_file
4126TYPE: string
4127DEFAULT: none
4128LOC: Config.Announce.file
4129DOC_NONE
4130
4131NAME: announce_port
4132TYPE: ushort
4133DEFAULT: 3131
4134LOC: Config.Announce.port
4135DOC_START
4136 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4137 number where the registration message will be sent.
4138
4139 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4140 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4141 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4142 message.
4143DOC_END
4144
8d6275c0 4145COMMENT_START
4146 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4147 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4148COMMENT_END
4149
cccac0a2 4150NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
f41735ea 4151IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 4152TYPE: string
4153LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
4154DEFAULT: unset-id
4155DOC_START
4156 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4157 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4158 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4159 an identification token.
4160DOC_END
4161
4162NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
f41735ea 4163IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 4164COMMENT: on|off
4165TYPE: onoff
4166DEFAULT: off
4167LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4168DOC_START
4169 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4170 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4171DOC_END
4172
4173NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4174IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4175COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4176TYPE: string
4177LOC: ESIParser::Type
4178DEFAULT: custom
4179DOC_START
4180 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4181 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4182 encodings.
4183DOC_END
0976f8db 4184
9edd9041 4185COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4186 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4187 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4188COMMENT_END
4189
4190NAME: delay_pools
4191TYPE: delay_pool_count
4192DEFAULT: 0
4193IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4194LOC: Config.Delay
4195DOC_START
4196 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4197 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4198 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4199DOC_END
4200
4201NAME: delay_class
4202TYPE: delay_pool_class
4203DEFAULT: none
4204IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4205LOC: Config.Delay
4206DOC_START
4207 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4208 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4209 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4210 and here would be:
4211
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4212 Example:
4213 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4214 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4215 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4216 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4217 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 4218
4219 The delay pool classes are:
4220
4221 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4222 bucket.
4223
4224 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4225 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 4226 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4227
4228 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4229 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4230 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4231 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 4232 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4233
4234 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4235 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4236 only takes effect if the username is established
4237 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4238 http_access rules.
4239
4240 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4241 external_acl's tag= reply).
4242
4243 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4244 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4245 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4246 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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4247
4248 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4249 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 4250DOC_END
4251
4252NAME: delay_access
4253TYPE: delay_pool_access
4254DEFAULT: none
4255IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4256LOC: Config.Delay
4257DOC_START
4258 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4259
4260 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4261 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4262 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4263 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4264
4265 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
4266 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4267
4268Example:
4269 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4270 delay_access 1 deny all
4271 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4272 delay_access 2 deny all
4273 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4274DOC_END
4275
4276NAME: delay_parameters
4277TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4278DEFAULT: none
4279IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4280LOC: Config.Delay
4281DOC_START
4282 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4283 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4284 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4285
4286delay_parameters pool aggregate
4287
4288 For a class 2 delay pool:
4289
4290delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4291
4292 For a class 3 delay pool:
4293
4294delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4295
4296 For a class 4 delay pool:
4297
4298delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4299
4300 For a class 5 delay pool:
4301
4302delay_parameters pool tag
4303
4304 The variables here are:
4305
4306 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4307 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4308 delay_class lines.
4309
4310 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
4311 (class 1, 2, 3).
4312
4313 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
4314 buckets (class 2, 3).
4315
4316 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
4317 (class 3).
4318
4319 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
4320 (class 4).
4321
4322 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
4323 (class 5).
4324
4325 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4326 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4327 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4328 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4329
4330 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4331 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4332 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4333
4334delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4335
4336 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4337
4338 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4339 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4340 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4341 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4342 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4343 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4344 large downloads more significantly:
4345
4346delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4347
4348 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4349
4350 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4351 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
4352
4353delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4354DOC_END
4355
4356NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4357COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4358TYPE: ushort
4359DEFAULT: 50
4360IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4361LOC: Config.Delay.initial
4362DOC_START
4363 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
4364 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
4365 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
4366 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
4367 "seen" by squid).
4368DOC_END
4369
cccac0a2 4370COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4371 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 4372 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4373COMMENT_END
4374
8d6275c0 4375NAME: wccp_router
4376TYPE: address
4377LOC: Config.Wccp.router
4378DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4379IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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4380DOC_START
4381 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4382 Squid.
4383
4384 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4385
4386 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4387
4388 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4389 which version of WCCP to use.
4390DOC_END
df2eec10 4391
8d6275c0 4392NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 4393TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 4394LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 4395DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4396IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4397DOC_START
8d6275c0 4398 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4399 Squid.
cccac0a2 4400
8d6275c0 4401 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 4402
8d6275c0 4403 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 4404
8d6275c0 4405 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4406 which version of WCCP to use.
4407DOC_END
4408
4409NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 4410TYPE: int
8d6275c0 4411LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4412DEFAULT: 4
4413IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 4414DOC_START
8d6275c0 4415 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4416 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4417 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4418 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4419 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 4420
8d6275c0 4421 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4422 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4423 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4424 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 4425DOC_END
4426
8d6275c0 4427NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4428TYPE: onoff
4429LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4430DEFAULT: on
4431IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4432DOC_START
4433 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4434 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4435DOC_END
cccac0a2 4436
8d6275c0 4437NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 4438TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4439LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 4440DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4441IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4442DOC_START
699acd19 4443 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 4444 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4445
451c4786
AJ
4446 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4447 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4448
8d6275c0 4449 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4450 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 4451DOC_END
4452
8d6275c0 4453NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 4454TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4455LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 4456DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4457IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4458DOC_START
699acd19 4459 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 4460 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4461 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4462
451c4786
AJ
4463 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4464 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4465
8d6275c0 4466 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4467 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 4468
699acd19 4469 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 4470 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4471 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4472 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 4473DOC_END
4474
8d6275c0 4475NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 4476TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 4477LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 4478DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 4479IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4480DOC_START
8d6275c0 4481 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4482 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4483
451c4786
AJ
4484 hash - Hash assignment
4485 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 4486
8d6275c0 4487 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4488 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4489DOC_END
cccac0a2 4490
8d6275c0 4491NAME: wccp2_service
4492TYPE: wccp2_service
4493LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4494DEFAULT: none
4495DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4496IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4497DOC_START
4498 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4499 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4500 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4501 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4502 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4503 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4504
4505 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4506 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4507
4508 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4509 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4510
4511 Examples:
4512
4513 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4514 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4515 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4516 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 4517DOC_END
4518
4519NAME: wccp2_service_info
4520TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4521LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4522DEFAULT: none
4523IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4524DOC_START
4525 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4526 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4527
4528 The format is:
4529
4530 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4531 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4532
4533 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4534 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 4535 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 4536 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4537 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4538 + ports_source
4539
4540 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4541
4542 Example:
4543
4544 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4545 priority=240 ports=80
4546
4547 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4548 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4549DOC_END
4550
4551NAME: wccp2_weight
4552TYPE: int
4553LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4554DEFAULT: 10000
4555IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4556DOC_START
4557 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4558 hash proportional to their weight.
4559DOC_END
4560
4561NAME: wccp_address
4562TYPE: address
4563LOC: Config.Wccp.address
4564DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4565IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4566DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4567
8d6275c0 4568NAME: wccp2_address
4569TYPE: address
4570LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4571DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4572IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4573DOC_START
4574 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4575 interface address.
4576
4577 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4578DOC_END
4579
4580COMMENT_START
4581 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
4582 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4583
4584 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
4585COMMENT_END
4586
4587NAME: client_persistent_connections
4588TYPE: onoff
4589LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4590DEFAULT: on
4591DOC_NONE
4592
4593NAME: server_persistent_connections
4594TYPE: onoff
4595LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4596DEFAULT: on
4597DOC_START
4598 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4599 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4600 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4601 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4602DOC_END
4603
4604NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
4605TYPE: onoff
4606LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4607DEFAULT: off
4608DOC_START
4609 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4610 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4611 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
4612DOC_END
4613
4614NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4615TYPE: onoff
4616LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4617DEFAULT: off
4618DOC_START
4619 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4620 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4621 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4622 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4623
4624 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4625 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4626 after 10 seconds timeout.
4627DOC_END
4628
4629COMMENT_START
4630 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
4631 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4632COMMENT_END
4633
4634NAME: digest_generation
4635IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4636TYPE: onoff
4637LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4638DEFAULT: on
4639DOC_START
4640 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4641 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 4642 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 4643DOC_END
4644
4645NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4646IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4647TYPE: int
4648LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4649DEFAULT: 5
4650DOC_START
4651 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4652 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4653 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4654DOC_END
4655
4656NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4657IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4658COMMENT: (seconds)
4659TYPE: time_t
4660LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4661DEFAULT: 1 hour
4662DOC_START
749ceff8 4663 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 4664DOC_END
4665
4666NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4667COMMENT: (seconds)
4668IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4669TYPE: time_t
4670LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4671DEFAULT: 1 hour
4672DOC_START
749ceff8 4673 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 4674 disk.
4675DOC_END
4676
4677NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4678COMMENT: (bytes)
4679TYPE: b_size_t
4680IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4681LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4682DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4683DOC_START
4684 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4685 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4686 default swap page.
4687DOC_END
4688
4689NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4690COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4691IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4692TYPE: int
4693LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4694DEFAULT: 10
4695DOC_START
4696 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4697 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4698DOC_END
4699
1db9eacd 4700COMMENT_START
5473c134 4701 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 4702 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4703COMMENT_END
4704
5473c134 4705NAME: snmp_port
4706TYPE: ushort
4707LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 4708DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4709IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4710DOC_START
87630341 4711 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
4712 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
4713 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
4714 set to "0" (disabled)
4715NOCOMMENT_START
4716#snmp_port 3401
4717NOCOMMENT_END
8d6275c0 4718DOC_END
4719
5473c134 4720NAME: snmp_access
4721TYPE: acl_access
4722LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 4723DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4724DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4725IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4726DOC_START
5473c134 4727 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 4728
5473c134 4729 All access to the agent is denied by default.
4730 usage:
8d6275c0 4731
5473c134 4732 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 4733
b3567eb5
FC
4734 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4735 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 4736Example:
4737 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
4738 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 4739DOC_END
4740
5473c134 4741NAME: snmp_incoming_address
4742TYPE: address
4743LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4744DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4745IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4746DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4747
5473c134 4748NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4749TYPE: address
4750LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4751DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4752IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 4753DOC_START
df2eec10 4754 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 4755
5473c134 4756 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4757 messages from SNMP agents.
4758 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4759 agents.
cccac0a2 4760
5473c134 4761 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4762 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 4763
5473c134 4764 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
4765 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
4766 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4767 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 4768
5473c134 4769 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4770 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 4771DOC_END
4772
5473c134 4773COMMENT_START
4774 ICP OPTIONS
4775 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4776COMMENT_END
4777
4778NAME: icp_port udp_port
4779TYPE: ushort
4780DEFAULT: 0
4781LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 4782DOC_START
5473c134 4783 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
4784 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
4785 Default is disabled (0).
4786NOCOMMENT_START
df2eec10 4787#icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
5473c134 4788NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4789DOC_END
4790
5473c134 4791NAME: htcp_port
4792IFDEF: USE_HTCP
4793TYPE: ushort
87630341 4794DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4795LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 4796DOC_START
5473c134 4797 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 4798 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
4799 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
4800NOCOMMENT_START
4801#htcp_port 4827
4802NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4803DOC_END
4804
4805NAME: log_icp_queries
4806COMMENT: on|off
4807TYPE: onoff
4808DEFAULT: on
4809LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
4810DOC_START
4811 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
4812 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
4813 up or to simplify log analysis.
4814DOC_END
4815
5473c134 4816NAME: udp_incoming_address
4817TYPE: address
4818LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
4819DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
8524d4b2 4820DOC_START
4821 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
4822 caches.
4823
4824 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4825
4826 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
4827 a specific interface/address.
4828
4829 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4830 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4831
4832 see also; udp_outgoing_address
4833
4834 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
4835 have the same value since they both use the same port.
4836DOC_END
cccac0a2 4837
5473c134 4838NAME: udp_outgoing_address
4839TYPE: address
4840LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
4841DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
cccac0a2 4842DOC_START
8524d4b2 4843 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 4844 caches.
cccac0a2 4845
5473c134 4846 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4847
8524d4b2 4848 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
4849 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
4850 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 4851 caches.
4852
8524d4b2 4853 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4854 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4855
4856 see also; udp_incoming_address
4857
5473c134 4858 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 4859 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 4860DOC_END
4861
3d1e3e43 4862NAME: icp_hit_stale
4863COMMENT: on|off
4864TYPE: onoff
4865DEFAULT: off
4866LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
4867DOC_START
4868 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
4869 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
4870 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
4871 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
4872 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
4873 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
4874 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
4875DOC_END
4876
5473c134 4877NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 4878TYPE: int
5473c134 4879DEFAULT: 4
4880LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 4881DOC_START
5473c134 4882 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4883 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 4884DOC_END
4885
5473c134 4886NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
4887TYPE: int
4888DEFAULT: 400
4889LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 4890DOC_START
5473c134 4891 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4892 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 4893DOC_END
4894
cccac0a2 4895NAME: netdb_low
4896TYPE: int
4897DEFAULT: 900
4898LOC: Config.Netdb.low
4899DOC_NONE
4900
4901NAME: netdb_high
4902TYPE: int
4903DEFAULT: 1000
4904LOC: Config.Netdb.high
4905DOC_START
4906 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
4907 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
4908 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
4909 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
4910DOC_END
4911
cccac0a2 4912NAME: netdb_ping_period
4913TYPE: time_t
4914LOC: Config.Netdb.period
4915DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4916DOC_START
4917 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
4918 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
4919 network. The default is five minutes.
4920DOC_END
4921
cccac0a2 4922NAME: query_icmp
4923COMMENT: on|off
4924TYPE: onoff
4925DEFAULT: off
4926LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
4927DOC_START
4928 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
4929 replies, enable this option.
4930
4931 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 4932 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
4933 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 4934 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
4935 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
4936 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
4937 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
4938 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
4939DOC_END
4940
4941NAME: test_reachability
4942COMMENT: on|off
4943TYPE: onoff
4944DEFAULT: off
4945LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
4946DOC_START
4947 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
4948 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
4949 database, or has a zero RTT.
4950DOC_END
4951
5473c134 4952NAME: icp_query_timeout
4953COMMENT: (msec)
4954DEFAULT: 0
4955TYPE: int
4956LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 4957DOC_START
5473c134 4958 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
4959 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
4960 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
4961 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
4962 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
4963 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 4964
5473c134 4965 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 4966DOC_END
4967
5473c134 4968NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
4969COMMENT: (msec)
4970DEFAULT: 2000
4971TYPE: int
4972LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 4973DOC_START
5473c134 4974 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4975 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
4976 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
4977 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4978 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4979 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4980DOC_END
4981
5473c134 4982NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
4983COMMENT: (msec)
4984DEFAULT: 5
4985TYPE: int
4986LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 4987DOC_START
5473c134 4988 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4989 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
4990 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
4991 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
4992 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4993 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4994 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4995DOC_END
4996
5473c134 4997NAME: background_ping_rate
4998COMMENT: time-units
4999TYPE: time_t
5000DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5001LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5002DOC_START
5473c134 5003 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5004 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5005DOC_END
5006
5473c134 5007COMMENT_START
5008 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5009 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5010COMMENT_END
5011
5012NAME: mcast_groups
5013TYPE: wordlist
5014LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5015DEFAULT: none
5016DOC_START
5473c134 5017 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5018 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5019
5473c134 5020 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5021 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5022 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5023 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5024 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5025 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5026 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5027
5473c134 5028 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5029 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5030
5473c134 5031 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5032 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5033
5473c134 5034 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5035
5473c134 5036 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5037DOC_END
8c01ada0 5038
5473c134 5039NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5040IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5041TYPE: address
5042LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
5043DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5044DOC_START
5045 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5046 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5047
5473c134 5048 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5049 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5050DOC_END
5051
5473c134 5052NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5053IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5054TYPE: ushort
5055LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5056DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5057DOC_START
5473c134 5058 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5059 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5060 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5061DOC_END
cccac0a2 5062
5473c134 5063NAME: mcast_miss_port
5064IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5065TYPE: ushort
5066LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5067DEFAULT: 3135
5068DOC_START
5069 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5070 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5071DOC_END
cccac0a2 5072
5473c134 5073NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5074IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5075TYPE: string
5076LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5077DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5078DOC_START
5079 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5080 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5081DOC_END
8c01ada0 5082
5473c134 5083NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5084COMMENT: (msec)
5085DEFAULT: 2000
5086TYPE: int
5087LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5088DOC_START
5089 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5090 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5091 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5092 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5093 seconds.
cccac0a2 5094DOC_END
5095
5473c134 5096COMMENT_START
5097 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5098 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5099COMMENT_END
5100
cccac0a2 5101NAME: icon_directory
5102TYPE: string
5103LOC: Config.icons.directory
5104DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5105DOC_START
5106 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5107 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5108DOC_END
5109
f024c970 5110NAME: global_internal_static
5111TYPE: onoff
5112LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5113DEFAULT: on
5114DOC_START
5115 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5116 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5117 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5118 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5119 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5120 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5121 the server generating a directory listing.
5122DOC_END
5123
5473c134 5124NAME: short_icon_urls
5125TYPE: onoff
5126LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5127DEFAULT: on
5128DOC_START
5129 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5130 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5131 it's own name and port in the URL.
5132
5133 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5134 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5135DOC_END
5136
5137COMMENT_START
5138 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5139 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5140COMMENT_END
5141
5142NAME: error_directory
5143TYPE: string
5144LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 5145DEFAULT: none
5473c134 5146DOC_START
5147 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
43000484
AJ
5148 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5149 the error/template files to another directory and point
5150 this tag at them.
5151
5152 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5153 on error pages if used.
5473c134 5154
5155 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5156 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 5157 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 5158 contributing your translation back to the project.
43000484
AJ
5159 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5160
5161 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
5162 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
5163DOC_END
5164
5165NAME: error_default_language
5166IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5167TYPE: string
5168LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
5169DEFAULT: none
5170DOC_START
5171 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
5172 if no existing translation matches the clients language
5173 preferences.
5174
5175 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
5176
5177 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5178 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
5179 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
5180 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 5181DOC_END
5182
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AJ
5183NAME: error_log_languages
5184IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5185TYPE: onoff
5186LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
5187DEFAULT: on
5188DOC_START
5189 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
5190 auto-negotiate for translations.
5191
5192 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
5193 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 5194 of its error page translations.
c411820c
AJ
5195DOC_END
5196
5b52cb6c
AJ
5197NAME: err_page_stylesheet
5198TYPE: string
5199LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
5200DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
5201DOC_START
5202 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
5203
5204 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
5205DOC_END
5206
5473c134 5207NAME: err_html_text
5208TYPE: eol
5209LOC: Config.errHtmlText
5210DEFAULT: none
5211DOC_START
5212 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
5213 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
5214 organizations Web page.
5215
5216 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
5217 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
5218 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
5219 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
5220DOC_END
5221
5222NAME: email_err_data
5223COMMENT: on|off
5224TYPE: onoff
5225LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
5226DEFAULT: on
5227DOC_START
5228 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
5229 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
5230 so that the email body contains the data.
5231 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
5232DOC_END
5233
5234NAME: deny_info
5235TYPE: denyinfo
5236LOC: Config.denyInfoList
5237DEFAULT: none
5238DOC_START
5239 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
5240 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 5241 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 5242
5243 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
5244 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
5245 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
5246 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
5247
5248 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
5249 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
5250 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
5251 the first authentication related acl encountered
5252 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
5253 acl processed on the last http_access line.
5254
43000484
AJ
5255 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
5256 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
5257 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 5258
5259 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
5260 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
5261 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
5262
5263 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
5264 by specifying TCP_RESET.
5265DOC_END
5266
5267COMMENT_START
5268 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
5269 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5270COMMENT_END
5271
5272NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 5273TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5274LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 5275DEFAULT: on
5276DOC_START
5473c134 5277 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
5278 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
5279 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 5280
5473c134 5281 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
5282 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 5283
5473c134 5284 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
5285 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
5286 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 5287
5473c134 5288 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
5289 this directive.
8d6275c0 5290DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 5291
5473c134 5292NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 5293TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5294LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 5295DEFAULT: off
5296DOC_START
5473c134 5297 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
5298 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
5299 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 5300
5473c134 5301 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
5302 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
5303 fails.
5304
5305 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
5306 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
5307 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 5308DOC_END
5309
5473c134 5310NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 5311TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 5312LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 5313DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 5314DOC_START
5473c134 5315 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 5316
5473c134 5317 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
5318 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
5319 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
5320 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
5321 something like:
0b0cfcf2 5322
5473c134 5323 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
5324 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 5325
5473c134 5326 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 5327
5473c134 5328 acl FTP proto FTP
5329 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 5330
5473c134 5331 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
5332 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
5333 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
5334 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
5335 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 5336
5473c134 5337 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5338 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5339 always_direct deny local-external
5340 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 5341
5473c134 5342 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
5343 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
5344 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
5345 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 5346
5473c134 5347 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
5348 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 5349 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 5350
b3567eb5
FC
5351 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5352 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 5353DOC_END
0976f8db 5354
5473c134 5355NAME: never_direct
5356TYPE: acl_access
5357LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
5358DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5359DOC_START
5473c134 5360 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5361
5362 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
5363 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
5364
5365 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
5366 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
5367 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
5368 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
5369
5370 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 5371 never_direct deny local-servers
5372 never_direct allow all
5373
5374 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
5375 servers inside the firewall use something like:
5376
5377 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
5378 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5379 always_direct deny local-external
5380 always_direct allow local-intranet
5381 never_direct allow all
5382
b3567eb5
FC
5383 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5384 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 5385DOC_END
0976f8db 5386
5473c134 5387COMMENT_START
5388 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
5389 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5390COMMENT_END
5391
cccac0a2 5392NAME: incoming_icp_average
5393TYPE: int
5394DEFAULT: 6
5395LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
5396DOC_NONE
5397
5398NAME: incoming_http_average
5399TYPE: int
5400DEFAULT: 4
5401LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
5402DOC_NONE
5403
5404NAME: incoming_dns_average
5405TYPE: int
5406DEFAULT: 4
5407LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
5408DOC_NONE
5409
5410NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
5411TYPE: int
5412DEFAULT: 8
5413LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
5414DOC_NONE
5415
5416NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
5417TYPE: int
5418DEFAULT: 8
5419LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
5420DOC_NONE
5421
5422NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
5423TYPE: int
5424DEFAULT: 8
5425LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
5426DOC_START
5473c134 5427 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
5428 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
5429 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
5430DOC_END
5431
5432NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 5433TYPE: string
5434DEFAULT: none
5435LOC: Config.accept_filter
5436DOC_START
0b4d4be5 5437 FreeBSD:
5438
5473c134 5439 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
5440 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
5441 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
5442
5443 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 5444 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 5445 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
5446
5447 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
5448 to Squid until there is some data to process.
5449 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
5450
5451 Linux:
5452
5453 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
5454 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
5455 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
5456 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
5457 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 5458EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 5459# FreeBSD
5473c134 5460accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 5461# Linux
5462accept_filter data
5473c134 5463DOC_END
5464
5465NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
5466COMMENT: (bytes)
5467TYPE: b_size_t
5468DEFAULT: 0 bytes
5469LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
5470DOC_START
5471 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
5472 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
5473 the default buffer size.
5474DOC_END
5475
5476COMMENT_START
5477 ICAP OPTIONS
5478 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5479COMMENT_END
5480
5481NAME: icap_enable
5482TYPE: onoff
5483IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5484COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5485LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 5486DEFAULT: off
5487DOC_START
53e738c6 5488 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 5489DOC_END
5490
5491NAME: icap_connect_timeout
5492TYPE: time_t
5493DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 5494LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 5495IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5496DOC_START
5497 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5498 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
5499 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
5500
5501 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
5502 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
5503 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
5504DOC_END
5505
5506NAME: icap_io_timeout
5507COMMENT: time-units
5508TYPE: time_t
5509DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 5510LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 5511IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5512DOC_START
5513 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
5514 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
5515 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
5516 failure.
5517
5518 The default is read_timeout.
5519DOC_END
5520
5521NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
5522TYPE: int
5523IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5524LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_failure_limit
5473c134 5525DEFAULT: 10
5526DOC_START
5527 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
5528 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
5529 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
5530 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
5531 OPTIONS. The per-service failure counter is reset to zero each
5532 time Squid fetches new service OPTIONS.
5533
5534 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
5535 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
5536 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5537DOC_END
5538
5473c134 5539NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 5540TYPE: int
5473c134 5541IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5542LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 5543DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 5544DOC_START
5473c134 5545 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
5546 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
5547 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
5548 fetched.
cccac0a2 5549
5473c134 5550 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
5551 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 5552DOC_END
5553
5473c134 5554NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 5555TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5556IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5557COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5558LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 5559DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5560DOC_START
ac7a62f9 5561 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
5562 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
5563 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
5564 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
5565
5566 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
5567 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
5568 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
5569
5570 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
5571 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
5572Example:
5573icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 5574DOC_END
5575
5473c134 5576NAME: icap_preview_size
5577TYPE: int
5578IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5579LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 5580DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 5581DOC_START
53e738c6 5582 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
5583 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
5584 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5585DOC_END
5586
5473c134 5587NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
5588TYPE: int
5589IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5590LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 5591DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 5592DOC_START
53e738c6 5593 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 5594 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 5595DOC_END
5596
5473c134 5597NAME: icap_persistent_connections
5598TYPE: onoff
5599IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5600COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5601LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 5602DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5603DOC_START
5473c134 5604 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
5605 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 5606DOC_END
5607
5473c134 5608NAME: icap_send_client_ip
5609TYPE: onoff
5610IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5611COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5612LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_ip
5473c134 5613DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5614DOC_START
53e738c6 5615 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 5616DOC_END
5617
5473c134 5618NAME: icap_send_client_username
5619TYPE: onoff
5620IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5621COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5622LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_username
5473c134 5623DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5624DOC_START
5473c134 5625 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
5626 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
5627 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
5628 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 5629DOC_END
5630
5473c134 5631NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 5632TYPE: string
5473c134 5633IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5634LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 5635DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 5636DOC_START
5473c134 5637 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 5638DOC_END
5639
5473c134 5640NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 5641TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5642IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5643COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5644LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 5645DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5646DOC_START
5473c134 5647 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 5648DOC_END
5649
5473c134 5650NAME: icap_service
5651TYPE: icap_service_type
5652IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5653LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 5654DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5655DOC_START
a22e6cd3 5656 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 5657
a22e6cd3 5658 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
7d90757b 5659
a22e6cd3
AR
5660 service_name: ID
5661 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
5662
5663 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 5664 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
5665 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
5666 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3
AR
5667
5668 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
5669 ICAP server and service location.
5670
5671 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
5672 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
5673 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
5674 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
5675 service_names differ.
5676
5677
5678 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
5679 the following name=value options:
5680
5681 bypass=on|off|1|0
5682 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
5683 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
5684 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
5685 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
5686 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
5687 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
5688 returned to the HTTP client.
5689
5690 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
5691
5692 routing=on|off|1|0
5693 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
5694 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
5695 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
5696 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
5697 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
5698 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf and
5699 should have the same method and vectoring point as the current
5700 ICAP transaction. Services violating these rules are ignored.
5701 An empty X-Next-Services value results in an empty plan which
5702 ends the current adaptation.
5703
5704 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
5705 response header is ignored.
5706
5707 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
5708 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 5709
5473c134 5710Example:
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5711icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
5712icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 5713DOC_END
5714
5473c134 5715NAME: icap_class
5716TYPE: icap_class_type
5717IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 5718LOC: none
5473c134 5719DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5720DOC_START
a22e6cd3 5721 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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5722 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
5723 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 5724
62c7f90e 5725 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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5726 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
5727 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 5728DOC_END
5729
5473c134 5730NAME: icap_access
5731TYPE: icap_access_type
5732IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 5733LOC: none
cccac0a2 5734DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5735DOC_START
a22e6cd3 5736 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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5737 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
5738 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 5739DOC_END
5740
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5741COMMENT_START
5742 eCAP OPTIONS
5743 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5744COMMENT_END
5745
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5746NAME: ecap_enable
5747TYPE: onoff
5748IFDEF: USE_ECAP
5749COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 5750LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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5751DEFAULT: off
5752DOC_START
5753 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
5754DOC_END
5755
5756NAME: ecap_service
5757TYPE: ecap_service_type
5758IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 5759LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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5760DEFAULT: none
5761DOC_START
5762 Defines a single eCAP service
5763
5764 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
5765
5766 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
5767 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
5768 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
5769 are not yet supported.
5770 bypass = 1|0
5771 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
5772 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
5773 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
5774 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
5775 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
5776 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
5777 HTTP client.
5778 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
5779
5780Example:
5781ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
5782ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
5783DOC_END
5784
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5785NAME: loadable_modules
5786TYPE: wordlist
5787IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
5788LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
5789DEFAULT: none
5790DOC_START
5791 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
5792 preloaded module(s).
5793Example:
5794loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
5795DOC_END
5796
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5797COMMENT_START
5798 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
5799 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5800COMMENT_END
5801
5802NAME: adaptation_service_set
5803TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
5804IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5805LOC: none
5806DEFAULT: none
5807DOC_START
5808
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5809 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
5810 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
5811
5812 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
5813
5814 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
5815 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
5816 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
5817 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
5818 intact.
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5820 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
5821 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 5822
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5823 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
5824 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
5825
5826 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
5827 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
5828 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
5829 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
5830 transaction fails as well.
5831
5832 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
5833 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
5834 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
5835 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
5836 matters.
5837
5838 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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5839
5840Example:
5841adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
5842adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
5843DOC_END
5844
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5845NAME: adaptation_service_chain
5846TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
5847IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5848LOC: none
5849DEFAULT: none
5850DOC_START
5851
5852 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
5853 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
5854 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
5855
5856 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
5857
5858 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
5859 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
5860 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
5861 the previous service in the chain.
5862
5863 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
5864 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
5865
5866 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
5867 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
5868 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
5869
5870 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
5871 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
5872
5873 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
5874 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
5875 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
5876 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
5877
5878 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
5879
5880Example:
5881adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
5882DOC_END
5883
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5884NAME: adaptation_access
5885TYPE: adaptation_access_type
5886IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5887LOC: none
5888DEFAULT: none
5889DOC_START
5890 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
5891
5892 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5893 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5894
5895 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
5896 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
5897 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
5898 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
5899
5900 - services serving different vectoring points
5901 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
5902 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
5903 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
5904
5905 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
5906 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
5907 adaptation_service_set for details.
5908
5909 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
5910 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
5911 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
5912 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
5913
5914 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
5915 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
5916
5917 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
5918
5919Example:
5920adaptation_access service_1 allow all
5921DOC_END
5922
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5923NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
5924TYPE: int
5925IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5926LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
5927DEFAULT: 16
5928DOC_START
5929 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
5930 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
5931 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
5932 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
5933 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
5934 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
5935
5936 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
5937
5938 See also: icap_service routing=1
5939DOC_END
5940
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5941NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
5942TYPE: string
5943IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5944LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
5945DEFAULT: none
5946DOC_START
5947 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
5948 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
5949 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
5950 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
5951 with the master transaction.
5952
5953 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
5954 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
5955
5956 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
5957 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
5958 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names. Squid will store
5959 and forward that ICAP header field to subsequent ICAP
5960 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
5961
5962 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
5963
5964Example:
5965# share authentication information among ICAP services
5966adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
5967DOC_END
5968
5969NAME: icap_retry
5970TYPE: acl_access
5971IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5972LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
5973DEFAULT: none
5974DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5975DOC_START
5976 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
5977 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
5978 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
5979 that response are usually retriable.
5980
5981 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5982
5983 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
5984 due to persistent connection race conditions.
5985
5986 See also: icap_retry_limit
5987DOC_END
5988
5989NAME: icap_retry_limit
5990TYPE: int
5991IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5992LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
5993DEFAULT: 0
5994DOC_START
5995 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
5996 no retries are allowed.
5997
5998 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
5999 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6000 count against this limit.
6001
6002 See also: icap_retry
6003DOC_END
6004
6005
5473c134 6006COMMENT_START
6007 DNS OPTIONS
6008 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6009COMMENT_END
6010
6011NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6012TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6013DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6014LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6015DOC_START
5473c134 6016 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6017 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6018 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 6019DOC_END
6020
5473c134 6021NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6022TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6023DEFAULT: on
5473c134 6024LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6025DOC_START
5473c134 6026 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6027 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6028 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6029 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 6030DOC_END
6031
5473c134 6032NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 6033TYPE: string
5473c134 6034IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6035DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6036LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 6037DOC_START
5473c134 6038 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 6039DOC_END
6040
5473c134 6041NAME: dns_children
6042TYPE: int
6043IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6044DEFAULT: 5
6045LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 6046DOC_START
5473c134 6047 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
6048 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
6049 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
6050 is 32. The default is 5.
58850d15 6051
5473c134 6052 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
58850d15 6053DOC_END
6054
5473c134 6055NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
6056TYPE: time_t
6057DEFAULT: 5 seconds
6058LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
6059IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6060DOC_START
5473c134 6061 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
6062 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 6063
cccac0a2 6064DOC_END
6065
5473c134 6066NAME: dns_timeout
6067TYPE: time_t
6068DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6069LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
6070IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6071DOC_START
5473c134 6072 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
6073 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
6074 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 6075DOC_END
6076
5473c134 6077NAME: dns_defnames
6078COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 6079TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6080DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6081LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 6082DOC_START
5473c134 6083 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
6084 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
6085 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
6086 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 6087DOC_END
6088
5473c134 6089NAME: dns_nameservers
6090TYPE: wordlist
6091DEFAULT: none
6092LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 6093DOC_START
5473c134 6094 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
6095 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
6096 /etc/resolv.conf file.
6097 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
6098 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
6099 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
6100 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 6101
5473c134 6102 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 6103DOC_END
6104
5473c134 6105NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 6106TYPE: string
5473c134 6107DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
6108LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 6109DOC_START
5473c134 6110 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
6111 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
6112 default locations:
6113 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
6114 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6115 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
6116 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6117 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
6118 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
6119 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
6120 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 6121
5473c134 6122 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
6123 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
6124 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
6125 character are comments.
cccac0a2 6126
5473c134 6127 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
6128 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
6129 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
6130 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
6131 definitions.
cccac0a2 6132DOC_END
6133
5473c134 6134NAME: append_domain
6135TYPE: string
6136LOC: Config.appendDomain
6137DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 6138DOC_START
5473c134 6139 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
6140 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
6141
6142 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
6143 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
6144 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
6145
6146Example:
6147 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 6148DOC_END
6149
5473c134 6150NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
6151TYPE: onoff
6152LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 6153DEFAULT: on
6154DOC_START
5473c134 6155 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
6156 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
6157 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
6158 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
6159 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 6160DOC_END
6161
cc192b50 6162NAME: dns_v4_fallback
6163TYPE: onoff
6164DEFAULT: on
6165LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
6166DOC_START
6167 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
6168 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
6169 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
6170
6171 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
6172 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
6173
6174 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
6175 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
6176
6177 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
6178 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
6179 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
6180DOC_END
6181
6bc15a4f 6182NAME: ipcache_size
6183COMMENT: (number of entries)
6184TYPE: int
6185DEFAULT: 1024
6186LOC: Config.ipcache.size
6187DOC_NONE
6188
6189NAME: ipcache_low
6190COMMENT: (percent)
6191TYPE: int
6192DEFAULT: 90
6193LOC: Config.ipcache.low
6194DOC_NONE
6195
6196NAME: ipcache_high
6197COMMENT: (percent)
6198TYPE: int
6199DEFAULT: 95
6200LOC: Config.ipcache.high
6201DOC_START
6202 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
6203DOC_END
6204
6205NAME: fqdncache_size
6206COMMENT: (number of entries)
6207TYPE: int
6208DEFAULT: 1024
6209LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
6210DOC_START
6211 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
6212DOC_END
6213
a58ff010 6214COMMENT_START
5473c134 6215 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 6216 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6217COMMENT_END
6218
5473c134 6219NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 6220COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6221TYPE: onoff
6222DEFAULT: on
6223LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 6224DOC_START
5473c134 6225 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
6226 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
6227 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
6228 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 6229DOC_END
6230
5473c134 6231NAME: memory_pools_limit
6232COMMENT: (bytes)
6233TYPE: b_size_t
6234DEFAULT: 5 MB
6235LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 6236DOC_START
5473c134 6237 Used only with memory_pools on:
6238 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 6239
5473c134 6240 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
6241 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
6242 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
6243 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
6244 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
6245 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
6246 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 6247
5473c134 6248 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
6249 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 6250
5473c134 6251 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
6252 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
6253
6254 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
6255 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
6256 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
6257 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 6258DOC_END
6259
5473c134 6260NAME: forwarded_for
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6261COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
6262TYPE: string
5473c134 6263DEFAULT: on
6264LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 6265DOC_START
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6266 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
6267 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 6268
5473c134 6269 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
6270
67c06f0d 6271 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 6272
6273 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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6274
6275 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
6276 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
6277
6278 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
6279 X-Forwarded-For header.
6280
6281 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
6282 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place itself as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 6283DOC_END
6284
5473c134 6285NAME: cachemgr_passwd
6286TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
6287DEFAULT: none
6288LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 6289DOC_START
5473c134 6290 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 6291
5473c134 6292 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
6293
6294 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
6295 5min
6296 60min
6297 asndb
6298 authenticator
6299 cbdata
6300 client_list
6301 comm_incoming
6302 config *
6303 counters
6304 delay
6305 digest_stats
6306 dns
6307 events
6308 filedescriptors
6309 fqdncache
6310 histograms
6311 http_headers
6312 info
6313 io
6314 ipcache
6315 mem
6316 menu
6317 netdb
6318 non_peers
6319 objects
6320 offline_toggle *
6321 pconn
6322 peer_select
b360c477 6323 reconfigure *
5473c134 6324 redirector
6325 refresh
6326 server_list
6327 shutdown *
6328 store_digest
6329 storedir
6330 utilization
6331 via_headers
6332 vm_objects
6333
6334 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
6335 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
6336
6337 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
6338 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
6339 password to "none".
6340
6341 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
6342
6343Example:
6344 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
6345 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
6346 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 6347DOC_END
6348
5473c134 6349NAME: client_db
a58ff010 6350COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6351TYPE: onoff
6352DEFAULT: on
6353LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 6354DOC_START
5473c134 6355 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
6356 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 6357DOC_END
6358
5473c134 6359NAME: refresh_all_ims
6360COMMENT: on|off
6361TYPE: onoff
6362DEFAULT: off
6363LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 6364DOC_START
5473c134 6365 When you enable this option, squid will always check
6366 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
6367 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
6368 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
6369 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 6370
5473c134 6371 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
6372 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 6373DOC_END
6374
5473c134 6375NAME: reload_into_ims
6376IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 6377COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6378TYPE: onoff
6379DEFAULT: off
6380LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 6381DOC_START
5473c134 6382 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
6383 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
6384 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
6385 feature could make you liable for problems which it
6386 causes.
6387
6388 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 6389DOC_END
6390
5473c134 6391NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
6392TYPE: int
6393LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
6394DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 6395DOC_START
5473c134 6396 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
6397 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
6398 each address is tried once).
6399
6400 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
6401 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
6402 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
6403
6404 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
6405 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 6406DOC_END
6407
5473c134 6408NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 6409TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6410LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 6411DEFAULT: off
6412DOC_START
5473c134 6413 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
6414 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
6415 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
6416 control errors.
5f8252d2 6417DOC_END
6418
5473c134 6419NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 6420TYPE: string
5473c134 6421LOC: Config.as_whois_server
6422DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
6423DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 6424DOC_START
5473c134 6425 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
6426 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 6427DOC_END
6428
5473c134 6429NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 6430TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6431LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 6432DEFAULT: off
6433DOC_START
5473c134 6434 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
6435 objects.
a58ff010 6436DOC_END
6437
5473c134 6438NAME: uri_whitespace
6439TYPE: uri_whitespace
6440LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
6441DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 6442DOC_START
5473c134 6443 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
6444 URI. Options:
a58ff010 6445
5473c134 6446 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
6447 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
6448 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
6449 Request" message.
6450 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
6451 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
6452 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
6453 are in use.
6454 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
6455 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
6456 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
6457 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
6458 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
6459 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
6460 violation.
6461DOC_END
a58ff010 6462
5473c134 6463NAME: chroot
6464TYPE: string
6465LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 6466DEFAULT: none
6467DOC_START
5473c134 6468 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
6469 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
6470 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
6471 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will may get an
6472 error saying that Squid can not open the port.
6473DOC_END
a58ff010 6474
5473c134 6475NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
6476TYPE: onoff
6477LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 6478DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6479DOC_START
cc192b50 6480 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
6481 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
6482 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
6483
5473c134 6484 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
6485 found not to preserve user session state across requests
6486 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 6487
cc192b50 6488 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 6489DOC_END
6490
5473c134 6491NAME: pipeline_prefetch
6492TYPE: onoff
6493LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
6494DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 6495DOC_START
5473c134 6496 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
6497 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
6498 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 6499
5473c134 6500 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
6501 reasons.
6502DOC_END
a58ff010 6503
5473c134 6504NAME: high_response_time_warning
6505TYPE: int
6506COMMENT: (msec)
6507LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
6508DEFAULT: 0
6509DOC_START
6510 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
6511 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
6512 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 6513DOC_END
6514
5473c134 6515NAME: high_page_fault_warning
6516TYPE: int
6517LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
6518DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 6519DOC_START
5473c134 6520 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
6521 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
6522 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
6523 per second.
6524DOC_END
cc9f92d4 6525
5473c134 6526NAME: high_memory_warning
6527TYPE: b_size_t
6528LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 6529DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 6530DOC_START
6531 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 6532 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 6533 the administrators attention.
6534DOC_END
cc9f92d4 6535
5473c134 6536NAME: sleep_after_fork
6537COMMENT: (microseconds)
6538TYPE: int
6539LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
6540DEFAULT: 0
6541DOC_START
6542 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
6543 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
6544 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
6545 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
6546 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
6547 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
6548 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
6549 until all the child processes have been started.
6550 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
6551 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 6552DOC_END
6553
b6696974 6554NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 6555IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
b6696974
GS
6556COMMENT: on|off
6557TYPE: onoff
6558DEFAULT: on
6559LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
6560DOC_START
6561 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
6562 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
6563 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
6564 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
6565 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
6566 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
6567DOC_END
6568
cccac0a2 6569EOF