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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 105COMMENT_END
106
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107# Options Removed in 3.2
108NAME: ignore_expect_100
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
112DOC_END
113
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114NAME: dns_v4_fallback
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 Remove this line.
118DOC_END
119
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120NAME: ftp_list_width
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
124DOC_END
125
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126NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
130DOC_END
131
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132NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_START
135 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
136DOC_END
137
138# Options Removed in 3.1
139NAME: dns_testnames
140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
143DOC_END
144
145NAME: extension_methods
146TYPE: obsolete
147DOC_START
148 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
149DOC_END
150
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151# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
152NAME: zero_buffers
153TYPE: obsolete
154DOC_NONE
155
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156# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
157NAME: incoming_rate
158TYPE: obsolete
159DOC_NONE
160
161NAME: server_http11
162TYPE: obsolete
163DOC_START
164 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
165DOC_END
166
167NAME: upgrade_http0.9
168TYPE: obsolete
169DOC_START
170 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
171DOC_END
172
173NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
174TYPE: obsolete
175DOC_START
176 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
177DOC_END
178
179# Options Removed in 3.0
180NAME: header_access
181TYPE: obsolete
182DOC_START
183 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
184 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
185DOC_END
186
187NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
188TYPE: obsolete
189DOC_START
190 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
191DOC_END
192
5473c134 193COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 194 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
196COMMENT_END
197
41bd17a4 198NAME: auth_param
199TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 200IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 201LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 202DEFAULT: none
203DOC_START
41bd17a4 204 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
205 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 206
41bd17a4 207 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
210 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
211 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
212 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
213 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
214 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
215 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
216 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
217 program entry).
cccac0a2 218
41bd17a4 219 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
220 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
221 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
222 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 223
41bd17a4 224 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
225 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
226 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
227 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
228 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
229 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
230 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
231 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
232 type acl.
cccac0a2 233
41bd17a4 234 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
235 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
236 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
237 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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238 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
239 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 240
41bd17a4 241 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 242
41bd17a4 243 "program" cmdline
244 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
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245 reads a line containing "username password" and replies with one of
246 three results:
247
248 OK
249 the user exists.
250
251 ERR
252 the user does not exist.
253
254 BH
255 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
256 a result being identified.
257
258 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
259 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
260
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261 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
262 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 263
41bd17a4 264 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
265 program is specified.
cccac0a2 266
41bd17a4 267 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
268 this line to something like
307b83b7 269
41bd17a4 270 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 271
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272 "utf8" on|off
273 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
274 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
275 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
276 username & password to the helper.
277
7353861b 278 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 279 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 280 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
281 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
282 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
283 authenticator processes.
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284
285 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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286 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
287 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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288 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
289 the maximum.
290
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291 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
292 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
293 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
294 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
295 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
296 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 297 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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298
299 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 300
41bd17a4 301 "realm" realmstring
302 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
303 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
304 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
305 password). There is no default.
306 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 307
41bd17a4 308 "credentialsttl" timetolive
309 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
310 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
311 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
312 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
313 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
314 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
315 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
316 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
317 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 318
41bd17a4 319 "casesensitive" on|off
320 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
321 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
322 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
323 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
324 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 325
41bd17a4 326 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 327
41bd17a4 328 "program" cmdline
329 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
330 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
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331 replies with one of three results:
332
333 OK ha1="..."
334 the user exists. The ha1= key is mandatory and
335 contains the appropriate H(A1) value, hex encoded.
336 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
337
338 ERR
339 the user does not exist.
340
341 BH
342 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
343 a result being identified.
344
345 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
346 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 347
41bd17a4 348 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
349 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 350
41bd17a4 351 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
352 something like
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7ce93108 354 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 355
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356 "utf8" on|off
357 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
358 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
359 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
360 username & password to the helper.
361
7353861b 362 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 363 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 364 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
365 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
366 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
367 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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368
369 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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370 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
371 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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372 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
373 the maximum.
374
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375 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
376 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
377 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
378 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
379 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
380 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
381 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
382
48d54e4d 383 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 384
41bd17a4 385 "realm" realmstring
386 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
387 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
388 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
389 password). There is no default.
390 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 391
41bd17a4 392 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
393 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
394 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 395
41bd17a4 396 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
397 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
398 valid for.
cccac0a2 399
41bd17a4 400 "nonce_max_count" number
401 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
402 used.
cccac0a2 403
41bd17a4 404 "nonce_strictness" on|off
405 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
406 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
407 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
408 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 409
41bd17a4 410 "check_nonce_count" on|off
411 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
412 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
413 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
414 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 415
41bd17a4 416 "post_workaround" on|off
417 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
418 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
419 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 420
41bd17a4 421 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 "program" cmdline
424 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
425 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
426 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
427 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
5269ec0e 428 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator program
41bd17a4 429 is not used.
cccac0a2 430
41bd17a4 431 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 432
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433 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
434 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 435 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
436 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
437 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
438 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
439 processes.
cccac0a2 440
48d54e4d 441 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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442 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
443 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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444 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
445 the maximum.
446
447 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 448
41bd17a4 449 "keep_alive" on|off
450 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
451 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
452 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
453 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
454 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 455
41bd17a4 456 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 457
41bd17a4 458 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 459
41bd17a4 460 "program" cmdline
461 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
462 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
463 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
464 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
465 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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466 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
467 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
5269ec0e 468 authenticator program is not used.
41bd17a4 469 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
470 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 471
41bd17a4 472 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 473
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474 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
475 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 476 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
477 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
478 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
479 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
480 processes.
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481
482 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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483 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
484 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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485 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
486 the maximum.
487
488 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 489
41bd17a4 490 "keep_alive" on|off
491 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
492 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
493 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
494 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
495 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 496
41bd17a4 497 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 498
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500 Examples:
501
41bd17a4 502#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
503#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 504#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 505#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 506#
41bd17a4 507#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 508#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 509#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 510#
41bd17a4 511#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 512#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 513#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
514#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
515#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
516#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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41bd17a4 518#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 519#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 520#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
521#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 522DOC_END
cccac0a2 523
41bd17a4 524NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
525TYPE: time_t
526DEFAULT: 1 hour
527LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
528DOC_START
529 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
530 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
531 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
532 have good reason to.
533DOC_END
cccac0a2 534
41bd17a4 535NAME: authenticate_ttl
536TYPE: time_t
537DEFAULT: 1 hour
538LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
539DOC_START
540 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
541 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
542 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
543 TTL are removed from memory.
544DOC_END
cccac0a2 545
41bd17a4 546NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
547TYPE: time_t
548LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
549DEFAULT: 0 seconds
550DOC_START
551 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
552 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
553 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
554 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
555 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
556 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
557 environment with relatively static address assignments.
558DOC_END
cccac0a2 559
3d1e3e43 560COMMENT_START
561 ACCESS CONTROLS
562 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
563COMMENT_END
564
41bd17a4 565NAME: external_acl_type
566TYPE: externalAclHelper
567LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 568DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 569DOC_START
41bd17a4 570 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
571 to look up the status
cccac0a2 572
41bd17a4 573 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 574
41bd17a4 575 Options:
cccac0a2 576
41bd17a4 577 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
578 for 1 hour)
579 negative_ttl=n
580 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
581 as ttl)
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582 children-max=n
583 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
584 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
585 children-startup=n
586 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
587 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
588 of this type. (default 0)
589 children-idle=n
590 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
591 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
592 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
593 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 594 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
595 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 596 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 597 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
598 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 599 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 600 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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601 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
602 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
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41bd17a4 604 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 605
41bd17a4 606 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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607 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
608 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
609 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 610 %IDENT Ident user name
611 %SRC Client IP
612 %SRCPORT Client source port
613 %URI Requested URI
614 %DST Requested host
615 %PROTO Requested protocol
616 %PORT Requested port
617 %PATH Requested URL path
618 %METHOD Request method
619 %MYADDR Squid interface address
620 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
621 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
622 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
623 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
624 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
625 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 626
c68c9682 627 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 628 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 629 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 630 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 631 HTTP request header list member using ; as
632 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
633 character.
cccac0a2 634
c68c9682 635 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 636 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 637 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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638 %<{Hdr:;member}
639 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
640 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
641 character.
642
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644 an unchanging input format.
645
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647 General request syntax:
648
649 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
650
651
652 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
653 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
654 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
655
656 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
657 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
658
659 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
660 each value in requests against whitespaces.
661
662 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
663 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
664
665 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
666
667 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
668 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
669 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
670 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
671 of the response relating to its request.
672
673
674 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
675 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
676 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
677
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41bd17a4 679 General result syntax:
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682
683 Result consists of one of the codes:
684
685 OK
686 the ACL test produced a match.
687
688 ERR
689 the ACL test does not produce a match.
690
691 BH
692 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
693 a result being identified.
694
695 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
696 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 698 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 700 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 701
41bd17a4 702 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
5269ec0e 703
05e52854 704 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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705 Available as %o in error pages.
706 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
707
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708 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
709 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 711 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 712 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 713
05e52854 714 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
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717 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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718 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
719 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
720 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 721
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723
5269ec0e 724 user=John%20Smith
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725 user="John Smith"
726 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
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728
41bd17a4 729NAME: acl
730TYPE: acl
731LOC: Config.aclList
38450a50 732IF USE_SSL
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734DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
735DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
736DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
737DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
738ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 739DEFAULT: all src all
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740DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
741DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
742DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
743DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
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41bd17a4 745 Defining an Access List
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747 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
748 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
749 they are read from.
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751 acl aclname acltype argument ...
752 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 754 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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756 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
757 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
758 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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761 to access some external data source.
762 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
763 don't are marked as [fast].
764 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
765 for further information
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767 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
768
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769 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
770 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
771 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
772 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 773
41bd17a4 774 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
775 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
776 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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778 # other *BSD variants.
779 # [fast]
41bd17a4 780 #
781 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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782 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
783 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
784
785 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
786 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
787 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 788 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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789 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
790 # regex matching client name [slow]
791 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 792 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 793 #
41bd17a4 794 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
795 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
796 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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798 acl aclname src_as number ...
799 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 800 # [fast]
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801 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
802 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
803 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
804 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
805 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
806 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
807 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 808
6db78a1a 809 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 810 # [fast]
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811 # match against a named cache_peer entry
812 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
813
375eeb3b 814 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 815 # [fast]
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816 # day-abbrevs:
817 # S - Sunday
818 # M - Monday
819 # T - Tuesday
820 # W - Wednesday
821 # H - Thursday
822 # F - Friday
823 # A - Saturday
824 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
825
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826 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
827 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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828 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
829 # regex matching on URL login field
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830 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
831 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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833 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
834 # ranges are alloed
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835 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
836 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
837
b3567eb5 838 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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840 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
841
842 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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844 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
845 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 847 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 848 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 849
375eeb3b 850 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 851 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 852 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 854 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 855 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 856 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 857 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 858
41bd17a4 859 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
860 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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862 # supplied credentials [slow]
863 #
864 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 865 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
866 #
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868 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
869 #
41bd17a4 870 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
871 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
872 # in access.log.
873 #
874 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
875 # to check username/password combinations (see
876 # auth_param directive).
877 #
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879 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 880 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 881
41bd17a4 882 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 883 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 884 # Example:
885 #
886 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 888 acl aclname maxconn number
889 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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891 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
892 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 893
41bd17a4 894 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
895 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
896 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 897 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 898 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
899 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
900 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
901 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
902 # request is denied)
903 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
904 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
905 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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907 acl aclname random probability
908 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
909 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
910 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
911
375eeb3b 912 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 913 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
914 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 915 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 916 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
917 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 918
41bd17a4 919 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
920 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
921 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 922 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 923
375eeb3b 924 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 925 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
926 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 927 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 928 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
929 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
930 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 932 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
933 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
934 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 935 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 936
375eeb3b 937 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 938 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 939 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 941 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
942 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 943 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
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41bd17a4 945 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
946 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 947 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
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41bd17a4 949 acl aclname ext_user username ...
950 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 951 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 952 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 953
0ab50441 954 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 955 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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957 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
958 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
959 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
960 #
961 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
962 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
963 # http_reply_access.
964
38450a50 965IF USE_SSL
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967 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 968 #
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970 # template file.
cf1c09f6 971 #
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973 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
974 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
975 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
976 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
977 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
978 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
979 #
980 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
981 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
982 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
983 #
984 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
985 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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989 #
990 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
991 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
992 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
993 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
994 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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996
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997 Examples:
998 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
999 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1000 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1001 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1002 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
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41bd17a4 1004NOCOMMENT_START
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1006# Recommended minimum configuration:
1007#
e0855596 1008
ee776778 1009# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1010# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1011# should be allowed
1012acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1013acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1014acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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1015acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1016acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
e0855596 1017
41bd17a4 1018acl SSL_ports port 443
1019acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1020acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1021acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1022acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1023acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1024acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1025acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1026acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1027acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1028acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1029acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1030NOCOMMENT_END
1031DOC_END
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1033NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1034TYPE: acl_access
1035IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1036LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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1038DOC_START
1039 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
1040 find the original source of a request.
1041
1042 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1043 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
1044 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
1045 rightmost address being the most recent.
1046
1047 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
1048 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
1049 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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1051 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
1052 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
1053 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
1054 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
1055 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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1057 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1058 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1059 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1060 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1062 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1065 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1066
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1068
1069 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
1070 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
1071 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1072 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1073 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1074 based on the client's source addresses.
1075
1076 For example:
1077
1078 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1079 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1080 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1081 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1082DOC_END
1083
1084NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1085COMMENT: on|off
1086TYPE: onoff
1087IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1088DEFAULT: on
1089LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1090DOC_START
1091 Controls whether the indirect client address
1092 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1093 direct client address in acl matching.
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1095 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1096 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1098
1099NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1100COMMENT: on|off
1101TYPE: onoff
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1104LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1105DOC_START
1106 Controls whether the indirect client address
1107 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1108 direct client address in delay pools.
1109DOC_END
1110
1111NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1112COMMENT: on|off
1113TYPE: onoff
1114IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1115DEFAULT: on
1116LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1117DOC_START
1118 Controls whether the indirect client address
1119 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1120 direct client address in the access log.
1121DOC_END
1122
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1124COMMENT: on|off
1125TYPE: onoff
1126IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1127DEFAULT: off
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1129DOC_START
1130 Controls whether the indirect client address
1131 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1132 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1134 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1135 mode ports.
1136
1137 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1138 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1139 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1140 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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41bd17a4 1143NAME: http_access
1144TYPE: acl_access
1145LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1146DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1147DOC_START
1148 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1149
41bd17a4 1150 Access to the HTTP port:
1151 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1152
41bd17a4 1153 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1154
41bd17a4 1155 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1156 the request.
cccac0a2 1157
41bd17a4 1158 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1159 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1160 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1161 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1163 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1166 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1167
41bd17a4 1168NOCOMMENT_START
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1170#
1171# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1172#
1173# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1174http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1175http_access deny manager
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1177# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1178http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1180# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1181http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1183# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1184# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1185# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1186#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1188#
1189# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1190#
c8f4eac4 1191
ee776778 1192# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1193# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1194# from where browsing should be allowed
1195http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1196http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1197
41bd17a4 1198# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1199http_access deny all
1200NOCOMMENT_END
1201DOC_END
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1203NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1204TYPE: acl_access
1205LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1206DEFAULT: none
1207DOC_START
1208 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1209
1210 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1211 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1212 output.
1213
1214 If not set then only http_access is used.
1215DOC_END
1216
41bd17a4 1217NAME: http_reply_access
1218TYPE: acl_access
1219LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1220DEFAULT: none
1221DOC_START
1222 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1223
41bd17a4 1224 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1225
41bd17a4 1226 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1227 all replies
1a224843 1228
41bd17a4 1229 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1230 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1231 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1233 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1234 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1235DOC_END
1236
41bd17a4 1237NAME: icp_access
1238TYPE: acl_access
1239LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1240DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1241DOC_START
41bd17a4 1242 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1243 access lists
5473c134 1244
41bd17a4 1245 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1246
41bd17a4 1247 See http_access for details
1248
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1250 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1252# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1254#icp_access deny all
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1256
41bd17a4 1257NAME: htcp_access
1258IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1259TYPE: acl_access
1260LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1261DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1262DOC_START
41bd17a4 1263 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1264 access lists
5473c134 1265
41bd17a4 1266 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1267
41bd17a4 1268 See http_access for details
5473c134 1269
0b48417e 1270 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1271 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1272 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1273
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1275 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1277# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1279#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1280DOC_END
5473c134 1281
41bd17a4 1282NAME: htcp_clr_access
1283IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1284TYPE: acl_access
1285LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1286DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1287DOC_START
1288 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1289 on defined access lists
5473c134 1290
41bd17a4 1291 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1292
41bd17a4 1293 See http_access for details
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1296 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1298# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1299acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1300htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1301DOC_END
1302
41bd17a4 1303NAME: miss_access
1304TYPE: acl_access
1305LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1306DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1307DOC_START
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1308 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1309
1310 For example;
1311 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1312 a parent.
5473c134 1313
41bd17a4 1314 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1315 miss_access allow localclients
1316 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1317
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1318 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1319 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1320 objects (HITs).
1321
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1324 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1326 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1327 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1328DOC_END
1329
1330NAME: ident_lookup_access
1331TYPE: acl_access
1332IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1333DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1334LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1335DOC_START
41bd17a4 1336 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1337 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1338 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1339 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1340 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1341 any requests.
5473c134 1342
41bd17a4 1343 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1344 can follow this example:
5473c134 1345
4daaf3cb 1346 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1347 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1348 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1349
4daaf3cb 1350 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1351 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1352 the correct result.
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1354 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1355 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1356DOC_END
5473c134 1357
5b0f5383 1358NAME: reply_body_max_size
1359COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1360TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1361DEFAULT: none
1362LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1363DOC_START
1364 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1365 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1366 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1367 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1368 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1369 for this reply.
1370
1371 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1372 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1373 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1374 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1375 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1376 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1377 and they will receive a partial reply.
1378
1379 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1380 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1381 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1382 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1383
1384 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1385 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1386 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1387 the size of your largest error page.
1388
1389 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1390 no limit imposed.
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1392 Configuration Format is:
1393 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1394 ie.
1395 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1396
5b0f5383 1397DOC_END
1398
1399COMMENT_START
1400 NETWORK OPTIONS
1401 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1402COMMENT_END
1403
1404NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1405TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1406DEFAULT: none
1407LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1408DOC_START
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1409 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1410 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1411 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1412
1413 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1414 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1415 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1416 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1417 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1418 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1419 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1420
1421 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1422 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1423
1424 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1425 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1426 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1427
1428 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1429
c7b1dd5d 1430 Modes:
5b0f5383 1431
e77bdb4e 1432 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1433 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1434 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1435
1436 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1437 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1438 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1439
7f45065d 1440 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1441
caf3666d 1442 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1443 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1444 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1446 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1447
7a957a93 1448 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1449 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1451 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1452
1453
1454 Accelerator Mode Options:
1455
5b0f5383 1456 defaultsite=domainname
1457 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1458 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1459 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1460
cf673853 1461 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1462
1463 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1465 https_port
5b0f5383 1466
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1468 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1469
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1471 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1472
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1474 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1475 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1476 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1477
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1479
7f45065d 1480 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1482
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1484 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1485 never_direct was used.
1486
1487 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1488 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1489 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1490 http_access rules when using this.
1491
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1493 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1495
1496 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1497 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1498 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1499 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1500 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1501 certificate will be selfsigned.
1502 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1503 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1504 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1505 years.
1506 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1507 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1508
1509 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1510 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1511 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1512 default value is 4MB.
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1514 TLS / SSL Options:
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1516 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1517
1518 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1519 if not specified, the certificate file is
1520 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1521 key file.
1522
1523 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1524 1 automatic (default)
1525 2 SSLv2 only
1526 3 SSLv3 only
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1527 4 TLSv1.0 only
1528 5 TLSv1.1 only
1529 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1531 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1533 additional settings. If those settings are
1534 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1535 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1536
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c7b1dd5d 1538 being:
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1540 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1541 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1542 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1543 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1544 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1545 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1547 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1548 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1549 strength to some attacks.
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1550 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1551 complete list of options.
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1553 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1554 requesting a client certificate.
1555
1556 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1557 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1558 clientca will be used.
1559
1560 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1561 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1562
1563 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1564 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1565 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1566
1567 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1569 on how to create this file.
1570 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1571 option is not set.
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1572
1573 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1574 DELAYED_AUTH
1575 Don't request client certificates
1576 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1577 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1578 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1579 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1580 to OpenSSL.
1581 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1582 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1583 will result in a new SSL session.
1584 VERIFY_CRL
1585 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1586 certificates.
1587 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1588 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1589 client certificate chain.
1590
1591 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1592
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1594
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1596 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1597 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1599
5b0f5383 1600 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1601 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1602 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1603 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1604 support is enabled.
1605 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1606
1607 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1608 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1609 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1610 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1611 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1612 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1613 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1614 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1615
81b6e9a7 1616 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1617 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1618
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1621 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1622 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1623 timeout the time before giving up.
1624
5b0f5383 1625 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1626 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1627 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1628 visible on the internal address.
1629
1630NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1632# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1633http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1634NOCOMMENT_END
1635DOC_END
1636
1637NAME: https_port
1638IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1639TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1640DEFAULT: none
1641LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1642DOC_START
7f45065d 1643 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1644
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1646 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1647
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1649 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1650
1651 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1652 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1653
7f45065d 1654 Modes:
5b0f5383 1655
7f45065d 1656 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1657
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1659 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1660 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1661
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1663 connections using the client IP address.
1664 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1665
caf3666d 1666 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1667 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1668 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1670 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1671
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1673 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 1674
38450a50 1675 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1676
7f45065d 1677 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1678
5b0f5383 1679
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1681
1682
1683 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1684
1685 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1686
1687 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1688 if not specified, the certificate file is
1689 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1690 key file.
1691
1692 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1693 1 automatic (default)
1694 2 SSLv2 only
1695 3 SSLv3 only
1696 4 TLSv1 only
1697
1698 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1699
1700 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1701 being:
1702 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1703 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1704 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1705 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1706 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1707 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1708 documentation for a complete list of options.
1709
1710 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1711 requesting a client certificate.
1712
1713 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1714 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1715 clientca will be used.
1716
1717 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1718 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1719
1720 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1721 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1722 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1723
1724 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1725 DH key exchanges.
1726
1727 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1728 DELAYED_AUTH
1729 Don't request client certificates
1730 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1731 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1732 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1733 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1734 to OpenSSL.
1735 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1736 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1737 will result in a new SSL session.
1738 VERIFY_CRL
1739 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1740 certificates.
1741 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1742 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1743 client certificate chain.
1744
1745 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1746
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1748 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1749 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1750 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1751 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1752 certificate will be selfsigned.
1753 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1754 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1755 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1756 years.
1757 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1758 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1759
1760 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1761 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1762 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1763 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 1764
859741ed 1765 See http_port for a list of available options.
5b0f5383 1766DOC_END
1767
41bd17a4 1768NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1769TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1770DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1771LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1772DOC_START
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1774 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1775
41bd17a4 1776 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1777
41bd17a4 1778 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1779 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1782 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1783 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1784 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
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41bd17a4 1786 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1788 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1789
41bd17a4 1790 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1791 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1793 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1794
41bd17a4 1795 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1796 matching line.
cccac0a2 1797DOC_END
1798
41bd17a4 1799NAME: clientside_tos
1800TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1801DEFAULT: none
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1803DOC_START
1804 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1805 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1806
1807 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1808
1809 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1810 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1811
1812 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1813 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1814 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1815 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1816
1817 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1818 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1819DOC_END
1820
1821NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1822TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1823IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1825LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1826DOC_START
1827 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1828 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1829
1830 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1831
1832 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1833 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1834
1835 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1836 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1837 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1838 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1839DOC_END
1840
1841NAME: clientside_mark
1842TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1843IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1845LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
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1848 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1849
1850 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1851
1852 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1853 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1854
1855 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1856 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1857 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1858 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1859
1860 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1861 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1862DOC_END
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1865TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1866IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1867DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1868LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1869DOC_START
575cb927 1870 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1872 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1873 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
7172612f 1874
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1876 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1877 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1880 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1881 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1882
1883 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1884
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1886
1887 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1889 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1890
1891 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1892
1893 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1894
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1896 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1897 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1898 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 1899
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1901 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1902 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1903 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1904 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1905
575cb927 1906 disable-preserve-miss
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1908 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1909 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1910 and masked with miss-mark.
1911 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1912 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1913 (MARK target).
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1915 miss-mask=0xFF
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1917 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1918 the TOS sent towards clients.
1919 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1920 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1921
1922 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1923 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1924 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1925 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1928
41bd17a4 1929NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1930TYPE: acl_address
1931DEFAULT: none
1932LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1933DOC_START
1934 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1935 based on the username or source address of the user making
1936 the request.
7f7db318 1937
41bd17a4 1938 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1939
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1941 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1944 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1945
1946 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1947 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1948
1949 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1950 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1951
1952 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1953 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1954
41bd17a4 1955 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1956 matching line.
cccac0a2 1957
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1959 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1960 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1961
1962
1963 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1964 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1965 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1966 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1967
2dd51400 1968 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1969 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1971 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1972
cccac0a2 1973DOC_END
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1975NAME: host_verify_strict
1976TYPE: onoff
1977DEFAULT: off
1978LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1979DOC_START
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1981 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 1982 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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1984 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1985 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1986 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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1988 When set to ON:
1989 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
1990 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
1991
1992 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
1993 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
1994 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
1995 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
1996 and Request-URI components:
1997
1998 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
1999 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2000 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2001 or FQDN.
2002
2003 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2004 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2005
2006
2007 When set to OFF (the default):
2008 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2009 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2010
2011 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2012
2013 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2014
2015 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2016 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2017
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2019 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2020 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2021
2022 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2023 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2024
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2028 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2029 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2030 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2031 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2032
2033 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2034 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2035 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2036 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2037 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2039DOC_END
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2041NAME: client_dst_passthru
2042TYPE: onoff
2043DEFAULT: on
2044LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2045DOC_START
2046 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2047 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2048 source using the HTTP Host header.
2049
2050 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2051 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2052 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2053 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2054
2055 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2056 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2057 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2058
2059 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2060 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2061 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2062
2063 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2064DOC_END
2065
41bd17a4 2066COMMENT_START
2067 SSL OPTIONS
2068 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2069COMMENT_END
2070
2071NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
2072IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2073TYPE: onoff
2074DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2075LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2076DOC_START
41bd17a4 2077 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2078 messages.
cccac0a2 2079DOC_END
2080
41bd17a4 2081NAME: ssl_engine
2082IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2083TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2084LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2085DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2086DOC_START
41bd17a4 2087 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2088 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2089DOC_END
2090
41bd17a4 2091NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
2092IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2093DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2094LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2095TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2096DOC_START
41bd17a4 2097 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2098DOC_END
2099
41bd17a4 2100NAME: sslproxy_client_key
2101IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2102DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2103LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2104TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2105DOC_START
41bd17a4 2106 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2107DOC_END
2108
41bd17a4 2109NAME: sslproxy_version
2110IFDEF: USE_SSL
2111DEFAULT: 1
2112LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2113TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2114DOC_START
41bd17a4 2115 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2116
2117 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2118
2119 1 automatic (default)
2120 2 SSLv2 only
2121 3 SSLv3 only
2122 4 TLSv1.0 only
2123 5 TLSv1.1 only
2124 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2125DOC_END
2126
41bd17a4 2127NAME: sslproxy_options
2128IFDEF: USE_SSL
2129DEFAULT: none
2130LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2131TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2132DOC_START
943c5f16 2133 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2135 The most important being:
2136
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2137 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2138 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2139 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2140 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2141 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2142 SINGLE_DH_USE
2143 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2144 DH key exchanges
2145 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2146 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2147 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2148 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2149 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2150 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2151 strength to some attacks.
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2153 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2154 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 2155DOC_END
2156
41bd17a4 2157NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2158IFDEF: USE_SSL
2159DEFAULT: none
2160LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2161TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2162DOC_START
41bd17a4 2163 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2164
2165 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2166DOC_END
2167
41bd17a4 2168NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2169IFDEF: USE_SSL
2170DEFAULT: none
2171LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2172TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2173DOC_START
41bd17a4 2174 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2175 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2176DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2178NAME: sslproxy_capath
2179IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 2180DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2181LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2182TYPE: string
5473c134 2183DOC_START
41bd17a4 2184 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2185 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2186DOC_END
2187
4c9da963 2188NAME: ssl_bump
2189IFDEF: USE_SSL
caf3666d 2190TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2191LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
2192DEFAULT: none
2193DOC_START
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2195 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2196 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2197 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2198 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2199 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2200
2201 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2202
2203 The following bumping modes are supported:
2204
2205 client-first
2206 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2207 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2208 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2209 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2210
2211 server-first
2212 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2213 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2214 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2215 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2216
2217 none
2218 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2219 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2220 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2221 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2222
2223 By default, no connections are bumped.
2224
2225 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2226 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2227 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2228 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2229 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2230
e0c0d54c 2231 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2232 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2235
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2238 # localhost and those going to example.com.
e0855596 2239
e0855596 2240 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2242 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2243 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2244DOC_END
2245
41bd17a4 2246NAME: sslproxy_flags
2247IFDEF: USE_SSL
2248DEFAULT: none
2249LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2250TYPE: string
5473c134 2251DOC_START
41bd17a4 2252 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2253 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2254 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2255 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2256 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2257DOC_END
2258
4c9da963 2259NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2260IFDEF: USE_SSL
2261DEFAULT: none
2262LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2263TYPE: acl_access
2264DOC_START
2265 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2266
2267 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2268 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2269 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2270
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2272 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2273 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2274
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2276 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2277 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
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2279 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2280 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2281 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2282 the connection may be insecure.
2283
2284 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2285
e0855596 2286 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 2287DOC_END
2288
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2289NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2290IFDEF: USE_SSL
2291DEFAULT: none
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2292POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2293POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2294POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2295TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2296LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2297DOC_START
2298
69742b76 2299 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
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69742b76 2301 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
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2304 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2305 default for trusted origin server certificates.
aebe6888 2306 signUntrusted
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2308 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2309 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
aebe6888 2310 signSelf
69742b76 2311 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
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2314 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2317
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2319 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2320 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2321 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2322 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2325 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2326 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2327 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2328 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2329 bump-server-first is used.
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2332NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2333IFDEF: USE_SSL
2334DEFAULT: none
2335TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2336LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2337DOC_START
2338
2339 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2340
69742b76 2341 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
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2344 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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2347 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
2348 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2349 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2350 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2351 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2352 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2353 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2355 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2356
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2358 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2359 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2360 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2361 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2362 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2364 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2365 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2366 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2367 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2368 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2369 bump-server-first is used.
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2371
41bd17a4 2372NAME: sslpassword_program
2373IFDEF: USE_SSL
2374DEFAULT: none
2375LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2376TYPE: string
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41bd17a4 2378 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2379 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2380 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2381 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2383 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2384 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2385 keys.
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2387
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2389 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2390 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2391COMMENT_END
2392
2393NAME: sslcrtd_program
2394TYPE: eol
2395IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2396DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2397LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2398DOC_START
2399 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2400 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2401 For more information use:
2402 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2403DOC_END
2404
2405NAME: sslcrtd_children
2406TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2407IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2408DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2409LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2410DOC_START
2411 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2412 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2413
2414 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2415 tuning.
2416
2417 startup=N
2418
2419 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2420 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2421 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2422
2423 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2424 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2425
2426 idle=N
2427
2428 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2429 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2430 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2431 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2432
2433 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2434DOC_END
2435
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2437TYPE: eol
2438IFDEF: USE_SSL
2439DEFAULT: none
2440LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
2441DOC_START
2442 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
2443 process.
2444DOC_END
2445
2446NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
2447TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2448IFDEF: USE_SSL
413bb969 2449DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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2450LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
2451DOC_START
2452 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2453 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2454
2455 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2456 tuning.
2457
2458 startup=N
2459
2460 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2461 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2462 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2463
2464 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2465 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2466
2467 idle=N
2468
2469 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2470 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2471 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2472 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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2474 concurrency=
2475
2476 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
2477 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the certficate validator
2478 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2479
2480 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
2481 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
2482 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
2483 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
2484 to that request.
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2486 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
2487DOC_END
2488
cccac0a2 2489COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2490 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2491 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2492COMMENT_END
2493
41bd17a4 2494NAME: cache_peer
2495TYPE: peer
2496DEFAULT: none
2497LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2498DOC_START
41bd17a4 2499 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2501 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
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41bd17a4 2503 For example,
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41bd17a4 2505 # proxy icp
2506 # hostname type port port options
2507 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2508 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2509 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2510 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2511 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2513
2514 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2515
2516 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2517 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2518 For web servers this is usually 80
2519
2520 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2521 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2522 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2523
2524
2525 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2526
2527 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2528 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2529
2530
2531 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2532
2533 multicast-responder
2534 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2535 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2536 replies will be accepted from it.
2537
2538 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2539 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2540
2541 background-ping
2542 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2543 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2544 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2545
2546
2547 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2548
2549 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2550 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2551
2552
2553 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2554 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2556 list of options described below.
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18191440 2558 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2559
18191440 2560 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2561 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2562 only-clr.
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2564 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2565 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2567 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2568 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2569 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2570
18191440 2571 htcp=forward-clr
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2572 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2573
2574
2575 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2576
2577 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2578 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2579
2580
2581 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2582 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2583 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2584
2585 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2586 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2587 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2588
2589 weighted-round-robin
2590 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2591 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2592 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2593 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2594 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2595
2596 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2597 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2598 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2599
2600 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2601
2602 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2604 multicast-siblings
2605 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2606 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2607 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2609 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2610 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2611 members of the same multicast group.
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2613
2614 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2615
2616 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2617 peer-selection mechanisms.
2618 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2619 larger weights are favored more.
2620 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2621 protocol is not in use.
2622
2623 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2624 times of parents.
2625 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2626 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2627 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2628
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2629 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2630 to this address.
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2631 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2632 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2633 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2634 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2635
2636 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2637 delay pools.
2638
2639 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2640 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2641 than the Squid default location.
2642
2643
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2645
2646 carp-key=key-specification
2647 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2648 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2649 scheme, host, port, path, params
2650 Order is not important.
2651
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2653
2654 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2655 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2656 is a web server.
2657
2658 forceddomain=name
2659 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2660 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2661 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2662 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2663
2664 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2665
2666 no-netdb-exchange
2667 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2668
2669
2670 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2671
2672 login=user:password
2673 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2674 requires proxy authentication.
2675
2676 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2677 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2678
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2679 login=PASSTHRU
2680 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2681 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2682 without alteration to the peer.
2683 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2684
2685 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2686 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2687 connection-auth options are also used.
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2689 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2690 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2692 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2693 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2695 they may be sent instead.
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2696
2697 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2698 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2699 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2700 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2701 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2702
2703 login=*:password
2704 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2705 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2706 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2707 needed to identify each user.
2708 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2709 information which is added to the username. This can
2710 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2711 the login=username:password option above.
2712
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2713 login=NEGOTIATE
2714 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2715 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2716 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2717 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2718
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2720 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2721 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2722
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2723 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2724 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2725 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2726 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2727 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2728 used.
2729
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2731 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2732 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2733
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2734 connection-auth=on|off
2735 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2736 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2737 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2738 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2739 of the peer.
2740
2741
2742 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2743
2744 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2745
2746 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2747 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2748 this peer.
2749
2750 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2751 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2752 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2753 reference a combined file containing both the
2754 certificate and the key.
2755
3d96b0e8 2756 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2757 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2758 1 = automatic (default)
2759 2 = SSL v2 only
2760 3 = SSL v3 only
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2761 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2762 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2763 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2764
2765 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2766 to this peer.
2767
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2769
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2770 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2771 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2772 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2773 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2774 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2775 SINGLE_DH_USE
2776 Always create a new key when using
2777 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2778 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2779 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2780 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2781 strength to some attacks.
2782
2783 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2784 more complete list.
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2786 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2787 when verifying the peer certificate.
2788
2789 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2790 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2791
2792 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2793 verifying the peer certificate.
2794
2795 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2796
41bd17a4 2797 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2798 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2799 verify.
2800 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2801 Don't use the default CA list built in
2802 to OpenSSL.
2803 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2804 Don't verify the peer certificate
2805 matches the server name
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2807 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2808 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2809 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2810 used.
2811
2812 front-end-https
2813 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2814 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2815 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2816 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2817 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2818
2819
2820 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2821
2822 connect-timeout=N
2823 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2824 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2825
2826 connect-fail-limit=N
2827 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2828 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2829
2830 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2831 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2832 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2833 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2834 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2835 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2836 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2837
2838 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2839 peer. see also
2840
2841 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2842 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2843 but different ports.
2844 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2845 directives to dentify the peer.
2846 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2847 peername ACL type.
2848
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2849 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2850 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2851
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2852 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2853
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41bd17a4 2856NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2857TYPE: hostdomain
2858DEFAULT: none
2859LOC: none
2860DOC_START
2861 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2862 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2863
41bd17a4 2864 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2865 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2866
41bd17a4 2867 For example, specifying
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41bd17a4 2869 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2870
41bd17a4 2871 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2872 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2873 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2874 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2875 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2876
41bd17a4 2877 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2878 either on the same or separate lines.
2879 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2880 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2881 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2882 for all requests.
2883 * There are no defaults.
2884 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2885 section.
2886DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2888NAME: cache_peer_access
2889TYPE: peer_access
2890DEFAULT: none
2891LOC: none
2892DOC_START
2893 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2894 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2895
41bd17a4 2896 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 2898 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2899 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2900 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2901DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2903NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2904TYPE: hostdomaintype
2905DEFAULT: none
2906LOC: none
2907DOC_START
2908 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2909
41bd17a4 2910 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2911 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2912 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2913 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2914 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2915 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
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41bd17a4 2917EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2918 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2919 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2920 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2921DOC_END
6bf4f823 2922
41bd17a4 2923NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2924COMMENT: (seconds)
2925DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2926TYPE: time_t
2927LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2928DOC_START
2929 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2930 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2931 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2932 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2933 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2934 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
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41bd17a4 2936 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2937 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2938 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2939 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2940 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2941 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2942 instead of to your parents.
2943DOC_END
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2945NAME: forward_max_tries
2946DEFAULT: 10
2947TYPE: int
2948LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2949DOC_START
2950 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2951 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2953 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2954 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2956
41bd17a4 2957NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2958TYPE: wordlist
2959DEFAULT: none
2960LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2961DOC_START
2962 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2963 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2964 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2965 list this option multiple times.
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2968 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2969
2970 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2971DOC_END
0976f8db 2972
41bd17a4 2973COMMENT_START
2974 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2975 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2976COMMENT_END
2977
2978NAME: cache_mem
2979COMMENT: (bytes)
2980TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2981DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2982LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2983DOC_START
41bd17a4 2984 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2985 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2986 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2987 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2988
2989 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2990 for:
2991 * In-Transit objects
2992 * Hot Objects
2993 * Negative-Cached objects
2994
2995 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2996 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2997 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2998 priority.
2999
3000 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3001 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3002 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3003 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3004 not needed for in-transit objects.
3005
3006 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3007 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3008 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3009 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3010 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3011 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3012 objects.
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3013
3014 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3015 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3016 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3017 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3018DOC_END
0976f8db 3019
41bd17a4 3020NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3021COMMENT: (bytes)
3022TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3023DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3024LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3025DOC_START
41bd17a4 3026 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3027 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3028 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3029 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3030DOC_END
0976f8db 3031
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3032NAME: memory_cache_shared
3033COMMENT: on|off
3034TYPE: YesNoNone
3035LOC: Config.memShared
3036DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3037DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3038DOC_START
3039 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3040
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3041 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3042 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3043 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3044 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3045 caching is enabled).
3046
65b81b27 3047 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3048 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3049 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3050 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3051 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3052
3053 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3054 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3055 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3056
3057 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3058DOC_END
3059
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3060NAME: memory_cache_mode
3061TYPE: memcachemode
3062LOC: Config
3063DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 3064DOC_START
ea21d497 3065 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3066
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3067 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3068
3069 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3070 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3071 a second time before cached in memory.
3072
3073 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3074DOC_END
3075
41bd17a4 3076NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3077TYPE: removalpolicy
3078LOC: Config.memPolicy
3079DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3080DOC_START
41bd17a4 3081 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3082 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3083
41bd17a4 3084 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
3085DOC_END
6b698a21 3086
41bd17a4 3087COMMENT_START
3088 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3089 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3090COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3091
41bd17a4 3092NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3093TYPE: removalpolicy
3094LOC: Config.replPolicy
3095DEFAULT: lru
3096DOC_START
3097 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3098 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3099
41bd17a4 3100 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3101 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3102 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3103 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3104
41bd17a4 3105 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 3106
41bd17a4 3107 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3108
41bd17a4 3109 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3110 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3111 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3112 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3113
41bd17a4 3114 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3115 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3116 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3117 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3118
41bd17a4 3119 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3120 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3121 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3122
41bd17a4 3123 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3124 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
3125 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3126
41bd17a4 3127 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3128 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3129 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3130DOC_END
0976f8db 3131
41bd17a4 3132NAME: cache_dir
3133TYPE: cachedir
3134DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3135LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 3136DOC_START
41bd17a4 3137 Usage:
0976f8db 3138
41bd17a4 3139 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3140
41bd17a4 3141 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3142 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3143
41bd17a4 3144 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3145 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3146 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3147
41bd17a4 3148 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3149 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3150 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3151 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3152 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 3153
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3154 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3155 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3156 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3157
41bd17a4 3158 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 3159
41bd17a4 3160 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3161 been there.
0976f8db 3162
41bd17a4 3163 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3164
41bd17a4 3165 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3166 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3167 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3168 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3169 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3170
56fba4d0 3171 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3172 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3173
56fba4d0 3174 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3175 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3176 is 256.
0976f8db 3177
41bd17a4 3178 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 3179
41bd17a4 3180 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3181 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3182 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3183
41bd17a4 3184 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3185
41bd17a4 3186 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3187
41bd17a4 3188 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 3189
41bd17a4 3190 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3191 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3192 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3193
41bd17a4 3194 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3195
41bd17a4 3196 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3197
41bd17a4 3198 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3199 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3200 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3201
41bd17a4 3202 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3203 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3204 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3205
41bd17a4 3206 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3207 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3208 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3209 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3210 time.
0976f8db 3211
2e55f083 3212 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 3213
df881a0f 3214 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 3215
2e55f083 3216 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3217 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
3218 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3219 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3220 below for more info on the max-size option.
3221
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3222 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3223 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3224 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3225 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3226 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3227 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3228 expected swap wait time.
3229
df881a0f 3230 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3231 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3232 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3233 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3234 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3235 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3236 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3237 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3238 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3239 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3240 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3241 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3242 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3243 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3244
3245
41bd17a4 3246 The coss store type:
0976f8db 3247
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3248 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3249 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3250 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3251
41bd17a4 3252 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3253 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3254 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3255 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3256 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3257 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3258 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 3259
41bd17a4 3260 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3261 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3262 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 3263
41bd17a4 3264 Common options:
0976f8db 3265
41bd17a4 3266 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 3267
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3268 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
3269 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
3270 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
3271 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
3272
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3273 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
3274 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 3275 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
3276 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
3277 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 3278
41bd17a4 3279 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3280 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3281 option.
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3283
3284# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3285#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3286NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3287DOC_END
0976f8db 3288
41bd17a4 3289NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3290TYPE: string
3291LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3292DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3293DOC_START
41bd17a4 3294 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 3295DOC_END
0976f8db 3296
41bd17a4 3297NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3298TYPE: int
3299LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3300DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 3301DOC_START
41bd17a4 3302 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3303 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3304 descriptors are open.
3305
3306 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3307DOC_END
0976f8db 3308
41bd17a4 3309NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 3310COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 3311TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 3312DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 3313LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 3314DOC_START
41bd17a4 3315 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3316 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3317 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 3318DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3320NAME: maximum_object_size
3321COMMENT: (bytes)
3322TYPE: b_int64_t
3323DEFAULT: 4096 KB
3324LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 3325DOC_START
41bd17a4 3326 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3327 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
3328 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3329 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3330 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
3331 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 3332
41bd17a4 3333 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3334 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3335 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 3336DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3338NAME: cache_swap_low
3339COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3340TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3341DEFAULT: 90
3342LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
3343DOC_NONE
3344
3345NAME: cache_swap_high
3346COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3347TYPE: int
3348DEFAULT: 95
3349LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3350DOC_START
41bd17a4 3351
3352 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
3353 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3354 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3355 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3356 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3357 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3358
3359 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3360 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3361 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 3362DOC_END
0976f8db 3363
5473c134 3364COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3365 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3366 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3367COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3368
41bd17a4 3369NAME: logformat
3370TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3371LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3372DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 3373DOC_START
41bd17a4 3374 Usage:
0976f8db 3375
41bd17a4 3376 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3377
41bd17a4 3378 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3379
41bd17a4 3380 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3381
41bd17a4 3382 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3383 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3384 as required according to their context and the output format
3385 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3386 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3387
41bd17a4 3388 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3389
41bd17a4 3390 " output in quoted string format
3391 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3392 # output in URL quoted format
3393 ' output as-is
5473c134 3394
41bd17a4 3395 - left aligned
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3397 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3398 [width_min][.width_max]
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3400 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3401
41bd17a4 3402 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3403
41bd17a4 3404 Format codes:
5473c134 3405
3ff65596 3406 % a literal % character
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3407 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3408 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3409 a similar internal error identifier.
3410 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
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3411 note The meta header specified by the argument. Also
3412 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3413 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
3414 If no argument given all meta headers logged.
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3415
3416 Connection related format codes:
3417
41bd17a4 3418 >a Client source IP address
3419 >A Client FQDN
3420 >p Client source port
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3421 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3422 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3423 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3424
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3425 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3426 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3427
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3428 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3429 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3430 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3431 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3432 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3433
3434 Time related format codes:
3435
41bd17a4 3436 ts Seconds since epoch
3437 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3438 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3439 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3440 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3441 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3442 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3444
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3445 Access Control related format codes:
3446
3447 et Tag returned by external acl
3448 ea Log string returned by external acl
3449 un User name (any available)
3450 ul User name from authentication
3451 ue User name from external acl helper
3452 ui User name from ident
3453 us User name from SSL
3454
3455 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3456
ca2e92d8 3457 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3458 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3459 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3460 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3461 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3462 as for >h
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3463 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3464 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3465 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3466 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3467 transfer encoding and control messages.
3468 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3469 received bodies.
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3470 [http::]mt MIME content type
3471 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3472 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3473 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3474 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3475 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3476 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3477 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3478 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3479 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3480 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3481 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3482 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3483 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3484 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3485 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3486 are not included
3487 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3488 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3489 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3490 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3491 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3492 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3493 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3494 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3495 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3496 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3497 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3498 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3499
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3501
3502 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3503 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3504
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3505 SSL-related format codes:
3506
3507 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3508
3509 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3510 a connection and for any request received on
3511 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3512 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3513 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3514 more information about these modes.
3515
3516 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3517 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3518 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3519
3520 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3521 logged.
3522
5038f9d8 3523 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3525
3526 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3527 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3528 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3529 transaction is in progress.
3530
5038f9d8 3531 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3532
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3534 meta-information from the last eCAP
3535 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3536 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3537 argument.
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3539 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3540 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3541 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3542 value is recorded as an integer number,
3543 representing response time of one or more
3544 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3545 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3546 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3547 logged individually but added to the
3548 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3549 adapt::all_trs.
3550
3551 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3552 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3553 individual transactions are never added
3554 together. Instead, all transaction response
3555 times are recorded individually.
3556
3557 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3558 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3559 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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3561 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3562
3563 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3564 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3565 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3566 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3567 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3568
3569 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3570 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3571 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3572 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3573 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3574
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3576
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3578logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3579logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3580logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3581logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3582
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3583 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3584 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3585 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3586
3587 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3588 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3589
5473c134 3590DOC_END
3591
41bd17a4 3592NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3593TYPE: access_log
3594LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3595DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3596DOC_START
41bd17a4 3597 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3598 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3599 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3600 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3602 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3603 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3604 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3605 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3606
3607 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3608
bb7a1781 3609 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3610 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3611
3612 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3613 each request.
3614 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3615
3616 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3617 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3618 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3619
3620 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3621
3622 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3623 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3624 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3625
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3627 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3628
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3629 And priority could be any of:
3630 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3631
3632 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3633 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3634 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3635
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3636 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3637 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3638 Place Format: //host:port
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3640 Default:
82b7abe3 3641 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3642DOC_END
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3644NAME: icap_log
3645TYPE: access_log
3646IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3647LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3648DEFAULT: none
3649DOC_START
3650 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3651 transaction.
3652
3653 The icap_log option format is:
3654 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3655 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3656
3657 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3658 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3659 features.
3660
3661 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3662 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3663 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3664 log line.
3665
3666 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3667 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3668 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3669 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3670 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3671 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3672 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3673
3674 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3675
3676 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3677
3678 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3679 option in Squid configuration file.
3680
3681 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3682
3683 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3684 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3685
3686 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3687 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3688
3689 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3690 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3691 the socket).
3692
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3693 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3694 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3695 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3696 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3697 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3698 computed.
3699
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3701 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3702 the ICAP transaction is created and
3703 stops when the transaction is completed.
3704 Similar to tr.
3705
3706 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3707 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3708 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3709 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3710 is received.
3711
3712 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3713 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3714 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3715 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3716 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3717 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3718
3719 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3720
3721 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3722
3723 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3724
3725 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3726 definition, is called icap_squid:
3727
3728logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3729
5038f9d8 3730 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3732
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3733NAME: logfile_daemon
3734TYPE: string
3735DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3736LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3737DOC_START
3738 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3739 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3740
3741 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3742 L<data>\n - logfile data
3743 R\n - rotate file
3744 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3745 O\n - reopen file
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3746 F\n - flush file
3747 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3748 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3749
3750 No responses is expected.
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3751DOC_END
3752
5b0f5383 3753NAME: log_access
3754TYPE: acl_access
3755LOC: Config.accessList.log
3756DEFAULT: none
3757COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3758DOC_START
3759 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3760 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3761 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3762
3763 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3764 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3765DOC_END
3766
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3767NAME: log_icap
3768TYPE: acl_access
3769IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3770LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3771DEFAULT: none
3772DOC_START
3773 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3774 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3775DOC_END
3776
41bd17a4 3777NAME: cache_store_log
3778TYPE: string
df2eec10 3779DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3780LOC: Config.Log.store
3781DOC_START
3782 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3783 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 3784 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 3785 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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3786 disable it (the default).
3787
3788 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
3789 of modules supported.
3790
e0855596 3791 Example:
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3792 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
3793 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3794DOC_END
3795
41bd17a4 3796NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3797TYPE: string
3798LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3799DEFAULT: none
3800DOC_START
41bd17a4 3801 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3802 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3803 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3804 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3805 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3806 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3807 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3808
41bd17a4 3809 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3810 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3811 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3812 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3813
41bd17a4 3814 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3815 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3816
41bd17a4 3817 cache_swap_log.00
3818 cache_swap_log.01
3819 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3820
41bd17a4 3821 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3822 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3823 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3824 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3825 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3826 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3827 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3828DOC_END
3829
41bd17a4 3830NAME: logfile_rotate
3831TYPE: int
3832DEFAULT: 10
3833LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3834DOC_START
41bd17a4 3835 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3836 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3837 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3838 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3839 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3840 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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41bd17a4 3842 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3843 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3844 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3845 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3846 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3847 <pid>'.
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3848
3849 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3850 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3851DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3853NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3854TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3855DOC_START
20efa1c2 3856 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3857DOC_END
3858
41bd17a4 3859NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3860TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3861DOC_START
8652f8e7 3862 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3863DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3865NAME: mime_table
3866TYPE: string
3867DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3868LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3869DOC_START
3870 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3871 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3872 information if you do.
5473c134 3873DOC_END
3874
41bd17a4 3875NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3876COMMENT: on|off
3877TYPE: onoff
3878LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3879DEFAULT: off
3880DOC_START
3881 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3882 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3883 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3884 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3885 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3886DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3888NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3889TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3890DOC_START
20efa1c2 3891 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3892DOC_END
3893
41bd17a4 3894NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3895TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3896DOC_START
20efa1c2 3897 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3898DOC_END
3899
41bd17a4 3900NAME: pid_filename
3901TYPE: string
3902DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3903LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3904DOC_START
41bd17a4 3905 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3906DOC_END
3907
41bd17a4 3908NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3909TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3910DOC_START
c581e96b 3911 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3912DOC_END
3913
41bd17a4 3914NAME: client_netmask
3915TYPE: address
3916LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3917DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3918DOC_START
41bd17a4 3919 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3920 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3921 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3922 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3923DOC_END
3924
41bd17a4 3925NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3926TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3927DOC_START
20efa1c2 3928 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3929DOC_END
3930
41bd17a4 3931NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3932TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3933LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3934DEFAULT: on
3935DOC_START
41bd17a4 3936 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3937 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3938DOC_END
3939
41bd17a4 3940NAME: buffered_logs
3941COMMENT: on|off
3942TYPE: onoff
3943DEFAULT: off
3944LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3945DOC_START
41bd17a4 3946 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3947 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3948 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3949 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3950 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 3951DOC_END
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2b753521 3953NAME: netdb_filename
3954TYPE: string
221faecb 3955DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3956LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3957IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3958DOC_START
3959 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3960 To disable, enter "none".
3961DOC_END
3962
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3963COMMENT_START
3964 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3965 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3966COMMENT_END
3967
3968NAME: cache_log
3969TYPE: string
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3970DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3971LOC: Debug::cache_log
3972DOC_START
3973 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3974 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3975 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3976DOC_END
3977
3978NAME: debug_options
3979TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3980DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3981LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3982DOC_START
3983 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3984 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3985 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3986 log file, so be careful.
3987
3988 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3989 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3990
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3991 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3992 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3993 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3994 events affecting Squid.
3995DOC_END
3996
3997NAME: coredump_dir
3998TYPE: string
3999LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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4000DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
4001DOC_START
4002 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4003 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4004 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4005 and coredump files will be left there.
4006
4007NOCOMMENT_START
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4010coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4011NOCOMMENT_END
4012DOC_END
4013
4014
41bd17a4 4015COMMENT_START
4016 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4017 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4018COMMENT_END
4019
4020NAME: ftp_user
4021TYPE: string
4022DEFAULT: Squid@
4023LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4024DOC_START
41bd17a4 4025 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
4026 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
4027 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4028
41bd17a4 4029 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4030 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4031 depending on how the cache is used.
4032 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
4033 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4034DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4036NAME: ftp_passive
4037TYPE: onoff
4038DEFAULT: on
4039LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4040DOC_START
41bd17a4 4041 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4042 connections, turn off this option.
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4044 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4045DOC_END
4046
4047NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4048TYPE: onoff
4049DEFAULT: off
4050LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4051DOC_START
4052 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4053
4054 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4055 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4056 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4057
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4059 useful.
a689bd4e 4060 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4061 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4062
4063 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4064 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4065
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4067DOC_END
4068
4069NAME: ftp_epsv
4070TYPE: onoff
4071DEFAULT: on
4072LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
4073DOC_START
4074 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4075
4076 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4078 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4079 will never be needed.
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4081 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
4082 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4083 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
4084
4085 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4086DOC_END
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4088NAME: ftp_eprt
4089TYPE: onoff
4090DEFAULT: on
4091LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4092DOC_START
4093 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4094
4095 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4096 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4097 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4098
4099 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4100 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4101
4102 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4103 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4104 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4105 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4106
4107 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4108 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4109DOC_END
4110
41bd17a4 4111NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4112TYPE: onoff
4113DEFAULT: on
4114LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4115DOC_START
4116 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4117 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4118 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4119 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4120 connection turn this off.
4121DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4122
41bd17a4 4123NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4124TYPE: onoff
4125DEFAULT: on
4126LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4127DOC_START
4128 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4129 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4130 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4131 the FTP protocol.
4132
4133 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4134 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4135 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4136 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4137 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4138DOC_END
4139
4140COMMENT_START
4141 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4142 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4143COMMENT_END
4144
4145NAME: diskd_program
4146TYPE: string
4147DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4148LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4149DOC_START
4150 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4151 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4152 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4153DOC_END
4154
4155NAME: unlinkd_program
4156IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4157TYPE: string
4158DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4159LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4160DOC_START
4161 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4162DOC_END
4163
4164NAME: pinger_program
4165TYPE: string
4166DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4167LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4168IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4169DOC_START
4170 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4171DOC_END
4172
cc192b50 4173NAME: pinger_enable
4174TYPE: onoff
4175DEFAULT: on
4176LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4177IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4178DOC_START
4179 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4180 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4181 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4182DOC_END
4183
4184
41bd17a4 4185COMMENT_START
4186 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4187 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4188COMMENT_END
4189
4190NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4191TYPE: wordlist
4192LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4193DEFAULT: none
4194DOC_START
2c7aad89 4195 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4196 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4197
2c7aad89 4198 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4199
24eac830 4200 [channel-ID <SP>] URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kv-pairs]<NL>
5269ec0e 4201
c71adec1 4202
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4203 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4204
24eac830 4205 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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4206
4207 The result code can be:
4208
4209 OK status=30N url="..."
4210 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4211 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4212 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4213 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4214 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
c71adec1 4215
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4216 OK rewrite-url="..."
4217 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4218 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4219 the client as the response to its request.
4220
4221 ERR
4222 Do not change the URL.
4223
4224 BH
4225 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
4226 a result being identified.
4227
4228
4229 In the future, the interface protocol will be extended with
24eac830 4230 key=value pairs ("kv-pairs" shown above). Helper programs
c71adec1 4231 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4232 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4233
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4234 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4235 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4236 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4237 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4238 of the response relating to its request.
4239
4240 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
4241 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 4242
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4243 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
4244 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
4245 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
4246 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
4247 interface.
41bd17a4 4248
4249 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4250DOC_END
4251
4252NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4253TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4254DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4255LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4256DOC_START
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4257 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4258 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4259 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4260 and other system resources noticably.
4261
4262 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4263 tuning.
4264
4265 startup=
4266
4267 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4268 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4269 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4270
4271 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4272 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4273
4274 idle=
4275
4276 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4277 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4278 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4279 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4280
4281 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4282
41bd17a4 4283 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4284 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4285 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4286
4287 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4288 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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4289 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4290 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
41bd17a4 4291DOC_END
4292
4293NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4294TYPE: onoff
4295DEFAULT: on
4296LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4297DOC_START
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4298 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4299 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4300 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4301
4302 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4303 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4304 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4305
41bd17a4 4306 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4307 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4308
4309 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4310 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4311 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4312DOC_END
4313
4314NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4315TYPE: acl_access
4316DEFAULT: none
4317LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4318DOC_START
4319 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4320 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
4321 are sent.
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4322
4323 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4324 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4325DOC_END
4326
4327NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4328TYPE: onoff
4329LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4330DEFAULT: off
4331DOC_START
4332 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4333 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4334 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4335 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4336 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4337 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4338 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4339 users may have access to pages they should not
4340 be allowed to request.
4341DOC_END
4342
4343COMMENT_START
4344 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4345 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4346COMMENT_END
4347
f04b37d8 4348NAME: cache no_cache
4349TYPE: acl_access
4350DEFAULT: none
4351LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4352DOC_START
240887f0 4353 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 4354 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4355 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 4356
240887f0 4357 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4358 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 4359
240887f0 4360 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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4361
4362 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4363 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4364DOC_END
4365
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4366NAME: max_stale
4367COMMENT: time-units
4368TYPE: time_t
4369LOC: Config.maxStale
4370DEFAULT: 1 week
4371DOC_START
4372 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4373 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4374 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4375DOC_END
4376
41bd17a4 4377NAME: refresh_pattern
4378TYPE: refreshpattern
4379LOC: Config.Refresh
4380DEFAULT: none
4381DOC_START
4382 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 4383
6b698a21 4384 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4385 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 4386
41bd17a4 4387 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4388 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4389 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4390 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4391 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 4392
41bd17a4 4393 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4394 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4395 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 4396
41bd17a4 4397 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4398 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 4399
41bd17a4 4400 options: override-expire
4401 override-lastmod
4402 reload-into-ims
4403 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 4404 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 4405 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 4406 ignore-private
4407 ignore-auth
570d3f75 4408 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 4409 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 4410 store-stale
a0ec9f68 4411
41bd17a4 4412 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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4413 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4414 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4415 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4416 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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4418 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4419 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4420 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4421 the object fresh for that period of time.
4422
41bd17a4 4423 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4424 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 4425
41bd17a4 4426 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
4427 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
4428 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4429 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 4430
41bd17a4 4431 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4432 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4433 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4434 it causes.
9bc73deb 4435
41bd17a4 4436 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4437 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4438 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4439 liable for problems which it causes.
4440
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4441 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4442 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4443 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4444 liable for problems which it causes.
4445
41bd17a4 4446 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4447 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4448 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4449 liable for problems which it causes.
4450
4451 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4452 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4453 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4454 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4455 it causes.
4456
4457 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4458 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4459 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4460 if one is available.
4461
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4462 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4463 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4464 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4465 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4466 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4467
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4468 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4469 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4470 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4471
41bd17a4 4472 Basically a cached object is:
4473
4474 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4475 STALE if age > max
4476 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4477 FRESH if age < min
4478 else STALE
4479
4480 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4481 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4482 match the default will be used.
4483
4484 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4485 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4486 used.
4487
41bd17a4 4488NOCOMMENT_START
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4489
4490# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 4491refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4492refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4493refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4494refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4495NOCOMMENT_END
4496DOC_END
4497
4498NAME: quick_abort_min
4499COMMENT: (KB)
4500TYPE: kb_int64_t
4501DEFAULT: 16 KB
4502LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4503DOC_NONE
4504
4505NAME: quick_abort_max
4506COMMENT: (KB)
4507TYPE: kb_int64_t
4508DEFAULT: 16 KB
4509LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4510DOC_NONE
4511
4512NAME: quick_abort_pct
4513COMMENT: (percent)
4514TYPE: int
4515DEFAULT: 95
4516LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4517DOC_START
4518 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4519 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4520 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4521 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4522 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4523 downloads.
4524
4525 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4526 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4527 then.
4528
4529 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4530 it will finish the retrieval.
4531
4532 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4533 it will abort the retrieval.
4534
4535 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4536 it will finish the retrieval.
4537
4538 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4539 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4540 to '0 KB'.
4541
4542 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4543 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4544DOC_END
60d096f4 4545
41bd17a4 4546NAME: read_ahead_gap
4547COMMENT: buffer-size
4548TYPE: b_int64_t
4549LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4550DEFAULT: 16 KB
4551DOC_START
4552 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4553 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4554DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4556NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4557IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4558COMMENT: time-units
4559TYPE: time_t
4560LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4561DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4562DOC_START
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4563 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4564 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4565 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4566 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4567 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4568 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4569
4570 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4571
4572 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4573 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4574 causes.
41bd17a4 4575DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4577NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4578COMMENT: time-units
4579TYPE: time_t
4580LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4581DEFAULT: 6 hours
4582DOC_START
4583 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4584 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4585 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4586DOC_END
c4ab8329 4587
41bd17a4 4588NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4589COMMENT: time-units
4590TYPE: time_t
4591LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4592DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4593DOC_START
4594 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4595 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4596 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4597 much below 10 seconds.
4598DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4600NAME: range_offset_limit
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4601COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4602TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4603LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4604DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4605DOC_START
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4606 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4607
4608 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4609 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4610 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4611 the result is NOT cached.
4612
41bd17a4 4613 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4614 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4615 sending anything to the client.
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4616
4617 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4618 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4619 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4620 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4621
4622 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4623
4624 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4625 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4626
4627 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4628 client requested. (default)
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4629
4630 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4631 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4632
4633 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4634
4635 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4636 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4637 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4638 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4639DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4641NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4642COMMENT: (seconds)
4643TYPE: time_t
4644LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4645DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4646DOC_START
4647 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4648 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4649 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4650 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4651 is most likely better to make your server return a
4652 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4653 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4654 often be best set to 0.
4655DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4657NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4658COMMENT: (bytes)
4659TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4660DEFAULT: 13 KB
4661LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4662DOC_START
4663 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4664 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4665DOC_END
4666
41bd17a4 4667NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4668TYPE: int
4669DEFAULT: 20
4670LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4671DOC_START
4672 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4673 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4674 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4675DOC_END
4676
4677COMMENT_START
4678 HTTP OPTIONS
4679 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4680COMMENT_END
4681
f04b37d8 4682NAME: request_header_max_size
4683COMMENT: (KB)
4684TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4685DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4686LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4687DOC_START
4688 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4689 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4690 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4691 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4692 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4693DOC_END
4694
4695NAME: reply_header_max_size
4696COMMENT: (KB)
4697TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4698DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4699LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4700DOC_START
4701 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4702 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4703 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4704 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4705 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4706DOC_END
4707
4708NAME: request_body_max_size
4709COMMENT: (bytes)
4710TYPE: b_int64_t
4711DEFAULT: 0 KB
4712LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4713DOC_START
4714 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4715 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4716 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4717 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4718 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4719 be no limit imposed.
4720DOC_END
4721
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4722NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4723COMMENT: (bytes)
4724TYPE: b_size_t
4725DEFAULT: 512 KB
4726LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4727DOC_START
4728 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4729 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4730 a large file.
4731DOC_END
4732
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4733NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4734COMMENT: (bytes)
4735TYPE: b_int64_t
4736DEFAULT: 64 KB
4737LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4738DOC_START
4739 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4740 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4741 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4742 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4743 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4744 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4745
4746 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4747 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4748 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4749 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4750 as if dechunking was disabled.
4751
4752 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4753 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4754
4755 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4756 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4757 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4758DOC_END
4759
41bd17a4 4760NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4761IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4762TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4763DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4764LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4765DOC_START
41bd17a4 4766 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4767 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4768
41bd17a4 4769 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4770 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4771
41bd17a4 4772 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4773
41bd17a4 4774 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4775 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4776 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4777 a request with an extra CRLF.
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4779 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4780 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4781
41bd17a4 4782Example:
4783 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4784 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4785DOC_END
cccac0a2 4786
22fff3bf 4787NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4788COMMENT: on|off
4789TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4790IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4791DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4792LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4793DOC_START
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4794 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4795 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4796
4797 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4798DOC_END
4799
41bd17a4 4800NAME: via
626096be 4801IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4802COMMENT: on|off
4803TYPE: onoff
4804DEFAULT: on
4805LOC: Config.onoff.via
4806DOC_START
4807 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4808 replies as required by RFC2616.
4809DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4810
41bd17a4 4811NAME: ie_refresh
4812COMMENT: on|off
4813TYPE: onoff
4814LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4815DEFAULT: off
4816DOC_START
4817 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4818 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4819 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4820 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4821 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4822 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4823 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4824 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4825 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4826 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4827 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4828 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4829 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4830 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4831 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4832 force fresh content.
4833DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 4834
41bd17a4 4835NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4836COMMENT: on|off
4837TYPE: onoff
4838LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4839DEFAULT: off
4840DOC_START
4841 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4842 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4843 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4844 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4845 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4846
4847 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4848 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4849DOC_END
c4ab8329 4850
41bd17a4 4851NAME: request_entities
4852TYPE: onoff
4853LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4854DEFAULT: off
4855DOC_START
4856 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4857 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4858 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4859
41bd17a4 4860 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4861 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4862 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4863 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4864 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4865DOC_END
6b53c392 4866
41bd17a4 4867NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4868IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4869TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4870LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4871DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4872DOC_START
41bd17a4 4873 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4874
41bd17a4 4875 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4876 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4877 causes.
0976f8db 4878
41bd17a4 4879 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4880 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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4881 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
4882 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
4883
4884 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
4885 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
4886 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
4887 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
4888 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4889
4890 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
4891 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
4892 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
4893
4894 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
4895 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
4896 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
4897 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
4898
4899 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
4900 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
4901 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
4902 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
4903 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
4904 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 4905
41bd17a4 4906 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4907 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4908
41bd17a4 4909 request_header_access From deny all
4910 request_header_access Referer deny all
4911 request_header_access Server deny all
4912 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4913 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4914 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4915
41bd17a4 4916 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4917 you should use:
5401aa8d 4918
41bd17a4 4919 request_header_access Allow allow all
4920 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4921 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4922 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4923 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4924 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4925 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4926 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4927 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4928 request_header_access Date allow all
4929 request_header_access Expires allow all
4930 request_header_access Host allow all
4931 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4932 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4933 request_header_access Location allow all
4934 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4935 request_header_access Accept allow all
4936 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4937 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4938 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4939 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4940 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4941 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4942 request_header_access Title allow all
4943 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4944 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4945
41bd17a4 4946 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4947 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4948
41bd17a4 4949 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4950 performed).
5401aa8d 4951DOC_END
4952
41bd17a4 4953NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4954IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4955TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4956LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4957DEFAULT: none
4958DOC_START
41bd17a4 4959 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4960
41bd17a4 4961 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4962 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4963 causes.
934b03fc 4964
41bd17a4 4965 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4966 server to the client.
934b03fc 4967
41bd17a4 4968 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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4969 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
4970 documentation.
cccac0a2 4971
41bd17a4 4972 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4973 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4974
41bd17a4 4975 reply_header_access From deny all
4976 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4977 reply_header_access Server deny all
4978 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4979 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4980 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4981
41bd17a4 4982 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4983 you should use:
cccac0a2 4984
41bd17a4 4985 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4986 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4987 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4988 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4989 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4990 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4991 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4992 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4993 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4994 reply_header_access Date allow all
4995 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4996 reply_header_access Host allow all
4997 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4998 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4999 reply_header_access Location allow all
5000 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
5001 reply_header_access Accept allow all
5002 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5003 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5004 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
5005 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
5006 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
5007 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
5008 reply_header_access Title allow all
5009 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5010 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 5011
41bd17a4 5012 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
5013 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 5014
41bd17a4 5015 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5016 performed).
cccac0a2 5017DOC_END
5018
75e4f2ea 5019NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 5020IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5021TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 5022LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5023DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5024DOC_START
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5025 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
5026 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 5027
41bd17a4 5028 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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5029 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
5030 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 5031 option.
cccac0a2 5032
41bd17a4 5033 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 5034
41bd17a4 5035 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5036DOC_END
cccac0a2 5037
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5038NAME: reply_header_replace
5039IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5040TYPE: http_header_replace
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5041LOC: Config.reply_header_access
5042DEFAULT: none
5043DOC_START
5044 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
5045 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
5046
5047 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5048 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
5049 with some fixed string.
5050
5051 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
5052
5053 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5054DOC_END
5055
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5056NAME: request_header_add
5057TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
5058LOC: Config.request_header_add
5059DEFAULT: none
5060DOC_START
5061 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
5062 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
5063
5064 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
5065 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
5066 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
5067 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
5068 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5069
5070 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
5071 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
5072 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
5073 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
5074 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
5075 header field values are not merged.
5076
5077 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
5078 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
5079 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
5080
5081 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
5082 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
5083 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
5084 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
5085 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
5086 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
5087 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
5088 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
5089
5090 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
5091 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
5092 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
5093 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
5094 only.
5095DOC_END
5096
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5097NAME: note
5098TYPE: note
5099LOC: Config.notes
5100DEFAULT: none
5101DOC_START
5102 This option used to log custom information about the master
5103 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
5104 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
5105 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
5106 authentication information.
5107 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
5108
5109 note key value acl ...
5110 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
5111DOC_END
5112
41bd17a4 5113NAME: relaxed_header_parser
5114COMMENT: on|off|warn
5115TYPE: tristate
5116LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
5117DEFAULT: on
5118DOC_START
5119 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
5120 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
5121 what the sending application intended even if the message
5122 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
5123 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 5124
41bd17a4 5125 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
5126 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 5127
41bd17a4 5128 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
5129 or response to be rejected.
5130DOC_END
7d90757b 5131
41bd17a4 5132COMMENT_START
5133 TIMEOUTS
5134 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5135COMMENT_END
5136
5137NAME: forward_timeout
5138COMMENT: time-units
5139TYPE: time_t
5140LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
5141DEFAULT: 4 minutes
5142DOC_START
5143 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
5144 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 5145DOC_END
5146
41bd17a4 5147NAME: connect_timeout
5148COMMENT: time-units
5149TYPE: time_t
5150LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
5151DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 5152DOC_START
41bd17a4 5153 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5154 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
5155 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 5156DOC_END
5157
41bd17a4 5158NAME: peer_connect_timeout
5159COMMENT: time-units
5160TYPE: time_t
5161LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
5162DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5163DOC_START
41bd17a4 5164 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
5165 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
5166 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
5167 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
5168DOC_END
7f7db318 5169
41bd17a4 5170NAME: read_timeout
5171COMMENT: time-units
5172TYPE: time_t
5173LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5174DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5175DOC_START
5176 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5177 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5178 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5179 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5180 default is 15 minutes.
5181DOC_END
cccac0a2 5182
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5183NAME: write_timeout
5184COMMENT: time-units
5185TYPE: time_t
5186LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5187DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5188DOC_START
5189 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5190 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5191 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5192 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5193 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5194 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5195 default is 15 minutes.
5196DOC_END
5197
41bd17a4 5198NAME: request_timeout
5199TYPE: time_t
5200LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5201DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5202DOC_START
6b2a2108 5203 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5204 connection establishment.
5205DOC_END
cccac0a2 5206
97b32442 5207NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5208TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5209LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5210DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5211DOC_START
5212 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5213 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5214DOC_END
cccac0a2 5215
41bd17a4 5216NAME: client_lifetime
5217COMMENT: time-units
5218TYPE: time_t
5219LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5220DEFAULT: 1 day
5221DOC_START
5222 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5223 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5224 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5225 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5226 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5227 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5228 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 5229
41bd17a4 5230 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5231 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5232 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5233 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5234 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5235 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5236DOC_END
5237
41bd17a4 5238NAME: half_closed_clients
5239TYPE: onoff
5240LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5241DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5242DOC_START
41bd17a4 5243 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5244 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5245 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5246 fully-closed TCP connection.
5247
5248 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5249 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5250
abdf1651 5251 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5252 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5253 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5254 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5255DOC_END
5256
97b32442 5257NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5258TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5259LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5260DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5261DOC_START
41bd17a4 5262 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5263 proxies.
5264DOC_END
cccac0a2 5265
41bd17a4 5266NAME: ident_timeout
5267TYPE: time_t
5268IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5269LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5270DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5271DOC_START
5272 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5273
41bd17a4 5274 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5275 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5276 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5277DOC_END
5278
41bd17a4 5279NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5280COMMENT: time-units
5281TYPE: time_t
5282LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5283DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5284DOC_START
41bd17a4 5285 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5286 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5287 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5288 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5289 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5290DOC_END
0976f8db 5291
cccac0a2 5292COMMENT_START
5293 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5294 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5295COMMENT_END
5296
5297NAME: cache_mgr
5298TYPE: string
5299DEFAULT: webmaster
5300LOC: Config.adminEmail
5301DOC_START
5302 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
5303 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
5304DOC_END
5305
abacf776 5306NAME: mail_from
5307TYPE: string
5308DEFAULT: none
5309LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5310DOC_START
5311 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
5312 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 5313 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 5314 src/globals.h before building squid.
5315DOC_END
5316
d084bf20 5317NAME: mail_program
5318TYPE: eol
5319DEFAULT: mail
5320LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5321DOC_START
5322 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5323 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5324 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5325 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5326
d084bf20 5327 Optional command line options can be specified.
5328DOC_END
5329
cccac0a2 5330NAME: cache_effective_user
5331TYPE: string
5483d916 5332DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5333LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5334DOC_START
5335 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5336 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5337 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5338 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5339DOC_END
5340
cccac0a2 5341NAME: cache_effective_group
5342TYPE: string
5343DEFAULT: none
5344LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5345DOC_START
64e288bd 5346 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5347 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5348 from the groups membership.
5349
e3d74828 5350 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5351 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5352 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5353 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5354 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5355 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5356 group.
64e288bd 5357
5358 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5359 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5360 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5361DOC_END
5362
d3caee79 5363NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5364COMMENT: on|off
5365TYPE: onoff
5366DEFAULT: off
5367LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5368DOC_START
5369 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5370DOC_END
5371
cccac0a2 5372NAME: visible_hostname
5373TYPE: string
5374LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5375DEFAULT: none
5376DOC_START
5377 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 5378 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 5379 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5380 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5381 names with this setting.
5382DOC_END
5383
cccac0a2 5384NAME: unique_hostname
5385TYPE: string
5386LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5387DEFAULT: none
5388DOC_START
5389 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 5390 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5391 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 5392DOC_END
5393
cccac0a2 5394NAME: hostname_aliases
5395TYPE: wordlist
5396LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5397DEFAULT: none
5398DOC_START
7f7db318 5399 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 5400DOC_END
0976f8db 5401
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5402NAME: umask
5403TYPE: int
5404LOC: Config.umask
5405DEFAULT: 027
5406DOC_START
5407 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5408 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5409
5410 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5411 your value with 0.
5412DOC_END
5413
cccac0a2 5414COMMENT_START
5415 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5416 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5417
5418 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5419 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5420 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5421 create cache hierarchies.
5422
5423 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5424 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5425 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5426
5427 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5428 following information from this configuration file:
5429
5430 http_port
5431 icp_port
5432 cache_mgr
5433
5434 All current information is processed regularly and made
5435 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5436COMMENT_END
5437
5438NAME: announce_period
5439TYPE: time_t
5440LOC: Config.Announce.period
5441DEFAULT: 0
5442DOC_START
5443 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
5444 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
5445 messages.
5446
e0855596 5447 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 5448
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5449 Example:
5450 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 5451DOC_END
5452
cccac0a2 5453NAME: announce_host
5454TYPE: string
5455DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5456LOC: Config.Announce.host
5457DOC_NONE
5458
5459NAME: announce_file
5460TYPE: string
5461DEFAULT: none
5462LOC: Config.Announce.file
5463DOC_NONE
5464
5465NAME: announce_port
ae870270 5466TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 5467DEFAULT: 3131
5468LOC: Config.Announce.port
5469DOC_START
5470 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
5471 number where the registration message will be sent.
5472
5473 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
5474 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
5475 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
5476 message.
5477DOC_END
5478
8d6275c0 5479COMMENT_START
5480 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5481 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5482COMMENT_END
5483
cccac0a2 5484NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5485TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5486DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5487LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5488DOC_START
5489 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5490 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5491 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5492 an identification token.
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5493
5494 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5495DOC_END
5496
5497NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5498COMMENT: on|off
5499TYPE: onoff
5500DEFAULT: off
5501LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5502DOC_START
5503 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
5504 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5505DOC_END
5506
5507NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5508IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5509COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5510TYPE: string
5511LOC: ESIParser::Type
5512DEFAULT: custom
5513DOC_START
5514 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5515 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5516 encodings.
5517DOC_END
0976f8db 5518
9edd9041 5519COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5520 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5521 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5522COMMENT_END
5523
5524NAME: delay_pools
5525TYPE: delay_pool_count
5526DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5527IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5528LOC: Config.Delay
5529DOC_START
5530 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5531 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5532 have a total of 2 delay pools.
5533DOC_END
5534
5535NAME: delay_class
5536TYPE: delay_pool_class
5537DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5538IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5539LOC: Config.Delay
5540DOC_START
5541 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5542 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5543 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5544 and here would be:
5545
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5546 Example:
5547 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5548 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5549 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5550 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5551 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5552
5553 The delay pool classes are:
5554
5555 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5556 bucket.
5557
5558 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5559 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5560 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5561
5562 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5563 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5564 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5565 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5566 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5567
5568 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5569 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5570 only takes effect if the username is established
5571 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5572 http_access rules.
5573
5574 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5575 external_acl's tag= reply).
5576
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5577
5578 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5579 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5580 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5581
9edd9041 5582 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5583 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5584 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5585 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5586
5587 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5588 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5589DOC_END
5590
5591NAME: delay_access
5592TYPE: delay_pool_access
5593DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5594IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5595LOC: Config.Delay
5596DOC_START
5597 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5598
5599 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5600 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5601 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5602 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5603
5604 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5605 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5606
5607Example:
5608 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5609 delay_access 1 deny all
5610 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5611 delay_access 2 deny all
5612 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5613DOC_END
5614
5615NAME: delay_parameters
5616TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5617DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5618IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5619LOC: Config.Delay
5620DOC_START
5621 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5622 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5623 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5624
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5625 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5626 delay_pools pool 1
5627 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5628
5629 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5630 delay_pools pool 2
5631 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5632
5633 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5634 delay_pools pool 3
5635 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5636
5637 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5638 delay_pools pool 4
5639 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5640
5641 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5642 delay_pools pool 5
5643 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5644
0b68481a 5645 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5646
5647 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5648 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5649 delay_class lines.
5650
fdb47ac6 5651 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5652 (class 1, 2, 3).
5653
fdb47ac6 5654 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5655 buckets (class 2, 3).
5656
fdb47ac6 5657 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5658 (class 3).
5659
fdb47ac6 5660 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5661 (class 4).
5662
fdb47ac6 5663 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5664 (class 5).
5665
5666 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5667 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5668 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5669 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5670
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5671 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5672
5673
9edd9041 5674 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5675 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5676 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5677
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5678 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5679
5680 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5681
5682 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5683
0b68481a 5684
9edd9041 5685 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5686 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5687 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5688 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5689 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5690 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5691 large downloads more significantly:
5692
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5693 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5694
5695 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5696 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5697 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5698
9edd9041 5699
5700 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5701 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5702
0b68481a 5703 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5704DOC_END
5705
5706NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5707COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5708TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5709DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5710IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5711LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5712DOC_START
5713 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5714 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5715 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5716 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5717 "seen" by squid).
5718DOC_END
5719
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5720COMMENT_START
5721 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5722 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5723COMMENT_END
5724
5725NAME: client_delay_pools
5726TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5727DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5728IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5729LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5730DOC_START
5731 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5732 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5733
5734Example:
5735 client_delay_pools 2
5736DOC_END
5737
5738NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5739COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5740TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5741DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5742IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5743LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5744DOC_START
5745 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5746 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5747 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5748 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5749
5750 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5751 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5752 from client_delay_parameters.
5753
5754Example:
5755 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5756DOC_END
5757
5758NAME: client_delay_parameters
5759TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5760DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5761IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5762LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5763DOC_START
5764
5765 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5766 following format:
5767
5768 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5769
5770 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5771
5772 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5773
5774 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5775 speed_limit additions.
5776
5777 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5778 examples.
5779
5780Example:
5781 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5782 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5783DOC_END
5784
5785NAME: client_delay_access
5786TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5787DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5788IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5789LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5790DOC_START
5791
5792 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5793 request:
5794
5795 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5796
5797 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5798 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5799 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5800 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5801 limited.
5802
5803 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5804 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5805 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5806 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5807
5808 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5809
5810Example:
5811 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5812 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5813DOC_END
5814
cccac0a2 5815COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5816 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5817 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5818COMMENT_END
5819
8d6275c0 5820NAME: wccp_router
5821TYPE: address
5822LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5823DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5824IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5825DOC_START
5826 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5827 Squid.
5828
5829 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5830
5831 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5832
5833 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5834 which version of WCCP to use.
5835DOC_END
df2eec10 5836
8d6275c0 5837NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5838TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5839LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5840DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5841IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5842DOC_START
8d6275c0 5843 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5844 Squid.
cccac0a2 5845
8d6275c0 5846 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5847
8d6275c0 5848 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5849
8d6275c0 5850 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5851 which version of WCCP to use.
5852DOC_END
5853
5854NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5855TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5856LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5857DEFAULT: 4
5858IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5859DOC_START
8d6275c0 5860 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5861 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5862 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5863 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5864 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5865
8d6275c0 5866 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5867 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5868 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5869 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5870DOC_END
5871
8d6275c0 5872NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5873TYPE: onoff
5874LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5875DEFAULT: on
5876IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5877DOC_START
5878 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5879 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5880DOC_END
cccac0a2 5881
8d6275c0 5882NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5883TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5884LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5885DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5886IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5887DOC_START
699acd19 5888 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5889 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5890
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5891 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5892 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5893
8d6275c0 5894 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5895 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5896DOC_END
5897
8d6275c0 5898NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5899TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5900LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5901DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5902IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5903DOC_START
699acd19 5904 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5905 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5906 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5907
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5908 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5909 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5910
8d6275c0 5911 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5912 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5913
699acd19 5914 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5915 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5916 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5917 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5918DOC_END
5919
8d6275c0 5920NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5921TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5922LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5923DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5924IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5925DOC_START
8d6275c0 5926 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5927 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5928
451c4786 5929 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5930 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5931
8d6275c0 5932 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5933 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5934DOC_END
cccac0a2 5935
8d6275c0 5936NAME: wccp2_service
5937TYPE: wccp2_service
5938LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5939DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5940IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5941DOC_START
5942 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5943 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5944 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5945 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5946 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5947 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5948
5949 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5950 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5951
5952 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5953 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5954
5955 Examples:
5956
5957 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5958 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5959 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5960 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5961DOC_END
5962
5963NAME: wccp2_service_info
5964TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5965LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5966DEFAULT: none
5967IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5968DOC_START
5969 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5970 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5971
5972 The format is:
5973
5974 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5975 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5976
5977 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5978 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5979 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5980 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5981 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5982 + ports_source
5983
5984 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5985
5986 Example:
5987
5988 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5989 priority=240 ports=80
5990
5991 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5992 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5993DOC_END
5994
5995NAME: wccp2_weight
5996TYPE: int
5997LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5998DEFAULT: 10000
5999IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6000DOC_START
6001 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
6002 hash proportional to their weight.
6003DOC_END
6004
6005NAME: wccp_address
6006TYPE: address
6007LOC: Config.Wccp.address
6008DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
6009IFDEF: USE_WCCP
6010DOC_NONE
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8d6275c0 6012NAME: wccp2_address
6013TYPE: address
6014LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
6015DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
6016IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6017DOC_START
6018 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
6019 interface address.
6020
6021 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6022DOC_END
6023
6024COMMENT_START
6025 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
6026 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6027
6028 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
6029COMMENT_END
6030
6031NAME: client_persistent_connections
6032TYPE: onoff
6033LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
6034DEFAULT: on
6035DOC_NONE
6036
6037NAME: server_persistent_connections
6038TYPE: onoff
6039LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
6040DEFAULT: on
6041DOC_START
6042 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
6043 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
6044 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
6045 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
6046DOC_END
6047
6048NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
6049TYPE: onoff
6050LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 6051DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 6052DOC_START
6053 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
6054 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
6055 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
6056DOC_END
6057
6058NAME: detect_broken_pconn
6059TYPE: onoff
6060LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
6061DEFAULT: off
6062DOC_START
6063 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
6064 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
6065 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
6066 has mostly been seen on redirects.
6067
6068 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
6069 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
6070 after 10 seconds timeout.
6071DOC_END
6072
6073COMMENT_START
6074 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
6075 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6076COMMENT_END
6077
6078NAME: digest_generation
6079IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6080TYPE: onoff
6081LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
6082DEFAULT: on
6083DOC_START
6084 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
6085 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 6086 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 6087DOC_END
6088
6089NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
6090IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6091TYPE: int
6092LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
6093DEFAULT: 5
6094DOC_START
6095 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
6096 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
6097 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
6098DOC_END
6099
6100NAME: digest_rebuild_period
6101IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6102COMMENT: (seconds)
6103TYPE: time_t
6104LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
6105DEFAULT: 1 hour
6106DOC_START
749ceff8 6107 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 6108DOC_END
6109
6110NAME: digest_rewrite_period
6111COMMENT: (seconds)
6112IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6113TYPE: time_t
6114LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
6115DEFAULT: 1 hour
6116DOC_START
749ceff8 6117 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 6118 disk.
6119DOC_END
6120
6121NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
6122COMMENT: (bytes)
6123TYPE: b_size_t
6124IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6125LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
6126DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
6127DOC_START
6128 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
6129 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
6130 default swap page.
6131DOC_END
6132
6133NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
6134COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
6135IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6136TYPE: int
6137LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
6138DEFAULT: 10
6139DOC_START
6140 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
6141 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
6142DOC_END
6143
1db9eacd 6144COMMENT_START
5473c134 6145 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 6146 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6147COMMENT_END
6148
5473c134 6149NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 6150TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6151LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 6152DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 6153IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6154DOC_START
87630341 6155 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
6156 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
6157 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
6158 set to "0" (disabled)
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6159
6160 Example:
6161 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 6162DOC_END
6163
5473c134 6164NAME: snmp_access
6165TYPE: acl_access
6166LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 6167DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6168IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6169DOC_START
5473c134 6170 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 6171
5473c134 6172 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6173 usage:
8d6275c0 6174
5473c134 6175 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 6176
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6177 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6178 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 6179Example:
6180 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6181 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 6182DOC_END
6183
5473c134 6184NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6185TYPE: address
6186LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6187DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 6188IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
6189DOC_NONE
df2eec10 6190
5473c134 6191NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6192TYPE: address
6193LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6194DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6195IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6196DOC_START
df2eec10 6197 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6198
5473c134 6199 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6200 messages from SNMP agents.
6201 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6202 agents.
cccac0a2 6203
0eb08770 6204 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 6205 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 6206
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6207 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6208 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6209 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6210 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6211
5473c134 6212 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
6213 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 6214DOC_END
6215
5473c134 6216COMMENT_START
6217 ICP OPTIONS
6218 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6219COMMENT_END
6220
6221NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6222TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6223DEFAULT: 0
6224LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6225DOC_START
5473c134 6226 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6227 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
6228 Default is disabled (0).
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6229
6230 Example:
6231 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6232DOC_END
6233
5473c134 6234NAME: htcp_port
6235IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6236TYPE: u_short
87630341 6237DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 6238LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6239DOC_START
5473c134 6240 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6241 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
6242 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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6243
6244 Example:
6245 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6246DOC_END
6247
6248NAME: log_icp_queries
6249COMMENT: on|off
6250TYPE: onoff
6251DEFAULT: on
6252LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6253DOC_START
6254 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6255 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6256 up or to simplify log analysis.
6257DOC_END
6258
5473c134 6259NAME: udp_incoming_address
6260TYPE: address
6261LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6262DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 6263DOC_START
6264 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6265 caches.
6266
6267 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6268
6269 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6270 a specific interface/address.
6271
6272 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6273 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6274
6275 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6276
6277 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6278 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6279DOC_END
cccac0a2 6280
5473c134 6281NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6282TYPE: address
6283LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6284DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 6285DOC_START
8524d4b2 6286 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6287 caches.
cccac0a2 6288
5473c134 6289 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6290
8524d4b2 6291 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6292 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6293 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6294 caches.
6295
8524d4b2 6296 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6297 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6298
6299 see also; udp_incoming_address
6300
5473c134 6301 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6302 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6303DOC_END
6304
3d1e3e43 6305NAME: icp_hit_stale
6306COMMENT: on|off
6307TYPE: onoff
6308DEFAULT: off
6309LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6310DOC_START
6311 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6312 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6313 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6314 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6315 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6316 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6317 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6318DOC_END
6319
5473c134 6320NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 6321TYPE: int
5473c134 6322DEFAULT: 4
6323LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 6324DOC_START
5473c134 6325 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6326 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 6327DOC_END
6328
5473c134 6329NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
6330TYPE: int
6331DEFAULT: 400
6332LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 6333DOC_START
5473c134 6334 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6335 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 6336DOC_END
6337
cccac0a2 6338NAME: netdb_low
6339TYPE: int
6340DEFAULT: 900
6341LOC: Config.Netdb.low
6342DOC_NONE
6343
6344NAME: netdb_high
6345TYPE: int
6346DEFAULT: 1000
6347LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6348DOC_START
6349 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
6350 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6351 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
6352 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
6353DOC_END
6354
cccac0a2 6355NAME: netdb_ping_period
6356TYPE: time_t
6357LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6358DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6359DOC_START
6360 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6361 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6362 network. The default is five minutes.
6363DOC_END
6364
cccac0a2 6365NAME: query_icmp
6366COMMENT: on|off
6367TYPE: onoff
6368DEFAULT: off
6369LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6370DOC_START
6371 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6372 replies, enable this option.
6373
6374 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 6375 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6376 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 6377 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6378 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6379 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6380 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6381 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6382DOC_END
6383
6384NAME: test_reachability
6385COMMENT: on|off
6386TYPE: onoff
6387DEFAULT: off
6388LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6389DOC_START
6390 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6391 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6392 database, or has a zero RTT.
6393DOC_END
6394
5473c134 6395NAME: icp_query_timeout
6396COMMENT: (msec)
6397DEFAULT: 0
6398TYPE: int
6399LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 6400DOC_START
5473c134 6401 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6402 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6403 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6404 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6405 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6406 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 6407
5473c134 6408 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 6409DOC_END
6410
5473c134 6411NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6412COMMENT: (msec)
6413DEFAULT: 2000
6414TYPE: int
6415LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 6416DOC_START
5473c134 6417 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6418 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6419 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6420 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6421 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6422 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6423DOC_END
6424
5473c134 6425NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6426COMMENT: (msec)
6427DEFAULT: 5
6428TYPE: int
6429LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 6430DOC_START
5473c134 6431 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6432 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6433 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6434 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6435 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6436 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6437 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6438DOC_END
6439
5473c134 6440NAME: background_ping_rate
6441COMMENT: time-units
6442TYPE: time_t
6443DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6444LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 6445DOC_START
5473c134 6446 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6447 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 6448DOC_END
6449
5473c134 6450COMMENT_START
6451 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6452 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6453COMMENT_END
6454
6455NAME: mcast_groups
6456TYPE: wordlist
6457LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 6458DEFAULT: none
6459DOC_START
5473c134 6460 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6461 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 6462
5473c134 6463 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6464 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6465 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6466 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6467 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6468 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6469 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 6470
5473c134 6471 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6472 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 6473
5473c134 6474 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
6475 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 6476
5473c134 6477 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 6478
5473c134 6479 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6480DOC_END
8c01ada0 6481
5473c134 6482NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6483IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6484TYPE: address
6485LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 6486DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6487DOC_START
6488 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6489 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 6490
5473c134 6491 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6492 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 6493DOC_END
6494
5473c134 6495NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6496IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6497TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6498LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6499DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 6500DOC_START
5473c134 6501 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6502 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6503 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6504DOC_END
cccac0a2 6505
5473c134 6506NAME: mcast_miss_port
6507IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6508TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6509LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6510DEFAULT: 3135
6511DOC_START
6512 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6513 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6514DOC_END
cccac0a2 6515
5473c134 6516NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6517IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6518TYPE: string
6519LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6520DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6521DOC_START
6522 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6523 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6524DOC_END
8c01ada0 6525
5473c134 6526NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6527COMMENT: (msec)
6528DEFAULT: 2000
6529TYPE: int
6530LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6531DOC_START
6532 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6533 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6534 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6535 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6536 seconds.
cccac0a2 6537DOC_END
6538
5473c134 6539COMMENT_START
6540 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6541 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6542COMMENT_END
6543
cccac0a2 6544NAME: icon_directory
6545TYPE: string
6546LOC: Config.icons.directory
6547DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6548DOC_START
6549 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6550 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6551DOC_END
6552
f024c970 6553NAME: global_internal_static
6554TYPE: onoff
6555LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6556DEFAULT: on
6557DOC_START
6558 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6559 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6560 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6561 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6562 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6563 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6564 the server generating a directory listing.
6565DOC_END
6566
5473c134 6567NAME: short_icon_urls
6568TYPE: onoff
6569LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6570DEFAULT: on
6571DOC_START
6572 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6573 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6574 it's own name and port in the URL.
6575
6576 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6577 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6578DOC_END
6579
6580COMMENT_START
6581 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6582 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6583COMMENT_END
6584
6585NAME: error_directory
6586TYPE: string
6587LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6588DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6589DOC_START
6590 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6591 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6592 the error/template files to another directory and point
6593 this tag at them.
6594
6595 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6596 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6597
6598 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6599 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6600 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6601 contributing your translation back to the project.
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6602 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6603
6604 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6605 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6606DOC_END
6607
6608NAME: error_default_language
6609IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6610TYPE: string
6611LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6612DEFAULT: none
6613DOC_START
6614 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6615 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6616 preferences.
6617
6618 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6619
6620 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6621 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6622 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6623 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6624DOC_END
6625
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6626NAME: error_log_languages
6627IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6628TYPE: onoff
6629LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6630DEFAULT: on
6631DOC_START
6632 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6633 auto-negotiate for translations.
6634
6635 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6636 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6637 of its error page translations.
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6638DOC_END
6639
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6640NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6641TYPE: string
6642LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6643DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6644DOC_START
6645 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6646
6647 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6648DOC_END
6649
5473c134 6650NAME: err_html_text
6651TYPE: eol
6652LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6653DEFAULT: none
6654DOC_START
6655 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6656 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6657 organizations Web page.
6658
6659 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6660 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6661 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6662 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6663DOC_END
6664
6665NAME: email_err_data
6666COMMENT: on|off
6667TYPE: onoff
6668LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6669DEFAULT: on
6670DOC_START
6671 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6672 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6673 so that the email body contains the data.
6674 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6675DOC_END
6676
6677NAME: deny_info
6678TYPE: denyinfo
6679LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6680DEFAULT: none
6681DOC_START
6682 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6683 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6684 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6685
6686 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6687 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6688 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6689 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6690
6691 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6692 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6693 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6694 the first authentication related acl encountered
6695 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6696 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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6697 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6698 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6699
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6700 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6701 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6702 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6703
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6704 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6705 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6706 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6707
5473c134 6708 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6709 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6710
6711 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6712 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6713 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6714 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6715 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6716
6717 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6718 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6719 %B - FTP path URL
6720 %e - Error number
6721 %E - Error description
6722 %h - Squid hostname
6723 %H - Request domain name
6724 %i - Client IP Address
6725 %M - Request Method
6726 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6727 %p - Request Port number
6728 %P - Request Protocol name
6729 %R - Request URL path
6730 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6731 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6732 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6733 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6734 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6735 %x - Error name
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6736 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6737
5473c134 6738DOC_END
6739
6740COMMENT_START
6741 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6742 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6743COMMENT_END
6744
6745NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6746TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6747LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6748DEFAULT: on
6749DOC_START
5473c134 6750 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6751 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6752 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6753
5473c134 6754 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6755 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6756
5473c134 6757 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6758 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6759 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6760
5473c134 6761 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6762 this directive.
8d6275c0 6763DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6764
5473c134 6765NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6766TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6767LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6768DEFAULT: off
6769DOC_START
5473c134 6770 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6771 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6772 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6773
5473c134 6774 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6775 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6776 fails.
6777
6778 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6779 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6780 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6781DOC_END
6782
5473c134 6783NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6784TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6785LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6786DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6787DOC_START
5473c134 6788 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6789
5473c134 6790 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6791 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6792 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6793 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6794 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6795
5473c134 6796 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6797 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6798
5473c134 6799 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6800
5473c134 6801 acl FTP proto FTP
6802 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6803
5473c134 6804 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6805 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6806 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6807 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6808 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6809
5473c134 6810 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6811 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6812 always_direct deny local-external
6813 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6814
5473c134 6815 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6816 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6817 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6818 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6819
5473c134 6820 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6821 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6822 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6823
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6824 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6825 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6826DOC_END
0976f8db 6827
5473c134 6828NAME: never_direct
6829TYPE: acl_access
6830LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6831DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6832DOC_START
5473c134 6833 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6834
6835 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6836 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6837
6838 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6839 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6840 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6841 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6842
6843 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6844 never_direct deny local-servers
6845 never_direct allow all
6846
6847 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6848 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6849
6850 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6851 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6852 always_direct deny local-external
6853 always_direct allow local-intranet
6854 never_direct allow all
6855
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6856 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6857 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6858DOC_END
0976f8db 6859
5473c134 6860COMMENT_START
6861 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6862 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6863COMMENT_END
6864
65d448bc 6865NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 6866TYPE: int
6867DEFAULT: 6
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6868LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
6869DOC_START
6870 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6871 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6872 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6873DOC_END
cccac0a2 6874
65d448bc 6875NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 6876TYPE: int
6877DEFAULT: 4
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6878LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
6879DOC_START
6880 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6881 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6882 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6883DOC_END
cccac0a2 6884
6885NAME: incoming_dns_average
6886TYPE: int
6887DEFAULT: 4
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6888LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
6889DOC_START
6890 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6891 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6892 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6893DOC_END
cccac0a2 6894
65d448bc 6895NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6896TYPE: int
6897DEFAULT: 8
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6898LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
6899DOC_START
6900 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6901 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6902 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6903DOC_END
cccac0a2 6904
6905NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6906TYPE: int
6907DEFAULT: 8
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6908LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
6909DOC_START
6910 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6911 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6912 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6913DOC_END
cccac0a2 6914
65d448bc 6915NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6916TYPE: int
6917DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 6918LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 6919DOC_START
5473c134 6920 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6921 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6922 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6923DOC_END
6924
6925NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6926TYPE: string
6927DEFAULT: none
6928LOC: Config.accept_filter
6929DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6930 FreeBSD:
6931
5473c134 6932 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6933 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6934 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6935
6936 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6937 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6938 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6939
6940 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6941 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6942 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6943
6944 Linux:
6945
6946 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6947 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6948 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6949 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6950 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6951EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6952# FreeBSD
5473c134 6953accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6954# Linux
6955accept_filter data
5473c134 6956DOC_END
6957
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6958NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6959TYPE: int
6960LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6961DEFAULT: -1
6962DOC_START
6963 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6964 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6965 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6966
6967 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6968 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6969
6970 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6971
6972 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6973 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6974DOC_END
6975
5473c134 6976NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6977COMMENT: (bytes)
6978TYPE: b_size_t
6979DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6980LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6981DOC_START
6982 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6983 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6984 the default buffer size.
6985DOC_END
6986
6987COMMENT_START
6988 ICAP OPTIONS
6989 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6990COMMENT_END
6991
6992NAME: icap_enable
6993TYPE: onoff
6994IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6995COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6996LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6997DEFAULT: off
6998DOC_START
53e738c6 6999 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 7000DOC_END
7001
7002NAME: icap_connect_timeout
7003TYPE: time_t
7004DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7005LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 7006IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7007DOC_START
7008 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7009 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
7010 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
7011
7012 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
7013 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
7014 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
7015DOC_END
7016
7017NAME: icap_io_timeout
7018COMMENT: time-units
7019TYPE: time_t
7020DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7021LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 7022IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7023DOC_START
7024 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
7025 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
7026 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
7027 failure.
7028
7029 The default is read_timeout.
7030DOC_END
7031
7032NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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7033COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
7034TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 7035IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 7036LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7037DEFAULT: 10
7038DOC_START
7039 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
7040 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
7041 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
7042 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 7043 OPTIONS.
5473c134 7044
7045 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
7046 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
7047 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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7048
7049 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
7050 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
7051 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
7052 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
7053 value into ten time slots of equal length.
7054
7055 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
7056 effect on service failure expiration.
7057
7058 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
7059 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
7060 setting.
7061
7062 For example,
7063 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
7064 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 7065DOC_END
7066
5473c134 7067NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 7068TYPE: int
5473c134 7069IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7070LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 7071DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 7072DOC_START
5473c134 7073 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
7074 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
7075 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
7076 fetched.
cccac0a2 7077
5473c134 7078 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
7079 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 7080DOC_END
7081
5473c134 7082NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 7083TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7084IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7085COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7086LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 7087DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7088DOC_START
ac7a62f9 7089 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
7090 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
7091 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
7092 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
7093
7094 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
7095 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
7096 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
7097
7098 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
7099 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
7100Example:
7101icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 7102DOC_END
7103
5473c134 7104NAME: icap_preview_size
7105TYPE: int
7106IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7107LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 7108DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 7109DOC_START
53e738c6 7110 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
7111 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
7112 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 7113DOC_END
7114
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7115NAME: icap_206_enable
7116TYPE: onoff
7117IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7118COMMENT: on|off
7119LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
7120DEFAULT: on
7121DOC_START
7122 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
7123 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
7124 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
7125 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
7126
7127 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
7128 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
7129 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
7130 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
7131 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
7132
7133 Example:
7134 icap_206_enable off
7135DOC_END
7136
5473c134 7137NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
7138TYPE: int
7139IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7140LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 7141DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 7142DOC_START
53e738c6 7143 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 7144 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 7145DOC_END
7146
5473c134 7147NAME: icap_persistent_connections
7148TYPE: onoff
7149IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7150COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7151LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 7152DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7153DOC_START
5473c134 7154 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
7155 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 7156DOC_END
7157
22fff3bf 7158NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 7159TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7160IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7161COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7162LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 7163DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7164DOC_START
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7165 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
7166 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
7167 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
7168
7169 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 7170DOC_END
7171
22fff3bf 7172NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 7173TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7174IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7175COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7176LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 7177DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7178DOC_START
5473c134 7179 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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7180 the adaptation service.
7181
7182 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 7183 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7184 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 7185DOC_END
7186
5473c134 7187NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7188TYPE: string
5473c134 7189IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7190LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7191DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7192DOC_START
db49f682 7193 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7194DOC_END
7195
5473c134 7196NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7197TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7198IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7199COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7200LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7201DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7202DOC_START
5473c134 7203 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7204DOC_END
7205
5473c134 7206NAME: icap_service
7207TYPE: icap_service_type
7208IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7209LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7210DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7211DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7212 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7213
c25c2836 7214 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 7215
c25c2836
CT
7216 id: ID
7217 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7218 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7219 services in squid.conf.
a22e6cd3
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7220
7221 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7222 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7223 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7224 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7225
c25c2836 7226 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
a22e6cd3
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7227 ICAP server and service location.
7228
7229 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7230 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7231 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7232 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7233 service_names differ.
7234
7235
7236 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7237 the following name=value options:
7238
7239 bypass=on|off|1|0
7240 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7241 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7242 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7243 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7244 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7245 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7246 returned to the HTTP client.
7247
7248 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7249
7250 routing=on|off|1|0
7251 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7252 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7253 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7254 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7255 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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7256 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7257 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7258 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7259
7260 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7261 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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7262
7263 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7264 response header is ignored.
7265
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7266 ipv6=on|off
7267 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
7268 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
7269 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
7270
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7271 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
7272 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
7273 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
7274 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
7275 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
7276 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
7277 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
7278
7279 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
7280 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
7281 workers may use a given service.
7282
7283 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
7284 otherwise it is set to "wait".
7285
7286
7287 max-conn=number
7288 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7289 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7290
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7291 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7292 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 7293
5473c134 7294Example:
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7295icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7296icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 7297DOC_END
7298
5473c134 7299NAME: icap_class
7300TYPE: icap_class_type
7301IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7302LOC: none
5473c134 7303DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7304DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7305 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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7306 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7307 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 7308
62c7f90e 7309 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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7310 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7311 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 7312DOC_END
7313
5473c134 7314NAME: icap_access
7315TYPE: icap_access_type
7316IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7317LOC: none
cccac0a2 7318DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7319DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7320 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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7321 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7322 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 7323DOC_END
7324
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7325COMMENT_START
7326 eCAP OPTIONS
7327 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7328COMMENT_END
7329
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7330NAME: ecap_enable
7331TYPE: onoff
7332IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7333COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 7334LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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7335DEFAULT: off
7336DOC_START
7337 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7338DOC_END
7339
7340NAME: ecap_service
7341TYPE: ecap_service_type
7342IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 7343LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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7344DEFAULT: none
7345DOC_START
7346 Defines a single eCAP service
7347
c25c2836 7348 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 7349
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7350 id: ID
7351 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7352 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7353 services in squid.conf.
7354
7355 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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7356 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7357 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7358 are not yet supported.
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7359
7360 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7361 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7362 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7363 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7364 the service provider.
7365
7366
7367 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7368 the following name=value options:
7369
7370 bypass=on|off|1|0
7371 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7372 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7373 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 7374 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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7375 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7376 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 7377 HTTP client.
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7378
7379 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7380
7381 routing=on|off|1|0
7382 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7383 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7384 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7385
7386 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7387 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7388
7389 Routing is not allowed by default.
7390
7391 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7392 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7393
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7395Example:
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7396ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7397ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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7398DOC_END
7399
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7400NAME: loadable_modules
7401TYPE: wordlist
7402IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7403LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7404DEFAULT: none
7405DOC_START
7406 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7407 preloaded module(s).
7408Example:
7409loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7410DOC_END
7411
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7412COMMENT_START
7413 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7414 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7415COMMENT_END
7416
7417NAME: adaptation_service_set
7418TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7419IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7420LOC: none
7421DEFAULT: none
7422DOC_START
7423
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7424 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
7425 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7426
7427 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7428
7429 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7430 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7431 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7432 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7433 intact.
62c7f90e 7434
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7435 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7436 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 7437
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7438 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7439 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7440
7441 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7442 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7443 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7444 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7445 transaction fails as well.
7446
7447 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7448 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7449 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7450 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7451 matters.
7452
7453 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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7454
7455Example:
7456adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7457adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7458DOC_END
7459
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7460NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7461TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7462IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7463LOC: none
7464DEFAULT: none
7465DOC_START
7466
7467 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
7468 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
7469 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
7470
7471 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
7472
7473 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
7474 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
7475 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7476 the previous service in the chain.
7477
7478 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7479 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7480
7481 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7482 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7483 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7484
7485 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7486 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7487
7488 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7489 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7490 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7491 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7492
7493 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7494
7495Example:
7496adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7497DOC_END
7498
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7499NAME: adaptation_access
7500TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7501IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7502LOC: none
7503DEFAULT: none
7504DOC_START
7505 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7506
7507 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7508 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7509
7510 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7511 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7512 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7513 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7514
7515 - services serving different vectoring points
7516 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7517 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7518 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7519
7520 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7521 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7522 adaptation_service_set for details.
7523
7524 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7525 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7526 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7527 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7528
7529 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7530 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7531
7532 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7533
7534Example:
7535adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7536DOC_END
7537
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7538NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7539TYPE: int
7540IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7541LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7542DEFAULT: 16
7543DOC_START
7544 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7545 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7546 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7547 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7548 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7549 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7550
7551 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
7552
7553 See also: icap_service routing=1
7554DOC_END
7555
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7556NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
7557TYPE: string
7558IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7559LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
7560DEFAULT: none
7561DOC_START
7562 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
7563 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
7564 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
7565 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7566 with the master transaction.
7567
7568 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7569 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7570
7571 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7572 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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7573 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7574
7575 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7576 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7577 to provide an option with a name specified in
7578 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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7580 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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7581 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7582
7583 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7584
7585Example:
7586# share authentication information among ICAP services
7587adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7588DOC_END
7589
71be37e0 7590NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 7591TYPE: note
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7592IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7593LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7594DEFAULT: none
7595DOC_START
7596 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7597 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7598 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7599 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7600
7601 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7602 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7603
7604 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7605 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7606 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7607 example:
7608
7609 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7610 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7611
7612 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7613 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7614
7615 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7616 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7617
7618 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7619 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7620 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7621 and double quotes. For example,
7622 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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7623
7624 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
7625 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
7626 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
7627 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
7628 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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7629DOC_END
7630
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7631NAME: icap_retry
7632TYPE: acl_access
7633IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7634LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7635DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7636DOC_START
7637 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7638 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7639 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7640 that response are usually retriable.
7641
7642 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7643
7644 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7645 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7646
7647 See also: icap_retry_limit
7648DOC_END
7649
7650NAME: icap_retry_limit
7651TYPE: int
7652IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7653LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7654DEFAULT: 0
7655DOC_START
7656 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7657 no retries are allowed.
7658
7659 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7660 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7661 count against this limit.
7662
7663 See also: icap_retry
7664DOC_END
7665
7666
5473c134 7667COMMENT_START
7668 DNS OPTIONS
7669 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7670COMMENT_END
7671
7672NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7673TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7674DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7675LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7676DOC_START
5473c134 7677 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7678 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7679 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7680DOC_END
7681
5473c134 7682NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7683TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7684DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7685LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7686DOC_START
5473c134 7687 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7688 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7689 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7690 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7691DOC_END
7692
5473c134 7693NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7694TYPE: string
f64091a7 7695IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 7696DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7697LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7698DOC_START
5473c134 7699 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7700DOC_END
7701
5473c134 7702NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7703TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 7704IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 7705DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7706LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7707DOC_START
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7708 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7709 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7710 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7711 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7712 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7713
7714 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7715 tuning.
7716
7717 startup=
7718
7719 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7720 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7721 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7722
7723 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7724 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7725
7726 idle=
7727
7728 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7729 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7730 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7731 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7732DOC_END
7733
5473c134 7734NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7735TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7736DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7737LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 7738IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7739DOC_START
5473c134 7740 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7741 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7742DOC_END
7743
5473c134 7744NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7745TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7746DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7747LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 7748IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7749DOC_START
5473c134 7750 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7751 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7752 are assumed to be unavailable.
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7754
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7755NAME: dns_packet_max
7756TYPE: b_ssize_t
7757DEFAULT: none
7758LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 7759IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7760DOC_START
7761 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7762 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7763
7764 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7765 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7766 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7767 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7768 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7769
7770 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7771 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7772 necessary.
7773
7774 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7775 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7776 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7777 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7778 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7779 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7780 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7781DOC_END
7782
5473c134 7783NAME: dns_defnames
7784COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7785TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7786DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7787LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7788DOC_START
5473c134 7789 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7790 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7791 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7792 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7793DOC_END
7794
5473c134 7795NAME: dns_nameservers
7796TYPE: wordlist
7797DEFAULT: none
7798LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7799DOC_START
5473c134 7800 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7801 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7802 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7803 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7804 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7805 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7806 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7807
5473c134 7808 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7809DOC_END
7810
5473c134 7811NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7812TYPE: string
5473c134 7813DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7814LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7815DOC_START
5473c134 7816 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7817 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7818 default locations:
7819 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7820 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7821 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7822 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7823 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7824 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7825 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7826 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7827
5473c134 7828 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7829 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7830 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7831 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7832
5473c134 7833 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7834 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7835 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7836 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7837 definitions.
cccac0a2 7838DOC_END
7839
5473c134 7840NAME: append_domain
7841TYPE: string
7842LOC: Config.appendDomain
7843DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7844DOC_START
5473c134 7845 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7846 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7847
7848 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7849 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7850 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7851
7852Example:
7853 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7854DOC_END
7855
5473c134 7856NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7857TYPE: onoff
7858LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7859DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 7860IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 7861DOC_START
5473c134 7862 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7863 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7864 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7865 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7866 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7867DOC_END
7868
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7869NAME: dns_v4_first
7870TYPE: onoff
7871DEFAULT: off
7872LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 7873IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7874DOC_START
7875 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7876 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7877
7878 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7879 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7880 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7881
7882 WARNING:
7883 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7884 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7885 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7886DOC_END
7887
6bc15a4f 7888NAME: ipcache_size
7889COMMENT: (number of entries)
7890TYPE: int
7891DEFAULT: 1024
7892LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7893DOC_NONE
7894
7895NAME: ipcache_low
7896COMMENT: (percent)
7897TYPE: int
7898DEFAULT: 90
7899LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7900DOC_NONE
7901
7902NAME: ipcache_high
7903COMMENT: (percent)
7904TYPE: int
7905DEFAULT: 95
7906LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7907DOC_START
7908 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7909DOC_END
7910
7911NAME: fqdncache_size
7912COMMENT: (number of entries)
7913TYPE: int
7914DEFAULT: 1024
7915LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7916DOC_START
7917 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7918DOC_END
7919
a58ff010 7920COMMENT_START
5473c134 7921 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7922 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7923COMMENT_END
7924
5473c134 7925NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7926COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7927TYPE: onoff
7928DEFAULT: on
7929LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7930DOC_START
5473c134 7931 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7932 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7933 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7934 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7935DOC_END
7936
5473c134 7937NAME: memory_pools_limit
7938COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7939TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7940DEFAULT: 5 MB
7941LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7942DOC_START
5473c134 7943 Used only with memory_pools on:
7944 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7945
5473c134 7946 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7947 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7948 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7949 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7950 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7951 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7952 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7953
89646bd7 7954 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7955 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7956
5473c134 7957 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7958 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7959
7960 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7961 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7962 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7963 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7964DOC_END
7965
5473c134 7966NAME: forwarded_for
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7967COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7968TYPE: string
5473c134 7969DEFAULT: on
7970LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7971DOC_START
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7972 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7973 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7974
5473c134 7975 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7976
67c06f0d 7977 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7978
7979 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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7980
7981 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7982 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7983
7984 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7985 X-Forwarded-For header.
7986
7987 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7988 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7989DOC_END
7990
5473c134 7991NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7992TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7993DEFAULT: none
7994LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7995DOC_START
5473c134 7996 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7997
5473c134 7998 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7999
8000 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
8001 5min
8002 60min
8003 asndb
8004 authenticator
8005 cbdata
8006 client_list
8007 comm_incoming
8008 config *
8009 counters
8010 delay
8011 digest_stats
8012 dns
8013 events
8014 filedescriptors
8015 fqdncache
8016 histograms
8017 http_headers
8018 info
8019 io
8020 ipcache
8021 mem
8022 menu
8023 netdb
8024 non_peers
8025 objects
8026 offline_toggle *
8027 pconn
8028 peer_select
b360c477 8029 reconfigure *
5473c134 8030 redirector
8031 refresh
8032 server_list
8033 shutdown *
8034 store_digest
8035 storedir
8036 utilization
8037 via_headers
8038 vm_objects
8039
8040 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
8041 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
8042
8043 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
8044 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
8045 password to "none".
8046
8047 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
8048
8049Example:
8050 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
8051 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
8052 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 8053DOC_END
8054
5473c134 8055NAME: client_db
a58ff010 8056COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8057TYPE: onoff
8058DEFAULT: on
8059LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 8060DOC_START
5473c134 8061 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
8062 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 8063DOC_END
8064
5473c134 8065NAME: refresh_all_ims
8066COMMENT: on|off
8067TYPE: onoff
8068DEFAULT: off
8069LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 8070DOC_START
5473c134 8071 When you enable this option, squid will always check
8072 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
8073 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
8074 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
8075 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 8076
5473c134 8077 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
8078 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 8079DOC_END
8080
5473c134 8081NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 8082IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 8083COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8084TYPE: onoff
8085DEFAULT: off
8086LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 8087DOC_START
5473c134 8088 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
8089 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
8090 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
8091 feature could make you liable for problems which it
8092 causes.
8093
8094 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 8095DOC_END
8096
31ef19cd 8097NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 8098TYPE: int
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8099LOC: Config.connect_retries
8100DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 8101DOC_START
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8102 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
8103 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
8104 complete within the connection timeout period.
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8105
8106 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
8107 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 8108
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8109 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
8110 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 8111
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8112 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
8113 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
8114 a useful server.
a58ff010 8115DOC_END
8116
5473c134 8117NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 8118TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8119LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 8120DEFAULT: off
8121DOC_START
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8122 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
8123 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
8124 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
8125 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
8126
8127 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
8128 work around access control errors.
8129
8130 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
8131 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 8132DOC_END
8133
5473c134 8134NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 8135TYPE: string
5473c134 8136LOC: Config.as_whois_server
8137DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 8138DOC_START
5473c134 8139 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
8140 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 8141DOC_END
8142
5473c134 8143NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 8144TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8145LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 8146DEFAULT: off
8147DOC_START
5473c134 8148 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
8149 objects.
a58ff010 8150DOC_END
8151
5473c134 8152NAME: uri_whitespace
8153TYPE: uri_whitespace
8154LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
8155DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 8156DOC_START
5473c134 8157 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
8158 URI. Options:
a58ff010 8159
5473c134 8160 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
8161 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
8162 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
8163 Request" message.
8164 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
8165 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
8166 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
8167 are in use.
8168 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
8169 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
8170 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
8171 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
8172 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
8173 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
8174 violation.
8175DOC_END
a58ff010 8176
5473c134 8177NAME: chroot
8178TYPE: string
8179LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 8180DEFAULT: none
8181DOC_START
9f37c18a 8182 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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8183 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8184 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8185 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8186 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 8187DOC_END
a58ff010 8188
5473c134 8189NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8190TYPE: onoff
8191LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8192DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8193DOC_START
cc192b50 8194 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8195 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8196 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8197
5473c134 8198 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8199 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8200 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8201
cc192b50 8202 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8203DOC_END
8204
5473c134 8205NAME: pipeline_prefetch
8206TYPE: onoff
8207LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
8208DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 8209DOC_START
5473c134 8210 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
8211 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
8212 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 8213
5473c134 8214 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
8215 reasons.
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8216
8217 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8218DOC_END
a58ff010 8219
5473c134 8220NAME: high_response_time_warning
8221TYPE: int
8222COMMENT: (msec)
8223LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8224DEFAULT: 0
8225DOC_START
8226 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8227 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8228 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 8229DOC_END
8230
5473c134 8231NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8232TYPE: int
8233LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8234DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 8235DOC_START
5473c134 8236 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8237 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8238 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8239 per second.
8240DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8241
5473c134 8242NAME: high_memory_warning
8243TYPE: b_size_t
8244LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 8245DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 8246DOC_START
8247 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 8248 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 8249 the administrators attention.
8250DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8251
5473c134 8252NAME: sleep_after_fork
8253COMMENT: (microseconds)
8254TYPE: int
8255LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
8256DEFAULT: 0
8257DOC_START
8258 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
8259 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
8260 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
8261 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
8262 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
8263 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
8264 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
8265 until all the child processes have been started.
8266 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
8267 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 8268DOC_END
8269
b6696974 8270NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 8271IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
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8272COMMENT: on|off
8273TYPE: onoff
8274DEFAULT: on
8275LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
8276DOC_START
8277 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
8278 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
8279 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
8280 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
8281 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
8282 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
8283DOC_END
8284
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8285NAME: eui_lookup
8286TYPE: onoff
8287IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
8288DEFAULT: on
8289LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
8290DOC_START
8291 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8292DOC_END
8293
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8294NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8295TYPE: int
8296DEFAULT: 0
8297LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8298DOC_START
8299 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
8300
8301 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
8302
8303 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
8304 not all comm loops supports large values.
8305DOC_END
8306
13aeac35 8307NAME: workers
007d775d 8308TYPE: int
13aeac35 8309LOC: Config.workers
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8310DEFAULT: 1
8311DOC_START
13aeac35 8312 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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8313 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8314 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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8315 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8316
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8317 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8318 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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8320
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8321NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8322TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8323LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8324DEFAULT: none
8325DOC_START
8326 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8327
8328 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8329
8330 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8331
8332 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8333 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8334
8335 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8336 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8337
8338 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8339
8340 See also: workers
8341DOC_END
8342
cccac0a2 8343EOF