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9cef6668 1#
6845f129 2# SQUID Web Proxy Cache http://www.squid-cache.org/
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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 32
cccac0a2 33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
debd9a31 44
cccac0a2 45COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 46
592a09dc 47COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
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60
61
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62 Conditional configuration
63
64 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
65 depend on conditions:
66
67 if <CONDITION>
68 ... regular configuration directives ...
69 [else
70 ... regular configuration directives ...]
71 endif
72
73 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
74 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
75 configuration directives.
76
77 These individual conditions types are supported:
78
79 true
80 Always evaluates to true.
81 false
82 Always evaluates to false.
83 <integer> = <integer>
84 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
85
86
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87 SMP-Related Macros
88
89 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
90
91 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
92 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
93
94 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
95 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
96 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 97COMMENT_END
98
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99# Options Removed in 3.2
100NAME: ignore_expect_100
101TYPE: obsolete
102DOC_START
103 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
104DOC_END
105
106NAME: ftp_list_width
107TYPE: obsolete
108DOC_START
109 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
110DOC_END
111
112NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
113TYPE: obsolete
114DOC_START
115 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
116DOC_END
117
118# Options Removed in 3.1
119NAME: dns_testnames
120TYPE: obsolete
121DOC_START
122 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
123DOC_END
124
125NAME: extension_methods
126TYPE: obsolete
127DOC_START
128 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
129DOC_END
130
131# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
132NAME: incoming_rate
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_NONE
135
136NAME: server_http11
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
140DOC_END
141
142NAME: upgrade_http0.9
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
146DOC_END
147
148NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
152DOC_END
153
154# Options Removed in 3.0
155NAME: header_access
156TYPE: obsolete
157DOC_START
158 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
159 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
160DOC_END
161
162NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
163TYPE: obsolete
164DOC_START
165 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
166DOC_END
167
5473c134 168COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 169 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
171COMMENT_END
172
41bd17a4 173NAME: auth_param
174TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 175IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 176LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 177DEFAULT: none
178DOC_START
41bd17a4 179 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
180 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 181
41bd17a4 182 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 183
41bd17a4 184 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
185 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
186 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
187 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
188 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
189 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
190 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
191 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
192 program entry).
cccac0a2 193
41bd17a4 194 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
195 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
196 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
197 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 198
41bd17a4 199 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
200 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
201 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
202 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
203 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
204 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
205 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
206 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
207 type acl.
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
210 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
211 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
212 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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213 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
214 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 215
41bd17a4 216 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 "program" cmdline
219 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
220 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
221 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
222 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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223 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
224 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 225
41bd17a4 226 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
227 program is specified.
cccac0a2 228
41bd17a4 229 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
230 this line to something like
307b83b7 231
41bd17a4 232 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 233
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234 "utf8" on|off
235 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
236 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
237 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
238 username & password to the helper.
239
7353861b 240 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 241 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 242 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
243 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
244 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
245 authenticator processes.
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246
247 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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248 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
249 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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250 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
251 the maximum.
252
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253 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
254 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
255 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
256 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
257 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
258 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 259 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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260
261 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 262
41bd17a4 263 "realm" realmstring
264 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
265 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
266 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
267 password). There is no default.
268 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 269
41bd17a4 270 "credentialsttl" timetolive
271 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
272 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
273 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
274 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
275 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
276 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
277 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
278 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
279 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 280
41bd17a4 281 "casesensitive" on|off
282 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
283 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
284 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
285 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
286 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 287
41bd17a4 288 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 289
41bd17a4 290 "program" cmdline
291 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
292 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
293 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
294 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
295 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
296 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
297 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 298
41bd17a4 299 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
300 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 301
41bd17a4 302 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
303 something like
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7ce93108 305 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 306
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307 "utf8" on|off
308 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
309 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
310 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
311 username & password to the helper.
312
7353861b 313 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 314 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 315 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
316 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
317 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
318 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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319
320 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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321 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
322 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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323 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
324 the maximum.
325
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326 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
327 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
328 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
329 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
330 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
331 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
332 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
333
48d54e4d 334 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 335
41bd17a4 336 "realm" realmstring
337 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
338 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
339 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
340 password). There is no default.
341 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 342
41bd17a4 343 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
344 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
345 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 346
41bd17a4 347 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
348 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
349 valid for.
cccac0a2 350
41bd17a4 351 "nonce_max_count" number
352 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
353 used.
cccac0a2 354
41bd17a4 355 "nonce_strictness" on|off
356 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
357 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
358 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
359 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "check_nonce_count" on|off
362 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
363 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
364 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
365 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 366
41bd17a4 367 "post_workaround" on|off
368 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
369 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
370 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 "program" cmdline
375 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
376 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
377 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
378 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
379 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
380 is not used.
cccac0a2 381
41bd17a4 382 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 383
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384 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
385 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 386 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
387 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
388 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
389 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
390 processes.
cccac0a2 391
48d54e4d 392 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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393 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
394 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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395 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
396 the maximum.
397
398 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 399
41bd17a4 400 "keep_alive" on|off
401 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
402 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
403 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
404 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
405 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 406
41bd17a4 407 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 408
41bd17a4 409 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 410
41bd17a4 411 "program" cmdline
412 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
413 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
414 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
415 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
416 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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417 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
418 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
419 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 420 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
421 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 424
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425 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
426 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 427 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
428 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
429 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
430 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
431 processes.
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432
433 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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434 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
435 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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436 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
437 the maximum.
438
439 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 440
41bd17a4 441 "keep_alive" on|off
442 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
443 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
444 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
445 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
446 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 447
41bd17a4 448 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 449
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451 Examples:
452
41bd17a4 453#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
454#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 455#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 456#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 457#
41bd17a4 458#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 459#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 460#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 461#
41bd17a4 462#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 463#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 464#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
465#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
466#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
467#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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41bd17a4 469#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 470#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 471#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
472#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 473DOC_END
cccac0a2 474
41bd17a4 475NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
476TYPE: time_t
477DEFAULT: 1 hour
478LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
479DOC_START
480 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
481 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
482 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
483 have good reason to.
484DOC_END
cccac0a2 485
41bd17a4 486NAME: authenticate_ttl
487TYPE: time_t
488DEFAULT: 1 hour
489LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
490DOC_START
491 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
492 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
493 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
494 TTL are removed from memory.
495DOC_END
cccac0a2 496
41bd17a4 497NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
498TYPE: time_t
499LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
500DEFAULT: 0 seconds
501DOC_START
502 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
503 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
504 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
505 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
506 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
507 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
508 environment with relatively static address assignments.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
3d1e3e43 511COMMENT_START
512 ACCESS CONTROLS
513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
514COMMENT_END
515
41bd17a4 516NAME: external_acl_type
517TYPE: externalAclHelper
518LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 519DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 520DOC_START
41bd17a4 521 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
522 to look up the status
cccac0a2 523
41bd17a4 524 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 525
41bd17a4 526 Options:
cccac0a2 527
41bd17a4 528 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
529 for 1 hour)
530 negative_ttl=n
531 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
532 as ttl)
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533 children-max=n
534 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
535 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
536 children-startup=n
537 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
538 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
539 of this type. (default 0)
540 children-idle=n
541 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
542 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
543 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
544 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 545 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
546 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 547 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 548 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
549 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 550 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 551 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 552 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
553 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
055421ee 554 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 555
41bd17a4 556 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 557
41bd17a4 558 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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559 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
560 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
561 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 562 %IDENT Ident user name
563 %SRC Client IP
564 %SRCPORT Client source port
565 %URI Requested URI
566 %DST Requested host
567 %PROTO Requested protocol
568 %PORT Requested port
569 %PATH Requested URL path
570 %METHOD Request method
571 %MYADDR Squid interface address
572 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
573 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
574 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
575 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
576 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
577 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 578
c68c9682 579 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 580 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 581 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 582 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 583 HTTP request header list member using ; as
584 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
585 character.
cccac0a2 586
c68c9682 587 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 588 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 589 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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590 %<{Hdr:;member}
591 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
592 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
593 character.
594
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595 %% The percent sign. Useful for helpers which need
596 an unchanging input format.
597
41bd17a4 598 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
599 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
600 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 601
41bd17a4 602 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
603 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
604 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
605 more details.
cccac0a2 606
41bd17a4 607 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 608
41bd17a4 609 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 610
41bd17a4 611 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 612
41bd17a4 613 user= The users name (login)
614 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
615 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
616 in error pages
617 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
618 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
619 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
620 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 621
41bd17a4 622 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
623 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 624
41bd17a4 625 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
626 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
627 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 628
41bd17a4 629 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
630 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
631 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 632DOC_END
633
41bd17a4 634NAME: acl
635TYPE: acl
636LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 637DEFAULT: all src all
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638DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
639DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
640DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
641DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 642DOC_START
41bd17a4 643 Defining an Access List
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645 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
646 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
647 they are read from.
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649 acl aclname acltype argument ...
650 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 652 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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654 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
655 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
656 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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659 to access some external data source.
660 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
661 don't are marked as [fast].
662 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
663 for further information
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665 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
666
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667 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
668 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
669 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
670 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 671
41bd17a4 672 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
673 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
674 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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676 # other *BSD variants.
677 # [fast]
41bd17a4 678 #
679 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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680 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
681 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
682
683 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
684 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
685 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 686 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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688 # regex matching client name [slow]
689 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 690 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 691 #
41bd17a4 692 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
693 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
694 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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696 acl aclname src_as number ...
697 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 698 # [fast]
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699 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
700 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
701 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
702 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
703 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
704 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
705 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 706
6db78a1a 707 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 708 # [fast]
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709 # match against a named cache_peer entry
710 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
711
375eeb3b 712 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 713 # [fast]
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715 # S - Sunday
716 # M - Monday
717 # T - Tuesday
718 # W - Wednesday
719 # H - Thursday
720 # F - Friday
721 # A - Saturday
722 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
723
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725 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
726 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
727 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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729 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
730 # ranges are alloed
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731 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
732 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
733
b3567eb5 734 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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736 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
737
738 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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741 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 743 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 744 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 746 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 747 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 748 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 750 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 751 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 752 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 753 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 754
41bd17a4 755 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
756 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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758 # supplied credentials [slow]
759 #
760 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 761 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
762 #
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764 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
765 #
41bd17a4 766 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
767 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
768 # in access.log.
769 #
770 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
771 # to check username/password combinations (see
772 # auth_param directive).
773 #
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775 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 776 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 777
41bd17a4 778 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 779 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 780 # Example:
781 #
782 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 783
41bd17a4 784 acl aclname maxconn number
785 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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786 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
787 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
788 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 789
41bd17a4 790 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
791 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
792 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 793 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 794 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
795 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
796 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
797 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
798 # request is denied)
799 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
800 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
801 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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803 acl aclname random probability
804 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
805 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
806 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
807
375eeb3b 808 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 809 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
810 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 811 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 812 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
813 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 814
41bd17a4 815 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
816 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
817 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 818 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 819
375eeb3b 820 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 821 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
822 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 823 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 824 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
825 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
826 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 827
41bd17a4 828 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
829 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
830 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 831 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 832
375eeb3b 833 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 834 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 835 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 836
41bd17a4 837 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
838 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 839 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 840
41bd17a4 841 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
842 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 843 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 844
41bd17a4 845 acl aclname ext_user username ...
846 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 847 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 848 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 849
0ab50441 850 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 851 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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853 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
854 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
855 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
856 #
857 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
858 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
859 # http_reply_access.
860
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861 Examples:
862 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
863 acl myexample dst_as 1241
864 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
865 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
866 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 867
41bd17a4 868NOCOMMENT_START
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870# Recommended minimum configuration:
871#
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ee776778 873# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
874# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
875# should be allowed
876acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
877acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
878acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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879acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
880acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 882acl SSL_ports port 443
883acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
884acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
885acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
886acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
887acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
888acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
889acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
890acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
891acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
892acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
893acl CONNECT method CONNECT
894NOCOMMENT_END
895DOC_END
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897NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
898TYPE: acl_access
899IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
900LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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901DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
902DOC_START
903 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
904 find the original source of a request.
905
906 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
907 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
908 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
909 rightmost address being the most recent.
910
911 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
912 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
913 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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914 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
915 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
916 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
917 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
918 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
919 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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921 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
922 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 923 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 924 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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925 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
926 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 927
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929 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
930
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931 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
932
933 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
934 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
935 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
936 source address of the request. This may enable remote
937 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
938 based on the client's source addresses.
939
940 For example:
941
942 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
943 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
944 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
945 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
946DOC_END
947
948NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
949COMMENT: on|off
950TYPE: onoff
951IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
952DEFAULT: on
953LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
954DOC_START
955 Controls whether the indirect client address
956 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
957 direct client address in acl matching.
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959 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
960 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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962
963NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
964COMMENT: on|off
965TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 966IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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968LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
969DOC_START
970 Controls whether the indirect client address
971 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
972 direct client address in delay pools.
973DOC_END
974
975NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
976COMMENT: on|off
977TYPE: onoff
978IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
979DEFAULT: on
980LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
981DOC_START
982 Controls whether the indirect client address
983 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
984 direct client address in the access log.
985DOC_END
986
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987NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
988COMMENT: on|off
989TYPE: onoff
990IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 991DEFAULT: off
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992LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
993DOC_START
994 Controls whether the indirect client address
995 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
996 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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998 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
999 mode ports.
1000
1001 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1002 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1003 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1004 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1006
41bd17a4 1007NAME: http_access
1008TYPE: acl_access
1009LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1010DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1011DOC_START
1012 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1013
41bd17a4 1014 Access to the HTTP port:
1015 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1016
41bd17a4 1017 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1019 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1020 the request.
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41bd17a4 1022 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1023 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1024 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1025 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1027 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1030 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1031
41bd17a4 1032NOCOMMENT_START
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1034#
1035# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1036#
1037# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1038http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1039http_access deny manager
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1041# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1042http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1044# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1045http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1047# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1048# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1049# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1050#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1052#
1053# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1054#
c8f4eac4 1055
ee776778 1056# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1057# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1058# from where browsing should be allowed
1059http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1060http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1061
41bd17a4 1062# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1063http_access deny all
1064NOCOMMENT_END
1065DOC_END
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1067NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1068TYPE: acl_access
1069LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1070DEFAULT: none
1071DOC_START
1072 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1073
1074 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1075 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1076 output.
1077
1078 If not set then only http_access is used.
1079DOC_END
1080
41bd17a4 1081NAME: http_reply_access
1082TYPE: acl_access
1083LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1084DEFAULT: none
1085DOC_START
1086 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1087
41bd17a4 1088 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1089
41bd17a4 1090 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1091 all replies
1a224843 1092
41bd17a4 1093 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1094 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1095 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1097 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1098 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1099DOC_END
1100
41bd17a4 1101NAME: icp_access
1102TYPE: acl_access
1103LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1104DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1105DOC_START
41bd17a4 1106 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1107 access lists
5473c134 1108
41bd17a4 1109 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1110
41bd17a4 1111 See http_access for details
1112
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1114 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1116# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1118#icp_access deny all
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1120
41bd17a4 1121NAME: htcp_access
1122IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1123TYPE: acl_access
1124LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1125DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1126DOC_START
41bd17a4 1127 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1128 access lists
5473c134 1129
41bd17a4 1130 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1132 See http_access for details
5473c134 1133
0b48417e 1134 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1135 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1136 using the htcp option.
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1139 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1141# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1143#htcp_access deny all
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41bd17a4 1146NAME: htcp_clr_access
1147IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1148TYPE: acl_access
1149LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1150DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1151DOC_START
1152 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1153 on defined access lists
5473c134 1154
41bd17a4 1155 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1156
41bd17a4 1157 See http_access for details
5473c134 1158
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1160 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1162# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1163acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1164htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1165DOC_END
1166
41bd17a4 1167NAME: miss_access
1168TYPE: acl_access
1169LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1170DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1171DOC_START
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1172 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1173
1174 For example;
1175 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1176 a parent.
5473c134 1177
41bd17a4 1178 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1179 miss_access allow localclients
1180 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1181
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1183 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1184 objects (HITs).
1185
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1187 The default for this setting allows all clients who passed the
1188 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1190 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1191 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1192DOC_END
1193
1194NAME: ident_lookup_access
1195TYPE: acl_access
1196IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1197DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1198LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1199DOC_START
41bd17a4 1200 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1201 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1202 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1203 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1204 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1205 any requests.
5473c134 1206
41bd17a4 1207 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1208 can follow this example:
5473c134 1209
4daaf3cb 1210 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1211 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1212 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1213
4daaf3cb 1214 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1215 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1216 the correct result.
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1218 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1219 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1220DOC_END
5473c134 1221
5b0f5383 1222NAME: reply_body_max_size
1223COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1224TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1225DEFAULT: none
1226LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1227DOC_START
1228 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1229 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1230 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1231 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1232 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1233 for this reply.
1234
1235 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1236 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1237 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1238 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1239 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1240 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1241 and they will receive a partial reply.
1242
1243 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1244 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1245 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1246 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1247
1248 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1249 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1250 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1251 the size of your largest error page.
1252
1253 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1254 no limit imposed.
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1256 Configuration Format is:
1257 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1258 ie.
1259 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1260
5b0f5383 1261DOC_END
1262
1263COMMENT_START
1264 NETWORK OPTIONS
1265 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1266COMMENT_END
1267
1268NAME: http_port ascii_port
1269TYPE: http_port_list
1270DEFAULT: none
1271LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1272DOC_START
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1273 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1274 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1275 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1276
1277 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1278 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1279 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1280 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1281 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1282 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1283 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1284
1285 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1286 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1287
1288 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1289 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1290 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1291
1292 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1293
c7b1dd5d 1294 Modes:
5b0f5383 1295
e77bdb4e 1296 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1297 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1298 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1299
1300 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1301 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1302 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1303
7f45065d 1304 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1305
3a0c8eb5 1306 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
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1308 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1309 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1310 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1311
1312 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1313 the SslBump feature.
1314
1315 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1316
1317
1318 Accelerator Mode Options:
1319
5b0f5383 1320 defaultsite=domainname
1321 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1322 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1323 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1324
cf673853 1325 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1326
1327 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1329 https_port
5b0f5383 1330
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1332 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1333
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1334 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1335 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1336
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1338 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1339 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1340 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1341
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1343
7f45065d 1344 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1346
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1348 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1349 never_direct was used.
1350
1351 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1352 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1353 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1354 http_access rules when using this.
1355
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1357 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1358
1359 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1360
1361 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1362 if not specified, the certificate file is
1363 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1364 key file.
1365
1366 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1367 1 automatic (default)
1368 2 SSLv2 only
1369 3 SSLv3 only
1370 4 TLSv1 only
1371
1372 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1373
1374 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1375 being:
1376 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1377 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1378 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1379 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1380 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1381 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1382 documentation for a complete list of options.
1383
1384 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1385 requesting a client certificate.
1386
1387 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1388 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1389 clientca will be used.
1390
1391 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1392 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1393
1394 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1395 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1396 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1397
1398 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1399 DH key exchanges.
1400
1401 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1402 DELAYED_AUTH
1403 Don't request client certificates
1404 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1405 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1406 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1407 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1408 to OpenSSL.
1409 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1410 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1411 will result in a new SSL session.
1412 VERIFY_CRL
1413 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1414 certificates.
1415 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1416 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1417 client certificate chain.
1418
1419 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1420
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1422 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1423 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1424 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1425 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1426 certificate will be selfsigned.
1427 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1428 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1429 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1430 years.
1431 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1432 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1433
1434 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1435 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1436 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1437 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1438 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
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1440 Other Options:
1441
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1443 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1444 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1446
5b0f5383 1447 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1448 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1449 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1450 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1451 support is enabled.
1452 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1453
1454 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1455 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1456 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1457 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1458 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1459 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1460 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1461 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1462
81b6e9a7 1463 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1464 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1465
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1468 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1469 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1470 timeout the time before giving up.
1471
5b0f5383 1472 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1473 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1474 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1475 visible on the internal address.
1476
1477NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1479# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1480http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1481NOCOMMENT_END
1482DOC_END
1483
1484NAME: https_port
1485IFDEF: USE_SSL
1486TYPE: https_port_list
1487DEFAULT: none
1488LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1489DOC_START
7f45065d 1490 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1491
1492 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1493 requests.
1494
1495 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1496 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1497 accelerator level.
1498
1499 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1500 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1501
7f45065d 1502 Modes:
5b0f5383 1503
7f45065d 1504 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1505
7f45065d 1506 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1507
5b0f5383 1508
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1510
1511
1512 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1513
1514 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1515
1516 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1517 if not specified, the certificate file is
1518 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1519 key file.
1520
1521 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1522 1 automatic (default)
1523 2 SSLv2 only
1524 3 SSLv3 only
1525 4 TLSv1 only
1526
1527 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1528
1529 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1530 being:
1531 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1532 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1533 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1534 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1535 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1536 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1537 documentation for a complete list of options.
1538
1539 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1540 requesting a client certificate.
1541
1542 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1543 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1544 clientca will be used.
1545
1546 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1547 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1548
1549 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1550 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1551 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1552
1553 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1554 DH key exchanges.
1555
1556 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1557 DELAYED_AUTH
1558 Don't request client certificates
1559 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1560 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1561 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1562 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1563 to OpenSSL.
1564 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1565 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1566 will result in a new SSL session.
1567 VERIFY_CRL
1568 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1569 certificates.
1570 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1571 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1572 client certificate chain.
1573
1574 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1575
5b0f5383 1576DOC_END
1577
41bd17a4 1578NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1579TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1580DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1581LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1582DOC_START
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1584 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1585
41bd17a4 1586 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1587
41bd17a4 1588 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1589 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1592 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1593 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1594 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1595
41bd17a4 1596 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1598 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1599
41bd17a4 1600 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1601 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1603 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1604
41bd17a4 1605 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1606 matching line.
cccac0a2 1607DOC_END
1608
41bd17a4 1609NAME: clientside_tos
1610TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1611DEFAULT: none
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1613DOC_START
1614 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1615 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1616
1617 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1618
1619 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1620 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1621
1622 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1623 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1624 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1625 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1626
1627 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1628 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1629DOC_END
1630
1631NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1632TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1633IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1635LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1636DOC_START
1637 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1638 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1639
1640 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1641
1642 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1643 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1644
1645 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1646 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1647 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1648 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1649DOC_END
1650
1651NAME: clientside_mark
1652TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1653IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1655LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1656DOC_START
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1658 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1659
1660 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1661
1662 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1663 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1664
1665 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1666 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1667 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1668 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1669
1670 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1671 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1672DOC_END
cccac0a2 1673
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1675TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1676IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1677DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1678LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1679DOC_START
575cb927 1680 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1682 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1683 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1686 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1687 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1690 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1691 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1692
1693 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1694
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1696
1697 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1699 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1700
1701 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1702
1703 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1704
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1706 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1707 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1708 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 1709
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1711 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1712 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1713 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1714 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1715
575cb927 1716 disable-preserve-miss
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1718 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1719 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1720 and masked with miss-mark.
1721 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1722 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1723 (MARK target).
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1725 miss-mask=0xFF
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1727 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1728 the TOS sent towards clients.
1729 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1730 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1731
1732 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1733 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1734 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1735 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1738
41bd17a4 1739NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1740TYPE: acl_address
1741DEFAULT: none
1742LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1743DOC_START
1744 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1745 based on the username or source address of the user making
1746 the request.
7f7db318 1747
41bd17a4 1748 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1751 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1754 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1755
1756 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1757 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1758
1759 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1760 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1761
1762 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1763 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
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41bd17a4 1765 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1766 matching line.
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1769 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1770 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1771
1772
1773 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1774 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1775 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1776 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1777
2dd51400 1778 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1779 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1781 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
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1786TYPE: onoff
1787DEFAULT: off
1788LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1789DOC_START
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1791 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
1792 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL'). Squid
1793 responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page and logs a security
1794 warning if there is no match.
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1797 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic as well. For
1798 those traffic types, Squid also enables the following checks, comparing
1799 the corresponding Host header and Request-URI components:
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1802 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
1803 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP or FQDN.
1804
1805 * Port numbers must be identical,
1806 but if a port is missing, the scheme-default port is assumed.
1807
1808 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1809 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1810 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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1814TYPE: onoff
1815DEFAULT: on
1816LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1817DOC_START
1818 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1819 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1820 source.
1821
1822 This option (on by default) prevents cache_peer and alternative DNS
1823 entries being used on intercepted traffic. Both of which lead to
1824 the security vulnerability outlined below.
1825
1826 SECURITY WARNING:
1827
1828 This directive should only be disabled if cache_peer are required.
1829
1830 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1831 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1832 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1833 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1834
1835 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1836 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1837 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1838 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1839 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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1842
41bd17a4 1843COMMENT_START
1844 SSL OPTIONS
1845 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1846COMMENT_END
1847
1848NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1849IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1850TYPE: onoff
1851DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1852LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1853DOC_START
41bd17a4 1854 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1855 messages.
cccac0a2 1856DOC_END
1857
41bd17a4 1858NAME: ssl_engine
1859IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1860TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1861LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1862DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1863DOC_START
41bd17a4 1864 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1865 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1866DOC_END
1867
41bd17a4 1868NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1869IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1870DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1871LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1872TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1873DOC_START
41bd17a4 1874 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1875DOC_END
1876
41bd17a4 1877NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1878IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1879DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1880LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1881TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1882DOC_START
41bd17a4 1883 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1884DOC_END
1885
41bd17a4 1886NAME: sslproxy_version
1887IFDEF: USE_SSL
1888DEFAULT: 1
1889LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1890TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1891DOC_START
41bd17a4 1892 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1893DOC_END
1894
41bd17a4 1895NAME: sslproxy_options
1896IFDEF: USE_SSL
1897DEFAULT: none
1898LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1899TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1900DOC_START
41bd17a4 1901 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1903 The most important being:
1904
1905 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1906 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1907 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1908 SINGLE_DH_USE
1909 Always create a new key when using
1910 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1911
1912 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1913 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1914 complete list of possible options.
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1916
41bd17a4 1917NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1918IFDEF: USE_SSL
1919DEFAULT: none
1920LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1921TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1922DOC_START
41bd17a4 1923 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1925 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1926DOC_END
1927
41bd17a4 1928NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1929IFDEF: USE_SSL
1930DEFAULT: none
1931LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1932TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1933DOC_START
41bd17a4 1934 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1935 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1936DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1938NAME: sslproxy_capath
1939IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1940DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1941LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1942TYPE: string
5473c134 1943DOC_START
41bd17a4 1944 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1945 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1946DOC_END
1947
4c9da963 1948NAME: ssl_bump
1949IFDEF: USE_SSL
1950TYPE: acl_access
1951LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1952DEFAULT: none
1953DOC_START
1954 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1955 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1956 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1957 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1958
1959 By default, no requests are bumped.
1960
e0c0d54c 1961 See also: http_port ssl-bump
4c9da963 1962
e0c0d54c 1963 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 1964 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1966
1967 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1968 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1969
1970 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1971 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1972 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1973 ssl_bump deny localhost
1974 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1975 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1976DOC_END
1977
41bd17a4 1978NAME: sslproxy_flags
1979IFDEF: USE_SSL
1980DEFAULT: none
1981LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1982TYPE: string
5473c134 1983DOC_START
41bd17a4 1984 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1985 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1986 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1987 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1988 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1989DOC_END
1990
4c9da963 1991NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1992IFDEF: USE_SSL
1993DEFAULT: none
1994LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1995TYPE: acl_access
1996DOC_START
1997 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1998
1999 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
2000 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
2001 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2002
2003 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
2004 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
2005 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2006
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2008 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2009 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2010
2011 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2012 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2013 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2014 the connection may be insecure.
2015
2016 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2017
e0855596 2018 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 2019DOC_END
2020
41bd17a4 2021NAME: sslpassword_program
2022IFDEF: USE_SSL
2023DEFAULT: none
2024LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2025TYPE: string
5473c134 2026DOC_START
41bd17a4 2027 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2028 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2029 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2030 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2032 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2033 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2034 keys.
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2038 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2039 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2040COMMENT_END
2041
2042NAME: sslcrtd_program
2043TYPE: eol
2044IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2045DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2046LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2047DOC_START
2048 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2049 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2050 For more information use:
2051 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2052DOC_END
2053
2054NAME: sslcrtd_children
2055TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2056IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2057DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2058LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2059DOC_START
2060 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2061 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2062
2063 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2064 tuning.
2065
2066 startup=N
2067
2068 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2069 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2070 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2071
2072 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2073 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2074
2075 idle=N
2076
2077 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2078 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2079 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2080 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2081
2082 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2083DOC_END
2084
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41bd17a4 2086 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2087 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2088COMMENT_END
2089
41bd17a4 2090NAME: cache_peer
2091TYPE: peer
2092DEFAULT: none
2093LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2094DOC_START
41bd17a4 2095 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2097 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2098
41bd17a4 2099 For example,
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41bd17a4 2101 # proxy icp
2102 # hostname type port port options
2103 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2104 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2105 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2106 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2107 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2109
2110 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2111
2112 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2113 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2114 For web servers this is usually 80
2115
2116 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2117 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2118 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2119
2120
2121 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2122
2123 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2124 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2125
2126
2127 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2128
2129 multicast-responder
2130 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2131 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2132 replies will be accepted from it.
2133
2134 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2135 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2136
2137 background-ping
2138 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2139 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2140 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2141
2142
2143 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2144
2145 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2146 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2147
2148
2149 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2150 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2152 list of options described below.
2b94f655 2153
18191440 2154 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2155
18191440 2156 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2157 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2158 only-clr.
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2161 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2163 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2165 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2166
18191440 2167 htcp=forward-clr
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2168 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2169
2170
2171 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2172
2173 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2174 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2175
2176
2177 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2178 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2179 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2180
2181 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2182 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2183 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2184
2185 weighted-round-robin
2186 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2187 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2188 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2189 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2190 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2191
2192 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2193 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2194 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2195
2196 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2197
2198 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2200 multicast-siblings
2201 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2202 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2203 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2205 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2206 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2207 members of the same multicast group.
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2209
2210 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2211
2212 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2213 peer-selection mechanisms.
2214 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2215 larger weights are favored more.
2216 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2217 protocol is not in use.
2218
2219 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2220 times of parents.
2221 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2222 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2223 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2224
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2226 to this address.
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2228 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2229 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2230 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2231
2232 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2233 delay pools.
2234
2235 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2236 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2237 than the Squid default location.
2238
2239
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2241
2242 carp-key=key-specification
2243 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2244 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2245 scheme, host, port, path, params
2246 Order is not important.
2247
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2249
2250 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2251 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2252 is a web server.
2253
2254 forceddomain=name
2255 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2256 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2257 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2258 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2259
2260 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2261
2262 no-netdb-exchange
2263 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2264
2265
2266 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2267
2268 login=user:password
2269 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2270 requires proxy authentication.
2271
2272 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2273 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2274
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2276 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2277 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2278 without alteration to the peer.
2279 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2280
2281 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2282 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2283 connection-auth options are also used.
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2286 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2291 they may be sent instead.
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2293 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2294 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2295 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2296 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2297 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2298
2299 login=*:password
2300 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2301 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2302 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2303 needed to identify each user.
2304 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2305 information which is added to the username. This can
2306 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2307 the login=username:password option above.
2308
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2310 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2311 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2312 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2313 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
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2316 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2317 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2318
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2320 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2321 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2322 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2323 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2324 used.
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2327 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2328 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
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2331 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2332 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2333 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2334 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2335 of the peer.
2336
2337
2338 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2339
2340 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2341
2342 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2343 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2344 this peer.
2345
2346 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2347 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2348 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2349 reference a combined file containing both the
2350 certificate and the key.
2351
2352 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2353 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2354 1 = automatic (default)
2355 2 = SSL v2 only
2356 3 = SSL v3 only
2357 4 = TLS v1 only
2358
2359 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2360 to this peer.
2361
2362 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2363 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2364 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2365 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2366 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2367 a more complete list.
2368
2369 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2370 when verifying the peer certificate.
2371
2372 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2373 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2374
2375 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2376 verifying the peer certificate.
2377
2378 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2379
41bd17a4 2380 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2381 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2382 verify.
2383 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2384 Don't use the default CA list built in
2385 to OpenSSL.
2386 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2387 Don't verify the peer certificate
2388 matches the server name
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2390 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2391 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2392 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2393 used.
2394
2395 front-end-https
2396 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2397 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2398 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2399 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2400 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2401
2402
2403 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2404
2405 connect-timeout=N
2406 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2407 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2408
2409 connect-fail-limit=N
2410 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2411 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2412
2413 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2414 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2415 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2416 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2417 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2418 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2419 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2420
2421 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2422 peer. see also
2423
2424 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2425 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2426 but different ports.
2427 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2428 directives to dentify the peer.
2429 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2430 peername ACL type.
2431
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2432 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2433 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2434
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2435 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2436
41bd17a4 2437DOC_END
cccac0a2 2438
41bd17a4 2439NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2440TYPE: hostdomain
2441DEFAULT: none
2442LOC: none
2443DOC_START
2444 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2445 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2446
41bd17a4 2447 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2448 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2449
41bd17a4 2450 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2451
41bd17a4 2452 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2453
41bd17a4 2454 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2455 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2456 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2457 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2458 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2459
41bd17a4 2460 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2461 either on the same or separate lines.
2462 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2463 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2464 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2465 for all requests.
2466 * There are no defaults.
2467 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2468 section.
2469DOC_END
dd9b1776 2470
41bd17a4 2471NAME: cache_peer_access
2472TYPE: peer_access
2473DEFAULT: none
2474LOC: none
2475DOC_START
2476 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2477 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2478
41bd17a4 2479 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2480
41bd17a4 2481 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2482 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2483 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2484DOC_END
dd9b1776 2485
41bd17a4 2486NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2487TYPE: hostdomaintype
2488DEFAULT: none
2489LOC: none
2490DOC_START
2491 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2492
41bd17a4 2493 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2494 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2495 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2496 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2497 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2498 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2499
41bd17a4 2500EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2501 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2502 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2503 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2504DOC_END
6bf4f823 2505
41bd17a4 2506NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2507COMMENT: (seconds)
2508DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2509TYPE: time_t
2510LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2511DOC_START
2512 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2513 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2514 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2515 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2516 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2517 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2518
41bd17a4 2519 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2520 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2521 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2522 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2523 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2524 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2525 instead of to your parents.
2526DOC_END
cccac0a2 2527
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2528NAME: forward_max_tries
2529DEFAULT: 10
2530TYPE: int
2531LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2532DOC_START
2533 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2534 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2535
2536 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2537 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2538DOC_END
2539
41bd17a4 2540NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2541TYPE: wordlist
2542DEFAULT: none
2543LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2544DOC_START
2545 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2546 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2547 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2548 list this option multiple times.
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2550 Example:
2551 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2552
2553 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2554DOC_END
0976f8db 2555
41bd17a4 2556COMMENT_START
2557 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2558 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2559COMMENT_END
2560
2561NAME: cache_mem
2562COMMENT: (bytes)
2563TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2564DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2565LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2566DOC_START
41bd17a4 2567 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2568 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2569 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2570 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2571
2572 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2573 for:
2574 * In-Transit objects
2575 * Hot Objects
2576 * Negative-Cached objects
2577
2578 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2579 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2580 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2581 priority.
2582
2583 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2584 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2585 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2586 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2587 not needed for in-transit objects.
2588
2589 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2590 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2591 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2592 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2593 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2594 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2595 objects.
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2596
2597 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
2598 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
2599 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
2600 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 2601DOC_END
0976f8db 2602
41bd17a4 2603NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2604COMMENT: (bytes)
2605TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2606DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2607LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2608DOC_START
41bd17a4 2609 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2610 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2611 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2612 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2613DOC_END
0976f8db 2614
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2615NAME: memory_cache_shared
2616COMMENT: on|off
2617TYPE: YesNoNone
2618LOC: Config.memShared
2619DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 2620DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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2621DOC_START
2622 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
2623
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2624 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
2625 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
2626 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
2627 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
2628 caching is enabled).
2629
65b81b27 2630 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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2631 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
2632 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
2633 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
2634 and GCC-style atomic operations).
2635
2636 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
2637 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
2638 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
2639
2640 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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2641DOC_END
2642
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2643NAME: memory_cache_mode
2644TYPE: memcachemode
2645LOC: Config
2646DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2647DOC_START
ea21d497 2648 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2649
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2650 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2651
2652 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2653 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2654 a second time before cached in memory.
2655
2656 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2657DOC_END
2658
41bd17a4 2659NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2660TYPE: removalpolicy
2661LOC: Config.memPolicy
2662DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2663DOC_START
41bd17a4 2664 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2665 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2666
41bd17a4 2667 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2668DOC_END
6b698a21 2669
41bd17a4 2670COMMENT_START
2671 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2672 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2673COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2674
41bd17a4 2675NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2676TYPE: removalpolicy
2677LOC: Config.replPolicy
2678DEFAULT: lru
2679DOC_START
2680 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2681 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2682
41bd17a4 2683 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2684 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2685 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2686 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2687
41bd17a4 2688 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2689
41bd17a4 2690 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2691
41bd17a4 2692 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2693 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2694 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2695 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2696
41bd17a4 2697 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2698 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2699 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2700 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2701
41bd17a4 2702 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2703 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2704 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2705
41bd17a4 2706 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2707 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2708 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2709
41bd17a4 2710 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2711 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2712 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2713DOC_END
0976f8db 2714
41bd17a4 2715NAME: cache_dir
2716TYPE: cachedir
2717DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2718LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2719DOC_START
41bd17a4 2720 Usage:
0976f8db 2721
41bd17a4 2722 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2723
41bd17a4 2724 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2725 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2726
41bd17a4 2727 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2728 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2729 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2730
41bd17a4 2731 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2732 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2733 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2734 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2735 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2736
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2737 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2738 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2739 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2740
41bd17a4 2741 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2742
41bd17a4 2743 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2744 been there.
0976f8db 2745
41bd17a4 2746 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2747
41bd17a4 2748 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2749 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2750 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2751 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2752 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2753
56fba4d0 2754 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2755 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2756
56fba4d0 2757 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2758 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2759 is 256.
0976f8db 2760
41bd17a4 2761 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2762
41bd17a4 2763 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2764 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2765 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2766
41bd17a4 2767 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2768
41bd17a4 2769 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2770
41bd17a4 2771 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2772
41bd17a4 2773 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2774 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2775 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2776
41bd17a4 2777 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2778
41bd17a4 2779 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2780
41bd17a4 2781 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2782 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2783 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2784
41bd17a4 2785 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2786 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2787 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2788
41bd17a4 2789 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2790 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2791 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2792 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2793 time.
0976f8db 2794
2e55f083 2795 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 2796
df881a0f 2797 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 2798
2e55f083 2799 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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2800 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
2801 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
2802 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
2803 below for more info on the max-size option.
2804
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2805 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
2806 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
2807 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
2808 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
2809 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
2810 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
2811 expected swap wait time.
2812
df881a0f 2813 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 2814 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 2815 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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2816 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
2817 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
2818 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
2819 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
2820 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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2821 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
2822 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
2823 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
2824 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
2825 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
2826 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
2827
2828
41bd17a4 2829 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2830
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2831 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2832 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2833 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2834
41bd17a4 2835 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2836 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2837 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2838 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2839 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2840 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2841 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2842
41bd17a4 2843 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2844 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2845 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2846
41bd17a4 2847 Common options:
0976f8db 2848
41bd17a4 2849 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2850
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2851 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
2852 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
2853 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
2854 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
2855
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2856 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
2857 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 2858 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2859 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2860 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2861
41bd17a4 2862 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2863 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2864 option.
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2867# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2868#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2869NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2870DOC_END
0976f8db 2871
41bd17a4 2872NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2873TYPE: string
2874LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2875DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2876DOC_START
41bd17a4 2877 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2878DOC_END
0976f8db 2879
41bd17a4 2880NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2881TYPE: int
2882LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2883DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2884DOC_START
41bd17a4 2885 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2886 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2887 descriptors are open.
2888
2889 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2890DOC_END
0976f8db 2891
41bd17a4 2892NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2893COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2894TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2895DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2896LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2897DOC_START
41bd17a4 2898 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2899 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2900 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2901DOC_END
0976f8db 2902
41bd17a4 2903NAME: maximum_object_size
2904COMMENT: (bytes)
2905TYPE: b_int64_t
2906DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2907LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2908DOC_START
41bd17a4 2909 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2910 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2911 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2912 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2913 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2914 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2915
41bd17a4 2916 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2917 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2918 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2919DOC_END
0976f8db 2920
41bd17a4 2921NAME: cache_swap_low
2922COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2923TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2924DEFAULT: 90
2925LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2926DOC_NONE
2927
2928NAME: cache_swap_high
2929COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2930TYPE: int
2931DEFAULT: 95
2932LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2933DOC_START
41bd17a4 2934
2935 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2936 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2937 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2938 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2939 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2940 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2941
2942 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2943 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2944 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2945DOC_END
0976f8db 2946
5473c134 2947COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2948 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2949 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2950COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2951
41bd17a4 2952NAME: logformat
2953TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 2954LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 2955DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2956DOC_START
41bd17a4 2957 Usage:
0976f8db 2958
41bd17a4 2959 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2960
41bd17a4 2961 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2962
41bd17a4 2963 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2964
41bd17a4 2965 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2966 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2967 as required according to their context and the output format
2968 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2969 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2970
41bd17a4 2971 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2972
41bd17a4 2973 " output in quoted string format
2974 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2975 # output in URL quoted format
2976 ' output as-is
5473c134 2977
41bd17a4 2978 - left aligned
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2980 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
2981 [width_min][.width_max]
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2983 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 2984
41bd17a4 2985 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2986
41bd17a4 2987 Format codes:
5473c134 2988
3ff65596 2989 % a literal % character
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2990 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
2991 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
2992 a similar internal error identifier.
2993 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
2994
2995 Connection related format codes:
2996
41bd17a4 2997 >a Client source IP address
2998 >A Client FQDN
2999 >p Client source port
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3000 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3001 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3002 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3003
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3004 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3005 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3006
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3007 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3008 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3009 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3010 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3011 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3012
3013 Time related format codes:
3014
41bd17a4 3015 ts Seconds since epoch
3016 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3017 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3018 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3019 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3020 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3021 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3023
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3024 Access Control related format codes:
3025
3026 et Tag returned by external acl
3027 ea Log string returned by external acl
3028 un User name (any available)
3029 ul User name from authentication
3030 ue User name from external acl helper
3031 ui User name from ident
3032 us User name from SSL
3033
3034 HTTP related format codes:
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ca2e92d8 3036 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3037 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3038 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3039 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3040 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3041 as for >h
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3042 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3043 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3044 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3045 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3046 transfer encoding and control messages.
3047 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3048 received bodies.
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3049 [http::]mt MIME content type
3050 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3051 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3052 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3053 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3054 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3055 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3056 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3057 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3058 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3059 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3060 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3061 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3062 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3063 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3064 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3065 are not included
3066 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3067 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3068 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3069 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3070 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3071 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3072 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3073 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3074 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3075 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3076 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3077 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3078
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3079 Squid handling related format codes:
3080
3081 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3082 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3083
5038f9d8 3084 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3085 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3086
3087 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3088 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3089 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3090 transaction is in progress.
3091
5038f9d8 3092 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3093
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3095 meta-information from the last eCAP
3096 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3097 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3098 argument.
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3100 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3101 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3102 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3103 value is recorded as an integer number,
3104 representing response time of one or more
3105 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3106 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3107 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3108 logged individually but added to the
3109 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3110 adapt::all_trs.
3111
3112 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3113 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3114 individual transactions are never added
3115 together. Instead, all transaction response
3116 times are recorded individually.
3117
3118 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3119 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3120 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3121
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3123
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3124logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3125logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3126logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3127logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3128logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3129
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3130 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3131 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3132 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3133
3134 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3135 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3136
5473c134 3137DOC_END
3138
41bd17a4 3139NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3140TYPE: access_log
3141LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3142DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3143DOC_START
41bd17a4 3144 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3145 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3146 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3147 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3148
3149 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3150 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3151 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3152 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3153
3154 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3155
bb7a1781 3156 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3157 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3158
3159 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3160 each request.
3161 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3162
3163 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3164 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3165 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3166
3167 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3168
3169 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3170 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3171 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3172
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3173 where facility could be any of:
3174 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3175
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3176 And priority could be any of:
3177 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3178
3179 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3180 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3181 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3182
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3183 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3184 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3185 Place Format: //host:port
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3187 Default:
82b7abe3 3188 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3189DOC_END
5473c134 3190
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3191NAME: icap_log
3192TYPE: access_log
3193IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3194LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3195DEFAULT: none
3196DOC_START
3197 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3198 transaction.
3199
3200 The icap_log option format is:
3201 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3202 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3203
3204 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3205 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3206 features.
3207
3208 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3209 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3210 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3211 log line.
3212
3213 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3214 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3215 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3216 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3217 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3218 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3219 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3220
3221 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3222
3223 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3224
3225 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3226 option in Squid configuration file.
3227
3228 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3229
3230 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3231 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3232
3233 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3234 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3235
3236 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3237 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3238 the socket).
3239
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3240 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3241 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3242 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3243 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3244 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3245 computed.
3246
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3248 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3249 the ICAP transaction is created and
3250 stops when the transaction is completed.
3251 Similar to tr.
3252
3253 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3254 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3255 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3256 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3257 is received.
3258
3259 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3260 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3261 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3262 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3263 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3264 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3265
3266 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3267
3268 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3269
3270 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3271
3272 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3273 definition, is called icap_squid:
3274
3275logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3276
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3279
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3280NAME: logfile_daemon
3281TYPE: string
3282DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3283LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3284DOC_START
3285 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3286 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3288 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3289 L<data>\n - logfile data
3290 R\n - rotate file
3291 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3292 O\n - reopen file
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3293 F\n - flush file
3294 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3295 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3296
3297 No responses is expected.
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3299
5b0f5383 3300NAME: log_access
3301TYPE: acl_access
3302LOC: Config.accessList.log
3303DEFAULT: none
3304COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3305DOC_START
3306 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3307 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3308 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3309
3310 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3311 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3312DOC_END
3313
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3314NAME: log_icap
3315TYPE: acl_access
3316IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3317LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3318DEFAULT: none
3319DOC_START
3320 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3321 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3322DOC_END
3323
41bd17a4 3324NAME: cache_store_log
3325TYPE: string
df2eec10 3326DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3327LOC: Config.Log.store
3328DOC_START
3329 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3330 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3332 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3333 disable it.
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3335 Example:
3336 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
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3338
41bd17a4 3339NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3340TYPE: string
3341LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3342DEFAULT: none
3343DOC_START
41bd17a4 3344 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3345 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3346 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3347 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3348 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3349 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3350 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3351
41bd17a4 3352 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3353 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3354 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3355 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3356
41bd17a4 3357 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3358 these swap logs will have names such as:
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41bd17a4 3360 cache_swap_log.00
3361 cache_swap_log.01
3362 cache_swap_log.02
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41bd17a4 3364 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3365 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3366 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3367 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3368 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3369 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3370 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3371DOC_END
3372
41bd17a4 3373NAME: logfile_rotate
3374TYPE: int
3375DEFAULT: 10
3376LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3377DOC_START
41bd17a4 3378 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3379 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3380 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3381 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3382 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3383 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 3384
41bd17a4 3385 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3386 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3387 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3388 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3389 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3390 <pid>'.
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3392 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3393 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3394DOC_END
5473c134 3395
41bd17a4 3396NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3397TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3398DOC_START
20efa1c2 3399 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3400DOC_END
3401
41bd17a4 3402NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3403TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3404DOC_START
8652f8e7 3405 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3406DOC_END
5473c134 3407
41bd17a4 3408NAME: mime_table
3409TYPE: string
3410DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3411LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3412DOC_START
3413 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3414 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3415 information if you do.
5473c134 3416DOC_END
3417
41bd17a4 3418NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3419COMMENT: on|off
3420TYPE: onoff
3421LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3422DEFAULT: off
3423DOC_START
3424 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3425 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3426 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3427 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3428 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3429DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3431NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3432TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3433DOC_START
20efa1c2 3434 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3435DOC_END
3436
41bd17a4 3437NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3438TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3439DOC_START
20efa1c2 3440 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3441DOC_END
3442
41bd17a4 3443NAME: pid_filename
3444TYPE: string
3445DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3446LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3447DOC_START
41bd17a4 3448 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3449DOC_END
3450
41bd17a4 3451NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3452TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3453DOC_START
c581e96b 3454 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3455DOC_END
3456
41bd17a4 3457NAME: client_netmask
3458TYPE: address
3459LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3460DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3461DOC_START
41bd17a4 3462 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3463 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3464 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3465 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3466DOC_END
3467
41bd17a4 3468NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3469TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3470DOC_START
20efa1c2 3471 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3472DOC_END
3473
41bd17a4 3474NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3475TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3476LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3477DEFAULT: on
3478DOC_START
41bd17a4 3479 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3480 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3481DOC_END
3482
41bd17a4 3483NAME: buffered_logs
3484COMMENT: on|off
3485TYPE: onoff
3486DEFAULT: off
3487LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3488DOC_START
41bd17a4 3489 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3490 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3491 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3492 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3493 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 3494DOC_END
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2b753521 3496NAME: netdb_filename
3497TYPE: string
221faecb 3498DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3499LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3500IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3501DOC_START
3502 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3503 To disable, enter "none".
3504DOC_END
3505
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3506COMMENT_START
3507 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3508 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3509COMMENT_END
3510
3511NAME: cache_log
3512TYPE: string
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3514LOC: Debug::cache_log
3515DOC_START
3516 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3517 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3518 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3519DOC_END
3520
3521NAME: debug_options
3522TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3523DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3524LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3525DOC_START
3526 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3527 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3528 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3529 log file, so be careful.
3530
3531 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3532 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3533
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3535 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3536 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3537 events affecting Squid.
3538DOC_END
3539
3540NAME: coredump_dir
3541TYPE: string
3542LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3544DOC_START
3545 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3546 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3547 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3548 and coredump files will be left there.
3549
3550NOCOMMENT_START
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3553coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3554NOCOMMENT_END
3555DOC_END
3556
3557
41bd17a4 3558COMMENT_START
3559 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3560 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3561COMMENT_END
3562
3563NAME: ftp_user
3564TYPE: string
3565DEFAULT: Squid@
3566LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3567DOC_START
41bd17a4 3568 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3569 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3570 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3571
41bd17a4 3572 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3573 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3574 depending on how the cache is used.
3575 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3576 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3577DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3579NAME: ftp_passive
3580TYPE: onoff
3581DEFAULT: on
3582LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3583DOC_START
41bd17a4 3584 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3585 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 3586
3587 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3588DOC_END
3589
3590NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3591TYPE: onoff
3592DEFAULT: off
3593LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3594DOC_START
3595 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3596
3597 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3598 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3599 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3600
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3601 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
3602 useful.
a689bd4e 3603 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3604 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3605
3606 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3607 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3608
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3609 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3610DOC_END
3611
3612NAME: ftp_epsv
3613TYPE: onoff
3614DEFAULT: on
3615LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3616DOC_START
3617 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3618
3619 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3620 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3621 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3622 will never be needed.
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3623
3624 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3625 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3626 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3627
3628 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3629DOC_END
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3631NAME: ftp_eprt
3632TYPE: onoff
3633DEFAULT: on
3634LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3635DOC_START
3636 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3637
3638 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3639 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3640 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3641
3642 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3643 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3644
3645 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3646 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3647 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3648 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3649
3650 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3651 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3652DOC_END
3653
41bd17a4 3654NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3655TYPE: onoff
3656DEFAULT: on
3657LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3658DOC_START
3659 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3660 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3661 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3662 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3663 connection turn this off.
3664DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3665
41bd17a4 3666NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3667TYPE: onoff
3668DEFAULT: on
3669LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3670DOC_START
3671 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3672 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3673 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3674 the FTP protocol.
3675
3676 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3677 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3678 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3679 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3680 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3681DOC_END
3682
3683COMMENT_START
3684 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3685 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3686COMMENT_END
3687
3688NAME: diskd_program
3689TYPE: string
3690DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3691LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3692DOC_START
3693 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3694 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3695 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3696DOC_END
3697
3698NAME: unlinkd_program
3699IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3700TYPE: string
3701DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3702LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3703DOC_START
3704 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3705DOC_END
3706
3707NAME: pinger_program
3708TYPE: string
3709DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3710LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3711IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3712DOC_START
3713 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3714DOC_END
3715
cc192b50 3716NAME: pinger_enable
3717TYPE: onoff
3718DEFAULT: on
3719LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3720IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3721DOC_START
3722 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3723 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3724 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3725DOC_END
3726
3727
41bd17a4 3728COMMENT_START
3729 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3730 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3731COMMENT_END
3732
3733NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3734TYPE: wordlist
3735LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3736DEFAULT: none
3737DOC_START
2c7aad89 3738 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 3739 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3740
2c7aad89 3741 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 3742
c71adec1 3743 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3744
3745 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3746 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3747 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3748 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3749
3750 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3751 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3752
3753 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3754 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 3755 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 3756
3757 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3758DOC_END
3759
3760NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3761TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3762DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3763LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3764DOC_START
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3765 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3766 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3767 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3768 and other system resources noticably.
3769
3770 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3771 tuning.
3772
3773 startup=
3774
3775 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3776 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3777 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3778
3779 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3780 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3781
3782 idle=
3783
3784 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3785 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3786 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3787 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3788
3789 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3790
41bd17a4 3791 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3792 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3793 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3794
3795 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3796 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3797 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3798 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3799 to that request.
41bd17a4 3800DOC_END
3801
3802NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3803TYPE: onoff
3804DEFAULT: on
3805LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3806DOC_START
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3807 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
3808 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
3809 any Host: header in redirected requests.
3810
3811 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
3812 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
3813 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
3814
41bd17a4 3815 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3816 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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3817
3818 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
3819 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
3820 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 3821DOC_END
3822
3823NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3824TYPE: acl_access
3825DEFAULT: none
3826LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3827DOC_START
3828 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3829 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3830 are sent.
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3831
3832 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3833 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3834DOC_END
3835
3836NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3837TYPE: onoff
3838LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3839DEFAULT: off
3840DOC_START
3841 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3842 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3843 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3844 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3845 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3846 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3847 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3848 users may have access to pages they should not
3849 be allowed to request.
3850DOC_END
3851
3852COMMENT_START
3853 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3854 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3855COMMENT_END
3856
f04b37d8 3857NAME: cache no_cache
3858TYPE: acl_access
3859DEFAULT: none
3860LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3861DOC_START
240887f0 3862 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3863 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3864 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3865
240887f0 3866 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3867 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3868
240887f0 3869 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3870
3871 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3872 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3873DOC_END
3874
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3875NAME: max_stale
3876COMMENT: time-units
3877TYPE: time_t
3878LOC: Config.maxStale
3879DEFAULT: 1 week
3880DOC_START
3881 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
3882 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
3883 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
3884DOC_END
3885
41bd17a4 3886NAME: refresh_pattern
3887TYPE: refreshpattern
3888LOC: Config.Refresh
3889DEFAULT: none
3890DOC_START
3891 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3892
6b698a21 3893 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3894 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3895
41bd17a4 3896 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3897 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3898 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3899 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3900 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3901
41bd17a4 3902 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3903 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3904 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3905
41bd17a4 3906 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3907 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3908
41bd17a4 3909 options: override-expire
3910 override-lastmod
3911 reload-into-ims
3912 ignore-reload
3913 ignore-no-cache
3914 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3915 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3916 ignore-private
3917 ignore-auth
570d3f75 3918 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 3919 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 3920 store-stale
a0ec9f68 3921
41bd17a4 3922 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3923 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3924 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3925 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3926 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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3928 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3929 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3930 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3931 the object fresh for that period of time.
3932
41bd17a4 3933 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3934 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3935
41bd17a4 3936 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3937 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3938 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3939 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3940
41bd17a4 3941 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3942 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3943 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3944 it causes.
9bc73deb 3945
41bd17a4 3946 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3947 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3948 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3949 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3950 send it anyway.
3951
3952 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3953 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3954 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3955 liable for problems which it causes.
3956
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3957 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3958 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3959 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3960 liable for problems which it causes.
3961
41bd17a4 3962 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3963 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3964 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3965 liable for problems which it causes.
3966
3967 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3968 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3969 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3970 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3971 it causes.
3972
3973 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3974 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3975 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3976 if one is available.
3977
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3978 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3979 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3980 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3981 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3982 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3983
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3984 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
3985 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
3986 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
3987
41bd17a4 3988 Basically a cached object is:
3989
3990 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3991 STALE if age > max
3992 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3993 FRESH if age < min
3994 else STALE
3995
3996 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3997 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3998 match the default will be used.
3999
4000 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4001 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4002 used.
4003
41bd17a4 4004NOCOMMENT_START
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4006# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 4007refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4008refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4009refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4010refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4011NOCOMMENT_END
4012DOC_END
4013
4014NAME: quick_abort_min
4015COMMENT: (KB)
4016TYPE: kb_int64_t
4017DEFAULT: 16 KB
4018LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4019DOC_NONE
4020
4021NAME: quick_abort_max
4022COMMENT: (KB)
4023TYPE: kb_int64_t
4024DEFAULT: 16 KB
4025LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4026DOC_NONE
4027
4028NAME: quick_abort_pct
4029COMMENT: (percent)
4030TYPE: int
4031DEFAULT: 95
4032LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4033DOC_START
4034 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4035 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4036 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4037 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4038 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4039 downloads.
4040
4041 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4042 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4043 then.
4044
4045 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4046 it will finish the retrieval.
4047
4048 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4049 it will abort the retrieval.
4050
4051 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4052 it will finish the retrieval.
4053
4054 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4055 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4056 to '0 KB'.
4057
4058 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4059 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4060DOC_END
60d096f4 4061
41bd17a4 4062NAME: read_ahead_gap
4063COMMENT: buffer-size
4064TYPE: b_int64_t
4065LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4066DEFAULT: 16 KB
4067DOC_START
4068 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4069 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4070DOC_END
53e738c6 4071
41bd17a4 4072NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4073IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4074COMMENT: time-units
4075TYPE: time_t
4076LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4077DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4078DOC_START
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4079 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4080 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4081 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4082 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4083 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4084 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4085
4086 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4087
4088 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4089 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4090 causes.
41bd17a4 4091DOC_END
53e738c6 4092
41bd17a4 4093NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4094COMMENT: time-units
4095TYPE: time_t
4096LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4097DEFAULT: 6 hours
4098DOC_START
4099 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4100 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4101 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4102DOC_END
c4ab8329 4103
41bd17a4 4104NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4105COMMENT: time-units
4106TYPE: time_t
4107LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4108DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4109DOC_START
4110 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4111 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4112 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4113 much below 10 seconds.
4114DOC_END
7df0bfd7 4115
41bd17a4 4116NAME: range_offset_limit
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4117COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4118TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4119LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4120DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4121DOC_START
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4122 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4123
4124 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4125 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4126 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4127 the result is NOT cached.
4128
41bd17a4 4129 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4130 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4131 sending anything to the client.
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4132
4133 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4134 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4135 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4136 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4137
4138 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4139
4140 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4141 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4142
4143 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4144 client requested. (default)
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4145
4146 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4147 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4148
4149 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4150
4151 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4152 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4153 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4154 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4155DOC_END
d95b862f 4156
41bd17a4 4157NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4158COMMENT: (seconds)
4159TYPE: time_t
4160LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4161DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4162DOC_START
4163 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4164 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4165 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4166 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4167 is most likely better to make your server return a
4168 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4169 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4170 often be best set to 0.
4171DOC_END
c68e9c6b 4172
41bd17a4 4173NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4174COMMENT: (bytes)
4175TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4176DEFAULT: 13 KB
4177LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4178DOC_START
4179 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4180 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4181DOC_END
4182
41bd17a4 4183NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4184TYPE: int
4185DEFAULT: 20
4186LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4187DOC_START
4188 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4189 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4190 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4191DOC_END
4192
4193COMMENT_START
4194 HTTP OPTIONS
4195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4196COMMENT_END
4197
f04b37d8 4198NAME: request_header_max_size
4199COMMENT: (KB)
4200TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4201DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4202LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4203DOC_START
4204 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4205 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4206 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4207 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4208 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4209DOC_END
4210
4211NAME: reply_header_max_size
4212COMMENT: (KB)
4213TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4214DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4215LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4216DOC_START
4217 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4218 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4219 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4220 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4221 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4222DOC_END
4223
4224NAME: request_body_max_size
4225COMMENT: (bytes)
4226TYPE: b_int64_t
4227DEFAULT: 0 KB
4228LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4229DOC_START
4230 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4231 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4232 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4233 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4234 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4235 be no limit imposed.
4236DOC_END
4237
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4238NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4239COMMENT: (bytes)
4240TYPE: b_size_t
4241DEFAULT: 512 KB
4242LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4243DOC_START
4244 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4245 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4246 a large file.
4247DOC_END
4248
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4249NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4250COMMENT: (bytes)
4251TYPE: b_int64_t
4252DEFAULT: 64 KB
4253LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4254DOC_START
4255 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4256 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4257 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4258 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4259 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4260 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4261
4262 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4263 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4264 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4265 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4266 as if dechunking was disabled.
4267
4268 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4269 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4270
4271 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4272 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4273 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4274DOC_END
4275
41bd17a4 4276NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4277IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4278TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4279DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4280LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4281DOC_START
41bd17a4 4282 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4283 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4284
41bd17a4 4285 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4286 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4287
41bd17a4 4288 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4289
41bd17a4 4290 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4291 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4292 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4293 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 4294
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4295 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4296 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4297
41bd17a4 4298Example:
4299 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4300 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4301DOC_END
cccac0a2 4302
22fff3bf 4303NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4304COMMENT: on|off
4305TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4306IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4307DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4308LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4309DOC_START
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4310 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4311 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4312
4313 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4314DOC_END
4315
41bd17a4 4316NAME: via
626096be 4317IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4318COMMENT: on|off
4319TYPE: onoff
4320DEFAULT: on
4321LOC: Config.onoff.via
4322DOC_START
4323 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4324 replies as required by RFC2616.
4325DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4326
41bd17a4 4327NAME: ie_refresh
4328COMMENT: on|off
4329TYPE: onoff
4330LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4331DEFAULT: off
4332DOC_START
4333 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4334 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4335 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4336 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4337 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4338 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4339 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4340 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4341 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4342 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4343 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4344 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4345 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4346 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4347 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4348 force fresh content.
4349DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 4350
41bd17a4 4351NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4352COMMENT: on|off
4353TYPE: onoff
4354LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4355DEFAULT: off
4356DOC_START
4357 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4358 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4359 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4360 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4361 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4362
4363 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4364 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4365DOC_END
c4ab8329 4366
41bd17a4 4367NAME: request_entities
4368TYPE: onoff
4369LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4370DEFAULT: off
4371DOC_START
4372 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4373 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4374 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4375
41bd17a4 4376 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4377 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4378 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4379 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4380 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4381DOC_END
6b53c392 4382
41bd17a4 4383NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4384IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4385TYPE: http_header_access[]
4386LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4387DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4388DOC_START
41bd17a4 4389 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4390
41bd17a4 4391 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4392 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4393 causes.
0976f8db 4394
41bd17a4 4395 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4396 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4397 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4398 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4399 mangling.
934b03fc 4400
41bd17a4 4401 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4402 client to the server.
5401aa8d 4403
41bd17a4 4404 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4405 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4406 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 4407
41bd17a4 4408 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4409 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4410
41bd17a4 4411 request_header_access From deny all
4412 request_header_access Referer deny all
4413 request_header_access Server deny all
4414 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4415 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4416 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4417
41bd17a4 4418 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4419 you should use:
5401aa8d 4420
41bd17a4 4421 request_header_access Allow allow all
4422 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4423 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4424 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4425 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4426 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4427 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4428 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4429 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4430 request_header_access Date allow all
4431 request_header_access Expires allow all
4432 request_header_access Host allow all
4433 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4434 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4435 request_header_access Location allow all
4436 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4437 request_header_access Accept allow all
4438 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4439 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4440 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4441 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4442 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4443 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4444 request_header_access Title allow all
4445 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4446 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4447
41bd17a4 4448 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4449 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4450
41bd17a4 4451 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4452 performed).
5401aa8d 4453DOC_END
4454
41bd17a4 4455NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4456IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4457TYPE: http_header_access[]
4458LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4459DEFAULT: none
4460DOC_START
41bd17a4 4461 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4462
41bd17a4 4463 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4464 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4465 causes.
934b03fc 4466
41bd17a4 4467 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4468 server to the client.
934b03fc 4469
41bd17a4 4470 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4471 direction.
6b53c392 4472
41bd17a4 4473 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4474 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4475 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4476 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4477 mangling.
cccac0a2 4478
41bd17a4 4479 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4480 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4481 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 4482
41bd17a4 4483 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4484 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4485
41bd17a4 4486 reply_header_access From deny all
4487 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4488 reply_header_access Server deny all
4489 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4490 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4491 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4492
41bd17a4 4493 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4494 you should use:
cccac0a2 4495
41bd17a4 4496 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4497 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4498 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4499 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4500 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4501 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4502 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4503 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4504 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4505 reply_header_access Date allow all
4506 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4507 reply_header_access Host allow all
4508 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4509 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4510 reply_header_access Location allow all
4511 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4512 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4513 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4514 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4515 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4516 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4517 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4518 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4519 reply_header_access Title allow all
4520 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4521 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4522
41bd17a4 4523 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4524 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4525
41bd17a4 4526 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4527 performed).
cccac0a2 4528DOC_END
4529
75e4f2ea 4530NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4531IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4532TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4533LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4534DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4535DOC_START
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4536 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4537 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4538
41bd17a4 4539 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4540 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4541 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4542 option.
cccac0a2 4543
41bd17a4 4544 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4545
41bd17a4 4546 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4547DOC_END
cccac0a2 4548
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4549NAME: reply_header_replace
4550IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4551TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4552LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4553DEFAULT: none
4554DOC_START
4555 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4556 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4557
4558 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4559 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4560 with some fixed string.
4561
4562 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4563
4564 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4565DOC_END
4566
41bd17a4 4567NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4568COMMENT: on|off|warn
4569TYPE: tristate
4570LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4571DEFAULT: on
4572DOC_START
4573 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4574 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4575 what the sending application intended even if the message
4576 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4577 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4578
41bd17a4 4579 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4580 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4581
41bd17a4 4582 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4583 or response to be rejected.
4584DOC_END
7d90757b 4585
41bd17a4 4586COMMENT_START
4587 TIMEOUTS
4588 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4589COMMENT_END
4590
4591NAME: forward_timeout
4592COMMENT: time-units
4593TYPE: time_t
4594LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4595DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4596DOC_START
4597 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4598 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4599DOC_END
4600
41bd17a4 4601NAME: connect_timeout
4602COMMENT: time-units
4603TYPE: time_t
4604LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4605DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4606DOC_START
41bd17a4 4607 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4608 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4609 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4610DOC_END
4611
41bd17a4 4612NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4613COMMENT: time-units
4614TYPE: time_t
4615LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4616DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4617DOC_START
41bd17a4 4618 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4619 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4620 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4621 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4622DOC_END
7f7db318 4623
41bd17a4 4624NAME: read_timeout
4625COMMENT: time-units
4626TYPE: time_t
4627LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4628DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4629DOC_START
4630 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4631 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4632 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4633 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4634 default is 15 minutes.
4635DOC_END
cccac0a2 4636
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4637NAME: write_timeout
4638COMMENT: time-units
4639TYPE: time_t
4640LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4641DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4642DOC_START
4643 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4644 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4645 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4646 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4647 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4648 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4649 default is 15 minutes.
4650DOC_END
4651
41bd17a4 4652NAME: request_timeout
4653TYPE: time_t
4654LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4655DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4656DOC_START
4657 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4658 connection establishment.
4659DOC_END
cccac0a2 4660
97b32442 4661NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 4662TYPE: time_t
97b32442 4663LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 4664DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4665DOC_START
4666 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 4667 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 4668DOC_END
cccac0a2 4669
41bd17a4 4670NAME: client_lifetime
4671COMMENT: time-units
4672TYPE: time_t
4673LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4674DEFAULT: 1 day
4675DOC_START
4676 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4677 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4678 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4679 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4680 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4681 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4682 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4683
41bd17a4 4684 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4685 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4686 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4687 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4688 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4689 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4690DOC_END
4691
41bd17a4 4692NAME: half_closed_clients
4693TYPE: onoff
4694LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4695DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4696DOC_START
41bd17a4 4697 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4698 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4699 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4700 fully-closed TCP connection.
4701
4702 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4703 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4704
abdf1651 4705 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4706 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4707 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4708 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4709DOC_END
4710
97b32442 4711NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 4712TYPE: time_t
97b32442 4713LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 4714DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4715DOC_START
41bd17a4 4716 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4717 proxies.
4718DOC_END
cccac0a2 4719
41bd17a4 4720NAME: ident_timeout
4721TYPE: time_t
4722IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4723LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4724DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4725DOC_START
4726 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4727
41bd17a4 4728 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4729 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4730 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4731DOC_END
4732
41bd17a4 4733NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4734COMMENT: time-units
4735TYPE: time_t
4736LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4737DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4738DOC_START
41bd17a4 4739 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4740 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4741 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4742 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4743 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4744DOC_END
0976f8db 4745
cccac0a2 4746COMMENT_START
4747 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4748 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4749COMMENT_END
4750
4751NAME: cache_mgr
4752TYPE: string
4753DEFAULT: webmaster
4754LOC: Config.adminEmail
4755DOC_START
4756 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4757 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4758DOC_END
4759
abacf776 4760NAME: mail_from
4761TYPE: string
4762DEFAULT: none
4763LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4764DOC_START
4765 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4766 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4767 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4768 src/globals.h before building squid.
4769DOC_END
4770
d084bf20 4771NAME: mail_program
4772TYPE: eol
4773DEFAULT: mail
4774LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4775DOC_START
4776 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4777 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4778 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4779 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4780
d084bf20 4781 Optional command line options can be specified.
4782DOC_END
4783
cccac0a2 4784NAME: cache_effective_user
4785TYPE: string
5483d916 4786DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4787LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4788DOC_START
4789 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4790 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4791 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4792 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4793DOC_END
4794
cccac0a2 4795NAME: cache_effective_group
4796TYPE: string
4797DEFAULT: none
4798LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4799DOC_START
64e288bd 4800 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4801 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4802 from the groups membership.
4803
e3d74828 4804 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4805 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4806 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4807 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4808 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4809 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4810 group.
64e288bd 4811
4812 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4813 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4814 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4815DOC_END
4816
d3caee79 4817NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4818COMMENT: on|off
4819TYPE: onoff
4820DEFAULT: off
4821LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4822DOC_START
4823 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4824DOC_END
4825
cccac0a2 4826NAME: visible_hostname
4827TYPE: string
4828LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4829DEFAULT: none
4830DOC_START
4831 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4832 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4833 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4834 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4835 names with this setting.
4836DOC_END
4837
cccac0a2 4838NAME: unique_hostname
4839TYPE: string
4840LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4841DEFAULT: none
4842DOC_START
4843 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4844 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4845 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4846DOC_END
4847
cccac0a2 4848NAME: hostname_aliases
4849TYPE: wordlist
4850LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4851DEFAULT: none
4852DOC_START
7f7db318 4853 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4854DOC_END
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4856NAME: umask
4857TYPE: int
4858LOC: Config.umask
4859DEFAULT: 027
4860DOC_START
4861 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4862 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4863
4864 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4865 your value with 0.
4866DOC_END
4867
cccac0a2 4868COMMENT_START
4869 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4870 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4871
4872 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4873 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4874 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4875 create cache hierarchies.
4876
4877 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4878 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4879 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4880
4881 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4882 following information from this configuration file:
4883
4884 http_port
4885 icp_port
4886 cache_mgr
4887
4888 All current information is processed regularly and made
4889 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4890COMMENT_END
4891
4892NAME: announce_period
4893TYPE: time_t
4894LOC: Config.Announce.period
4895DEFAULT: 0
4896DOC_START
4897 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4898 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4899 messages.
4900
e0855596 4901 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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4903 Example:
4904 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4905DOC_END
4906
cccac0a2 4907NAME: announce_host
4908TYPE: string
4909DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4910LOC: Config.Announce.host
4911DOC_NONE
4912
4913NAME: announce_file
4914TYPE: string
4915DEFAULT: none
4916LOC: Config.Announce.file
4917DOC_NONE
4918
4919NAME: announce_port
ae870270 4920TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 4921DEFAULT: 3131
4922LOC: Config.Announce.port
4923DOC_START
4924 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4925 number where the registration message will be sent.
4926
4927 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4928 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4929 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4930 message.
4931DOC_END
4932
8d6275c0 4933COMMENT_START
4934 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4935 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4936COMMENT_END
4937
cccac0a2 4938NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4939TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 4940DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4941LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4942DOC_START
4943 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4944 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4945 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4946 an identification token.
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4947
4948 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 4949DOC_END
4950
4951NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 4952COMMENT: on|off
4953TYPE: onoff
4954DEFAULT: off
4955LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4956DOC_START
4957 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4958 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4959DOC_END
4960
4961NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4962IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4963COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4964TYPE: string
4965LOC: ESIParser::Type
4966DEFAULT: custom
4967DOC_START
4968 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4969 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4970 encodings.
4971DOC_END
0976f8db 4972
9edd9041 4973COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4974 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4975 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4976COMMENT_END
4977
4978NAME: delay_pools
4979TYPE: delay_pool_count
4980DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 4981IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4982LOC: Config.Delay
4983DOC_START
4984 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4985 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4986 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4987DOC_END
4988
4989NAME: delay_class
4990TYPE: delay_pool_class
4991DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4992IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4993LOC: Config.Delay
4994DOC_START
4995 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4996 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4997 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4998 and here would be:
4999
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5000 Example:
5001 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5002 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5003 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5004 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5005 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5006
5007 The delay pool classes are:
5008
5009 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5010 bucket.
5011
5012 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5013 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5014 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5015
5016 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5017 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5018 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5019 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5020 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5021
5022 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5023 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5024 only takes effect if the username is established
5025 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5026 http_access rules.
5027
5028 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5029 external_acl's tag= reply).
5030
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5031
5032 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5033 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5034 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5035
9edd9041 5036 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5037 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5038 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5039 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5040
5041 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5042 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5043DOC_END
5044
5045NAME: delay_access
5046TYPE: delay_pool_access
5047DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5048IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5049LOC: Config.Delay
5050DOC_START
5051 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5052
5053 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5054 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5055 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5056 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5057
5058 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5059 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5060
5061Example:
5062 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5063 delay_access 1 deny all
5064 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5065 delay_access 2 deny all
5066 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5067DOC_END
5068
5069NAME: delay_parameters
5070TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5071DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5072IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5073LOC: Config.Delay
5074DOC_START
5075 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5076 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5077 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5078
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5079 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5080 delay_pools pool 1
5081 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5082
5083 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5084 delay_pools pool 2
5085 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5086
5087 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5088 delay_pools pool 3
5089 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5090
5091 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5092 delay_pools pool 4
5093 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5094
5095 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5096 delay_pools pool 5
5097 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5098
0b68481a 5099 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5100
5101 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5102 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5103 delay_class lines.
5104
fdb47ac6 5105 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5106 (class 1, 2, 3).
5107
fdb47ac6 5108 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5109 buckets (class 2, 3).
5110
fdb47ac6 5111 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5112 (class 3).
5113
fdb47ac6 5114 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5115 (class 4).
5116
fdb47ac6 5117 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5118 (class 5).
5119
5120 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5121 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5122 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5123 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5124
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5125 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5126
5127
9edd9041 5128 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5129 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5130 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5131
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5132 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5133
5134 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5135
5136 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5137
0b68481a 5138
9edd9041 5139 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5140 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5141 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5142 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5143 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5144 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5145 large downloads more significantly:
5146
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5147 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5148
5149 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5150 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5151 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5152
9edd9041 5153
5154 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5155 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5156
0b68481a 5157 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5158DOC_END
5159
5160NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5161COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5162TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5163DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5164IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5165LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5166DOC_START
5167 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5168 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5169 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5170 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5171 "seen" by squid).
5172DOC_END
5173
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5174COMMENT_START
5175 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5176 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5177COMMENT_END
5178
5179NAME: client_delay_pools
5180TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5181DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5182IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5183LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5184DOC_START
5185 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5186 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5187
5188Example:
5189 client_delay_pools 2
5190DOC_END
5191
5192NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5193COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5194TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5195DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5196IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5197LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5198DOC_START
5199 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5200 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5201 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5202 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5203
5204 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5205 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5206 from client_delay_parameters.
5207
5208Example:
5209 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5210DOC_END
5211
5212NAME: client_delay_parameters
5213TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5214DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5215IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5216LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5217DOC_START
5218
5219 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5220 following format:
5221
5222 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5223
5224 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5225
5226 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5227
5228 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5229 speed_limit additions.
5230
5231 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5232 examples.
5233
5234Example:
5235 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5236 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5237DOC_END
5238
5239NAME: client_delay_access
5240TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5241DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5242IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5243LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5244DOC_START
5245
5246 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5247 request:
5248
5249 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5250
5251 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5252 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5253 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5254 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5255 limited.
5256
5257 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5258 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5259 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5260 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5261
5262 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5263
5264Example:
5265 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5266 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5267DOC_END
5268
cccac0a2 5269COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5270 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5271 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5272COMMENT_END
5273
8d6275c0 5274NAME: wccp_router
5275TYPE: address
5276LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5277DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5278IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5279DOC_START
5280 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5281 Squid.
5282
5283 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5284
5285 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5286
5287 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5288 which version of WCCP to use.
5289DOC_END
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8d6275c0 5291NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5292TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5293LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5294DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5295IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5296DOC_START
8d6275c0 5297 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5298 Squid.
cccac0a2 5299
8d6275c0 5300 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5301
8d6275c0 5302 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5303
8d6275c0 5304 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5305 which version of WCCP to use.
5306DOC_END
5307
5308NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5309TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5310LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5311DEFAULT: 4
5312IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5313DOC_START
8d6275c0 5314 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5315 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5316 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5317 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5318 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5319
8d6275c0 5320 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5321 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5322 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5323 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5324DOC_END
5325
8d6275c0 5326NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5327TYPE: onoff
5328LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5329DEFAULT: on
5330IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5331DOC_START
5332 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5333 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5334DOC_END
cccac0a2 5335
8d6275c0 5336NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5337TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5338LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5339DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5340IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5341DOC_START
699acd19 5342 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5343 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5344
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5345 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5346 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5347
8d6275c0 5348 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5349 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5350DOC_END
5351
8d6275c0 5352NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5353TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5354LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5355DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5356IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5357DOC_START
699acd19 5358 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5359 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5360 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5361
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5362 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5363 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5364
8d6275c0 5365 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5366 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5367
699acd19 5368 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5369 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5370 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5371 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5372DOC_END
5373
8d6275c0 5374NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5375TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5376LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5377DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5378IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5379DOC_START
8d6275c0 5380 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5381 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5382
451c4786 5383 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5384 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5385
8d6275c0 5386 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5387 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5388DOC_END
cccac0a2 5389
8d6275c0 5390NAME: wccp2_service
5391TYPE: wccp2_service
5392LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5393DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5394IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5395DOC_START
5396 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5397 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5398 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5399 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5400 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5401 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5402
5403 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5404 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5405
5406 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5407 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5408
5409 Examples:
5410
5411 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5412 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5413 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5414 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5415DOC_END
5416
5417NAME: wccp2_service_info
5418TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5419LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5420DEFAULT: none
5421IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5422DOC_START
5423 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5424 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5425
5426 The format is:
5427
5428 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5429 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5430
5431 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5432 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5433 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5434 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5435 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5436 + ports_source
5437
5438 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5439
5440 Example:
5441
5442 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5443 priority=240 ports=80
5444
5445 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5446 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5447DOC_END
5448
5449NAME: wccp2_weight
5450TYPE: int
5451LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5452DEFAULT: 10000
5453IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5454DOC_START
5455 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5456 hash proportional to their weight.
5457DOC_END
5458
5459NAME: wccp_address
5460TYPE: address
5461LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5462DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5463IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5464DOC_NONE
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8d6275c0 5466NAME: wccp2_address
5467TYPE: address
5468LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5469DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5470IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5471DOC_START
5472 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5473 interface address.
5474
5475 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5476DOC_END
5477
5478COMMENT_START
5479 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5480 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5481
5482 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5483COMMENT_END
5484
5485NAME: client_persistent_connections
5486TYPE: onoff
5487LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5488DEFAULT: on
5489DOC_NONE
5490
5491NAME: server_persistent_connections
5492TYPE: onoff
5493LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5494DEFAULT: on
5495DOC_START
5496 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5497 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5498 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5499 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5500DOC_END
5501
5502NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5503TYPE: onoff
5504LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5505DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5506DOC_START
5507 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5508 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5509 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5510DOC_END
5511
5512NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5513TYPE: onoff
5514LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5515DEFAULT: off
5516DOC_START
5517 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5518 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5519 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5520 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5521
5522 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5523 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5524 after 10 seconds timeout.
5525DOC_END
5526
5527COMMENT_START
5528 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5529 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5530COMMENT_END
5531
5532NAME: digest_generation
5533IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5534TYPE: onoff
5535LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5536DEFAULT: on
5537DOC_START
5538 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5539 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5540 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5541DOC_END
5542
5543NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5544IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5545TYPE: int
5546LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5547DEFAULT: 5
5548DOC_START
5549 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5550 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5551 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5552DOC_END
5553
5554NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5555IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5556COMMENT: (seconds)
5557TYPE: time_t
5558LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5559DEFAULT: 1 hour
5560DOC_START
749ceff8 5561 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5562DOC_END
5563
5564NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5565COMMENT: (seconds)
5566IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5567TYPE: time_t
5568LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5569DEFAULT: 1 hour
5570DOC_START
749ceff8 5571 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5572 disk.
5573DOC_END
5574
5575NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5576COMMENT: (bytes)
5577TYPE: b_size_t
5578IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5579LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5580DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5581DOC_START
5582 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5583 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5584 default swap page.
5585DOC_END
5586
5587NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5588COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5589IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5590TYPE: int
5591LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5592DEFAULT: 10
5593DOC_START
5594 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5595 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5596DOC_END
5597
1db9eacd 5598COMMENT_START
5473c134 5599 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5600 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5601COMMENT_END
5602
5473c134 5603NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5604TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5605LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5606DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5607IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5608DOC_START
87630341 5609 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5610 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5611 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5612 set to "0" (disabled)
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5613
5614 Example:
5615 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5616DOC_END
5617
5473c134 5618NAME: snmp_access
5619TYPE: acl_access
5620LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5621DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5622IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5623DOC_START
5473c134 5624 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5625
5473c134 5626 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5627 usage:
8d6275c0 5628
5473c134 5629 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5630
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5631 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5632 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5633Example:
5634 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5635 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5636DOC_END
5637
5473c134 5638NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5639TYPE: address
5640LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5641DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5642IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5643DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5644
5473c134 5645NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5646TYPE: address
5647LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5648DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5649IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5650DOC_START
df2eec10 5651 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5652
5473c134 5653 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5654 messages from SNMP agents.
5655 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5656 agents.
cccac0a2 5657
0eb08770 5658 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5659 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5660
0eb08770
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5661 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5662 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5663 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5664 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5665
5473c134 5666 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5667 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5668DOC_END
5669
5473c134 5670COMMENT_START
5671 ICP OPTIONS
5672 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5673COMMENT_END
5674
5675NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 5676TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5677DEFAULT: 0
5678LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5679DOC_START
5473c134 5680 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5681 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5682 Default is disabled (0).
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5683
5684 Example:
5685 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5686DOC_END
5687
5473c134 5688NAME: htcp_port
5689IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 5690TYPE: u_short
87630341 5691DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5692LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5693DOC_START
5473c134 5694 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5695 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5696 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5697
5698 Example:
5699 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5700DOC_END
5701
5702NAME: log_icp_queries
5703COMMENT: on|off
5704TYPE: onoff
5705DEFAULT: on
5706LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5707DOC_START
5708 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5709 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5710 up or to simplify log analysis.
5711DOC_END
5712
5473c134 5713NAME: udp_incoming_address
5714TYPE: address
5715LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5716DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5717DOC_START
5718 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5719 caches.
5720
5721 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5722
5723 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5724 a specific interface/address.
5725
5726 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5727 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5728
5729 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5730
5731 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5732 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5733DOC_END
cccac0a2 5734
5473c134 5735NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5736TYPE: address
5737LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5738DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5739DOC_START
8524d4b2 5740 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5741 caches.
cccac0a2 5742
5473c134 5743 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5744
8524d4b2 5745 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5746 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5747 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5748 caches.
5749
8524d4b2 5750 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5751 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5752
5753 see also; udp_incoming_address
5754
5473c134 5755 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5756 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5757DOC_END
5758
3d1e3e43 5759NAME: icp_hit_stale
5760COMMENT: on|off
5761TYPE: onoff
5762DEFAULT: off
5763LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5764DOC_START
5765 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5766 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5767 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5768 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5769 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5770 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5771 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5772DOC_END
5773
5473c134 5774NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5775TYPE: int
5473c134 5776DEFAULT: 4
5777LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5778DOC_START
5473c134 5779 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5780 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5781DOC_END
5782
5473c134 5783NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5784TYPE: int
5785DEFAULT: 400
5786LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5787DOC_START
5473c134 5788 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5789 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5790DOC_END
5791
cccac0a2 5792NAME: netdb_low
5793TYPE: int
5794DEFAULT: 900
5795LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5796DOC_NONE
5797
5798NAME: netdb_high
5799TYPE: int
5800DEFAULT: 1000
5801LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5802DOC_START
5803 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5804 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5805 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5806 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5807DOC_END
5808
cccac0a2 5809NAME: netdb_ping_period
5810TYPE: time_t
5811LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5812DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5813DOC_START
5814 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5815 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5816 network. The default is five minutes.
5817DOC_END
5818
cccac0a2 5819NAME: query_icmp
5820COMMENT: on|off
5821TYPE: onoff
5822DEFAULT: off
5823LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5824DOC_START
5825 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5826 replies, enable this option.
5827
5828 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5829 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5830 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5831 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5832 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5833 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5834 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5835 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5836DOC_END
5837
5838NAME: test_reachability
5839COMMENT: on|off
5840TYPE: onoff
5841DEFAULT: off
5842LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5843DOC_START
5844 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5845 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5846 database, or has a zero RTT.
5847DOC_END
5848
5473c134 5849NAME: icp_query_timeout
5850COMMENT: (msec)
5851DEFAULT: 0
5852TYPE: int
5853LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5854DOC_START
5473c134 5855 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5856 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5857 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5858 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5859 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5860 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5861
5473c134 5862 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5863DOC_END
5864
5473c134 5865NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5866COMMENT: (msec)
5867DEFAULT: 2000
5868TYPE: int
5869LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5870DOC_START
5473c134 5871 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5872 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5873 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5874 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5875 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5876 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5877DOC_END
5878
5473c134 5879NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5880COMMENT: (msec)
5881DEFAULT: 5
5882TYPE: int
5883LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5884DOC_START
5473c134 5885 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5886 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5887 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5888 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5889 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5890 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5891 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5892DOC_END
5893
5473c134 5894NAME: background_ping_rate
5895COMMENT: time-units
5896TYPE: time_t
5897DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5898LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5899DOC_START
5473c134 5900 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5901 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5902DOC_END
5903
5473c134 5904COMMENT_START
5905 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5906 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5907COMMENT_END
5908
5909NAME: mcast_groups
5910TYPE: wordlist
5911LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5912DEFAULT: none
5913DOC_START
5473c134 5914 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5915 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5916
5473c134 5917 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5918 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5919 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5920 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5921 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5922 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5923 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5924
5473c134 5925 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5926 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5927
5473c134 5928 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5929 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5930
5473c134 5931 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5932
5473c134 5933 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5934DOC_END
8c01ada0 5935
5473c134 5936NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5937IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5938TYPE: address
5939LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 5940DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5941DOC_START
5942 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5943 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5944
5473c134 5945 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5946 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5947DOC_END
5948
5473c134 5949NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5950IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5951TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5952LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5953DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5954DOC_START
5473c134 5955 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5956 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5957 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5958DOC_END
cccac0a2 5959
5473c134 5960NAME: mcast_miss_port
5961IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5962TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5963LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5964DEFAULT: 3135
5965DOC_START
5966 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5967 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5968DOC_END
cccac0a2 5969
5473c134 5970NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5971IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5972TYPE: string
5973LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5974DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5975DOC_START
5976 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5977 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5978DOC_END
8c01ada0 5979
5473c134 5980NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5981COMMENT: (msec)
5982DEFAULT: 2000
5983TYPE: int
5984LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5985DOC_START
5986 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5987 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5988 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5989 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5990 seconds.
cccac0a2 5991DOC_END
5992
5473c134 5993COMMENT_START
5994 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5995 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5996COMMENT_END
5997
cccac0a2 5998NAME: icon_directory
5999TYPE: string
6000LOC: Config.icons.directory
6001DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6002DOC_START
6003 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6004 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6005DOC_END
6006
f024c970 6007NAME: global_internal_static
6008TYPE: onoff
6009LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6010DEFAULT: on
6011DOC_START
6012 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6013 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6014 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6015 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6016 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6017 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6018 the server generating a directory listing.
6019DOC_END
6020
5473c134 6021NAME: short_icon_urls
6022TYPE: onoff
6023LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6024DEFAULT: on
6025DOC_START
6026 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6027 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6028 it's own name and port in the URL.
6029
6030 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6031 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6032DOC_END
6033
6034COMMENT_START
6035 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6036 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6037COMMENT_END
6038
6039NAME: error_directory
6040TYPE: string
6041LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6042DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6043DOC_START
6044 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6045 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6046 the error/template files to another directory and point
6047 this tag at them.
6048
6049 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6050 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6051
6052 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6053 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6054 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6055 contributing your translation back to the project.
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6056 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6057
6058 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6059 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6060DOC_END
6061
6062NAME: error_default_language
6063IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6064TYPE: string
6065LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6066DEFAULT: none
6067DOC_START
6068 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6069 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6070 preferences.
6071
6072 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6073
6074 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6075 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6076 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6077 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6078DOC_END
6079
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6080NAME: error_log_languages
6081IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6082TYPE: onoff
6083LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6084DEFAULT: on
6085DOC_START
6086 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6087 auto-negotiate for translations.
6088
6089 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6090 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6091 of its error page translations.
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6092DOC_END
6093
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6094NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6095TYPE: string
6096LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6097DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6098DOC_START
6099 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6100
6101 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6102DOC_END
6103
5473c134 6104NAME: err_html_text
6105TYPE: eol
6106LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6107DEFAULT: none
6108DOC_START
6109 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6110 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6111 organizations Web page.
6112
6113 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6114 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6115 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6116 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6117DOC_END
6118
6119NAME: email_err_data
6120COMMENT: on|off
6121TYPE: onoff
6122LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6123DEFAULT: on
6124DOC_START
6125 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6126 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6127 so that the email body contains the data.
6128 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6129DOC_END
6130
6131NAME: deny_info
6132TYPE: denyinfo
6133LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6134DEFAULT: none
6135DOC_START
6136 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6137 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6138 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6139
6140 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6141 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6142 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6143 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6144
6145 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6146 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6147 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6148 the first authentication related acl encountered
6149 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6150 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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6151 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6152 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6153
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6154 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6155 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6156 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6157
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6158 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6159 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6160 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6161
5473c134 6162 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6163 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6164
6165 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6166 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6167 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6168 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6169 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6170
6171 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6172 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6173 %B - FTP path URL
6174 %e - Error number
6175 %E - Error description
6176 %h - Squid hostname
6177 %H - Request domain name
6178 %i - Client IP Address
6179 %M - Request Method
6180 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6181 %p - Request Port number
6182 %P - Request Protocol name
6183 %R - Request URL path
6184 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6185 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6186 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6187 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6188 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6189 %x - Error name
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6190 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6191
5473c134 6192DOC_END
6193
6194COMMENT_START
6195 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6196 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6197COMMENT_END
6198
6199NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6200TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6201LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6202DEFAULT: on
6203DOC_START
5473c134 6204 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6205 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6206 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6207
5473c134 6208 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6209 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6210
5473c134 6211 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6212 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6213 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6214
5473c134 6215 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6216 this directive.
8d6275c0 6217DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6218
5473c134 6219NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6220TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6221LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6222DEFAULT: off
6223DOC_START
5473c134 6224 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6225 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6226 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6227
5473c134 6228 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6229 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6230 fails.
6231
6232 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6233 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6234 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6235DOC_END
6236
5473c134 6237NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6238TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6239LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6240DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6241DOC_START
5473c134 6242 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6243
5473c134 6244 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6245 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6246 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6247 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6248 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6249
5473c134 6250 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6251 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6252
5473c134 6253 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6254
5473c134 6255 acl FTP proto FTP
6256 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6257
5473c134 6258 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6259 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6260 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6261 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6262 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6263
5473c134 6264 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6265 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6266 always_direct deny local-external
6267 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6268
5473c134 6269 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6270 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6271 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6272 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6273
5473c134 6274 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6275 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6276 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6277
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6278 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6279 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6280DOC_END
0976f8db 6281
5473c134 6282NAME: never_direct
6283TYPE: acl_access
6284LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6285DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6286DOC_START
5473c134 6287 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6288
6289 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6290 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6291
6292 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6293 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6294 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6295 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6296
6297 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6298 never_direct deny local-servers
6299 never_direct allow all
6300
6301 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6302 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6303
6304 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6305 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6306 always_direct deny local-external
6307 always_direct allow local-intranet
6308 never_direct allow all
6309
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6310 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6311 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6312DOC_END
0976f8db 6313
5473c134 6314COMMENT_START
6315 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6316 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6317COMMENT_END
6318
cccac0a2 6319NAME: incoming_icp_average
6320TYPE: int
6321DEFAULT: 6
6322LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
6323DOC_NONE
6324
6325NAME: incoming_http_average
6326TYPE: int
6327DEFAULT: 4
6328LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
6329DOC_NONE
6330
6331NAME: incoming_dns_average
6332TYPE: int
6333DEFAULT: 4
6334LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
6335DOC_NONE
6336
6337NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6338TYPE: int
6339DEFAULT: 8
6340LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
6341DOC_NONE
6342
6343NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6344TYPE: int
6345DEFAULT: 8
6346LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
6347DOC_NONE
6348
6349NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6350TYPE: int
6351DEFAULT: 8
6352LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
6353DOC_START
5473c134 6354 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6355 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6356 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6357DOC_END
6358
6359NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6360TYPE: string
6361DEFAULT: none
6362LOC: Config.accept_filter
6363DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6364 FreeBSD:
6365
5473c134 6366 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6367 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6368 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6369
6370 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6371 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6372 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6373
6374 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6375 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6376 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6377
6378 Linux:
6379
6380 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6381 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6382 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6383 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6384 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6385EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6386# FreeBSD
5473c134 6387accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6388# Linux
6389accept_filter data
5473c134 6390DOC_END
6391
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6392NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6393TYPE: int
6394LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6395DEFAULT: -1
6396DOC_START
6397 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6398 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6399 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6400
6401 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6402 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6403
6404 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6405
6406 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6407 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6408DOC_END
6409
5473c134 6410NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6411COMMENT: (bytes)
6412TYPE: b_size_t
6413DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6414LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6415DOC_START
6416 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6417 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6418 the default buffer size.
6419DOC_END
6420
6421COMMENT_START
6422 ICAP OPTIONS
6423 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6424COMMENT_END
6425
6426NAME: icap_enable
6427TYPE: onoff
6428IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6429COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6430LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6431DEFAULT: off
6432DOC_START
53e738c6 6433 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6434DOC_END
6435
6436NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6437TYPE: time_t
6438DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6439LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6440IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6441DOC_START
6442 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6443 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6444 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6445
6446 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6447 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6448 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6449DOC_END
6450
6451NAME: icap_io_timeout
6452COMMENT: time-units
6453TYPE: time_t
6454DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6455LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6456IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6457DOC_START
6458 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6459 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6460 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6461 failure.
6462
6463 The default is read_timeout.
6464DOC_END
6465
6466NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6467COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6468TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6469IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6470LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6471DEFAULT: 10
6472DOC_START
6473 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6474 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6475 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6476 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6477 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6478
6479 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6480 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6481 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6482
6483 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6484 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6485 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6486 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6487 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6488
6489 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6490 effect on service failure expiration.
6491
6492 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6493 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6494 setting.
6495
6496 For example,
6497 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6498 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6499DOC_END
6500
5473c134 6501NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6502TYPE: int
5473c134 6503IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6504LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6505DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6506DOC_START
5473c134 6507 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6508 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6509 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6510 fetched.
cccac0a2 6511
5473c134 6512 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6513 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6514DOC_END
6515
5473c134 6516NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6517TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6518IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6519COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6520LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6521DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6522DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6523 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6524 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6525 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6526 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6527
6528 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6529 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6530 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6531
6532 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6533 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6534Example:
6535icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6536DOC_END
6537
5473c134 6538NAME: icap_preview_size
6539TYPE: int
6540IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6541LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6542DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6543DOC_START
53e738c6 6544 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6545 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6546 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6547DOC_END
6548
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6549NAME: icap_206_enable
6550TYPE: onoff
6551IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6552COMMENT: on|off
6553LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6554DEFAULT: on
6555DOC_START
6556 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6557 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6558 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6559 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6560
6561 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6562 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6563 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6564 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6565 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6566
6567 Example:
6568 icap_206_enable off
6569DOC_END
6570
5473c134 6571NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6572TYPE: int
6573IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6574LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6575DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6576DOC_START
53e738c6 6577 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6578 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6579DOC_END
6580
5473c134 6581NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6582TYPE: onoff
6583IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6584COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6585LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6586DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6587DOC_START
5473c134 6588 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6589 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6590DOC_END
6591
22fff3bf 6592NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6593TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6594IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6595COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6596LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6597DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6598DOC_START
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6599 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6600 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6601 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6602
6603 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6604DOC_END
6605
22fff3bf 6606NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6607TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6608IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6609COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6610LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6611DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6612DOC_START
5473c134 6613 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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6614 the adaptation service.
6615
6616 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6617 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6618 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6619DOC_END
6620
5473c134 6621NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6622TYPE: string
5473c134 6623IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6624LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6625DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6626DOC_START
db49f682 6627 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 6628DOC_END
6629
5473c134 6630NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6631TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6632IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6633COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6634LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6635DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6636DOC_START
5473c134 6637 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6638DOC_END
6639
5473c134 6640NAME: icap_service
6641TYPE: icap_service_type
6642IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6643LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6644DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6645DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6646 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6647
c25c2836 6648 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 6649
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6650 id: ID
6651 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
6652 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
6653 services in squid.conf.
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6654
6655 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6656 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6657 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6658 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 6659
c25c2836 6660 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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6661 ICAP server and service location.
6662
6663 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6664 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6665 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6666 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6667 service_names differ.
6668
6669
6670 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6671 the following name=value options:
6672
6673 bypass=on|off|1|0
6674 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6675 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6676 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6677 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6678 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6679 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6680 returned to the HTTP client.
6681
6682 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6683
6684 routing=on|off|1|0
6685 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6686 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6687 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6688 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6689 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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6690 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
6691 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
6692 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
6693
6694 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6695 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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6696
6697 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6698 response header is ignored.
6699
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6700 ipv6=on|off
6701 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6702 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6703 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6704
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6705 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
6706 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
6707 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
6708 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
6709 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
6710 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
6711 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
6712
6713 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
6714 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
6715 workers may use a given service.
6716
6717 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
6718 otherwise it is set to "wait".
6719
6720
6721 max-conn=number
6722 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
6723 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
6724
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6725 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6726 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 6727
5473c134 6728Example:
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6729icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
6730icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 6731DOC_END
6732
5473c134 6733NAME: icap_class
6734TYPE: icap_class_type
6735IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6736LOC: none
5473c134 6737DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6738DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6739 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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6740 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6741 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6742
62c7f90e 6743 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6744 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6745 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6746DOC_END
6747
5473c134 6748NAME: icap_access
6749TYPE: icap_access_type
6750IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6751LOC: none
cccac0a2 6752DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6753DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6754 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6755 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6756 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6757DOC_END
6758
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6759COMMENT_START
6760 eCAP OPTIONS
6761 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6762COMMENT_END
6763
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6764NAME: ecap_enable
6765TYPE: onoff
6766IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6767COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6768LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6769DEFAULT: off
6770DOC_START
6771 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6772DOC_END
6773
6774NAME: ecap_service
6775TYPE: ecap_service_type
6776IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6777LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6778DEFAULT: none
6779DOC_START
6780 Defines a single eCAP service
6781
c25c2836 6782 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
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6784 id: ID
6785 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
6786 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
6787 services in squid.conf.
6788
6789 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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6790 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6791 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6792 are not yet supported.
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6793
6794 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6795 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
6796 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
6797 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
6798 the service provider.
6799
6800
6801 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
6802 the following name=value options:
6803
6804 bypass=on|off|1|0
6805 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
6806 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
6807 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 6808 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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6809 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
6810 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 6811 HTTP client.
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6812
6813 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6814
6815 routing=on|off|1|0
6816 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
6817 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6818 returning a chain of services to be used next.
6819
6820 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6821 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
6822
6823 Routing is not allowed by default.
6824
6825 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
6826 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
6827
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6829Example:
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6830ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
6831ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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6832DOC_END
6833
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6834NAME: loadable_modules
6835TYPE: wordlist
6836IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6837LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6838DEFAULT: none
6839DOC_START
6840 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6841 preloaded module(s).
6842Example:
6843loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6844DOC_END
6845
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6846COMMENT_START
6847 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6848 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6849COMMENT_END
6850
6851NAME: adaptation_service_set
6852TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6853IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6854LOC: none
6855DEFAULT: none
6856DOC_START
6857
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6858 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6859 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6860
6861 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6862
6863 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6864 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6865 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6866 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6867 intact.
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6869 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6870 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6871
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6872 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6873 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6874
6875 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6876 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6877 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6878 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6879 transaction fails as well.
6880
6881 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6882 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6883 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6884 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6885 matters.
6886
6887 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6889Example:
6890adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6891adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6892DOC_END
6893
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6894NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6895TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6896IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6897LOC: none
6898DEFAULT: none
6899DOC_START
6900
6901 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6902 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6903 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6904
6905 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6906
6907 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6908 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6909 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6910 the previous service in the chain.
6911
6912 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6913 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6914
6915 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6916 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6917 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6918
6919 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6920 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6921
6922 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6923 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6924 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6925 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6926
6927 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6928
6929Example:
6930adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6931DOC_END
6932
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6933NAME: adaptation_access
6934TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6935IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6936LOC: none
6937DEFAULT: none
6938DOC_START
6939 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6940
6941 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6942 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6943
6944 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6945 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6946 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6947 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6948
6949 - services serving different vectoring points
6950 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6951 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6952 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6953
6954 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6955 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6956 adaptation_service_set for details.
6957
6958 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6959 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6960 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6961 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6962
6963 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6964 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6965
6966 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6967
6968Example:
6969adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6970DOC_END
6971
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6972NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6973TYPE: int
6974IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6975LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6976DEFAULT: 16
6977DOC_START
6978 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6979 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6980 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6981 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6982 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6983 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6984
6985 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6986
6987 See also: icap_service routing=1
6988DOC_END
6989
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6990NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6991TYPE: string
6992IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6993LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6994DEFAULT: none
6995DOC_START
6996 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6997 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6998 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6999 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7000 with the master transaction.
7001
7002 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7003 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7004
7005 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7006 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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7007 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7008
7009 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7010 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7011 to provide an option with a name specified in
7012 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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7014 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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7015 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7016
7017 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7018
7019Example:
7020# share authentication information among ICAP services
7021adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7022DOC_END
7023
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7024NAME: adaptation_meta
7025TYPE: adaptation_meta_type
7026IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7027LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7028DEFAULT: none
7029DOC_START
7030 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7031 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7032 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7033 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7034
7035 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7036 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7037
7038 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7039 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7040 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7041 example:
7042
7043 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7044 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7045
7046 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7047 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7048
7049 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7050 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7051
7052 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7053 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7054 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7055 and double quotes. For example,
7056 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
7057DOC_END
7058
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7059NAME: icap_retry
7060TYPE: acl_access
7061IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7062LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7063DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7064DOC_START
7065 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7066 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7067 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7068 that response are usually retriable.
7069
7070 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7071
7072 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7073 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7074
7075 See also: icap_retry_limit
7076DOC_END
7077
7078NAME: icap_retry_limit
7079TYPE: int
7080IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7081LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7082DEFAULT: 0
7083DOC_START
7084 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7085 no retries are allowed.
7086
7087 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7088 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7089 count against this limit.
7090
7091 See also: icap_retry
7092DOC_END
7093
7094
5473c134 7095COMMENT_START
7096 DNS OPTIONS
7097 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7098COMMENT_END
7099
7100NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7101TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7102DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7103LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7104DOC_START
5473c134 7105 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7106 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7107 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7108DOC_END
7109
5473c134 7110NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7111TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7112DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7113LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7114DOC_START
5473c134 7115 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7116 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7117 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7118 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7119DOC_END
7120
5473c134 7121NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7122TYPE: string
5473c134 7123IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
7124DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7125LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7126DOC_START
5473c134 7127 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7128DOC_END
7129
5473c134 7130NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7131TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5473c134 7132IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
48d54e4d 7133DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7134LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7135DOC_START
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7136 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7137 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7138 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7139 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7140 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7141
7142 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7143 tuning.
7144
7145 startup=
7146
7147 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7148 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7149 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7150
7151 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7152 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7153
7154 idle=
7155
7156 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7157 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7158 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7159 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7160DOC_END
7161
5473c134 7162NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7163TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7164DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7165LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
7166IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 7167DOC_START
5473c134 7168 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7169 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7170DOC_END
7171
5473c134 7172NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7173TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7174DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7175LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
7176IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 7177DOC_START
5473c134 7178 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7179 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7180 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7181DOC_END
7182
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7183NAME: dns_packet_max
7184TYPE: b_ssize_t
7185DEFAULT: none
7186LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
7187IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
7188DOC_START
7189 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7190 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7191
7192 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7193 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7194 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7195 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7196 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7197
7198 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7199 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7200 necessary.
7201
7202 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7203 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7204 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7205 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7206 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7207 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7208 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7209DOC_END
7210
5473c134 7211NAME: dns_defnames
7212COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7213TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7214DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7215LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7216DOC_START
5473c134 7217 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7218 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7219 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7220 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7221DOC_END
7222
5473c134 7223NAME: dns_nameservers
7224TYPE: wordlist
7225DEFAULT: none
7226LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7227DOC_START
5473c134 7228 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7229 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7230 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7231 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7232 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7233 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7234 configurations are supported.
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5473c134 7236 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7237DOC_END
7238
5473c134 7239NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7240TYPE: string
5473c134 7241DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7242LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7243DOC_START
5473c134 7244 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7245 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7246 default locations:
7247 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7248 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7249 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7250 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7251 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7252 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7253 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7254 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7255
5473c134 7256 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7257 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7258 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7259 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7260
5473c134 7261 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7262 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7263 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7264 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7265 definitions.
cccac0a2 7266DOC_END
7267
5473c134 7268NAME: append_domain
7269TYPE: string
7270LOC: Config.appendDomain
7271DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7272DOC_START
5473c134 7273 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7274 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7275
7276 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7277 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7278 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7279
7280Example:
7281 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7282DOC_END
7283
5473c134 7284NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7285TYPE: onoff
7286LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7287DEFAULT: on
f10a6c8a 7288IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
df6fd596 7289DOC_START
5473c134 7290 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7291 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7292 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7293 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7294 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7295DOC_END
7296
cc192b50 7297NAME: dns_v4_fallback
7298TYPE: onoff
7299DEFAULT: on
7300LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
f10a6c8a 7301IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cc192b50 7302DOC_START
7303 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
7304 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
7305 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
7306
7307 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
7308 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
7309
7310 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
7311 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
7312
7313 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
7314 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
7315 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
7316DOC_END
7317
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7318NAME: dns_v4_first
7319TYPE: onoff
7320DEFAULT: off
7321LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
7322IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
7323DOC_START
7324 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7325 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7326
7327 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7328 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7329 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7330
7331 WARNING:
7332 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7333 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7334 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7335DOC_END
7336
6bc15a4f 7337NAME: ipcache_size
7338COMMENT: (number of entries)
7339TYPE: int
7340DEFAULT: 1024
7341LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7342DOC_NONE
7343
7344NAME: ipcache_low
7345COMMENT: (percent)
7346TYPE: int
7347DEFAULT: 90
7348LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7349DOC_NONE
7350
7351NAME: ipcache_high
7352COMMENT: (percent)
7353TYPE: int
7354DEFAULT: 95
7355LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7356DOC_START
7357 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7358DOC_END
7359
7360NAME: fqdncache_size
7361COMMENT: (number of entries)
7362TYPE: int
7363DEFAULT: 1024
7364LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7365DOC_START
7366 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7367DOC_END
7368
a58ff010 7369COMMENT_START
5473c134 7370 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7371 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7372COMMENT_END
7373
5473c134 7374NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7375COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7376TYPE: onoff
7377DEFAULT: on
7378LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7379DOC_START
5473c134 7380 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7381 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7382 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7383 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7384DOC_END
7385
5473c134 7386NAME: memory_pools_limit
7387COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7388TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7389DEFAULT: 5 MB
7390LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7391DOC_START
5473c134 7392 Used only with memory_pools on:
7393 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7394
5473c134 7395 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7396 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7397 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7398 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7399 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7400 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7401 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7402
89646bd7 7403 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7404 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7405
5473c134 7406 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7407 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7408
7409 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7410 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7411 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7412 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7413DOC_END
7414
5473c134 7415NAME: forwarded_for
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7416COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7417TYPE: string
5473c134 7418DEFAULT: on
7419LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7420DOC_START
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7421 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7422 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7423
5473c134 7424 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7425
67c06f0d 7426 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7427
7428 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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7429
7430 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7431 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7432
7433 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7434 X-Forwarded-For header.
7435
7436 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7437 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7438DOC_END
7439
5473c134 7440NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7441TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7442DEFAULT: none
7443LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7444DOC_START
5473c134 7445 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7446
5473c134 7447 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7448
7449 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7450 5min
7451 60min
7452 asndb
7453 authenticator
7454 cbdata
7455 client_list
7456 comm_incoming
7457 config *
7458 counters
7459 delay
7460 digest_stats
7461 dns
7462 events
7463 filedescriptors
7464 fqdncache
7465 histograms
7466 http_headers
7467 info
7468 io
7469 ipcache
7470 mem
7471 menu
7472 netdb
7473 non_peers
7474 objects
7475 offline_toggle *
7476 pconn
7477 peer_select
b360c477 7478 reconfigure *
5473c134 7479 redirector
7480 refresh
7481 server_list
7482 shutdown *
7483 store_digest
7484 storedir
7485 utilization
7486 via_headers
7487 vm_objects
7488
7489 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7490 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7491
7492 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7493 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7494 password to "none".
7495
7496 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7497
7498Example:
7499 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7500 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7501 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7502DOC_END
7503
5473c134 7504NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7505COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7506TYPE: onoff
7507DEFAULT: on
7508LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7509DOC_START
5473c134 7510 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7511 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7512DOC_END
7513
5473c134 7514NAME: refresh_all_ims
7515COMMENT: on|off
7516TYPE: onoff
7517DEFAULT: off
7518LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7519DOC_START
5473c134 7520 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7521 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7522 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7523 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7524 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7525
5473c134 7526 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7527 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7528DOC_END
7529
5473c134 7530NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7531IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7532COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7533TYPE: onoff
7534DEFAULT: off
7535LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7536DOC_START
5473c134 7537 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7538 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7539 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7540 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7541 causes.
7542
7543 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7544DOC_END
7545
31ef19cd 7546NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7547TYPE: int
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7548LOC: Config.connect_retries
7549DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7550DOC_START
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7551 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7552 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7553 complete within the connection timeout period.
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7554
7555 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7556 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 7557
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7558 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7559 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7560
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7561 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7562 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7563 a useful server.
a58ff010 7564DOC_END
7565
5473c134 7566NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7567TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7568LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7569DEFAULT: off
7570DOC_START
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7571 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
7572 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
7573 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
7574 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
7575
7576 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
7577 work around access control errors.
7578
7579 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
7580 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 7581DOC_END
7582
5473c134 7583NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7584TYPE: string
5473c134 7585LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7586DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7587DOC_START
5473c134 7588 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7589 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7590DOC_END
7591
5473c134 7592NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7593TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7594LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7595DEFAULT: off
7596DOC_START
5473c134 7597 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7598 objects.
a58ff010 7599DOC_END
7600
5473c134 7601NAME: uri_whitespace
7602TYPE: uri_whitespace
7603LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7604DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7605DOC_START
5473c134 7606 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7607 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7608
5473c134 7609 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7610 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7611 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7612 Request" message.
7613 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7614 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7615 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7616 are in use.
7617 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7618 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7619 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7620 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7621 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7622 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7623 violation.
7624DOC_END
a58ff010 7625
5473c134 7626NAME: chroot
7627TYPE: string
7628LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7629DEFAULT: none
7630DOC_START
9f37c18a 7631 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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7632 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7633 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7634 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7635 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7636DOC_END
a58ff010 7637
5473c134 7638NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7639TYPE: onoff
7640LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7641DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7642DOC_START
cc192b50 7643 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7644 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7645 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7646
5473c134 7647 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7648 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7649 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 7650
cc192b50 7651 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 7652DOC_END
7653
5473c134 7654NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7655TYPE: onoff
7656LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7657DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 7658DOC_START
5473c134 7659 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7660 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7661 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 7662
5473c134 7663 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7664 reasons.
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7665
7666 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 7667DOC_END
a58ff010 7668
5473c134 7669NAME: high_response_time_warning
7670TYPE: int
7671COMMENT: (msec)
7672LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7673DEFAULT: 0
7674DOC_START
7675 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7676 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7677 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 7678DOC_END
7679
5473c134 7680NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7681TYPE: int
7682LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7683DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 7684DOC_START
5473c134 7685 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7686 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7687 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7688 per second.
7689DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7690
5473c134 7691NAME: high_memory_warning
7692TYPE: b_size_t
7693LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 7694DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 7695DOC_START
7696 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7697 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7698 the administrators attention.
7699DOC_END
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5473c134 7701NAME: sleep_after_fork
7702COMMENT: (microseconds)
7703TYPE: int
7704LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7705DEFAULT: 0
7706DOC_START
7707 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7708 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7709 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7710 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7711 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7712 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7713 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7714 until all the child processes have been started.
7715 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7716 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7717DOC_END
7718
b6696974 7719NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7720IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
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7721COMMENT: on|off
7722TYPE: onoff
7723DEFAULT: on
7724LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7725DOC_START
7726 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7727 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7728 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7729 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7730 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7731 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7732DOC_END
7733
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7734NAME: eui_lookup
7735TYPE: onoff
7736IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7737DEFAULT: on
7738LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7739DOC_START
7740 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7741DOC_END
7742
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7743NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7744TYPE: int
7745DEFAULT: 0
7746LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7747DOC_START
7748 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7749
7750 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7751
7752 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7753 not all comm loops supports large values.
7754DOC_END
7755
13aeac35 7756NAME: workers
007d775d 7757TYPE: int
13aeac35 7758LOC: Config.workers
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7759DEFAULT: 1
7760DOC_START
13aeac35 7761 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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7762 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7763 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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7764 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7765
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7766 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7767 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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7769
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7770NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7771TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7772LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7773DEFAULT: none
7774DOC_START
7775 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7776
7777 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7778
7779 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7780
7781 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7782 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7783
7784 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7785 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7786
7787 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7788
7789 See also: workers
7790DOC_END
7791
cccac0a2 7792EOF