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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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67 Values with byte units
68
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69 Squid accepts size units on some size related directives. All
70 such directives are documented with a default value displaying
71 a unit.
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72
73 Units accepted by Squid are:
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74 bytes - byte
75 KB - Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
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76 MB - Megabyte
77 GB - Gigabyte
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79 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
80
81 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
82 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
83 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
84 disable that support.
85
86 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
87 files using the syntax:
88 parameters("/path/filename")
89 For example:
90 acl whitelist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/whitelist.txt")
91
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92 Conditional configuration
93
94 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
95 depend on conditions:
96
97 if <CONDITION>
98 ... regular configuration directives ...
99 [else
100 ... regular configuration directives ...]
101 endif
102
103 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
104 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
105 configuration directives.
106
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107 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
108
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109 These individual conditions types are supported:
110
111 true
112 Always evaluates to true.
113 false
114 Always evaluates to false.
115 <integer> = <integer>
116 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
117
118
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119 SMP-Related Macros
120
121 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
122
123 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
124 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
125
126 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
127 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
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128 across all Squid processes of the current service instance.
129
130 ${service_name} expands into the current Squid service instance
131 name identifier which is provided by -n on the command line.
132
592a09dc 133COMMENT_END
134
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135# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
136NAME: broken_vary_encoding
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
140DOC_END
141
142NAME: cache_vary
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
146DOC_END
147
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148NAME: error_map
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
152DOC_END
153
154NAME: external_refresh_check
155TYPE: obsolete
156DOC_START
157 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
158DOC_END
159
96598f93 160NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
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161TYPE: obsolete
162DOC_START
163 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
164DOC_END
165
96598f93 166NAME: refresh_stale_hit
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167TYPE: obsolete
168DOC_START
169 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
170DOC_END
171
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172# Options Removed in 3.3
173NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
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174TYPE: obsolete
175DOC_START
2d4eefd9 176 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now configured by 'cache_miss_revalidate'.
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177DOC_END
178
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179# Options Removed in 3.2
180NAME: ignore_expect_100
181TYPE: obsolete
182DOC_START
183 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
184DOC_END
185
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186NAME: dns_v4_fallback
187TYPE: obsolete
188DOC_START
4ded749e 189 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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190DOC_END
191
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192NAME: ftp_list_width
193TYPE: obsolete
194DOC_START
195 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
196DOC_END
197
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198NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
199TYPE: obsolete
200DOC_START
201 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
202DOC_END
203
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204NAME: update_headers
205TYPE: obsolete
206DOC_START
207 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
208DOC_END
209
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210NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
211TYPE: obsolete
212DOC_START
213 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
214DOC_END
215
216# Options Removed in 3.1
217NAME: dns_testnames
218TYPE: obsolete
219DOC_START
220 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
221DOC_END
222
223NAME: extension_methods
224TYPE: obsolete
225DOC_START
226 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
227DOC_END
228
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229# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
230NAME: zero_buffers
231TYPE: obsolete
232DOC_NONE
233
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234# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
235NAME: incoming_rate
236TYPE: obsolete
237DOC_NONE
238
239NAME: server_http11
240TYPE: obsolete
241DOC_START
242 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
243DOC_END
244
245NAME: upgrade_http0.9
246TYPE: obsolete
247DOC_START
248 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
249DOC_END
250
251NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
252TYPE: obsolete
253DOC_START
254 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
255DOC_END
256
257# Options Removed in 3.0
258NAME: header_access
259TYPE: obsolete
260DOC_START
261 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
262 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
263DOC_END
264
265NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
266TYPE: obsolete
267DOC_START
268 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
269DOC_END
270
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271NAME: wais_relay_host
272TYPE: obsolete
273DOC_START
274 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
275DOC_END
276
277NAME: wais_relay_port
278TYPE: obsolete
279DOC_START
280 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
281DOC_END
282
5473c134 283COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 284 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 285 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
286COMMENT_END
287
41bd17a4 288NAME: auth_param
289TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 290IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 291LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 292DEFAULT: none
293DOC_START
41bd17a4 294 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
295 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 296
66c583dc 297 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 298
41bd17a4 299 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
300 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
301 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
302 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
303 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
304 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
305 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
306 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
307 program entry).
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41bd17a4 309 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
310 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
311 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
312 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 313
41bd17a4 314 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
315 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
316 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
317 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
318 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
319 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
320 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
321 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
322 type acl.
cccac0a2 323
41bd17a4 324 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
325 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
326 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
327 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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328 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
329 authentication disabled.
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331 === Parameters common to all schemes. ===
332
333 "program" cmdline
66c583dc 334 Specifies the command for the external authenticator.
d4806c91 335
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336 By default, each authentication scheme is not used unless a
337 program is specified.
cccac0a2 338
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339 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers for
340 more details on helper operations and creating your own.
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342 "key_extras" format
343 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for
344 the authentication helper. "Quoted" format values may contain
345 spaces and logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro
346 can be used. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if
347 the helper request is sent before the required macro
348 information is available to Squid.
349
350 By default, Squid uses request formats provided in
351 scheme-specific examples below (search for %credentials).
352
353 The expanded key_extras value is added to the Squid credentials
354 cache and, hence, will affect authentication. It can be used to
355 autenticate different users with identical user names (e.g.,
356 when user authentication depends on http_port).
357
358 Avoid adding frequently changing information to key_extras. For
359 example, if you add user source IP, and it changes frequently
360 in your environment, then max_user_ip ACL is going to treat
361 every user+IP combination as a unique "user", breaking the ACL
362 and wasting a lot of memory on those user records. It will also
363 force users to authenticate from scratch whenever their IP
364 changes.
365
366 "realm" string
367 Specifies the protection scope (aka realm name) which is to be
368 reported to the client for the authentication scheme. It is
369 commonly part of the text the user will see when prompted for
370 their username and password.
371
372 For Basic the default is "Squid proxy-caching web server".
373 For Digest there is no default, this parameter is mandatory.
374 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
5269ec0e 375
66c583dc 376 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
5269ec0e 377
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378 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If
379 you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
380 a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it down. When
381 password verifications are done via a (slow) network you are
382 likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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384 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact
385 amount run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup
386 and reconfigure. Squid will start more in groups of up to
387 idle=N in an attempt to meet traffic needs and to keep idle=N
388 free above those traffic needs up to the maximum.
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390 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests
391 the helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers
392 who only supports one request at a time. Setting this to a
393 number greater than 0 changes the protocol used to include a
394 channel ID field first on the request/response line, allowing
395 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallel
396 without waiting for the response.
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398 Concurrency must not be set unless it's known the helper
399 supports the input format with channel-ID fields.
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401 NOTE: NTLM and Negotiate schemes do not support concurrency
402 in the Squid code module even though some helpers can.
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405IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_BASIC
406 === Basic authentication parameters ===
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408 "utf8" on|off
409 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
410 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
411 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
412 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
d1b63fc8 413
41bd17a4 414 "credentialsttl" timetolive
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415 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
416 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
417 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
418 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.
5269ec0e 419
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420 NOTE: setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
421 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
422 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
423 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
424 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
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426 "casesensitive" on|off
427 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases
428 are case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled
429 using both lower and upper case letters, but some are case
430 sensitive. This makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL
431 processing and similar.
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433ENDIF
434IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_DIGEST
435 === Digest authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 436
d2a89ac1 437 "utf8" on|off
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438 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
439 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
440 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
441 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
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41bd17a4 443 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
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444 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
445 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 446
41bd17a4 447 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
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448 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
449 valid for.
cccac0a2 450
41bd17a4 451 "nonce_max_count" number
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452 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
453 used.
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41bd17a4 455 "nonce_strictness" on|off
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456 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
457 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
458 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
459 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 460
41bd17a4 461 "check_nonce_count" on|off
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462 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
463 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
464 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
465 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 466
41bd17a4 467 "post_workaround" on|off
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468 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who send an
469 incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing the
470 same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
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472ENDIF
473IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NEGOTIATE
474 === Negotiate authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 475
41bd17a4 476 "keep_alive" on|off
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477 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
478 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
479 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
480 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
481 are supported by the proxy.
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483ENDIF
484IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NTLM
485 === NTLM authentication parameters ===
d3803853 486
41bd17a4 487 "keep_alive" on|off
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488 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
489 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
490 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
491 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
492 are supported by the proxy.
493ENDIF
527ee50d 494
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495 === Example Configuration ===
496
497 This configuration displays the recommended authentication scheme
498 order from most to least secure with recommended minimum configuration
499 settings for each scheme:
e0855596 500
41bd17a4 501#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 502#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 503#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 504#
66c583dc 505#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 506#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 507#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
508#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
509#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
510#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 511#
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512#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
513#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
514#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
515#
41bd17a4 516#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 517#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 518#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
519#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 520DOC_END
cccac0a2 521
41bd17a4 522NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
523TYPE: time_t
524DEFAULT: 1 hour
525LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
526DOC_START
527 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 528 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 529 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
530 have good reason to.
531DOC_END
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41bd17a4 533NAME: authenticate_ttl
534TYPE: time_t
535DEFAULT: 1 hour
536LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
537DOC_START
538 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
539 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
540 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
541 TTL are removed from memory.
542DOC_END
cccac0a2 543
41bd17a4 544NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
545TYPE: time_t
546LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
c35dd848 547DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 548DOC_START
549 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
550 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
551 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
552 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 553 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 554 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
555 environment with relatively static address assignments.
556DOC_END
cccac0a2 557
3d1e3e43 558COMMENT_START
559 ACCESS CONTROLS
560 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
561COMMENT_END
562
41bd17a4 563NAME: external_acl_type
564TYPE: externalAclHelper
565LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 566DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 567DOC_START
41bd17a4 568 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
569 to look up the status
cccac0a2 570
41bd17a4 571 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 572
41bd17a4 573 Options:
cccac0a2 574
41bd17a4 575 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
576 for 1 hour)
577 negative_ttl=n
578 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
579 as ttl)
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580 children-max=n
581 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
582 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
583 children-startup=n
584 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
585 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
586 of this type. (default 0)
587 children-idle=n
588 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
589 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
590 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
591 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 592 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
593 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
7b27ba35 594 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is 262144.
41bd17a4 595 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
596 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 597 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 598 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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599 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
600 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 601
41bd17a4 602 FORMAT specifications
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41bd17a4 604 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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605 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
606 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
607 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 608 %IDENT Ident user name
609 %SRC Client IP
610 %SRCPORT Client source port
611 %URI Requested URI
612 %DST Requested host
4e3f4dc7 613 %PROTO Requested URL scheme
41bd17a4 614 %PORT Requested port
615 %PATH Requested URL path
616 %METHOD Request method
617 %MYADDR Squid interface address
618 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
619 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
620 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
621 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
622 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
f06585e0 623 %USER_CA_CERT_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 624
c68c9682 625 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 626 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 627 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 628 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 629 HTTP request header list member using ; as
630 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
631 character.
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c68c9682 633 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 634 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 635 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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636 %<{Hdr:;member}
637 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
638 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
639 character.
640
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641 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
642 %DATA The ACL arguments. If not used then any arguments
643 is automatically added at the end of the line
644 sent to the helper.
645 NOTE: this will encode the arguments as one token,
646 whereas the default will pass each separately.
647
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649 an unchanging input format.
650
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652 General request syntax:
653
654 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
655
656
657 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
658 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
659 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
660
661 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
662 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
663
664 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
665 each value in requests against whitespaces.
666
667 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
668 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
669
670 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
671
672 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
673 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
674 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
675 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
676 of the response relating to its request.
677
678
679 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
680 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
681 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
682
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41bd17a4 684 General result syntax:
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687
688 Result consists of one of the codes:
689
690 OK
691 the ACL test produced a match.
692
693 ERR
694 the ACL test does not produce a match.
695
696 BH
4ded749e 697 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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699
700 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
701 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 703 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 705 user= The users name (login)
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41bd17a4 707 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
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05e52854 709 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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710 Available as %o in error pages.
711 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
712
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713 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
714 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 716 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 717 %ea in logformat specifications.
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720 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation for
721 this kv-pair.
722
05e52854 723 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
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726 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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727 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
728 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
729 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
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732
5269ec0e 733 user=John%20Smith
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734 user="John Smith"
735 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
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737
41bd17a4 738NAME: acl
739TYPE: acl
740LOC: Config.aclList
cb4f4424 741IF USE_OPENSSL
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742DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
743DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
744DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
745DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
746DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
747ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 748DEFAULT: all src all
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749DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
750DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
751DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
752DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
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41bd17a4 754 Defining an Access List
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756 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
757 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
758 they are read from.
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760 acl aclname acltype argument ...
761 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 763 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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766 The available options are:
767
768 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
769 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
770 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
771 without -i.
772
773 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
774 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
775 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
776 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
777 without any warnings or lookups.
778
779 -- Used to stop processing all options, in the case the first acl
780 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
781 is a valid domain name)
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784 to access some external data source.
785 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
786 don't are marked as [fast].
787 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
788 for further information
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790 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
791
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792 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
793 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 794 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 795 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 796
41bd17a4 797 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
798 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
799 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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801 # other *BSD variants.
802 # [fast]
41bd17a4 803 #
804 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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805 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
806 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
807
808 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
809 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 810 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 811 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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813 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 814 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 815 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 816 #
41bd17a4 817 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
818 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
819 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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821 acl aclname src_as number ...
822 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 823 # [fast]
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825 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
826 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
827 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
828 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
829 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
830 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 831
6db78a1a 832 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 833 # [fast]
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835 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
836
375eeb3b 837 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 838 # [fast]
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840 # S - Sunday
841 # M - Monday
842 # T - Tuesday
843 # W - Wednesday
844 # H - Thursday
845 # F - Friday
846 # A - Saturday
847 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
848
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850 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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851 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
852 # regex matching on URL login field
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853 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
854 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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857 # ranges are alloed
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858 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
859 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
860
b3567eb5 861 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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863 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
864
865 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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867 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
868 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 870 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 871 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 873 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 874 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 875 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 877 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 878 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 879 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 880 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 881
41bd17a4 882 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
883 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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885 # supplied credentials [slow]
886 #
887 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 888 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
889 #
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891 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
892 #
41bd17a4 893 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
894 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
895 # in access.log.
896 #
897 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
898 # to check username/password combinations (see
899 # auth_param directive).
900 #
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902 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 903 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 904
41bd17a4 905 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 906 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 907 # Example:
908 #
909 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 911 acl aclname maxconn number
912 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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914 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
915 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 916
41bd17a4 917 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
918 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
919 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 920 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 921 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
922 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
923 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
924 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
925 # request is denied)
926 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
927 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
928 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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931 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
932 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
933 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
934
375eeb3b 935 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 936 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
937 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 938 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 939 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
940 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 941
41bd17a4 942 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
943 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
944 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 945 # ACL [fast]
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375eeb3b 947 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 948 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
949 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 950 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 951 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
952 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
953 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 955 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
956 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
957 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 958 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 959
375eeb3b 960 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 961 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 962 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 964 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
965 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 966 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 967
41bd17a4 968 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
969 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 970 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 971
41bd17a4 972 acl aclname ext_user username ...
973 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 974 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 975 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 976
0ab50441 977 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
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979 # DEPRECATED. Only the first tag will match with this ACL.
980 # Use the 'note' ACL instead for handling multiple tag values.
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982 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
983 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
984 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
985 #
986 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
987 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
988 # http_reply_access.
989
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991 # match transaction annotation [fast]
992 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
993 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
994 # also has one of the given values.
995 # Names and values are compared using a string equality test.
996 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
997 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
998
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1000 # Matches the name of any icap_service, ecap_service,
1001 # adaptation_service_set, or adaptation_service_chain that Squid
1002 # has used (or attempted to use) for the master transaction.
1003 # This ACL must be defined after the corresponding adaptation
1004 # service is named in squid.conf. This ACL is usable with
1005 # adaptation_meta because it starts matching immediately after
1006 # the service has been selected for adaptation.
1007
cb4f4424 1008IF USE_OPENSSL
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1010 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1011 #
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1013 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1014 #
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1016 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1017 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1018 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1019 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1020 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1021 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1022 #
1023 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1024 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1025 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1026 #
1027 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1028 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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1032 #
1033 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1034 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1035 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1036 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1037 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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1039 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1040 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1041 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1042 #
1043 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1044 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1045 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1046 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1047 #
1048 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1049 # and slow otherwise.
1050
1051 acl aclname all-of acl1 acl2 ...
1052 # match all of the acls [fast or slow]
1053 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1054 #
1055 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1056 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1057 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1058 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1059 #
1060 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1061 # and slow otherwise.
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1064 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1065 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1066 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1067 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1068 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
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41bd17a4 1070NOCOMMENT_START
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1072# Recommended minimum configuration:
1073#
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ee776778 1075# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1076# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1077# should be allowed
1078acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1079acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1080acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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1081acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1082acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1084acl SSL_ports port 443
1085acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1086acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1087acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1088acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1089acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1090acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1091acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1092acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1093acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1094acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1095acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1096NOCOMMENT_END
1097DOC_END
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1100TYPE: acl_access
1101IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1102LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1103DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1104DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
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1106 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
1107 find the original source of a request.
1108
1109 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1110 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
1111 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
1112 rightmost address being the most recent.
1113
1114 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
1115 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
1116 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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1118 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
1119 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
1120 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
1121 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
1122 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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1124 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1125 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1126 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1127 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1129 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1132 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1133
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1135
1136 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
1137 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
1138 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1139 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1140 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1141 based on the client's source addresses.
1142
1143 For example:
1144
1145 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1146 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1147 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1148 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
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1150
1151NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1152COMMENT: on|off
1153TYPE: onoff
1154IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1155DEFAULT: on
1156LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1157DOC_START
1158 Controls whether the indirect client address
1159 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1160 direct client address in acl matching.
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1162 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1163 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1165
1166NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1167COMMENT: on|off
1168TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1169IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1171LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1172DOC_START
1173 Controls whether the indirect client address
1174 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1175 direct client address in delay pools.
1176DOC_END
1177
1178NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1179COMMENT: on|off
1180TYPE: onoff
1181IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1182DEFAULT: on
1183LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1184DOC_START
1185 Controls whether the indirect client address
1186 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1187 direct client address in the access log.
1188DOC_END
1189
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1190NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1191COMMENT: on|off
1192TYPE: onoff
1193IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1194DEFAULT: off
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1195LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1196DOC_START
1197 Controls whether the indirect client address
1198 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1199 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1201 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1202 mode ports.
1203
1204 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1205 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1206 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1207 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1209
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1210NAME: spoof_client_ip
1211TYPE: acl_access
1212LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1213DEFAULT: none
1214DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1215DOC_START
1216 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1217 defined access lists.
1218
1219 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1220
1221 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1222 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1223
1224 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1225
1226 This clause supports fast acl types.
1227 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1228DOC_END
1229
41bd17a4 1230NAME: http_access
1231TYPE: acl_access
1232LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1233DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1234DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1235DOC_START
1236 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1237
41bd17a4 1238 Access to the HTTP port:
1239 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1240
41bd17a4 1241 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1242
41bd17a4 1243 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1244 the request.
cccac0a2 1245
41bd17a4 1246 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1247 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1248 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1249 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1251 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1254 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1255
41bd17a4 1256NOCOMMENT_START
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1258#
1259# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1260#
e0855596 1261# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1262http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1264# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1265http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
e0855596 1266
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1268http_access allow localhost manager
1269http_access deny manager
1270
41bd17a4 1271# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1272# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1273# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1274#http_access deny to_localhost
e0855596 1275
41bd17a4 1276#
1277# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1278#
c8f4eac4 1279
ee776778 1280# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1281# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1282# from where browsing should be allowed
1283http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1284http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1285
41bd17a4 1286# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1287http_access deny all
1288NOCOMMENT_END
1289DOC_END
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1291NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1292TYPE: acl_access
1293LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1294DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1295DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1297 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1298
1299 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1300 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1301 output.
1302
1303 If not set then only http_access is used.
1304DOC_END
1305
41bd17a4 1306NAME: http_reply_access
1307TYPE: acl_access
1308LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1309DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1310DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1311DOC_START
1312 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1313
41bd17a4 1314 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1315
41bd17a4 1316 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1317 all replies.
1a224843 1318
41bd17a4 1319 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1320 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1321 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1323 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1324 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1325DOC_END
1326
41bd17a4 1327NAME: icp_access
1328TYPE: acl_access
1329LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1331DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1332DOC_START
41bd17a4 1333 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1334 access lists
5473c134 1335
41bd17a4 1336 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1337
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1339 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1340 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1341
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1343 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1345# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1346#icp_access allow localnet
1347#icp_access deny all
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1349
41bd17a4 1350NAME: htcp_access
1351IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1352TYPE: acl_access
1353LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1355DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1356DOC_START
41bd17a4 1357 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1358 access lists
5473c134 1359
41bd17a4 1360 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1361
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1363 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
5473c134 1364
0b48417e 1365 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1366 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1367 using the htcp option.
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1370 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1372# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1373#htcp_access allow localnet
1374#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1375DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1377NAME: htcp_clr_access
1378IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1379TYPE: acl_access
1380LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1382DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1383DOC_START
1384 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1386 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1387
41bd17a4 1388 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1391 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1393# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1394acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1395htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1396htcp_clr_access deny all
5473c134 1397DOC_END
1398
41bd17a4 1399NAME: miss_access
1400TYPE: acl_access
1401LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1402DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1403DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1404DOC_START
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1405 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1406
1407 For example;
1408 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1409 a parent.
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638402dd 1411 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1412 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1413 miss_access allow all
5473c134 1414
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1416 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1417 objects (HITs).
1418
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1420 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1422 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1423 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1424DOC_END
1425
1426NAME: ident_lookup_access
1427TYPE: acl_access
1428IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1430DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1431LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1432DOC_START
41bd17a4 1433 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1434 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1435 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1436 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1437 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1438 any requests.
5473c134 1439
41bd17a4 1440 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1441 can follow this example:
5473c134 1442
4daaf3cb 1443 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1444 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1445 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1446
4daaf3cb 1447 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1448 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1449 the correct result.
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1451 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1452 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1453DOC_END
5473c134 1454
5b0f5383 1455NAME: reply_body_max_size
1456COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1457TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1458DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1459DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1460LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1461DOC_START
1462 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1463 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1464 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1465 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1466 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1467 for this reply.
1468
1469 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1470 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1471 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1472 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1473 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1474 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1475 and they will receive a partial reply.
1476
1477 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1478 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1479 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1480 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1481
1482 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1483 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1484 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1485 the size of your largest error page.
1486
1487 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1488 no limit imposed.
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1490 Configuration Format is:
1491 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1492 ie.
1493 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1494
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1496
1497COMMENT_START
1498 NETWORK OPTIONS
1499 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1500COMMENT_END
1501
1502NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1503TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1504DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 1505LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 1506DOC_START
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1507 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1508 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1509 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1510
1511 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1512 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1513 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1514 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1515 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1516 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1517 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1518
1519 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1520 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1521
1522 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1523 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1524 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1525
1526 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1527
c7b1dd5d 1528 Modes:
5b0f5383 1529
e77bdb4e 1530 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1531 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1532 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1533
1534 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1535 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1536 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1537
7f45065d 1538 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1539
caf3666d 1540 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1541 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1542 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1544 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1545
7a957a93 1546 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1547 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1548
1549 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1550
1551
1552 Accelerator Mode Options:
1553
5b0f5383 1554 defaultsite=domainname
1555 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1556 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1557 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1558
cf673853 1559 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1560
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1561 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated and intercepted
1562 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
1563 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
1564 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
1565 produce a FATAL error.
1566 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
5b0f5383 1567
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1569 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1570
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1571 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1572 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1573
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1575 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1576 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1577 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1578
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1580
7f45065d 1581 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1583
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1584 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1585 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1586 never_direct was used.
1587
1588 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1589 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1590 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1591 http_access rules when using this.
1592
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1594 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1596
1597 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1598 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1599 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1600 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1601 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1602 certificate will be selfsigned.
1603 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1604 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1605 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1606 years.
1607 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1608 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1609
1610 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1611 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1612 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1613 default value is 4MB.
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1615 TLS / SSL Options:
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1617 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1618
1619 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1620 if not specified, the certificate file is
1621 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1622 key file.
1623
1624 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1625 1 automatic (default)
1626 2 SSLv2 only
1627 3 SSLv3 only
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1628 4 TLSv1.0 only
1629 5 TLSv1.1 only
1630 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1632 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1633 NOTE: some ciphers such as EDH ciphers depend on
1634 additional settings. If those settings are
1635 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1636 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1637
943c5f16 1638 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1639 being:
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1640 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1641 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1642 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1643 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1644 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1645 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1646 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1648 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1649 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1650 strength to some attacks.
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1651 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1652 complete list of options.
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1654 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1655 requesting a client certificate.
1656
1657 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1658 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1659 clientca will be used.
1660
1661 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1662 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1663
1664 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1665 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1666 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1667
1668 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1670 on how to create this file.
1671 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1672 option is not set.
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1673
1674 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1675 DELAYED_AUTH
1676 Don't request client certificates
1677 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1678 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1679 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1680 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1681 to OpenSSL.
1682 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1683 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1684 will result in a new SSL session.
1685 VERIFY_CRL
1686 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1687 certificates.
1688 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1689 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1690 client certificate chain.
1691
1692 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1693
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1695
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1696 connection-auth[=on|off]
1697 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1698 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1700
5b0f5383 1701 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1702 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1703 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1704 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1705 support is enabled.
1706 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1707
1708 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1709 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1710 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1711 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1712 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1713 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1714 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1715 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1716
81b6e9a7 1717 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1718 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1719
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1722 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1723 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1724 timeout the time before giving up.
1725
5b0f5383 1726 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1727 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1728 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1729 visible on the internal address.
1730
1731NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1733# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1734http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1735NOCOMMENT_END
1736DOC_END
1737
1738NAME: https_port
cb4f4424 1739IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
65d448bc 1740TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1741DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 1742LOC: HttpsPortList
5b0f5383 1743DOC_START
7f45065d 1744 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1745
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1747 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1748
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1750 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1751
1752 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1753 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1754
7f45065d 1755 Modes:
5b0f5383 1756
7f45065d 1757 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
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1759 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
1760 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1761 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1762
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1764 connections using the client IP address.
1765 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1766
caf3666d 1767 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1768 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1769 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1771 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1772
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1774 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 1775
38450a50 1776 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1777
7f45065d 1778 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1779
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1782
1783
1784 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1785
1786 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1787
1788 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1789 if not specified, the certificate file is
1790 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1791 key file.
1792
1793 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1794 1 automatic (default)
1795 2 SSLv2 only
1796 3 SSLv3 only
1797 4 TLSv1 only
1798
1799 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1800
1801 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1802 being:
1803 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1804 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1805 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1806 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1807 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1808 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1809 documentation for a complete list of options.
1810
1811 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1812 requesting a client certificate.
1813
1814 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1815 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1816 clientca will be used.
1817
1818 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1819 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1820
1821 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1822 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1823 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1824
1825 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1826 DH key exchanges.
1827
1828 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1829 DELAYED_AUTH
1830 Don't request client certificates
1831 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1832 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1833 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1834 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1835 to OpenSSL.
1836 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1837 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1838 will result in a new SSL session.
1839 VERIFY_CRL
1840 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1841 certificates.
1842 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1843 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1844 client certificate chain.
1845
1846 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1847
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1849 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1850 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1851 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1852 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1853 certificate will be selfsigned.
1854 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1855 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1856 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1857 years.
1858 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1859 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1860
1861 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1862 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1863 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1864 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 1865
859741ed 1866 See http_port for a list of available options.
5b0f5383 1867DOC_END
1868
41bd17a4 1869NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1870TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1871DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1872LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1873DOC_START
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1875 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1876
41bd17a4 1877 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1878
41bd17a4 1879 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1880 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1883 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1884 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1885 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1886
41bd17a4 1887 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1888 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1889 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1890
41bd17a4 1891 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1892 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1894 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1895
41bd17a4 1896 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1897 matching line.
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1899 Only fast ACLs are supported.
cccac0a2 1900DOC_END
1901
41bd17a4 1902NAME: clientside_tos
1903TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1904DEFAULT: none
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1905LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
1906DOC_START
1907 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1908 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1909
1910 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1911
1912 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1913 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1914
1915 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1916 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1917 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1918 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1919
1920 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1921 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1922DOC_END
1923
1924NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1925TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1926IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1928LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1929DOC_START
1930 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1931 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1932
1933 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1934
1935 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1936 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1937
1938 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1939 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1940 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1941 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
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1943 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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1945
1946NAME: clientside_mark
1947TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1948IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1949DEFAULT: none
1950LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1951DOC_START
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1952 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
1953 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1954
1955 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1956
1957 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1958 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1959
1960 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1961 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1962 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1963 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1964
1965 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1966 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1967DOC_END
cccac0a2 1968
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1969NAME: qos_flows
1970TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1971IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1972DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1973LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1974DOC_START
575cb927 1975 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1977 For platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
425de4c8 1978 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1981 settings simply use "qos_flows mark" or "qos_flows tos". Default
1982 settings will result in the netfilter mark or TOS value being copied
1983 from the upstream connection to the client. Note that it is the connection
1984 CONNMARK value not the packet MARK value that is copied.
1985
1986 It is not currently possible to copy the mark or TOS value from the
1987 client to the upstream connection request.
1988
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1990 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1991 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
7172612f 1992
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1994 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1995 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1996
1997 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1998
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2000
2001 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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2003 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
2004
2005 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
2006
2007 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
2008
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2010 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2011 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2012 specified in the mask are written.
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2015 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2016 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2017 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2018 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 2019
575cb927 2020 disable-preserve-miss
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2021 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2022 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2023 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2024 and masked with miss-mark.
2025 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2026 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2027 (MARK target).
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2029 miss-mask=0xFF
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2030 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2031 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2032 the TOS sent towards clients.
2033 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2034 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2035
2036 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2037 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2038 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2039 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2042
41bd17a4 2043NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2044TYPE: acl_address
2045DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2046DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2047LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2048DOC_START
2049 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2050 based on the username or source address of the user making
2051 the request.
7f7db318 2052
41bd17a4 2053 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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2056 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2059 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2060
2061 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2062 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2063
2064 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2065 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2066
2067 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2068 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2069
41bd17a4 2070 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2071 matching line.
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2074 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2075 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2076
2077
2078 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2079 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2080 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2081 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 2082
2dd51400 2083 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 2084 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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2086 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 2087
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2090NAME: host_verify_strict
2091TYPE: onoff
2092DEFAULT: off
2093LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2094DOC_START
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2096 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2097 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2099 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2100 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2101 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2102
2103 When set to ON:
2104 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2105 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2106
2107 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2108 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2109 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2110 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2111 and Request-URI components:
2112
2113 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2114 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2115 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2116 or FQDN.
2117
2118 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2119 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2120
2121
2122 When set to OFF (the default):
2123 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2124 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2125
2126 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2127
2128 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2129
2130 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2131 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2132
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2134 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2135 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2137 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2138 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2139
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2143 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2144 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2145 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2146 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2147
2148 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2149 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2150 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2151 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2152 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2154DOC_END
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2156NAME: client_dst_passthru
2157TYPE: onoff
2158DEFAULT: on
2159LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2160DOC_START
2161 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2162 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2163 source using the HTTP Host header.
2164
2165 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2166 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2167 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2168 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2169
2170 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2171 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2172 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2173
2174 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2175 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2176 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2177
2178 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2179DOC_END
2180
41bd17a4 2181COMMENT_START
2182 SSL OPTIONS
2183 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2184COMMENT_END
2185
2186NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
cb4f4424 2187IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2188TYPE: onoff
2189DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2190LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2191DOC_START
41bd17a4 2192 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2193 messages.
cccac0a2 2194DOC_END
2195
41bd17a4 2196NAME: ssl_engine
cb4f4424 2197IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2198TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2199LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2200DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2201DOC_START
41bd17a4 2202 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2203 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2204DOC_END
2205
41bd17a4 2206NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
cb4f4424 2207IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2208DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2209LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2210TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2211DOC_START
41bd17a4 2212 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2213DOC_END
2214
41bd17a4 2215NAME: sslproxy_client_key
cb4f4424 2216IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2217DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2218LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2219TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2220DOC_START
41bd17a4 2221 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2222DOC_END
2223
41bd17a4 2224NAME: sslproxy_version
cb4f4424 2225IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2226DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 2227DEFAULT_DOC: automatic SSL/TLS version negotiation
41bd17a4 2228LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2229TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2230DOC_START
41bd17a4 2231 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2233 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2234
2235 1 automatic (default)
2236 2 SSLv2 only
2237 3 SSLv3 only
2238 4 TLSv1.0 only
2239 5 TLSv1.1 only
2240 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2241DOC_END
2242
41bd17a4 2243NAME: sslproxy_options
cb4f4424 2244IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2245DEFAULT: none
2246LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2247TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2248DOC_START
943c5f16 2249 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2251 The most important being:
2252
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2253 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2254 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2255 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2256 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2257 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2259 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2260 DH key exchanges
2261 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2262 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2263 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2264 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2265 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2266 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2267 strength to some attacks.
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2270 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 2271DOC_END
2272
41bd17a4 2273NAME: sslproxy_cipher
cb4f4424 2274IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2275DEFAULT: none
2276LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2277TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2278DOC_START
41bd17a4 2279 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2281 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2282DOC_END
2283
41bd17a4 2284NAME: sslproxy_cafile
cb4f4424 2285IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2286DEFAULT: none
2287LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2288TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2289DOC_START
41bd17a4 2290 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2291 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2292DOC_END
0976f8db 2293
41bd17a4 2294NAME: sslproxy_capath
cb4f4424 2295IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
5473c134 2296DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2297LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2298TYPE: string
5473c134 2299DOC_START
41bd17a4 2300 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2301 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2302DOC_END
2303
10a69fc0 2304NAME: sslproxy_session_ttl
cb4f4424 2305IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2307LOC: Config.SSL.session_ttl
2308TYPE: int
2309DOC_START
2310 Sets the timeout value for SSL sessions
2311DOC_END
2312
2313NAME: sslproxy_session_cache_size
cb4f4424 2314IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2316LOC: Config.SSL.sessionCacheSize
2317TYPE: b_size_t
2318DOC_START
2319 Sets the cache size to use for ssl session
2320DOC_END
2321
4c9da963 2322NAME: ssl_bump
cb4f4424 2323IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
caf3666d 2324TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2325LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
638402dd 2326DEFAULT_DOC: Does not bump unless rules are present in squid.conf
4c9da963 2327DEFAULT: none
2328DOC_START
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2330 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2331 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2332 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2333 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2334 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2335
2336 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2337
2338 The following bumping modes are supported:
2339
2340 client-first
2341 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2342 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2343 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2344 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2345
2346 server-first
2347 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2348 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2349 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2350 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2351
2352 none
2353 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2354 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2355 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2356 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2357
2358 By default, no connections are bumped.
2359
2360 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2361 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2362 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2363 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2364 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2365
e0c0d54c 2366 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2367 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2370
e0855596 2371
caf3666d 2372 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from
638402dd 2373 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 2374
e0855596 2375 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2376 ssl_bump none localhost
2377 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2378 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2379DOC_END
2380
41bd17a4 2381NAME: sslproxy_flags
cb4f4424 2382IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2383DEFAULT: none
2384LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2385TYPE: string
5473c134 2386DOC_START
41bd17a4 2387 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2388 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2389 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2390 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2391 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2392DOC_END
2393
4c9da963 2394NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
cb4f4424 2395IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
4c9da963 2396DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2397DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 2398LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2399TYPE: acl_access
2400DOC_START
2401 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2402
2403 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2404 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2405 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2406
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2407 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
2408 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2409 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2410
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2412 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2413 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2414
2415 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 2416 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
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2419 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
2420
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2421 SECURITY WARNING:
2422 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
2423 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
2424 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 2425
638402dd 2426 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 2427DOC_END
2428
aebe6888 2429NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
cb4f4424 2430IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
aebe6888 2431DEFAULT: none
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2432POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2433POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2434POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2435TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2436LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2437DOC_START
2438
69742b76 2439 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 2440
69742b76 2441 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
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aebe6888 2443 signTrusted
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2445 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2446 default for trusted origin server certificates.
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aebe6888 2448 signUntrusted
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2449 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2450 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2451 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 2452
aebe6888 2453 signSelf
69742b76 2454 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2455 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2456 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
2457 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2460
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2461 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2462 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2463 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2464 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2465 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2467 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2468 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2469 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2470 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2471 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2472 bump-server-first is used.
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2474
638402dd 2475NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
cb4f4424 2476IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2477DEFAULT: none
2478TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2479LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2480DOC_START
2481
2482 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2483
69742b76 2484 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2485
fb2178bb 2486 setValidAfter
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2488 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 2489
fb2178bb 2490 setValidBefore
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2491 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
2492 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 2493
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2495 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2496 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2497 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2498 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2499 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2502
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2503 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
2504 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2505 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2506 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2507 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2508 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2510 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2511 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2512 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2513 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2514 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2515 bump-server-first is used.
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2517
41bd17a4 2518NAME: sslpassword_program
cb4f4424 2519IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2520DEFAULT: none
2521LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2522TYPE: string
5473c134 2523DOC_START
41bd17a4 2524 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2525 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2526 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2527 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2529 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2530 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2531 keys.
5473c134 2532DOC_END
2533
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2535 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2536 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2537COMMENT_END
2538
2539NAME: sslcrtd_program
2540TYPE: eol
2541IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2542DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2543LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2544DOC_START
2545 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2546 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2547 For more information use:
2548 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2549DOC_END
2550
2551NAME: sslcrtd_children
2552TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2553IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2554DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2555LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2556DOC_START
2557 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2558 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2559
2560 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2561 tuning.
2562
2563 startup=N
2564
2565 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2566 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2567 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2568
2569 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2570 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2571
2572 idle=N
2573
2574 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2575 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2576 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2577 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2578
2579 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2580DOC_END
2581
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2583TYPE: eol
cb4f4424 2584IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2586LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
2587DOC_START
2588 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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2590
2591 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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2593 Options:
638402dd 2594 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results. The default is 60 secs
14798e73 2595 cache=n limit the result cache size. The default value is 2048
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2597
2598NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
2599TYPE: HelperChildConfig
cb4f4424 2600IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
413bb969 2601DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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2602LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
2603DOC_START
638402dd 2604 The maximum number of processes spawn to service SSL server.
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2606
2607 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2608 tuning.
2609
2610 startup=N
2611
2612 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2613 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2614 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2615
2616 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2617 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2618
2619 idle=N
2620
2621 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2622 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2623 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2624 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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2626 concurrency=
2627
2628 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
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2629 parallel. A value of 0 indicates the certficate validator does not
2630 support concurrency. Defaults to 1.
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2631
2632 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
2633 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
2634 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
2635 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
2636 to that request.
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2637
2638 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
2639DOC_END
2640
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41bd17a4 2642 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2643 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2644COMMENT_END
2645
41bd17a4 2646NAME: cache_peer
2647TYPE: peer
2648DEFAULT: none
2649LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2650DOC_START
41bd17a4 2651 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 2652
41bd17a4 2653 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2654
41bd17a4 2655 For example,
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41bd17a4 2657 # proxy icp
2658 # hostname type port port options
2659 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2660 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2661 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2662 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2663 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2664 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2665
2666 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2667
2668 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2669 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2670 For web servers this is usually 80
2671
2672 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2673 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2674 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2675
2676
2677 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2678
2679 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2680 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2681
2682
2683 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2684
2685 multicast-responder
2686 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2687 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2688 replies will be accepted from it.
2689
2690 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2691 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2692
2693 background-ping
2694 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2695 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2696 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2697
2698
2699 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2700
2701 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2702 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2703
2704
2705 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2706 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2707 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2708 list of options described below.
2b94f655 2709
18191440 2710 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2711
18191440 2712 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2713 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2714 only-clr.
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2716 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2717 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2b94f655 2718
18191440 2719 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2720 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2721 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2722
18191440 2723 htcp=forward-clr
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2724 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2725
2726
2727 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2728
2729 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2730 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2731
2732
2733 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2734 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2735 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2736
2737 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2738 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2739 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2740
2741 weighted-round-robin
2742 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2743 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2744 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2745 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2746 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2747
2748 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2749 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2750 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2751
2752 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2753
2754 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2756 multicast-siblings
2757 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2758 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2759 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2760 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2761 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2762 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2763 members of the same multicast group.
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2764
2765
2766 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2767
2768 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2769 peer-selection mechanisms.
2770 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2771 larger weights are favored more.
2772 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2773 protocol is not in use.
2774
2775 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2776 times of parents.
2777 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2778 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2779 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2780
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2781 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2782 to this address.
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2783 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2784 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2785 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2786 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2787
2788 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2789 delay pools.
2790
2791 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2792 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2793 than the Squid default location.
2794
2795
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2797
2798 carp-key=key-specification
2799 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2800 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2801 scheme, host, port, path, params
2802 Order is not important.
2803
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2805
2806 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2807 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2808 is a web server.
2809
2810 forceddomain=name
2811 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2812 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2813 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2814 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2815
2816 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2817
2818 no-netdb-exchange
2819 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2820
2821
2822 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2823
2824 login=user:password
2825 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2826 requires proxy authentication.
2827
2828 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2829 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2830
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2831 login=PASSTHRU
2832 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2833 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2834 without alteration to the peer.
2835 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2836
2837 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2838 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2839 connection-auth options are also used.
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2841 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2842 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 2843
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2844 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2845 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2847 they may be sent instead.
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2848
2849 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2850 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2851 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2852 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2853 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2854
2855 login=*:password
2856 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2857 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2858 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2859 needed to identify each user.
2860 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2861 information which is added to the username. This can
2862 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2863 the login=username:password option above.
2864
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2865 login=NEGOTIATE
2866 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2867 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2868 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2869 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2870
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2872 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2873 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2874
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2875 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2876 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2877 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2878 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2879 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2880 used.
2881
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2883 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2884 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2885
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2886 connection-auth=on|off
2887 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2888 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2889 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2890 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2891 of the peer.
2892
2893
2894 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2895
2896 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2897
2898 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2899 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2900 this peer.
2901
2902 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2903 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2904 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2905 reference a combined file containing both the
2906 certificate and the key.
2907
3d96b0e8 2908 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2909 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2910 1 = automatic (default)
2911 2 = SSL v2 only
2912 3 = SSL v3 only
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2913 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2914 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2915 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2916
2917 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2918 to this peer.
2919
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2921
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2922 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2923 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2924 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2925 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2926 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2927 SINGLE_DH_USE
2928 Always create a new key when using
2929 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2930 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2931 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2932 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2933 strength to some attacks.
2934
2935 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2936 more complete list.
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2937
2938 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2939 when verifying the peer certificate.
2940
2941 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2942 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2943
2944 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2945 verifying the peer certificate.
2946
2947 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2948
41bd17a4 2949 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2950 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2951 verify.
2952 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2953 Don't use the default CA list built in
2954 to OpenSSL.
2955 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2956 Don't verify the peer certificate
2957 matches the server name
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2958
2959 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2960 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2961 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2962 used.
2963
2964 front-end-https
2965 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2966 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2967 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2968 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2969 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2970
2971
2972 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2973
2974 connect-timeout=N
2975 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2976 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2977
2978 connect-fail-limit=N
2979 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
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2980 it is marked as down. Standby connection failures
2981 count towards this limit. Default is 10.
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2982
2983 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2984 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2985 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2986 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2987 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2988 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2989 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2990
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2991 max-conn=N Limit the number of concurrent connections the Squid
2992 may open to this peer, including already opened idle
2993 and standby connections. There is no peer-specific
2994 connection limit by default.
2995
2996 A peer exceeding the limit is not used for new
2997 requests unless a standby connection is available.
2998
2999 max-conn currently works poorly with idle persistent
3000 connections: When a peer reaches its max-conn limit,
3001 and there are idle persistent connections to the peer,
3002 the peer may not be selected because the limiting code
3003 does not know whether Squid can reuse those idle
3004 connections.
3005
3006 standby=N Maintain a pool of N "hot standby" connections to an
3007 UP peer, available for requests when no idle
3008 persistent connection is available (or safe) to use.
3009 By default and with zero N, no such pool is maintained.
3010 N must not exceed the max-conn limit (if any).
3011
3012 At start or after reconfiguration, Squid opens new TCP
3013 standby connections until there are N connections
3014 available and then replenishes the standby pool as
3015 opened connections are used up for requests. A used
3016 connection never goes back to the standby pool, but
3017 may go to the regular idle persistent connection pool
3018 shared by all peers and origin servers.
3019
3020 Squid never opens multiple new standby connections
3021 concurrently. This one-at-a-time approach minimizes
3022 flooding-like effect on peers. Furthermore, just a few
3023 standby connections should be sufficient in most cases
3024 to supply most new requests with a ready-to-use
3025 connection.
3026
3027 Standby connections obey server_idle_pconn_timeout.
3028 For the feature to work as intended, the peer must be
3029 configured to accept and keep them open longer than
3030 the idle timeout at the connecting Squid, to minimize
3031 race conditions typical to idle used persistent
3032 connections. Default request_timeout and
3033 server_idle_pconn_timeout values ensure such a
3034 configuration.
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3035
3036 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
3037 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
3038 but different ports.
3039 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
3040 directives to dentify the peer.
3041 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3042 peername ACL type.
3043
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3044 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3045 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3046 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
b0758e04 3047
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3048 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
3049
41bd17a4 3050DOC_END
cccac0a2 3051
41bd17a4 3052NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
3053TYPE: hostdomain
3054DEFAULT: none
3055LOC: none
3056DOC_START
3057 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
638402dd 3058 queried.
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3060 Usage:
3061 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
3062 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 3063
41bd17a4 3064 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 3065
41bd17a4 3066 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 3067
41bd17a4 3068 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
3069 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
3070 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
3071 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
3072 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 3073
41bd17a4 3074 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
3075 either on the same or separate lines.
3076 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
3077 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
3078 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
3079 for all requests.
3080 * There are no defaults.
3081 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
3082 section.
3083DOC_END
dd9b1776 3084
41bd17a4 3085NAME: cache_peer_access
3086TYPE: peer_access
3087DEFAULT: none
3088LOC: none
3089DOC_START
3090 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
3091 using ACL elements.
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3093 Usage:
3094 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 3095
41bd17a4 3096 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
3097 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 3098 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 3099DOC_END
dd9b1776 3100
41bd17a4 3101NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3102TYPE: hostdomaintype
3103DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3104DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3105LOC: none
3106DOC_START
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3107 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3108 about specific domains to the peer.
cccac0a2 3109
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3110 Usage:
3111 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
6bf4f823 3112
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3113 For example:
3114 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3115 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
6bf4f823 3116
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3117 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3118 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3119DOC_END
6bf4f823 3120
41bd17a4 3121NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3122COMMENT: (seconds)
3123DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3124TYPE: time_t
3125LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3126DOC_START
3127 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3128 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3129 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3130 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3131 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3132 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3133
41bd17a4 3134 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3135 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3136 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3137 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3138 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3139 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3140 instead of to your parents.
3141DOC_END
cccac0a2 3142
437823b4 3143NAME: forward_max_tries
6c367206 3144DEFAULT: 25
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3145TYPE: int
3146LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3147DOC_START
3148 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3149 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3150
3151 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3152 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3153DOC_END
3154
41bd17a4 3155NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
3156TYPE: wordlist
3157DEFAULT: none
3158LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
3159DOC_START
3160 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
3161 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
3162 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
3163 list this option multiple times.
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3165 Example:
3166 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
3167
3168 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 3169DOC_END
0976f8db 3170
41bd17a4 3171COMMENT_START
3172 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3173 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3174COMMENT_END
3175
3176NAME: cache_mem
3177COMMENT: (bytes)
3178TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3179DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3180LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3181DOC_START
41bd17a4 3182 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3183 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3184 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3185 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3186
3187 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3188 for:
3189 * In-Transit objects
3190 * Hot Objects
3191 * Negative-Cached objects
3192
3193 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3194 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3195 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3196 priority.
3197
3198 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3199 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3200 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3201 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3202 not needed for in-transit objects.
3203
3204 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3205 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3206 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3207 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3208 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3209 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3210 objects.
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3211
3212 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3213 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3214 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3215 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3216DOC_END
0976f8db 3217
41bd17a4 3218NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3219COMMENT: (bytes)
3220TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3221DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3222LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3223DOC_START
41bd17a4 3224 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3225 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3226 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3227 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3228DOC_END
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3230NAME: memory_cache_shared
3231COMMENT: on|off
3232TYPE: YesNoNone
3233LOC: Config.memShared
3234DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3235DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3236DOC_START
3237 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3238
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3239 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3240 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3241 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3242 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3243 caching is enabled).
3244
65b81b27 3245 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3246 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3247 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3248 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3249 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3250
3251 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3252 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3253 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3254
3255 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3257
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3258NAME: memory_cache_mode
3259TYPE: memcachemode
3260LOC: Config
3261DEFAULT: always
638402dd 3262DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 3263DOC_START
ea21d497 3264 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
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3266 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3267
3268 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3269 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3270 a second time before cached in memory.
3271
3272 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3273DOC_END
3274
41bd17a4 3275NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3276TYPE: removalpolicy
3277LOC: Config.memPolicy
3278DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3279DOC_START
41bd17a4 3280 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3281 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3282
638402dd 3283 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 3284DOC_END
6b698a21 3285
41bd17a4 3286COMMENT_START
3287 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3288 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3289COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3290
41bd17a4 3291NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3292TYPE: removalpolicy
3293LOC: Config.replPolicy
3294DEFAULT: lru
3295DOC_START
3296 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3297 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3298
41bd17a4 3299 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3300 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3301 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3302 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3303
638402dd 3304 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 3305
41bd17a4 3306 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3307
41bd17a4 3308 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3309 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3310 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3311 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3312
41bd17a4 3313 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3314 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3315 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3316 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3317
41bd17a4 3318 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3319 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3320 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3321
41bd17a4 3322 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3323 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3324 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3325
41bd17a4 3326 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3327 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3328 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3329DOC_END
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3331NAME: minimum_object_size
3332COMMENT: (bytes)
3333TYPE: b_int64_t
3334DEFAULT: 0 KB
3335DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
3336LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
3337DOC_START
3338 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3339 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3340 means all responses can be stored.
3341DOC_END
3342
3343NAME: maximum_object_size
3344COMMENT: (bytes)
3345TYPE: b_int64_t
3346DEFAULT: 4 MB
3347LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
3348DOC_START
499f852c 3349 Set the default value for max-size parameter on any cache_dir.
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3350 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3351
3352 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3353 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3354 hits).
3355
3356 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
3357 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
3358
3359 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3360 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3361 See cache_replacement_policy for a discussion of this policy.
3362DOC_END
3363
41bd17a4 3364NAME: cache_dir
3365TYPE: cachedir
3366DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3367DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 3368LOC: Config.cacheSwap
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3370 Format:
3371 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3372
41bd17a4 3373 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3374 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3375
41bd17a4 3376 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3377 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3378 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3379
41bd17a4 3380 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3381 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3382 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3383 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3384 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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3386 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3387 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3388 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3389
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3391 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 3392
41bd17a4 3393 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3394 been there.
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3396 Usage:
3397 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3398
41bd17a4 3399 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3400 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3401 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3402 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3403 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3404
56fba4d0 3405 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3406 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3407
56fba4d0 3408 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3409 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3410 is 256.
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3413 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 3414
41bd17a4 3415 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3416 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3417 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
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3419 Usage:
3420 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3421
41bd17a4 3422 see argument descriptions under ufs above
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3424
3425 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 3426
41bd17a4 3427 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3428 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3429 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3430
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3431 Usage:
3432 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3433
41bd17a4 3434 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3435
41bd17a4 3436 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3437 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3438 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3439
41bd17a4 3440 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3441 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3442 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3443
41bd17a4 3444 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3445 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3446 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3447 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3448 time.
0976f8db 3449
e2851fe7 3450
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3451 ==== The rock store type ====
3452
3453 Usage:
e51ce7da 3454 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes [options]
e2851fe7 3455
2e55f083 3456 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3458 A single entry occupies one or more slots.
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3460 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
3461 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
3462 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
3463 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
3464 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
3465
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3467 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3468 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3469 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3470 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3471 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3472 expected swap wait time.
3473
df881a0f 3474 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3475 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3476 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3477 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3478 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3479 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3480 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3481 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3483 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3484 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3485 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3486 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3487 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3488
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3490 storing cached responses. A cached response occupies at least
3491 one slot and all database I/O is done using individual slots so
3492 increasing this parameter leads to more disk space waste while
3493 decreasing it leads to more disk I/O overheads. Should be a
3494 multiple of your operating system I/O page size. Defaults to
3495 16KBytes. A housekeeping header is stored with each slot and
3496 smaller slot-sizes will be rejected. The header is smaller than
3497 100 bytes.
3498
df881a0f 3499
638402dd 3500 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
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3502 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
3503
3504 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3505 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
3506 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
3507 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
73656056 3508 (e.g. Rock).
638402dd 3509 Defaults to 0.
0976f8db 3510
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3511 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3512 supports.
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3513 The value in maximum_object_size directive sets
3514 the default unless more specific details are
3515 available (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 3516
41bd17a4 3517 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 3518 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
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3522# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3523#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3524NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3525DOC_END
0976f8db 3526
41bd17a4 3527NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3528TYPE: string
3529LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3530DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3531DOC_START
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3532 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
3533 object will fit into more than one.
3534
3535 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
3536 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
3537 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
3538 cache_dir.
3539
3540 Algorithms:
3541
3542 least-load
3543
3544 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
3545 sizes and disk speeds.
3546
3547 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
3548 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
3549 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
3550
3551 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
3552 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
3553 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
3554 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
3555
3556
3557 round-robin
3558
3559 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
3560 disk sizes.
3561
3562 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
3563 cache_dir is used.
3564
3565 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
3566 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
3567 max-size parameters.
3568
3569 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
3570 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
3571 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
3572
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3573 If several cache_dirs use similar min-size, max-size, or other
3574 limits to to reject certain responses, then do not group such
3575 cache_dir lines together, to avoid round-robin selection bias
3576 towards the first cache_dir after the group. Instead, interleave
3577 cache_dir lines from different groups. For example:
3578
3579 store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin
3580 cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000
3581 cache_dir rock /ssd1 ... max-size=99999
3582 cache_dir rock /hdd2 ... min-size=100000
3583 cache_dir rock /ssd2 ... max-size=99999
3584 cache_dir rock /hdd3 ... min-size=100000
3585 cache_dir rock /ssd3 ... max-size=99999
6b698a21 3586DOC_END
0976f8db 3587
41bd17a4 3588NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3589TYPE: int
3590LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3591DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 3592DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 3593DOC_START
41bd17a4 3594 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3595 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3596 descriptors are open.
3597
3598 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3599DOC_END
0976f8db 3600
41bd17a4 3601NAME: cache_swap_low
3602COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3603TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3604DEFAULT: 90
3605LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
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3606DOC_START
3607 The low-water mark for cache object replacement.
3608 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3609 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3610 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3611 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3612 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3613
3614 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3615 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3616 numbers closer together.
3617
3618 See also cache_swap_high
3619DOC_END
41bd17a4 3620
3621NAME: cache_swap_high
3622COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3623TYPE: int
3624DEFAULT: 95
3625LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3626DOC_START
638402dd 3627 The high-water mark for cache object replacement.
41bd17a4 3628 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3629 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3630 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3631 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3632 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3633
3634 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3635 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3636 numbers closer together.
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3637
3638 See also cache_swap_low
6b698a21 3639DOC_END
0976f8db 3640
5473c134 3641COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3642 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3643 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3644COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3645
41bd17a4 3646NAME: logformat
3647TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3648LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3649DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3650DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 3651DOC_START
41bd17a4 3652 Usage:
0976f8db 3653
41bd17a4 3654 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3655
41bd17a4 3656 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3657
41bd17a4 3658 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3659
41bd17a4 3660 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3661 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3662 as required according to their context and the output format
3663 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3664 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3665
41bd17a4 3666 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3667
41bd17a4 3668 " output in quoted string format
3669 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3670 # output in URL quoted format
3671 ' output as-is
5473c134 3672
41bd17a4 3673 - left aligned
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3674
3675 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3676 [width_min][.width_max]
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3677 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3678 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3679
41bd17a4 3680 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3681
41bd17a4 3682 Format codes:
5473c134 3683
3ff65596 3684 % a literal % character
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3685 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3686 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3687 a similar internal error identifier.
3688 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
c7bcf010 3689 note The annotation specified by the argument. Also
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3690 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3691 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
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3692 If no argument given all annotations logged.
3693 The argument may include a separator to use with
3694 annotation values:
3695 name[:separator]
3696 By default, multiple note values are separated with ","
3697 and multiple notes are separated with "\r\n".
3698 When logging named notes with %{name}note, the
3699 explicitly configured separator is used between note
3700 values. When logging all notes with %note, the
3701 explicitly configured separator is used between
3702 individual notes. There is currently no way to
3703 specify both value and notes separators when logging
3704 all notes with %note.
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3705
3706 Connection related format codes:
3707
41bd17a4 3708 >a Client source IP address
3709 >A Client FQDN
3710 >p Client source port
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3711 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3712 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3713 >lp Local port number the client connected to
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3714 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
3715 >nfmark Client connection netfilter mark set by Squid
8652f8e7 3716
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3717 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3718 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3719
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3720 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3721 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3722 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3723 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3724 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3725 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
3726 <nfmark Server connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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3727
3728 Time related format codes:
3729
41bd17a4 3730 ts Seconds since epoch
3731 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3732 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3733 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3734 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3735 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3736 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 3737 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
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3738 tS Approximate master transaction start time in
3739 <full seconds since epoch>.<fractional seconds> format.
3740 Currently, Squid considers the master transaction
3741 started when a complete HTTP request header initiating
3742 the transaction is received from the client. This is
3743 the same value that Squid uses to calculate transaction
3744 response time when logging %tr to access.log. Currently,
3745 Squid uses millisecond resolution for %tS values,
3746 similar to the default access.log "current time" field
3747 (%ts.%03tu).
3ff65596 3748
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3749 Access Control related format codes:
3750
3751 et Tag returned by external acl
3752 ea Log string returned by external acl
3753 un User name (any available)
3754 ul User name from authentication
3755 ue User name from external acl helper
3756 ui User name from ident
3757 us User name from SSL
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3758 credentials Client credentials. The exact meaning depends on
3759 the authentication scheme: For Basic authentication,
3760 it is the password; for Digest, the realm sent by the
3761 client; for NTLM and Negotiate, the client challenge
3762 or client credentials prefixed with "YR " or "KK ".
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3763
3764 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3765
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3766 REQUEST
3767
3768 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
3769 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3770 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3771 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3772 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3773 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
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3774 [http::]>rs Request URL scheme from client
3775 [http::]<rs Request URL scheme sent to server or peer
fa450988 3776 [http::]>rd Request URL domain from client
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3777 [http::]>rd Request URL domain sent to server or peer
3778 [http::]>rP Request URL port from client
3779 [http::]<rP Request URL port sent to server or peer
3780 [http::]rp Request URL path excluding hostname
3781 [http::]>rp Request URL path excluding hostname from client
3782 [http::]<rp Request URL path excluding hostname sent to server or peer
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3783 [http::]rv Request protocol version
3784 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3785 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
3786
5aca9cf2 3787 [http::]>h Original received request header.
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3788 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3789 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
3790 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
3791 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
3792 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
3793 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
3794 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3795 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 3796 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3797
3798
3799 RESPONSE
3800
3801 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
3802 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3803
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3804 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3805 as for >h
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3806
3807 [http::]mt MIME content type
3808
3809
3810 SIZE COUNTERS
3811
3812 [http::]st Total size of request + reply traffic with client
3813 [http::]>st Total size of request received from client.
3814 Excluding chunked encoding bytes.
3815 [http::]<st Total size of reply sent to client (after adaptation)
3816
3817 [http::]>sh Size of request headers received from client
3818 [http::]<sh Size of reply headers sent to client (after adaptation)
3819
3820 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3821 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3822
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3823 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3824 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3825 transfer encoding and control messages.
3826 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3827 received bodies.
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3828
3829
3830 TIMING
3831
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3832 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3833 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3834 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3835 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3836 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3837 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3838 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3839
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3840 Squid handling related format codes:
3841
3842 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3843 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3844
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3845 SSL-related format codes:
3846
3847 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3848
3849 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3850 a connection and for any request received on
3851 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3852 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3853 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3854 more information about these modes.
3855
3856 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3857 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3858 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3859
3860 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3861 logged.
3862
5038f9d8 3863 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3864 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3865
3866 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3867 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3868 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3869 transaction is in progress.
3870
5038f9d8 3871 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3872
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3873 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3874 meta-information from the last eCAP
3875 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3876 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3877 argument.
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3878
3879 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3880 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3881 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3882 value is recorded as an integer number,
3883 representing response time of one or more
3884 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3885 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3886 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3887 logged individually but added to the
3888 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3889 adapt::all_trs.
3890
3891 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3892 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3893 individual transactions are never added
3894 together. Instead, all transaction response
3895 times are recorded individually.
3896
3897 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3898 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3899 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3900
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3901 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3902
3903 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3904 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3905 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3906 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3907 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3908
3909 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3910 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3911 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3912 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3913 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3914
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3915 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3916
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3917logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3918logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3919logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3920logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3921logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3922
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3923 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3924 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3925 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3926
3927 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3928 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3929
5473c134 3930DOC_END
3931
41bd17a4 3932NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3933TYPE: access_log
3934LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3935DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3936DOC_START
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3937 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
3938 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
3939 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
3940
3941 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
3942 access_log none [acl acl ...]
3943
3944 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 3945 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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3946
3947 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
3948 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
3949 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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3950
3951 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3952 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3953 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3954 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3955
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NH
3956 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
3957
3958 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
3959 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
3960 to 'squid'.
3961
3962 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
3963 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
3964 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
3965 should flush records before the buffer becomes
3966 full to avoid overflows under normal
3967 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
3968 module-dependent though). The on-error option
3969 controls overflow handling.
3970
3971 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
3972 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
3973 affected log records. The default 'die' action
3974 kills the affected worker. The drop action
3975 support has not been tested for modules other
3976 than tcp.
3977
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3978 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3979
bb7a1781 3980 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3981 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3982
3983 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3984 each request.
3985 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3986
3987 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3988 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3989 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3990
3991 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3992
3993 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3994 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3995 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3996
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3997 where facility could be any of:
3998 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3999
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4000 And priority could be any of:
4001 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
4002
4003 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
4004 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4005 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 4006
2bf4e8fa 4007 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 4008 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 4009 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4010 Place Format: //host:port
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4011
4012 Default:
82b7abe3 4013 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 4014DOC_END
5473c134 4015
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4016NAME: icap_log
4017TYPE: access_log
4018IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4019LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
4020DEFAULT: none
4021DOC_START
4022 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
4023 transaction.
4024
4025 The icap_log option format is:
4026 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
4027 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
4028
4029 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
4030 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
4031 features.
4032
4033 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
4034 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
4035 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
4036 log line.
4037
4038 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
4039 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
4040 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
4041 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
4042 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
4043 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
4044 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
4045
4046 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
4047
4048 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
4049
4050 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
4051 option in Squid configuration file.
4052
4053 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
4054
4055 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
4056 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
4057
4058 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
4059 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
4060
4061 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
4062 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
4063 the socket).
4064
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4065 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
4066 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
4067 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
4068 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
4069 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
4070 computed.
4071
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4072 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
4073 milliseconds). The timer starts when
4074 the ICAP transaction is created and
4075 stops when the transaction is completed.
4076 Similar to tr.
4077
4078 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
4079 timer starts when the first ICAP request
4080 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
4081 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
4082 is received.
4083
4084 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
4085 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
4086 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
4087 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
4088 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
4089 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
4090
4091 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
4092
4093 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
4094
4095 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
4096
4097 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
4098 definition, is called icap_squid:
4099
4100logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
4101
5038f9d8 4102 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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4103DOC_END
4104
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4105NAME: logfile_daemon
4106TYPE: string
4107DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
4108LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
4109DOC_START
4110 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
4111 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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4112
4113 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
4114 L<data>\n - logfile data
4115 R\n - rotate file
4116 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 4117 O\n - reopen file
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4118 F\n - flush file
4119 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
4120 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
4121
4122 No responses is expected.
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4123DOC_END
4124
5b0f5383 4125NAME: log_access
8ebad780 4126TYPE: obsolete
5b0f5383 4127DOC_START
8ebad780 4128 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
5b0f5383 4129DOC_END
4130
3ff65596 4131NAME: log_icap
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4132TYPE: obsolete
4133DOC_START
4134 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
4135DOC_END
4136
4137NAME: stats_collection
3ff65596 4138TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 4139LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
3ff65596 4140DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4141DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 4142COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3ff65596 4143DOC_START
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4144 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
4145 in performance counters.
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4146
4147 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4148 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4150
41bd17a4 4151NAME: cache_store_log
4152TYPE: string
df2eec10 4153DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4154LOC: Config.Log.store
4155DOC_START
4156 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
4157 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 4158 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 4159 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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4160 disable it (the default).
4161
4162 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
4163 of modules supported.
4164
e0855596 4165 Example:
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4166 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
4167 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 4168DOC_END
4169
41bd17a4 4170NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
4171TYPE: string
4172LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 4173DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4174DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 4175DOC_START
41bd17a4 4176 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
4177 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
4178 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
4179 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
4180 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
4181 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
4182 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 4183
41bd17a4 4184 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
4185 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
4186 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
4187 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 4188
41bd17a4 4189 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
4190 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 4191
41bd17a4 4192 cache_swap_log.00
4193 cache_swap_log.01
4194 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 4195
41bd17a4 4196 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
4197 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
4198 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
4199 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
4200 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
4201 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
4202 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 4203DOC_END
4204
41bd17a4 4205NAME: logfile_rotate
4206TYPE: int
4207DEFAULT: 10
4208LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 4209DOC_START
41bd17a4 4210 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
4211 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
4212 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
4213 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
4214 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4215 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 4216
41bd17a4 4217 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
4218 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
4219 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
4220 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
4221 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
4222 <pid>'.
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4224 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
4225 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
41bd17a4 4226DOC_END
5473c134 4227
41bd17a4 4228NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 4229TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 4230DOC_START
20efa1c2 4231 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 4232DOC_END
4233
41bd17a4 4234NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 4235TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4236DOC_START
8652f8e7 4237 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 4238DOC_END
5473c134 4239
41bd17a4 4240NAME: mime_table
4241TYPE: string
4242DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
4243LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
4244DOC_START
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4245 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
4246
4247 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
4248 examples and formatting information if you do.
5473c134 4249DOC_END
4250
41bd17a4 4251NAME: log_mime_hdrs
4252COMMENT: on|off
4253TYPE: onoff
4254LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
4255DEFAULT: off
4256DOC_START
4257 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
4258 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
4259 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
4260 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
4261 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
4262DOC_END
5473c134 4263
41bd17a4 4264NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 4265TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4266DOC_START
20efa1c2 4267 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 4268DOC_END
4269
41bd17a4 4270NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 4271TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4272DOC_START
20efa1c2 4273 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 4274DOC_END
4275
41bd17a4 4276NAME: pid_filename
4277TYPE: string
4278DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4279LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4280DOC_START
41bd17a4 4281 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4282DOC_END
4283
41bd17a4 4284NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 4285TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4286DOC_START
c581e96b 4287 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 4288DOC_END
4289
41bd17a4 4290NAME: client_netmask
4291TYPE: address
4292LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4293DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 4294DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 4295DOC_START
41bd17a4 4296 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4297 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4298 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4299 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4300DOC_END
4301
41bd17a4 4302NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 4303TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4304DOC_START
20efa1c2 4305 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 4306DOC_END
4307
41bd17a4 4308NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4309TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4310LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 4311DEFAULT: on
4312DOC_START
41bd17a4 4313 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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4314 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
4315
4316 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
4317 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 4318DOC_END
4319
41bd17a4 4320NAME: buffered_logs
4321COMMENT: on|off
4322TYPE: onoff
4323DEFAULT: off
4324LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 4325DOC_START
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4326 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
4327 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
4328 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
4329 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
4330 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
4331 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
4332
4333 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
4334 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
4335 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
4336
fb0c2f17 4337 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 4338DOC_END
0976f8db 4339
2b753521 4340NAME: netdb_filename
4341TYPE: string
221faecb 4342DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 4343LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 4344IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 4345DOC_START
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4346 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
4347 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
4348
2b753521 4349 To disable, enter "none".
4350DOC_END
4351
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4352COMMENT_START
4353 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
4354 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4355COMMENT_END
4356
4357NAME: cache_log
4358TYPE: string
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4359DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
4360LOC: Debug::cache_log
4361DOC_START
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4362 Squid administrative logging file.
4363
4364 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
4365 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
4366 rotated with "debug_options"
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4367DOC_END
4368
4369NAME: debug_options
4370TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 4371DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 4372DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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4373LOC: Debug::debugOptions
4374DOC_START
4375 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
4376 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
4377 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
4378 log file, so be careful.
4379
4380 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 4381 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
62493678 4382
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4383 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
4384 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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4385 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
4386 events affecting Squid.
4387DOC_END
4388
4389NAME: coredump_dir
4390TYPE: string
4391LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 4392DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 4393DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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4394DOC_START
4395 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4396 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4397 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4398 and coredump files will be left there.
4399
4400NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 4401
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4402# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
4403coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4404NOCOMMENT_END
4405DOC_END
4406
4407
41bd17a4 4408COMMENT_START
4409 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4410 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4411COMMENT_END
4412
4413NAME: ftp_user
4414TYPE: string
4415DEFAULT: Squid@
4416LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4417DOC_START
41bd17a4 4418 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 4419 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 4420 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4421
41bd17a4 4422 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4423 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4424 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 4425 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 4426 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4427DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4429NAME: ftp_passive
4430TYPE: onoff
4431DEFAULT: on
4432LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4433DOC_START
41bd17a4 4434 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4435 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 4436
4437 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4438DOC_END
4439
4440NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4441TYPE: onoff
4442DEFAULT: off
4443LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4444DOC_START
4445 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4446
4447 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4448 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4449 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4450
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4452 useful.
a689bd4e 4453 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4454 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4455
4456 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4457 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4458
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4459 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4460DOC_END
4461
4462NAME: ftp_epsv
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4464DEFAULT: none
4465LOC: Config.accessList.ftp_epsv
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4466DOC_START
4467 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4468
4469 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4470 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4471 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4472 will never be needed.
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4474 EPSV is often required to interoperate with FTP servers on IPv6
4475 networks. On the other hand, it may break some IPv4 servers.
4476
4477 By default, EPSV may try EPSV with any FTP server. To fine tune
4478 that decision, you may restrict EPSV to certain clients or servers
4479 using ACLs:
4480
4481 ftp_epsv allow|deny al1 acl2 ...
4482
4483 WARNING: Disabling EPSV may cause problems with external NAT and IPv6.
51ee534d 4484
ddf5aa2b 4485 Only fast ACLs are supported.
51ee534d 4486 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4487DOC_END
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4489NAME: ftp_eprt
4490TYPE: onoff
4491DEFAULT: on
4492LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4493DOC_START
4494 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4495
4496 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4497 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4498 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4499
4500 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4501 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4502
4503 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4504 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4505 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4506 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4507
4508 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4509 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4510DOC_END
4511
41bd17a4 4512NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4513TYPE: onoff
4514DEFAULT: on
4515LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4516DOC_START
4517 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4518 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4519 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4520 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4521 connection turn this off.
4522DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4523
41bd17a4 4524NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4525TYPE: onoff
4526DEFAULT: on
4527LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4528DOC_START
4529 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4530 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4531 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4532 the FTP protocol.
4533
4534 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4535 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4536 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4537 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4538 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4539DOC_END
4540
4541COMMENT_START
4542 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4543 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4544COMMENT_END
4545
4546NAME: diskd_program
4547TYPE: string
4548DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4549LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4550DOC_START
4551 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4552 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4553 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4554DOC_END
4555
4556NAME: unlinkd_program
4557IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4558TYPE: string
4559DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4560LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4561DOC_START
4562 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4563DOC_END
4564
4565NAME: pinger_program
4566TYPE: string
4567DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4568LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4569IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4570DOC_START
4571 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4572DOC_END
4573
cc192b50 4574NAME: pinger_enable
4575TYPE: onoff
4576DEFAULT: on
4577LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4578IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4579DOC_START
4580 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4582 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4583DOC_END
4584
4585
41bd17a4 4586COMMENT_START
4587 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4588 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4589COMMENT_END
4590
4591NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4592TYPE: wordlist
4593LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4594DEFAULT: none
4595DOC_START
2c7aad89 4596 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4597 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4598
2c7aad89 4599 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4600
b11724bb 4601 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
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4604 the helper.
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4605 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4606
24eac830 4607 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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4608
4609 The result code can be:
4610
4611 OK status=30N url="..."
4612 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4613 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4614 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4615 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4616 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
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4618 OK rewrite-url="..."
4619 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4620 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4621 the client as the response to its request.
4622
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4623 OK
4624 When neither of url= and rewrite-url= are sent Squid does
4625 not change the URL.
4626
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4627 ERR
4628 Do not change the URL.
4629
4630 BH
4ded749e 4631 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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4632 a result being identified. The 'message=' key name is
4633 reserved for delivering a log message.
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4634
4635
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4636 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
4637 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
4638 clt_conn_tag=TAG
4639 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
4640 The TAG is treated as a regular annotation but persists across
4641 future requests on the client connection rather than just the
4642 current request. A helper may update the TAG during subsequent
4643 requests be returning a new kv-pair.
41bd17a4 4644
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4645 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4646 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4647 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4648 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4649 of the response relating to its request.
4650
4651 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
4652 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 4653
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4654 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
4655 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
4656 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
4657 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
4658 interface.
41bd17a4 4659
4660 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4661DOC_END
4662
4663NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4664TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4665DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4666LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4667DOC_START
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4668 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4669 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4670 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4671 and other system resources noticably.
4672
4673 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4674 tuning.
4675
4676 startup=
4677
4678 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4679 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4680 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4681
4682 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4683 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4684
4685 idle=
4686
4687 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4688 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4689 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4690 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4691
4692 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4693
41bd17a4 4694 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4695 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4696 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4698 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4699 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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4700 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4701 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
41bd17a4 4702DOC_END
4703
4704NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4705TYPE: onoff
4706DEFAULT: on
4707LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4708DOC_START
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4709 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4710 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4711 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4712
4713 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4714 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4715 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4716
41bd17a4 4717 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4718 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4719
4720 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4721 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4722 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4723DOC_END
4724
4725NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4726TYPE: acl_access
4727DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4728DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 4729LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4730DOC_START
4731 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 4732 sent to the redirector processes.
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4733
4734 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4735 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4736DOC_END
4737
4738NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4739TYPE: onoff
4740LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4741DEFAULT: off
4742DOC_START
4743 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
638402dd 4744 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
41bd17a4 4745 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4746 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4747 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4748 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4749 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4750 users may have access to pages they should not
4751 be allowed to request.
4752DOC_END
4753
fe7966ec 4754NAME: url_rewrite_extras
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4755TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
4756LOC: Config.redirector_extras
4757DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
4758DOC_START
4759 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
4760 rewriter helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
4761 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
4762 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
4763 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
4764DOC_END
4765
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4766COMMENT_START
4767 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
4768 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4769COMMENT_END
4770
4771NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
4772TYPE: wordlist
4773LOC: Config.Program.store_id
4774DEFAULT: none
4775DOC_START
4776 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
4777 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4778
4779 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
4780
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4782
4783
4784 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4785
4786 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
4787
4788 The result code can be:
4789
4790 OK store-id="..."
4791 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
4792
4793 ERR
4794 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
4795
4796 BH
4797 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
4798 a result being identified.
4799
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4800 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
4801 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
4802 clt_conn_tag=TAG
4803 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
4804 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation for this
4805 kv-pair
a8a0b1c2 4806
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4807 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore
4808 additional whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
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4809
4810 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4811 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4812 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4813 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4814 of the response relating to its request.
4815
4816 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
4817 returned from the helper and not the URL.
4818
4819 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
4820 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
4821
4822 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
4823DOC_END
4824
fe7966ec 4825NAME: store_id_extras
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4826TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
4827LOC: Config.storeId_extras
4828DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
4829DOC_START
4830 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
4831 StoreId helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
4832 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
4833 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
4834 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
4835DOC_END
4836
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4837NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
4838TYPE: HelperChildConfig
4839DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
4840LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
4841DOC_START
4842 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
4843 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4844 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4845 and other system resources noticably.
4846
4847 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4848 tuning.
4849
4850 startup=
4851
4852 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4853 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4854 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4855
4856 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4857 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4858
4859 idle=
4860
4861 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4862 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4863 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4864 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4865
4866 concurrency=
4867
4868 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
4869 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
4870 is a old-style single threaded program.
4871
4872 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4873 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4874 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4875 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
4876DOC_END
4877
4878NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
4879TYPE: acl_access
4880DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4881DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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4882LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
4883DOC_START
4884 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4885 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
4886 are sent.
4887
4888 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4889 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4890DOC_END
4891
4892NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
4893TYPE: onoff
4894LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
4895DEFAULT: on
4896DOC_START
4897 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4898 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
4899 and the helper queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4900 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4901 helpers. You should only enable this if the helperss
4902 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4903 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
4904 option, users may not get objects from cache.
4905DOC_END
4906
41bd17a4 4907COMMENT_START
4908 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4909 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4910COMMENT_END
4911
f04b37d8 4912NAME: cache no_cache
4913TYPE: acl_access
4914DEFAULT: none
70706149 4915DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
f04b37d8 4916LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4917DOC_START
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4918 Requests denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
4919 and their responses will not be stored in the cache. This directive
4920 has no effect on other transactions and on already cached responses.
f04b37d8 4921
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4922 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4923 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4924
4925 This and the two other similar caching directives listed below are
4926 checked at different transaction processing stages, have different
4927 access to response information, affect different cache operations,
4928 and differ in slow ACLs support:
4929
4930 * cache: Checked before Squid makes a hit/miss determination.
4931 No access to reply information!
4932 Denies both serving a hit and storing a miss.
4933 Supports both fast and slow ACLs.
4934 * send_hit: Checked after a hit was detected.
4935 Has access to reply (hit) information.
4936 Denies serving a hit only.
4937 Supports fast ACLs only.
4938 * store_miss: Checked before storing a cachable miss.
4939 Has access to reply (miss) information.
4940 Denies storing a miss only.
4941 Supports fast ACLs only.
4942
4943 If you are not sure which of the three directives to use, apply the
4944 following decision logic:
4945
4946 * If your ACL(s) are of slow type _and_ need response info, redesign.
4947 Squid does not support that particular combination at this time.
4948 Otherwise:
4949 * If your directive ACL(s) are of slow type, use "cache"; and/or
4950 * if your directive ACL(s) need no response info, use "cache".
4951 Otherwise:
4952 * If you do not want the response cached, use store_miss; and/or
4953 * if you do not want a hit on a cached response, use send_hit.
4954DOC_END
4955
4956NAME: send_hit
4957TYPE: acl_access
4958DEFAULT: none
4959DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
4960LOC: Config.accessList.sendHit
4961DOC_START
4962 Responses denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
4963 (but may still be cached, see store_miss). This directive has no
4964 effect on the responses it allows and on the cached objects.
4965
4966 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
4967 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives.
4968
4969 Unlike the "cache" directive, send_hit only supports fast acl
4970 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4971
4972 For example:
4973
4974 # apply custom Store ID mapping to some URLs
4975 acl MapMe dstdomain .c.example.com
4976 store_id_program ...
4977 store_id_access allow MapMe
4978
4979 # but prevent caching of special responses
4980 # such as 302 redirects that cause StoreID loops
4981 acl Ordinary http_status 200-299
4982 store_miss deny MapMe !Ordinary
4983
4984 # and do not serve any previously stored special responses
4985 # from the cache (in case they were already cached before
4986 # the above store_miss rule was in effect).
4987 send_hit deny MapMe !Ordinary
4988DOC_END
4989
4990NAME: store_miss
4991TYPE: acl_access
4992DEFAULT: none
4993DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
4994LOC: Config.accessList.storeMiss
4995DOC_START
4996 Responses denied by this directive will not be cached (but may still
4997 be served from the cache, see send_hit). This directive has no
4998 effect on the responses it allows and on the already cached responses.
4999
5000 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5001 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives. See the
5002 send_hit directive for a usage example.
5003
5004 Unlike the "cache" directive, store_miss only supports fast acl
5005 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5006DOC_END
5007
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5008NAME: max_stale
5009COMMENT: time-units
5010TYPE: time_t
5011LOC: Config.maxStale
5012DEFAULT: 1 week
5013DOC_START
5014 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
5015 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
5016 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
5017DOC_END
5018
41bd17a4 5019NAME: refresh_pattern
5020TYPE: refreshpattern
5021LOC: Config.Refresh
5022DEFAULT: none
5023DOC_START
5024 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 5025
6b698a21 5026 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
5027 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 5028
41bd17a4 5029 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
5030 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
5031 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
5032 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
5033 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 5034
41bd17a4 5035 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
5036 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
5037 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 5038
41bd17a4 5039 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
5040 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 5041
41bd17a4 5042 options: override-expire
5043 override-lastmod
5044 reload-into-ims
5045 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 5046 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 5047 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 5048 ignore-private
5049 ignore-auth
570d3f75 5050 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 5051 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 5052 store-stale
a0ec9f68 5053
41bd17a4 5054 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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5055 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
5056 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
5057 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5058 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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5060 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
5061 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
5062 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
5063 the object fresh for that period of time.
5064
41bd17a4 5065 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
5066 that were modified recently.
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5068 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
5069 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
5070 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
5071 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
5072 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5073 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 5074
41bd17a4 5075 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
5076 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5077 this feature could make you liable for problems which
5078 it causes.
9bc73deb 5079
41bd17a4 5080 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
5081 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5082 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5083 liable for problems which it causes.
5084
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5085 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
5086 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5087 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5088 liable for problems which it causes.
5089
41bd17a4 5090 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
5091 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5092 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5093 liable for problems which it causes.
5094
5095 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
5096 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
5097 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
5098 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
5099 it causes.
5100
5101 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
5102 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
5103 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
5104 if one is available.
5105
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5106 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
5107 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
5108 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
5109 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
5110 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
5111
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5112 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
5113 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
5114 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
5115
41bd17a4 5116 Basically a cached object is:
5117
5118 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
5119 STALE if age > max
5120 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
5121 FRESH if age < min
5122 else STALE
5123
5124 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
5125 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
5126 match the default will be used.
5127
5128 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
5129 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
5130 used.
5131
41bd17a4 5132NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 5133
638402dd 5134#
e0855596 5135# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 5136#
41bd17a4 5137refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
5138refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 5139refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 5140refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
5141NOCOMMENT_END
5142DOC_END
5143
5144NAME: quick_abort_min
5145COMMENT: (KB)
5146TYPE: kb_int64_t
5147DEFAULT: 16 KB
5148LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
5149DOC_NONE
5150
5151NAME: quick_abort_max
5152COMMENT: (KB)
5153TYPE: kb_int64_t
5154DEFAULT: 16 KB
5155LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
5156DOC_NONE
5157
5158NAME: quick_abort_pct
5159COMMENT: (percent)
5160TYPE: int
5161DEFAULT: 95
5162LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
5163DOC_START
5164 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
5165 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
5166 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
5167 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
5168 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
5169 downloads.
5170
5171 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2d4eefd9 5172 quick_abort values to the amount of data transferred until
41bd17a4 5173 then.
5174
5175 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
5176 it will finish the retrieval.
5177
5178 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
5179 it will abort the retrieval.
5180
5181 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
5182 it will finish the retrieval.
5183
5184 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
5185 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
5186 to '0 KB'.
5187
5188 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
5189 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
5190DOC_END
60d096f4 5191
41bd17a4 5192NAME: read_ahead_gap
5193COMMENT: buffer-size
5194TYPE: b_int64_t
5195LOC: Config.readAheadGap
5196DEFAULT: 16 KB
5197DOC_START
5198 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
5199 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
5200DOC_END
53e738c6 5201
41bd17a4 5202NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 5203IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5204COMMENT: time-units
5205TYPE: time_t
5206LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 5207DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 5208DOC_START
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5209 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
5210 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
5211 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
5212 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
5213 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
5214 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
5215
5216 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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5217
5218 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5219 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5220 causes.
41bd17a4 5221DOC_END
53e738c6 5222
41bd17a4 5223NAME: positive_dns_ttl
5224COMMENT: time-units
5225TYPE: time_t
5226LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
5227DEFAULT: 6 hours
5228DOC_START
5229 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
5230 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
5231 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
5232DOC_END
c4ab8329 5233
41bd17a4 5234NAME: negative_dns_ttl
5235COMMENT: time-units
5236TYPE: time_t
5237LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
5238DEFAULT: 1 minutes
5239DOC_START
5240 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
5241 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
5242 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
5243 much below 10 seconds.
5244DOC_END
7df0bfd7 5245
41bd17a4 5246NAME: range_offset_limit
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5247COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
5248TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 5249LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 5250DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5251DOC_START
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5252 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
5253
5254 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
5255 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
5256 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
5257 the result is NOT cached.
5258
41bd17a4 5259 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
5260 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
5261 sending anything to the client.
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5262
5263 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
5264 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
5265 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
5266 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
5267
5268 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
5269
5270 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
5271 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
5272
5273 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 5274 client requested. (default)
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5275
5276 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 5277 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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5278
5279 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
5280
5281 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
5282 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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5283 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
5284 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 5285DOC_END
d95b862f 5286
41bd17a4 5287NAME: minimum_expiry_time
5288COMMENT: (seconds)
5289TYPE: time_t
5290LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
5291DEFAULT: 60 seconds
5292DOC_START
5293 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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5294 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
5295 The default is 60 seconds.
5296
5297 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
5298 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
5299 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
5300
5301 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
5302 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 5303DOC_END
c68e9c6b 5304
41bd17a4 5305NAME: store_avg_object_size
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5306COMMENT: (bytes)
5307TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 5308DEFAULT: 13 KB
5309LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
5310DOC_START
5311 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
5312 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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5313
5314 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
5315 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
5316 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
5317 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
5318
5319 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
5320 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 5321DOC_END
5322
41bd17a4 5323NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
5324TYPE: int
5325DEFAULT: 20
5326LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
5327DOC_START
5328 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
5329 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
5330 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
5331DOC_END
5332
5333COMMENT_START
5334 HTTP OPTIONS
5335 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5336COMMENT_END
5337
f04b37d8 5338NAME: request_header_max_size
5339COMMENT: (KB)
5340TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5341DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5342LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
5343DOC_START
5344 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
5345 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5346 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
5347 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5348 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5349DOC_END
5350
5351NAME: reply_header_max_size
5352COMMENT: (KB)
5353TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5354DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5355LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
5356DOC_START
5357 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
5358 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5359 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
5360 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5361 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5362DOC_END
5363
5364NAME: request_body_max_size
5365COMMENT: (bytes)
5366TYPE: b_int64_t
5367DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 5368DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 5369LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
5370DOC_START
5371 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
5372 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
5373 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
5374 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
5375 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
5376 be no limit imposed.
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5378 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
5379 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 5380DOC_END
5381
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5382NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
5383COMMENT: (bytes)
5384TYPE: b_size_t
5385DEFAULT: 512 KB
5386LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
5387DOC_START
5388 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
5389 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
5390 a large file.
5391DOC_END
5392
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5393NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
5394COMMENT: (bytes)
5395TYPE: b_int64_t
5396DEFAULT: 64 KB
5397LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
5398DOC_START
5399 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
5400 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
5401 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
5402 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
5403 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
5404 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
5405
5406 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
5407 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
5408 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
5409 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
5410 as if dechunking was disabled.
5411
5412 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
5413 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
5414
5415 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
5416 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
5417 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
5418DOC_END
5419
41bd17a4 5420NAME: broken_posts
626096be 5421IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 5422TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 5423DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5424DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 5425LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 5426DOC_START
41bd17a4 5427 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
5428 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 5429
41bd17a4 5430 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
5431 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 5432
41bd17a4 5433 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 5434
41bd17a4 5435 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
5436 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
5437 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
5438 a request with an extra CRLF.
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5440 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5441 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5442
41bd17a4 5443Example:
5444 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
5445 broken_posts allow buggy_server
5446DOC_END
cccac0a2 5447
22fff3bf 5448NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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5449COMMENT: on|off
5450TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 5451IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 5452DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 5453LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 5454DOC_START
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5455 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
5456 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
5457
5458 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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5459DOC_END
5460
41bd17a4 5461NAME: via
626096be 5462IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5463COMMENT: on|off
5464TYPE: onoff
5465DEFAULT: on
5466LOC: Config.onoff.via
5467DOC_START
5468 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
5469 replies as required by RFC2616.
5470DOC_END
4cc6eb12 5471
41bd17a4 5472NAME: ie_refresh
5473COMMENT: on|off
5474TYPE: onoff
5475LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
5476DEFAULT: off
5477DOC_START
5478 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
5479 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
5480 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
5481 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
5482 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
5483 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
5484 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
5485 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
5486 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
5487 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
5488 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
5489 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
5490 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
5491 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
5492 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
5493 force fresh content.
5494DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 5495
41bd17a4 5496NAME: vary_ignore_expire
5497COMMENT: on|off
5498TYPE: onoff
5499LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
5500DEFAULT: off
5501DOC_START
5502 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
5503 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
5504 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
5505 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
5506 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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5507
5508 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
5509 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 5510DOC_END
c4ab8329 5511
41bd17a4 5512NAME: request_entities
5513TYPE: onoff
5514LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
5515DEFAULT: off
5516DOC_START
5517 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
5518 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
5519 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 5520
41bd17a4 5521 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
5522 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
5523 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
5524 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
5525 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 5526DOC_END
6b53c392 5527
41bd17a4 5528NAME: request_header_access
626096be 5529IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5530TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5531LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5532DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5533DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5534DOC_START
41bd17a4 5535 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 5536
41bd17a4 5537 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5538 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5539 causes.
0976f8db 5540
41bd17a4 5541 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
5542 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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5543 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
5544 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
5545
5546 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
5547 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
5548 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
5549 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
5550 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5551
5552 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
5553 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
5554 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
5555
5556 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
5557 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
5558 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
5559 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
5560
5561 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
5562 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
5563 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
5564 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
5565 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
5566 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 5567
41bd17a4 5568 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5569 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 5570
41bd17a4 5571 request_header_access From deny all
5572 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 5573 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 5574
41bd17a4 5575 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5576 you should use:
5401aa8d 5577
41bd17a4 5578 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5579 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5580 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 5581 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
5582 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
5583 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 5584 request_header_access Host allow all
5585 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 5586 request_header_access Pragma allow all
5587 request_header_access Accept allow all
5588 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5589 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5590 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5591 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5592 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 5593
638402dd 5594 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 5595
638402dd 5596 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 5597DOC_END
5598
41bd17a4 5599NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 5600IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5601TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5602LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 5603DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5604DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5605DOC_START
41bd17a4 5606 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 5607
41bd17a4 5608 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5609 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5610 causes.
934b03fc 5611
41bd17a4 5612 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
5613 server to the client.
934b03fc 5614
41bd17a4 5615 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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5616 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
5617 documentation.
cccac0a2 5618
41bd17a4 5619 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5620 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 5621
41bd17a4 5622 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 5623 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
5624 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 5625
41bd17a4 5626 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5627 you should use:
cccac0a2 5628
41bd17a4 5629 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 5630 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 5631 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
5632 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
5633 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
5634 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
5635 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
5636 reply_header_access Date allow all
5637 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 5638 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
5639 reply_header_access Location allow all
5640 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 5641 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5642 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
5643 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 5644 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 5645 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5646 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 5647
638402dd 5648 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 5649
41bd17a4 5650 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5651 performed).
cccac0a2 5652DOC_END
5653
75e4f2ea 5654NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 5655IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5656TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 5657LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5658DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5659DOC_START
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5660 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
5661 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 5662
41bd17a4 5663 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 5664 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 5665 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 5666
41bd17a4 5667 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 5668
41bd17a4 5669 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5670DOC_END
cccac0a2 5671
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5672NAME: reply_header_replace
5673IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5674TYPE: http_header_replace
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5675LOC: Config.reply_header_access
5676DEFAULT: none
5677DOC_START
5678 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
5679 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
5680
5681 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5682 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
5683 with some fixed string.
5684
5685 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
5686
5687 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5688DOC_END
5689
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5690NAME: request_header_add
5691TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
5692LOC: Config.request_header_add
5693DEFAULT: none
5694DOC_START
5695 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
5696 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
5697
5698 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
5699 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
5700 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
5701 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
5702 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5703
5704 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
5705 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
5706 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
5707 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
5708 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
5709 header field values are not merged.
5710
5711 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
5712 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
5713 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
5714
5715 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
5716 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
5717 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
5718 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
5719 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
5720 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
5721 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
5722 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
5723
5724 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
5725 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
5726 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
5727 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
5728 only.
5729DOC_END
5730
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5731NAME: note
5732TYPE: note
5733LOC: Config.notes
5734DEFAULT: none
5735DOC_START
5736 This option used to log custom information about the master
5737 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
5738 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
5739 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
5740 authentication information.
5741 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
5742
5743 note key value acl ...
5744 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
5745DOC_END
5746
41bd17a4 5747NAME: relaxed_header_parser
5748COMMENT: on|off|warn
5749TYPE: tristate
5750LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
5751DEFAULT: on
5752DOC_START
5753 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
5754 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
5755 what the sending application intended even if the message
5756 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
5757 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 5758
41bd17a4 5759 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
5760 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 5761
41bd17a4 5762 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
5763 or response to be rejected.
5764DOC_END
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5766NAME: collapsed_forwarding
5767COMMENT: (on|off)
5768TYPE: onoff
5769LOC: Config.onoff.collapsed_forwarding
5770DEFAULT: off
5771DOC_START
5772 This option controls whether Squid is allowed to merge multiple
5773 potentially cachable requests for the same URI before Squid knows
5774 whether the response is going to be cachable.
5775
5776 This feature is disabled by default: Enabling collapsed forwarding
5777 needlessly delays forwarding requests that look cachable (when they are
5778 collapsed) but then need to be forwarded individually anyway because
5779 they end up being for uncachable content. However, in some cases, such
5780 as accelleration of highly cachable content with periodic or groupped
5781 expiration times, the gains from collapsing [large volumes of
5782 simultenous refresh requests] outweigh losses from such delays.
5783DOC_END
5784
41bd17a4 5785COMMENT_START
5786 TIMEOUTS
5787 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5788COMMENT_END
5789
5790NAME: forward_timeout
5791COMMENT: time-units
5792TYPE: time_t
5793LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
5794DEFAULT: 4 minutes
5795DOC_START
5796 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
5797 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 5798DOC_END
5799
41bd17a4 5800NAME: connect_timeout
5801COMMENT: time-units
5802TYPE: time_t
5803LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
5804DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 5805DOC_START
41bd17a4 5806 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5807 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
5808 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 5809DOC_END
5810
41bd17a4 5811NAME: peer_connect_timeout
5812COMMENT: time-units
5813TYPE: time_t
5814LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
5815DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5816DOC_START
41bd17a4 5817 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
5818 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
5819 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
5820 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
5821DOC_END
7f7db318 5822
41bd17a4 5823NAME: read_timeout
5824COMMENT: time-units
5825TYPE: time_t
5826LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5827DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5828DOC_START
5829 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5830 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5831 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5832 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5833 default is 15 minutes.
5834DOC_END
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5836NAME: write_timeout
5837COMMENT: time-units
5838TYPE: time_t
5839LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5840DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5841DOC_START
5842 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5843 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5844 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5845 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5846 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5847 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5848 default is 15 minutes.
5849DOC_END
5850
41bd17a4 5851NAME: request_timeout
5852TYPE: time_t
5853LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5854DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5855DOC_START
6b2a2108 5856 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5857 connection establishment.
5858DOC_END
cccac0a2 5859
97b32442 5860NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5861TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5862LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5863DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5864DOC_START
5865 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5866 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5867DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5869NAME: client_lifetime
5870COMMENT: time-units
5871TYPE: time_t
5872LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5873DEFAULT: 1 day
5874DOC_START
5875 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5876 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5877 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5878 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5879 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5880 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5881 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 5882
41bd17a4 5883 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5884 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5885 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5886 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5887 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5888 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5889DOC_END
5890
41bd17a4 5891NAME: half_closed_clients
5892TYPE: onoff
5893LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5894DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5895DOC_START
41bd17a4 5896 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5897 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5898 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5899 fully-closed TCP connection.
5900
5901 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5902 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5903
abdf1651 5904 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5905 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5906 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5907 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5908DOC_END
5909
97b32442 5910NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5911TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5912LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5913DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5914DOC_START
41bd17a4 5915 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5916 proxies.
5917DOC_END
cccac0a2 5918
41bd17a4 5919NAME: ident_timeout
5920TYPE: time_t
5921IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5922LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5923DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5924DOC_START
5925 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5926
41bd17a4 5927 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5928 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5929 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5930DOC_END
5931
41bd17a4 5932NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5933COMMENT: time-units
5934TYPE: time_t
5935LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5936DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5937DOC_START
41bd17a4 5938 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5939 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5940 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5941 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5942 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5943DOC_END
0976f8db 5944
cccac0a2 5945COMMENT_START
5946 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5947 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5948COMMENT_END
5949
5950NAME: cache_mgr
5951TYPE: string
5952DEFAULT: webmaster
5953LOC: Config.adminEmail
5954DOC_START
5955 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 5956 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 5957DOC_END
5958
abacf776 5959NAME: mail_from
5960TYPE: string
5961DEFAULT: none
5962LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5963DOC_START
5964 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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5965 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
5966
5967 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 5968DOC_END
5969
d084bf20 5970NAME: mail_program
5971TYPE: eol
5972DEFAULT: mail
5973LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5974DOC_START
5975 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5976 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5977 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5978 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5979
d084bf20 5980 Optional command line options can be specified.
5981DOC_END
5982
cccac0a2 5983NAME: cache_effective_user
5984TYPE: string
5483d916 5985DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5986LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5987DOC_START
5988 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5989 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5990 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5991 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5992DOC_END
5993
cccac0a2 5994NAME: cache_effective_group
5995TYPE: string
5996DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5997DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 5998LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5999DOC_START
64e288bd 6000 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
6001 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
6002 from the groups membership.
6003
e3d74828 6004 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
6005 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
6006 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 6007 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 6008 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 6009 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 6010 group.
64e288bd 6011
6012 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
6013 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
6014 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 6015DOC_END
6016
d3caee79 6017NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
6018COMMENT: on|off
6019TYPE: onoff
6020DEFAULT: off
6021LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
6022DOC_START
6023 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
6024DOC_END
6025
cccac0a2 6026NAME: visible_hostname
6027TYPE: string
6028LOC: Config.visibleHostname
6029DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6030DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 6031DOC_START
6032 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 6033 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 6034 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
6035 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
6036 names with this setting.
6037DOC_END
6038
cccac0a2 6039NAME: unique_hostname
6040TYPE: string
6041LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
6042DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6043DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 6044DOC_START
6045 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 6046 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
6047 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 6048DOC_END
6049
cccac0a2 6050NAME: hostname_aliases
6051TYPE: wordlist
6052LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
6053DEFAULT: none
6054DOC_START
7f7db318 6055 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 6056DOC_END
0976f8db 6057
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6058NAME: umask
6059TYPE: int
6060LOC: Config.umask
6061DEFAULT: 027
6062DOC_START
6063 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
6064 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
6065
6066 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
6067 your value with 0.
6068DOC_END
6069
cccac0a2 6070COMMENT_START
6071 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
6072 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6073
6074 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
6075 announcement service. This service is provided to help
6076 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
6077 create cache hierarchies.
6078
6079 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
6080 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
6081 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
6082
6083 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
6084 following information from this configuration file:
6085
6086 http_port
6087 icp_port
6088 cache_mgr
6089
6090 All current information is processed regularly and made
6091 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
6092COMMENT_END
6093
6094NAME: announce_period
6095TYPE: time_t
6096LOC: Config.Announce.period
6097DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6098DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 6099DOC_START
638402dd 6100 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 6101
e0855596 6102 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 6103
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6104 Example:
6105 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 6106DOC_END
6107
cccac0a2 6108NAME: announce_host
6109TYPE: string
6110DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
6111LOC: Config.Announce.host
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6112DOC_START
6113 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
6114
6115 See also announce_port and announce_file
6116DOC_END
cccac0a2 6117
6118NAME: announce_file
6119TYPE: string
6120DEFAULT: none
6121LOC: Config.Announce.file
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6122DOC_START
6123 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
6124 registration messages.
6125DOC_END
cccac0a2 6126
6127NAME: announce_port
ae870270 6128TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 6129DEFAULT: 3131
6130LOC: Config.Announce.port
6131DOC_START
638402dd 6132 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 6133
638402dd 6134 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 6135DOC_END
6136
8d6275c0 6137COMMENT_START
6138 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
6139 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6140COMMENT_END
6141
cccac0a2 6142NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6143TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 6144DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6145DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 6146LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6147DOC_START
6148 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
6149 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
6150 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
6151 an identification token.
6152DOC_END
6153
6154NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 6155COMMENT: on|off
6156TYPE: onoff
6157DEFAULT: off
6158LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
6159DOC_START
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6160 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
6161 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
6162
cccac0a2 6163 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
6164DOC_END
6165
6166NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 6167IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 6168COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 6169TYPE: string
6170LOC: ESIParser::Type
6171DEFAULT: custom
6172DOC_START
6173 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
6174 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
6175 encodings.
6176DOC_END
0976f8db 6177
9edd9041 6178COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6179 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 6180 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6181COMMENT_END
6182
6183NAME: delay_pools
6184TYPE: delay_pool_count
6185DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6186IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6187LOC: Config.Delay
6188DOC_START
6189 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
6190 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
6191 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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6192
6193 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
6194 configuration details.
9edd9041 6195DOC_END
6196
6197NAME: delay_class
6198TYPE: delay_pool_class
6199DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6200IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6201LOC: Config.Delay
6202DOC_START
6203 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
6204 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
6205 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
6206 and here would be:
6207
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6208 Example:
6209 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
6210 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
6211 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
6212 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
6213 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 6214
6215 The delay pool classes are:
6216
6217 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6218 bucket.
6219
6220 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6221 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 6222 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6223
6224 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6225 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
6226 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
6227 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 6228 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6229
6230 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
6231 additional limit on a per user basis. This
6232 only takes effect if the username is established
6233 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
6234 http_access rules.
6235
6236 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
6237 external_acl's tag= reply).
6238
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6239
6240 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
6241 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
6242 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
6243
9edd9041 6244 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
6245 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
6246 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
6247 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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6248
6249 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
6250 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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6251
6252 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6253 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6254
6255 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 6256DOC_END
6257
6258NAME: delay_access
6259TYPE: delay_pool_access
6260DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6261DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6262IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6263LOC: Config.Delay
6264DOC_START
6265 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
6266
6267 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
6268 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
6269 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
6270 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
6271
6272 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
6273 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
6274
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6275 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
6276 delay_access 1 deny all
6277 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
6278 delay_access 2 deny all
6279 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
6280
6281 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
6282
9edd9041 6283DOC_END
6284
6285NAME: delay_parameters
6286TYPE: delay_pool_rates
6287DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6288IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6289LOC: Config.Delay
6290DOC_START
6291 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
6292 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 6293 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 6294
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6295 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6296 delay_pools pool 1
6297 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 6298
6299 For a class 2 delay pool:
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6300 delay_pools pool 2
6301 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 6302
6303 For a class 3 delay pool:
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6304 delay_pools pool 3
6305 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 6306
6307 For a class 4 delay pool:
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6308 delay_pools pool 4
6309 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 6310
6311 For a class 5 delay pool:
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6312 delay_pools pool 5
6313 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 6314
0b68481a 6315 The option variables are:
9edd9041 6316
6317 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
6318 number specified in delay_pools as used in
6319 delay_class lines.
6320
fdb47ac6 6321 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 6322 (class 1, 2, 3).
6323
fdb47ac6 6324 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 6325 buckets (class 2, 3).
6326
fdb47ac6 6327 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 6328 (class 3).
6329
fdb47ac6 6330 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 6331 (class 4).
6332
fdb47ac6 6333 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 6334 (class 5).
6335
6336 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
6337 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
6338 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
6339 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
6340
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6341 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
6342
6343
9edd9041 6344 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 6345 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 6346 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
6347
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6348 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
6349
6350 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 6351
6352 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
6353
0b68481a 6354
9edd9041 6355 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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6356 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
6357 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
6358 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 6359 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
6360 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
6361 large downloads more significantly:
6362
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6363 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
6364
6365 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
6366 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
6367 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 6368
9edd9041 6369
6370 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 6371 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 6372
0b68481a 6373 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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6374
6375
6376 See also delay_class and delay_access.
6377
9edd9041 6378DOC_END
6379
6380NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
6381COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 6382TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 6383DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6384IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6385LOC: Config.Delay.initial
6386DOC_START
6387 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
6388 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
6389 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
6390 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
6391 "seen" by squid).
6392DOC_END
6393
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6394COMMENT_START
6395 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
6396 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6397COMMENT_END
6398
6399NAME: client_delay_pools
6400TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
6401DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6402IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6403LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6404DOC_START
6405 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
6406 preceed other client_delay_* options.
6407
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6408 Example:
6409 client_delay_pools 2
6410
6411 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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6412DOC_END
6413
6414NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
6415COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 6416TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 6417DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6418IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6419LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
6420DOC_START
6421 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
6422 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
6423 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
6424 buckets are periodically deleted up.
6425
6426 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
6427 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
6428 from client_delay_parameters.
6429
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6430 Example:
6431 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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6432DOC_END
6433
6434NAME: client_delay_parameters
6435TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
6436DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6437IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6438LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6439DOC_START
6440
6441 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
6442 following format:
6443
6444 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
6445
6446 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
6447
6448 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
6449
6450 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
6451 speed_limit additions.
6452
6453 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
6454 examples.
6455
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6456 Example:
6457 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
6458 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
6459
6460 See also client_delay_access.
6461
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6462DOC_END
6463
6464NAME: client_delay_access
6465TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
6466DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6467DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6468IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6469LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6470DOC_START
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6471 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
6472 request:
6473
6474 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
6475
6476 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
6477 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
6478 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
6479 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
6480 limited.
6481
6482 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
6483 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
6484 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
6485 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
6486
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6487 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6488 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6489 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
6490 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
6491
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6492 Please see delay_access for more examples.
6493
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6494 Example:
6495 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
6496 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
6497
6498
6499 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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6500DOC_END
6501
cccac0a2 6502COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6503 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 6504 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6505COMMENT_END
6506
8d6275c0 6507NAME: wccp_router
6508TYPE: address
6509LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 6510DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6511DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 6512IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6513DOC_START
6514 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6515 Squid.
6516
6517 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
6518
6519 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
6520
6521 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6522 which version of WCCP to use.
6523DOC_END
df2eec10 6524
8d6275c0 6525NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 6526TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 6527LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 6528DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6529DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 6530IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6531DOC_START
8d6275c0 6532 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6533 Squid.
cccac0a2 6534
8d6275c0 6535 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 6536
8d6275c0 6537 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 6538
8d6275c0 6539 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6540 which version of WCCP to use.
6541DOC_END
6542
6543NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 6544TYPE: int
8d6275c0 6545LOC: Config.Wccp.version
6546DEFAULT: 4
6547IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 6548DOC_START
8d6275c0 6549 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
6550 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
6551 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
6552 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
6553 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 6554
8d6275c0 6555 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
6556 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
6557 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
6558 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 6559DOC_END
6560
8d6275c0 6561NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
6562TYPE: onoff
6563LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
6564DEFAULT: on
6565IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6566DOC_START
6567 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
6568 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
6569DOC_END
cccac0a2 6570
8d6275c0 6571NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 6572TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6573LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 6574DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6575IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6576DOC_START
699acd19 6577 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 6578 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6579
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6580 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6581 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6582
8d6275c0 6583 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6584 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 6585DOC_END
6586
8d6275c0 6587NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 6588TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6589LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 6590DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6591IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6592DOC_START
699acd19 6593 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 6594 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
6595 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6596
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6597 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6598 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6599
8d6275c0 6600 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6601 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 6602
699acd19 6603 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 6604 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
6605 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
6606 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 6607DOC_END
6608
8d6275c0 6609NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 6610TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 6611LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 6612DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 6613IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6614DOC_START
8d6275c0 6615 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
6616 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6617
451c4786 6618 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 6619 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 6620
8d6275c0 6621 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
6622 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
6623DOC_END
cccac0a2 6624
8d6275c0 6625NAME: wccp2_service
6626TYPE: wccp2_service
6627LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 6628DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 6629DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 6630IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6631DOC_START
6632 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
6633 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
6634 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
6635 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
6636 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
6637 using the wccp2_service_info option.
6638
6639 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
6640 just specifying the service id will suffice.
6641
6642 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
6643 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
6644
6645 Examples:
6646
6647 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
6648 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
6649 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
6650 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 6651DOC_END
6652
6653NAME: wccp2_service_info
6654TYPE: wccp2_service_info
6655LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
6656DEFAULT: none
6657IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6658DOC_START
6659 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
6660 traffic you wish to have diverted.
6661
6662 The format is:
6663
6664 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
6665 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
6666
6667 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
6668 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 6669 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 6670 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
6671 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
6672 + ports_source
6673
6674 The port list can be one to eight entries.
6675
6676 Example:
6677
6678 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
6679 priority=240 ports=80
6680
6681 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
6682 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
6683DOC_END
6684
6685NAME: wccp2_weight
6686TYPE: int
6687LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
6688DEFAULT: 10000
6689IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6690DOC_START
6691 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
6692 hash proportional to their weight.
6693DOC_END
6694
6695NAME: wccp_address
6696TYPE: address
6697LOC: Config.Wccp.address
6698DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6699DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6700IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6701DOC_START
6702 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
6703 interface address.
6704
6705 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6706DOC_END
df2eec10 6707
8d6275c0 6708NAME: wccp2_address
6709TYPE: address
6710LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
6711DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6712DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6713IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6714DOC_START
6715 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
6716 interface address.
6717
6718 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6719DOC_END
6720
6721COMMENT_START
6722 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
6723 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6724
6725 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
6726COMMENT_END
6727
6728NAME: client_persistent_connections
6729TYPE: onoff
6730LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
6731DEFAULT: on
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6732DOC_START
6733 Persistent connection support for clients.
6734 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6735 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
6736DOC_END
8d6275c0 6737
6738NAME: server_persistent_connections
6739TYPE: onoff
6740LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
6741DEFAULT: on
6742DOC_START
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6743 Persistent connection support for servers.
6744 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6745 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 6746DOC_END
6747
6748NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
6749TYPE: onoff
6750LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 6751DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 6752DOC_START
6753 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
6754 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
6755 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
6756DOC_END
6757
6758NAME: detect_broken_pconn
6759TYPE: onoff
6760LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
6761DEFAULT: off
6762DOC_START
6763 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
6764 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
6765 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
6766 has mostly been seen on redirects.
6767
6768 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
6769 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
6770 after 10 seconds timeout.
6771DOC_END
6772
6773COMMENT_START
6774 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
6775 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6776COMMENT_END
6777
6778NAME: digest_generation
6779IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6780TYPE: onoff
6781LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
6782DEFAULT: on
6783DOC_START
6784 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
6785 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 6786 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 6787DOC_END
6788
6789NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
6790IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6791TYPE: int
6792LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
6793DEFAULT: 5
6794DOC_START
6795 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
6796 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
6797 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
6798DOC_END
6799
6800NAME: digest_rebuild_period
6801IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6802COMMENT: (seconds)
6803TYPE: time_t
6804LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
6805DEFAULT: 1 hour
6806DOC_START
749ceff8 6807 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 6808DOC_END
6809
6810NAME: digest_rewrite_period
6811COMMENT: (seconds)
6812IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6813TYPE: time_t
6814LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
6815DEFAULT: 1 hour
6816DOC_START
749ceff8 6817 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 6818 disk.
6819DOC_END
6820
6821NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
6822COMMENT: (bytes)
6823TYPE: b_size_t
6824IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6825LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
6826DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
6827DOC_START
6828 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
6829 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
6830 default swap page.
6831DOC_END
6832
6833NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
6834COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
6835IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6836TYPE: int
6837LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
6838DEFAULT: 10
6839DOC_START
6840 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
6841 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
6842DOC_END
6843
1db9eacd 6844COMMENT_START
5473c134 6845 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 6846 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6847COMMENT_END
6848
5473c134 6849NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 6850TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6851LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 6852DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6853DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 6854IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6855DOC_START
87630341 6856 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
6857 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
6858 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
6859 set to "0" (disabled)
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6860
6861 Example:
6862 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 6863DOC_END
6864
5473c134 6865NAME: snmp_access
6866TYPE: acl_access
6867LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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6868DEFAULT: none
6869DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 6870IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6871DOC_START
5473c134 6872 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 6873
5473c134 6874 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6875 usage:
8d6275c0 6876
5473c134 6877 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 6878
b3567eb5
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6879 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6880 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 6881
5473c134 6882Example:
6883 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6884 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 6885DOC_END
6886
5473c134 6887NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6888TYPE: address
6889LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6890DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6891DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 6892IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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6893DOC_START
6894 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
6895
6896 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6897 messages from SNMP agents.
6898
6899 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
6900 available network interfaces.
6901DOC_END
df2eec10 6902
5473c134 6903NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6904TYPE: address
6905LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6906DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6907DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 6908IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6909DOC_START
638402dd 6910 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6911
5473c134 6912 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6913 agents.
cccac0a2 6914
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6915 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6916 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6917 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6918 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6919
5473c134 6920 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 6921 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6922DOC_END
6923
5473c134 6924COMMENT_START
6925 ICP OPTIONS
6926 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6927COMMENT_END
6928
6929NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6930TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6931DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6932DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 6933LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6934DOC_START
5473c134 6935 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6936 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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6937
6938 Example:
6939 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6940DOC_END
6941
5473c134 6942NAME: htcp_port
6943IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6944TYPE: u_short
87630341 6945DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6946DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 6947LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6948DOC_START
5473c134 6949 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6950 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 6951 4827.
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6952
6953 Example:
6954 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6955DOC_END
6956
6957NAME: log_icp_queries
6958COMMENT: on|off
6959TYPE: onoff
6960DEFAULT: on
6961LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6962DOC_START
6963 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6964 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6965 up or to simplify log analysis.
6966DOC_END
6967
5473c134 6968NAME: udp_incoming_address
6969TYPE: address
6970LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6971DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6972DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 6973DOC_START
6974 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6975 caches.
6976
6977 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6978
6979 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6980 a specific interface/address.
6981
6982 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6983 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6984
6985 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6986
6987 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6988 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6989DOC_END
cccac0a2 6990
5473c134 6991NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6992TYPE: address
6993LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6994DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6995DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 6996DOC_START
8524d4b2 6997 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6998 caches.
cccac0a2 6999
5473c134 7000 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 7001
8524d4b2 7002 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
7003 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
7004 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 7005 caches.
7006
8524d4b2 7007 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7008 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7009
7010 see also; udp_incoming_address
7011
5473c134 7012 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 7013 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7014DOC_END
7015
3d1e3e43 7016NAME: icp_hit_stale
7017COMMENT: on|off
7018TYPE: onoff
7019DEFAULT: off
7020LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
7021DOC_START
7022 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
7023 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
7024 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7025 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
7026 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7027 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
7028 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
7029DOC_END
7030
5473c134 7031NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 7032TYPE: int
5473c134 7033DEFAULT: 4
7034LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 7035DOC_START
5473c134 7036 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7037 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 7038DOC_END
7039
5473c134 7040NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 7041COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 7042TYPE: int
7043DEFAULT: 400
7044LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 7045DOC_START
5473c134 7046 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7047 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 7048DOC_END
7049
cccac0a2 7050NAME: netdb_low
7051TYPE: int
7052DEFAULT: 900
7053LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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7054DOC_START
7055 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7056
7057 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
7058
7059 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7060 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7061 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7062 mark is reached.
7063DOC_END
cccac0a2 7064
7065NAME: netdb_high
7066TYPE: int
7067DEFAULT: 1000
7068LOC: Config.Netdb.high
7069DOC_START
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7070 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7071
7072 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
7073
7074 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7075 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7076 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7077 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 7078DOC_END
7079
cccac0a2 7080NAME: netdb_ping_period
7081TYPE: time_t
7082LOC: Config.Netdb.period
7083DEFAULT: 5 minutes
7084DOC_START
7085 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
7086 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
7087 network. The default is five minutes.
7088DOC_END
7089
cccac0a2 7090NAME: query_icmp
7091COMMENT: on|off
7092TYPE: onoff
7093DEFAULT: off
7094LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
7095DOC_START
7096 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
7097 replies, enable this option.
7098
7099 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 7100 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
7101 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 7102 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
7103 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
7104 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
7105 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
7106 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
7107DOC_END
7108
7109NAME: test_reachability
7110COMMENT: on|off
7111TYPE: onoff
7112DEFAULT: off
7113LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
7114DOC_START
7115 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
7116 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
7117 database, or has a zero RTT.
7118DOC_END
7119
5473c134 7120NAME: icp_query_timeout
7121COMMENT: (msec)
7122DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7123DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 7124TYPE: int
7125LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 7126DOC_START
5473c134 7127 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
7128 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
7129 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
7130 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
7131 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
7132 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 7133
5473c134 7134 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 7135DOC_END
7136
5473c134 7137NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
7138COMMENT: (msec)
7139DEFAULT: 2000
7140TYPE: int
7141LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 7142DOC_START
5473c134 7143 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7144 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
7145 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
7146 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7147 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7148 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7149DOC_END
7150
5473c134 7151NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
7152COMMENT: (msec)
7153DEFAULT: 5
7154TYPE: int
7155LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 7156DOC_START
5473c134 7157 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7158 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
7159 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
7160 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
7161 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7162 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7163 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7164DOC_END
7165
5473c134 7166NAME: background_ping_rate
7167COMMENT: time-units
7168TYPE: time_t
7169DEFAULT: 10 seconds
7170LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 7171DOC_START
5473c134 7172 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
7173 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 7174DOC_END
7175
5473c134 7176COMMENT_START
7177 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
7178 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7179COMMENT_END
7180
7181NAME: mcast_groups
7182TYPE: wordlist
7183LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 7184DEFAULT: none
7185DOC_START
5473c134 7186 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
7187 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 7188
5473c134 7189 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
7190 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
7191 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
7192 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
7193 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
7194 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
7195 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 7196
5473c134 7197 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
7198 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 7199
5473c134 7200 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
7201 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 7202
5473c134 7203 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 7204
5473c134 7205 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
7206DOC_END
8c01ada0 7207
5473c134 7208NAME: mcast_miss_addr
7209IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7210TYPE: address
7211LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 7212DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7213DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 7214DOC_START
7215 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
7216 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 7217
5473c134 7218 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
7219 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 7220DOC_END
7221
5473c134 7222NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
7223IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7224TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7225LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
7226DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 7227DOC_START
5473c134 7228 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
7229 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
7230 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
7231DOC_END
cccac0a2 7232
5473c134 7233NAME: mcast_miss_port
7234IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7235TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7236LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
7237DEFAULT: 3135
7238DOC_START
7239 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
7240 'mcast_miss_addr'.
7241DOC_END
cccac0a2 7242
5473c134 7243NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
7244IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7245TYPE: string
7246LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
7247DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
7248DOC_START
7249 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
7250 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
7251DOC_END
8c01ada0 7252
5473c134 7253NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
7254COMMENT: (msec)
7255DEFAULT: 2000
7256TYPE: int
7257LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
7258DOC_START
7259 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
7260 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
7261 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
7262 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
7263 seconds.
cccac0a2 7264DOC_END
7265
5473c134 7266COMMENT_START
7267 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
7268 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7269COMMENT_END
7270
cccac0a2 7271NAME: icon_directory
7272TYPE: string
7273LOC: Config.icons.directory
7274DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7275DOC_START
7276 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
7277 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7278DOC_END
7279
f024c970 7280NAME: global_internal_static
7281TYPE: onoff
7282LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
7283DEFAULT: on
7284DOC_START
7285 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
7286 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
7287 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
7288 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
7289 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
7290 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
7291 the server generating a directory listing.
7292DOC_END
7293
5473c134 7294NAME: short_icon_urls
7295TYPE: onoff
7296LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
7297DEFAULT: on
7298DOC_START
7299 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
7300 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
7301 it's own name and port in the URL.
7302
7303 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7304 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
7305DOC_END
7306
7307COMMENT_START
7308 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
7309 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7310COMMENT_END
7311
7312NAME: error_directory
7313TYPE: string
7314LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 7315DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7316DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 7317DOC_START
7318 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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7319 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
7320 the error/template files to another directory and point
7321 this tag at them.
7322
7323 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
7324 on error pages if used.
5473c134 7325
7326 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7327 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 7328 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 7329 contributing your translation back to the project.
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7330 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
7331
7332 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
7333 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
7334DOC_END
7335
7336NAME: error_default_language
7337IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7338TYPE: string
7339LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
7340DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7341DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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7342DOC_START
7343 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
7344 if no existing translation matches the clients language
7345 preferences.
7346
7347 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
7348
7349 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7350 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
7351 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
7352 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 7353DOC_END
7354
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7355NAME: error_log_languages
7356IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7357TYPE: onoff
7358LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
7359DEFAULT: on
7360DOC_START
7361 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
7362 auto-negotiate for translations.
7363
7364 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
7365 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 7366 of its error page translations.
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7367DOC_END
7368
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7369NAME: err_page_stylesheet
7370TYPE: string
7371LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
7372DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
7373DOC_START
7374 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
7375
7376 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
7377DOC_END
7378
5473c134 7379NAME: err_html_text
7380TYPE: eol
7381LOC: Config.errHtmlText
7382DEFAULT: none
7383DOC_START
7384 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
7385 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
7386 organizations Web page.
7387
7388 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
7389 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
7390 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
7391 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
7392DOC_END
7393
7394NAME: email_err_data
7395COMMENT: on|off
7396TYPE: onoff
7397LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
7398DEFAULT: on
7399DOC_START
7400 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
7401 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7402 so that the email body contains the data.
7403 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
7404DOC_END
7405
7406NAME: deny_info
7407TYPE: denyinfo
7408LOC: Config.denyInfoList
7409DEFAULT: none
7410DOC_START
7411 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
7412 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 7413 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 7414
7415 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
7416 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
7417 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
7418 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
7419
7420 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
7421 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
7422 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
7423 the first authentication related acl encountered
7424 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
7425 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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7426 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
7427 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 7428
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7429 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
7430 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
7431 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 7432
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7433 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
7434 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
7435 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
7436
5473c134 7437 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
7438 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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7439
7440 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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7441 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
7442 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
7443 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
7444 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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7445
7446 URL FORMAT TAGS:
7447 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
7448 %B - FTP path URL
7449 %e - Error number
7450 %E - Error description
7451 %h - Squid hostname
7452 %H - Request domain name
7453 %i - Client IP Address
7454 %M - Request Method
7455 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
7456 %p - Request Port number
7457 %P - Request Protocol name
7458 %R - Request URL path
7459 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
7460 %U - Full canonical URL from client
7461 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
7462 %u - Full canonical URL from client
7463 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 7464 %x - Error name
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7465 %% - Literal percent (%) code
7466
5473c134 7467DOC_END
7468
7469COMMENT_START
7470 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
7471 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7472COMMENT_END
7473
7474NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7475TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7476LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7477DEFAULT: on
7478DOC_START
5473c134 7479 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
7480 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
7481 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 7482
638402dd 7483 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 7484 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 7485
5473c134 7486 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
7487 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
7488 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 7489
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7490 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
7491 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
7492 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 7493DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 7494
5473c134 7495NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7496TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7497LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7498DEFAULT: off
7499DOC_START
5473c134 7500 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
7501 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7502 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 7503
5473c134 7504 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
7505 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
7506 fails.
7507
7508 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
7509 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
7510 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 7511DOC_END
7512
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7513NAME: cache_miss_revalidate
7514COMMENT: on|off
7515TYPE: onoff
7516DEFAULT: on
7517LOC: Config.onoff.cache_miss_revalidate
7518DOC_START
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7519 RFC 7232 defines a conditional request mechanism to prevent
7520 response objects being unnecessarily transferred over the network.
7521 If that mechanism is used by the client and a cache MISS occurs
7522 it can prevent new cache entries being created.
7523
7524 This option determines whether Squid on cache MISS will pass the
7525 client revalidation request to the server or tries to fetch new
7526 content for caching. It can be useful while the cache is mostly
7527 empty to more quickly have the cache populated by generating
7528 non-conditional GETs.
96598f93
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7529
7530 When set to 'on' (default), Squid will pass all client If-* headers
2d4eefd9
AJ
7531 to the server. This permits server responses without a cacheable
7532 payload to be delivered and on MISS no new cache entry is created.
96598f93
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7533
7534 When set to 'off' and if the request is cacheable, Squid will
7535 remove the clients If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers from
2d4eefd9
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7536 the request sent to the server. This requests a 200 status response
7537 from the server to create a new cache entry with.
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7538DOC_END
7539
5473c134 7540NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 7541TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 7542LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 7543DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7544DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 7545DOC_START
5473c134 7546 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 7547
5473c134 7548 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
7549 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
7550 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
7551 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
7552 something like:
0b0cfcf2 7553
5473c134 7554 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
7555 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 7556
5473c134 7557 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 7558
5473c134 7559 acl FTP proto FTP
7560 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 7561
5473c134 7562 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
7563 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
7564 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
7565 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
7566 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 7567
5473c134 7568 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7569 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
7570 always_direct deny local-external
7571 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 7572
5473c134 7573 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
7574 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
7575 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
7576 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 7577
5473c134 7578 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
7579 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 7580 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 7581
b3567eb5
FC
7582 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7583 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 7584DOC_END
0976f8db 7585
5473c134 7586NAME: never_direct
7587TYPE: acl_access
7588LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
7589DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7590DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 7591DOC_START
5473c134 7592 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7593
7594 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
7595 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
7596
7597 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
7598 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
7599 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
7600 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
7601
7602 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 7603 never_direct deny local-servers
7604 never_direct allow all
7605
7606 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
7607 servers inside the firewall use something like:
7608
7609 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
7610 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7611 always_direct deny local-external
7612 always_direct allow local-intranet
7613 never_direct allow all
7614
b3567eb5
FC
7615 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7616 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 7617DOC_END
0976f8db 7618
5473c134 7619COMMENT_START
7620 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
7621 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7622COMMENT_END
7623
65d448bc 7624NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 7625TYPE: int
7626DEFAULT: 6
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7627LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
7628DOC_START
7629 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7630 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7631 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7632DOC_END
cccac0a2 7633
65d448bc 7634NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 7635TYPE: int
7636DEFAULT: 4
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AJ
7637LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
7638DOC_START
7639 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7640 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7641 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7642DOC_END
cccac0a2 7643
7644NAME: incoming_dns_average
7645TYPE: int
7646DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
7647LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
7648DOC_START
7649 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7650 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7651 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7652DOC_END
cccac0a2 7653
65d448bc 7654NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7655TYPE: int
7656DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
7657LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
7658DOC_START
7659 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7660 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7661 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7662DOC_END
cccac0a2 7663
7664NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
7665TYPE: int
7666DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
7667LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
7668DOC_START
7669 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7670 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7671 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7672DOC_END
cccac0a2 7673
65d448bc 7674NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7675TYPE: int
7676DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 7677LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 7678DOC_START
5473c134 7679 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7680 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7681 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7682DOC_END
7683
7684NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 7685TYPE: string
7686DEFAULT: none
7687LOC: Config.accept_filter
7688DOC_START
0b4d4be5 7689 FreeBSD:
7690
5473c134 7691 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
7692 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
7693 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
7694
7695 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 7696 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 7697 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
7698
7699 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
7700 to Squid until there is some data to process.
7701 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
7702
7703 Linux:
7704
7705 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
7706 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
7707 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
7708 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
7709 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 7710EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 7711# FreeBSD
5473c134 7712accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 7713# Linux
7714accept_filter data
5473c134 7715DOC_END
7716
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7717NAME: client_ip_max_connections
7718TYPE: int
7719LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
7720DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7721DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
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7722DOC_START
7723 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
7724 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
7725 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
7726
7727 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
7728 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
7729
7730 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
7731
7732 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
7733 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
7734DOC_END
7735
5473c134 7736NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
7737COMMENT: (bytes)
7738TYPE: b_size_t
7739DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 7740DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 7741LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
7742DOC_START
7743 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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AJ
7744 as easy to change your kernel's default.
7745 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 7746DOC_END
7747
7748COMMENT_START
7749 ICAP OPTIONS
7750 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7751COMMENT_END
7752
7753NAME: icap_enable
7754TYPE: onoff
7755IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7756COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7757LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 7758DEFAULT: off
7759DOC_START
53e738c6 7760 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 7761DOC_END
7762
7763NAME: icap_connect_timeout
7764TYPE: time_t
7765DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7766LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 7767IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7768DOC_START
7769 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7770 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
7771 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
7772
7773 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
7774 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
7775 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
7776DOC_END
7777
7778NAME: icap_io_timeout
7779COMMENT: time-units
7780TYPE: time_t
7781DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7782DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 7783LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 7784IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7785DOC_START
7786 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
7787 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
7788 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
7789 failure.
5473c134 7790DOC_END
7791
7792NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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7793COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
7794TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 7795IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 7796LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7797DEFAULT: 10
7798DOC_START
7799 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
7800 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
7801 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
7802 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 7803 OPTIONS.
5473c134 7804
7805 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
7806 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
7807 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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7808
7809 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
7810 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
7811 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
7812 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
7813 value into ten time slots of equal length.
7814
7815 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
7816 effect on service failure expiration.
7817
7818 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
7819 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
7820 setting.
7821
7822 For example,
7823 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
7824 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 7825DOC_END
7826
5473c134 7827NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 7828TYPE: int
5473c134 7829IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7830LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 7831DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 7832DOC_START
5473c134 7833 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
7834 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
7835 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
7836 fetched.
cccac0a2 7837
5473c134 7838 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
7839 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 7840DOC_END
7841
5473c134 7842NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 7843TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7844IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7845COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7846LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 7847DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7848DOC_START
ac7a62f9 7849 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
7850 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
7851 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
7852 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
7853
7854 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
7855 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
7856 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
7857
7858 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
7859 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
7860Example:
7861icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 7862DOC_END
7863
5473c134 7864NAME: icap_preview_size
7865TYPE: int
7866IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7867LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 7868DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7869DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 7870DOC_START
53e738c6 7871 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 7872 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 7873DOC_END
7874
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7875NAME: icap_206_enable
7876TYPE: onoff
7877IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7878COMMENT: on|off
7879LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
7880DEFAULT: on
7881DOC_START
7882 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
7883 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
7884 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
7885 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
7886
7887 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
7888 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
7889 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
7890 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
7891 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
7892
7893 Example:
7894 icap_206_enable off
7895DOC_END
7896
5473c134 7897NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
7898TYPE: int
7899IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7900LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 7901DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 7902DOC_START
53e738c6 7903 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 7904 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 7905DOC_END
7906
5473c134 7907NAME: icap_persistent_connections
7908TYPE: onoff
7909IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7910COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7911LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 7912DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7913DOC_START
5473c134 7914 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
7915 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 7916DOC_END
7917
22fff3bf 7918NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 7919TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7920IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7921COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7922LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 7923DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7924DOC_START
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7925 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
7926 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
7927 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
7928
7929 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 7930DOC_END
7931
22fff3bf 7932NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 7933TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7934IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7935COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7936LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 7937DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7938DOC_START
5473c134 7939 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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7940 the adaptation service.
7941
7942 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 7943 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7944 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 7945DOC_END
7946
5473c134 7947NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7948TYPE: string
5473c134 7949IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7950LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7951DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7952DOC_START
db49f682 7953 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7954DOC_END
7955
5473c134 7956NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7957TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7958IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7959COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7960LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7961DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7962DOC_START
5473c134 7963 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7964DOC_END
7965
5473c134 7966NAME: icap_service
7967TYPE: icap_service_type
7968IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7969LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7970DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7971DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7972 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7973
c25c2836 7974 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
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7976 id: ID
7977 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7978 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7979 services in squid.conf.
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7980
7981 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7982 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7983 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7984 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7985
c25c2836 7986 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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7987 ICAP server and service location.
7988
7989 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7990 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7991 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7992 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7993 service_names differ.
7994
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7995 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
7996 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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7997
7998 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7999 the following name=value options:
8000
8001 bypass=on|off|1|0
8002 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
8003 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
8004 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
8005 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
8006 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
8007 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
8008 returned to the HTTP client.
8009
8010 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8011
8012 routing=on|off|1|0
8013 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
8014 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8015 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
8016 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
8017 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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8018 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
8019 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
8020 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
8021
8022 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8023 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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8024
8025 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
8026 response header is ignored.
8027
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8028 ipv6=on|off
8029 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
8030 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
8031 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
8032
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8033 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
8034 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
8035 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
8036 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
8037 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
8038 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
8039 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
8040
8041 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
8042 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
8043 workers may use a given service.
8044
8045 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
8046 otherwise it is set to "wait".
8047
8048
8049 max-conn=number
8050 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
8051 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
8052
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8053 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
8054 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 8055
5473c134 8056Example:
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8057icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
8058icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 8059DOC_END
8060
5473c134 8061NAME: icap_class
8062TYPE: icap_class_type
8063IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8064LOC: none
5473c134 8065DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8066DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8067 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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8068 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
8069 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 8070
62c7f90e 8071 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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8072 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
8073 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 8074DOC_END
8075
5473c134 8076NAME: icap_access
8077TYPE: icap_access_type
8078IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8079LOC: none
cccac0a2 8080DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8081DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8082 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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8083 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
8084 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 8085DOC_END
8086
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8087COMMENT_START
8088 eCAP OPTIONS
8089 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8090COMMENT_END
8091
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8092NAME: ecap_enable
8093TYPE: onoff
8094IFDEF: USE_ECAP
8095COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 8096LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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8097DEFAULT: off
8098DOC_START
8099 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
8100DOC_END
8101
8102NAME: ecap_service
8103TYPE: ecap_service_type
8104IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 8105LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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8106DEFAULT: none
8107DOC_START
8108 Defines a single eCAP service
8109
c25c2836 8110 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 8111
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8112 id: ID
8113 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8114 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8115 services in squid.conf.
8116
8117 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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8118 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8119 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8120 are not yet supported.
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8121
8122 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
8123 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
8124 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
8125 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
8126 the service provider.
8127
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8128 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
8129 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8130
8131 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
8132 the following name=value options:
8133
8134 bypass=on|off|1|0
8135 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
8136 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
8137 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 8138 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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8139 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
8140 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 8141 HTTP client.
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8142
8143 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8144
8145 routing=on|off|1|0
8146 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
8147 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8148 returning a chain of services to be used next.
8149
8150 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8151 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
8152
8153 Routing is not allowed by default.
8154
8155 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
8156 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
8157
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8158
8159Example:
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8160ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
8161ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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8162DOC_END
8163
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8164NAME: loadable_modules
8165TYPE: wordlist
8166IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
8167LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
8168DEFAULT: none
8169DOC_START
8170 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
8171 preloaded module(s).
8172Example:
8173loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
8174DOC_END
8175
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8176COMMENT_START
8177 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
8178 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8179COMMENT_END
8180
8181NAME: adaptation_service_set
8182TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
8183IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8184LOC: none
8185DEFAULT: none
8186DOC_START
8187
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8188 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
8189 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
8190
8191 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
8192
8193 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
8194 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
8195 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
8196 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
8197 intact.
62c7f90e 8198
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8199 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8200 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 8201
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8202 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
8203 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8204
8205 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
8206 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
8207 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
8208 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
8209 transaction fails as well.
8210
8211 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
8212 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
8213 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
8214 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
8215 matters.
8216
8217 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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8218
8219Example:
8220adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
8221adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
8222DOC_END
8223
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8224NAME: adaptation_service_chain
8225TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
8226IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8227LOC: none
8228DEFAULT: none
8229DOC_START
8230
8231 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
8232 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
8233 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
8234
8235 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
8236
8237 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
8238 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
8239 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
8240 the previous service in the chain.
8241
8242 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8243 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
8244
8245 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
8246 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
8247 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
8248
8249 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
8250 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8251
8252 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
8253 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
8254 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
8255 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
8256
8257 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
8258
8259Example:
8260adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
8261DOC_END
8262
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8263NAME: adaptation_access
8264TYPE: adaptation_access_type
8265IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8266LOC: none
8267DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8268DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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8269DOC_START
8270 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
8271
8272 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8273 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8274
8275 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
8276 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
8277 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
8278 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
8279
8280 - services serving different vectoring points
8281 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
8282 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
8283 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
8284
8285 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
8286 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
8287 adaptation_service_set for details.
8288
8289 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
8290 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
8291 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
8292 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
8293
8294 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
8295 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
8296
8297 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
8298
8299Example:
8300adaptation_access service_1 allow all
8301DOC_END
8302
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8303NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
8304TYPE: int
8305IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8306LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
8307DEFAULT: 16
8308DOC_START
8309 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
8310 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
8311 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
8312 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
8313 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
8314 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
8315
8316 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
8317
8318 See also: icap_service routing=1
8319DOC_END
8320
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8321NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
8322TYPE: string
8323IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8324LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
8325DEFAULT: none
8326DOC_START
8327 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
8328 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
8329 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
8330 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
8331 with the master transaction.
8332
8333 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
8334 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
8335
8336 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8337 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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8338 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
8339
8340 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8341 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
8342 to provide an option with a name specified in
8343 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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8345 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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8346 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
8347
8348 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
8349
8350Example:
8351# share authentication information among ICAP services
8352adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
8353DOC_END
8354
71be37e0 8355NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 8356TYPE: note
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8357IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8358LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
8359DEFAULT: none
8360DOC_START
8361 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
8362 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
8363 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
8364 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
8365
8366 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
8367 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
8368
8369 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
8370 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
8371 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
8372 example:
8373
8374 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
8375 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
8376
8377 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
8378 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
8379
8380 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
8381 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
8382
8383 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
8384 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
8385 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
8386 and double quotes. For example,
8387 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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8389 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
8390 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
8391 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
8392 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
8393 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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8394DOC_END
8395
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8396NAME: icap_retry
8397TYPE: acl_access
8398IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8399LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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8400DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
8401DOC_START
8402 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
8403 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
8404 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
8405 that response are usually retriable.
8406
8407 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8408
8409 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
8410 due to persistent connection race conditions.
8411
8412 See also: icap_retry_limit
8413DOC_END
8414
8415NAME: icap_retry_limit
8416TYPE: int
8417IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8418LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
8419DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8420DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 8421DOC_START
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8423
8424 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
8425 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
8426 count against this limit.
8427
8428 See also: icap_retry
8429DOC_END
8430
8431
5473c134 8432COMMENT_START
8433 DNS OPTIONS
8434 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8435COMMENT_END
8436
8437NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8438TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8439DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8440LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8441DOC_START
5473c134 8442 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
8443 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
8444 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 8445DOC_END
8446
5473c134 8447NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8448TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8449DEFAULT: on
5473c134 8450LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8451DOC_START
5473c134 8452 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
8453 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
8454 Squid to be strict about the standard.
8455 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 8456DOC_END
8457
5473c134 8458NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 8459TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 8460DEFAULT: 5 seconds
8461LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
cccac0a2 8462DOC_START
5473c134 8463 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
8464 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 8465DOC_END
8466
5473c134 8467NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 8468TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 8469DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 8470LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
cccac0a2 8471DOC_START
5473c134 8472 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
8473 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
8474 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 8475DOC_END
8476
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8477NAME: dns_packet_max
8478TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 8479DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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8480DEFAULT: none
8481LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
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8482DOC_START
8483 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
8484 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
8485
8486 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
8487 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
8488 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
8489 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
8490 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
8491
8492 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
8493 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
8494 necessary.
8495
8496 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
8497 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
8498 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
8499 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
8500 sizes being advertised by Squid.
8501 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
8502 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
8503DOC_END
8504
5473c134 8505NAME: dns_defnames
8506COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 8507TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8508DEFAULT: off
638402dd 8509DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 8510LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 8511DOC_START
5473c134 8512 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
8513 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
8514 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
8515 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 8516DOC_END
8517
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8518NAME: dns_multicast_local
8519COMMENT: on|off
8520TYPE: onoff
8521DEFAULT: off
8522DEFAULT_DOC: Search for .local and .arpa names is disabled.
8523LOC: Config.onoff.dns_mdns
8524DOC_START
8525 When set to on, Squid sends multicast DNS lookups on the local
8526 network for domains ending in .local and .arpa.
8527 This enables local servers and devices to be contacted in an
8528 ad-hoc or zero-configuration network environment.
8529DOC_END
8530
5473c134 8531NAME: dns_nameservers
8532TYPE: wordlist
8533DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8534DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5473c134 8535LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 8536DOC_START
5473c134 8537 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
8538 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
8539 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 8540
5473c134 8541 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
8542 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
8543 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
8544 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 8545
5473c134 8546 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 8547DOC_END
8548
5473c134 8549NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 8550TYPE: string
5473c134 8551DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
8552LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 8553DOC_START
5473c134 8554 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
8555 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
8556 default locations:
8557 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
8558 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8559 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
8560 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8561 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
8562 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
8563 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
8564 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 8565
5473c134 8566 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
8567 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
8568 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
8569 character are comments.
cccac0a2 8570
5473c134 8571 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
8572 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
8573 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
8574 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
8575 definitions.
cccac0a2 8576DOC_END
8577
5473c134 8578NAME: append_domain
8579TYPE: string
8580LOC: Config.appendDomain
8581DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8582DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 8583DOC_START
5473c134 8584 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
8585 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
8586
8587 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
8588 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
8589 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
8590
8591Example:
8592 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 8593DOC_END
8594
5473c134 8595NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
8596TYPE: onoff
8597LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 8598DEFAULT: on
8599DOC_START
5473c134 8600 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
8601 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
8602 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
8603 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
8604 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 8605DOC_END
8606
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8607NAME: dns_v4_first
8608TYPE: onoff
8609DEFAULT: off
8610LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
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8611DOC_START
8612 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
8613 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
8614
8615 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
8616 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
8617 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
8618
8619 WARNING:
8620 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
8621 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
8622 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
8623DOC_END
8624
6bc15a4f 8625NAME: ipcache_size
8626COMMENT: (number of entries)
8627TYPE: int
8628DEFAULT: 1024
8629LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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8630DOC_START
8631 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
8632DOC_END
6bc15a4f 8633
8634NAME: ipcache_low
8635COMMENT: (percent)
8636TYPE: int
8637DEFAULT: 90
8638LOC: Config.ipcache.low
8639DOC_NONE
8640
8641NAME: ipcache_high
8642COMMENT: (percent)
8643TYPE: int
8644DEFAULT: 95
8645LOC: Config.ipcache.high
8646DOC_START
8647 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
8648DOC_END
8649
8650NAME: fqdncache_size
8651COMMENT: (number of entries)
8652TYPE: int
8653DEFAULT: 1024
8654LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
8655DOC_START
8656 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
8657DOC_END
8658
a58ff010 8659COMMENT_START
5473c134 8660 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 8661 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8662COMMENT_END
8663
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8664NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
8665COMMENT: on|off
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8666TYPE: configuration_includes_quoted_values
8667DEFAULT: off
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8668LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
8669DOC_START
8670 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
8671 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
8672 parameter value is interpreted or used.
8673 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
8674 section for more details.
8675DOC_END
8676
5473c134 8677NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 8678COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8679TYPE: onoff
8680DEFAULT: on
8681LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 8682DOC_START
5473c134 8683 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
8684 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
8685 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
8686 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 8687DOC_END
8688
5473c134 8689NAME: memory_pools_limit
8690COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 8691TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 8692DEFAULT: 5 MB
8693LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 8694DOC_START
5473c134 8695 Used only with memory_pools on:
8696 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 8697
5473c134 8698 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
8699 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
8700 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
8701 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
8702 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
8703 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
8704 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 8705
89646bd7 8706 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 8707 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 8708
5473c134 8709 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 8710 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 8711
8712 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
8713 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
8714 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
8715 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 8716DOC_END
8717
5473c134 8718NAME: forwarded_for
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8719COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
8720TYPE: string
5473c134 8721DEFAULT: on
8722LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 8723DOC_START
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8724 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
8725 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 8726
5473c134 8727 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
8728
67c06f0d 8729 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 8730
8731 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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8732
8733 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
8734 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
8735
8736 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
8737 X-Forwarded-For header.
8738
8739 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 8740 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 8741DOC_END
8742
5473c134 8743NAME: cachemgr_passwd
8744TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
8745DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8746DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 8747LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 8748DOC_START
5473c134 8749 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 8750
5473c134 8751 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
8752
8753 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
8754 5min
8755 60min
8756 asndb
8757 authenticator
8758 cbdata
8759 client_list
8760 comm_incoming
8761 config *
8762 counters
8763 delay
8764 digest_stats
8765 dns
8766 events
8767 filedescriptors
8768 fqdncache
8769 histograms
8770 http_headers
8771 info
8772 io
8773 ipcache
8774 mem
8775 menu
8776 netdb
8777 non_peers
8778 objects
8779 offline_toggle *
8780 pconn
8781 peer_select
b360c477 8782 reconfigure *
5473c134 8783 redirector
8784 refresh
8785 server_list
8786 shutdown *
8787 store_digest
8788 storedir
8789 utilization
8790 via_headers
8791 vm_objects
8792
8793 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
8794 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
8795
8796 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
8797 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
8798 password to "none".
8799
8800 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
8801
8802Example:
8803 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
8804 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
8805 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 8806DOC_END
8807
5473c134 8808NAME: client_db
a58ff010 8809COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8810TYPE: onoff
8811DEFAULT: on
8812LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 8813DOC_START
5473c134 8814 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
8815 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 8816DOC_END
8817
5473c134 8818NAME: refresh_all_ims
8819COMMENT: on|off
8820TYPE: onoff
8821DEFAULT: off
8822LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 8823DOC_START
5473c134 8824 When you enable this option, squid will always check
8825 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
8826 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
8827 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
8828 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 8829
5473c134 8830 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
8831 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 8832DOC_END
8833
5473c134 8834NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 8835IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 8836COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8837TYPE: onoff
8838DEFAULT: off
8839LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 8840DOC_START
5473c134 8841 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
8842 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
8843 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
8844 feature could make you liable for problems which it
8845 causes.
8846
8847 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 8848DOC_END
8849
31ef19cd 8850NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 8851TYPE: int
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8852LOC: Config.connect_retries
8853DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8854DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 8855DOC_START
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8856 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
8857 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
8858 complete within the connection timeout period.
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AJ
8859
8860 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
8861 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 8862
31ef19cd
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8863 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
8864 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 8865
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8866 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
8867 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
8868 a useful server.
a58ff010 8869DOC_END
8870
5473c134 8871NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 8872TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8873LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 8874DEFAULT: off
8875DOC_START
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8876 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
8877 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
8878 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
8879 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
8880
8881 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
8882 work around access control errors.
8883
8884 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
8885 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 8886DOC_END
8887
5473c134 8888NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 8889TYPE: string
5473c134 8890LOC: Config.as_whois_server
8891DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 8892DOC_START
5473c134 8893 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
8894 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 8895DOC_END
8896
5473c134 8897NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 8898TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8899LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 8900DEFAULT: off
8901DOC_START
5473c134 8902 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
8903 objects.
a58ff010 8904DOC_END
8905
5473c134 8906NAME: uri_whitespace
8907TYPE: uri_whitespace
8908LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
8909DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 8910DOC_START
5473c134 8911 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
8912 URI. Options:
a58ff010 8913
5473c134 8914 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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8915 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
8916 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
8917 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
8918
5473c134 8919 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
8920 Request" message.
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8921 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
8922 handling of HTTP request URL.
8923
5473c134 8924 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
8925 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
8926 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
8927 are in use.
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8928 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
8929 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
8930 URL field.
8931
5473c134 8932 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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8933 encoded according to RFC1738.
8934
5473c134 8935 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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8936 first whitespace.
8937
8938
8939 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
8940 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 8941DOC_END
a58ff010 8942
5473c134 8943NAME: chroot
8944TYPE: string
8945LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 8946DEFAULT: none
8947DOC_START
9f37c18a 8948 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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HN
8949 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8950 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8951 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8952 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 8953DOC_END
a58ff010 8954
5473c134 8955NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8956TYPE: onoff
8957LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8958DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8959DOC_START
cc192b50 8960 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8961 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8962 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8963
5473c134 8964 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8965 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8966 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8967
cc192b50 8968 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8969DOC_END
8970
5473c134 8971NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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8972TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
8973LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
8974DEFAULT: 0
8975DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 8976DOC_START
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8977 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
8978 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
8979 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
8980 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
8981 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
8982 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 8983
079a8480 8984 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 8985 reasons.
a0e23afd 8986
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8987 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
8988
a0e23afd 8989 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8990DOC_END
a58ff010 8991
5473c134 8992NAME: high_response_time_warning
8993TYPE: int
8994COMMENT: (msec)
8995LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8996DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8997DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 8998DOC_START
8999 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
9000 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
9001 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 9002DOC_END
9003
5473c134 9004NAME: high_page_fault_warning
9005TYPE: int
9006LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
9007DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9008DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 9009DOC_START
5473c134 9010 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
9011 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
9012 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
9013 per second.
9014DOC_END
cc9f92d4 9015
5473c134 9016NAME: high_memory_warning
9017TYPE: b_size_t
9018LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
f2228f3b 9019IFDEF: HAVE_MSTATS&&HAVE_GNUMALLOC_H
904971da 9020DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 9021DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9022DOC_START
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9023 If the memory usage (as determined by gnumalloc, if available and used)
9024 exceeds this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 9025 the administrators attention.
9026DOC_END
4bf2a476 9027# TODO: link high_memory_warning to mempools?
cc9f92d4 9028
5473c134 9029NAME: sleep_after_fork
9030COMMENT: (microseconds)
9031TYPE: int
9032LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
9033DEFAULT: 0
9034DOC_START
9035 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
9036 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
9037 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
9038 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
9039 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
9040 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
9041 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
9042 until all the child processes have been started.
9043 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
9044 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 9045DOC_END
9046
b6696974 9047NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 9048IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
b6696974
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9049COMMENT: on|off
9050TYPE: onoff
9051DEFAULT: on
9052LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
9053DOC_START
9054 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
9055 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
9056 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
9057 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
9058 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
9059 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
9060DOC_END
9061
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9062NAME: eui_lookup
9063TYPE: onoff
9064IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
9065DEFAULT: on
9066LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
9067DOC_START
9068 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
9069DOC_END
9070
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9071NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
9072TYPE: int
9073DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9074DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
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9075LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
9076DOC_START
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AJ
9077 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
9078 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 9079
638402dd 9080 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
f3f0f563
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9081
9082 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 9083 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
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9084DOC_END
9085
13aeac35 9086NAME: workers
007d775d 9087TYPE: int
13aeac35 9088LOC: Config.workers
007d775d 9089DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 9090DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
007d775d 9091DOC_START
13aeac35 9092 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
007d775d
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9093 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
9094 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
13aeac35
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9095 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
9096
b87f6632
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9097 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
9098 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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9099DOC_END
9100
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9101NAME: cpu_affinity_map
9102TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
9103LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
9104DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9105DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
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9106DOC_START
9107 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
9108
9109 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
9110
9111 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
9112
9113 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
9114 four even cores, starting with core #1.
9115
9116 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
9117 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
9118
9119 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
9120
9121 See also: workers
9122DOC_END
9123
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