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bde978a6 1## Copyright (C) 1996-2015 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors
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2##
3## Squid software is distributed under GPLv2+ license and includes
4## contributions from numerous individuals and organizations.
5## Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.
6##
9cef6668 7
0f74202c 8COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 9 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 10 ----------------------------
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11
12 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
13 This documentation can also be found online at:
14 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
15
16 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
17 FAQ and other documentation:
18 http://www.squid-cache.org/
19 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
20 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
21
22 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
23 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
24 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
25
26 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
27 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
28 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
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cccac0a2 30COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 31
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33 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 34 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 35 supported.
36
37 For example,
38
39 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
40
41 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
42 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
43 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
44 configuration files.
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46 Values with byte units
47
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48 Squid accepts size units on some size related directives. All
49 such directives are documented with a default value displaying
50 a unit.
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51
52 Units accepted by Squid are:
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53 bytes - byte
54 KB - Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
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55 MB - Megabyte
56 GB - Gigabyte
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58 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
59
60 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
61 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
62 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
63 disable that support.
64
65 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
66 files using the syntax:
67 parameters("/path/filename")
68 For example:
69 acl whitelist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/whitelist.txt")
70
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71 Conditional configuration
72
73 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
74 depend on conditions:
75
76 if <CONDITION>
77 ... regular configuration directives ...
78 [else
79 ... regular configuration directives ...]
80 endif
81
82 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
83 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
84 configuration directives.
85
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86 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
87
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88 These individual conditions types are supported:
89
90 true
91 Always evaluates to true.
92 false
93 Always evaluates to false.
94 <integer> = <integer>
95 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
96
97
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98 SMP-Related Macros
99
100 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
101
102 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
103 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
104
105 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
106 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
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107 across all Squid processes of the current service instance.
108
109 ${service_name} expands into the current Squid service instance
110 name identifier which is provided by -n on the command line.
111
592a09dc 112COMMENT_END
113
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114# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
115NAME: broken_vary_encoding
116TYPE: obsolete
117DOC_START
118 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
119DOC_END
120
121NAME: cache_vary
122TYPE: obsolete
123DOC_START
124 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
125DOC_END
126
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127NAME: error_map
128TYPE: obsolete
129DOC_START
130 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
131DOC_END
132
133NAME: external_refresh_check
134TYPE: obsolete
135DOC_START
136 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
137DOC_END
138
96598f93 139NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
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140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
143DOC_END
144
96598f93 145NAME: refresh_stale_hit
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146TYPE: obsolete
147DOC_START
148 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
149DOC_END
150
7e62a74f 151# Options removed in 3.6
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152NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
153TYPE: obsolete
154DOC_START
155 Replace with dstdomain ACLs and cache_peer_access.
156DOC_END
157
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158NAME: sslproxy_cafile
159TYPE: obsolete
160DOC_START
161 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cafile= instead.
162DOC_END
163
164NAME: sslproxy_capath
165TYPE: obsolete
166DOC_START
167 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options capath= instead.
168DOC_END
169
170NAME: sslproxy_cipher
171TYPE: obsolete
172DOC_START
173 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cipher= instead.
174DOC_END
175
176NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
177TYPE: obsolete
178DOC_START
179 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cert= instead.
180DOC_END
181
182NAME: sslproxy_client_key
183TYPE: obsolete
184DOC_START
185 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options key= instead.
186DOC_END
187
188NAME: sslproxy_flags
189TYPE: obsolete
190DOC_START
191 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options flags= instead.
192DOC_END
193
194NAME: sslproxy_options
195TYPE: obsolete
196DOC_START
197 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
198DOC_END
199
200NAME: sslproxy_version
201TYPE: obsolete
202DOC_START
1cc44095 203 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
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204DOC_END
205
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206# Options removed in 3.5
207NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
208TYPE: obsolete
209DOC_START
210 Remove this line. Use always_direct or cache_peer_access ACLs instead if you need to prevent cache_peer use.
211DOC_END
212
a8f70484 213# Options removed in 3.4
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214NAME: log_access
215TYPE: obsolete
216DOC_START
217 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
218DOC_END
219
220NAME: log_icap
221TYPE: obsolete
222DOC_START
223 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
224DOC_END
225
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226# Options Removed in 3.3
227NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
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228TYPE: obsolete
229DOC_START
2d4eefd9 230 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now configured by 'cache_miss_revalidate'.
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231DOC_END
232
76f44481 233# Options Removed in 3.2
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234NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
235TYPE: obsolete
236DOC_START
237 Remove this line. Squid is now HTTP/1.1 compliant.
238DOC_END
239
74d81220 240NAME: dns_v4_fallback
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241TYPE: obsolete
242DOC_START
74d81220 243 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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244DOC_END
245
74d81220 246NAME: emulate_httpd_log
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247TYPE: obsolete
248DOC_START
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249 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
250DOC_END
251
252NAME: forward_log
253TYPE: obsolete
254DOC_START
255 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
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256DOC_END
257
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258NAME: ftp_list_width
259TYPE: obsolete
260DOC_START
261 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
262DOC_END
263
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264NAME: ignore_expect_100
265TYPE: obsolete
266DOC_START
267 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
268DOC_END
269
270NAME: log_fqdn
271TYPE: obsolete
272DOC_START
273 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
274DOC_END
275
276NAME: log_ip_on_direct
277TYPE: obsolete
278DOC_START
279 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
280DOC_END
281
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282NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
283TYPE: obsolete
284DOC_START
285 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
286DOC_END
287
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288NAME: referer_log referrer_log
289TYPE: obsolete
290DOC_START
291 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
292DOC_END
293
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294NAME: update_headers
295TYPE: obsolete
296DOC_START
297 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
298DOC_END
299
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300NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
301TYPE: obsolete
302DOC_START
303 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
304DOC_END
305
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306NAME: useragent_log
307TYPE: obsolete
308DOC_START
309 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
310DOC_END
311
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312# Options Removed in 3.1
313NAME: dns_testnames
314TYPE: obsolete
315DOC_START
316 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
317DOC_END
318
319NAME: extension_methods
320TYPE: obsolete
321DOC_START
322 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
323DOC_END
324
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325# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
326NAME: zero_buffers
327TYPE: obsolete
328DOC_NONE
329
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330# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
331NAME: incoming_rate
332TYPE: obsolete
333DOC_NONE
334
335NAME: server_http11
336TYPE: obsolete
337DOC_START
338 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
339DOC_END
340
341NAME: upgrade_http0.9
342TYPE: obsolete
343DOC_START
344 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
345DOC_END
346
347NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
348TYPE: obsolete
349DOC_START
350 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
351DOC_END
352
353# Options Removed in 3.0
354NAME: header_access
355TYPE: obsolete
356DOC_START
357 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
358 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
359DOC_END
360
361NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
362TYPE: obsolete
363DOC_START
364 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
365DOC_END
366
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367NAME: wais_relay_host
368TYPE: obsolete
369DOC_START
370 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
371DOC_END
372
373NAME: wais_relay_port
374TYPE: obsolete
375DOC_START
376 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
377DOC_END
378
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379COMMENT_START
380 OPTIONS FOR SMP
381 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
382COMMENT_END
383
384NAME: workers
385TYPE: int
386LOC: Config.workers
387DEFAULT: 1
388DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
389DOC_START
390 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
391 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
392 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
393 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
394
395 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
396 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
397DOC_END
398
399NAME: cpu_affinity_map
400TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
401LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
402DEFAULT: none
403DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
404DOC_START
405 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
406
407 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
408
409 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
410
411 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
412 four even cores, starting with core #1.
413
414 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
415 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
416
417 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
418
419 See also: workers
420DOC_END
421
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41bd17a4 423 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 424 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
425COMMENT_END
426
41bd17a4 427NAME: auth_param
428TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 429IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 430LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 431DEFAULT: none
432DOC_START
41bd17a4 433 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
434 schemes supported by Squid.
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66c583dc 436 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 437
41bd17a4 438 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
439 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
440 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
441 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
442 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
443 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
444 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
445 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
446 program entry).
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41bd17a4 448 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
449 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
450 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
451 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 452
41bd17a4 453 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
454 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
455 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
456 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
457 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
458 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
459 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
460 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
461 type acl.
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41bd17a4 463 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
464 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
465 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
466 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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467 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
468 authentication disabled.
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470 === Parameters common to all schemes. ===
471
472 "program" cmdline
66c583dc 473 Specifies the command for the external authenticator.
d4806c91 474
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475 By default, each authentication scheme is not used unless a
476 program is specified.
cccac0a2 477
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478 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers for
479 more details on helper operations and creating your own.
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481 "key_extras" format
482 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for
483 the authentication helper. "Quoted" format values may contain
484 spaces and logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro
485 can be used. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if
486 the helper request is sent before the required macro
487 information is available to Squid.
488
489 By default, Squid uses request formats provided in
490 scheme-specific examples below (search for %credentials).
491
492 The expanded key_extras value is added to the Squid credentials
493 cache and, hence, will affect authentication. It can be used to
494 autenticate different users with identical user names (e.g.,
495 when user authentication depends on http_port).
496
497 Avoid adding frequently changing information to key_extras. For
498 example, if you add user source IP, and it changes frequently
499 in your environment, then max_user_ip ACL is going to treat
500 every user+IP combination as a unique "user", breaking the ACL
501 and wasting a lot of memory on those user records. It will also
502 force users to authenticate from scratch whenever their IP
503 changes.
504
505 "realm" string
506 Specifies the protection scope (aka realm name) which is to be
507 reported to the client for the authentication scheme. It is
508 commonly part of the text the user will see when prompted for
509 their username and password.
510
511 For Basic the default is "Squid proxy-caching web server".
512 For Digest there is no default, this parameter is mandatory.
513 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
5269ec0e 514
6825b101 515 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N] [queue-size=N]
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517 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If
518 you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
519 a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it down. When
520 password verifications are done via a (slow) network you are
521 likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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523 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact
524 amount run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup
525 and reconfigure. Squid will start more in groups of up to
526 idle=N in an attempt to meet traffic needs and to keep idle=N
527 free above those traffic needs up to the maximum.
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529 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests
530 the helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers
531 who only supports one request at a time. Setting this to a
532 number greater than 0 changes the protocol used to include a
533 channel ID field first on the request/response line, allowing
534 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallel
535 without waiting for the response.
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537 Concurrency must not be set unless it's known the helper
538 supports the input format with channel-ID fields.
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540 The queue-size= option sets the maximum number of queued
541 requests. If the queued requests exceed queue size for more
542 than 3 minutes then squid aborts its operation.
543 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren/
544
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545 NOTE: NTLM and Negotiate schemes do not support concurrency
546 in the Squid code module even though some helpers can.
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549IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_BASIC
550 === Basic authentication parameters ===
d2a89ac1 551
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552 "utf8" on|off
553 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
554 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
555 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
556 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
d1b63fc8 557
41bd17a4 558 "credentialsttl" timetolive
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559 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
560 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
561 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
562 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.
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564 NOTE: setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
565 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
566 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
567 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
568 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
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570 "casesensitive" on|off
571 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases
572 are case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled
573 using both lower and upper case letters, but some are case
574 sensitive. This makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL
575 processing and similar.
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577ENDIF
578IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_DIGEST
579 === Digest authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 580
d2a89ac1 581 "utf8" on|off
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582 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
583 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
584 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
585 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
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41bd17a4 587 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
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588 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
589 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 590
41bd17a4 591 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
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592 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
593 valid for.
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41bd17a4 595 "nonce_max_count" number
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596 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
597 used.
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41bd17a4 599 "nonce_strictness" on|off
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600 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
601 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
602 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
603 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 604
41bd17a4 605 "check_nonce_count" on|off
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606 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
607 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
608 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
609 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 610
41bd17a4 611 "post_workaround" on|off
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612 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who send an
613 incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing the
614 same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
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616ENDIF
617IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NEGOTIATE
618 === Negotiate authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 619
41bd17a4 620 "keep_alive" on|off
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621 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
622 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
623 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
624 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
625 are supported by the proxy.
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627ENDIF
628IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NTLM
629 === NTLM authentication parameters ===
d3803853 630
41bd17a4 631 "keep_alive" on|off
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632 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
633 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
634 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
635 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
636 are supported by the proxy.
637ENDIF
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639 === Example Configuration ===
640
641 This configuration displays the recommended authentication scheme
642 order from most to least secure with recommended minimum configuration
643 settings for each scheme:
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41bd17a4 645#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 646#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 647#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 648#
66c583dc 649#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 650#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 651#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
652#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
653#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
654#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 655#
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656#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
657#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
658#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
659#
41bd17a4 660#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 661#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 662#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
663#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 664DOC_END
cccac0a2 665
41bd17a4 666NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
667TYPE: time_t
668DEFAULT: 1 hour
669LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
670DOC_START
671 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 672 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 673 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
674 have good reason to.
675DOC_END
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41bd17a4 677NAME: authenticate_ttl
678TYPE: time_t
679DEFAULT: 1 hour
680LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
681DOC_START
682 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
683 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
684 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
685 TTL are removed from memory.
686DOC_END
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41bd17a4 688NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
689TYPE: time_t
690LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
c35dd848 691DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 692DOC_START
693 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
694 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
695 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
696 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 697 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 698 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
699 environment with relatively static address assignments.
700DOC_END
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3d1e3e43 702COMMENT_START
703 ACCESS CONTROLS
704 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
705COMMENT_END
706
41bd17a4 707NAME: external_acl_type
708TYPE: externalAclHelper
709LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 710DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 711DOC_START
41bd17a4 712 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
713 to look up the status
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41bd17a4 715 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 716
41bd17a4 717 Options:
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41bd17a4 719 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
720 for 1 hour)
4f8d0a65 721
41bd17a4 722 negative_ttl=n
723 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
724 as ttl)
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726 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
727 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
728 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
729
730 cache=n Limit the result cache size, default is 262144.
731 The expanded FORMAT value is used as the cache key, so
732 if the details in FORMAT are highly variable a larger
733 cache may be needed to produce reduction in helper load.
734
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735 children-max=n
736 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
737 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
4f8d0a65 738
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739 children-startup=n
740 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
741 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
742 of this type. (default 0)
4f8d0a65 743
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744 children-idle=n
745 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
746 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
747 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
748 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
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41bd17a4 750 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
751 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
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753 queue-size=N The queue-size= option sets the maximum number of queued
754 requests. If the queued requests exceed queue size
4f8d0a65 755 the acl is ignored.
6825b101 756 The default value is set to 2*children-max.
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758 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers.
759
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760 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
761 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
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41bd17a4 764 FORMAT specifications
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41bd17a4 766 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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767 %un A user name. Expands to the first available name
768 from the following list of information sources:
769 - authenticated user name, like %ul or %LOGIN
770 - user name sent by an external ACL, like %EXT_USER
771 - SSL client name, like %us in logformat
772 - ident user name, like %ui in logformat
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773 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
774 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
775 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 776 %IDENT Ident user name
777 %SRC Client IP
778 %SRCPORT Client source port
779 %URI Requested URI
780 %DST Requested host
4e3f4dc7 781 %PROTO Requested URL scheme
41bd17a4 782 %PORT Requested port
783 %PATH Requested URL path
784 %METHOD Request method
785 %MYADDR Squid interface address
786 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
787 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
788 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
789 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
790 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
f06585e0 791 %USER_CA_CERT_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
cedca6e7 792 %ssl::>sni SSL client SNI sent to Squid
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793 %ssl::<cert_subject SSL server certificate DN
794 %ssl::<cert_issuer SSL server certificate issuer DN
7b0ca1e8 795
c68c9682 796 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 797 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 798 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 799 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 800 HTTP request header list member using ; as
801 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
802 character.
cccac0a2 803
c68c9682 804 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 805 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 806 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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807 %<{Hdr:;member}
808 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
809 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
810 character.
811
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812 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
813 %DATA The ACL arguments. If not used then any arguments
814 is automatically added at the end of the line
815 sent to the helper.
816 NOTE: this will encode the arguments as one token,
817 whereas the default will pass each separately.
818
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820 an unchanging input format.
821
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824
825 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
826
827
828 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
829 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
830 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
831
832 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
833 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
834
835 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
836 each value in requests against whitespaces.
837
838 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
839 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
840
841 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
842
843 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
844 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
845 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
846 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
847 of the response relating to its request.
848
849
850 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
851 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
852 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
853
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41bd17a4 855 General result syntax:
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858
859 Result consists of one of the codes:
860
861 OK
862 the ACL test produced a match.
863
864 ERR
865 the ACL test does not produce a match.
866
867 BH
4ded749e 868 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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869 a result being identified.
870
871 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
872 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 874 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 876 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 877
41bd17a4 878 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
5269ec0e 879
05e52854 880 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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881 Available as %o in error pages.
882 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
883
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884 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
885 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 887 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 888 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 889
457857fe 890 clt_conn_tag= Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
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891 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation
892 for this kv-pair.
457857fe 893
05e52854 894 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
6a566b9c 895
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896 All response keyword values need to be a single token with URL
897 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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898 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
899 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
900 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 901
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902 Some example key values:
903
5269ec0e 904 user=John%20Smith
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905 user="John Smith"
906 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
cccac0a2 907DOC_END
908
41bd17a4 909NAME: acl
910TYPE: acl
911LOC: Config.aclList
cb4f4424 912IF USE_OPENSSL
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913DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
914DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
915DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
916DEFAULT: 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
917DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
918ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 919DEFAULT: all src all
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920DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
921DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
922DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
923DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 924DOC_START
41bd17a4 925 Defining an Access List
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927 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
928 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
929 they are read from.
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931 acl aclname acltype argument ...
932 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 933
375eeb3b 934 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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937 The available options are:
938
939 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
940 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
941 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
942 without -i.
943
944 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
945 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
946 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
947 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
948 without any warnings or lookups.
949
950 -- Used to stop processing all options, in the case the first acl
951 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
952 is a valid domain name)
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955 to access some external data source.
956 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
957 don't are marked as [fast].
958 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
959 for further information
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961 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
962
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963 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
964 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 965 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 966 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 967
41bd17a4 968 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
b3567eb5 969 # [fast]
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970 # The 'arp' ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
971 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other
972 # BSD variants.
41bd17a4 973 #
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975 # clients that are on the same subnet. If the client is on a
976 # different subnet, then Squid cannot find out its address.
977 #
978 # NOTE 2: IPv6 protocol does not contain ARP. MAC/EUI is either
979 # encoded directly in the IPv6 address or not available.
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981 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
982 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 983 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 984 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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986 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 987 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 988 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 989 #
41bd17a4 990 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
991 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
992 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 993
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994 acl aclname src_as number ...
995 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 996 # [fast]
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997 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
998 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
999 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
1000 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
1001 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
1002 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
1003 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 1004
6db78a1a 1005 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 1006 # [fast]
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1007 # match against a named cache_peer entry
1008 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
1009
375eeb3b 1010 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 1011 # [fast]
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1013 # S - Sunday
1014 # M - Monday
1015 # T - Tuesday
1016 # W - Wednesday
1017 # H - Thursday
1018 # F - Friday
1019 # A - Saturday
1020 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
1021
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1022 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
1023 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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1024 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
1025 # regex matching on URL login field
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1026 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
1027 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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1029 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
1030 # ranges are alloed
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1031 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
1032 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
1033
3cc0f4e7 1034 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # *_port name [fast]
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1036 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
1037
1038 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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1040 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
1041 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 1043 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1044 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 1046 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1047 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 1048 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 1050 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 1051 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1052 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 1053 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 1054
41bd17a4 1055 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
1056 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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1058 # supplied credentials [slow]
1059 #
1060 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 1061 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
1062 #
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1064 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
1065 #
41bd17a4 1066 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
1067 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
1068 # in access.log.
1069 #
1070 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
1071 # to check username/password combinations (see
1072 # auth_param directive).
1073 #
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1075 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 1076 # to respond to proxy authentication.
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41bd17a4 1078 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 1079 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 1080 # Example:
1081 #
1082 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 1084 acl aclname maxconn number
1085 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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1086 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
1087 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
1088 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 1089
41bd17a4 1090 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
1091 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
1092 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 1093 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 1094 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
1095 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
1096 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
1097 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
1098 # request is denied)
1099 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
1100 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
1101 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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1104 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
1105 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
1106 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
1107
375eeb3b 1108 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1109 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
1110 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 1111 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 1112 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1113 # to match the returned file type.
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41bd17a4 1115 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1116 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1117 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1118 # ACL [fast]
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375eeb3b 1120 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1121 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1122 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1123 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1124 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1125 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1126 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 1128 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1129 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1130 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1131 # ACLs [fast]
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375eeb3b 1133 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1134 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1135 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 1137 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1138 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
2927ae41 1139 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1140
41bd17a4 1141 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1142 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
2927ae41 1143 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1144
41bd17a4 1145 acl aclname ext_user username ...
1146 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1147 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1148 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1149
0ab50441 1150 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
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1152 # DEPRECATED. Only the first tag will match with this ACL.
1153 # Use the 'note' ACL instead for handling multiple tag values.
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1156 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1157 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1158 #
1159 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1160 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1161 # http_reply_access.
1162
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1164 # match transaction annotation [fast]
1165 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
1166 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
1167 # also has one of the given values.
1168 # Names and values are compared using a string equality test.
1169 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
1170 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
1171
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1173 # Matches the name of any icap_service, ecap_service,
1174 # adaptation_service_set, or adaptation_service_chain that Squid
1175 # has used (or attempted to use) for the master transaction.
1176 # This ACL must be defined after the corresponding adaptation
1177 # service is named in squid.conf. This ACL is usable with
1178 # adaptation_meta because it starts matching immediately after
1179 # the service has been selected for adaptation.
1180
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1183 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1184 #
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1186 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1187 #
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1189 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1190 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1191 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1192 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1193 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1194 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1195 #
1196 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1197 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1198 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1199 #
1200 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1201 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
00352183 1202
72b12f9e 1203 acl aclname server_cert_fingerprint [-sha1] fingerprint
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1205 #
1206 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1207 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1208 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1209 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1210 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
5d65362c 1211
652fcffd 1212 acl aclname at_step step
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1214 # Never matches and should not be used outside the ssl_bump context.
1215 #
1216 # At each SslBump step, Squid evaluates ssl_bump directives to find
1217 # the next bumping action (e.g., peek or splice). Valid SslBump step
1218 # values and the corresponding ssl_bump evaluation moments are:
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1220 # SslBump2: After getting SSL Client Hello info.
1221 # SslBump3: After getting SSL Server Hello info.
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1223 acl aclname ssl::server_name .foo.com ...
1224 # matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
1225 #
1226 # The server name is obtained during Ssl-Bump steps from such sources
1227 # as CONNECT request URI, client SNI, and SSL server certificate CN.
1228 # During each Ssl-Bump step, Squid may improve its understanding of a
1229 # "true server name". Unlike dstdomain, this ACL does not perform
1230 # DNS lookups.
1231
1232 acl aclname ssl::server_name_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
1233 # regex matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
cf1c09f6 1234ENDIF
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1235 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1236 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1237 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1238 #
1239 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1240 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1241 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1242 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1243 #
1244 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1245 # and slow otherwise.
1246
1247 acl aclname all-of acl1 acl2 ...
1248 # match all of the acls [fast or slow]
1249 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1250 #
1251 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1252 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1253 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1254 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1255 #
1256 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1257 # and slow otherwise.
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1259 Examples:
1260 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1261 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1262 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1263 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1264 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 1265
41bd17a4 1266NOCOMMENT_START
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1268# Recommended minimum configuration:
1269#
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ee776778 1271# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1272# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1273# should be allowed
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1274acl localnet src 0.0.0.1-0.255.255.255 # RFC 1122 "this" network (LAN)
1275acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1276acl localnet src 100.64.0.0/10 # RFC 6598 shared address space (CGN)
1277acl localhet src 169.254.0.0/16 # RFC 3927 link-local (directly plugged) machines
1278acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1279acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1280acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1281acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1283acl SSL_ports port 443
1284acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1285acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1286acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1287acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1288acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1289acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1290acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1291acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1292acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1293acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1294acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1295NOCOMMENT_END
1296DOC_END
cccac0a2 1297
d3d92daa 1298NAME: proxy_protocol_access
3d674977 1299TYPE: acl_access
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1300LOC: Config.accessList.proxyProtocol
1301DEFAULT: none
c390580b 1302DEFAULT_DOC: all TCP connections to ports with require-proxy-header will be denied
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1304 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1305 information regarding real client IP address using PROXY protocol.
1306
1307 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1308 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1309 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1310 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1311 * PROXY protocol connection header.
1312
1313 This directive is solely for validating new PROXY protocol
1314 connections received from a port flagged with require-proxy-header.
1315 It is checked only once after TCP connection setup.
1316
1317 A deny match results in TCP connection closure.
1318
1319 An allow match is required for Squid to permit the corresponding
1320 TCP connection, before Squid even looks for HTTP request headers.
1321 If there is an allow match, Squid starts using PROXY header information
1322 to determine the source address of the connection for all future ACL
1323 checks, logging, etc.
1324
1325 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1326
c390580b 1327 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
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1328 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
1329 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1330 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1331 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1332 based on the client's source addresses.
1333
1334 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1335 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1336DOC_END
1337
1338NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1339TYPE: acl_access
1340IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
3d674977 1341LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1342DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
9353df52 1343DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
3d674977 1344DOC_START
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1346 information regarding real client IP address.
1347
3d674977 1348 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
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1349 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1350 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1351 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1352 * PROXY protocol connection header.
3d674977 1353
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1354 PROXY protocol connections are controlled by the proxy_protocol_access
1355 directive which is checked before this.
1356
3d674977 1357 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
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1358 directive, then we trust the information it provides regarding
1359 the IP of the client it received from (if any).
1360
1361 For the purpose of ACLs used in this directive the src ACL type always
1362 matches the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
1363
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1364 On each HTTP request Squid checks for X-Forwarded-For header fields.
1365 If found the header values are iterated in reverse order and an allow
1366 match is required for Squid to continue on to the next value.
1367 The verification ends when a value receives a deny match, cannot be
1368 tested, or there are no more values to test.
1369 NOTE: Squid does not yet follow the Forwarded HTTP header.
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1371 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1372 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1373 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1374 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1375 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
1376 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1379 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1380
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1382
c390580b 1383 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
70a16fea 1384 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
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1385 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1386 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1387 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1388 based on the client's source addresses.
1389
1390 For example:
1391
1392 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1393 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1394 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1395 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1396DOC_END
1397
1398NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1399COMMENT: on|off
1400TYPE: onoff
1401IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1402DEFAULT: on
1403LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1404DOC_START
1405 Controls whether the indirect client address
1406 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1407 direct client address in acl matching.
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1409 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1410 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1412
1413NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1414COMMENT: on|off
1415TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1416IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1418LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1419DOC_START
1420 Controls whether the indirect client address
1421 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1422 direct client address in delay pools.
1423DOC_END
1424
1425NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1426COMMENT: on|off
1427TYPE: onoff
1428IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1429DEFAULT: on
1430LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1431DOC_START
1432 Controls whether the indirect client address
1433 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1434 direct client address in the access log.
1435DOC_END
1436
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1437NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1438COMMENT: on|off
1439TYPE: onoff
1440IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1441DEFAULT: off
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1442LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1443DOC_START
1444 Controls whether the indirect client address
1445 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1446 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1448 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1449 mode ports.
1450
1451 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1452 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
16ae256c 1453 of follow_x_forwarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1454 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1457NAME: spoof_client_ip
1458TYPE: acl_access
1459LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1460DEFAULT: none
1461DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1462DOC_START
1463 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1464 defined access lists.
1465
1466 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1467
1468 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1469 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1470
1471 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1472
1473 This clause supports fast acl types.
1474 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1475DOC_END
1476
41bd17a4 1477NAME: http_access
1478TYPE: acl_access
1479LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1480DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1481DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1482DOC_START
1483 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1484
8a2f40dd 1485 To allow or deny a message received on an HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP port:
41bd17a4 1486 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1487
41bd17a4 1488 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1490 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1491 the request.
cccac0a2 1492
41bd17a4 1493 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1494 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1495 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1496 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1497 good idea to have an "deny all" entry at the end of your access
1498 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1501 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1502
41bd17a4 1503NOCOMMENT_START
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1505#
1506# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1507#
e0855596 1508# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1509http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1511# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1512http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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1515http_access allow localhost manager
1516http_access deny manager
1517
41bd17a4 1518# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1519# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1520# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1521#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1523#
1524# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1525#
c8f4eac4 1526
ee776778 1527# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1528# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1529# from where browsing should be allowed
1530http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1531http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1532
41bd17a4 1533# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1534http_access deny all
1535NOCOMMENT_END
1536DOC_END
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1538NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1539TYPE: acl_access
1540LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1541DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1542DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1544 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1545
1546 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1547 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1548 output.
1549
1550 If not set then only http_access is used.
1551DOC_END
1552
41bd17a4 1553NAME: http_reply_access
1554TYPE: acl_access
1555LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1556DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1557DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1558DOC_START
1559 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1560
41bd17a4 1561 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1562
41bd17a4 1563 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1564 all replies.
1a224843 1565
41bd17a4 1566 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1567 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1568 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1570 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1571 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1572DOC_END
1573
41bd17a4 1574NAME: icp_access
1575TYPE: acl_access
1576LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1578DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1579DOC_START
41bd17a4 1580 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1581 access lists
5473c134 1582
41bd17a4 1583 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1584
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1586 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1587 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1588
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1590 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1592# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1593#icp_access allow localnet
1594#icp_access deny all
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1596
41bd17a4 1597NAME: htcp_access
1598IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1599TYPE: acl_access
1600LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1602DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1603DOC_START
41bd17a4 1604 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1605 access lists
5473c134 1606
41bd17a4 1607 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1608
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1610 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
5473c134 1611
0b48417e 1612 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1613 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1614 using the htcp option.
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1617 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1619# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1620#htcp_access allow localnet
1621#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1622DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1624NAME: htcp_clr_access
1625IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1626TYPE: acl_access
1627LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1629DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1630DOC_START
1631 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1633 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1634
41bd17a4 1635 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1638 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1640# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1641acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1642htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1643htcp_clr_access deny all
5473c134 1644DOC_END
1645
41bd17a4 1646NAME: miss_access
1647TYPE: acl_access
1648LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1649DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1650DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1651DOC_START
18d1eddf 1652 Determines whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
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1653
1654 For example;
1655 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1656 a parent.
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638402dd 1658 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1659 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1660 miss_access allow all
5473c134 1661
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1663 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1664 objects (HITs).
1665
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1667 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1669 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1670 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1671DOC_END
1672
1673NAME: ident_lookup_access
1674TYPE: acl_access
1675IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1677DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1678LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1679DOC_START
41bd17a4 1680 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1681 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1682 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1683 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1684 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1685 any requests.
5473c134 1686
41bd17a4 1687 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1688 can follow this example:
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4daaf3cb 1690 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1691 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1692 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1693
4daaf3cb 1694 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1695 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1696 the correct result.
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1698 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1699 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1700DOC_END
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5b0f5383 1702NAME: reply_body_max_size
1703COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1704TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1705DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1706DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1707LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1708DOC_START
1709 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1710 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1711 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1712 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1713 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1714 for this reply.
1715
1716 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1717 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1718 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1719 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1720 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1721 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1722 and they will receive a partial reply.
1723
1724 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1725 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1726 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1727 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1728
1729 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1730 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1731 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1732 the size of your largest error page.
1733
1734 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1735 no limit imposed.
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1737 Configuration Format is:
1738 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1739 ie.
1740 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1741
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1744NAME: on_unsupported_protocol
1745TYPE: on_unsupported_protocol
1746LOC: Config.accessList.on_unsupported_protocol
1747DEFAULT: none
1748DEFAULT_DOC: Respond with an error message to unidentifiable traffic
1749DOC_START
1750 Determines Squid behavior when encountering strange requests at the
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1752 CONNECT tunnel. Controlling Squid reaction to unexpected traffic is
1753 especially useful in interception environments where Squid is likely
1754 to see connections for unsupported protocols that Squid should either
1755 terminate or tunnel at TCP level.
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1757 on_unsupported_protocol <action> [!]acl ...
1758
56d089f3 1759 The first matching action wins. Only fast ACLs are supported.
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1761 Supported actions are:
1762
1763 tunnel: Establish a TCP connection with the intended server and
1764 blindly shovel TCP packets between the client and server.
1765
1766 respond: Respond with an error message, using the transfer protocol
1767 for the Squid port that received the request (e.g., HTTP
1768 for connections intercepted at the http_port). This is the
1769 default.
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1771 Squid expects the following traffic patterns:
1772
1773 http_port: a plain HTTP request
1774 https_port: SSL/TLS handshake followed by an [encrypted] HTTP request
1775 ftp_port: a plain FTP command (no on_unsupported_protocol support yet!)
1776 CONNECT tunnel on http_port: same as https_port
1777 CONNECT tunnel on https_port: same as https_port
1778
1779 Currently, this directive has effect on intercepted connections and
1780 bumped tunnels only. Other cases are not supported because Squid
1781 cannot know the intended destination of other traffic.
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1783 For example:
1784 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving non-HTTP traffic:
1785 acl foreignProtocol squid_error ERR_PROTOCOL_UNKNOWN ERR_TOO_BIG
1786 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving nothing:
1787 acl serverTalksFirstProtocol squid_error ERR_REQUEST_START_TIMEOUT
1788 # tunnel everything that does not look like HTTP:
1789 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel foreignProtocol
1790 # tunnel if we think the client waits for the server to talk first:
1791 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel serverTalksFirstProtocol
1792 # in all other error cases, just send an HTTP "error page" response:
1793 on_unsupported_protocol respond all
1794
1795 See also: squid_error ACL
1796DOC_END
1797
5b0f5383 1798COMMENT_START
1799 NETWORK OPTIONS
1800 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1801COMMENT_END
1802
1803NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1804TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1805DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 1806LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 1807DOC_START
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1809 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1810 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1811
1812 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1813 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1814 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1815 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1816 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1817 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1818 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1819
1820 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1821 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1822
1823 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1824 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1825 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1826
1827 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1828
c7b1dd5d 1829 Modes:
5b0f5383 1830
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1832 traffic to this Squid port.
1833 NP: disables authentication on the port.
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1836 of outgoing connections using the client IP address.
1837 NP: disables authentication on the port.
5b0f5383 1838
7f45065d 1839 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1840
caf3666d 1841 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1842 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1843 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1845 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1846
7a957a93 1847 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1848 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1850 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1851
1852
1853 Accelerator Mode Options:
1854
5b0f5383 1855 defaultsite=domainname
1856 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1857 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1858 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1859
cf673853 1860 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1861
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1863 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
1864 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
1865 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
1866 produce a FATAL error.
1867 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
5b0f5383 1868
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1870 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1871
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1873 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1874
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1876 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1877 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1878 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1879
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1881
7f45065d 1882 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1884
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1886 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1887 never_direct was used.
1888
1889 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1890 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1891 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1892 http_access rules when using this.
1893
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1895 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1897
1898 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1899 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1900 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1901 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1902 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1903 certificate will be selfsigned.
1904 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1905 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1906 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1907 years.
1908 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1909 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1910
1911 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1912 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1913 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1914 default value is 4MB.
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1916 TLS / SSL Options:
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1918 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1919
1920 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1921 if not specified, the certificate file is
1922 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1923 key file.
1924
c7b1dd5d 1925 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1927 additional settings. If those settings are
1928 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1929 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1930
943c5f16 1931 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1932 being:
7905e7be 1933
3d96b0e8 1934 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 1935
3d96b0e8 1936 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1f1f29e8 1937
3d96b0e8 1938 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1f1f29e8 1939
3d96b0e8 1940 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1f1f29e8 1941
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1943 Always create a new key when using
c7b1dd5d 1944 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1f1f29e8 1945
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1947 Enable ephemeral ECDH key exchange.
1948 The adopted curve should be specified
1949 using the tls-dh option.
1950
36092741 1951 NO_TICKET
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1953 Some servers may have problems
1954 understanding the TLS extension due
1955 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
1956
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1958 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1959 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1960 strength to some attacks.
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1962 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1963 more complete list.
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1965 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1966 requesting a client certificate.
1967
1968 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1969 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1970 clientca will be used.
1971
1972 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1973 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1974
1975 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1976 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1977 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1978
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1980 File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral DH key
1981 exchanges, optionally prefixed by a curve for ephemeral ECDH
1982 key exchanges.
1983 See OpenSSL documentation for details on how to create the
1984 DH parameter file. Supported curves for ECDH can be listed
1985 using the "openssl ecparam -list_curves" command.
1986 WARNING: EDH and EECDH ciphers will be silently disabled if
1987 this option is not set.
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1989 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1990 DELAYED_AUTH
1991 Don't request client certificates
1992 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1993 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1994 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1995 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1996 to OpenSSL.
1997 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1998 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1999 will result in a new SSL session.
2000 VERIFY_CRL
2001 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
2002 certificates.
2003 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
2004 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
2005 client certificate chain.
2006
2007 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
2008
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2010
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2012 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
2013 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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2015
5b0f5383 2016 disable-pmtu-discovery=
2017 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
2018 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
2019 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
2020 support is enabled.
2021 always disable always PMTU discovery.
2022
2023 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
2024 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
2025 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
2026 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
2027 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
2028 have such setup and experience that certain clients
2029 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
2030 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
2031
81b6e9a7 2032 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
2033 the port specification (port or addr:port)
2034
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2037 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
2038 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 2039 timeout the time before giving up.
2040
d3d92daa 2041 require-proxy-header
151ba0d4 2042 Require PROXY protocol version 1 or 2 connections.
d3d92daa 2043 The proxy_protocol_access is required to whitelist
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2045
5b0f5383 2046 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
2047 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
2048 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
2049 visible on the internal address.
2050
2051NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 2052
5b0f5383 2053# Squid normally listens to port 3128
2054http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
2055NOCOMMENT_END
2056DOC_END
2057
2058NAME: https_port
cb4f4424 2059IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
65d448bc 2060TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 2061DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 2062LOC: HttpsPortList
5b0f5383 2063DOC_START
7f45065d 2064 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 2065
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2067 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 2068
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2070 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 2071
2072 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
2073 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
2074
7f45065d 2075 Modes:
5b0f5383 2076
7f45065d 2077 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
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2080 outgoing requests without browser settings.
2081 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
2082
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2084 connections using the client IP address.
2085 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
2086
caf3666d 2087 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 2088 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 2089 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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2091 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
2092
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2094 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 2095
38450a50 2096 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 2097
7f45065d 2098 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 2099
5b0f5383 2100
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2102
2103
2104 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 2105
2106 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
2107
2108 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
2109 if not specified, the certificate file is
2110 assumed to be a combined certificate and
2111 key file.
2112
5b0f5383 2113 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
2114
2115 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
2116 being:
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2118 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2119
2120 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2121
2122 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2123
2124 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
2125
2126 SINGLE_DH_USE
2127 Always create a new key when using
5b0f5383 2128 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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2131 Enable ephemeral ECDH key exchange.
2132 The adopted curve should be specified
2133 using the tls-dh option.
2134
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2136 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2137 Some servers may have problems
2138 understanding the TLS extension due
2139 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2140
2141 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2142 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2143 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2144 strength to some attacks.
2145
2146 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2147 more complete list.
5b0f5383 2148
2149 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
2150 requesting a client certificate.
2151
2152 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
2153 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
2154 clientca will be used.
2155
2156 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
2157 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
2158
2159 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
2160 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
2161 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
2162
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2164 File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral DH key
2165 exchanges, optionally prefixed by a curve for ephemeral ECDH
2166 key exchanges.
5b0f5383 2167
2168 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
2169 DELAYED_AUTH
2170 Don't request client certificates
2171 immediately, but wait until acl processing
2172 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
2173 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2174 Don't use the default CA lists built in
2175 to OpenSSL.
2176 NO_SESSION_REUSE
2177 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
2178 will result in a new SSL session.
2179 VERIFY_CRL
2180 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
2181 certificates.
2182 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
2183 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
2184 client certificate chain.
2185
2186 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
2187
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2189 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
2190 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
2191 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
2192 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
2193 certificate will be selfsigned.
2194 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
2195 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
2196 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
2197 years.
2198 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
2199 See the sslBump option above for more information.
2200
2201 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
2202 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
2203 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 2204 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 2205
859741ed 2206 See http_port for a list of available options.
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2210TYPE: PortCfg
2211DEFAULT: none
8ea0d847 2212LOC: FtpPortList
434a79b0 2213DOC_START
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2215 listens for FTP client requests. See http_port directive for various
2216 ways to specify the listening address and mode.
2217
2218 Usage: ftp_port address [mode] [options]
2219
2220 WARNING: This is a new, experimental, complex feature that has seen
2221 limited production exposure. Some Squid modules (e.g., caching) do not
2222 currently work with native FTP proxying, and many features have not
2223 even been tested for compatibility. Test well before deploying!
2224
2225 Native FTP proxying differs substantially from proxying HTTP requests
2226 with ftp:// URIs because Squid works as an FTP server and receives
2227 actual FTP commands (rather than HTTP requests with FTP URLs).
2228
2229 Native FTP commands accepted at ftp_port are internally converted or
2230 wrapped into HTTP-like messages. The same happens to Native FTP
2231 responses received from FTP origin servers. Those HTTP-like messages
2232 are shoveled through regular access control and adaptation layers
2233 between the FTP client and the FTP origin server. This allows Squid to
2234 examine, adapt, block, and log FTP exchanges. Squid reuses most HTTP
2235 mechanisms when shoveling wrapped FTP messages. For example,
2236 http_access and adaptation_access directives are used.
2237
2238 Modes:
2239
3cc0f4e7 2240 intercept Same as http_port intercept. The FTP origin address is
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2242 intercepted connection.
2243
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2245 connections using the client IP address.
2246 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
2247
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2249 FTP origin address from the login@origin parameter of the FTP USER
2250 command. Many popular FTP clients support such native FTP proxying.
2251
2252 Options:
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2255 the port address. Usable with myportname ACL.
2256
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2259 PWD commands and adjusting Request-URI (in wrapping
2260 HTTP requests) to reflect the current FTP server
aea65fec 2261 directory. Tracking is disabled by default.
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2264 requests with. Defaults to FTP. No other accepted
2265 values have been tested with. An unsupported value
2266 results in a FATAL error. Accepted values are FTP,
2267 HTTP (or HTTP/1.1), and HTTPS (or HTTPS/1.1).
2268
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2270 HTTPS may also work.
2271DOC_END
434a79b0 2272
41bd17a4 2273NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2274TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 2275DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 2276LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
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2279 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 2280
41bd17a4 2281 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 2282
41bd17a4 2283 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 2284 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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2287 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 2288 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 2289 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 2290
41bd17a4 2291 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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2293 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 2294
41bd17a4 2295 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
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2297 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2298 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2299 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
cccac0a2 2300
41bd17a4 2301 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2302 matching line.
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2304 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2306
41bd17a4 2307NAME: clientside_tos
2308TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 2309DEFAULT: none
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2311DOC_START
5f53baab 2312 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value for packets being transmitted
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2314
2315 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2316
2317 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2318 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2319
2320 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2321 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2322 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
2323 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2324
2325 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
2326 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
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2328 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
2329 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2330 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2331 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2332 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
2333
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2335
2336NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
2337TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2338IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2340LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
2341DOC_START
2342 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
2343 on the server side, based on an ACL.
2344
2345 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2346
2347 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2348 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2349
2350 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2351 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2352 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2353 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
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2354
2355 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2356DOC_END
2357
2358NAME: clientside_mark
2359TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2360IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2361DEFAULT: none
2362LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 2363DOC_START
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2364 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
2365 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2366
2367 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2368
2369 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2370 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2371
2372 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2373 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2374 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2375 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
2376
2377 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
2378 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 2379DOC_END
cccac0a2 2380
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2381NAME: qos_flows
2382TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 2383IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 2384DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 2385LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 2386DOC_START
575cb927 2387 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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2388 connections to the client, based on where the reply was sourced.
2389 For platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
425de4c8 2390 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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2392 By default this functionality is disabled. To enable it with the default
2393 settings simply use "qos_flows mark" or "qos_flows tos". Default
2394 settings will result in the netfilter mark or TOS value being copied
2395 from the upstream connection to the client. Note that it is the connection
2396 CONNMARK value not the packet MARK value that is copied.
2397
2398 It is not currently possible to copy the mark or TOS value from the
2399 client to the upstream connection request.
2400
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2401 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
2402 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2403 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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2405 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255.
2406 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2407 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2408 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
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2409
2410 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 2411
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2412 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
2413
2414 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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2415
2416 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
2417
2418 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
2419
2420 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
2421
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2422 miss=0xFF[/mask] Value to mark cache misses. Takes precedence
2423 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2424 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2425 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 2426
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2427 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
2428 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2429 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2430 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2431 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 2432
575cb927 2433 disable-preserve-miss
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2434 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2435 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2436 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2437 and masked with miss-mark.
2438 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2439 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2440 (MARK target).
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2441
2442 miss-mask=0xFF
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2443 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2444 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2445 the TOS sent towards clients.
2446 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2447 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2448
2449 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2450 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2451 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2452 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2454DOC_END
2455
41bd17a4 2456NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2457TYPE: acl_address
2458DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2459DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2460LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2461DOC_START
2462 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2463 based on the username or source address of the user making
2464 the request.
7f7db318 2465
41bd17a4 2466 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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2468 For example;
2469 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2471 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2472 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2473
2474 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2475 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2476
2477 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2478 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2479
2480 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2481 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2482
41bd17a4 2483 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2484 matching line.
cccac0a2 2485
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2486 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
2487 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2488 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2489
2490
2491 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2492 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2493 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2494 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 2495
2dd51400 2496 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 2497 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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2498 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option and the
2499 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 2500
cccac0a2 2501DOC_END
6db78a1a 2502
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2503NAME: host_verify_strict
2504TYPE: onoff
2505DEFAULT: off
2506LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2507DOC_START
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2508 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2509 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2510 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2511
2512 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2513 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2514 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2515
2516 When set to ON:
2517 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2518 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2519
2520 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2521 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2522 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2523 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2524 and Request-URI components:
2525
2526 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2527 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2528 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2529 or FQDN.
2530
2531 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2532 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2533
2534
2535 When set to OFF (the default):
2536 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2537 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2538
2539 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2540
2541 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2542
2543 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2544 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2545
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2546 * Intercepted requests which fail verification are sent
2547 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2548 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2549
2550 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2551 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2552
bfe4e2fe 2553
7177edfb 2554 SECURITY NOTE:
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2555
2556 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2557 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2558 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2559 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2560
2561 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2562 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2563 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2564 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2565 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2566
2567DOC_END
6b185b50 2568
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2569NAME: client_dst_passthru
2570TYPE: onoff
2571DEFAULT: on
2572LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2573DOC_START
2574 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2575 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2576 source using the HTTP Host header.
2577
2578 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2579 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2580 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2581 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2582
2583 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2584 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2585 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2586
2587 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2588 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2589 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2590
2591 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2592DOC_END
2593
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2594COMMENT_START
2595 TLS OPTIONS
2596 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2597COMMENT_END
2598
2599NAME: tls_outgoing_options
2600IFDEF: USE_GNUTLS||USE_OPENSSL
2601TYPE: securePeerOptions
2fbb02b1 2602DEFAULT: min-version=1.0
7e62a74f 2603LOC: Security::ProxyOutgoingConfig
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2604DOC_START
2605 disable Do not support https:// URLs.
2606
2607 cert=/path/to/client/certificate
2608 A client TLS certificate to use when connecting.
2609
2610 key=/path/to/client/private_key
2611 The private TLS key corresponding to the cert= above.
2612 If key= is not specified cert= is assumed to reference
2613 a PEM file containing both the certificate and the key.
2614
195f8adb 2615 cipher=... The list of valid TLS ciphers to use.
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2616
2617 min-version=1.N
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2618 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit.
2619 To control SSLv3 use the options= parameter.
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2620 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
2621
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2622 options=... Specify various TLS/SSL implementation options:
2623
2624 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
7905e7be 2625
195f8adb 2626 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
7905e7be 2627
195f8adb 2628 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
7905e7be 2629
195f8adb 2630 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
7905e7be 2631
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2632 SINGLE_DH_USE
2633 Always create a new key when using
2634 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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2635
2636 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2637 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2638 Some servers may have problems
2639 understanding the TLS extension due
2640 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2641
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2642 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2643 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
7905e7be 2644 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
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2645 strength to some attacks.
2646
2647 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2648 more complete list.
2649
2650 cafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2651 when verifying the peer certificate.
2652
2653 capath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2654 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2655
2656 crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2657 verifying the peer certificate.
2658
2659 flags=... Specify various flags modifying the TLS implementation:
2660
2661 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2662 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2663 verify.
2664 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2665 Don't use the default CA list built in
2666 to OpenSSL.
2667 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2668 Don't verify the peer certificate
2669 matches the server name
2670
2671 domain= The peer name as advertised in its certificate.
2672 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2673 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2674 used.
2675DOC_END
2676
41bd17a4 2677COMMENT_START
2678 SSL OPTIONS
2679 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2680COMMENT_END
2681
2682NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
cb4f4424 2683IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2684TYPE: onoff
2685DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2686LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2687DOC_START
41bd17a4 2688 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2689 messages.
cccac0a2 2690DOC_END
2691
41bd17a4 2692NAME: ssl_engine
cb4f4424 2693IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2694TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2695LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2696DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2697DOC_START
41bd17a4 2698 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2699 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2700DOC_END
2701
10a69fc0 2702NAME: sslproxy_session_ttl
cb4f4424 2703IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2704DEFAULT: 300
2705LOC: Config.SSL.session_ttl
2706TYPE: int
2707DOC_START
2708 Sets the timeout value for SSL sessions
2709DOC_END
2710
2711NAME: sslproxy_session_cache_size
cb4f4424 2712IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2713DEFAULT: 2 MB
2714LOC: Config.SSL.sessionCacheSize
2715TYPE: b_size_t
2716DOC_START
2717 Sets the cache size to use for ssl session
2718DOC_END
2719
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2720NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign_hash
2721IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
2722DEFAULT: none
2723LOC: Config.SSL.certSignHash
2724TYPE: string
2725DOC_START
2726 Sets the hashing algorithm to use when signing generated certificates.
2727 Valid algorithm names depend on the OpenSSL library used. The following
2728 names are usually available: sha1, sha256, sha512, and md5. Please see
2729 your OpenSSL library manual for the available hashes. By default, Squids
2730 that support this option use sha256 hashes.
2731
2732 Squid does not forcefully purge cached certificates that were generated
2733 with an algorithm other than the currently configured one. They remain
2734 in the cache, subject to the regular cache eviction policy, and become
2735 useful if the algorithm changes again.
2736DOC_END
2737
4c9da963 2738NAME: ssl_bump
cb4f4424 2739IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
caf3666d 2740TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2741LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
8f165829 2742DEFAULT_DOC: Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
4c9da963 2743DEFAULT: none
2744DOC_START
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2745 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2746 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2747 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2748 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2749 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
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2750 depending on the first matching bumping "action".
2751
2752 ssl_bump <action> [!]acl ...
caf3666d 2753
8f165829 2754 The following bumping actions are currently supported:
caf3666d 2755
5d65362c 2756 splice
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2757 Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
2758 This is the default action.
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2759
2760 bump
2761 Establish a secure connection with the server and, using a
2762 mimicked server certificate, with the client.
caf3666d 2763
5d65362c 2764 peek
1110989a 2765 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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2766 certificate while preserving the possibility of splicing the
2767 connection. Peeking at the server certificate (during step 2)
2768 usually precludes bumping of the connection at step 3.
caf3666d 2769
5d65362c 2770 stare
1110989a 2771 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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2772 certificate while preserving the possibility of bumping the
2773 connection. Staring at the server certificate (during step 2)
2774 usually precludes splicing of the connection at step 3.
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2776 terminate
2777 Close client and server connections.
2778
1110989a 2779 Backward compatibility actions available at step SslBump1:
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2780
2781 client-first
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2782 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
2783 client first, then connect to the server. This old mode does
2784 not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does not
2785 work with intercepted SSL connections.
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2787 server-first
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2788 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
2789 server first, then establish a secure connection with the
2790 client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2791 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections, but does
2792 not allow to make decisions based on SSL handshake info.
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2794 peek-and-splice
2795 Decide whether to bump or splice the connection based on
d620ae0e 2796 client-to-squid and server-to-squid SSL hello messages.
8f165829 2797 XXX: Remove.
caf3666d 2798
caf3666d 2799 none
8f165829 2800 Same as the "splice" action.
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2802 All ssl_bump rules are evaluated at each of the supported bumping
2803 steps. Rules with actions that are impossible at the current step are
2804 ignored. The first matching ssl_bump action wins and is applied at the
2805 end of the current step. If no rules match, the splice action is used.
652fcffd 2806 See the at_step ACL for a list of the supported SslBump steps.
4c9da963 2807
e0c0d54c 2808 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2809 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
e0855596 2810
652fcffd 2811 See also: http_port ssl-bump, https_port ssl-bump, and acl at_step.
caf3666d 2812
e0855596 2813
caf3666d 2814 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from
638402dd 2815 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 2816
e0855596 2817 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2818 ssl_bump splice localhost
2819 ssl_bump splice broken_sites
2820 ssl_bump bump all
4c9da963 2821DOC_END
2822
4c9da963 2823NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
cb4f4424 2824IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
4c9da963 2825DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2826DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 2827LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2828TYPE: acl_access
2829DOC_START
2830 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2831
2832 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2833 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2834 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2835
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2836 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
2837 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2838 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2839
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2840 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2841 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2842 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2843
2844 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 2845 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
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2847 SQUID_X509_V_ERR_INFINITE_VALIDATION error cannot be bypassed
2848 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
2849
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2850 SECURITY WARNING:
2851 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
2852 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
2853 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 2854
638402dd 2855 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 2856DOC_END
2857
aebe6888 2858NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
cb4f4424 2859IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
aebe6888 2860DEFAULT: none
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2861POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2862POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2863POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2864TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2865LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2866DOC_START
2867
69742b76 2868 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 2869
69742b76 2870 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2871
aebe6888 2872 signTrusted
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2873 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
2874 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2875 default for trusted origin server certificates.
638402dd 2876
aebe6888 2877 signUntrusted
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2878 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2879 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2880 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 2881
aebe6888 2882 signSelf
69742b76 2883 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2884 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2885 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
2886 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
aebe6888 2887
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2888 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2889
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2890 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2891 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2892 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2893 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2894 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
cf1c09f6 2895
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2896 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2897 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2898 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2899 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2900 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2901 bump-server-first is used.
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2902DOC_END
2903
638402dd 2904NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
cb4f4424 2905IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2906DEFAULT: none
2907TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2908LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2909DOC_START
2910
2911 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2912
69742b76 2913 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2914
fb2178bb 2915 setValidAfter
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2916 Sets the "Not After" property to the "Not After" property of
2917 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 2918
fb2178bb 2919 setValidBefore
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2920 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
2921 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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2924 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2925 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2926 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2927 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2928 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2930 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2931
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2932 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
2933 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2934 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2935 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2936 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2937 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2940 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2941 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2942 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2943 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2944 bump-server-first is used.
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2946
41bd17a4 2947NAME: sslpassword_program
cb4f4424 2948IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2949DEFAULT: none
2950LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2951TYPE: string
5473c134 2952DOC_START
41bd17a4 2953 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2954 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2955 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2956 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2958 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2959 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2960 keys.
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2962
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2963COMMENT_START
2964 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2965 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2966COMMENT_END
2967
2968NAME: sslcrtd_program
2969TYPE: eol
2970IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2971DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2972LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2973DOC_START
2974 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2975 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2976 For more information use:
2977 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2978DOC_END
2979
2980NAME: sslcrtd_children
2981TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2982IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2983DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2984LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2985DOC_START
2986 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2987 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2988
2989 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2990 tuning.
2991
2992 startup=N
2993
2994 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2995 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2996 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2997
2998 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2999 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
3000
3001 idle=N
3002
3003 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3004 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3005 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3006 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3008 queue-size=N
3009
3010 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
3011 If the queued requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes
3012 squid aborts its operation.
3013 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3015 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
3016DOC_END
3017
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3019TYPE: eol
cb4f4424 3020IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3022LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
3023DOC_START
3024 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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3026
3027 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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3029 Options:
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3033
3034NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
3035TYPE: HelperChildConfig
cb4f4424 3036IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
413bb969 3037DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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3038LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
3039DOC_START
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3042
3043 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3044 tuning.
3045
3046 startup=N
3047
3048 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
3049 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3050 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3051
3052 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
3053 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
3054
3055 idle=N
3056
3057 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3058 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3059 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3060 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3062 concurrency=
3063
3064 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
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3066 support concurrency. Defaults to 1.
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3067
3068 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3069 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3070 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3071 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3072 to that request.
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3073
3074 queue-size=N
3075
3076 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
3077 If the queued requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes
3078 squid aborts its operation.
3079 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3081 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
3082DOC_END
3083
cccac0a2 3084COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3085 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 3086 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3087COMMENT_END
3088
41bd17a4 3089NAME: cache_peer
3090TYPE: peer
3091DEFAULT: none
3092LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 3093DOC_START
41bd17a4 3094 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 3096 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 3097
41bd17a4 3098 For example,
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41bd17a4 3100 # proxy icp
3101 # hostname type port port options
3102 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 3103 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 3104 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
3105 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 3106 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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3107 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
3108
3109 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
3110
3111 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
3112 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
3113 For web servers this is usually 80
3114
3115 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
3116 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
3117 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
3118
3119
3120 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
3121
3122 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
3123 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
3124
3125
3126 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
3127
3128 multicast-responder
3129 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
3130 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
3131 replies will be accepted from it.
3132
3133 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
3134 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
3135
3136 background-ping
3137 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
3138 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
3139 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
3140
3141
3142 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
3143
3144 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
3145 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
3146
3147
3148 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
3149 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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3151 list of options described below.
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18191440 3153 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 3154
18191440 3155 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 3156 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 3157 only-clr.
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3159 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
3160 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 3162 htcp=no-purge-clr
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3163 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
3164 they do not result from PURGE requests.
3165
18191440 3166 htcp=forward-clr
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3167 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
3168
3169
3170 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
3171
3172 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
3173 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
3174
3175
3176 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
3177 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
3178 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
3179
3180 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3181 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
3182 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3183
3184 weighted-round-robin
3185 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3186 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
3187 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
3188 Usually used for background-ping parents.
3189 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3190
3191 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
3192 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
3193 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
3194
3195 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
3196
3197 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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3199 multicast-siblings
3200 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
3201 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 3202 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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3204 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
3205 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
3206 members of the same multicast group.
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3207
3208
3209 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
3210
3211 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
3212 peer-selection mechanisms.
3213 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
3214 larger weights are favored more.
3215 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
3216 protocol is not in use.
3217
3218 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
3219 times of parents.
3220 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
3221 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
3222 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
3223
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3224 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
3225 to this address.
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3226 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
3227 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
3228 hosts, you must configure other group members as
3229 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
3230
3231 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
3232 delay pools.
3233
3234 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
3235 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
3236 than the Squid default location.
3237
3238
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3240
3241 carp-key=key-specification
3242 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
3243 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
3244 scheme, host, port, path, params
3245 Order is not important.
3246
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3248
3249 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
3250 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
3251 is a web server.
3252
3253 forceddomain=name
3254 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
3255 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
3256 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
3257 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
3258
3259 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
3260
3261 no-netdb-exchange
3262 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
3263
3264
3265 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
3266
3267 login=user:password
3268 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3269 requires proxy authentication.
3270
3271 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
3272 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
3273
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3274 login=PASSTHRU
3275 Send login details received from client to this peer.
3276 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
3277 without alteration to the peer.
3278 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
3279
3280 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
3281 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
3282 connection-auth options are also used.
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3284 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
3285 Authentication is not required by this option.
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3287 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
3288 to pass on, but username and password are available
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3290 they may be sent instead.
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3291
3292 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
3293 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
3294 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
3295 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
3296 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
3297
3298 login=*:password
3299 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
3300 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
3301 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
3302 needed to identify each user.
3303 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
3304 information which is added to the username. This can
3305 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
3306 the login=username:password option above.
3307
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3308 login=NEGOTIATE
3309 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3310 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3311 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
3312 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
3313
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3315 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3316 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3317
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3318 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
3319 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3320 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3321 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
3322 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
3323 used.
3324
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3325 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
3326 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3327 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3328
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3329 connection-auth=on|off
3330 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
3331 connection oriented authentication, and any such
3332 challenges received from there should be ignored.
3333 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
3334 of the peer.
3335
3336
3337 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
3338
3339 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
3340
3341 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
3342 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
3343 this peer.
3344
3345 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
3346 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
3347 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
3348 reference a combined file containing both the
3349 certificate and the key.
3350
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3351 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
3352 to this peer.
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3353
3354 tls-min-version=1.N
3355 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
3356 SSLv3 use the ssloptions= parameter.
3357 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
3358
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3359 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL implementation options:
3360
3d96b0e8 3361 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 3362
3d96b0e8 3363 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1f1f29e8 3364
3d96b0e8 3365 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1f1f29e8 3366
3d96b0e8 3367 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1f1f29e8 3368
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3369 SINGLE_DH_USE
3370 Always create a new key when using
3371 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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3372
3373 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
3374 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3375 Some servers may have problems
3376 understanding the TLS extension due
3377 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3378
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3379 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
3380 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
3381 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
3382 strength to some attacks.
3383
3384 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
3385 more complete list.
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3386
3387 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
3388 when verifying the peer certificate.
3389
3390 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
3391 use when verifying the peer certificate.
3392
3393 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
3394 verifying the peer certificate.
3395
3396 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
3397
41bd17a4 3398 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
3399 Accept certificates even if they fail to
3400 verify.
1f1f29e8 3401
41bd17a4 3402 NO_DEFAULT_CA
3403 Don't use the default CA list built in
3404 to OpenSSL.
1f1f29e8 3405
41bd17a4 3406 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
3407 Don't verify the peer certificate
3408 matches the server name
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3409
3410 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
3411 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
3412 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
3413 used.
3414
3415 front-end-https
3416 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
3417 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
3418 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
3419 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
3420 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
3421
3422
3423 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
3424
3425 connect-timeout=N
3426 A peer-specific connect timeout.
3427 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
3428
3429 connect-fail-limit=N
3430 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
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3432 count towards this limit. Default is 10.
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3433
3434 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
3435 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
3436 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
3437 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
3438 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
3439 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
3440 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
3441
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3442 max-conn=N Limit the number of concurrent connections the Squid
3443 may open to this peer, including already opened idle
3444 and standby connections. There is no peer-specific
3445 connection limit by default.
3446
3447 A peer exceeding the limit is not used for new
3448 requests unless a standby connection is available.
3449
3450 max-conn currently works poorly with idle persistent
3451 connections: When a peer reaches its max-conn limit,
3452 and there are idle persistent connections to the peer,
3453 the peer may not be selected because the limiting code
3454 does not know whether Squid can reuse those idle
3455 connections.
3456
3457 standby=N Maintain a pool of N "hot standby" connections to an
3458 UP peer, available for requests when no idle
3459 persistent connection is available (or safe) to use.
3460 By default and with zero N, no such pool is maintained.
3461 N must not exceed the max-conn limit (if any).
3462
3463 At start or after reconfiguration, Squid opens new TCP
3464 standby connections until there are N connections
3465 available and then replenishes the standby pool as
3466 opened connections are used up for requests. A used
3467 connection never goes back to the standby pool, but
3468 may go to the regular idle persistent connection pool
3469 shared by all peers and origin servers.
3470
3471 Squid never opens multiple new standby connections
3472 concurrently. This one-at-a-time approach minimizes
3473 flooding-like effect on peers. Furthermore, just a few
3474 standby connections should be sufficient in most cases
3475 to supply most new requests with a ready-to-use
3476 connection.
3477
3478 Standby connections obey server_idle_pconn_timeout.
3479 For the feature to work as intended, the peer must be
3480 configured to accept and keep them open longer than
3481 the idle timeout at the connecting Squid, to minimize
3482 race conditions typical to idle used persistent
3483 connections. Default request_timeout and
3484 server_idle_pconn_timeout values ensure such a
3485 configuration.
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3487 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
3488 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
3489 but different ports.
3490 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
3491 directives to dentify the peer.
3492 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3493 peername ACL type.
3494
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3495 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3496 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3497 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
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3499 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
3500
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41bd17a4 3503NAME: cache_peer_access
3504TYPE: peer_access
3505DEFAULT: none
3506LOC: none
3507DOC_START
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3508 Use to limit the requests for which a neighbor proxy will be
3509 queried. Peers with no restrictions are queried for all requests.
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3511 Usage:
3512 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 3514 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
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3515 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access', or the
3516 Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 3517DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3519NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3520TYPE: hostdomaintype
3521DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3522DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3523LOC: none
3524DOC_START
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3525 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3526 about specific domains to the peer.
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3528 Usage:
3529 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
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3531 For example:
3532 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3533 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
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3535 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3536 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3537DOC_END
6bf4f823 3538
41bd17a4 3539NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3540COMMENT: (seconds)
3541DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3542TYPE: time_t
3543LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3544DOC_START
3545 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3546 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3547 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3548 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3549 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3550 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3551
41bd17a4 3552 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3553 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3554 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3555 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3556 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3557 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3558 instead of to your parents.
3559DOC_END
cccac0a2 3560
437823b4 3561NAME: forward_max_tries
6c367206 3562DEFAULT: 25
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3563TYPE: int
3564LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3565DOC_START
3566 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3567 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3568
3569 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3570 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3571DOC_END
3572
41bd17a4 3573COMMENT_START
3574 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3575 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3576COMMENT_END
3577
3578NAME: cache_mem
3579COMMENT: (bytes)
3580TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3581DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3582LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3583DOC_START
41bd17a4 3584 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3585 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3586 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3587 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3588
3589 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3590 for:
3591 * In-Transit objects
3592 * Hot Objects
3593 * Negative-Cached objects
3594
3595 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3596 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3597 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3598 priority.
3599
3600 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3601 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3602 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3603 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3604 not needed for in-transit objects.
3605
3606 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3607 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3608 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3609 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3610 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3611 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3612 objects.
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3613
3614 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3615 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3616 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3617 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3618DOC_END
0976f8db 3619
41bd17a4 3620NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3621COMMENT: (bytes)
3622TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3623DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3624LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3625DOC_START
41bd17a4 3626 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3627 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3628 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3629 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3630DOC_END
0976f8db 3631
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3632NAME: memory_cache_shared
3633COMMENT: on|off
3634TYPE: YesNoNone
3635LOC: Config.memShared
3636DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3637DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3638DOC_START
3639 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3640
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3641 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3642 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3643 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3644 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3645 caching is enabled).
3646
65b81b27 3647 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3648 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3649 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3650 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3651 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3652
3653 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3654 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3655 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3656
3657 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3659
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3660NAME: memory_cache_mode
3661TYPE: memcachemode
3662LOC: Config
3663DEFAULT: always
638402dd 3664DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 3665DOC_START
ea21d497 3666 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3667
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3668 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3669
3670 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3671 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3672 a second time before cached in memory.
3673
3674 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3675DOC_END
3676
41bd17a4 3677NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3678TYPE: removalpolicy
3679LOC: Config.memPolicy
3680DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3681DOC_START
41bd17a4 3682 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3683 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3684
638402dd 3685 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 3686DOC_END
6b698a21 3687
41bd17a4 3688COMMENT_START
3689 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3690 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3691COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3692
41bd17a4 3693NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3694TYPE: removalpolicy
3695LOC: Config.replPolicy
3696DEFAULT: lru
3697DOC_START
3698 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3699 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3700
41bd17a4 3701 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3702 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3703 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3704 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3705
638402dd 3706 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 3707
41bd17a4 3708 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3709
41bd17a4 3710 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3711 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3712 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3713 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3714
41bd17a4 3715 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3716 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3717 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3718 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3719
41bd17a4 3720 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3721 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3722 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3723
41bd17a4 3724 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3725 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3726 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3727
41bd17a4 3728 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3729 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3730 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3731DOC_END
0976f8db 3732
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3733NAME: minimum_object_size
3734COMMENT: (bytes)
3735TYPE: b_int64_t
3736DEFAULT: 0 KB
3737DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
3738LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
3739DOC_START
3740 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3741 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3742 means all responses can be stored.
3743DOC_END
3744
3745NAME: maximum_object_size
3746COMMENT: (bytes)
3747TYPE: b_int64_t
3748DEFAULT: 4 MB
3749LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
3750DOC_START
499f852c 3751 Set the default value for max-size parameter on any cache_dir.
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3752 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3753
3754 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3755 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3756 hits).
3757
3758 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
3759 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
3760
3761 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3762 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3763 See cache_replacement_policy for a discussion of this policy.
3764DOC_END
3765
41bd17a4 3766NAME: cache_dir
3767TYPE: cachedir
3768DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3769DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 3770LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 3771DOC_START
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3772 Format:
3773 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3774
41bd17a4 3775 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3776 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3777
41bd17a4 3778 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3779 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3780 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3781
41bd17a4 3782 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3783 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3784 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3785 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3786 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 3787
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3788 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3789 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3790 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3791
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3792
3793 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 3794
41bd17a4 3795 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3796 been there.
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3798 Usage:
3799 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3800
41bd17a4 3801 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3802 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3803 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3804 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3805 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3806
56fba4d0 3807 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3808 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3809
56fba4d0 3810 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3811 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3812 is 256.
0976f8db 3813
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3814
3815 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 3816
41bd17a4 3817 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3818 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3819 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3820
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3821 Usage:
3822 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3823
41bd17a4 3824 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3825
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3826
3827 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 3828
41bd17a4 3829 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3830 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3831 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3832
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3833 Usage:
3834 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3835
41bd17a4 3836 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3837
41bd17a4 3838 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3839 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3840 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3841
41bd17a4 3842 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3843 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3844 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3845
41bd17a4 3846 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3847 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3848 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3849 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3850 time.
0976f8db 3851
e2851fe7 3852
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3853 ==== The rock store type ====
3854
3855 Usage:
e51ce7da 3856 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes [options]
e2851fe7 3857
2e55f083 3858 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3859 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots.
3860 A single entry occupies one or more slots.
e2851fe7 3861
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3862 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
3863 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
3864 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
3865 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
3866 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
3867
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3868 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3869 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3870 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3871 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3872 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3873 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3874 expected swap wait time.
3875
df881a0f 3876 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3877 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3878 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3879 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3880 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3881 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3882 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3883 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3884 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3885 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3886 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3887 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3888 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3889 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3890
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3891 slot-size=bytes: The size of a database "record" used for
3892 storing cached responses. A cached response occupies at least
3893 one slot and all database I/O is done using individual slots so
3894 increasing this parameter leads to more disk space waste while
3895 decreasing it leads to more disk I/O overheads. Should be a
3896 multiple of your operating system I/O page size. Defaults to
3897 16KBytes. A housekeeping header is stored with each slot and
3898 smaller slot-sizes will be rejected. The header is smaller than
3899 100 bytes.
3900
df881a0f 3901
638402dd 3902 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
0976f8db 3903
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3904 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
3905
3906 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3907 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
3908 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
3909 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
73656056 3910 (e.g. Rock).
638402dd 3911 Defaults to 0.
0976f8db 3912
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3913 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3914 supports.
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3915 The value in maximum_object_size directive sets
3916 the default unless more specific details are
3917 available (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 3918
41bd17a4 3919 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 3920 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 3921
bebc043b 3922NOCOMMENT_START
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3923
3924# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3925#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3926NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3927DOC_END
0976f8db 3928
41bd17a4 3929NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3930TYPE: string
3931LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3932DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3933DOC_START
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3934 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
3935 object will fit into more than one.
3936
3937 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
3938 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
3939 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
3940 cache_dir.
3941
3942 Algorithms:
3943
3944 least-load
3945
3946 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
3947 sizes and disk speeds.
3948
3949 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
3950 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
3951 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
3952
3953 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
3954 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
3955 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
3956 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
3957
3958
3959 round-robin
3960
3961 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
3962 disk sizes.
3963
3964 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
3965 cache_dir is used.
3966
3967 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
3968 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
3969 max-size parameters.
3970
3971 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
3972 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
3973 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
3974
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3976 limits to to reject certain responses, then do not group such
3977 cache_dir lines together, to avoid round-robin selection bias
3978 towards the first cache_dir after the group. Instead, interleave
3979 cache_dir lines from different groups. For example:
3980
3981 store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin
3982 cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000
3983 cache_dir rock /ssd1 ... max-size=99999
3984 cache_dir rock /hdd2 ... min-size=100000
3985 cache_dir rock /ssd2 ... max-size=99999
3986 cache_dir rock /hdd3 ... min-size=100000
3987 cache_dir rock /ssd3 ... max-size=99999
6b698a21 3988DOC_END
0976f8db 3989
41bd17a4 3990NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3991TYPE: int
3992LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3993DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 3994DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 3995DOC_START
41bd17a4 3996 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3997 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3998 descriptors are open.
3999
4000 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 4001DOC_END
0976f8db 4002
41bd17a4 4003NAME: cache_swap_low
4004COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 4005TYPE: int
41bd17a4 4006DEFAULT: 90
4007LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
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4009 The low-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4010 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4011
4012 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4013 above this low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization
4014 near the low-water mark.
4015
4016 As swap utilization increases towards the high-water mark set
4017 by cache_swap_high object eviction becomes more agressive.
4018
4019 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4020 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
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4021 the rate continues to scale in agressiveness by multiples of
4022 this above the high-water mark.
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4023
4024 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4025 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4026 numbers closer together.
4027
5f662601 4028 See also cache_swap_high and cache_replacement_policy
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41bd17a4 4030
4031NAME: cache_swap_high
4032COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4033TYPE: int
4034DEFAULT: 95
4035LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
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4037 The high-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4038 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4039
4040 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4041 above the low-water mark set by cache_swap_low and attempts to
4042 maintain utilization near the low-water mark.
4043
4044 As swap utilization increases towards this high-water mark object
4045 eviction becomes more agressive.
4046
4047 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4048 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
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4049 the rate continues to scale in agressiveness by multiples of
4050 this above the high-water mark.
41bd17a4 4051
4052 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4053 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4054 numbers closer together.
638402dd 4055
5f662601 4056 See also cache_swap_low and cache_replacement_policy
6b698a21 4057DOC_END
0976f8db 4058
5473c134 4059COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 4060 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 4061 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4062COMMENT_END
0976f8db 4063
41bd17a4 4064NAME: logformat
4065TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 4066LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 4067DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4068DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 4069DOC_START
41bd17a4 4070 Usage:
0976f8db 4071
41bd17a4 4072 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 4073
41bd17a4 4074 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 4075
41bd17a4 4076 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 4077
41bd17a4 4078 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
4079 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
4080 as required according to their context and the output format
4081 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
4082 output format is desired.
6b698a21 4083
4e56d7f6 4084 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{arg}] formatcode [{arg}]
0976f8db 4085
41bd17a4 4086 " output in quoted string format
4087 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
4088 # output in URL quoted format
4089 ' output as-is
5473c134 4090
41bd17a4 4091 - left aligned
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4093 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
4094 [width_min][.width_max]
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4096 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 4097
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4098 {arg} argument such as header name etc. This field may be
4099 placed before or after the token, but not both at once.
5473c134 4100
41bd17a4 4101 Format codes:
5473c134 4102
3ff65596 4103 % a literal % character
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4104 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
4105 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
4106 a similar internal error identifier.
4107 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
c7bcf010 4108 note The annotation specified by the argument. Also
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4109 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
4110 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
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4111 If no argument given all annotations logged.
4112 The argument may include a separator to use with
4113 annotation values:
4114 name[:separator]
4115 By default, multiple note values are separated with ","
4116 and multiple notes are separated with "\r\n".
4117 When logging named notes with %{name}note, the
4118 explicitly configured separator is used between note
4119 values. When logging all notes with %note, the
4120 explicitly configured separator is used between
4121 individual notes. There is currently no way to
4122 specify both value and notes separators when logging
4123 all notes with %note.
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4124
4125 Connection related format codes:
4126
41bd17a4 4127 >a Client source IP address
4128 >A Client FQDN
4129 >p Client source port
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4130 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
4131 >la Local IP address the client connected to
4132 >lp Local port number the client connected to
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4133 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
4134 >nfmark Client connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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4136 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
4137 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
4138
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4139 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
4140 <A Server FQDN or peer name
4141 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 4142 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 4143 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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4144 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
4145 <nfmark Server connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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4146
4147 Time related format codes:
4148
41bd17a4 4149 ts Seconds since epoch
4150 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
4151 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4152 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4153 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4154 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4155 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 4156 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
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4157 tS Approximate master transaction start time in
4158 <full seconds since epoch>.<fractional seconds> format.
4159 Currently, Squid considers the master transaction
4160 started when a complete HTTP request header initiating
4161 the transaction is received from the client. This is
4162 the same value that Squid uses to calculate transaction
4163 response time when logging %tr to access.log. Currently,
4164 Squid uses millisecond resolution for %tS values,
4165 similar to the default access.log "current time" field
4166 (%ts.%03tu).
3ff65596 4167
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4168 Access Control related format codes:
4169
4170 et Tag returned by external acl
4171 ea Log string returned by external acl
4172 un User name (any available)
4173 ul User name from authentication
4174 ue User name from external acl helper
4175 ui User name from ident
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4176 un A user name. Expands to the first available name
4177 from the following list of information sources:
4178 - authenticated user name, like %ul
4179 - user name supplied by an external ACL, like %ue
4180 - SSL client name, like %us
4181 - ident user name, like %ui
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4182 credentials Client credentials. The exact meaning depends on
4183 the authentication scheme: For Basic authentication,
4184 it is the password; for Digest, the realm sent by the
4185 client; for NTLM and Negotiate, the client challenge
4186 or client credentials prefixed with "YR " or "KK ".
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4187
4188 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 4189
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4190 REQUEST
4191
4192 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
4193 [http::]>rm Request method from client
4194 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
4195 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
4196 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
4197 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
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4198 [http::]>rs Request URL scheme from client
4199 [http::]<rs Request URL scheme sent to server or peer
fa450988 4200 [http::]>rd Request URL domain from client
f42ac6e6 4201 [http::]<rd Request URL domain sent to server or peer
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4202 [http::]>rP Request URL port from client
4203 [http::]<rP Request URL port sent to server or peer
4204 [http::]rp Request URL path excluding hostname
4205 [http::]>rp Request URL path excluding hostname from client
4206 [http::]<rp Request URL path excluding hostname sent to server or peer
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4207 [http::]rv Request protocol version
4208 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
4209 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
4210
5aca9cf2 4211 [http::]>h Original received request header.
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4213 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
4214 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
4215 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
4216 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
4217 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
4218 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4219 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 4220 Optional header name argument as for >h
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4221
4222
4223 RESPONSE
4224
4225 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
4226 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
4227
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4228 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
4229 as for >h
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4230
4231 [http::]mt MIME content type
4232
4233
4234 SIZE COUNTERS
4235
4236 [http::]st Total size of request + reply traffic with client
4237 [http::]>st Total size of request received from client.
4238 Excluding chunked encoding bytes.
4239 [http::]<st Total size of reply sent to client (after adaptation)
4240
4241 [http::]>sh Size of request headers received from client
4242 [http::]<sh Size of reply headers sent to client (after adaptation)
4243
4244 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
4245 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
4246
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4247 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
4248 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
4249 transfer encoding and control messages.
4250 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
4251 received bodies.
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4252
4253
4254 TIMING
4255
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4256 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
4257 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
4258 and stops when the last response byte is received.
d5430dc8 4259 [http::]<tt Total time in milliseconds. The timer
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4260 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
4261 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
4262 with the last I/O with the last peer.
4263
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4264 Squid handling related format codes:
4265
4266 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
4267 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
4268
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4269 SSL-related format codes:
4270
4271 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
4272
4273 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
4274 a connection and for any request received on
4275 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
4276 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
4277 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
4278 more information about these modes.
4279
4280 A "none" token is logged for requests that
4281 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
4282 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
4283
4284 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
4285 logged.
4286
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4287 ssl::>sni SSL client SNI sent to Squid. Available only
4288 after the peek, stare, or splice SSL bumping
4289 actions.
4290
5038f9d8 4291 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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4292 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
4293
4294 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
4295 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
4296 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
4297 transaction is in progress.
4298
5038f9d8 4299 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 4300
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4301 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
4302 meta-information from the last eCAP
4303 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
4304 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
4305 argument.
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4307 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
4308 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
4309 the order of transaction start time. Each time
4310 value is recorded as an integer number,
4311 representing response time of one or more
4312 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
4313 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
4314 being retried or repeated, its time is not
4315 logged individually but added to the
4316 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
4317 adapt::all_trs.
4318
4319 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
4320 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
4321 individual transactions are never added
4322 together. Instead, all transaction response
4323 times are recorded individually.
4324
4325 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
4326 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
4327 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 4328
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4329 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
4330
4331 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
4332 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4333 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4334 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4335 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
4336
4337 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
4338 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4339 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4340 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4341 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
4342
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4343 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
4344
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4345logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
4346logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
4347logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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4348logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
4349logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
4350
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4351 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
4352 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
4353 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
4354
4355 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
4356 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 4357
5473c134 4358DOC_END
4359
41bd17a4 4360NAME: access_log cache_access_log
4361TYPE: access_log
4362LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 4363DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 4364DOC_START
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4365 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
4366 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
4367 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
4368
4369 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
4370 access_log none [acl acl ...]
4371
4372 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 4373 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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4374
4375 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
4376 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
4377 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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4378
4379 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 4380 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
4381 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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4382 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
4383
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4384 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
4385
4386 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
4387 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
4388 to 'squid'.
4389
4390 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
4391 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
4392 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
4393 should flush records before the buffer becomes
4394 full to avoid overflows under normal
4395 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
4396 module-dependent though). The on-error option
4397 controls overflow handling.
4398
4399 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
4400 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
4401 affected log records. The default 'die' action
4402 kills the affected worker. The drop action
4403 support has not been tested for modules other
4404 than tcp.
4405
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4406 rotate=N Specifies the number of log file rotations to
4407 make when you run 'squid -k rotate'. The default
4408 is to obey the logfile_rotate directive. Setting
4409 rotate=0 will disable the file name rotation,
4410 but the log files are still closed and re-opened.
4411 This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4412 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
4413 Only supported by the stdio module.
4414
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4415 ===== Modules Currently available =====
4416
bb7a1781 4417 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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4418 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
4419
4420 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
4421 each request.
4422 Place: the filename and path to be written.
4423
4424 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
4425 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
4426 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
4427
4428 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
4429
4430 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
4431 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
4432 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 4433
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4434 where facility could be any of:
4435 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 4436
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4437 And priority could be any of:
4438 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
4439
4440 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
4441 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4442 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 4443
2bf4e8fa 4444 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 4445 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 4446 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4447 Place Format: //host:port
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4448
4449 Default:
82b7abe3 4450 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 4451DOC_END
5473c134 4452
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4453NAME: icap_log
4454TYPE: access_log
4455IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4456LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
4457DEFAULT: none
4458DOC_START
4459 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
4460 transaction.
4461
4462 The icap_log option format is:
4463 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
4464 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
4465
4466 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
4467 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
4468 features.
4469
4470 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
4471 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
4472 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
4473 log line.
4474
4475 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
4476 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
4477 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
4478 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
4479 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
4480 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
4481 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
4482
4483 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
4484
4485 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
4486
4487 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
4488 option in Squid configuration file.
4489
4490 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
4491
4492 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
4493 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
4494
4495 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
4496 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
4497
4498 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
4499 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
4500 the socket).
4501
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4502 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
4503 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
4504 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
4505 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
4506 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
4507 computed.
4508
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4509 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
4510 milliseconds). The timer starts when
4511 the ICAP transaction is created and
4512 stops when the transaction is completed.
4513 Similar to tr.
4514
4515 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
4516 timer starts when the first ICAP request
4517 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
4518 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
4519 is received.
4520
4521 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
4522 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
4523 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
4524 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
4525 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
4526 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
4527
4528 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
4529
4530 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
4531
4532 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
4533
4534 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
4535 definition, is called icap_squid:
4536
4537logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
4538
5038f9d8 4539 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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4541
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4542NAME: logfile_daemon
4543TYPE: string
4544DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
4545LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
4546DOC_START
4547 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
4548 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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4549
4550 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
4551 L<data>\n - logfile data
4552 R\n - rotate file
4553 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 4554 O\n - reopen file
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4555 F\n - flush file
4556 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
4557 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
4558
4559 No responses is expected.
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4560DOC_END
4561
8ebad780 4562NAME: stats_collection
3ff65596 4563TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 4564LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
3ff65596 4565DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4566DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 4567COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
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4569 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
4570 in performance counters.
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4571
4572 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4573 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4575
41bd17a4 4576NAME: cache_store_log
4577TYPE: string
df2eec10 4578DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4579LOC: Config.Log.store
4580DOC_START
4581 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
4582 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 4583 saved and for how long.
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4585 disable it (the default).
4586
4587 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
4588 of modules supported.
4589
e0855596 4590 Example:
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4591 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
4592 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 4593DOC_END
4594
41bd17a4 4595NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
4596TYPE: string
4597LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 4598DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4599DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 4600DOC_START
41bd17a4 4601 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
4602 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
4603 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
4604 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
4605 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
4606 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
4607 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 4608
41bd17a4 4609 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
4610 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
4611 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
4612 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 4613
41bd17a4 4614 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
4615 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 4616
41bd17a4 4617 cache_swap_log.00
4618 cache_swap_log.01
4619 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 4620
41bd17a4 4621 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
4622 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
4623 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
4624 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
4625 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
4626 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
4627 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 4628DOC_END
4629
41bd17a4 4630NAME: logfile_rotate
4631TYPE: int
4632DEFAULT: 10
4633LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 4634DOC_START
efc23871 4635 Specifies the default number of logfile rotations to make when you
41bd17a4 4636 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
4637 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
4638 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
4639 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4640 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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4642 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
4643 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
4644
4645 Note, from Squid-3.6 this option is only a default for access.log
4646 recorded by stdio: module. Those logs can be rotated separately by
4647 using the rotate=N option on their access_log directive.
4648
41bd17a4 4649 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
4650 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
4651 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
4652 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
4653 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
4654 <pid>'.
62493678 4655
41bd17a4 4656DOC_END
5473c134 4657
41bd17a4 4658NAME: mime_table
4659TYPE: string
4660DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
4661LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
4662DOC_START
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4663 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
4664
4665 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
4666 examples and formatting information if you do.
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4668
41bd17a4 4669NAME: log_mime_hdrs
4670COMMENT: on|off
4671TYPE: onoff
4672LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
4673DEFAULT: off
4674DOC_START
4675 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
4676 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
4677 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
4678 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
4679 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
4680DOC_END
5473c134 4681
41bd17a4 4682NAME: pid_filename
4683TYPE: string
4684DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4685LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4686DOC_START
41bd17a4 4687 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4688DOC_END
4689
41bd17a4 4690NAME: client_netmask
4691TYPE: address
4692LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4693DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 4694DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 4695DOC_START
41bd17a4 4696 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4697 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4698 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4699 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4700DOC_END
4701
41bd17a4 4702NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4703TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4704LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 4705DEFAULT: on
4706DOC_START
41bd17a4 4707 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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4708 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
4709
4710 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
4711 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 4712DOC_END
4713
41bd17a4 4714NAME: buffered_logs
4715COMMENT: on|off
4716TYPE: onoff
4717DEFAULT: off
4718LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 4719DOC_START
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4720 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
4721 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
4722 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
4723 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
4724 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
4725 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
4726
4727 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
4728 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
4729 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
4730
fb0c2f17 4731 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 4732DOC_END
0976f8db 4733
2b753521 4734NAME: netdb_filename
4735TYPE: string
221faecb 4736DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 4737LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 4738IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 4739DOC_START
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4740 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
4741 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
4742
2b753521 4743 To disable, enter "none".
4744DOC_END
4745
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4746COMMENT_START
4747 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
4748 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4749COMMENT_END
4750
4751NAME: cache_log
4752TYPE: string
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4753DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
4754LOC: Debug::cache_log
4755DOC_START
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4756 Squid administrative logging file.
4757
4758 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
4759 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
4760 rotated with "debug_options"
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4761DOC_END
4762
4763NAME: debug_options
4764TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 4765DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 4766DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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4767LOC: Debug::debugOptions
4768DOC_START
4769 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
4770 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
4771 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
4772 log file, so be careful.
4773
4774 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 4775 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
62493678 4776
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4777 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
4778 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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4779 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
4780 events affecting Squid.
4781DOC_END
4782
4783NAME: coredump_dir
4784TYPE: string
4785LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 4786DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 4787DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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4788DOC_START
4789 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4790 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4791 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4792 and coredump files will be left there.
4793
4794NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 4795
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4796# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
4797coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4798NOCOMMENT_END
4799DOC_END
4800
4801
41bd17a4 4802COMMENT_START
4803 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4804 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4805COMMENT_END
4806
4807NAME: ftp_user
4808TYPE: string
4809DEFAULT: Squid@
4810LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4811DOC_START
41bd17a4 4812 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 4813 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 4814 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4815
41bd17a4 4816 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4817 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4818 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 4819 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 4820 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4821DOC_END
0976f8db 4822
41bd17a4 4823NAME: ftp_passive
4824TYPE: onoff
4825DEFAULT: on
4826LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4827DOC_START
41bd17a4 4828 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4829 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 4830
4831 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4832DOC_END
4833
4834NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4835TYPE: onoff
4836DEFAULT: off
4837LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4838DOC_START
4839 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4840
4841 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4842 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4843 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4844
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4845 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
4846 useful.
a689bd4e 4847 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4848 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4849
4850 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4851 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4852
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4853 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4854DOC_END
4855
4856NAME: ftp_epsv
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4857TYPE: ftp_epsv
4858DEFAULT: none
4859LOC: Config.accessList.ftp_epsv
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4860DOC_START
4861 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4862
4863 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4864 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4865 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4866 will never be needed.
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4868 EPSV is often required to interoperate with FTP servers on IPv6
4869 networks. On the other hand, it may break some IPv4 servers.
4870
4871 By default, EPSV may try EPSV with any FTP server. To fine tune
4872 that decision, you may restrict EPSV to certain clients or servers
4873 using ACLs:
4874
4875 ftp_epsv allow|deny al1 acl2 ...
4876
4877 WARNING: Disabling EPSV may cause problems with external NAT and IPv6.
51ee534d 4878
ddf5aa2b 4879 Only fast ACLs are supported.
51ee534d 4880 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4881DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4882
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4883NAME: ftp_eprt
4884TYPE: onoff
4885DEFAULT: on
4886LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4887DOC_START
4888 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4889
4890 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4891 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4892 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4893
4894 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4895 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4896
4897 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4898 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4899 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4900 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4901
4902 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4903 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4904DOC_END
4905
41bd17a4 4906NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4907TYPE: onoff
4908DEFAULT: on
4909LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4910DOC_START
4911 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4912 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4913 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4914 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4915 connection turn this off.
4916DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4917
41bd17a4 4918NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4919TYPE: onoff
4920DEFAULT: on
4921LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4922DOC_START
4923 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4924 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4925 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4926 the FTP protocol.
4927
4928 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4929 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4930 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4931 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4932 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4933DOC_END
4934
4935COMMENT_START
4936 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4937 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4938COMMENT_END
4939
4940NAME: diskd_program
4941TYPE: string
4942DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4943LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4944DOC_START
4945 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4946 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4947 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4948DOC_END
4949
4950NAME: unlinkd_program
4951IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4952TYPE: string
4953DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4954LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4955DOC_START
4956 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4957DOC_END
4958
4959NAME: pinger_program
41bd17a4 4960IFDEF: USE_ICMP
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4961TYPE: icmp
4962DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
4963LOC: IcmpCfg
41bd17a4 4964DOC_START
4965 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4966DOC_END
4967
cc192b50 4968NAME: pinger_enable
4969TYPE: onoff
4970DEFAULT: on
7a9d36e3 4971LOC: IcmpCfg.enable
cc192b50 4972IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4973DOC_START
4974 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4975 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4976 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4977DOC_END
4978
4979
41bd17a4 4980COMMENT_START
4981 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4982 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4983COMMENT_END
4984
4985NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4986TYPE: wordlist
4987LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4988DEFAULT: none
4989DOC_START
2c7aad89 4990 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4991 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4992
2c7aad89 4993 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4994
b11724bb 4995 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
5269ec0e 4996
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4997 See url_rewrite_extras on how to send "extras" with optional values to
4998 the helper.
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4999 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
5000
24eac830 5001 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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5002
5003 The result code can be:
5004
5005 OK status=30N url="..."
5006 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
5007 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
5008 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
5009 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
5010 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
c71adec1 5011
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5012 OK rewrite-url="..."
5013 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
5014 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
5015 the client as the response to its request.
5016
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5017 OK
5018 When neither of url= and rewrite-url= are sent Squid does
5019 not change the URL.
5020
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5021 ERR
5022 Do not change the URL.
5023
5024 BH
4ded749e 5025 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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5026 a result being identified. The 'message=' key name is
5027 reserved for delivering a log message.
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5028
5029
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5030 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5031 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5032 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5033 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5034 The TAG is treated as a regular annotation but persists across
5035 future requests on the client connection rather than just the
5036 current request. A helper may update the TAG during subsequent
5037 requests be returning a new kv-pair.
41bd17a4 5038
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5039 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5040 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5041 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5042 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5043 of the response relating to its request.
5044
5045 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
5046 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 5047
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5048 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
5049 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
5050 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
5051 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
5052 interface.
41bd17a4 5053
5054 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
5055DOC_END
5056
5057NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 5058TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 5059DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 5060LOC: Config.redirectChildren
5061DOC_START
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5062 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
5063 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
5064 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
5065 and other system resources noticably.
5066
5067 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5068 tuning.
5069
5070 startup=
5071
5072 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5073 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5074 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5075
5076 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5077 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5078
5079 idle=
5080
5081 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5082 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5083 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5084 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5085
5086 concurrency=
41bd17a4 5087
41bd17a4 5088 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
5089 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
5090 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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5091
5092 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5093 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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5094 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5095 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5096
5097 queue-size=N
5098
5099 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
5100 If the queued requests exceed queue size and redirector_bypass
5101 configuration option is set, then redirector is bypassed. Otherwise, if
5102 overloading persists squid may abort its operation.
5103 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
41bd17a4 5104DOC_END
5105
5106NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
5107TYPE: onoff
5108DEFAULT: on
5109LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
5110DOC_START
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5111 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
5112 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
5113 any Host: header in redirected requests.
5114
5115 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
5116 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
5117 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
5118
41bd17a4 5119 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
5120 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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5121
5122 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
5123 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
5124 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 5125DOC_END
5126
5127NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
5128TYPE: acl_access
5129DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5130DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 5131LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
5132DOC_START
5133 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 5134 sent to the redirector processes.
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5135
5136 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5137 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5138DOC_END
5139
5140NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
5141TYPE: onoff
5142LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
5143DEFAULT: off
5144DOC_START
5145 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
638402dd 5146 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
41bd17a4 5147 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
5148 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
5149 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
5150 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
5151 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
5152 users may have access to pages they should not
5153 be allowed to request.
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5154 This options sets default queue-size option of the url_rewrite_children
5155 to 0.
41bd17a4 5156DOC_END
5157
fe7966ec 5158NAME: url_rewrite_extras
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5159TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5160LOC: Config.redirector_extras
5161DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5162DOC_START
5163 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5164 rewriter helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5165 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5166 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5167 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5168DOC_END
5169
32fd6d8a 5170NAME: url_rewrite_timeout
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5171TYPE: UrlHelperTimeout
5172LOC: Config.onUrlRewriteTimeout
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5173DEFAULT: none
5174DEFAULT_DOC: Squid waits for the helper response forever
5175DOC_START
5176 Squid times active requests to redirector. The timeout value and Squid
5177 reaction to a timed out request are configurable using the following
5178 format:
5179
ced8def3 5180 url_rewrite_timeout timeout time-units on_timeout=<action> [response=<quoted-response>]
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5181
5182 supported timeout actions:
ced8def3 5183 fail Squid return a ERR_GATEWAY_FAILURE error page
32fd6d8a 5184
ced8def3 5185 bypass Do not re-write the URL
32fd6d8a 5186
ced8def3 5187 retry Send the lookup to the helper again
32fd6d8a 5188
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5189 use_configured_response
5190 Use the <quoted-response> as helper response
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5191DOC_END
5192
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5193COMMENT_START
5194 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
5195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5196COMMENT_END
5197
5198NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
5199TYPE: wordlist
5200LOC: Config.Program.store_id
5201DEFAULT: none
5202DOC_START
5203 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
5204 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
5205
5206 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
5207
b11724bb 5208 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
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5209
5210
5211 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
5212
5213 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
5214
5215 The result code can be:
5216
5217 OK store-id="..."
5218 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
5219
5220 ERR
5221 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
5222
5223 BH
5224 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
5225 a result being identified.
5226
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5227 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5228 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5229 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5230 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5231 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation for this
5232 kv-pair
a8a0b1c2 5233
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5234 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore
5235 additional whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
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5236
5237 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5238 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5239 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5240 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5241 of the response relating to its request.
5242
5243 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
5244 returned from the helper and not the URL.
5245
5246 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
5247 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
5248
5249 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
5250DOC_END
5251
fe7966ec 5252NAME: store_id_extras
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5253TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5254LOC: Config.storeId_extras
5255DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5256DOC_START
5257 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5258 StoreId helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5259 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5260 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5261 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5262DOC_END
5263
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5264NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
5265TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5266DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
5267LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
5268DOC_START
5269 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
5270 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
5271 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
5272 and other system resources noticably.
5273
5274 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5275 tuning.
5276
5277 startup=
5278
5279 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5280 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5281 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5282
5283 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5284 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5285
5286 idle=
5287
5288 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5289 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5290 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5291 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5292
5293 concurrency=
5294
5295 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
5296 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
5297 is a old-style single threaded program.
5298
5299 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5300 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
5301 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5302 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5303
5304 queue-size=N
5305
5306 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
5307 If the queued requests exceed queue size and store_id_bypass
5308 configuration option is set, then storeID helper is bypassed. Otherwise,
5309 if overloading persists squid may abort its operation.
5310 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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5311DOC_END
5312
5313NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
5314TYPE: acl_access
5315DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5316DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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5317LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
5318DOC_START
5319 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
5320 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
5321 are sent.
5322
5323 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5324 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5325DOC_END
5326
5327NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
5328TYPE: onoff
5329LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
5330DEFAULT: on
5331DOC_START
5332 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
5333 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
5334 and the helper queue grows too large, Squid will exit
5335 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
5336 helpers. You should only enable this if the helperss
5337 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
5338 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
5339 option, users may not get objects from cache.
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5340 This options sets default queue-size option of the store_id_children
5341 to 0.
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5342DOC_END
5343
41bd17a4 5344COMMENT_START
5345 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
5346 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5347COMMENT_END
5348
f04b37d8 5349NAME: cache no_cache
5350TYPE: acl_access
5351DEFAULT: none
70706149 5352DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
f04b37d8 5353LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 5354DOC_START
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5355 Requests denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5356 and their responses will not be stored in the cache. This directive
5357 has no effect on other transactions and on already cached responses.
f04b37d8 5358
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5359 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5360 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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5361
5362 This and the two other similar caching directives listed below are
5363 checked at different transaction processing stages, have different
5364 access to response information, affect different cache operations,
5365 and differ in slow ACLs support:
5366
5367 * cache: Checked before Squid makes a hit/miss determination.
5368 No access to reply information!
5369 Denies both serving a hit and storing a miss.
5370 Supports both fast and slow ACLs.
5371 * send_hit: Checked after a hit was detected.
5372 Has access to reply (hit) information.
5373 Denies serving a hit only.
5374 Supports fast ACLs only.
5375 * store_miss: Checked before storing a cachable miss.
5376 Has access to reply (miss) information.
5377 Denies storing a miss only.
5378 Supports fast ACLs only.
5379
5380 If you are not sure which of the three directives to use, apply the
5381 following decision logic:
5382
5383 * If your ACL(s) are of slow type _and_ need response info, redesign.
5384 Squid does not support that particular combination at this time.
5385 Otherwise:
5386 * If your directive ACL(s) are of slow type, use "cache"; and/or
5387 * if your directive ACL(s) need no response info, use "cache".
5388 Otherwise:
5389 * If you do not want the response cached, use store_miss; and/or
5390 * if you do not want a hit on a cached response, use send_hit.
5391DOC_END
5392
5393NAME: send_hit
5394TYPE: acl_access
5395DEFAULT: none
5396DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5397LOC: Config.accessList.sendHit
5398DOC_START
5399 Responses denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5400 (but may still be cached, see store_miss). This directive has no
5401 effect on the responses it allows and on the cached objects.
5402
5403 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5404 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives.
5405
5406 Unlike the "cache" directive, send_hit only supports fast acl
5407 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5408
5409 For example:
5410
5411 # apply custom Store ID mapping to some URLs
5412 acl MapMe dstdomain .c.example.com
5413 store_id_program ...
5414 store_id_access allow MapMe
5415
5416 # but prevent caching of special responses
5417 # such as 302 redirects that cause StoreID loops
5418 acl Ordinary http_status 200-299
5419 store_miss deny MapMe !Ordinary
5420
5421 # and do not serve any previously stored special responses
5422 # from the cache (in case they were already cached before
5423 # the above store_miss rule was in effect).
5424 send_hit deny MapMe !Ordinary
5425DOC_END
5426
5427NAME: store_miss
5428TYPE: acl_access
5429DEFAULT: none
5430DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5431LOC: Config.accessList.storeMiss
5432DOC_START
5433 Responses denied by this directive will not be cached (but may still
5434 be served from the cache, see send_hit). This directive has no
5435 effect on the responses it allows and on the already cached responses.
5436
5437 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5438 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives. See the
5439 send_hit directive for a usage example.
5440
5441 Unlike the "cache" directive, store_miss only supports fast acl
5442 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5443DOC_END
5444
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5445NAME: max_stale
5446COMMENT: time-units
5447TYPE: time_t
5448LOC: Config.maxStale
5449DEFAULT: 1 week
5450DOC_START
5451 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
5452 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
5453 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
5454DOC_END
5455
41bd17a4 5456NAME: refresh_pattern
5457TYPE: refreshpattern
5458LOC: Config.Refresh
5459DEFAULT: none
5460DOC_START
5461 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 5462
6b698a21 5463 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
5464 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 5465
41bd17a4 5466 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
5467 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
5468 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
5469 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
5470 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 5471
41bd17a4 5472 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
5473 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
5474 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 5475
41bd17a4 5476 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
5477 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 5478
41bd17a4 5479 options: override-expire
5480 override-lastmod
5481 reload-into-ims
5482 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 5483 ignore-no-store
5484 ignore-private
570d3f75 5485 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 5486 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 5487 store-stale
a0ec9f68 5488
41bd17a4 5489 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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5490 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
5491 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
5492 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5493 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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5495 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
5496 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
5497 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
5498 the object fresh for that period of time.
5499
41bd17a4 5500 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
5501 that were modified recently.
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5503 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
5504 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
5505 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
5506 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
5507 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5508 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 5509
41bd17a4 5510 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
5511 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5512 this feature could make you liable for problems which
5513 it causes.
9bc73deb 5514
41bd17a4 5515 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
5516 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5517 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5518 liable for problems which it causes.
5519
5520 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
5521 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5522 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5523 liable for problems which it causes.
5524
41bd17a4 5525 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
5526 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
5527 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
5528 if one is available.
5529
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5530 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
5531 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
5532 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
5533 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
5534 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
5535
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5536 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
5537 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
5538 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
5539
41bd17a4 5540 Basically a cached object is:
5541
fb41bbb2 5542 FRESH if expire > now, else STALE
41bd17a4 5543 STALE if age > max
5544 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
5545 FRESH if age < min
5546 else STALE
5547
5548 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
5549 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
5550 match the default will be used.
5551
5552 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
5553 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
5554 used.
5555
41bd17a4 5556NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 5557
638402dd 5558#
e0855596 5559# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 5560#
41bd17a4 5561refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
5562refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 5563refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 5564refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
5565NOCOMMENT_END
5566DOC_END
5567
5568NAME: quick_abort_min
5569COMMENT: (KB)
5570TYPE: kb_int64_t
5571DEFAULT: 16 KB
5572LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
5573DOC_NONE
5574
5575NAME: quick_abort_max
5576COMMENT: (KB)
5577TYPE: kb_int64_t
5578DEFAULT: 16 KB
5579LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
5580DOC_NONE
5581
5582NAME: quick_abort_pct
5583COMMENT: (percent)
5584TYPE: int
5585DEFAULT: 95
5586LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
5587DOC_START
5588 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
5589 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
5590 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
5591 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
5592 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
5593 downloads.
5594
5595 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2d4eefd9 5596 quick_abort values to the amount of data transferred until
41bd17a4 5597 then.
5598
5599 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
5600 it will finish the retrieval.
5601
5602 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
5603 it will abort the retrieval.
5604
5605 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
5606 it will finish the retrieval.
5607
5608 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
5609 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
5610 to '0 KB'.
5611
5612 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
5613 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
5614DOC_END
60d096f4 5615
41bd17a4 5616NAME: read_ahead_gap
5617COMMENT: buffer-size
5618TYPE: b_int64_t
5619LOC: Config.readAheadGap
5620DEFAULT: 16 KB
5621DOC_START
5622 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
5623 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
5624DOC_END
53e738c6 5625
41bd17a4 5626NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 5627IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5628COMMENT: time-units
5629TYPE: time_t
5630LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 5631DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 5632DOC_START
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5633 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
5634 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
5635 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
5636 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
5637 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
5638 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
5639
5640 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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5641
5642 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5643 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5644 causes.
41bd17a4 5645DOC_END
53e738c6 5646
41bd17a4 5647NAME: positive_dns_ttl
5648COMMENT: time-units
5649TYPE: time_t
5650LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
5651DEFAULT: 6 hours
5652DOC_START
5653 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
5654 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
5655 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
5656DOC_END
c4ab8329 5657
41bd17a4 5658NAME: negative_dns_ttl
5659COMMENT: time-units
5660TYPE: time_t
5661LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
5662DEFAULT: 1 minutes
5663DOC_START
5664 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
5665 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
5666 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
5667 much below 10 seconds.
5668DOC_END
7df0bfd7 5669
41bd17a4 5670NAME: range_offset_limit
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5671COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
5672TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 5673LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 5674DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5675DOC_START
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5676 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
5677
5678 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
5679 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
5680 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
5681 the result is NOT cached.
5682
41bd17a4 5683 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
5684 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
5685 sending anything to the client.
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5686
5687 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
5688 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
5689 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
5690 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
5691
5692 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
5693
5694 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
5695 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
5696
5697 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 5698 client requested. (default)
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5699
5700 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 5701 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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5702
5703 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
5704
5705 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
5706 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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5707 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
5708 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 5709DOC_END
d95b862f 5710
41bd17a4 5711NAME: minimum_expiry_time
5712COMMENT: (seconds)
5713TYPE: time_t
5714LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
5715DEFAULT: 60 seconds
5716DOC_START
5717 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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5718 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
5719 The default is 60 seconds.
5720
5721 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
5722 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
5723 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
5724
5725 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
5726 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 5727DOC_END
c68e9c6b 5728
41bd17a4 5729NAME: store_avg_object_size
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5730COMMENT: (bytes)
5731TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 5732DEFAULT: 13 KB
5733LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
5734DOC_START
5735 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
5736 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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5737
5738 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
5739 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
5740 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
5741 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
5742
5743 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
5744 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 5745DOC_END
5746
41bd17a4 5747NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
5748TYPE: int
5749DEFAULT: 20
5750LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
5751DOC_START
5752 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
5753 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
5754 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
5755DOC_END
5756
5757COMMENT_START
5758 HTTP OPTIONS
5759 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5760COMMENT_END
5761
f04b37d8 5762NAME: request_header_max_size
5763COMMENT: (KB)
5764TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5765DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5766LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
5767DOC_START
5768 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
5769 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5770 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
5771 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5772 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5773DOC_END
5774
5775NAME: reply_header_max_size
5776COMMENT: (KB)
5777TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5778DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5779LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
5780DOC_START
5781 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
5782 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5783 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
5784 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5785 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5786DOC_END
5787
5788NAME: request_body_max_size
5789COMMENT: (bytes)
5790TYPE: b_int64_t
5791DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 5792DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 5793LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
5794DOC_START
5795 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
5796 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
5797 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
5798 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
5799 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
5800 be no limit imposed.
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5801
5802 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
5803 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 5804DOC_END
5805
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5806NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
5807COMMENT: (bytes)
5808TYPE: b_size_t
5809DEFAULT: 512 KB
5810LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
5811DOC_START
5812 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
5813 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
5814 a large file.
5815DOC_END
5816
41bd17a4 5817NAME: broken_posts
626096be 5818IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 5819TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 5820DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5821DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 5822LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 5823DOC_START
41bd17a4 5824 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
5825 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 5826
41bd17a4 5827 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
5828 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 5829
41bd17a4 5830 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 5831
41bd17a4 5832 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
5833 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
5834 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
5835 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 5836
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5837 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5838 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5839
41bd17a4 5840Example:
5841 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
5842 broken_posts allow buggy_server
5843DOC_END
cccac0a2 5844
22fff3bf 5845NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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5846COMMENT: on|off
5847TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 5848IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 5849DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 5850LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 5851DOC_START
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5852 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
5853 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
5854
5855 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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5856DOC_END
5857
41bd17a4 5858NAME: via
626096be 5859IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5860COMMENT: on|off
5861TYPE: onoff
5862DEFAULT: on
5863LOC: Config.onoff.via
5864DOC_START
5865 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
5866 replies as required by RFC2616.
5867DOC_END
4cc6eb12 5868
41bd17a4 5869NAME: ie_refresh
5870COMMENT: on|off
5871TYPE: onoff
5872LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
5873DEFAULT: off
5874DOC_START
5875 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
5876 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
5877 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
5878 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
5879 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
5880 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
5881 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
5882 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
5883 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
5884 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
5885 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
5886 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
5887 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
5888 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
5889 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
5890 force fresh content.
5891DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 5892
41bd17a4 5893NAME: vary_ignore_expire
5894COMMENT: on|off
5895TYPE: onoff
5896LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
5897DEFAULT: off
5898DOC_START
5899 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
5900 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
5901 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
5902 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
5903 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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5904
5905 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
5906 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 5907DOC_END
c4ab8329 5908
41bd17a4 5909NAME: request_entities
5910TYPE: onoff
5911LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
5912DEFAULT: off
5913DOC_START
5914 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
5915 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
5916 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 5917
41bd17a4 5918 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
5919 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
5920 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
5921 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
5922 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 5923DOC_END
6b53c392 5924
41bd17a4 5925NAME: request_header_access
626096be 5926IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5927TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5928LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5929DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5930DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5931DOC_START
41bd17a4 5932 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 5933
41bd17a4 5934 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5935 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5936 causes.
0976f8db 5937
41bd17a4 5938 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
5939 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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5940 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
5941 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
5942
5943 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
5944 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
5945 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
5946 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
5947 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5948
5949 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
5950 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
5951 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
5952
5953 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
5954 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
5955 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
5956 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
5957
5958 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
5959 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
5960 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
5961 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
5962 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
5963 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 5964
41bd17a4 5965 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5966 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 5967
41bd17a4 5968 request_header_access From deny all
5969 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 5970 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 5971
41bd17a4 5972 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5973 you should use:
5401aa8d 5974
41bd17a4 5975 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5976 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5977 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 5978 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
5979 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
5980 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 5981 request_header_access Host allow all
5982 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 5983 request_header_access Pragma allow all
5984 request_header_access Accept allow all
5985 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5986 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5987 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5988 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5989 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 5990
638402dd 5991 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 5992
638402dd 5993 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 5994DOC_END
5995
41bd17a4 5996NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 5997IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5998TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5999LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 6000DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6001DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 6002DOC_START
41bd17a4 6003 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 6004
41bd17a4 6005 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6006 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6007 causes.
934b03fc 6008
41bd17a4 6009 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
6010 server to the client.
934b03fc 6011
41bd17a4 6012 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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6013 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
6014 documentation.
cccac0a2 6015
41bd17a4 6016 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
6017 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 6018
41bd17a4 6019 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 6020 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
6021 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 6022
41bd17a4 6023 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
6024 you should use:
cccac0a2 6025
41bd17a4 6026 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 6027 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 6028 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
6029 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
6030 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
6031 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
6032 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
6033 reply_header_access Date allow all
6034 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 6035 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
6036 reply_header_access Location allow all
6037 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 6038 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 6039 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
6040 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 6041 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 6042 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 6043 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 6044
638402dd 6045 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 6046
41bd17a4 6047 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
6048 performed).
cccac0a2 6049DOC_END
6050
75e4f2ea 6051NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 6052IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6053TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 6054LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 6055DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 6056DOC_START
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6057 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
6058 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 6059
41bd17a4 6060 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 6061 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 6062 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 6063
41bd17a4 6064 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 6065
41bd17a4 6066 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6067DOC_END
cccac0a2 6068
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6069NAME: reply_header_replace
6070IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6071TYPE: http_header_replace
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6072LOC: Config.reply_header_access
6073DEFAULT: none
6074DOC_START
6075 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
6076 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
6077
6078 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
6079 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
6080 with some fixed string.
6081
6082 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
6083
6084 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6085DOC_END
6086
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6087NAME: request_header_add
6088TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
6089LOC: Config.request_header_add
6090DEFAULT: none
6091DOC_START
6092 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
6093 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
6094
6095 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
6096 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
6097 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
6098 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
6099 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
6100
6101 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
6102 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
6103 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
6104 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
6105 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
6106 header field values are not merged.
6107
6108 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
6109 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
6110 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
6111
6112 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
6113 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
6114 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
6115 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
6116 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
6117 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
6118 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
6119 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
6120
6121 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
6122 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
6123 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
6124 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
6125 only.
6126DOC_END
6127
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6128NAME: note
6129TYPE: note
6130LOC: Config.notes
6131DEFAULT: none
6132DOC_START
6133 This option used to log custom information about the master
6134 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
6135 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
6136 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
6137 authentication information.
6138 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
6139
6140 note key value acl ...
6141 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
6142DOC_END
6143
41bd17a4 6144NAME: relaxed_header_parser
6145COMMENT: on|off|warn
6146TYPE: tristate
6147LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
6148DEFAULT: on
6149DOC_START
6150 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
6151 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
6152 what the sending application intended even if the message
6153 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
6154 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 6155
41bd17a4 6156 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
6157 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 6158
41bd17a4 6159 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
6160 or response to be rejected.
6161DOC_END
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6163NAME: collapsed_forwarding
6164COMMENT: (on|off)
6165TYPE: onoff
6166LOC: Config.onoff.collapsed_forwarding
6167DEFAULT: off
6168DOC_START
6169 This option controls whether Squid is allowed to merge multiple
6170 potentially cachable requests for the same URI before Squid knows
6171 whether the response is going to be cachable.
6172
6173 This feature is disabled by default: Enabling collapsed forwarding
6174 needlessly delays forwarding requests that look cachable (when they are
6175 collapsed) but then need to be forwarded individually anyway because
6176 they end up being for uncachable content. However, in some cases, such
6177 as accelleration of highly cachable content with periodic or groupped
6178 expiration times, the gains from collapsing [large volumes of
6179 simultenous refresh requests] outweigh losses from such delays.
6180DOC_END
6181
41bd17a4 6182COMMENT_START
6183 TIMEOUTS
6184 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6185COMMENT_END
6186
6187NAME: forward_timeout
6188COMMENT: time-units
6189TYPE: time_t
6190LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
6191DEFAULT: 4 minutes
6192DOC_START
6193 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
6194 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 6195DOC_END
6196
41bd17a4 6197NAME: connect_timeout
6198COMMENT: time-units
6199TYPE: time_t
6200LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
6201DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 6202DOC_START
41bd17a4 6203 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6204 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
6205 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 6206DOC_END
6207
41bd17a4 6208NAME: peer_connect_timeout
6209COMMENT: time-units
6210TYPE: time_t
6211LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
6212DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 6213DOC_START
41bd17a4 6214 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
6215 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
6216 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
6217 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
6218DOC_END
7f7db318 6219
41bd17a4 6220NAME: read_timeout
6221COMMENT: time-units
6222TYPE: time_t
6223LOC: Config.Timeout.read
6224DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6225DOC_START
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6226 Applied on peer server connections.
6227
6228 After each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
41bd17a4 6229 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
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6230 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT.
6231
6232 The default is 15 minutes.
41bd17a4 6233DOC_END
cccac0a2 6234
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6235NAME: write_timeout
6236COMMENT: time-units
6237TYPE: time_t
6238LOC: Config.Timeout.write
6239DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6240DOC_START
6241 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
6242 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
6243 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
6244 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
6245 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
6246 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
6247 default is 15 minutes.
6248DOC_END
6249
41bd17a4 6250NAME: request_timeout
6251TYPE: time_t
6252LOC: Config.Timeout.request
6253DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6254DOC_START
6b2a2108 6255 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 6256 connection establishment.
6257DOC_END
cccac0a2 6258
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6259NAME: request_start_timeout
6260TYPE: time_t
6261LOC: Config.Timeout.request_start_timeout
6262DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6263DOC_START
6264 How long to wait for the first request byte after initial
6265 connection establishment.
6266DOC_END
6267
97b32442 6268NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 6269TYPE: time_t
97b32442 6270LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 6271DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6272DOC_START
6273 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 6274 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 6275DOC_END
cccac0a2 6276
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6277NAME: ftp_client_idle_timeout
6278TYPE: time_t
6279LOC: Config.Timeout.ftpClientIdle
6280DEFAULT: 30 minutes
6281DOC_START
6282 How long to wait for an FTP request on a connection to Squid ftp_port.
6283 Many FTP clients do not deal with idle connection closures well,
6284 necessitating a longer default timeout than client_idle_pconn_timeout
6285 used for incoming HTTP requests.
6286DOC_END
6287
41bd17a4 6288NAME: client_lifetime
6289COMMENT: time-units
6290TYPE: time_t
6291LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
6292DEFAULT: 1 day
6293DOC_START
6294 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6295 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
6296 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
6297 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
6298 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
6299 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
6300 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 6301
41bd17a4 6302 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
6303 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
6304 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
6305 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
6306 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
6307 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 6308DOC_END
6309
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6310NAME: pconn_lifetime
6311COMMENT: time-units
6312TYPE: time_t
6313LOC: Config.Timeout.pconnLifetime
6314DEFAULT: 0 seconds
6315DOC_START
6316 Desired maximum lifetime of a persistent connection.
6317 When set, Squid will close a now-idle persistent connection that
6318 exceeded configured lifetime instead of moving the connection into
6319 the idle connection pool (or equivalent). No effect on ongoing/active
6320 transactions. Connection lifetime is the time period from the
6321 connection acceptance or opening time until "now".
6322
6323 This limit is useful in environments with long-lived connections
6324 where Squid configuration or environmental factors change during a
6325 single connection lifetime. If unrestricted, some connections may
6326 last for hours and even days, ignoring those changes that should
6327 have affected their behavior or their existence.
6328
6329 Currently, a new lifetime value supplied via Squid reconfiguration
6330 has no effect on already idle connections unless they become busy.
6331
6332 When set to '0' this limit is not used.
6333DOC_END
6334
41bd17a4 6335NAME: half_closed_clients
6336TYPE: onoff
6337LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 6338DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 6339DOC_START
41bd17a4 6340 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
6341 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
6342 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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6343 fully-closed TCP connection.
6344
6345 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
6346 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
6347
abdf1651 6348 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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6349 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
6350 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
6351 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 6352DOC_END
6353
97b32442 6354NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 6355TYPE: time_t
97b32442 6356LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 6357DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 6358DOC_START
41bd17a4 6359 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
6360 proxies.
6361DOC_END
cccac0a2 6362
41bd17a4 6363NAME: ident_timeout
6364TYPE: time_t
6365IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 6366LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 6367DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6368DOC_START
6369 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 6370
41bd17a4 6371 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
6372 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6373 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 6374DOC_END
6375
41bd17a4 6376NAME: shutdown_lifetime
6377COMMENT: time-units
6378TYPE: time_t
6379LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
6380DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 6381DOC_START
41bd17a4 6382 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
6383 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
6384 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
6385 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
6386 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 6387DOC_END
0976f8db 6388
cccac0a2 6389COMMENT_START
6390 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
6391 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6392COMMENT_END
6393
6394NAME: cache_mgr
6395TYPE: string
6396DEFAULT: webmaster
6397LOC: Config.adminEmail
6398DOC_START
6399 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 6400 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 6401DOC_END
6402
abacf776 6403NAME: mail_from
6404TYPE: string
6405DEFAULT: none
6406LOC: Config.EmailFrom
6407DOC_START
6408 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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6409 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
6410
6411 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 6412DOC_END
6413
d084bf20 6414NAME: mail_program
6415TYPE: eol
6416DEFAULT: mail
6417LOC: Config.EmailProgram
6418DOC_START
6419 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 6420 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 6421 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 6422 mail-program recipient < mailfile
6423
d084bf20 6424 Optional command line options can be specified.
6425DOC_END
6426
cccac0a2 6427NAME: cache_effective_user
6428TYPE: string
5483d916 6429DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 6430LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 6431DOC_START
6432 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
6433 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 6434 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 6435 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 6436DOC_END
6437
cccac0a2 6438NAME: cache_effective_group
6439TYPE: string
6440DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6441DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 6442LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
6443DOC_START
64e288bd 6444 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
6445 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
6446 from the groups membership.
6447
e3d74828 6448 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
6449 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
6450 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 6451 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 6452 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 6453 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 6454 group.
64e288bd 6455
6456 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
6457 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
6458 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 6459DOC_END
6460
d3caee79 6461NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
6462COMMENT: on|off
6463TYPE: onoff
6464DEFAULT: off
6465LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
6466DOC_START
6467 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
6468DOC_END
6469
cccac0a2 6470NAME: visible_hostname
6471TYPE: string
6472LOC: Config.visibleHostname
6473DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6474DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 6475DOC_START
6476 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 6477 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 6478 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
6479 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
6480 names with this setting.
6481DOC_END
6482
cccac0a2 6483NAME: unique_hostname
6484TYPE: string
6485LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
6486DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6487DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 6488DOC_START
6489 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 6490 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
6491 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 6492DOC_END
6493
cccac0a2 6494NAME: hostname_aliases
6495TYPE: wordlist
6496LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
6497DEFAULT: none
6498DOC_START
7f7db318 6499 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 6500DOC_END
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6502NAME: umask
6503TYPE: int
6504LOC: Config.umask
6505DEFAULT: 027
6506DOC_START
6507 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
6508 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
6509
6510 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
6511 your value with 0.
6512DOC_END
6513
cccac0a2 6514COMMENT_START
6515 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
6516 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6517
6518 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
6519 announcement service. This service is provided to help
6520 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
6521 create cache hierarchies.
6522
6523 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
6524 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
6525 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
6526
6527 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
6528 following information from this configuration file:
6529
6530 http_port
6531 icp_port
6532 cache_mgr
6533
6534 All current information is processed regularly and made
6535 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
6536COMMENT_END
6537
6538NAME: announce_period
6539TYPE: time_t
6540LOC: Config.Announce.period
6541DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6542DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 6543DOC_START
638402dd 6544 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 6545
e0855596 6546 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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6548 Example:
6549 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 6550DOC_END
6551
cccac0a2 6552NAME: announce_host
6553TYPE: string
6554DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
6555LOC: Config.Announce.host
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6556DOC_START
6557 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
6558
6559 See also announce_port and announce_file
6560DOC_END
cccac0a2 6561
6562NAME: announce_file
6563TYPE: string
6564DEFAULT: none
6565LOC: Config.Announce.file
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6566DOC_START
6567 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
6568 registration messages.
6569DOC_END
cccac0a2 6570
6571NAME: announce_port
ae870270 6572TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 6573DEFAULT: 3131
6574LOC: Config.Announce.port
6575DOC_START
638402dd 6576 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 6577
638402dd 6578 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 6579DOC_END
6580
8d6275c0 6581COMMENT_START
6582 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
6583 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6584COMMENT_END
6585
cccac0a2 6586NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6587TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 6588DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6589DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 6590LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6591DOC_START
6592 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
6593 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
6594 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
6595 an identification token.
6596DOC_END
6597
6598NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 6599COMMENT: on|off
6600TYPE: onoff
6601DEFAULT: off
6602LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
6603DOC_START
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6604 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
6605 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
6606
cccac0a2 6607 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
6608DOC_END
6609
6610NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 6611IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 6612COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 6613TYPE: string
6614LOC: ESIParser::Type
6615DEFAULT: custom
6616DOC_START
6617 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
6618 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
6619 encodings.
6620DOC_END
0976f8db 6621
9edd9041 6622COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6623 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 6624 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6625COMMENT_END
6626
6627NAME: delay_pools
6628TYPE: delay_pool_count
6629DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6630IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6631LOC: Config.Delay
6632DOC_START
6633 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
6634 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
6635 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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6636
6637 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
6638 configuration details.
9edd9041 6639DOC_END
6640
6641NAME: delay_class
6642TYPE: delay_pool_class
6643DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6644IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6645LOC: Config.Delay
6646DOC_START
6647 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
6648 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
6649 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
6650 and here would be:
6651
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6652 Example:
6653 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
6654 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
6655 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
6656 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
6657 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 6658
6659 The delay pool classes are:
6660
6661 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6662 bucket.
6663
6664 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6665 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 6666 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6667
6668 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6669 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
6670 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
6671 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 6672 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6673
6674 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
6675 additional limit on a per user basis. This
6676 only takes effect if the username is established
6677 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
6678 http_access rules.
6679
6680 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
6681 external_acl's tag= reply).
6682
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6683
6684 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
6685 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
6686 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
6687
9edd9041 6688 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
6689 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
6690 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
6691 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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6692
6693 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
6694 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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6695
6696 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6697 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6698
6699 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 6700DOC_END
6701
6702NAME: delay_access
6703TYPE: delay_pool_access
6704DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6705DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6706IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6707LOC: Config.Delay
6708DOC_START
6709 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
6710
6711 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
6712 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
6713 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
6714 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
6715
6716 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
6717 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
6718
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6719 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
6720 delay_access 1 deny all
6721 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
6722 delay_access 2 deny all
6723 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
6724
6725 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
6726
9edd9041 6727DOC_END
6728
6729NAME: delay_parameters
6730TYPE: delay_pool_rates
6731DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6732IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6733LOC: Config.Delay
6734DOC_START
6735 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
6736 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 6737 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 6738
0b68481a 6739 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6e7502cc 6740 delay_class pool 1
0b68481a 6741 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 6742
6743 For a class 2 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6744 delay_class pool 2
0b68481a 6745 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 6746
6747 For a class 3 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6748 delay_class pool 3
0b68481a 6749 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 6750
6751 For a class 4 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6752 delay_class pool 4
0b68481a 6753 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 6754
6755 For a class 5 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6756 delay_class pool 5
0b68481a 6757 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 6758
0b68481a 6759 The option variables are:
9edd9041 6760
6761 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
6762 number specified in delay_pools as used in
6763 delay_class lines.
6764
fdb47ac6 6765 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 6766 (class 1, 2, 3).
6767
fdb47ac6 6768 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 6769 buckets (class 2, 3).
6770
fdb47ac6 6771 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 6772 (class 3).
6773
fdb47ac6 6774 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 6775 (class 4).
6776
fdb47ac6 6777 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 6778 (class 5).
6779
6780 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
6781 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
6782 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
6783 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
6784
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6785 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
6786
6787
9edd9041 6788 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 6789 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 6790 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
6791
6e7502cc 6792 delay_parameters 1 none 8000/8000
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6793
6794 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 6795
6e7502cc 6796 Note that the word 'none' is used to represent no limit.
9edd9041 6797
0b68481a 6798
9edd9041 6799 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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6800 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
6801 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
6802 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 6803 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
6804 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
6805 large downloads more significantly:
6806
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6807 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
6808
6809 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
6810 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
6811 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 6812
9edd9041 6813
6814 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 6815 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 6816
0b68481a 6817 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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6818
6819
6820 See also delay_class and delay_access.
6821
9edd9041 6822DOC_END
6823
6824NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
6825COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 6826TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 6827DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6828IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6829LOC: Config.Delay.initial
6830DOC_START
6831 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
6832 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
6833 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
6834 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
6835 "seen" by squid).
6836DOC_END
6837
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6838COMMENT_START
6839 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
6840 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6841COMMENT_END
6842
6843NAME: client_delay_pools
6844TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
6845DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6846IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6847LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6848DOC_START
6849 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
6850 preceed other client_delay_* options.
6851
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6852 Example:
6853 client_delay_pools 2
6854
6855 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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6856DOC_END
6857
6858NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
6859COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 6860TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 6861DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6862IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6863LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
6864DOC_START
6865 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
6866 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
6867 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
6868 buckets are periodically deleted up.
6869
6870 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
6871 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
6872 from client_delay_parameters.
6873
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6874 Example:
6875 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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6876DOC_END
6877
6878NAME: client_delay_parameters
6879TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
6880DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6881IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6882LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6883DOC_START
6884
6885 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
6886 following format:
6887
6888 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
6889
6890 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
6891
6892 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
6893
6894 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
6895 speed_limit additions.
6896
6897 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
6898 examples.
6899
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6900 Example:
6901 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
6902 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
6903
6904 See also client_delay_access.
6905
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6906DOC_END
6907
6908NAME: client_delay_access
6909TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
6910DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6911DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6912IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6913LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6914DOC_START
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6915 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
6916 request:
6917
6918 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
6919
6920 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
6921 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
6922 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
6923 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
6924 limited.
6925
6926 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
6927 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
6928 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
6929 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
6930
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6931 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6932 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6933 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
6934 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
6935
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6936 Please see delay_access for more examples.
6937
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6938 Example:
6939 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
6940 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
6941
6942
6943 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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6944DOC_END
6945
cccac0a2 6946COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6947 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 6948 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6949COMMENT_END
6950
8d6275c0 6951NAME: wccp_router
6952TYPE: address
6953LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 6954DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6955DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 6956IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6957DOC_START
6958 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6959 Squid.
6960
6961 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
6962
6963 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
6964
6965 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6966 which version of WCCP to use.
6967DOC_END
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8d6275c0 6969NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 6970TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 6971LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 6972DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6973DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 6974IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6975DOC_START
8d6275c0 6976 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6977 Squid.
cccac0a2 6978
8d6275c0 6979 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 6980
8d6275c0 6981 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 6982
8d6275c0 6983 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6984 which version of WCCP to use.
6985DOC_END
6986
6987NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 6988TYPE: int
8d6275c0 6989LOC: Config.Wccp.version
6990DEFAULT: 4
6991IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 6992DOC_START
8d6275c0 6993 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
6994 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
6995 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
6996 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
6997 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 6998
8d6275c0 6999 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
7000 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
7001 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
7002 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 7003DOC_END
7004
8d6275c0 7005NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
7006TYPE: onoff
7007LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
7008DEFAULT: on
7009IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7010DOC_START
7011 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
7012 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
7013DOC_END
cccac0a2 7014
8d6275c0 7015NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 7016TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 7017LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 7018DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7019IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7020DOC_START
699acd19 7021 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 7022 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7023
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7024 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7025 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7026
8d6275c0 7027 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7028 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 7029DOC_END
7030
8d6275c0 7031NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 7032TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 7033LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 7034DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7035IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7036DOC_START
699acd19 7037 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 7038 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
7039 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7040
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7041 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7042 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7043
8d6275c0 7044 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7045 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 7046
699acd19 7047 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 7048 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
7049 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
7050 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 7051DOC_END
7052
8d6275c0 7053NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 7054TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 7055LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 7056DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 7057IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7058DOC_START
8d6275c0 7059 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
7060 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7061
451c4786 7062 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 7063 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 7064
8d6275c0 7065 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
7066 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
7067DOC_END
cccac0a2 7068
8d6275c0 7069NAME: wccp2_service
7070TYPE: wccp2_service
7071LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 7072DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 7073DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 7074IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7075DOC_START
7076 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
7077 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
7078 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
7079 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
7080 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
7081 using the wccp2_service_info option.
7082
7083 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
7084 just specifying the service id will suffice.
7085
7086 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
7087 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
7088
7089 Examples:
7090
7091 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
7092 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
7093 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
7094 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 7095DOC_END
7096
7097NAME: wccp2_service_info
7098TYPE: wccp2_service_info
7099LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
7100DEFAULT: none
7101IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7102DOC_START
7103 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
7104 traffic you wish to have diverted.
7105
7106 The format is:
7107
7108 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
7109 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
7110
7111 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
7112 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 7113 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 7114 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
7115 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
7116 + ports_source
7117
7118 The port list can be one to eight entries.
7119
7120 Example:
7121
7122 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
7123 priority=240 ports=80
7124
7125 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
7126 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
7127DOC_END
7128
7129NAME: wccp2_weight
7130TYPE: int
7131LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
7132DEFAULT: 10000
7133IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7134DOC_START
7135 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
7136 hash proportional to their weight.
7137DOC_END
7138
7139NAME: wccp_address
7140TYPE: address
7141LOC: Config.Wccp.address
7142DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7143DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7144IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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7145DOC_START
7146 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
7147 interface address.
7148
7149 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7150DOC_END
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8d6275c0 7152NAME: wccp2_address
7153TYPE: address
7154LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
7155DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7156DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7157IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7158DOC_START
7159 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
7160 interface address.
7161
7162 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7163DOC_END
7164
7165COMMENT_START
7166 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
7167 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7168
7169 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
7170COMMENT_END
7171
7172NAME: client_persistent_connections
7173TYPE: onoff
7174LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
7175DEFAULT: on
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7176DOC_START
7177 Persistent connection support for clients.
7178 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7179 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
7180DOC_END
8d6275c0 7181
7182NAME: server_persistent_connections
7183TYPE: onoff
7184LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
7185DEFAULT: on
7186DOC_START
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7187 Persistent connection support for servers.
7188 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7189 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 7190DOC_END
7191
7192NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
7193TYPE: onoff
7194LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 7195DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 7196DOC_START
7197 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
7198 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
7199 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
7200DOC_END
7201
7202NAME: detect_broken_pconn
7203TYPE: onoff
7204LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
7205DEFAULT: off
7206DOC_START
7207 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
7208 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
7209 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
7210 has mostly been seen on redirects.
7211
7212 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
7213 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
7214 after 10 seconds timeout.
7215DOC_END
7216
7217COMMENT_START
7218 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
7219 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7220COMMENT_END
7221
7222NAME: digest_generation
7223IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7224TYPE: onoff
7225LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
7226DEFAULT: on
7227DOC_START
7228 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
7229 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 7230 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 7231DOC_END
7232
7233NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
7234IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7235TYPE: int
7236LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
7237DEFAULT: 5
7238DOC_START
7239 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
7240 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
7241 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
7242DOC_END
7243
7244NAME: digest_rebuild_period
7245IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7246COMMENT: (seconds)
7247TYPE: time_t
7248LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
7249DEFAULT: 1 hour
7250DOC_START
749ceff8 7251 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 7252DOC_END
7253
7254NAME: digest_rewrite_period
7255COMMENT: (seconds)
7256IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7257TYPE: time_t
7258LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
7259DEFAULT: 1 hour
7260DOC_START
749ceff8 7261 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 7262 disk.
7263DOC_END
7264
7265NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
7266COMMENT: (bytes)
7267TYPE: b_size_t
7268IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7269LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
7270DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
7271DOC_START
7272 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
7273 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
7274 default swap page.
7275DOC_END
7276
7277NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
7278COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
7279IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7280TYPE: int
7281LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
7282DEFAULT: 10
7283DOC_START
7284 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
7285 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
7286DOC_END
7287
1db9eacd 7288COMMENT_START
5473c134 7289 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 7290 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7291COMMENT_END
7292
5473c134 7293NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 7294TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7295LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 7296DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7297DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 7298IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 7299DOC_START
87630341 7300 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
7301 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
7302 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
7303 set to "0" (disabled)
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7304
7305 Example:
7306 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 7307DOC_END
7308
5473c134 7309NAME: snmp_access
7310TYPE: acl_access
7311LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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7312DEFAULT: none
7313DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 7314IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 7315DOC_START
5473c134 7316 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 7317
5473c134 7318 All access to the agent is denied by default.
7319 usage:
8d6275c0 7320
5473c134 7321 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 7322
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7323 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7324 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 7325
5473c134 7326Example:
7327 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
7328 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 7329DOC_END
7330
5473c134 7331NAME: snmp_incoming_address
7332TYPE: address
7333LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 7334DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7335DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 7336IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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7337DOC_START
7338 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
7339
7340 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
7341 messages from SNMP agents.
7342
7343 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
7344 available network interfaces.
7345DOC_END
df2eec10 7346
5473c134 7347NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
7348TYPE: address
7349LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 7350DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7351DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 7352IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 7353DOC_START
638402dd 7354 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 7355
5473c134 7356 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
7357 agents.
cccac0a2 7358
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7359 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
7360 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
7361 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
7362 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 7363
5473c134 7364 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 7365 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7366DOC_END
7367
5473c134 7368COMMENT_START
7369 ICP OPTIONS
7370 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7371COMMENT_END
7372
7373NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 7374TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7375DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7376DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 7377LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 7378DOC_START
5473c134 7379 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
7380 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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7381
7382 Example:
7383 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 7384DOC_END
7385
5473c134 7386NAME: htcp_port
7387IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 7388TYPE: u_short
87630341 7389DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7390DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 7391LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 7392DOC_START
5473c134 7393 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 7394 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 7395 4827.
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7396
7397 Example:
7398 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 7399DOC_END
7400
7401NAME: log_icp_queries
7402COMMENT: on|off
7403TYPE: onoff
7404DEFAULT: on
7405LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
7406DOC_START
7407 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
7408 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
7409 up or to simplify log analysis.
7410DOC_END
7411
5473c134 7412NAME: udp_incoming_address
7413TYPE: address
7414LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 7415DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7416DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 7417DOC_START
7418 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
7419 caches.
7420
7421 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7422
7423 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
7424 a specific interface/address.
7425
7426 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7427 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7428
7429 see also; udp_outgoing_address
7430
7431 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
7432 have the same value since they both use the same port.
7433DOC_END
cccac0a2 7434
5473c134 7435NAME: udp_outgoing_address
7436TYPE: address
7437LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 7438DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7439DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 7440DOC_START
8524d4b2 7441 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 7442 caches.
cccac0a2 7443
5473c134 7444 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 7445
8524d4b2 7446 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
7447 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
7448 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 7449 caches.
7450
8524d4b2 7451 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7452 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7453
7454 see also; udp_incoming_address
7455
5473c134 7456 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 7457 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7458DOC_END
7459
3d1e3e43 7460NAME: icp_hit_stale
7461COMMENT: on|off
7462TYPE: onoff
7463DEFAULT: off
7464LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
7465DOC_START
7466 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
7467 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
7468 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7469 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
7470 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7471 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
7472 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
7473DOC_END
7474
5473c134 7475NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 7476TYPE: int
5473c134 7477DEFAULT: 4
7478LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 7479DOC_START
5473c134 7480 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7481 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 7482DOC_END
7483
5473c134 7484NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 7485COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 7486TYPE: int
7487DEFAULT: 400
7488LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 7489DOC_START
5473c134 7490 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7491 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 7492DOC_END
7493
cccac0a2 7494NAME: netdb_low
7495TYPE: int
7496DEFAULT: 900
7497LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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7498DOC_START
7499 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7500
7501 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
7502
7503 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7504 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7505 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7506 mark is reached.
7507DOC_END
cccac0a2 7508
7509NAME: netdb_high
7510TYPE: int
7511DEFAULT: 1000
7512LOC: Config.Netdb.high
7513DOC_START
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7514 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7515
7516 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
7517
7518 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7519 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7520 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7521 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 7522DOC_END
7523
cccac0a2 7524NAME: netdb_ping_period
7525TYPE: time_t
7526LOC: Config.Netdb.period
7527DEFAULT: 5 minutes
7528DOC_START
7529 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
7530 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
7531 network. The default is five minutes.
7532DOC_END
7533
cccac0a2 7534NAME: query_icmp
7535COMMENT: on|off
7536TYPE: onoff
7537DEFAULT: off
7538LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
7539DOC_START
7540 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
7541 replies, enable this option.
7542
7543 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 7544 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
7545 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 7546 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
7547 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
7548 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
7549 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
7550 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
7551DOC_END
7552
7553NAME: test_reachability
7554COMMENT: on|off
7555TYPE: onoff
7556DEFAULT: off
7557LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
7558DOC_START
7559 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
7560 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
7561 database, or has a zero RTT.
7562DOC_END
7563
5473c134 7564NAME: icp_query_timeout
7565COMMENT: (msec)
7566DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7567DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 7568TYPE: int
7569LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 7570DOC_START
5473c134 7571 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
7572 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
7573 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
7574 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
7575 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
7576 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 7577
5473c134 7578 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 7579DOC_END
7580
5473c134 7581NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
7582COMMENT: (msec)
7583DEFAULT: 2000
7584TYPE: int
7585LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 7586DOC_START
5473c134 7587 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7588 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
7589 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
7590 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7591 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7592 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7593DOC_END
7594
5473c134 7595NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
7596COMMENT: (msec)
7597DEFAULT: 5
7598TYPE: int
7599LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 7600DOC_START
5473c134 7601 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7602 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
7603 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
7604 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
7605 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7606 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7607 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7608DOC_END
7609
5473c134 7610NAME: background_ping_rate
7611COMMENT: time-units
7612TYPE: time_t
7613DEFAULT: 10 seconds
7614LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 7615DOC_START
5473c134 7616 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
7617 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 7618DOC_END
7619
5473c134 7620COMMENT_START
7621 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
7622 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7623COMMENT_END
7624
7625NAME: mcast_groups
7626TYPE: wordlist
7627LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 7628DEFAULT: none
7629DOC_START
5473c134 7630 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
7631 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 7632
5473c134 7633 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
7634 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
7635 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
7636 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
7637 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
7638 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
7639 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 7640
5473c134 7641 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
7642 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 7643
5473c134 7644 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
7645 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 7646
5473c134 7647 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 7648
5473c134 7649 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
7650DOC_END
8c01ada0 7651
5473c134 7652NAME: mcast_miss_addr
7653IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7654TYPE: address
7655LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 7656DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7657DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 7658DOC_START
7659 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
7660 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 7661
5473c134 7662 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
7663 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 7664DOC_END
7665
5473c134 7666NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
7667IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7668TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7669LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
7670DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 7671DOC_START
5473c134 7672 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
7673 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
7674 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
7675DOC_END
cccac0a2 7676
5473c134 7677NAME: mcast_miss_port
7678IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7679TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7680LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
7681DEFAULT: 3135
7682DOC_START
7683 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
7684 'mcast_miss_addr'.
7685DOC_END
cccac0a2 7686
5473c134 7687NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
7688IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7689TYPE: string
7690LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
7691DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
7692DOC_START
7693 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
7694 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
7695DOC_END
8c01ada0 7696
5473c134 7697NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
7698COMMENT: (msec)
7699DEFAULT: 2000
7700TYPE: int
7701LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
7702DOC_START
7703 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
7704 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
7705 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
7706 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
7707 seconds.
cccac0a2 7708DOC_END
7709
5473c134 7710COMMENT_START
7711 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
7712 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7713COMMENT_END
7714
cccac0a2 7715NAME: icon_directory
7716TYPE: string
7717LOC: Config.icons.directory
7718DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7719DOC_START
7720 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
7721 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7722DOC_END
7723
f024c970 7724NAME: global_internal_static
7725TYPE: onoff
7726LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
7727DEFAULT: on
7728DOC_START
7729 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
7730 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
7731 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
7732 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
7733 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
7734 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
7735 the server generating a directory listing.
7736DOC_END
7737
5473c134 7738NAME: short_icon_urls
7739TYPE: onoff
7740LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
7741DEFAULT: on
7742DOC_START
7743 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
7744 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
7745 it's own name and port in the URL.
7746
7747 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7748 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
7749DOC_END
7750
7751COMMENT_START
7752 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
7753 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7754COMMENT_END
7755
7756NAME: error_directory
7757TYPE: string
7758LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 7759DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7760DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 7761DOC_START
7762 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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7763 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
7764 the error/template files to another directory and point
7765 this tag at them.
7766
7767 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
7768 on error pages if used.
5473c134 7769
7770 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7771 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 7772 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 7773 contributing your translation back to the project.
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7774 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
7775
7776 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
7777 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
7778DOC_END
7779
7780NAME: error_default_language
7781IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7782TYPE: string
7783LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
7784DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7785DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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7786DOC_START
7787 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
7788 if no existing translation matches the clients language
7789 preferences.
7790
7791 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
7792
7793 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7794 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
7795 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
7796 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 7797DOC_END
7798
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7799NAME: error_log_languages
7800IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7801TYPE: onoff
7802LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
7803DEFAULT: on
7804DOC_START
7805 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
7806 auto-negotiate for translations.
7807
7808 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
7809 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 7810 of its error page translations.
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7811DOC_END
7812
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7813NAME: err_page_stylesheet
7814TYPE: string
7815LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
7816DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
7817DOC_START
7818 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
7819
7820 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
7821DOC_END
7822
5473c134 7823NAME: err_html_text
7824TYPE: eol
7825LOC: Config.errHtmlText
7826DEFAULT: none
7827DOC_START
7828 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
7829 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
7830 organizations Web page.
7831
7832 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
7833 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
7834 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
7835 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
7836DOC_END
7837
7838NAME: email_err_data
7839COMMENT: on|off
7840TYPE: onoff
7841LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
7842DEFAULT: on
7843DOC_START
7844 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
7845 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7846 so that the email body contains the data.
7847 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
7848DOC_END
7849
7850NAME: deny_info
7851TYPE: denyinfo
7852LOC: Config.denyInfoList
7853DEFAULT: none
7854DOC_START
7855 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
7856 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 7857 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 7858
7859 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
7860 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
7861 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
7862 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
7863
7864 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
7865 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
7866 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
7867 the first authentication related acl encountered
7868 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
7869 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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7871 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 7872
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7873 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
7874 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
7875 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 7876
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7877 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
7878 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
7879 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
7880
5473c134 7881 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
7882 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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7883
7884 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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7885 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
7886 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
7887 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
7888 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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7889
7890 URL FORMAT TAGS:
7891 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
7892 %B - FTP path URL
7893 %e - Error number
7894 %E - Error description
7895 %h - Squid hostname
7896 %H - Request domain name
7897 %i - Client IP Address
7898 %M - Request Method
7899 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
7900 %p - Request Port number
7901 %P - Request Protocol name
7902 %R - Request URL path
7903 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
7904 %U - Full canonical URL from client
7905 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
7906 %u - Full canonical URL from client
7907 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 7908 %x - Error name
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7909 %% - Literal percent (%) code
7910
5473c134 7911DOC_END
7912
7913COMMENT_START
7914 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
7915 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7916COMMENT_END
7917
7918NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7919TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7920LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7921DEFAULT: on
7922DOC_START
5473c134 7923 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
9967aef6 7924 (not cacheable request type) direct to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 7925
638402dd 7926 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 7927 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 7928
5473c134 7929 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
7930 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
7931 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 7932
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7933 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
7934 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
7935 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 7936DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 7937
5473c134 7938NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7939TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7940LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7941DEFAULT: off
7942DOC_START
5473c134 7943 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
7944 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7945 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 7946
5473c134 7947 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
7948 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
7949 fails.
7950
7951 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
7952 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
7953 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 7954DOC_END
7955
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7956NAME: cache_miss_revalidate
7957COMMENT: on|off
7958TYPE: onoff
7959DEFAULT: on
7960LOC: Config.onoff.cache_miss_revalidate
7961DOC_START
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7962 RFC 7232 defines a conditional request mechanism to prevent
7963 response objects being unnecessarily transferred over the network.
7964 If that mechanism is used by the client and a cache MISS occurs
7965 it can prevent new cache entries being created.
7966
7967 This option determines whether Squid on cache MISS will pass the
7968 client revalidation request to the server or tries to fetch new
7969 content for caching. It can be useful while the cache is mostly
7970 empty to more quickly have the cache populated by generating
7971 non-conditional GETs.
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7972
7973 When set to 'on' (default), Squid will pass all client If-* headers
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7974 to the server. This permits server responses without a cacheable
7975 payload to be delivered and on MISS no new cache entry is created.
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7976
7977 When set to 'off' and if the request is cacheable, Squid will
7978 remove the clients If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers from
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7979 the request sent to the server. This requests a 200 status response
7980 from the server to create a new cache entry with.
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7981DOC_END
7982
5473c134 7983NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 7984TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 7985LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 7986DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7987DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 7988DOC_START
5473c134 7989 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 7990
5473c134 7991 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
7992 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
7993 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
7994 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
7995 something like:
0b0cfcf2 7996
5473c134 7997 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
7998 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 7999
5473c134 8000 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 8001
5473c134 8002 acl FTP proto FTP
8003 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 8004
5473c134 8005 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
8006 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
8007 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
8008 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
8009 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 8010
5473c134 8011 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
8012 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
8013 always_direct deny local-external
8014 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 8015
5473c134 8016 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
8017 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
8018 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
8019 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 8020
5473c134 8021 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
8022 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 8023 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 8024
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8025 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8026 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 8027DOC_END
0976f8db 8028
5473c134 8029NAME: never_direct
8030TYPE: acl_access
8031LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
8032DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8033DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 8034DOC_START
5473c134 8035 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8036
8037 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
8038 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
8039
8040 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
8041 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
8042 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
8043 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
8044
8045 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 8046 never_direct deny local-servers
8047 never_direct allow all
8048
8049 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
8050 servers inside the firewall use something like:
8051
8052 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
8053 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
8054 always_direct deny local-external
8055 always_direct allow local-intranet
8056 never_direct allow all
8057
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8058 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8059 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 8060DOC_END
0976f8db 8061
5473c134 8062COMMENT_START
8063 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
8064 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8065COMMENT_END
8066
65d448bc 8067NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 8068TYPE: int
8069DEFAULT: 6
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8070LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
8071DOC_START
8072 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8073 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8074 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8075DOC_END
cccac0a2 8076
65d448bc 8077NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 8078TYPE: int
8079DEFAULT: 4
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8080LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
8081DOC_START
8082 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8083 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8084 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8085DOC_END
cccac0a2 8086
8087NAME: incoming_dns_average
8088TYPE: int
8089DEFAULT: 4
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8090LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
8091DOC_START
8092 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8093 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8094 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8095DOC_END
cccac0a2 8096
65d448bc 8097NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8098TYPE: int
8099DEFAULT: 8
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8100LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
8101DOC_START
8102 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8103 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8104 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8105DOC_END
cccac0a2 8106
8107NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
8108TYPE: int
8109DEFAULT: 8
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8110LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
8111DOC_START
8112 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8113 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8114 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8115DOC_END
cccac0a2 8116
65d448bc 8117NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8118TYPE: int
8119DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 8120LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 8121DOC_START
5473c134 8122 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8123 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8124 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8125DOC_END
8126
8127NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 8128TYPE: string
8129DEFAULT: none
8130LOC: Config.accept_filter
8131DOC_START
0b4d4be5 8132 FreeBSD:
8133
5473c134 8134 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
8135 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
8136 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
8137
8138 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 8139 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 8140 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
8141
8142 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
8143 to Squid until there is some data to process.
8144 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
8145
8146 Linux:
8147
8148 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
8149 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
8150 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
8151 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
8152 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 8153EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 8154# FreeBSD
5473c134 8155accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 8156# Linux
8157accept_filter data
5473c134 8158DOC_END
8159
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8160NAME: client_ip_max_connections
8161TYPE: int
8162LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
8163DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 8164DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
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8165DOC_START
8166 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
8167 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
8168 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
8169
8170 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
8171 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
8172
8173 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
8174
8175 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
8176 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
8177DOC_END
8178
5473c134 8179NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
8180COMMENT: (bytes)
8181TYPE: b_size_t
8182DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 8183DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 8184LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
8185DOC_START
8186 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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8187 as easy to change your kernel's default.
8188 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 8189DOC_END
8190
8191COMMENT_START
8192 ICAP OPTIONS
8193 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8194COMMENT_END
8195
8196NAME: icap_enable
8197TYPE: onoff
8198IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8199COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8200LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 8201DEFAULT: off
8202DOC_START
53e738c6 8203 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 8204DOC_END
8205
8206NAME: icap_connect_timeout
8207TYPE: time_t
8208DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 8209LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 8210IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8211DOC_START
8212 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
8213 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
8214 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
8215
8216 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
8217 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
8218 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
8219DOC_END
8220
8221NAME: icap_io_timeout
8222COMMENT: time-units
8223TYPE: time_t
8224DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8225DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 8226LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 8227IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8228DOC_START
8229 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
8230 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
8231 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
8232 failure.
5473c134 8233DOC_END
8234
8235NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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8236COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
8237TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 8238IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 8239LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 8240DEFAULT: 10
8241DOC_START
8242 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
8243 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
8244 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
8245 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 8246 OPTIONS.
5473c134 8247
8248 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
8249 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
8250 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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8251
8252 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
8253 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
8254 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
8255 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
8256 value into ten time slots of equal length.
8257
8258 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
8259 effect on service failure expiration.
8260
8261 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
8262 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
8263 setting.
8264
8265 For example,
8266 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
8267 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 8268DOC_END
8269
5473c134 8270NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 8271TYPE: int
5473c134 8272IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8273LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 8274DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 8275DOC_START
5473c134 8276 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
8277 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
8278 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
8279 fetched.
cccac0a2 8280
5473c134 8281 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
8282 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 8283DOC_END
8284
5473c134 8285NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 8286TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8287IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8288COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8289LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 8290DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 8291DOC_START
ac7a62f9 8292 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
8293 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
8294 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
8295 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
8296
8297 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
8298 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
8299 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
8300
8301 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
8302 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
8303Example:
8304icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 8305DOC_END
8306
5473c134 8307NAME: icap_preview_size
8308TYPE: int
8309IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8310LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 8311DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 8312DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 8313DOC_START
53e738c6 8314 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 8315 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 8316DOC_END
8317
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8318NAME: icap_206_enable
8319TYPE: onoff
8320IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8321COMMENT: on|off
8322LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
8323DEFAULT: on
8324DOC_START
8325 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
8326 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
8327 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
8328 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
8329
8330 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
8331 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
8332 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
8333 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
8334 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
8335
8336 Example:
8337 icap_206_enable off
8338DOC_END
8339
5473c134 8340NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
8341TYPE: int
8342IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8343LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 8344DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 8345DOC_START
53e738c6 8346 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 8347 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 8348DOC_END
8349
5473c134 8350NAME: icap_persistent_connections
8351TYPE: onoff
8352IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8353COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8354LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 8355DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 8356DOC_START
5473c134 8357 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
8358 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 8359DOC_END
8360
22fff3bf 8361NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 8362TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 8363IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 8364COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 8365LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 8366DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8367DOC_START
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8368 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
8369 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
8370 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
8371
8372 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 8373DOC_END
8374
22fff3bf 8375NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 8376TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 8377IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 8378COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 8379LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 8380DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8381DOC_START
5473c134 8382 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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8383 the adaptation service.
8384
8385 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 8386 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
8387 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 8388DOC_END
8389
5473c134 8390NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 8391TYPE: string
5473c134 8392IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8393LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 8394DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 8395DOC_START
db49f682 8396 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 8397DOC_END
8398
5473c134 8399NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 8400TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8401IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8402COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8403LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 8404DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8405DOC_START
5473c134 8406 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 8407DOC_END
8408
5473c134 8409NAME: icap_service
8410TYPE: icap_service_type
8411IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8412LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 8413DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8414DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8415 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 8416
c25c2836 8417 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 8418
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8419 id: ID
8420 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8421 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8422 services in squid.conf.
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8423
8424 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 8425 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8426 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8427 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 8428
c25c2836 8429 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
a22e6cd3 8430 ICAP server and service location.
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8431 icaps://servername:port/servicepath
8432 The "icap:" URI scheme is used for traditional ICAP server and
8433 service location (default port is 1344, connections are not
8434 encrypted). The "icaps:" URI scheme is for Secure ICAP
8435 services that use SSL/TLS-encrypted ICAP connections (by
8436 default, on port 11344).
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8437
8438 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
8439 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
8440 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
8441 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
8442 service_names differ.
8443
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8444 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
8445 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8446
8447 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
8448 the following name=value options:
8449
8450 bypass=on|off|1|0
8451 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
8452 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
8453 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
8454 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
8455 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
8456 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
8457 returned to the HTTP client.
8458
8459 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8460
8461 routing=on|off|1|0
8462 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
8463 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8464 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
8465 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
8466 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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8467 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
8468 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
8469 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
8470
8471 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8472 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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8473
8474 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
8475 response header is ignored.
8476
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8477 ipv6=on|off
8478 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
8479 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
8480 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
8481
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8482 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
8483 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
8484 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
8485 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
8486 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
8487 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
8488 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
8489
8490 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
8491 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
8492 workers may use a given service.
8493
8494 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
8495 otherwise it is set to "wait".
8496
8497
8498 max-conn=number
8499 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
8500 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
8501
4dd2c9d6 8502 ==== ICAPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
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8503
8504 These options are used for Secure ICAP (icaps://....) services only.
8505
4dd2c9d6 8506 tls-cert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
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8507 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
8508 this icap server.
8509
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8510 tls-key=/path/to/ssl/key
8511 The private TLS/SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
8512 If 'tls-key' is not specified 'tls-cert' is assumed to
8513 reference a combined PEM format file containing both the
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8514 certificate and the key.
8515
4dd2c9d6 8516 tls-cipher=... The list of valid TLS/SSL ciphers to use when connecting
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8517 to this icap server.
8518
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8519 tls-min-version=1.N
8520 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
8521 SSLv3 use the ssloptions= parameter.
8522 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
8523
4dd2c9d6 8524 tls-options=... Specify various OpenSSL library options:
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8525
8526 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
4dd2c9d6 8527
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8528 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
8529 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
8530 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
4dd2c9d6 8531
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8532 SINGLE_DH_USE
8533 Always create a new key when using
8534 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
4dd2c9d6 8535
1b091aec 8536 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
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8537 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
8538 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
8539 strength to some attacks.
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8540
8541 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
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8542 more complete list. Options relevant only to SSLv2 are
8543 not supported.
1b091aec 8544
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8545 tls-cafile=... A PEM file containing additional CA certificates to use
8546 when verifying the icap server certificate. Used
8547 to specify intermediate CA certificate(s) if not sent
8548 by the server. Or the full CA chain for the server
8549 when using the NO_DEFAULT_CA flag.
1b091aec 8550
4dd2c9d6 8551 tls-capath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
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8552 use when verifying the icap server certificate.
8553
4dd2c9d6 8554 tls-crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
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8555 verifying the icap server certificate.
8556
4dd2c9d6 8557 tls-flags=... Specify various flags modifying the Squid TLS implementation:
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8558
8559 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
8560 Accept certificates even if they fail to
8561 verify.
8562 NO_DEFAULT_CA
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8563 Don't use the default CA list built into
8564 OpenSSL.
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8565 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
8566 Don't verify the icap server certificate
8567 matches the server name
8568
4dd2c9d6 8569 tls-domain= The icap server name as advertised in it's certificate.
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8570 Used for verifying the correctness of the received icap
8571 server certificate. If not specified the icap server
8572 hostname extracted from ICAP URI will be used.
8573
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8574 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
8575 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 8576
5473c134 8577Example:
c25c2836 8578icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
1b091aec 8579icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icaps://icap2.mydomain.net:11344/reqmod routing=on
cccac0a2 8580DOC_END
8581
5473c134 8582NAME: icap_class
8583TYPE: icap_class_type
8584IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8585LOC: none
5473c134 8586DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8587DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8588 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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8589 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
8590 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 8591
62c7f90e 8592 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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8593 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
8594 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 8595DOC_END
8596
5473c134 8597NAME: icap_access
8598TYPE: icap_access_type
8599IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8600LOC: none
cccac0a2 8601DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8602DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8603 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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8604 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
8605 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 8606DOC_END
8607
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8608COMMENT_START
8609 eCAP OPTIONS
8610 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8611COMMENT_END
8612
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8613NAME: ecap_enable
8614TYPE: onoff
8615IFDEF: USE_ECAP
8616COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 8617LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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8618DEFAULT: off
8619DOC_START
8620 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
8621DOC_END
8622
8623NAME: ecap_service
8624TYPE: ecap_service_type
8625IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 8626LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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8627DEFAULT: none
8628DOC_START
8629 Defines a single eCAP service
8630
c25c2836 8631 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 8632
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8633 id: ID
8634 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8635 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8636 services in squid.conf.
8637
8638 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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8639 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8640 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8641 are not yet supported.
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8642
8643 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
8644 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
8645 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
8646 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
8647 the service provider.
8648
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8649 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
8650 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8651
8652 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
8653 the following name=value options:
8654
8655 bypass=on|off|1|0
8656 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
8657 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
8658 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 8659 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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8660 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
8661 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 8662 HTTP client.
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8663
8664 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8665
8666 routing=on|off|1|0
8667 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
8668 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8669 returning a chain of services to be used next.
8670
8671 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8672 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
8673
8674 Routing is not allowed by default.
8675
8676 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
8677 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
8678
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8679
8680Example:
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8681ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
8682ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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8683DOC_END
8684
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8685NAME: loadable_modules
8686TYPE: wordlist
8687IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
8688LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
8689DEFAULT: none
8690DOC_START
8691 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
8692 preloaded module(s).
8693Example:
8694loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
8695DOC_END
8696
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8697COMMENT_START
8698 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
8699 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8700COMMENT_END
8701
8702NAME: adaptation_service_set
8703TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
8704IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8705LOC: none
8706DEFAULT: none
8707DOC_START
8708
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8709 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
8710 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
8711
8712 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
8713
8714 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
8715 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
8716 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
8717 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
8718 intact.
62c7f90e 8719
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8720 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8721 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 8722
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8723 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
8724 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8725
8726 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
8727 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
8728 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
8729 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
8730 transaction fails as well.
8731
8732 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
8733 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
8734 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
8735 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
8736 matters.
8737
8738 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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8739
8740Example:
8741adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
8742adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
8743DOC_END
8744
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8745NAME: adaptation_service_chain
8746TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
8747IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8748LOC: none
8749DEFAULT: none
8750DOC_START
8751
8752 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
8753 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
8754 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
8755
8756 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
8757
8758 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
8759 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
8760 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
8761 the previous service in the chain.
8762
8763 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8764 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
8765
8766 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
8767 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
8768 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
8769
8770 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
8771 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8772
8773 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
8774 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
8775 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
8776 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
8777
8778 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
8779
8780Example:
8781adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
8782DOC_END
8783
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8784NAME: adaptation_access
8785TYPE: adaptation_access_type
8786IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8787LOC: none
8788DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8789DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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8790DOC_START
8791 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
8792
8793 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8794 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8795
8796 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
8797 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
8798 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
8799 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
8800
8801 - services serving different vectoring points
8802 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
8803 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
8804 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
8805
8806 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
8807 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
8808 adaptation_service_set for details.
8809
8810 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
8811 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
8812 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
8813 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
8814
8815 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
8816 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
8817
8818 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
8819
8820Example:
8821adaptation_access service_1 allow all
8822DOC_END
8823
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8824NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
8825TYPE: int
8826IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8827LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
8828DEFAULT: 16
8829DOC_START
8830 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
8831 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
8832 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
8833 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
8834 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
8835 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
8836
8837 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
8838
8839 See also: icap_service routing=1
8840DOC_END
8841
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8842NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
8843TYPE: string
8844IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8845LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
8846DEFAULT: none
8847DOC_START
8848 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
8849 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
8850 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
8851 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
8852 with the master transaction.
8853
8854 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
8855 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
8856
8857 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8858 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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8860
8861 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8862 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
8863 to provide an option with a name specified in
8864 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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8866 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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8867 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
8868
8869 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
8870
8871Example:
8872# share authentication information among ICAP services
8873adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
8874DOC_END
8875
71be37e0 8876NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 8877TYPE: note
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8878IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8879LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
8880DEFAULT: none
8881DOC_START
8882 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
8883 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
8884 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
8885 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
8886
8887 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
8888 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
8889
8890 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
8891 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
8892 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
8893 example:
8894
8895 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
8896 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
8897
8898 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
8899 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
8900
8901 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
8902 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
8903
8904 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
8905 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
8906 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
8907 and double quotes. For example,
8908 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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8909
8910 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
8911 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
8912 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
8913 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
8914 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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8915DOC_END
8916
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8917NAME: icap_retry
8918TYPE: acl_access
8919IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8920LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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8921DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
8922DOC_START
8923 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
8924 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
8925 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
8926 that response are usually retriable.
8927
8928 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8929
8930 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
8931 due to persistent connection race conditions.
8932
8933 See also: icap_retry_limit
8934DOC_END
8935
8936NAME: icap_retry_limit
8937TYPE: int
8938IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8939LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
8940DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8941DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 8942DOC_START
638402dd 8943 Limits the number of retries allowed.
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8944
8945 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
8946 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
8947 count against this limit.
8948
8949 See also: icap_retry
8950DOC_END
8951
8952
5473c134 8953COMMENT_START
8954 DNS OPTIONS
8955 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8956COMMENT_END
8957
8958NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8959TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8960DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8961LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8962DOC_START
5473c134 8963 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
8964 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
8965 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 8966DOC_END
8967
5473c134 8968NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8969TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8970DEFAULT: on
5473c134 8971LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8972DOC_START
5473c134 8973 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
8974 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
8975 Squid to be strict about the standard.
8976 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 8977DOC_END
8978
5473c134 8979NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 8980TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 8981DEFAULT: 5 seconds
8982LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
cccac0a2 8983DOC_START
5473c134 8984 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
8985 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 8986DOC_END
8987
5473c134 8988NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 8989TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 8990DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 8991LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
cccac0a2 8992DOC_START
5473c134 8993 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
8994 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
8995 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 8996DOC_END
8997
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8998NAME: dns_packet_max
8999TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 9000DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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9001DEFAULT: none
9002LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
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9003DOC_START
9004 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
9005 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
9006
9007 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
9008 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
9009 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
9010 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
9011 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
9012
9013 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
9014 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
9015 necessary.
9016
9017 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
9018 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
9019 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
9020 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
9021 sizes being advertised by Squid.
9022 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
9023 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
9024DOC_END
9025
5473c134 9026NAME: dns_defnames
9027COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 9028TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 9029DEFAULT: off
638402dd 9030DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 9031LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 9032DOC_START
5473c134 9033 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
9034 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
9035 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
9036 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 9037DOC_END
9038
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9039NAME: dns_multicast_local
9040COMMENT: on|off
9041TYPE: onoff
9042DEFAULT: off
9043DEFAULT_DOC: Search for .local and .arpa names is disabled.
9044LOC: Config.onoff.dns_mdns
9045DOC_START
9046 When set to on, Squid sends multicast DNS lookups on the local
9047 network for domains ending in .local and .arpa.
9048 This enables local servers and devices to be contacted in an
9049 ad-hoc or zero-configuration network environment.
9050DOC_END
9051
5473c134 9052NAME: dns_nameservers
9053TYPE: wordlist
9054DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9055DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5473c134 9056LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 9057DOC_START
5473c134 9058 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
9059 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
9060 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 9061
5473c134 9062 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
9063 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
9064 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
9065 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 9066
5473c134 9067 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 9068DOC_END
9069
5473c134 9070NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 9071TYPE: string
5473c134 9072DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
9073LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 9074DOC_START
5473c134 9075 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
9076 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
9077 default locations:
9078 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
9079 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9080 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
9081 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9082 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
9083 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
9084 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
9085 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 9086
5473c134 9087 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
9088 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
9089 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
9090 character are comments.
cccac0a2 9091
5473c134 9092 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
9093 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
9094 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
9095 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
9096 definitions.
cccac0a2 9097DOC_END
9098
5473c134 9099NAME: append_domain
9100TYPE: string
9101LOC: Config.appendDomain
9102DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9103DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 9104DOC_START
5473c134 9105 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
9106 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
9107
9108 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
9109 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
9110 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
9111
9112Example:
9113 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 9114DOC_END
9115
5473c134 9116NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
9117TYPE: onoff
9118LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 9119DEFAULT: on
9120DOC_START
5473c134 9121 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
9122 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
9123 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
9124 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
9125 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 9126DOC_END
9127
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9128NAME: dns_v4_first
9129TYPE: onoff
9130DEFAULT: off
9131LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
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9132DOC_START
9133 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
9134 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
9135
9136 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
9137 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
9138 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
9139
9140 WARNING:
9141 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
9142 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
9143 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
9144DOC_END
9145
6bc15a4f 9146NAME: ipcache_size
9147COMMENT: (number of entries)
9148TYPE: int
9149DEFAULT: 1024
9150LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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9151DOC_START
9152 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
9153DOC_END
6bc15a4f 9154
9155NAME: ipcache_low
9156COMMENT: (percent)
9157TYPE: int
9158DEFAULT: 90
9159LOC: Config.ipcache.low
9160DOC_NONE
9161
9162NAME: ipcache_high
9163COMMENT: (percent)
9164TYPE: int
9165DEFAULT: 95
9166LOC: Config.ipcache.high
9167DOC_START
9168 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
9169DOC_END
9170
9171NAME: fqdncache_size
9172COMMENT: (number of entries)
9173TYPE: int
9174DEFAULT: 1024
9175LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
9176DOC_START
9177 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
9178DOC_END
9179
a58ff010 9180COMMENT_START
5473c134 9181 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 9182 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9183COMMENT_END
9184
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9185NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9186COMMENT: on|off
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9187TYPE: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9188DEFAULT: off
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9189LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
9190DOC_START
9191 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
9192 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
9193 parameter value is interpreted or used.
9194 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
9195 section for more details.
9196DOC_END
9197
5473c134 9198NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 9199COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9200TYPE: onoff
9201DEFAULT: on
9202LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 9203DOC_START
5473c134 9204 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
9205 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
9206 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
9207 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 9208DOC_END
9209
5473c134 9210NAME: memory_pools_limit
9211COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 9212TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 9213DEFAULT: 5 MB
9214LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 9215DOC_START
5473c134 9216 Used only with memory_pools on:
9217 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 9218
5473c134 9219 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
9220 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
9221 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
9222 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
9223 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
9224 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
9225 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 9226
89646bd7 9227 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 9228 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 9229
5473c134 9230 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 9231 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 9232
9233 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
9234 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
9235 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
9236 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 9237DOC_END
9238
5473c134 9239NAME: forwarded_for
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9240COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
9241TYPE: string
5473c134 9242DEFAULT: on
9243LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 9244DOC_START
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9245 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
9246 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 9247
5473c134 9248 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
9249
67c06f0d 9250 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 9251
9252 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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AJ
9253
9254 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
9255 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
9256
9257 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
9258 X-Forwarded-For header.
9259
9260 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 9261 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 9262DOC_END
9263
5473c134 9264NAME: cachemgr_passwd
9265TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
9266DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9267DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 9268LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 9269DOC_START
5473c134 9270 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 9271
5473c134 9272 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
9273
9274 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
9275 5min
9276 60min
9277 asndb
9278 authenticator
9279 cbdata
9280 client_list
9281 comm_incoming
9282 config *
9283 counters
9284 delay
9285 digest_stats
9286 dns
9287 events
9288 filedescriptors
9289 fqdncache
9290 histograms
9291 http_headers
9292 info
9293 io
9294 ipcache
9295 mem
9296 menu
9297 netdb
9298 non_peers
9299 objects
9300 offline_toggle *
9301 pconn
9302 peer_select
b360c477 9303 reconfigure *
5473c134 9304 redirector
9305 refresh
9306 server_list
9307 shutdown *
9308 store_digest
9309 storedir
9310 utilization
9311 via_headers
9312 vm_objects
9313
9314 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
9315 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
9316
9317 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
9318 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
9319 password to "none".
9320
9321 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
9322
9323Example:
9324 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
9325 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
9326 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 9327DOC_END
9328
5473c134 9329NAME: client_db
a58ff010 9330COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9331TYPE: onoff
9332DEFAULT: on
9333LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 9334DOC_START
5473c134 9335 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
9336 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 9337DOC_END
9338
5473c134 9339NAME: refresh_all_ims
9340COMMENT: on|off
9341TYPE: onoff
9342DEFAULT: off
9343LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 9344DOC_START
5473c134 9345 When you enable this option, squid will always check
9346 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
9347 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
9348 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
9349 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 9350
5473c134 9351 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
9352 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 9353DOC_END
9354
5473c134 9355NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 9356IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 9357COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9358TYPE: onoff
9359DEFAULT: off
9360LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 9361DOC_START
5473c134 9362 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
9363 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
9364 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
9365 feature could make you liable for problems which it
9366 causes.
9367
9368 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 9369DOC_END
9370
31ef19cd 9371NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 9372TYPE: int
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AJ
9373LOC: Config.connect_retries
9374DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9375DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 9376DOC_START
aed188fd
AJ
9377 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
9378 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
9379 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
9380
9381 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
9382 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 9383
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AJ
9384 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
9385 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 9386
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AJ
9387 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
9388 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
9389 a useful server.
a58ff010 9390DOC_END
9391
5473c134 9392NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 9393TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9394LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 9395DEFAULT: off
9396DOC_START
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9397 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
9398 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
9399 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
9400 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
9401
9402 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
9403 work around access control errors.
9404
9405 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
9406 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 9407DOC_END
9408
5473c134 9409NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 9410TYPE: string
5473c134 9411LOC: Config.as_whois_server
9412DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 9413DOC_START
5473c134 9414 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
9415 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 9416DOC_END
9417
5473c134 9418NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 9419TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9420LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 9421DEFAULT: off
9422DOC_START
5473c134 9423 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
9424 objects.
a58ff010 9425DOC_END
9426
5473c134 9427NAME: uri_whitespace
9428TYPE: uri_whitespace
9429LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
9430DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 9431DOC_START
5473c134 9432 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
9433 URI. Options:
a58ff010 9434
5473c134 9435 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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AJ
9436 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
9437 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
9438 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
9439
5473c134 9440 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
9441 Request" message.
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AJ
9442 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
9443 handling of HTTP request URL.
9444
5473c134 9445 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
9446 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
9447 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
9448 are in use.
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AJ
9449 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
9450 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
9451 URL field.
9452
5473c134 9453 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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AJ
9454 encoded according to RFC1738.
9455
5473c134 9456 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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AJ
9457 first whitespace.
9458
9459
9460 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
9461 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 9462DOC_END
a58ff010 9463
5473c134 9464NAME: chroot
9465TYPE: string
9466LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 9467DEFAULT: none
9468DOC_START
9f37c18a 9469 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
2d89f399
HN
9470 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
9471 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
9472 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
9473 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 9474DOC_END
a58ff010 9475
5473c134 9476NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
9477TYPE: onoff
9478LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 9479DEFAULT: off
5473c134 9480DOC_START
cc192b50 9481 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
9482 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
9483 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
9484
5473c134 9485 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
9486 found not to preserve user session state across requests
9487 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 9488
cc192b50 9489 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 9490DOC_END
9491
5473c134 9492NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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9493TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
9494LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
9495DEFAULT: 0
9496DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 9497DOC_START
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AJ
9498 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
9499 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
9500 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
9501 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
9502 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
9503 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 9504
079a8480 9505 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 9506 reasons.
a0e23afd 9507
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AJ
9508 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
9509
a0e23afd 9510 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 9511DOC_END
a58ff010 9512
5473c134 9513NAME: high_response_time_warning
9514TYPE: int
9515COMMENT: (msec)
9516LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
9517DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9518DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9519DOC_START
9520 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
9521 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
9522 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 9523DOC_END
9524
5473c134 9525NAME: high_page_fault_warning
9526TYPE: int
9527LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
9528DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9529DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 9530DOC_START
5473c134 9531 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
9532 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
9533 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
9534 per second.
9535DOC_END
cc9f92d4 9536
5473c134 9537NAME: high_memory_warning
9538TYPE: b_size_t
9539LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
f2228f3b 9540IFDEF: HAVE_MSTATS&&HAVE_GNUMALLOC_H
904971da 9541DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 9542DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9543DOC_START
4bf2a476
FC
9544 If the memory usage (as determined by gnumalloc, if available and used)
9545 exceeds this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 9546 the administrators attention.
9547DOC_END
4bf2a476 9548# TODO: link high_memory_warning to mempools?
cc9f92d4 9549
5473c134 9550NAME: sleep_after_fork
9551COMMENT: (microseconds)
9552TYPE: int
9553LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
9554DEFAULT: 0
9555DOC_START
9556 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
9557 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
9558 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
9559 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
9560 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
9561 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
9562 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
9563 until all the child processes have been started.
9564 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
9565 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 9566DOC_END
9567
b6696974 9568NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 9569IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
b6696974
GS
9570COMMENT: on|off
9571TYPE: onoff
9572DEFAULT: on
9573LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
9574DOC_START
9575 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
9576 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
9577 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
9578 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
9579 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
9580 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
9581DOC_END
9582
a98c2da5
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9583NAME: eui_lookup
9584TYPE: onoff
9585IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
9586DEFAULT: on
9587LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
9588DOC_START
9589 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
9590DOC_END
9591
f3f0f563
AJ
9592NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
9593TYPE: int
9594DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9595DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
f3f0f563
AJ
9596LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
9597DOC_START
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AJ
9598 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
9599 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 9600
638402dd 9601 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
f3f0f563
AJ
9602
9603 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 9604 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
f3f0f563
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9605DOC_END
9606
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9607NAME: force_request_body_continuation
9608TYPE: acl_access
9609LOC: Config.accessList.forceRequestBodyContinuation
9610DEFAULT: none
9611DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
9612DOC_START
9613 This option controls how Squid handles data upload requests from HTTP
9614 and FTP agents that require a "Please Continue" control message response
9615 to actually send the request body to Squid. It is mostly useful in
9616 adaptation environments.
9617
9618 When Squid receives an HTTP request with an "Expect: 100-continue"
9619 header or an FTP upload command (e.g., STOR), Squid normally sends the
9620 request headers or FTP command information to an adaptation service (or
9621 peer) and waits for a response. Most adaptation services (and some
9622 broken peers) may not respond to Squid at that stage because they may
9623 decide to wait for the HTTP request body or FTP data transfer. However,
9624 that request body or data transfer may never come because Squid has not
9625 responded with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150 (Please Continue) control message
9626 to the request sender yet!
9627
9628 An allow match tells Squid to respond with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150
9629 (Please Continue) control message on its own, before forwarding the
9630 request to an adaptation service or peer. Such a response usually forces
9631 the request sender to proceed with sending the body. A deny match tells
9632 Squid to delay that control response until the origin server confirms
9633 that the request body is needed. Delaying is the default behavior.
9634DOC_END
9635
cccac0a2 9636EOF