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31
0f74202c 32COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 33 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
34 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 35
cccac0a2 36 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
37 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
38 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 39
cccac0a2 40 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
41 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
42 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
43 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
44 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
45 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
46 case.
debd9a31 47
cccac0a2 48COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 49
5473c134 50COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 51 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 52 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
53COMMENT_END
54
41bd17a4 55NAME: auth_param
56TYPE: authparam
57LOC: Config.authConfiguration
cccac0a2 58DEFAULT: none
59DOC_START
41bd17a4 60 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
61 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 62
41bd17a4 63 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 64
41bd17a4 65 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
66 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
67 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
68 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
69 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
70 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
71 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
72 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
73 program entry).
cccac0a2 74
41bd17a4 75 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
76 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
77 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
78 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 79
41bd17a4 80 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
81 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
82 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
83 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
84 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
85 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
86 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
87 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
88 type acl.
cccac0a2 89
41bd17a4 90 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
91 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
92 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
93 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
cccac0a2 94
41bd17a4 95 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 96
41bd17a4 97 "program" cmdline
98 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
99 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
100 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
101 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
102 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 103
41bd17a4 104 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
105 program is specified.
cccac0a2 106
41bd17a4 107 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
108 this line to something like
307b83b7 109
41bd17a4 110 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 111
41bd17a4 112 "children" numberofchildren
113 The number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
114 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
115 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
116 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
117 authenticator processes.
118 auth_param basic children 5
9e7dbc51 119
41bd17a4 120 "concurrency" concurrency
121 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
122 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
123 one request at a time. Setting this changes the protocol used to
124 include a channel number first on the request/response line, allowing
125 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallell without
126 wating for the response.
127 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
128 auth_param basic concurrency 0
0fdafae7 129
41bd17a4 130 "realm" realmstring
131 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
132 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
133 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
134 password). There is no default.
135 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 136
41bd17a4 137 "credentialsttl" timetolive
138 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
139 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
140 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
141 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
142 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
143 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
144 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
145 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
146 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 147
41bd17a4 148 "casesensitive" on|off
149 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
150 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
151 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
152 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
153 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 154
41bd17a4 155 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 156
41bd17a4 157 "program" cmdline
158 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
159 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
160 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
161 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
162 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
163 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
164 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 165
41bd17a4 166 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
167 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 168
41bd17a4 169 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
170 something like
cccac0a2 171
41bd17a4 172 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 173
41bd17a4 174 "children" numberofchildren
175 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
176 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
177 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
178 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
179 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
180 auth_param digest children 5
cccac0a2 181
41bd17a4 182 "realm" realmstring
183 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
184 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
185 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
186 password). There is no default.
187 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 188
41bd17a4 189 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
190 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
191 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 192
41bd17a4 193 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
194 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
195 valid for.
cccac0a2 196
41bd17a4 197 "nonce_max_count" number
198 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
199 used.
cccac0a2 200
41bd17a4 201 "nonce_strictness" on|off
202 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
203 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
204 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
205 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 206
41bd17a4 207 "check_nonce_count" on|off
208 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
209 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
210 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
211 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 212
41bd17a4 213 "post_workaround" on|off
214 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
215 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
216 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 219
41bd17a4 220 "program" cmdline
221 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
222 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
223 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
224 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
225 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
226 is not used.
cccac0a2 227
41bd17a4 228 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 229
41bd17a4 230 "children" numberofchildren
231 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
232 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
233 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
234 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
235 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
236 processes.
cccac0a2 237
41bd17a4 238 auth_param ntlm children 5
cccac0a2 239
41bd17a4 240 "keep_alive" on|off
241 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
242 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
243 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
244 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
245 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 246
41bd17a4 247 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 248
41bd17a4 249 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 250
41bd17a4 251 "program" cmdline
252 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
253 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
254 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
255 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
256 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
257 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least one acl
258 of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate authenticator_program
259 is not used.
260 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
261 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 262
41bd17a4 263 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 264
41bd17a4 265 "children" numberofchildren
266 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
267 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
268 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
269 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
270 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
271 processes.
272 auth_param negotiate children 5
d3803853 273
41bd17a4 274 "keep_alive" on|off
275 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
276 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
277 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
278 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
279 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 280
41bd17a4 281 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 282
41bd17a4 283NOCOMMENT_START
284#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
285#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
286#auth_param negotiate children 5
287#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
288#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
289#auth_param ntlm children 5
290#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
291#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
292#auth_param digest children 5
293#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
294#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
295#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
296#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
297#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
298#auth_param basic children 5
299#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
300#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
301NOCOMMENT_END
302DOC_END
cccac0a2 303
41bd17a4 304NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
305TYPE: time_t
306DEFAULT: 1 hour
307LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
308DOC_START
309 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
310 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
311 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
312 have good reason to.
313DOC_END
cccac0a2 314
41bd17a4 315NAME: authenticate_ttl
316TYPE: time_t
317DEFAULT: 1 hour
318LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
319DOC_START
320 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
321 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
322 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
323 TTL are removed from memory.
324DOC_END
cccac0a2 325
41bd17a4 326NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
327TYPE: time_t
328LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
329DEFAULT: 0 seconds
330DOC_START
331 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
332 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
333 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
334 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
335 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
336 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
337 environment with relatively static address assignments.
338DOC_END
cccac0a2 339
3d1e3e43 340COMMENT_START
341 ACCESS CONTROLS
342 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
343COMMENT_END
344
41bd17a4 345NAME: external_acl_type
346TYPE: externalAclHelper
347LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 348DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 349DOC_START
41bd17a4 350 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
351 to look up the status
cccac0a2 352
41bd17a4 353 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 354
41bd17a4 355 Options:
cccac0a2 356
41bd17a4 357 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
358 for 1 hour)
359 negative_ttl=n
360 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
361 as ttl)
362 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
363 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
364 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
365 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
366 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
367 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
368 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
369 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
370 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 371 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
372 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
373 'ipv4' is the default unless --with-localhost-ipv6 is used.
374 --with-localhost-ipv6 changes the default to 'ipv6'.
375 SPECIAL NOTE: these options override --with-localhost-ipv6
cccac0a2 376
41bd17a4 377 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 378
41bd17a4 379 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
380 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
381 %IDENT Ident user name
382 %SRC Client IP
383 %SRCPORT Client source port
384 %URI Requested URI
385 %DST Requested host
386 %PROTO Requested protocol
387 %PORT Requested port
388 %PATH Requested URL path
389 %METHOD Request method
390 %MYADDR Squid interface address
391 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
392 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
393 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
394 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
395 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
396 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
397 %{Header} HTTP request header
398 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
399 %{Hdr:;member}
400 HTTP request header list member using ; as
401 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
402 character.
cccac0a2 403
41bd17a4 404 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
405 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
406 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 407
41bd17a4 408 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
409 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
410 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
411 more details.
cccac0a2 412
41bd17a4 413 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 414
41bd17a4 415 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 416
41bd17a4 417 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 418
41bd17a4 419 user= The users name (login)
420 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
421 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
422 in error pages
423 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
424 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
425 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
426 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 427
41bd17a4 428 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
429 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 430
41bd17a4 431 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
432 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
433 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 434
41bd17a4 435 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
436 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
437 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 438DOC_END
439
41bd17a4 440NAME: acl
441TYPE: acl
442LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 443DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 444DOC_START
41bd17a4 445 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 446
41bd17a4 447 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
448 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 449
41bd17a4 450 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
cccac0a2 451
41bd17a4 452 acltype is one of the types described below
cccac0a2 453
41bd17a4 454 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
455 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 456
41bd17a4 457 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
458 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
459 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
460 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
cccac0a2 461
41bd17a4 462 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
463 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
464 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
465 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
466 #
467 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
468 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
469 # find out its MAC address.
934b03fc 470
41bd17a4 471 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
472 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
473 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
474 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
475 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
476 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
477 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 478
41bd17a4 479 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
7f7db318 480
41bd17a4 481 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
482 day-abbrevs:
483 S - Sunday
484 M - Monday
485 T - Tuesday
486 W - Wednesday
487 H - Thursday
488 F - Friday
489 A - Saturday
490 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
491 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
492 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
493 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
494 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
495 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
496 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
497 acl aclname method GET POST ...
498 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
499 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
500 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
501 # pattern match on Referer header
502 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
503 acl aclname ident username ...
504 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
505 # string match on ident output.
506 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
507 acl aclname src_as number ...
508 acl aclname dst_as number ...
509 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
510 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
511 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
512 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
513 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
514 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
515 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
cf5cc17e 516
41bd17a4 517 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
518 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
519 # list of valid usernames
520 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
521 #
522 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
523 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
524 # in access.log.
525 #
526 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
527 # to check username/password combinations (see
528 # auth_param directive).
529 #
530 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy as
531 # the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
532 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 533
41bd17a4 534 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
535 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
536 # Example:
537 #
538 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 539
41bd17a4 540 acl aclname maxconn number
541 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
542 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
1e5562e3 543
41bd17a4 544 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
545 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
546 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
547 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
548 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
549 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
550 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
551 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
552 # request is denied)
553 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
554 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
555 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 556
41bd17a4 557 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
558 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
559 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
560 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
561 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
562 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 563
41bd17a4 564 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
565 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
566 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
567 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 568
41bd17a4 569 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
570 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
571 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
572 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
573 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
574 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
575 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 576
41bd17a4 577 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
578 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
579 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
580 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 581
41bd17a4 582 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
583 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
584 # external_acl_type directive.
cccac0a2 585
41bd17a4 586 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
587 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
588 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 589
41bd17a4 590 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
591 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
592 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 593
41bd17a4 594 acl aclname ext_user username ...
595 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
596 # string match on username returned by external acl helper
597 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
cccac0a2 598
41bd17a4 599Examples:
600acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
601acl myexample dst_as 1241
602acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
603acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
604acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 605
41bd17a4 606NOCOMMENT_START
607#Recommended minimum configuration:
41bd17a4 608acl manager proto cache_object
ee776778 609acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
41bd17a4 610acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ee776778 611#
612# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
613# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
614# should be allowed
615acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
616acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
617acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
618#
41bd17a4 619acl SSL_ports port 443
620acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
621acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
622acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
623acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
624acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
625acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
626acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
627acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
628acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
629acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
630acl CONNECT method CONNECT
631NOCOMMENT_END
632DOC_END
cccac0a2 633
41bd17a4 634NAME: http_access
635TYPE: acl_access
636LOC: Config.accessList.http
637DEFAULT: none
638DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
639DOC_START
640 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 641
41bd17a4 642 Access to the HTTP port:
643 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 644
41bd17a4 645 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 646
41bd17a4 647 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
648 the request.
cccac0a2 649
41bd17a4 650 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
651 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
652 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
653 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
654 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
655 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 656
41bd17a4 657NOCOMMENT_START
658#Recommended minimum configuration:
659#
660# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
661http_access allow manager localhost
662http_access deny manager
663# Deny requests to unknown ports
664http_access deny !Safe_ports
665# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
666http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
667#
668# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
669# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
670# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
671#http_access deny to_localhost
672#
673# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
c8f4eac4 674
ee776778 675# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
676# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
677# from where browsing should be allowed
678http_access allow localnet
7d90757b 679
41bd17a4 680# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
681http_access deny all
682NOCOMMENT_END
683DOC_END
7d90757b 684
41bd17a4 685NAME: http_reply_access
686TYPE: acl_access
687LOC: Config.accessList.reply
688DEFAULT: none
689DOC_START
690 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 691
41bd17a4 692 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 693
41bd17a4 694 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
695 all replies
1a224843 696
41bd17a4 697 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
698 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
699 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
cccac0a2 700DOC_END
701
41bd17a4 702NAME: icp_access
703TYPE: acl_access
704LOC: Config.accessList.icp
705DEFAULT: none
706DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 707DOC_START
41bd17a4 708 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
709 access lists
5473c134 710
41bd17a4 711 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 712
41bd17a4 713 See http_access for details
714
715NOCOMMENT_START
ee776778 716#Allow ICP queries from local networks only
4e9c5ff8 717icp_access allow localnet
718icp_access deny all
41bd17a4 719NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 720DOC_END
721
41bd17a4 722NAME: htcp_access
723IFDEF: USE_HTCP
724TYPE: acl_access
725LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
726DEFAULT: none
727DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 728DOC_START
41bd17a4 729 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
730 access lists
5473c134 731
41bd17a4 732 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 733
41bd17a4 734 See http_access for details
5473c134 735
0b48417e 736 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
737 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
738 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
739
ee776778 740NOCOMMENT_START
741#Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
4e9c5ff8 742htcp_access allow localnet
743htcp_access deny all
ee776778 744NOCOMMENT_END
41bd17a4 745DOC_END
5473c134 746
41bd17a4 747NAME: htcp_clr_access
748IFDEF: USE_HTCP
749TYPE: acl_access
750LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
751DEFAULT: none
752DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
753DOC_START
754 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
755 on defined access lists
5473c134 756
41bd17a4 757 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 758
41bd17a4 759 See http_access for details
5473c134 760
41bd17a4 761#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
762acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
763htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 764DOC_END
765
41bd17a4 766NAME: miss_access
767TYPE: acl_access
768LOC: Config.accessList.miss
769DEFAULT: none
5473c134 770DOC_START
41bd17a4 771 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
772 a parent. For example:
5473c134 773
41bd17a4 774 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
775 miss_access allow localclients
776 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 777
41bd17a4 778 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
779 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 780
41bd17a4 781 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
782 to fetch MISSES from us.
5473c134 783
41bd17a4 784NOCOMMENT_START
785#Default setting:
786# miss_access allow all
787NOCOMMENT_END
788DOC_END
789
790NAME: ident_lookup_access
791TYPE: acl_access
792IFDEF: USE_IDENT
793DEFAULT: none
794DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
795LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
5473c134 796DOC_START
41bd17a4 797 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
798 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
799 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
800 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
801 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
802 any requests.
5473c134 803
41bd17a4 804 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
805 can follow this example:
5473c134 806
41bd17a4 807 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
808 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
809 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 810
41bd17a4 811 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
812 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
813 the correct result.
814DOC_END
5473c134 815
5b0f5383 816NAME: reply_body_max_size
817COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
818TYPE: acl_b_size_t
819DEFAULT: none
820LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
821DOC_START
822 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
823 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
824 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
825 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
826 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
827 for this reply.
828
829 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
830 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
831 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
832 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
833 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
834 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
835 and they will receive a partial reply.
836
837 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
838 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
839 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
840 use this option if you have downstream caches.
841
842 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
843 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
844 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
845 the size of your largest error page.
846
847 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
848 no limit imposed.
849DOC_END
850
851COMMENT_START
852 NETWORK OPTIONS
853 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
854COMMENT_END
855
856NAME: http_port ascii_port
857TYPE: http_port_list
858DEFAULT: none
859LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
860DOC_START
861 Usage: port [options]
862 hostname:port [options]
863 1.2.3.4:port [options]
864
865 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
866 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
867 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
868 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
869 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
870 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
871 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
872 address, so you can use the port number alone.
873
874 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
875 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
876
877 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
878 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
879 be plain proxy ports with no options.
880
881 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
882
883 Options:
884
885 transparent Support for transparent interception of
886 outgoing requests without browser settings.
887
888 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
889 connections using the client IP address.
890
891 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
892 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
893
894 defaultsite=domainname
895 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
896 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
897 accelerators should consider the default.
898 Implies accel.
899
900 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
901 domain support. Implies accel.
902
903 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
904 Implies accel.
905
906 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
907 than the http_port number. Implies accel.
908
909 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
910 Defaults to http.
911
912 disable-pmtu-discovery=
913 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
914 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
915 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
916 support is enabled.
917 always disable always PMTU discovery.
918
919 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
920 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
921 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
922 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
923 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
924 have such setup and experience that certain clients
925 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
926 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
927
81b6e9a7 928 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
929 the port specification (port or addr:port)
930
5b0f5383 931 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
932 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
933 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
934 visible on the internal address.
935
936NOCOMMENT_START
937# Squid normally listens to port 3128
938http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
939NOCOMMENT_END
940DOC_END
941
942NAME: https_port
943IFDEF: USE_SSL
944TYPE: https_port_list
945DEFAULT: none
946LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
947DOC_START
948 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
949
950 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
951 requests.
952
953 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
954 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
955 accelerator level.
956
957 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
958 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
959
960 Options:
961
962 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
963 defaultsite or vhost.
964
965 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
966 this port. Implies accel.
967
968 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
969 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
970 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
971 Implies accel.
972
973 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
974 Defaults to https.
975
976 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
977
978 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
979 if not specified, the certificate file is
980 assumed to be a combined certificate and
981 key file.
982
983 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
984 1 automatic (default)
985 2 SSLv2 only
986 3 SSLv3 only
987 4 TLSv1 only
988
989 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
990
991 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
992 being:
993 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
994 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
995 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
996 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
997 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
998 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
999 documentation for a complete list of options.
1000
1001 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1002 requesting a client certificate.
1003
1004 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1005 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1006 clientca will be used.
1007
1008 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1009 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1010
1011 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1012 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1013 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1014
1015 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1016 DH key exchanges.
1017
1018 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1019 DELAYED_AUTH
1020 Don't request client certificates
1021 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1022 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1023 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1024 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1025 to OpenSSL.
1026 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1027 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1028 will result in a new SSL session.
1029 VERIFY_CRL
1030 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1031 certificates.
1032 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1033 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1034 client certificate chain.
1035
1036 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1037
1038 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1039
1040 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1041 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1042
81b6e9a7 1043 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1044 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1045
5b0f5383 1046DOC_END
1047
41bd17a4 1048NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1049TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1050DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1051LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1052DOC_START
41bd17a4 1053 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1054 connections with, based on the username or source address
1055 making the request.
5473c134 1056
41bd17a4 1057 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1058
41bd17a4 1059 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1060 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1061
41bd17a4 1062 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1063 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2c73de90 1064 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1065 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1066
41bd17a4 1067 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1068 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474 and
1069 RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1070
41bd17a4 1071 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1072 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1073 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1074 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1075
41bd17a4 1076 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1077 matching line.
cccac0a2 1078
41bd17a4 1079 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1080 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1081 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1082 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1083DOC_END
1084
41bd17a4 1085NAME: clientside_tos
1086TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1087DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1088LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1089DOC_START
41bd17a4 1090 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1091 connections with, based on the username or source address
1092 making the request.
1093DOC_END
cccac0a2 1094
41bd17a4 1095NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1096TYPE: acl_address
1097DEFAULT: none
1098LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1099DOC_START
1100 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1101 based on the username or source address of the user making
1102 the request.
7f7db318 1103
41bd17a4 1104 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1105
41bd17a4 1106 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1107 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1108 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1109 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1110
41bd17a4 1111 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1112 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
1113 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net
1114 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net
1115 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3
9197cd13 1116
41bd17a4 1117 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1118 matching line.
cccac0a2 1119
41bd17a4 1120 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1121 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1122 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1123 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1124
1125
1126 IPv6 Magic:
1127
1128 Squid is built with a capability of bridging the IPv4 and IPv6 internets.
1129 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1130 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1131 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1132
1133 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1134 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1135 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1136
1137 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1138 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
1139 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
1140
1141 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
1142 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
1143
1144 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
1145 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3 !to_ipv6
cccac0a2 1146DOC_END
1147
41bd17a4 1148COMMENT_START
1149 SSL OPTIONS
1150 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1151COMMENT_END
1152
1153NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1154IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1155TYPE: onoff
1156DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1157LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1158DOC_START
41bd17a4 1159 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1160 messages.
cccac0a2 1161DOC_END
1162
41bd17a4 1163NAME: ssl_engine
1164IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1165TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1166LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1167DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1168DOC_START
41bd17a4 1169 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1170 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1171DOC_END
1172
41bd17a4 1173NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1174IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1175DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1176LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1177TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1178DOC_START
41bd17a4 1179 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1180DOC_END
1181
41bd17a4 1182NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1183IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1184DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1185LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1186TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1187DOC_START
41bd17a4 1188 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1189DOC_END
1190
41bd17a4 1191NAME: sslproxy_version
1192IFDEF: USE_SSL
1193DEFAULT: 1
1194LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1195TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1196DOC_START
41bd17a4 1197 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1198DOC_END
1199
41bd17a4 1200NAME: sslproxy_options
1201IFDEF: USE_SSL
1202DEFAULT: none
1203LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1204TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1205DOC_START
41bd17a4 1206 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1207DOC_END
1208
41bd17a4 1209NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1210IFDEF: USE_SSL
1211DEFAULT: none
1212LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1213TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1214DOC_START
41bd17a4 1215 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1216DOC_END
1217
41bd17a4 1218NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1219IFDEF: USE_SSL
1220DEFAULT: none
1221LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1222TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1223DOC_START
41bd17a4 1224 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1225 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1226DOC_END
0976f8db 1227
41bd17a4 1228NAME: sslproxy_capath
1229IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1230DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1231LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1232TYPE: string
5473c134 1233DOC_START
41bd17a4 1234 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1235 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1236DOC_END
1237
41bd17a4 1238NAME: sslproxy_flags
1239IFDEF: USE_SSL
1240DEFAULT: none
1241LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1242TYPE: string
5473c134 1243DOC_START
41bd17a4 1244 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
1245 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates even if they fail to
1246 verify.
1247 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1248 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1249DOC_END
1250
41bd17a4 1251NAME: sslpassword_program
1252IFDEF: USE_SSL
1253DEFAULT: none
1254LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1255TYPE: string
5473c134 1256DOC_START
41bd17a4 1257 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1258 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1259 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1260 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
5473c134 1261DOC_END
1262
cccac0a2 1263COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1264 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1265 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1266COMMENT_END
1267
41bd17a4 1268NAME: cache_peer
1269TYPE: peer
1270DEFAULT: none
1271LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1272DOC_START
41bd17a4 1273 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
cccac0a2 1274
41bd17a4 1275 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
cccac0a2 1276
41bd17a4 1277 For example,
cccac0a2 1278
41bd17a4 1279 # proxy icp
1280 # hostname type port port options
1281 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
1282 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 proxy-only default
1283 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1284 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
cccac0a2 1285
41bd17a4 1286 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
d5277f40 1287
41bd17a4 1288 proxy-port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
1289 requests.
8d6275c0 1290
41bd17a4 1291 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
1292 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
1293 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
1294 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
1295 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
1296 NOTE: Also requires icp_port option enabled to send/receive
1297 requests via this method.
a78278e2 1298
41bd17a4 1299 options: proxy-only
1300 weight=n
1301 basetime=n
1302 ttl=n
1303 no-query
1304 background-ping
1305 default
1306 round-robin
1307 weighted-round-robin
1308 carp
1309 multicast-responder
1310 closest-only
1311 no-digest
1312 no-netdb-exchange
1313 no-delay
1314 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
1315 connect-timeout=nn
1316 digest-url=url
1317 allow-miss
1318 max-conn=n
1319 htcp
1320 htcp-oldsquid
1321 originserver
1322 name=xxx
1323 forceddomain=name
1324 ssl
1325 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1326 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
1327 sslversion=1|2|3|4
1328 sslcipher=...
1329 ssloptions=...
1330 front-end-https[=on|auto]
cccac0a2 1331
41bd17a4 1332 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
1333 from this cache should not be saved locally.
cccac0a2 1334
41bd17a4 1335 use 'weight=n' to affect the selection of a peer
1336 during any weighted peer-selection mechanisms.
1337 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1338 larger weights are favored more.
1339 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1340 protocol is not in use.
cccac0a2 1341
41bd17a4 1342 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
1343 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
1344 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1345 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1346 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 1347
41bd17a4 1348 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
1349 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
1350 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1351 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1352 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1353 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
5473c134 1354
41bd17a4 1355 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
1356 neighbor.
5473c134 1357
41bd17a4 1358 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
1359 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
1360 round trip time updated and is usually used in
1361 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
cccac0a2 1362
41bd17a4 1363 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
1364 be used as a "last-resort" if a peer cannot be located
1365 by any of the peer-selection mechanisms.
1366 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
cccac0a2 1367
41bd17a4 1368 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
1369 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
1370 absence of any ICP queries.
cccac0a2 1371
41bd17a4 1372 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
1373 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
1374 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
1375 time. Closer parents are used more often.
1376 Usually used for background-ping parents.
cccac0a2 1377
41bd17a4 1378 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
1379 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
1380 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
382db7eb 1381 balancing hash function based on their weight.
cccac0a2 1382
41bd17a4 1383 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
1384 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
1385 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
1386 will be accepted from it.
cccac0a2 1387
41bd17a4 1388 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
1389 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
1390 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
cccac0a2 1391
41bd17a4 1392 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
1393 this neighbor.
cccac0a2 1394
41bd17a4 1395 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
1396 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
cccac0a2 1397
41bd17a4 1398 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
1399 from influencing the delay pools.
7d90757b 1400
41bd17a4 1401 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
1402 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
1403 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
1404 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
7d90757b 1405
41bd17a4 1406 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
1407 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
1408 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
1409 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
1410 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
1411 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
1412 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
1413 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
1414 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
1415 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
7d90757b 1416
41bd17a4 1417 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
1418 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
1419 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
1420 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
1421 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
1422 information which is added to the username. This can
1423 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
1424 the login=username:password option above.
cccac0a2 1425
41bd17a4 1426 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
1427 specific connect timeout (also see the
1428 peer_connect_timeout directive)
7f7db318 1429
41bd17a4 1430 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
1431 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
1432 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
1433 location.
cccac0a2 1434
41bd17a4 1435 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
1436 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
1437 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
1438 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
1439 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
1440 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
1441 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
1442 source is a peer)
cccac0a2 1443
41bd17a4 1444 use 'max-conn=n' to limit the amount of connections Squid
1445 may open to this peer.
cccac0a2 1446
41bd17a4 1447 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
1448 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
1449 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
0b48417e 1450 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1451 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1452
41bd17a4 1453 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
0b48417e 1454 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1455 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1456
41bd17a4 1457 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
1458 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
cccac0a2 1459
41bd17a4 1460 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
1461 host but different ports. This name can be used to
1462 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
1463 directives.
cccac0a2 1464
41bd17a4 1465 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
1466 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
1467 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
1468 name and using redirectors to feed this domain name
1469 is not feasible.
64658378 1470
41bd17a4 1471 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
1472 be SSL/TLS encrypted.
cccac0a2 1473
41bd17a4 1474 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
1475 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
4c9fa5d5 1476
41bd17a4 1477 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
1478 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
1479 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
1480 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
4c9fa5d5 1481
41bd17a4 1482 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
1483 when connecting to this peer
1484 1 = automatic (default)
1485 2 = SSL v2 only
1486 3 = SSL v3 only
1487 4 = TLS v1 only
cccac0a2 1488
41bd17a4 1489 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL ciphers
1490 to use when connecting to this peer.
cccac0a2 1491
41bd17a4 1492 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
1493 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1494 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1495 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1496 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
1497 a more complete list.
cccac0a2 1498
41bd17a4 1499 use sslcafile=... to specify a file containing
1500 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1501 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1502
41bd17a4 1503 use sslcapath=... to specify a directory containing
1504 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1505 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1506
41bd17a4 1507 use sslcrlfile=... to specify a certificate revocation
1508 list file to use when verifying the peer certificate.
1509
1510 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
1511 SSL implementation:
1512 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
1513 Accept certificates even if they fail to
1514 verify.
1515 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1516 Don't use the default CA list built in
1517 to OpenSSL.
1518 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
1519 Don't verify the peer certificate
1520 matches the server name
cccac0a2 1521
41bd17a4 1522 use ssldomain= to specify the peer name as advertised
1523 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
1524 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
1525 peer hostname will be used.
cccac0a2 1526
41bd17a4 1527 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
1528 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend in front
1529 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
1530 on this header. If set to auto the header will
1531 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
1532 URL.
1533DOC_END
cccac0a2 1534
41bd17a4 1535NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
1536TYPE: hostdomain
1537DEFAULT: none
1538LOC: none
1539DOC_START
1540 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
1541 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 1542
41bd17a4 1543 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
1544 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 1545
41bd17a4 1546 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 1547
41bd17a4 1548 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 1549
41bd17a4 1550 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
1551 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
1552 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
1553 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
1554 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 1555
41bd17a4 1556 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
1557 either on the same or separate lines.
1558 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
1559 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
1560 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
1561 for all requests.
1562 * There are no defaults.
1563 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
1564 section.
1565DOC_END
dd9b1776 1566
41bd17a4 1567NAME: cache_peer_access
1568TYPE: peer_access
1569DEFAULT: none
1570LOC: none
1571DOC_START
1572 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
1573 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 1574
41bd17a4 1575 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 1576
41bd17a4 1577 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
1578 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
1579 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
1580DOC_END
dd9b1776 1581
41bd17a4 1582NAME: neighbor_type_domain
1583TYPE: hostdomaintype
1584DEFAULT: none
1585LOC: none
1586DOC_START
1587 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 1588
41bd17a4 1589 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
1590 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
1591 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
1592 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
1593 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
1594 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 1595
41bd17a4 1596EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 1597 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 1598 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
1599 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
1600DOC_END
6bf4f823 1601
41bd17a4 1602NAME: dead_peer_timeout
1603COMMENT: (seconds)
1604DEFAULT: 10 seconds
1605TYPE: time_t
1606LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
1607DOC_START
1608 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
1609 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
1610 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
1611 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
1612 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
1613 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 1614
41bd17a4 1615 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
1616 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
1617 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
1618 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
1619 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
1620 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
1621 instead of to your parents.
1622DOC_END
cccac0a2 1623
41bd17a4 1624NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
1625TYPE: wordlist
1626DEFAULT: none
1627LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
1628DOC_START
1629 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
1630 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
1631 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
1632 list this option multiple times.
1633 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
cccac0a2 1634NOCOMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1635#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
1636hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 1637NOCOMMENT_END
1638DOC_END
0976f8db 1639
41bd17a4 1640COMMENT_START
1641 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
1642 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1643COMMENT_END
1644
1645NAME: cache_mem
1646COMMENT: (bytes)
1647TYPE: b_size_t
1648DEFAULT: 8 MB
1649LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 1650DOC_START
41bd17a4 1651 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
1652 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
1653 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
1654 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
1655
1656 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
1657 for:
1658 * In-Transit objects
1659 * Hot Objects
1660 * Negative-Cached objects
1661
1662 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
1663 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
1664 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
1665 priority.
1666
1667 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
1668 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
1669 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
1670 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
1671 not needed for in-transit objects.
1672
1673 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
1674 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
1675 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
1676 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
1677 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
1678 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
1679 objects.
6b698a21 1680DOC_END
0976f8db 1681
41bd17a4 1682NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
1683COMMENT: (bytes)
1684TYPE: b_size_t
1685DEFAULT: 8 KB
1686LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 1687DOC_START
41bd17a4 1688 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
1689 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
1690 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
1691 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 1692DOC_END
0976f8db 1693
41bd17a4 1694NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1695TYPE: removalpolicy
1696LOC: Config.memPolicy
1697DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 1698DOC_START
41bd17a4 1699 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1700 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 1701
41bd17a4 1702 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1703DOC_END
6b698a21 1704
41bd17a4 1705COMMENT_START
1706 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
1707 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1708COMMENT_END
6b698a21 1709
41bd17a4 1710NAME: cache_replacement_policy
1711TYPE: removalpolicy
1712LOC: Config.replPolicy
1713DEFAULT: lru
1714DOC_START
1715 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
1716 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 1717
41bd17a4 1718 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
1719 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
1720 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
1721 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 1722
41bd17a4 1723 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 1724
41bd17a4 1725 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 1726
41bd17a4 1727 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
1728 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
1729 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
1730 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 1731
41bd17a4 1732 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
1733 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
1734 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
1735 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 1736
41bd17a4 1737 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
1738 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
1739 replacement policies.
7d90757b 1740
41bd17a4 1741 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1742 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
1743 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 1744
41bd17a4 1745 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
1746 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
1747 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 1748DOC_END
0976f8db 1749
41bd17a4 1750NAME: cache_dir
1751TYPE: cachedir
1752DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1753LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 1754DOC_START
41bd17a4 1755 Usage:
0976f8db 1756
41bd17a4 1757 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 1758
41bd17a4 1759 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
1760 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 1761
41bd17a4 1762 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
1763 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
1764 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 1765
41bd17a4 1766 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
1767 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
1768 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
1769 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
1770 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 1771
41bd17a4 1772 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 1773
41bd17a4 1774 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
1775 been there.
0976f8db 1776
41bd17a4 1777 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 1778
41bd17a4 1779 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
1780 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
1781 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
1782 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
1783 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 1784
41bd17a4 1785 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
1786 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 1787
41bd17a4 1788 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
1789 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
1790 is 256.
0976f8db 1791
41bd17a4 1792 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 1793
41bd17a4 1794 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
1795 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1796 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 1797
41bd17a4 1798 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 1799
41bd17a4 1800 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 1801
41bd17a4 1802 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 1803
41bd17a4 1804 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
1805 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1806 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 1807
41bd17a4 1808 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 1809
41bd17a4 1810 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 1811
41bd17a4 1812 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
1813 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
1814 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 1815
41bd17a4 1816 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
1817 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
1818 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 1819
41bd17a4 1820 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
1821 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
1822 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
1823 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
1824 time.
0976f8db 1825
41bd17a4 1826 The coss store type:
0976f8db 1827
41bd17a4 1828 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
1829 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
1830 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
1831 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
1832 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
1833 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
1834 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 1835
41bd17a4 1836 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
1837 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
1838 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 1839
41bd17a4 1840 Common options:
0976f8db 1841
41bd17a4 1842 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 1843
41bd17a4 1844 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
1845 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
1846 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
1847 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
1848 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 1849
41bd17a4 1850 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
1851 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
1852 option.
bebc043b 1853NOCOMMENT_START
1854DEFAULT_IF_NONE: ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
1855NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 1856DOC_END
0976f8db 1857
41bd17a4 1858NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
1859TYPE: string
1860LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
1861DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 1862DOC_START
41bd17a4 1863 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 1864DOC_END
0976f8db 1865
41bd17a4 1866NAME: max_open_disk_fds
1867TYPE: int
1868LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
1869DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 1870DOC_START
41bd17a4 1871 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
1872 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
1873 descriptors are open.
1874
1875 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 1876DOC_END
0976f8db 1877
41bd17a4 1878NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 1879COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 1880TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 1881DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 1882LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 1883DOC_START
41bd17a4 1884 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
1885 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
1886 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 1887DOC_END
0976f8db 1888
41bd17a4 1889NAME: maximum_object_size
1890COMMENT: (bytes)
1891TYPE: b_int64_t
1892DEFAULT: 4096 KB
1893LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 1894DOC_START
41bd17a4 1895 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
1896 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
1897 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
1898 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
1899 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
1900 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 1901
41bd17a4 1902 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1903 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
1904 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 1905DOC_END
0976f8db 1906
41bd17a4 1907NAME: cache_swap_low
1908COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 1909TYPE: int
41bd17a4 1910DEFAULT: 90
1911LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
1912DOC_NONE
1913
1914NAME: cache_swap_high
1915COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
1916TYPE: int
1917DEFAULT: 95
1918LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 1919DOC_START
41bd17a4 1920
1921 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
1922 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
1923 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
1924 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
1925 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
1926 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
1927
1928 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
1929 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
1930 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 1931DOC_END
0976f8db 1932
5473c134 1933COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1934 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 1935 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1936COMMENT_END
0976f8db 1937
41bd17a4 1938NAME: logformat
1939TYPE: logformat
1940LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 1941DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 1942DOC_START
41bd17a4 1943 Usage:
0976f8db 1944
41bd17a4 1945 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 1946
41bd17a4 1947 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 1948
41bd17a4 1949 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 1950
41bd17a4 1951 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
1952 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
1953 as required according to their context and the output format
1954 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
1955 output format is desired.
6b698a21 1956
41bd17a4 1957 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 1958
41bd17a4 1959 " output in quoted string format
1960 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
1961 # output in URL quoted format
1962 ' output as-is
5473c134 1963
41bd17a4 1964 - left aligned
1965 width field width. If starting with 0 the
1966 output is zero padded
1967 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 1968
41bd17a4 1969 Format codes:
5473c134 1970
41bd17a4 1971 >a Client source IP address
1972 >A Client FQDN
1973 >p Client source port
1974 <A Server IP address or peer name
1975 la Local IP address (http_port)
1976 lp Local port number (http_port)
1977 ts Seconds since epoch
1978 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
1979 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
1980 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
1981 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
1982 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
1983 tr Response time (milliseconds)
1984 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
1985 on the format header[:[separator]element]
1986 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
1987 as for >h
1988 un User name
1989 ul User name from authentication
1990 ui User name from ident
1991 us User name from SSL
1992 ue User name from external acl helper
1993 Hs HTTP status code
1994 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
1995 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
1996 mt MIME content type
1997 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
1998 ru Request URL
1999 rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2000 rv Request protocol version
2001 et Tag returned by external acl
2002 ea Log string returned by external acl
2003 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
2004 <sH Reply high offset sent
2005 <sS Upstream object size
2006 % a literal % character
5473c134 2007
41bd17a4 2008logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2009logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
2010logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2011logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2012DOC_END
2013
41bd17a4 2014NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2015TYPE: access_log
2016LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
5473c134 2017DEFAULT: none
2018DOC_START
41bd17a4 2019 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2020 ICP request. The format is:
2021 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2022 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
5473c134 2023
41bd17a4 2024 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
2025 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2026 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
2027 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
5473c134 2028
41bd17a4 2029 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
2030 a logformat name should not be specified.
5473c134 2031
41bd17a4 2032 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
5473c134 2033
41bd17a4 2034 access_log syslog[:facility.priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
2035 where facility could be any of:
2036 authpriv, daemon, local0 .. local7 or user.
5473c134 2037
41bd17a4 2038 And priority could be any of:
2039 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
2040NOCOMMENT_START
2041access_log @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
2042NOCOMMENT_END
2043DOC_END
5473c134 2044
5b0f5383 2045NAME: log_access
2046TYPE: acl_access
2047LOC: Config.accessList.log
2048DEFAULT: none
2049COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2050DOC_START
2051 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2052 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2053 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2054DOC_END
2055
41bd17a4 2056NAME: cache_log
2057TYPE: string
2058DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
2059LOC: Config.Log.log
2060DOC_START
2061 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
2062 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
2063 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
2064DOC_END
5473c134 2065
41bd17a4 2066NAME: cache_store_log
2067TYPE: string
2068DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
2069LOC: Config.Log.store
2070DOC_START
2071 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2072 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
2073 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
2074 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
2075 disable it.
5473c134 2076DOC_END
2077
41bd17a4 2078NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2079TYPE: string
2080LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2081DEFAULT: none
2082DOC_START
41bd17a4 2083 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2084 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2085 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2086 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2087 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2088 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2089 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2090
41bd17a4 2091 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2092 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2093 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2094 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2095
41bd17a4 2096 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2097 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2098
41bd17a4 2099 cache_swap_log.00
2100 cache_swap_log.01
2101 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2102
41bd17a4 2103 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2104 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2105 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2106 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2107 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2108 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2109 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2110DOC_END
2111
41bd17a4 2112NAME: logfile_rotate
2113TYPE: int
2114DEFAULT: 10
2115LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2116DOC_START
41bd17a4 2117 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2118 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2119 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2120 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2121 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2122 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2123
41bd17a4 2124 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2125 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2126 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2127 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2128 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2129 <pid>'.
2130DOC_END
5473c134 2131
41bd17a4 2132NAME: emulate_httpd_log
2133COMMENT: on|off
2134TYPE: onoff
2135DEFAULT: off
2136LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
2137DOC_START
2138 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
2139 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
2140 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
2141 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
2142 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 2143DOC_END
2144
41bd17a4 2145NAME: log_ip_on_direct
2146COMMENT: on|off
2147TYPE: onoff
5473c134 2148DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 2149LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 2150DOC_START
41bd17a4 2151 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
2152 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
2153 prefer the old way set this to off.
2154DOC_END
5473c134 2155
41bd17a4 2156NAME: mime_table
2157TYPE: string
2158DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
2159LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
2160DOC_START
2161 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
2162 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
2163 information if you do.
5473c134 2164DOC_END
2165
41bd17a4 2166NAME: log_mime_hdrs
2167COMMENT: on|off
2168TYPE: onoff
2169LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
2170DEFAULT: off
2171DOC_START
2172 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
2173 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
2174 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
2175 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
2176 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
2177DOC_END
5473c134 2178
41bd17a4 2179NAME: useragent_log
2180TYPE: string
2181LOC: Config.Log.useragent
2182DEFAULT: none
2183IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 2184DOC_START
41bd17a4 2185 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
2186 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
2187 is disabled.
5473c134 2188DOC_END
2189
41bd17a4 2190NAME: referer_log referrer_log
2191TYPE: string
2192LOC: Config.Log.referer
2193DEFAULT: none
2194IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 2195DOC_START
41bd17a4 2196 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
2197 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
2198 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
2199 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
2200 and we accept both.
5473c134 2201DOC_END
2202
41bd17a4 2203NAME: pid_filename
2204TYPE: string
2205DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
2206LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 2207DOC_START
41bd17a4 2208 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 2209DOC_END
2210
41bd17a4 2211NAME: debug_options
fb6a61d1 2212TYPE: eol
41bd17a4 2213DEFAULT: ALL,1
2214LOC: Config.debugOptions
5473c134 2215DOC_START
41bd17a4 2216 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
2217 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
2218 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
2219 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
2220 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
2221 "ALL,1".
5473c134 2222DOC_END
2223
41bd17a4 2224NAME: log_fqdn
2225COMMENT: on|off
2226TYPE: onoff
2227DEFAULT: off
2228LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 2229DOC_START
41bd17a4 2230 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
2231 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
2232 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
2233 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
2234 browsing.
5473c134 2235DOC_END
2236
41bd17a4 2237NAME: client_netmask
2238TYPE: address
2239LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
2240DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5473c134 2241DOC_START
41bd17a4 2242 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
2243 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
2244 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
2245 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 2246DOC_END
2247
41bd17a4 2248NAME: forward_log
2249IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
2250TYPE: string
2251DEFAULT: none
2252LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 2253DOC_START
41bd17a4 2254 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 2255
41bd17a4 2256 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 2257DOC_END
2258
41bd17a4 2259NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 2260TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 2261LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 2262DEFAULT: on
2263DOC_START
41bd17a4 2264 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
2265 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 2266DOC_END
2267
41bd17a4 2268NAME: buffered_logs
2269COMMENT: on|off
2270TYPE: onoff
2271DEFAULT: off
2272LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 2273DOC_START
41bd17a4 2274 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2275 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2276 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2277 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2278 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 2279DOC_END
0976f8db 2280
2b753521 2281NAME: netdb_filename
2282TYPE: string
2283DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2284LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 2285IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 2286DOC_START
2287 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
2288 To disable, enter "none".
2289DOC_END
2290
41bd17a4 2291COMMENT_START
2292 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
2293 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2294COMMENT_END
2295
2296NAME: ftp_user
2297TYPE: string
2298DEFAULT: Squid@
2299LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 2300DOC_START
41bd17a4 2301 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
2302 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
2303 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 2304
41bd17a4 2305 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
2306 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
2307 depending on how the cache is used.
2308 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
2309 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 2310DOC_END
0976f8db 2311
41bd17a4 2312NAME: ftp_list_width
2313TYPE: size_t
2314DEFAULT: 32
2315LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
6b698a21 2316DOC_START
41bd17a4 2317 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
2318 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
2319 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
6b698a21 2320DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2321
41bd17a4 2322NAME: ftp_passive
2323TYPE: onoff
2324DEFAULT: on
2325LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 2326DOC_START
41bd17a4 2327 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
2328 connections, turn off this option.
2329DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2330
41bd17a4 2331NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
2332TYPE: onoff
2333DEFAULT: on
2334LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
2335DOC_START
2336 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
2337 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
2338 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
2339 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
2340 connection turn this off.
2341DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2342
41bd17a4 2343NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
2344TYPE: onoff
2345DEFAULT: on
2346LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
2347DOC_START
2348 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
2349 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
2350 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
2351 the FTP protocol.
2352
2353 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
2354 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
2355 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
2356 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
2357 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
2358DOC_END
2359
2360COMMENT_START
2361 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2362 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2363COMMENT_END
2364
2365NAME: diskd_program
2366TYPE: string
2367DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
2368LOC: Config.Program.diskd
2369DOC_START
2370 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
2371 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
2372 diskd as one of the store io modules.
2373DOC_END
2374
2375NAME: unlinkd_program
2376IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
2377TYPE: string
2378DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
2379LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
2380DOC_START
2381 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
2382DOC_END
2383
2384NAME: pinger_program
2385TYPE: string
2386DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 2387LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 2388IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2389DOC_START
2390 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
2391DOC_END
2392
cc192b50 2393NAME: pinger_enable
2394TYPE: onoff
2395DEFAULT: on
2396LOC: Config.pinger.enable
2397IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2398DOC_START
2399 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
2400 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple squid -k reconfigure.
2401DOC_END
2402
2403
41bd17a4 2404COMMENT_START
2405 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
2406 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2407COMMENT_END
2408
2409NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
2410TYPE: wordlist
2411LOC: Config.Program.redirect
2412DEFAULT: none
2413DOC_START
2414 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
2415 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
2416
2417 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
2418
c71adec1 2419 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
2420
2421 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
2422 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
2423 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
2424 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 2425
2426 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
2427 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
2428
2429 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
2430 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2431 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
2432
2433 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
2434DOC_END
2435
2436NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
2437TYPE: int
2438DEFAULT: 5
2439LOC: Config.redirectChildren
2440DOC_START
2441 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
2442 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
2443 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
2444 and other system resources.
2445DOC_END
2446
2447NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
2448TYPE: int
2449DEFAULT: 0
2450LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
2451DOC_START
2452 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
2453 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
2454 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2455DOC_END
2456
2457NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
2458TYPE: onoff
2459DEFAULT: on
2460LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
2461DOC_START
2462 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
2463 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
2464 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
2465
2466 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
2467 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
2468DOC_END
2469
2470NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
2471TYPE: acl_access
2472DEFAULT: none
2473LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
2474DOC_START
2475 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
2476 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
2477 are sent.
2478DOC_END
2479
2480NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
2481TYPE: onoff
2482LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
2483DEFAULT: off
2484DOC_START
2485 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
2486 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
2487 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
2488 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
2489 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
2490 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
2491 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
2492 users may have access to pages they should not
2493 be allowed to request.
2494DOC_END
2495
2496COMMENT_START
2497 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2498 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2499COMMENT_END
2500
f04b37d8 2501NAME: cache no_cache
2502TYPE: acl_access
2503DEFAULT: none
2504LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 2505DOC_START
f04b37d8 2506 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause the request to
2507 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
2508 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 2509
f04b37d8 2510 You must use the word 'DENY' to indicate the ACL names which should
2511 NOT be cached.
2512
2513 Default is to allow all to be cached
2514NOCOMMENT_START
2515#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
2516acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
2517cache deny QUERY
2518NOCOMMENT_END
41bd17a4 2519DOC_END
2520
2521NAME: refresh_pattern
2522TYPE: refreshpattern
2523LOC: Config.Refresh
2524DEFAULT: none
2525DOC_START
2526 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 2527
6b698a21 2528 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2529 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2530
41bd17a4 2531 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2532 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2533 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2534 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2535 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 2536
41bd17a4 2537 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2538 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2539 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 2540
41bd17a4 2541 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2542 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 2543
41bd17a4 2544 options: override-expire
2545 override-lastmod
2546 reload-into-ims
2547 ignore-reload
2548 ignore-no-cache
2549 ignore-no-store
2550 ignore-private
2551 ignore-auth
2552 refresh-ims
a0ec9f68 2553
41bd17a4 2554 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
2555 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
2556 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
2557 for problems which it causes.
6468fe10 2558
41bd17a4 2559 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
2560 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 2561
41bd17a4 2562 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2563 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2564 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2565 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 2566
41bd17a4 2567 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2568 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2569 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2570 it causes.
9bc73deb 2571
41bd17a4 2572 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2573 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2574 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2575 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2576 send it anyway.
2577
2578 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2579 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2580 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2581 liable for problems which it causes.
2582
2583 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2584 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2585 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2586 liable for problems which it causes.
2587
2588 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2589 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
2590 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
2591 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
2592 it causes.
2593
2594 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2595 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2596 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2597 if one is available.
2598
2599 Basically a cached object is:
2600
2601 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2602 STALE if age > max
2603 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2604 FRESH if age < min
2605 else STALE
2606
2607 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2608 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
2609 match the default will be used.
2610
2611 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2612 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2613 used.
2614
2615Suggested default:
2616NOCOMMENT_START
2617refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2618refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
2619refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2620NOCOMMENT_END
2621DOC_END
2622
2623NAME: quick_abort_min
2624COMMENT: (KB)
2625TYPE: kb_int64_t
2626DEFAULT: 16 KB
2627LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2628DOC_NONE
2629
2630NAME: quick_abort_max
2631COMMENT: (KB)
2632TYPE: kb_int64_t
2633DEFAULT: 16 KB
2634LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2635DOC_NONE
2636
2637NAME: quick_abort_pct
2638COMMENT: (percent)
2639TYPE: int
2640DEFAULT: 95
2641LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2642DOC_START
2643 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2644 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2645 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2646 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2647 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2648 downloads.
2649
2650 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2651 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2652 then.
2653
2654 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2655 it will finish the retrieval.
2656
2657 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2658 it will abort the retrieval.
2659
2660 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2661 it will finish the retrieval.
2662
2663 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2664 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2665 to '0 KB'.
2666
2667 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
2668 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
2669DOC_END
60d096f4 2670
41bd17a4 2671NAME: read_ahead_gap
2672COMMENT: buffer-size
2673TYPE: b_int64_t
2674LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2675DEFAULT: 16 KB
2676DOC_START
2677 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2678 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2679DOC_END
53e738c6 2680
41bd17a4 2681NAME: negative_ttl
2682COMMENT: time-units
2683TYPE: time_t
2684LOC: Config.negativeTtl
2685DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2686DOC_START
2687 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
2688 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
2689 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
2690 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
2691 negative caching of DNS lookups.
2692DOC_END
53e738c6 2693
41bd17a4 2694NAME: positive_dns_ttl
2695COMMENT: time-units
2696TYPE: time_t
2697LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
2698DEFAULT: 6 hours
2699DOC_START
2700 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
2701 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
2702 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
2703DOC_END
c4ab8329 2704
41bd17a4 2705NAME: negative_dns_ttl
2706COMMENT: time-units
2707TYPE: time_t
2708LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
2709DEFAULT: 1 minutes
2710DOC_START
2711 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
2712 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
2713 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
2714 much below 10 seconds.
2715DOC_END
7df0bfd7 2716
41bd17a4 2717NAME: range_offset_limit
2718COMMENT: (bytes)
2719TYPE: b_int64_t
2720LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
2721DEFAULT: 0 KB
2722DOC_START
2723 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
2724 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
2725 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
2726 is NOT cached.
c4ab8329 2727
41bd17a4 2728 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
2729 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
2730 sending anything to the client.
a7ad6e4e 2731
41bd17a4 2732 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
2733 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
a7ad6e4e 2734
41bd17a4 2735 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
2736 client requested. (default)
2737DOC_END
d95b862f 2738
41bd17a4 2739NAME: minimum_expiry_time
2740COMMENT: (seconds)
2741TYPE: time_t
2742LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
2743DEFAULT: 60 seconds
2744DOC_START
2745 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
2746 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
2747 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy enorinments it
2748 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
2749 is most likely better to make your server return a
2750 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
2751 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
2752 often be best set to 0.
2753DOC_END
c68e9c6b 2754
41bd17a4 2755NAME: store_avg_object_size
2756COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 2757TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 2758DEFAULT: 13 KB
2759LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
2760DOC_START
2761 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
2762 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 2763DOC_END
2764
41bd17a4 2765NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
2766TYPE: int
2767DEFAULT: 20
2768LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
2769DOC_START
2770 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
2771 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
2772 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
2773DOC_END
2774
2775COMMENT_START
2776 HTTP OPTIONS
2777 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2778COMMENT_END
2779
f04b37d8 2780NAME: request_header_max_size
2781COMMENT: (KB)
2782TYPE: b_size_t
2783DEFAULT: 20 KB
2784LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
2785DOC_START
2786 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
2787 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2788 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
2789 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2790 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2791DOC_END
2792
2793NAME: reply_header_max_size
2794COMMENT: (KB)
2795TYPE: b_size_t
2796DEFAULT: 20 KB
2797LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
2798DOC_START
2799 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
2800 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2801 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
2802 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2803 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2804DOC_END
2805
2806NAME: request_body_max_size
2807COMMENT: (bytes)
2808TYPE: b_int64_t
2809DEFAULT: 0 KB
2810LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
2811DOC_START
2812 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
2813 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
2814 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
2815 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
2816 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
2817 be no limit imposed.
2818DOC_END
2819
41bd17a4 2820NAME: broken_posts
cccac0a2 2821TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 2822DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2823LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 2824DOC_START
41bd17a4 2825 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
2826 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 2827
41bd17a4 2828 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
2829 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 2830
41bd17a4 2831 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 2832
41bd17a4 2833 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
2834 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
2835 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
2836 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 2837
41bd17a4 2838Example:
2839 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
2840 broken_posts allow buggy_server
2841DOC_END
cccac0a2 2842
41bd17a4 2843NAME: via
2844IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
2845COMMENT: on|off
2846TYPE: onoff
2847DEFAULT: on
2848LOC: Config.onoff.via
2849DOC_START
2850 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
2851 replies as required by RFC2616.
2852DOC_END
4cc6eb12 2853
41bd17a4 2854NAME: ie_refresh
2855COMMENT: on|off
2856TYPE: onoff
2857LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
2858DEFAULT: off
2859DOC_START
2860 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
2861 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
2862 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
2863 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
2864 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
2865 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
2866 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
2867 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
2868 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
2869 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
2870 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
2871 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
2872 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
2873 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
2874 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
2875 force fresh content.
2876DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 2877
41bd17a4 2878NAME: vary_ignore_expire
2879COMMENT: on|off
2880TYPE: onoff
2881LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
2882DEFAULT: off
2883DOC_START
2884 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
2885 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
2886 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
2887 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
2888 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
2889 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
2890 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 2891DOC_END
c4ab8329 2892
41bd17a4 2893NAME: extension_methods
2894TYPE: wordlist
2895LOC: Config.ext_methods
cccac0a2 2896DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2897DOC_START
41bd17a4 2898 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
2899 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
2900DOC_END
0976f8db 2901
41bd17a4 2902NAME: request_entities
2903TYPE: onoff
2904LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
2905DEFAULT: off
2906DOC_START
2907 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
2908 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
2909 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 2910
41bd17a4 2911 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
2912 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
2913 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
2914 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
2915 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 2916DOC_END
6b53c392 2917
41bd17a4 2918NAME: request_header_access
2919IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
2920TYPE: http_header_access[]
2921LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 2922DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2923DOC_START
41bd17a4 2924 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 2925
41bd17a4 2926 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2927 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
2928 causes.
0976f8db 2929
41bd17a4 2930 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
2931 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
2932 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
2933 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
2934 mangling.
934b03fc 2935
41bd17a4 2936 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
2937 client to the server.
5401aa8d 2938
41bd17a4 2939 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
2940 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
2941 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 2942
41bd17a4 2943 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
2944 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 2945
41bd17a4 2946 request_header_access From deny all
2947 request_header_access Referer deny all
2948 request_header_access Server deny all
2949 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
2950 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
2951 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 2952
41bd17a4 2953 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
2954 you should use:
5401aa8d 2955
41bd17a4 2956 request_header_access Allow allow all
2957 request_header_access Authorization allow all
2958 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
2959 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
2960 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
2961 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
2962 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
2963 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
2964 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
2965 request_header_access Date allow all
2966 request_header_access Expires allow all
2967 request_header_access Host allow all
2968 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
2969 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
2970 request_header_access Location allow all
2971 request_header_access Pragma allow all
2972 request_header_access Accept allow all
2973 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
2974 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
2975 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
2976 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
2977 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
2978 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
2979 request_header_access Title allow all
2980 request_header_access Connection allow all
2981 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
2982 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 2983
41bd17a4 2984 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
2985 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 2986
41bd17a4 2987 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
2988 performed).
5401aa8d 2989DOC_END
2990
41bd17a4 2991NAME: reply_header_access
2992IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
2993TYPE: http_header_access[]
2994LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 2995DEFAULT: none
2996DOC_START
41bd17a4 2997 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 2998
41bd17a4 2999 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3000 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3001 causes.
934b03fc 3002
41bd17a4 3003 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3004 server to the client.
934b03fc 3005
41bd17a4 3006 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3007 direction.
6b53c392 3008
41bd17a4 3009 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3010 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3011 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3012 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3013 mangling.
cccac0a2 3014
41bd17a4 3015 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3016 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3017 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 3018
41bd17a4 3019 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3020 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 3021
41bd17a4 3022 reply_header_access From deny all
3023 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3024 reply_header_access Server deny all
3025 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3026 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3027 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3028
41bd17a4 3029 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3030 you should use:
cccac0a2 3031
41bd17a4 3032 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3033 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3034 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3035 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3036 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3037 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3038 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3039 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3040 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3041 reply_header_access Date allow all
3042 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3043 reply_header_access Host allow all
3044 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3045 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3046 reply_header_access Location allow all
3047 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3048 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3049 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3050 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3051 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3052 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3053 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3054 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3055 reply_header_access Title allow all
3056 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3057 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3058 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 3059
41bd17a4 3060 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3061 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3062
41bd17a4 3063 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3064 performed).
cccac0a2 3065DOC_END
3066
41bd17a4 3067NAME: header_replace
3068IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3069TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3070LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3071DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3072DOC_START
3073 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3074 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 3075
41bd17a4 3076 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3077 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3078 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3079 option.
cccac0a2 3080
41bd17a4 3081 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 3082
41bd17a4 3083 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3084DOC_END
cccac0a2 3085
41bd17a4 3086NAME: relaxed_header_parser
3087COMMENT: on|off|warn
3088TYPE: tristate
3089LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
3090DEFAULT: on
3091DOC_START
3092 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
3093 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
3094 what the sending application intended even if the message
3095 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
3096 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 3097
41bd17a4 3098 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
3099 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 3100
41bd17a4 3101 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
3102 or response to be rejected.
3103DOC_END
7d90757b 3104
41bd17a4 3105COMMENT_START
3106 TIMEOUTS
3107 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3108COMMENT_END
3109
3110NAME: forward_timeout
3111COMMENT: time-units
3112TYPE: time_t
3113LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
3114DEFAULT: 4 minutes
3115DOC_START
3116 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
3117 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 3118DOC_END
3119
41bd17a4 3120NAME: connect_timeout
3121COMMENT: time-units
3122TYPE: time_t
3123LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
3124DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 3125DOC_START
41bd17a4 3126 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
3127 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
3128 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 3129DOC_END
3130
41bd17a4 3131NAME: peer_connect_timeout
3132COMMENT: time-units
3133TYPE: time_t
3134LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
3135DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3136DOC_START
41bd17a4 3137 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
3138 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
3139 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
3140 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
3141DOC_END
7f7db318 3142
41bd17a4 3143NAME: read_timeout
3144COMMENT: time-units
3145TYPE: time_t
3146LOC: Config.Timeout.read
3147DEFAULT: 15 minutes
3148DOC_START
3149 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
3150 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
3151 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
3152 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
3153 default is 15 minutes.
3154DOC_END
cccac0a2 3155
41bd17a4 3156NAME: request_timeout
3157TYPE: time_t
3158LOC: Config.Timeout.request
3159DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3160DOC_START
3161 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
3162 connection establishment.
3163DOC_END
cccac0a2 3164
41bd17a4 3165NAME: persistent_request_timeout
3166TYPE: time_t
3167LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
3168DEFAULT: 2 minutes
3169DOC_START
3170 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
3171 connection after the previous request completes.
3172DOC_END
cccac0a2 3173
41bd17a4 3174NAME: client_lifetime
3175COMMENT: time-units
3176TYPE: time_t
3177LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
3178DEFAULT: 1 day
3179DOC_START
3180 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
3181 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
3182 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
3183 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
3184 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
3185 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
3186 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 3187
41bd17a4 3188 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
3189 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
3190 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
3191 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
3192 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
3193 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 3194DOC_END
3195
41bd17a4 3196NAME: half_closed_clients
3197TYPE: onoff
3198LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
3199DEFAULT: on
4eb368f9 3200DOC_START
41bd17a4 3201 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
3202 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
3203 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
3204 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
3205 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
3206 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
3207 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
3208 "no more data to read."
4eb368f9 3209DOC_END
3210
41bd17a4 3211NAME: pconn_timeout
3212TYPE: time_t
3213LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
3214DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 3215DOC_START
41bd17a4 3216 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
3217 proxies.
3218DOC_END
cccac0a2 3219
41bd17a4 3220NAME: ident_timeout
3221TYPE: time_t
3222IFDEF: USE_IDENT
3223LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
3224DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3225DOC_START
3226 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 3227
41bd17a4 3228 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
3229 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
3230 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 3231DOC_END
3232
41bd17a4 3233NAME: shutdown_lifetime
3234COMMENT: time-units
3235TYPE: time_t
3236LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
3237DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3238DOC_START
41bd17a4 3239 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
3240 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
3241 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
3242 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
3243 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 3244DOC_END
0976f8db 3245
cccac0a2 3246COMMENT_START
3247 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3248 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3249COMMENT_END
3250
3251NAME: cache_mgr
3252TYPE: string
3253DEFAULT: webmaster
3254LOC: Config.adminEmail
3255DOC_START
3256 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3257 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3258DOC_END
3259
abacf776 3260NAME: mail_from
3261TYPE: string
3262DEFAULT: none
3263LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3264DOC_START
3265 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3266 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3267 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3268 src/globals.h before building squid.
3269DOC_END
3270
d084bf20 3271NAME: mail_program
3272TYPE: eol
3273DEFAULT: mail
3274LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3275DOC_START
3276 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 3277 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 3278 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 3279 mail-program recipient < mailfile
3280
d084bf20 3281 Optional command line options can be specified.
3282DOC_END
3283
cccac0a2 3284NAME: cache_effective_user
3285TYPE: string
5483d916 3286DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 3287LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3288DOC_START
3289 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3290 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 3291 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 3292 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 3293DOC_END
3294
cccac0a2 3295NAME: cache_effective_group
3296TYPE: string
3297DEFAULT: none
3298LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3299DOC_START
64e288bd 3300 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
3301 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
3302 from the groups membership.
3303
e3d74828 3304 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3305 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3306 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 3307 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 3308 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 3309 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 3310 group.
64e288bd 3311
3312 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
3313 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
3314 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 3315DOC_END
3316
d3caee79 3317NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3318COMMENT: on|off
3319TYPE: onoff
3320DEFAULT: off
3321LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3322DOC_START
3323 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3324DOC_END
3325
cccac0a2 3326NAME: visible_hostname
3327TYPE: string
3328LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3329DEFAULT: none
3330DOC_START
3331 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3332 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3333 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3334 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3335 names with this setting.
3336DOC_END
3337
cccac0a2 3338NAME: unique_hostname
3339TYPE: string
3340LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3341DEFAULT: none
3342DOC_START
3343 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3344 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3345 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3346DOC_END
3347
cccac0a2 3348NAME: hostname_aliases
3349TYPE: wordlist
3350LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3351DEFAULT: none
3352DOC_START
7f7db318 3353 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3354DOC_END
0976f8db 3355
cccac0a2 3356COMMENT_START
3357 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3358 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3359
3360 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3361 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3362 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3363 create cache hierarchies.
3364
3365 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3366 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3367 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3368
3369 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3370 following information from this configuration file:
3371
3372 http_port
3373 icp_port
3374 cache_mgr
3375
3376 All current information is processed regularly and made
3377 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3378COMMENT_END
3379
3380NAME: announce_period
3381TYPE: time_t
3382LOC: Config.Announce.period
3383DEFAULT: 0
3384DOC_START
3385 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3386 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3387 messages.
3388
3389 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3390 below.
3391
3392NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3393#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3394#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3395NOCOMMENT_END
3396DOC_END
3397
cccac0a2 3398NAME: announce_host
3399TYPE: string
3400DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3401LOC: Config.Announce.host
3402DOC_NONE
3403
3404NAME: announce_file
3405TYPE: string
3406DEFAULT: none
3407LOC: Config.Announce.file
3408DOC_NONE
3409
3410NAME: announce_port
3411TYPE: ushort
3412DEFAULT: 3131
3413LOC: Config.Announce.port
3414DOC_START
3415 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3416 number where the registration message will be sent.
3417
3418 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3419 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3420 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3421 message.
3422DOC_END
3423
8d6275c0 3424COMMENT_START
3425 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
3426 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3427COMMENT_END
3428
cccac0a2 3429NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
f41735ea 3430IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3431TYPE: string
3432LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3433DEFAULT: unset-id
3434DOC_START
3435 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3436 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3437 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3438 an identification token.
3439DOC_END
3440
3441NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
f41735ea 3442IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3443COMMENT: on|off
3444TYPE: onoff
3445DEFAULT: off
3446LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3447DOC_START
3448 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3449 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3450DOC_END
3451
3452NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 3453IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 3454COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3455TYPE: string
3456LOC: ESIParser::Type
3457DEFAULT: custom
3458DOC_START
3459 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3460 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3461 encodings.
3462DOC_END
0976f8db 3463
9edd9041 3464COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3465 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 3466 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3467COMMENT_END
3468
3469NAME: delay_pools
3470TYPE: delay_pool_count
3471DEFAULT: 0
3472IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3473LOC: Config.Delay
3474DOC_START
3475 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3476 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3477 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3478DOC_END
3479
3480NAME: delay_class
3481TYPE: delay_pool_class
3482DEFAULT: none
3483IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3484LOC: Config.Delay
3485DOC_START
3486 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3487 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3488 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3489 and here would be:
3490
3491Example:
3492 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3493 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3494 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3495 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3496 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3497
3498 The delay pool classes are:
3499
3500 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3501 bucket.
3502
3503 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3504 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3505 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3506
3507 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3508 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3509 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3510 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3511 32 of the IP address.
3512
3513 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
3514 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3515 only takes effect if the username is established
3516 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3517 http_access rules.
3518
3519 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
3520 external_acl's tag= reply).
3521
3522 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3523 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3524 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3525 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3526DOC_END
3527
3528NAME: delay_access
3529TYPE: delay_pool_access
3530DEFAULT: none
3531IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3532LOC: Config.Delay
3533DOC_START
3534 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3535
3536 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
3537 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
3538 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
3539 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
3540
3541 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3542 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3543
3544Example:
3545 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3546 delay_access 1 deny all
3547 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3548 delay_access 2 deny all
3549 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3550DOC_END
3551
3552NAME: delay_parameters
3553TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3554DEFAULT: none
3555IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3556LOC: Config.Delay
3557DOC_START
3558 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3559 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3560 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3561
3562delay_parameters pool aggregate
3563
3564 For a class 2 delay pool:
3565
3566delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3567
3568 For a class 3 delay pool:
3569
3570delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3571
3572 For a class 4 delay pool:
3573
3574delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3575
3576 For a class 5 delay pool:
3577
3578delay_parameters pool tag
3579
3580 The variables here are:
3581
3582 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3583 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3584 delay_class lines.
3585
3586 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3587 (class 1, 2, 3).
3588
3589 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3590 buckets (class 2, 3).
3591
3592 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3593 (class 3).
3594
3595 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
3596 (class 4).
3597
3598 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
3599 (class 5).
3600
3601 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3602 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3603 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3604 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3605
3606 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3607 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3608 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3609
3610delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3611
3612 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3613
3614 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3615 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3616 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3617 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3618 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3619 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3620 large downloads more significantly:
3621
3622delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
3623
3624 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
3625
3626 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
3627 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
3628
3629delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
3630DOC_END
3631
3632NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3633COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3634TYPE: ushort
3635DEFAULT: 50
3636IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3637LOC: Config.Delay.initial
3638DOC_START
3639 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3640 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3641 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3642 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3643 "seen" by squid).
3644DOC_END
3645
cccac0a2 3646COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3647 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 3648 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3649COMMENT_END
3650
8d6275c0 3651NAME: wccp_router
3652TYPE: address
3653LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3654DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3655IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3656DOC_NONE
3657NAME: wccp2_router
cc192b50 3658TYPE: IPAddress_list
8d6275c0 3659LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 3660DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 3661IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3662DOC_START
8d6275c0 3663 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3664 Squid.
cccac0a2 3665
8d6275c0 3666 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 3667
8d6275c0 3668 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 3669
8d6275c0 3670 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
3671 which version of WCCP to use.
3672DOC_END
3673
3674NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 3675TYPE: int
8d6275c0 3676LOC: Config.Wccp.version
3677DEFAULT: 4
3678IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 3679DOC_START
8d6275c0 3680 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
3681 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
3682 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
3683 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
3684 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 3685
8d6275c0 3686 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
3687 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
3688 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
3689 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 3690DOC_END
3691
8d6275c0 3692NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
3693TYPE: onoff
3694LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
3695DEFAULT: on
3696IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3697DOC_START
3698 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
3699 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
3700DOC_END
cccac0a2 3701
8d6275c0 3702NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
3703TYPE: int
3704LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
3705DEFAULT: 1
3706IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3707DOC_START
699acd19 3708 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 3709 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 3710
8d6275c0 3711 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
3712 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 3713
8d6275c0 3714 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
3715 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 3716DOC_END
3717
8d6275c0 3718NAME: wccp2_return_method
3719TYPE: int
3720LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
3721DEFAULT: 1
3722IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3723DOC_START
699acd19 3724 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 3725 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
3726 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 3727
8d6275c0 3728 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
3729 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 3730
8d6275c0 3731 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
3732 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 3733
699acd19 3734 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 3735 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
3736 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
3737 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 3738DOC_END
3739
8d6275c0 3740NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
3741TYPE: int
3742LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
3743DEFAULT: 1
3744IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3745DOC_START
8d6275c0 3746 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
3747 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 3748
8d6275c0 3749 1 - Hash assignment
3750 2 - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 3751
8d6275c0 3752 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
3753 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
3754DOC_END
cccac0a2 3755
8d6275c0 3756NAME: wccp2_service
3757TYPE: wccp2_service
3758LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
3759DEFAULT: none
3760DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
3761IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3762DOC_START
3763 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
3764 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
3765 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
3766 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
3767 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
3768 using the wccp2_service_info option.
3769
3770 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
3771 just specifying the service id will suffice.
3772
3773 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
3774 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
3775
3776 Examples:
3777
3778 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
3779 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
3780 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
3781 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
3782
3783DOC_END
3784
3785NAME: wccp2_service_info
3786TYPE: wccp2_service_info
3787LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
3788DEFAULT: none
3789IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3790DOC_START
3791 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
3792 traffic you wish to have diverted.
3793
3794 The format is:
3795
3796 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
3797 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
3798
3799 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
3800 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
3801 + source_port_hash, dest_port_hash
3802 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
3803 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
3804 + ports_source
3805
3806 The port list can be one to eight entries.
3807
3808 Example:
3809
3810 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
3811 priority=240 ports=80
3812
3813 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
3814 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
3815DOC_END
3816
3817NAME: wccp2_weight
3818TYPE: int
3819LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
3820DEFAULT: 10000
3821IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3822DOC_START
3823 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
3824 hash proportional to their weight.
3825DOC_END
3826
3827NAME: wccp_address
3828TYPE: address
3829LOC: Config.Wccp.address
3830DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3831IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3832DOC_NONE
3833NAME: wccp2_address
3834TYPE: address
3835LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
3836DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3837IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3838DOC_START
3839 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
3840 interface address.
3841
3842 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
3843DOC_END
3844
3845COMMENT_START
3846 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
3847 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3848
3849 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
3850COMMENT_END
3851
3852NAME: client_persistent_connections
3853TYPE: onoff
3854LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
3855DEFAULT: on
3856DOC_NONE
3857
3858NAME: server_persistent_connections
3859TYPE: onoff
3860LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
3861DEFAULT: on
3862DOC_START
3863 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
3864 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
3865 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
3866 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
3867DOC_END
3868
3869NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
3870TYPE: onoff
3871LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
3872DEFAULT: off
3873DOC_START
3874 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
3875 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
3876 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
3877DOC_END
3878
3879NAME: detect_broken_pconn
3880TYPE: onoff
3881LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
3882DEFAULT: off
3883DOC_START
3884 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
3885 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
3886 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
3887 has mostly been seen on redirects.
3888
3889 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
3890 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
3891 after 10 seconds timeout.
3892DOC_END
3893
3894COMMENT_START
3895 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
3896 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3897COMMENT_END
3898
3899NAME: digest_generation
3900IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3901TYPE: onoff
3902LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
3903DEFAULT: on
3904DOC_START
3905 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
3906 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 3907 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 3908DOC_END
3909
3910NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
3911IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3912TYPE: int
3913LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
3914DEFAULT: 5
3915DOC_START
3916 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
3917 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
3918 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
3919DOC_END
3920
3921NAME: digest_rebuild_period
3922IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3923COMMENT: (seconds)
3924TYPE: time_t
3925LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
3926DEFAULT: 1 hour
3927DOC_START
749ceff8 3928 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 3929DOC_END
3930
3931NAME: digest_rewrite_period
3932COMMENT: (seconds)
3933IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3934TYPE: time_t
3935LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
3936DEFAULT: 1 hour
3937DOC_START
749ceff8 3938 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 3939 disk.
3940DOC_END
3941
3942NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
3943COMMENT: (bytes)
3944TYPE: b_size_t
3945IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3946LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
3947DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
3948DOC_START
3949 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
3950 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
3951 default swap page.
3952DOC_END
3953
3954NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
3955COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3956IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3957TYPE: int
3958LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
3959DEFAULT: 10
3960DOC_START
3961 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
3962 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
3963DOC_END
3964
1db9eacd 3965COMMENT_START
5473c134 3966 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 3967 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3968COMMENT_END
3969
5473c134 3970NAME: snmp_port
3971TYPE: ushort
3972LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 3973DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 3974IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 3975DOC_START
87630341 3976 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
3977 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
3978 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
3979 set to "0" (disabled)
3980NOCOMMENT_START
3981#snmp_port 3401
3982NOCOMMENT_END
8d6275c0 3983DOC_END
3984
5473c134 3985NAME: snmp_access
3986TYPE: acl_access
3987LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 3988DEFAULT: none
5473c134 3989DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
3990IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 3991DOC_START
5473c134 3992 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 3993
5473c134 3994 All access to the agent is denied by default.
3995 usage:
8d6275c0 3996
5473c134 3997 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 3998
5473c134 3999Example:
4000 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
4001 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 4002DOC_END
4003
5473c134 4004NAME: snmp_incoming_address
4005TYPE: address
4006LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4007DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4008IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4009DOC_NONE
4010NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4011TYPE: address
4012LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4013DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4014IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 4015DOC_START
5473c134 4016 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 4017
5473c134 4018 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4019 messages from SNMP agents.
4020 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4021 agents.
cccac0a2 4022
5473c134 4023 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4024 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 4025
5473c134 4026 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
4027 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
4028 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4029 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 4030
5473c134 4031 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4032 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 4033DOC_END
4034
5473c134 4035COMMENT_START
4036 ICP OPTIONS
4037 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4038COMMENT_END
4039
4040NAME: icp_port udp_port
4041TYPE: ushort
4042DEFAULT: 0
4043LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 4044DOC_START
5473c134 4045 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
4046 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
4047 Default is disabled (0).
4048NOCOMMENT_START
4049icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
4050NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4051DOC_END
4052
5473c134 4053NAME: htcp_port
4054IFDEF: USE_HTCP
4055TYPE: ushort
87630341 4056DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4057LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 4058DOC_START
5473c134 4059 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 4060 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
4061 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
4062NOCOMMENT_START
4063#htcp_port 4827
4064NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4065DOC_END
4066
4067NAME: log_icp_queries
4068COMMENT: on|off
4069TYPE: onoff
4070DEFAULT: on
4071LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
4072DOC_START
4073 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
4074 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
4075 up or to simplify log analysis.
4076DOC_END
4077
5473c134 4078NAME: udp_incoming_address
4079TYPE: address
4080LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
4081DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
8524d4b2 4082DOC_START
4083 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
4084 caches.
4085
4086 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4087
4088 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
4089 a specific interface/address.
4090
4091 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4092 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4093
4094 see also; udp_outgoing_address
4095
4096 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
4097 have the same value since they both use the same port.
4098DOC_END
cccac0a2 4099
5473c134 4100NAME: udp_outgoing_address
4101TYPE: address
4102LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
4103DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
cccac0a2 4104DOC_START
8524d4b2 4105 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 4106 caches.
cccac0a2 4107
5473c134 4108 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4109
8524d4b2 4110 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
4111 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
4112 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 4113 caches.
4114
8524d4b2 4115 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4116 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4117
4118 see also; udp_incoming_address
4119
5473c134 4120 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 4121 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 4122DOC_END
4123
3d1e3e43 4124NAME: icp_hit_stale
4125COMMENT: on|off
4126TYPE: onoff
4127DEFAULT: off
4128LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
4129DOC_START
4130 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
4131 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
4132 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
4133 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
4134 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
4135 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
4136 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
4137DOC_END
4138
5473c134 4139NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 4140TYPE: int
5473c134 4141DEFAULT: 4
4142LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 4143DOC_START
5473c134 4144 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4145 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 4146DOC_END
4147
5473c134 4148NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
4149TYPE: int
4150DEFAULT: 400
4151LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 4152DOC_START
5473c134 4153 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4154 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 4155DOC_END
4156
cccac0a2 4157NAME: netdb_low
4158TYPE: int
4159DEFAULT: 900
4160LOC: Config.Netdb.low
4161DOC_NONE
4162
4163NAME: netdb_high
4164TYPE: int
4165DEFAULT: 1000
4166LOC: Config.Netdb.high
4167DOC_START
4168 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
4169 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
4170 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
4171 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
4172DOC_END
4173
cccac0a2 4174NAME: netdb_ping_period
4175TYPE: time_t
4176LOC: Config.Netdb.period
4177DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4178DOC_START
4179 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
4180 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
4181 network. The default is five minutes.
4182DOC_END
4183
cccac0a2 4184NAME: query_icmp
4185COMMENT: on|off
4186TYPE: onoff
4187DEFAULT: off
4188LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
4189DOC_START
4190 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
4191 replies, enable this option.
4192
4193 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 4194 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
4195 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 4196 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
4197 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
4198 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
4199 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
4200 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
4201DOC_END
4202
4203NAME: test_reachability
4204COMMENT: on|off
4205TYPE: onoff
4206DEFAULT: off
4207LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
4208DOC_START
4209 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
4210 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
4211 database, or has a zero RTT.
4212DOC_END
4213
5473c134 4214NAME: icp_query_timeout
4215COMMENT: (msec)
4216DEFAULT: 0
4217TYPE: int
4218LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 4219DOC_START
5473c134 4220 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
4221 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
4222 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
4223 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
4224 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
4225 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 4226
5473c134 4227 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 4228DOC_END
4229
5473c134 4230NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
4231COMMENT: (msec)
4232DEFAULT: 2000
4233TYPE: int
4234LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 4235DOC_START
5473c134 4236 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4237 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
4238 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
4239 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4240 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4241 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4242DOC_END
4243
5473c134 4244NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
4245COMMENT: (msec)
4246DEFAULT: 5
4247TYPE: int
4248LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 4249DOC_START
5473c134 4250 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4251 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
4252 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
4253 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
4254 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4255 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4256 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4257DOC_END
4258
5473c134 4259NAME: background_ping_rate
4260COMMENT: time-units
4261TYPE: time_t
4262DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4263LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 4264DOC_START
5473c134 4265 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
4266 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 4267DOC_END
4268
5473c134 4269COMMENT_START
4270 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
4271 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4272COMMENT_END
4273
4274NAME: mcast_groups
4275TYPE: wordlist
4276LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 4277DEFAULT: none
4278DOC_START
5473c134 4279 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
4280 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 4281
5473c134 4282 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
4283 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
4284 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
4285 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
4286 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
4287 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
4288 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 4289
5473c134 4290 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
4291 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 4292
5473c134 4293 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
4294 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 4295
5473c134 4296 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 4297
5473c134 4298 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
4299DOC_END
8c01ada0 4300
5473c134 4301NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4302IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4303TYPE: address
4304LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4305DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4306DOC_START
4307 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4308 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 4309
5473c134 4310 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4311 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 4312DOC_END
4313
5473c134 4314NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
4315IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4316TYPE: ushort
4317LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4318DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 4319DOC_START
5473c134 4320 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4321 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4322 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4323DOC_END
cccac0a2 4324
5473c134 4325NAME: mcast_miss_port
4326IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4327TYPE: ushort
4328LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4329DEFAULT: 3135
4330DOC_START
4331 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4332 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4333DOC_END
cccac0a2 4334
5473c134 4335NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4336IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4337TYPE: string
4338LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4339DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4340DOC_START
4341 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4342 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4343DOC_END
8c01ada0 4344
5473c134 4345NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
4346COMMENT: (msec)
4347DEFAULT: 2000
4348TYPE: int
4349LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
4350DOC_START
4351 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
4352 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
4353 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
4354 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
4355 seconds.
cccac0a2 4356DOC_END
4357
5473c134 4358COMMENT_START
4359 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
4360 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4361COMMENT_END
4362
cccac0a2 4363NAME: icon_directory
4364TYPE: string
4365LOC: Config.icons.directory
4366DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4367DOC_START
4368 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
4369 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4370DOC_END
4371
f024c970 4372NAME: global_internal_static
4373TYPE: onoff
4374LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
4375DEFAULT: on
4376DOC_START
4377 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
4378 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
4379 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
4380 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
4381 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
4382 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
4383 the server generating a directory listing.
4384DOC_END
4385
5473c134 4386NAME: short_icon_urls
4387TYPE: onoff
4388LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
4389DEFAULT: on
4390DOC_START
4391 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
4392 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
4393 it's own name and port in the URL.
4394
4395 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
4396 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
4397DOC_END
4398
4399COMMENT_START
4400 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
4401 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4402COMMENT_END
4403
4404NAME: error_directory
4405TYPE: string
4406LOC: Config.errorDirectory
4407DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
4408DOC_START
4409 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
4410 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
4411 language or company copy the template English files to another
4412 directory and point this tag at them.
4413
4414 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4415 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
4416 langauge that Squid does not currently provide please consider
4417 contributing your translation back to the project.
4418DOC_END
4419
4420NAME: err_html_text
4421TYPE: eol
4422LOC: Config.errHtmlText
4423DEFAULT: none
4424DOC_START
4425 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
4426 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
4427 organizations Web page.
4428
4429 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
4430 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
4431 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
4432 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
4433DOC_END
4434
4435NAME: email_err_data
4436COMMENT: on|off
4437TYPE: onoff
4438LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
4439DEFAULT: on
4440DOC_START
4441 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
4442 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
4443 so that the email body contains the data.
4444 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
4445DOC_END
4446
4447NAME: deny_info
4448TYPE: denyinfo
4449LOC: Config.denyInfoList
4450DEFAULT: none
4451DOC_START
4452 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
4453 or deny_info http://... acl
4454 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
4455
4456 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
4457 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
4458 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
4459 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
4460
4461 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
4462 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
4463 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
4464 the first authentication related acl encountered
4465 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
4466 acl processed on the last http_access line.
4467
4468 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
4469 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
4470
4471 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
4472 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
4473 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
4474
4475 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
4476 by specifying TCP_RESET.
4477DOC_END
4478
4479COMMENT_START
4480 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
4481 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4482COMMENT_END
4483
4484NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4485TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4486LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4487DEFAULT: on
4488DOC_START
5473c134 4489 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4490 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
4491 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 4492
5473c134 4493 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
4494 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 4495
5473c134 4496 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4497 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4498 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 4499
5473c134 4500 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
4501 this directive.
8d6275c0 4502DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 4503
5473c134 4504NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4505TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4506LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4507DEFAULT: off
4508DOC_START
5473c134 4509 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
4510 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
4511 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 4512
5473c134 4513 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4514 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4515 fails.
4516
4517 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4518 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
4519 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 4520DOC_END
4521
5473c134 4522NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 4523TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 4524LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 4525DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 4526DOC_START
5473c134 4527 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 4528
5473c134 4529 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
4530 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
4531 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
4532 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
4533 something like:
0b0cfcf2 4534
5473c134 4535 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
4536 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 4537
5473c134 4538 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 4539
5473c134 4540 acl FTP proto FTP
4541 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 4542
5473c134 4543 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
4544 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
4545 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
4546 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
4547 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 4548
5473c134 4549 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4550 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4551 always_direct deny local-external
4552 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 4553
5473c134 4554 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
4555 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
4556 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
4557 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 4558
5473c134 4559 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
4560 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
4561 the replies see no_cache.
4562
4563 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
4564 and local_ip.
cccac0a2 4565DOC_END
0976f8db 4566
5473c134 4567NAME: never_direct
4568TYPE: acl_access
4569LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
4570DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4571DOC_START
5473c134 4572 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4573
4574 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
4575 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
4576
4577 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
4578 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
4579 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
4580 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
4581
4582 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4583 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
4584 never_direct deny local-servers
4585 never_direct allow all
4586
4587 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
4588 servers inside the firewall use something like:
4589
4590 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
4591 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4592 always_direct deny local-external
4593 always_direct allow local-intranet
4594 never_direct allow all
4595
4596 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
4597 and firewall_ip.
8d6275c0 4598DOC_END
0976f8db 4599
5473c134 4600COMMENT_START
4601 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
4602 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4603COMMENT_END
4604
cccac0a2 4605NAME: incoming_icp_average
4606TYPE: int
4607DEFAULT: 6
4608LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4609DOC_NONE
4610
4611NAME: incoming_http_average
4612TYPE: int
4613DEFAULT: 4
4614LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
4615DOC_NONE
4616
4617NAME: incoming_dns_average
4618TYPE: int
4619DEFAULT: 4
4620LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
4621DOC_NONE
4622
4623NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
4624TYPE: int
4625DEFAULT: 8
4626LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
4627DOC_NONE
4628
4629NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
4630TYPE: int
4631DEFAULT: 8
4632LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
4633DOC_NONE
4634
4635NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
4636TYPE: int
4637DEFAULT: 8
4638LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
4639DOC_START
5473c134 4640 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
4641 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
4642 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
4643DOC_END
4644
4645NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 4646TYPE: string
4647DEFAULT: none
4648LOC: Config.accept_filter
4649DOC_START
0b4d4be5 4650 FreeBSD:
4651
5473c134 4652 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
4653 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
4654 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
4655
4656 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 4657 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 4658 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
4659
4660 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
4661 to Squid until there is some data to process.
4662 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
4663
4664 Linux:
4665
4666 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
4667 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
4668 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
4669 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
4670 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 4671EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 4672# FreeBSD
5473c134 4673accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 4674# Linux
4675accept_filter data
5473c134 4676DOC_END
4677
4678NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
4679COMMENT: (bytes)
4680TYPE: b_size_t
4681DEFAULT: 0 bytes
4682LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
4683DOC_START
4684 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
4685 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
4686 the default buffer size.
4687DOC_END
4688
4689COMMENT_START
4690 ICAP OPTIONS
4691 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4692COMMENT_END
4693
4694NAME: icap_enable
4695TYPE: onoff
4696IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4697COMMENT: on|off
4698LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
4699DEFAULT: off
4700DOC_START
53e738c6 4701 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 4702DOC_END
4703
4704NAME: icap_connect_timeout
4705TYPE: time_t
4706DEFAULT: none
4707LOC: TheICAPConfig.connect_timeout_raw
4708IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4709DOC_START
4710 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4711 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
4712 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
4713
4714 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
4715 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
4716 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
4717DOC_END
4718
4719NAME: icap_io_timeout
4720COMMENT: time-units
4721TYPE: time_t
4722DEFAULT: none
4723LOC: TheICAPConfig.io_timeout_raw
4724IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4725DOC_START
4726 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
4727 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
4728 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
4729 failure.
4730
4731 The default is read_timeout.
4732DOC_END
4733
4734NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
4735TYPE: int
4736IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4737LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_failure_limit
4738DEFAULT: 10
4739DOC_START
4740 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
4741 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
4742 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
4743 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
4744 OPTIONS. The per-service failure counter is reset to zero each
4745 time Squid fetches new service OPTIONS.
4746
4747 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
4748 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
4749 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 4750DOC_END
4751
5473c134 4752NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 4753TYPE: int
5473c134 4754IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4755LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_revival_delay
4756DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 4757DOC_START
5473c134 4758 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
4759 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
4760 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
4761 fetched.
cccac0a2 4762
5473c134 4763 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
4764 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 4765DOC_END
4766
5473c134 4767NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 4768TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4769IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4770COMMENT: on|off
4771LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 4772DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 4773DOC_START
ac7a62f9 4774 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
4775 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
4776 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
4777 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
4778
4779 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
4780 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
4781 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
4782
4783 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
4784 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
4785Example:
4786icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 4787DOC_END
4788
5473c134 4789NAME: icap_preview_size
4790TYPE: int
4791IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4792LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
4793DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 4794DOC_START
53e738c6 4795 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
4796 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
4797 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 4798DOC_END
4799
5473c134 4800NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
4801TYPE: int
4802IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4803LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
4804DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 4805DOC_START
53e738c6 4806 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 4807 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 4808DOC_END
4809
5473c134 4810NAME: icap_persistent_connections
4811TYPE: onoff
4812IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4813COMMENT: on|off
4814LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
4815DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 4816DOC_START
5473c134 4817 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
4818 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 4819DOC_END
4820
5473c134 4821NAME: icap_send_client_ip
4822TYPE: onoff
4823IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4824COMMENT: on|off
4825LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
4826DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 4827DOC_START
53e738c6 4828 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 4829DOC_END
4830
5473c134 4831NAME: icap_send_client_username
4832TYPE: onoff
4833IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4834COMMENT: on|off
4835LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
4836DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 4837DOC_START
5473c134 4838 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
4839 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
4840 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
4841 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 4842DOC_END
4843
5473c134 4844NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 4845TYPE: string
5473c134 4846IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4847LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_header
4848DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 4849DOC_START
5473c134 4850 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 4851DOC_END
4852
5473c134 4853NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 4854TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4855IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4856COMMENT: on|off
4857LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_encode
4858DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 4859DOC_START
5473c134 4860 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 4861DOC_END
4862
5473c134 4863NAME: icap_service
4864TYPE: icap_service_type
4865IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4866LOC: TheICAPConfig
4867DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4868DOC_START
53e738c6 4869 Defines a single ICAP service
cccac0a2 4870
53e738c6 4871 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
7d90757b 4872
53e738c6 4873 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 4874 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
4875 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
4876 are not yet supported.
53e738c6 4877 bypass = 1|0
f3db09e2 4878 If set to 1, the ICAP service is treated as optional. If the
4879 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
4880 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
4881 was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be bypassed.
4882 If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as essential and all
4883 ICAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
4884 HTTP client.
53e738c6 4885 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5473c134 4886
5473c134 4887Example:
4888icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
4889icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 4890DOC_END
4891
5473c134 4892NAME: icap_class
4893TYPE: icap_class_type
4894IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4895LOC: TheICAPConfig
4896DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4897DOC_START
ce3712b7 4898 Defines an ICAP service chain. Eventually, multiple services per
4899 vectoring point will be supported. For now, please specify a single
4900 service per class:
5473c134 4901
ce3712b7 4902 icap_class classname servicename
5473c134 4903
4904Example:
ce3712b7 4905icap_class class_1 service_1
4906icap class class_2 service_1
4907icap class class_3 service_3
cccac0a2 4908DOC_END
4909
5473c134 4910NAME: icap_access
4911TYPE: icap_access_type
4912IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4913LOC: TheICAPConfig
cccac0a2 4914DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4915DOC_START
53e738c6 4916 Redirects a request through an ICAP service class, depending
4917 on given acls
5473c134 4918
53e738c6 4919 icap_access classname allow|deny [!]aclname...
5473c134 4920
53e738c6 4921 The icap_access statements are processed in the order they appear in
4922 this configuration file. If an access list matches, the processing stops.
4923 For an "allow" rule, the specified class is used for the request. A "deny"
4924 rule simply stops processing without using the class. You can also use the
4925 special classname "None".
cccac0a2 4926
53e738c6 4927 For backward compatibility, it is also possible to use services
4928 directly here.
5473c134 4929Example:
4930icap_access class_1 allow all
cccac0a2 4931DOC_END
4932
5473c134 4933COMMENT_START
4934 DNS OPTIONS
4935 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4936COMMENT_END
4937
4938NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 4939TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 4940DEFAULT: off
5473c134 4941LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 4942DOC_START
5473c134 4943 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
4944 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
4945 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 4946DOC_END
4947
5473c134 4948NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 4949TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 4950DEFAULT: on
5473c134 4951LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 4952DOC_START
5473c134 4953 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
4954 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
4955 Squid to be strict about the standard.
4956 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 4957DOC_END
4958
5473c134 4959NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 4960TYPE: string
5473c134 4961IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
4962DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
4963LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 4964DOC_START
5473c134 4965 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 4966DOC_END
4967
5473c134 4968NAME: dns_children
4969TYPE: int
4970IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
4971DEFAULT: 5
4972LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 4973DOC_START
5473c134 4974 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
4975 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
4976 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
4977 is 32. The default is 5.
58850d15 4978
5473c134 4979 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
58850d15 4980DOC_END
4981
5473c134 4982NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
4983TYPE: time_t
4984DEFAULT: 5 seconds
4985LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
4986IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 4987DOC_START
5473c134 4988 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
4989 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 4990
cccac0a2 4991DOC_END
4992
5473c134 4993NAME: dns_timeout
4994TYPE: time_t
4995DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4996LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
4997IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 4998DOC_START
5473c134 4999 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
5000 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
5001 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 5002DOC_END
5003
5473c134 5004NAME: dns_defnames
5005COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 5006TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5007DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5008LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 5009DOC_START
5473c134 5010 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
5011 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
5012 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
5013 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 5014DOC_END
5015
5473c134 5016NAME: dns_nameservers
5017TYPE: wordlist
5018DEFAULT: none
5019LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 5020DOC_START
5473c134 5021 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
5022 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
5023 /etc/resolv.conf file.
5024 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
5025 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
5026 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
5027 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 5028
5473c134 5029 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 5030DOC_END
5031
5473c134 5032NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 5033TYPE: string
5473c134 5034DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
5035LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 5036DOC_START
5473c134 5037 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
5038 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
5039 default locations:
5040 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
5041 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5042 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
5043 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5044 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
5045 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
5046 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
5047 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 5048
5473c134 5049 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
5050 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
5051 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
5052 character are comments.
cccac0a2 5053
5473c134 5054 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
5055 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
5056 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
5057 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
5058 definitions.
cccac0a2 5059DOC_END
5060
5473c134 5061NAME: dns_testnames
5062TYPE: wordlist
5063LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
5064DEFAULT: none
5065DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
5066DOC_START
5067 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
5068
5069 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
cccac0a2 5070DOC_END
5071
5473c134 5072NAME: append_domain
5073TYPE: string
5074LOC: Config.appendDomain
5075DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 5076DOC_START
5473c134 5077 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
5078 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
5079
5080 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
5081 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
5082 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
5083
5084Example:
5085 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 5086DOC_END
5087
5473c134 5088NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
5089TYPE: onoff
5090LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 5091DEFAULT: on
5092DOC_START
5473c134 5093 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
5094 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
5095 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
5096 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
5097 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 5098DOC_END
5099
cc192b50 5100NAME: dns_v4_fallback
5101TYPE: onoff
5102DEFAULT: on
5103LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
5104DOC_START
5105 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
5106 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
5107 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
5108
5109 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
5110 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
5111
5112 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
5113 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
5114
5115 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
5116 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
5117 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
5118DOC_END
5119
6bc15a4f 5120NAME: ipcache_size
5121COMMENT: (number of entries)
5122TYPE: int
5123DEFAULT: 1024
5124LOC: Config.ipcache.size
5125DOC_NONE
5126
5127NAME: ipcache_low
5128COMMENT: (percent)
5129TYPE: int
5130DEFAULT: 90
5131LOC: Config.ipcache.low
5132DOC_NONE
5133
5134NAME: ipcache_high
5135COMMENT: (percent)
5136TYPE: int
5137DEFAULT: 95
5138LOC: Config.ipcache.high
5139DOC_START
5140 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
5141DOC_END
5142
5143NAME: fqdncache_size
5144COMMENT: (number of entries)
5145TYPE: int
5146DEFAULT: 1024
5147LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
5148DOC_START
5149 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
5150DOC_END
5151
a58ff010 5152COMMENT_START
5473c134 5153 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 5154 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5155COMMENT_END
5156
5473c134 5157NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 5158COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5159TYPE: onoff
5160DEFAULT: on
5161LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 5162DOC_START
5473c134 5163 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
5164 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
5165 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
5166 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 5167DOC_END
5168
5473c134 5169NAME: memory_pools_limit
5170COMMENT: (bytes)
5171TYPE: b_size_t
5172DEFAULT: 5 MB
5173LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 5174DOC_START
5473c134 5175 Used only with memory_pools on:
5176 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 5177
5473c134 5178 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
5179 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
5180 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
5181 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
5182 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
5183 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
5184 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 5185
5473c134 5186 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5187 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 5188
5473c134 5189 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
5190 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5191
5192 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
5193 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
5194 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
5195 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 5196DOC_END
5197
5473c134 5198NAME: forwarded_for
5199COMMENT: on|off
5200TYPE: onoff
5201DEFAULT: on
5202LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 5203DOC_START
5473c134 5204 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
5205 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
5206 this:
5f8252d2 5207
5473c134 5208 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
5209
5210 If you disable this, it will appear as
5211
5212 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
5f8252d2 5213DOC_END
5214
5473c134 5215NAME: cachemgr_passwd
5216TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
5217DEFAULT: none
5218LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 5219DOC_START
5473c134 5220 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 5221
5473c134 5222 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
5223
5224 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
5225 5min
5226 60min
5227 asndb
5228 authenticator
5229 cbdata
5230 client_list
5231 comm_incoming
5232 config *
5233 counters
5234 delay
5235 digest_stats
5236 dns
5237 events
5238 filedescriptors
5239 fqdncache
5240 histograms
5241 http_headers
5242 info
5243 io
5244 ipcache
5245 mem
5246 menu
5247 netdb
5248 non_peers
5249 objects
5250 offline_toggle *
5251 pconn
5252 peer_select
5253 redirector
5254 refresh
5255 server_list
5256 shutdown *
5257 store_digest
5258 storedir
5259 utilization
5260 via_headers
5261 vm_objects
5262
5263 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
5264 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
5265
5266 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
5267 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
5268 password to "none".
5269
5270 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
5271
5272Example:
5273 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
5274 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
5275 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 5276DOC_END
5277
5473c134 5278NAME: client_db
a58ff010 5279COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5280TYPE: onoff
5281DEFAULT: on
5282LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 5283DOC_START
5473c134 5284 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
5285 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 5286DOC_END
5287
5473c134 5288NAME: refresh_all_ims
5289COMMENT: on|off
5290TYPE: onoff
5291DEFAULT: off
5292LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 5293DOC_START
5473c134 5294 When you enable this option, squid will always check
5295 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
5296 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
5297 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
5298 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 5299
5473c134 5300 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
5301 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 5302DOC_END
5303
5473c134 5304NAME: reload_into_ims
5305IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 5306COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5307TYPE: onoff
5308DEFAULT: off
5309LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 5310DOC_START
5473c134 5311 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
5312 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
5313 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
5314 feature could make you liable for problems which it
5315 causes.
5316
5317 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 5318DOC_END
5319
5473c134 5320NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
5321TYPE: int
5322LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
5323DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 5324DOC_START
5473c134 5325 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
5326 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
5327 each address is tried once).
5328
5329 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
5330 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
5331 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
5332
5333 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
5334 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 5335DOC_END
5336
5473c134 5337NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 5338TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5339LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 5340DEFAULT: off
5341DOC_START
5473c134 5342 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
5343 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
5344 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
5345 control errors.
5f8252d2 5346DOC_END
5347
5473c134 5348NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 5349TYPE: string
5473c134 5350LOC: Config.as_whois_server
5351DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5352DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 5353DOC_START
5473c134 5354 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
5355 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 5356DOC_END
5357
5473c134 5358NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 5359TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5360LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 5361DEFAULT: off
5362DOC_START
5473c134 5363 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
5364 objects.
a58ff010 5365DOC_END
5366
5473c134 5367NAME: uri_whitespace
5368TYPE: uri_whitespace
5369LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
5370DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 5371DOC_START
5473c134 5372 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
5373 URI. Options:
a58ff010 5374
5473c134 5375 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
5376 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
5377 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
5378 Request" message.
5379 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
5380 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
5381 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
5382 are in use.
5383 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
5384 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
5385 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
5386 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
5387 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
5388 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
5389 violation.
5390DOC_END
a58ff010 5391
5473c134 5392NAME: coredump_dir
5393TYPE: string
5394LOC: Config.coredump_dir
5395DEFAULT: none
5396DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
5397DOC_START
5398 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5399 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5400 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5401 and coredump files will be left there.
a58ff010 5402
5473c134 5403NOCOMMENT_START
5404# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5405coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
5406NOCOMMENT_END
5407DOC_END
a58ff010 5408
5473c134 5409NAME: chroot
5410TYPE: string
5411LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 5412DEFAULT: none
5413DOC_START
5473c134 5414 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
5415 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
5416 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
5417 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will may get an
5418 error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5419DOC_END
a58ff010 5420
5473c134 5421NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
5422TYPE: onoff
5423LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 5424DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5425DOC_START
cc192b50 5426 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
5427 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
5428 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
5429
5473c134 5430 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
5431 found not to preserve user session state across requests
5432 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 5433
cc192b50 5434 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 5435DOC_END
5436
5473c134 5437NAME: pipeline_prefetch
5438TYPE: onoff
5439LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
5440DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 5441DOC_START
5473c134 5442 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
5443 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5444 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 5445
5473c134 5446 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
5447 reasons.
5448DOC_END
a58ff010 5449
5473c134 5450NAME: high_response_time_warning
5451TYPE: int
5452COMMENT: (msec)
5453LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
5454DEFAULT: 0
5455DOC_START
5456 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
5457 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
5458 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 5459DOC_END
5460
5473c134 5461NAME: high_page_fault_warning
5462TYPE: int
5463LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
5464DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 5465DOC_START
5473c134 5466 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
5467 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5468 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
5469 per second.
5470DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5471
5473c134 5472NAME: high_memory_warning
5473TYPE: b_size_t
5474LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 5475DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 5476DOC_START
5477 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 5478 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 5479 the administrators attention.
5480DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5481
5473c134 5482NAME: sleep_after_fork
5483COMMENT: (microseconds)
5484TYPE: int
5485LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
5486DEFAULT: 0
5487DOC_START
5488 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
5489 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
5490 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
5491 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
5492 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
5493 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
5494 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
5495 until all the child processes have been started.
5496 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
5497 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 5498DOC_END
5499
cccac0a2 5500EOF