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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
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
375 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
376 %IDENT Ident user name
377 %SRC Client IP
378 %SRCPORT Client source port
379 %URI Requested URI
380 %DST Requested host
381 %PROTO Requested protocol
382 %PORT Requested port
383 %PATH Requested URL path
384 %METHOD Request method
385 %MYADDR Squid interface address
386 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
387 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
388 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
389 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
390 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
391 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
392 %{Header} HTTP request header
393 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
394 %{Hdr:;member}
395 HTTP request header list member using ; as
396 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
397 character.
cccac0a2 398
41bd17a4 399 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
400 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
401 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 402
41bd17a4 403 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
404 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
405 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
406 more details.
cccac0a2 407
41bd17a4 408 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 409
41bd17a4 410 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 411
41bd17a4 412 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 413
41bd17a4 414 user= The users name (login)
415 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
416 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
417 in error pages
418 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
419 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
420 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
421 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 422
41bd17a4 423 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
424 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 425
41bd17a4 426 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
427 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
428 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 429
41bd17a4 430 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
431 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
432 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 433DOC_END
434
41bd17a4 435NAME: acl
436TYPE: acl
437LOC: Config.aclList
438DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 439DOC_START
41bd17a4 440 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 441
41bd17a4 442 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
443 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 444
41bd17a4 445 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
cccac0a2 446
41bd17a4 447 acltype is one of the types described below
cccac0a2 448
41bd17a4 449 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
450 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 451
41bd17a4 452 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
453 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
454 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
455 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
cccac0a2 456
41bd17a4 457 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
458 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
459 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
460 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
461 #
462 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
463 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
464 # find out its MAC address.
934b03fc 465
41bd17a4 466 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
467 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
468 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
469 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
470 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
471 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
472 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 473
41bd17a4 474 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
7f7db318 475
41bd17a4 476 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
477 day-abbrevs:
478 S - Sunday
479 M - Monday
480 T - Tuesday
481 W - Wednesday
482 H - Thursday
483 F - Friday
484 A - Saturday
485 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
486 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
487 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
488 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
489 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
490 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
491 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
492 acl aclname method GET POST ...
493 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
494 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
495 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
496 # pattern match on Referer header
497 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
498 acl aclname ident username ...
499 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
500 # string match on ident output.
501 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
502 acl aclname src_as number ...
503 acl aclname dst_as number ...
504 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
505 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
506 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
507 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
508 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
509 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
510 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
cf5cc17e 511
41bd17a4 512 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
513 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
514 # list of valid usernames
515 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
516 #
517 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
518 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
519 # in access.log.
520 #
521 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
522 # to check username/password combinations (see
523 # auth_param directive).
524 #
525 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy as
526 # the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
527 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 528
41bd17a4 529 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
530 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
531 # Example:
532 #
533 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 534
41bd17a4 535 acl aclname maxconn number
536 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
537 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
1e5562e3 538
41bd17a4 539 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
540 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
541 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
542 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
543 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
544 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
545 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
546 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
547 # request is denied)
548 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
549 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
550 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 551
41bd17a4 552 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
553 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
554 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
555 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
556 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
557 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 558
41bd17a4 559 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
560 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
561 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
562 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 563
41bd17a4 564 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
565 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
566 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
567 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
568 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
569 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
570 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 571
41bd17a4 572 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
573 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
574 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
575 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 576
41bd17a4 577 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
578 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
579 # external_acl_type directive.
cccac0a2 580
41bd17a4 581 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
582 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
583 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 584
41bd17a4 585 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
586 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
587 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 588
41bd17a4 589 acl aclname ext_user username ...
590 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
591 # string match on username returned by external acl helper
592 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
cccac0a2 593
41bd17a4 594Examples:
595acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
596acl myexample dst_as 1241
597acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
598acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
599acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 600
41bd17a4 601NOCOMMENT_START
602#Recommended minimum configuration:
603acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
604acl manager proto cache_object
605acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
606acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
607acl SSL_ports port 443
608acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
609acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
610acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
611acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
612acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
613acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
614acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
615acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
616acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
617acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
618acl CONNECT method CONNECT
619NOCOMMENT_END
620DOC_END
cccac0a2 621
41bd17a4 622NAME: http_access
623TYPE: acl_access
624LOC: Config.accessList.http
625DEFAULT: none
626DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
627DOC_START
628 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 629
41bd17a4 630 Access to the HTTP port:
631 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 632
41bd17a4 633 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 634
41bd17a4 635 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
636 the request.
cccac0a2 637
41bd17a4 638 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
639 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
640 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
641 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
642 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
643 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 644
41bd17a4 645NOCOMMENT_START
646#Recommended minimum configuration:
647#
648# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
649http_access allow manager localhost
650http_access deny manager
651# Deny requests to unknown ports
652http_access deny !Safe_ports
653# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
654http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
655#
656# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
657# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
658# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
659#http_access deny to_localhost
660#
661# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
c8f4eac4 662
41bd17a4 663# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt
664# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should
665# be allowed
666#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
667#http_access allow our_networks
7d90757b 668
41bd17a4 669# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
670http_access deny all
671NOCOMMENT_END
672DOC_END
7d90757b 673
41bd17a4 674NAME: http_reply_access
675TYPE: acl_access
676LOC: Config.accessList.reply
677DEFAULT: none
678DOC_START
679 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 680
41bd17a4 681 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 682
41bd17a4 683 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
684 all replies
1a224843 685
41bd17a4 686 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
687 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
688 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
cccac0a2 689DOC_END
690
41bd17a4 691NAME: icp_access
692TYPE: acl_access
693LOC: Config.accessList.icp
694DEFAULT: none
695DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 696DOC_START
41bd17a4 697 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
698 access lists
5473c134 699
41bd17a4 700 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 701
41bd17a4 702 See http_access for details
703
704NOCOMMENT_START
705#Allow ICP queries from everyone
706icp_access allow all
707NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 708DOC_END
709
41bd17a4 710NAME: htcp_access
711IFDEF: USE_HTCP
712TYPE: acl_access
713LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
714DEFAULT: none
715DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 716DOC_START
41bd17a4 717 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
718 access lists
5473c134 719
41bd17a4 720 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 721
41bd17a4 722 See http_access for details
5473c134 723
41bd17a4 724#Allow HTCP queries from everyone
725htcp_access allow all
726DOC_END
5473c134 727
41bd17a4 728NAME: htcp_clr_access
729IFDEF: USE_HTCP
730TYPE: acl_access
731LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
732DEFAULT: none
733DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
734DOC_START
735 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
736 on defined access lists
5473c134 737
41bd17a4 738 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 739
41bd17a4 740 See http_access for details
5473c134 741
41bd17a4 742#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
743acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
744htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 745DOC_END
746
41bd17a4 747NAME: miss_access
748TYPE: acl_access
749LOC: Config.accessList.miss
750DEFAULT: none
5473c134 751DOC_START
41bd17a4 752 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
753 a parent. For example:
5473c134 754
41bd17a4 755 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
756 miss_access allow localclients
757 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 758
41bd17a4 759 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
760 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 761
41bd17a4 762 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
763 to fetch MISSES from us.
5473c134 764
41bd17a4 765NOCOMMENT_START
766#Default setting:
767# miss_access allow all
768NOCOMMENT_END
769DOC_END
770
771NAME: ident_lookup_access
772TYPE: acl_access
773IFDEF: USE_IDENT
774DEFAULT: none
775DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
776LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
5473c134 777DOC_START
41bd17a4 778 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
779 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
780 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
781 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
782 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
783 any requests.
5473c134 784
41bd17a4 785 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
786 can follow this example:
5473c134 787
41bd17a4 788 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
789 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
790 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 791
41bd17a4 792 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
793 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
794 the correct result.
795DOC_END
5473c134 796
5b0f5383 797NAME: reply_body_max_size
798COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
799TYPE: acl_b_size_t
800DEFAULT: none
801LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
802DOC_START
803 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
804 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
805 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
806 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
807 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
808 for this reply.
809
810 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
811 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
812 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
813 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
814 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
815 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
816 and they will receive a partial reply.
817
818 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
819 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
820 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
821 use this option if you have downstream caches.
822
823 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
824 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
825 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
826 the size of your largest error page.
827
828 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
829 no limit imposed.
830DOC_END
831
832COMMENT_START
833 NETWORK OPTIONS
834 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
835COMMENT_END
836
837NAME: http_port ascii_port
838TYPE: http_port_list
839DEFAULT: none
840LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
841DOC_START
842 Usage: port [options]
843 hostname:port [options]
844 1.2.3.4:port [options]
845
846 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
847 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
848 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
849 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
850 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
851 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
852 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
853 address, so you can use the port number alone.
854
855 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
856 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
857
858 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
859 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
860 be plain proxy ports with no options.
861
862 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
863
864 Options:
865
866 transparent Support for transparent interception of
867 outgoing requests without browser settings.
868
869 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
870 connections using the client IP address.
871
872 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
873 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
874
875 defaultsite=domainname
876 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
877 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
878 accelerators should consider the default.
879 Implies accel.
880
881 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
882 domain support. Implies accel.
883
884 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
885 Implies accel.
886
887 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
888 than the http_port number. Implies accel.
889
890 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
891 Defaults to http.
892
893 disable-pmtu-discovery=
894 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
895 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
896 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
897 support is enabled.
898 always disable always PMTU discovery.
899
900 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
901 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
902 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
903 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
904 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
905 have such setup and experience that certain clients
906 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
907 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
908
909 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
910 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
911 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
912 visible on the internal address.
913
914NOCOMMENT_START
915# Squid normally listens to port 3128
916http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
917NOCOMMENT_END
918DOC_END
919
920NAME: https_port
921IFDEF: USE_SSL
922TYPE: https_port_list
923DEFAULT: none
924LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
925DOC_START
926 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
927
928 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
929 requests.
930
931 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
932 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
933 accelerator level.
934
935 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
936 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
937
938 Options:
939
940 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
941 defaultsite or vhost.
942
943 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
944 this port. Implies accel.
945
946 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
947 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
948 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
949 Implies accel.
950
951 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
952 Defaults to https.
953
954 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
955
956 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
957 if not specified, the certificate file is
958 assumed to be a combined certificate and
959 key file.
960
961 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
962 1 automatic (default)
963 2 SSLv2 only
964 3 SSLv3 only
965 4 TLSv1 only
966
967 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
968
969 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
970 being:
971 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
972 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
973 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
974 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
975 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
976 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
977 documentation for a complete list of options.
978
979 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
980 requesting a client certificate.
981
982 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
983 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
984 clientca will be used.
985
986 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
987 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
988
989 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
990 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
991 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
992
993 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
994 DH key exchanges.
995
996 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
997 DELAYED_AUTH
998 Don't request client certificates
999 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1000 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1001 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1002 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1003 to OpenSSL.
1004 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1005 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1006 will result in a new SSL session.
1007 VERIFY_CRL
1008 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1009 certificates.
1010 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1011 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1012 client certificate chain.
1013
1014 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1015
1016 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1017
1018 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1019 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1020
1021DOC_END
1022
41bd17a4 1023NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1024TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1025DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1026LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1027DOC_START
41bd17a4 1028 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1029 connections with, based on the username or source address
1030 making the request.
5473c134 1031
41bd17a4 1032 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1033
41bd17a4 1034 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1035 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1036
41bd17a4 1037 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1038 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
1039 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net 0x00
1040 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1041
41bd17a4 1042 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1043 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474 and
1044 RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1045
41bd17a4 1046 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1047 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1048 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1049 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1050
41bd17a4 1051 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1052 matching line.
cccac0a2 1053
41bd17a4 1054 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1055 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1056 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1057 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1058DOC_END
1059
41bd17a4 1060NAME: clientside_tos
1061TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1062DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1063LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1064DOC_START
41bd17a4 1065 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1066 connections with, based on the username or source address
1067 making the request.
1068DOC_END
cccac0a2 1069
41bd17a4 1070NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1071TYPE: acl_address
1072DEFAULT: none
1073LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1074DOC_START
1075 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1076 based on the username or source address of the user making
1077 the request.
7f7db318 1078
41bd17a4 1079 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1080
41bd17a4 1081 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1082 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1083 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1084 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1085
41bd17a4 1086 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1087 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
1088 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net
1089 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net
1090 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3
9197cd13 1091
41bd17a4 1092 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1093 matching line.
cccac0a2 1094
41bd17a4 1095 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1096 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1097 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1098 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1099DOC_END
1100
41bd17a4 1101COMMENT_START
1102 SSL OPTIONS
1103 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1104COMMENT_END
1105
1106NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1107IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1108TYPE: onoff
1109DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1110LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1111DOC_START
41bd17a4 1112 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1113 messages.
cccac0a2 1114DOC_END
1115
41bd17a4 1116NAME: ssl_engine
1117IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1118TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1119LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1120DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1121DOC_START
41bd17a4 1122 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1123 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1124DOC_END
1125
41bd17a4 1126NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1127IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1128DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1129LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1130TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1131DOC_START
41bd17a4 1132 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1133DOC_END
1134
41bd17a4 1135NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1136IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1137DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1138LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1139TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1140DOC_START
41bd17a4 1141 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1142DOC_END
1143
41bd17a4 1144NAME: sslproxy_version
1145IFDEF: USE_SSL
1146DEFAULT: 1
1147LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1148TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1149DOC_START
41bd17a4 1150 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1151DOC_END
1152
41bd17a4 1153NAME: sslproxy_options
1154IFDEF: USE_SSL
1155DEFAULT: none
1156LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1157TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1158DOC_START
41bd17a4 1159 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1160DOC_END
1161
41bd17a4 1162NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1163IFDEF: USE_SSL
1164DEFAULT: none
1165LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1166TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1167DOC_START
41bd17a4 1168 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1169DOC_END
1170
41bd17a4 1171NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1172IFDEF: USE_SSL
1173DEFAULT: none
1174LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1175TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1176DOC_START
41bd17a4 1177 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1178 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1179DOC_END
0976f8db 1180
41bd17a4 1181NAME: sslproxy_capath
1182IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1183DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1184LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1185TYPE: string
5473c134 1186DOC_START
41bd17a4 1187 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1188 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1189DOC_END
1190
41bd17a4 1191NAME: sslproxy_flags
1192IFDEF: USE_SSL
1193DEFAULT: none
1194LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1195TYPE: string
5473c134 1196DOC_START
41bd17a4 1197 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
1198 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates even if they fail to
1199 verify.
1200 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1201 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1202DOC_END
1203
41bd17a4 1204NAME: sslpassword_program
1205IFDEF: USE_SSL
1206DEFAULT: none
1207LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1208TYPE: string
5473c134 1209DOC_START
41bd17a4 1210 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1211 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1212 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1213 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
5473c134 1214DOC_END
1215
cccac0a2 1216COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1217 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1218 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1219COMMENT_END
1220
41bd17a4 1221NAME: cache_peer
1222TYPE: peer
1223DEFAULT: none
1224LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1225DOC_START
41bd17a4 1226 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
cccac0a2 1227
41bd17a4 1228 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
cccac0a2 1229
41bd17a4 1230 For example,
cccac0a2 1231
41bd17a4 1232 # proxy icp
1233 # hostname type port port options
1234 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
1235 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 proxy-only default
1236 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1237 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
cccac0a2 1238
41bd17a4 1239 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
d5277f40 1240
41bd17a4 1241 proxy-port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
1242 requests.
8d6275c0 1243
41bd17a4 1244 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
1245 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
1246 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
1247 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
1248 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
1249 NOTE: Also requires icp_port option enabled to send/receive
1250 requests via this method.
a78278e2 1251
41bd17a4 1252 options: proxy-only
1253 weight=n
1254 basetime=n
1255 ttl=n
1256 no-query
1257 background-ping
1258 default
1259 round-robin
1260 weighted-round-robin
1261 carp
1262 multicast-responder
1263 closest-only
1264 no-digest
1265 no-netdb-exchange
1266 no-delay
1267 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
1268 connect-timeout=nn
1269 digest-url=url
1270 allow-miss
1271 max-conn=n
1272 htcp
1273 htcp-oldsquid
1274 originserver
1275 name=xxx
1276 forceddomain=name
1277 ssl
1278 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1279 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
1280 sslversion=1|2|3|4
1281 sslcipher=...
1282 ssloptions=...
1283 front-end-https[=on|auto]
cccac0a2 1284
41bd17a4 1285 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
1286 from this cache should not be saved locally.
cccac0a2 1287
41bd17a4 1288 use 'weight=n' to affect the selection of a peer
1289 during any weighted peer-selection mechanisms.
1290 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1291 larger weights are favored more.
1292 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1293 protocol is not in use.
cccac0a2 1294
41bd17a4 1295 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
1296 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
1297 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1298 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1299 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 1300
41bd17a4 1301 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
1302 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
1303 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1304 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1305 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1306 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
5473c134 1307
41bd17a4 1308 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
1309 neighbor.
5473c134 1310
41bd17a4 1311 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
1312 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
1313 round trip time updated and is usually used in
1314 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
cccac0a2 1315
41bd17a4 1316 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
1317 be used as a "last-resort" if a peer cannot be located
1318 by any of the peer-selection mechanisms.
1319 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
cccac0a2 1320
41bd17a4 1321 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
1322 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
1323 absence of any ICP queries.
cccac0a2 1324
41bd17a4 1325 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
1326 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
1327 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
1328 time. Closer parents are used more often.
1329 Usually used for background-ping parents.
cccac0a2 1330
41bd17a4 1331 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
1332 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
1333 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
1334 balancing hash function based on their weigth.
cccac0a2 1335
41bd17a4 1336 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
1337 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
1338 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
1339 will be accepted from it.
cccac0a2 1340
41bd17a4 1341 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
1342 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
1343 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
cccac0a2 1344
41bd17a4 1345 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
1346 this neighbor.
cccac0a2 1347
41bd17a4 1348 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
1349 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
cccac0a2 1350
41bd17a4 1351 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
1352 from influencing the delay pools.
7d90757b 1353
41bd17a4 1354 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
1355 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
1356 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
1357 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
7d90757b 1358
41bd17a4 1359 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
1360 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
1361 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
1362 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
1363 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
1364 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
1365 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
1366 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
1367 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
1368 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
7d90757b 1369
41bd17a4 1370 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
1371 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
1372 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
1373 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
1374 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
1375 information which is added to the username. This can
1376 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
1377 the login=username:password option above.
cccac0a2 1378
41bd17a4 1379 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
1380 specific connect timeout (also see the
1381 peer_connect_timeout directive)
7f7db318 1382
41bd17a4 1383 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
1384 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
1385 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
1386 location.
cccac0a2 1387
41bd17a4 1388 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
1389 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
1390 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
1391 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
1392 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
1393 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
1394 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
1395 source is a peer)
cccac0a2 1396
41bd17a4 1397 use 'max-conn=n' to limit the amount of connections Squid
1398 may open to this peer.
cccac0a2 1399
41bd17a4 1400 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
1401 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
1402 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
cccac0a2 1403
41bd17a4 1404 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
cccac0a2 1405
41bd17a4 1406 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
1407 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
cccac0a2 1408
41bd17a4 1409 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
1410 host but different ports. This name can be used to
1411 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
1412 directives.
cccac0a2 1413
41bd17a4 1414 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
1415 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
1416 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
1417 name and using redirectors to feed this domain name
1418 is not feasible.
64658378 1419
41bd17a4 1420 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
1421 be SSL/TLS encrypted.
cccac0a2 1422
41bd17a4 1423 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
1424 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
4c9fa5d5 1425
41bd17a4 1426 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
1427 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
1428 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
1429 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
4c9fa5d5 1430
41bd17a4 1431 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
1432 when connecting to this peer
1433 1 = automatic (default)
1434 2 = SSL v2 only
1435 3 = SSL v3 only
1436 4 = TLS v1 only
cccac0a2 1437
41bd17a4 1438 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL ciphers
1439 to use when connecting to this peer.
cccac0a2 1440
41bd17a4 1441 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
1442 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1443 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1444 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1445 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
1446 a more complete list.
cccac0a2 1447
41bd17a4 1448 use sslcafile=... to specify a file containing
1449 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1450 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1451
41bd17a4 1452 use sslcapath=... to specify a directory containing
1453 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1454 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1455
41bd17a4 1456 use sslcrlfile=... to specify a certificate revocation
1457 list file to use when verifying the peer certificate.
1458
1459 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
1460 SSL implementation:
1461 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
1462 Accept certificates even if they fail to
1463 verify.
1464 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1465 Don't use the default CA list built in
1466 to OpenSSL.
1467 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
1468 Don't verify the peer certificate
1469 matches the server name
cccac0a2 1470
41bd17a4 1471 use ssldomain= to specify the peer name as advertised
1472 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
1473 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
1474 peer hostname will be used.
cccac0a2 1475
41bd17a4 1476 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
1477 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend in front
1478 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
1479 on this header. If set to auto the header will
1480 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
1481 URL.
1482DOC_END
cccac0a2 1483
41bd17a4 1484NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
1485TYPE: hostdomain
1486DEFAULT: none
1487LOC: none
1488DOC_START
1489 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
1490 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 1491
41bd17a4 1492 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
1493 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 1494
41bd17a4 1495 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 1496
41bd17a4 1497 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 1498
41bd17a4 1499 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
1500 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
1501 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
1502 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
1503 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 1504
41bd17a4 1505 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
1506 either on the same or separate lines.
1507 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
1508 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
1509 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
1510 for all requests.
1511 * There are no defaults.
1512 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
1513 section.
1514DOC_END
dd9b1776 1515
41bd17a4 1516NAME: cache_peer_access
1517TYPE: peer_access
1518DEFAULT: none
1519LOC: none
1520DOC_START
1521 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
1522 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 1523
41bd17a4 1524 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 1525
41bd17a4 1526 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
1527 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
1528 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
1529DOC_END
dd9b1776 1530
41bd17a4 1531NAME: neighbor_type_domain
1532TYPE: hostdomaintype
1533DEFAULT: none
1534LOC: none
1535DOC_START
1536 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 1537
41bd17a4 1538 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
1539 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
1540 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
1541 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
1542 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
1543 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 1544
41bd17a4 1545EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 1546 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 1547 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
1548 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
1549DOC_END
6bf4f823 1550
41bd17a4 1551NAME: dead_peer_timeout
1552COMMENT: (seconds)
1553DEFAULT: 10 seconds
1554TYPE: time_t
1555LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
1556DOC_START
1557 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
1558 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
1559 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
1560 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
1561 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
1562 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 1563
41bd17a4 1564 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
1565 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
1566 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
1567 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
1568 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
1569 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
1570 instead of to your parents.
1571DOC_END
cccac0a2 1572
41bd17a4 1573NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
1574TYPE: wordlist
1575DEFAULT: none
1576LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
1577DOC_START
1578 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
1579 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
1580 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
1581 list this option multiple times.
1582 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
cccac0a2 1583NOCOMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1584#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
1585hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 1586NOCOMMENT_END
1587DOC_END
0976f8db 1588
41bd17a4 1589COMMENT_START
1590 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
1591 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1592COMMENT_END
1593
1594NAME: cache_mem
1595COMMENT: (bytes)
1596TYPE: b_size_t
1597DEFAULT: 8 MB
1598LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 1599DOC_START
41bd17a4 1600 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
1601 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
1602 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
1603 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
1604
1605 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
1606 for:
1607 * In-Transit objects
1608 * Hot Objects
1609 * Negative-Cached objects
1610
1611 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
1612 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
1613 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
1614 priority.
1615
1616 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
1617 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
1618 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
1619 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
1620 not needed for in-transit objects.
1621
1622 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
1623 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
1624 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
1625 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
1626 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
1627 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
1628 objects.
6b698a21 1629DOC_END
0976f8db 1630
41bd17a4 1631NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
1632COMMENT: (bytes)
1633TYPE: b_size_t
1634DEFAULT: 8 KB
1635LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 1636DOC_START
41bd17a4 1637 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
1638 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
1639 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
1640 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 1641DOC_END
0976f8db 1642
41bd17a4 1643NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1644TYPE: removalpolicy
1645LOC: Config.memPolicy
1646DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 1647DOC_START
41bd17a4 1648 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1649 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 1650
41bd17a4 1651 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1652DOC_END
6b698a21 1653
41bd17a4 1654COMMENT_START
1655 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
1656 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1657COMMENT_END
6b698a21 1658
41bd17a4 1659NAME: cache_replacement_policy
1660TYPE: removalpolicy
1661LOC: Config.replPolicy
1662DEFAULT: lru
1663DOC_START
1664 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
1665 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 1666
41bd17a4 1667 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
1668 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
1669 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
1670 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 1671
41bd17a4 1672 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 1673
41bd17a4 1674 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 1675
41bd17a4 1676 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
1677 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
1678 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
1679 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 1680
41bd17a4 1681 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
1682 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
1683 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
1684 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 1685
41bd17a4 1686 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
1687 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
1688 replacement policies.
7d90757b 1689
41bd17a4 1690 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1691 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
1692 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 1693
41bd17a4 1694 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
1695 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
1696 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 1697DOC_END
0976f8db 1698
41bd17a4 1699NAME: cache_dir
1700TYPE: cachedir
1701DEFAULT: none
1702DEFAULT_IF_NONE: ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
1703LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 1704DOC_START
41bd17a4 1705 Usage:
0976f8db 1706
41bd17a4 1707 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 1708
41bd17a4 1709 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
1710 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 1711
41bd17a4 1712 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
1713 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
1714 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 1715
41bd17a4 1716 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
1717 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
1718 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
1719 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
1720 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 1721
41bd17a4 1722 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 1723
41bd17a4 1724 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
1725 been there.
0976f8db 1726
41bd17a4 1727 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 1728
41bd17a4 1729 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
1730 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
1731 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
1732 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
1733 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 1734
41bd17a4 1735 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
1736 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 1737
41bd17a4 1738 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
1739 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
1740 is 256.
0976f8db 1741
41bd17a4 1742 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 1743
41bd17a4 1744 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
1745 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1746 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 1747
41bd17a4 1748 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 1749
41bd17a4 1750 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 1751
41bd17a4 1752 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 1753
41bd17a4 1754 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
1755 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1756 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 1757
41bd17a4 1758 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 1759
41bd17a4 1760 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 1761
41bd17a4 1762 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
1763 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
1764 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 1765
41bd17a4 1766 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
1767 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
1768 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 1769
41bd17a4 1770 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
1771 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
1772 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
1773 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
1774 time.
0976f8db 1775
41bd17a4 1776 The coss store type:
0976f8db 1777
41bd17a4 1778 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
1779 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
1780 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
1781 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
1782 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
1783 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
1784 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 1785
41bd17a4 1786 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
1787 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
1788 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 1789
41bd17a4 1790 The null store type:
0976f8db 1791
41bd17a4 1792 no options are allowed or required
0976f8db 1793
41bd17a4 1794 Common options:
0976f8db 1795
41bd17a4 1796 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 1797
41bd17a4 1798 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
1799 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
1800 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
1801 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
1802 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 1803
41bd17a4 1804 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
1805 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
1806 option.
6b698a21 1807DOC_END
0976f8db 1808
41bd17a4 1809NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
1810TYPE: string
1811LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
1812DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 1813DOC_START
41bd17a4 1814 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 1815DOC_END
0976f8db 1816
41bd17a4 1817NAME: max_open_disk_fds
1818TYPE: int
1819LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
1820DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 1821DOC_START
41bd17a4 1822 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
1823 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
1824 descriptors are open.
1825
1826 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 1827DOC_END
0976f8db 1828
41bd17a4 1829NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 1830COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 1831TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 1832DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 1833LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 1834DOC_START
41bd17a4 1835 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
1836 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
1837 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 1838DOC_END
0976f8db 1839
41bd17a4 1840NAME: maximum_object_size
1841COMMENT: (bytes)
1842TYPE: b_int64_t
1843DEFAULT: 4096 KB
1844LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 1845DOC_START
41bd17a4 1846 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
1847 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
1848 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
1849 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
1850 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
1851 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 1852
41bd17a4 1853 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1854 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
1855 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 1856DOC_END
0976f8db 1857
41bd17a4 1858NAME: cache_swap_low
1859COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 1860TYPE: int
41bd17a4 1861DEFAULT: 90
1862LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
1863DOC_NONE
1864
1865NAME: cache_swap_high
1866COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
1867TYPE: int
1868DEFAULT: 95
1869LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 1870DOC_START
41bd17a4 1871
1872 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
1873 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
1874 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
1875 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
1876 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
1877 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
1878
1879 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
1880 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
1881 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 1882DOC_END
0976f8db 1883
5473c134 1884COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1885 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 1886 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1887COMMENT_END
0976f8db 1888
41bd17a4 1889NAME: logformat
1890TYPE: logformat
1891LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 1892DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 1893DOC_START
41bd17a4 1894 Usage:
0976f8db 1895
41bd17a4 1896 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 1897
41bd17a4 1898 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 1899
41bd17a4 1900 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 1901
41bd17a4 1902 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
1903 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
1904 as required according to their context and the output format
1905 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
1906 output format is desired.
6b698a21 1907
41bd17a4 1908 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 1909
41bd17a4 1910 " output in quoted string format
1911 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
1912 # output in URL quoted format
1913 ' output as-is
5473c134 1914
41bd17a4 1915 - left aligned
1916 width field width. If starting with 0 the
1917 output is zero padded
1918 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 1919
41bd17a4 1920 Format codes:
5473c134 1921
41bd17a4 1922 >a Client source IP address
1923 >A Client FQDN
1924 >p Client source port
1925 <A Server IP address or peer name
1926 la Local IP address (http_port)
1927 lp Local port number (http_port)
1928 ts Seconds since epoch
1929 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
1930 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
1931 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
1932 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
1933 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
1934 tr Response time (milliseconds)
1935 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
1936 on the format header[:[separator]element]
1937 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
1938 as for >h
1939 un User name
1940 ul User name from authentication
1941 ui User name from ident
1942 us User name from SSL
1943 ue User name from external acl helper
1944 Hs HTTP status code
1945 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
1946 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
1947 mt MIME content type
1948 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
1949 ru Request URL
1950 rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
1951 rv Request protocol version
1952 et Tag returned by external acl
1953 ea Log string returned by external acl
1954 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
1955 <sH Reply high offset sent
1956 <sS Upstream object size
1957 % a literal % character
5473c134 1958
41bd17a4 1959logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
1960logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
1961logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
1962logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 1963DOC_END
1964
41bd17a4 1965NAME: access_log cache_access_log
1966TYPE: access_log
1967LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
5473c134 1968DEFAULT: none
1969DOC_START
41bd17a4 1970 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
1971 ICP request. The format is:
1972 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
1973 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
5473c134 1974
41bd17a4 1975 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
1976 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
1977 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
1978 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
5473c134 1979
41bd17a4 1980 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
1981 a logformat name should not be specified.
5473c134 1982
41bd17a4 1983 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
5473c134 1984
41bd17a4 1985 access_log syslog[:facility.priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
1986 where facility could be any of:
1987 authpriv, daemon, local0 .. local7 or user.
5473c134 1988
41bd17a4 1989 And priority could be any of:
1990 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
1991NOCOMMENT_START
1992access_log @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
1993NOCOMMENT_END
1994DOC_END
5473c134 1995
5b0f5383 1996NAME: log_access
1997TYPE: acl_access
1998LOC: Config.accessList.log
1999DEFAULT: none
2000COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2001DOC_START
2002 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2003 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2004 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2005DOC_END
2006
41bd17a4 2007NAME: cache_log
2008TYPE: string
2009DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
2010LOC: Config.Log.log
2011DOC_START
2012 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
2013 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
2014 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
2015DOC_END
5473c134 2016
41bd17a4 2017NAME: cache_store_log
2018TYPE: string
2019DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
2020LOC: Config.Log.store
2021DOC_START
2022 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2023 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
2024 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
2025 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
2026 disable it.
5473c134 2027DOC_END
2028
41bd17a4 2029NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2030TYPE: string
2031LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2032DEFAULT: none
2033DOC_START
41bd17a4 2034 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2035 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2036 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2037 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2038 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2039 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2040 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2041
41bd17a4 2042 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2043 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2044 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2045 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2046
41bd17a4 2047 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2048 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2049
41bd17a4 2050 cache_swap_log.00
2051 cache_swap_log.01
2052 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2053
41bd17a4 2054 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2055 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2056 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2057 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2058 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2059 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2060 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2061DOC_END
2062
41bd17a4 2063NAME: logfile_rotate
2064TYPE: int
2065DEFAULT: 10
2066LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2067DOC_START
41bd17a4 2068 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2069 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2070 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2071 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2072 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2073 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2074
41bd17a4 2075 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2076 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2077 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2078 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2079 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2080 <pid>'.
2081DOC_END
5473c134 2082
41bd17a4 2083NAME: emulate_httpd_log
2084COMMENT: on|off
2085TYPE: onoff
2086DEFAULT: off
2087LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
2088DOC_START
2089 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
2090 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
2091 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
2092 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
2093 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 2094DOC_END
2095
41bd17a4 2096NAME: log_ip_on_direct
2097COMMENT: on|off
2098TYPE: onoff
5473c134 2099DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 2100LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 2101DOC_START
41bd17a4 2102 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
2103 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
2104 prefer the old way set this to off.
2105DOC_END
5473c134 2106
41bd17a4 2107NAME: mime_table
2108TYPE: string
2109DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
2110LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
2111DOC_START
2112 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
2113 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
2114 information if you do.
5473c134 2115DOC_END
2116
41bd17a4 2117NAME: log_mime_hdrs
2118COMMENT: on|off
2119TYPE: onoff
2120LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
2121DEFAULT: off
2122DOC_START
2123 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
2124 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
2125 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
2126 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
2127 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
2128DOC_END
5473c134 2129
41bd17a4 2130NAME: useragent_log
2131TYPE: string
2132LOC: Config.Log.useragent
2133DEFAULT: none
2134IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 2135DOC_START
41bd17a4 2136 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
2137 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
2138 is disabled.
5473c134 2139DOC_END
2140
41bd17a4 2141NAME: referer_log referrer_log
2142TYPE: string
2143LOC: Config.Log.referer
2144DEFAULT: none
2145IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 2146DOC_START
41bd17a4 2147 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
2148 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
2149 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
2150 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
2151 and we accept both.
5473c134 2152DOC_END
2153
41bd17a4 2154NAME: pid_filename
2155TYPE: string
2156DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
2157LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 2158DOC_START
41bd17a4 2159 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 2160DOC_END
2161
41bd17a4 2162NAME: debug_options
2163TYPE: debug
2164DEFAULT: ALL,1
2165LOC: Config.debugOptions
5473c134 2166DOC_START
41bd17a4 2167 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
2168 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
2169 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
2170 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
2171 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
2172 "ALL,1".
5473c134 2173DOC_END
2174
41bd17a4 2175NAME: log_fqdn
2176COMMENT: on|off
2177TYPE: onoff
2178DEFAULT: off
2179LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 2180DOC_START
41bd17a4 2181 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
2182 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
2183 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
2184 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
2185 browsing.
5473c134 2186DOC_END
2187
41bd17a4 2188NAME: client_netmask
2189TYPE: address
2190LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
2191DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5473c134 2192DOC_START
41bd17a4 2193 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
2194 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
2195 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
2196 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 2197DOC_END
2198
41bd17a4 2199NAME: forward_log
2200IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
2201TYPE: string
2202DEFAULT: none
2203LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 2204DOC_START
41bd17a4 2205 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 2206
41bd17a4 2207 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 2208DOC_END
2209
41bd17a4 2210NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 2211TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 2212LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 2213DEFAULT: on
2214DOC_START
41bd17a4 2215 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
2216 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 2217DOC_END
2218
41bd17a4 2219NAME: buffered_logs
2220COMMENT: on|off
2221TYPE: onoff
2222DEFAULT: off
2223LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 2224DOC_START
41bd17a4 2225 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2226 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2227 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2228 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2229 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 2230DOC_END
0976f8db 2231
41bd17a4 2232COMMENT_START
2233 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
2234 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2235COMMENT_END
2236
2237NAME: ftp_user
2238TYPE: string
2239DEFAULT: Squid@
2240LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 2241DOC_START
41bd17a4 2242 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
2243 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
2244 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 2245
41bd17a4 2246 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
2247 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
2248 depending on how the cache is used.
2249 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
2250 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 2251DOC_END
0976f8db 2252
41bd17a4 2253NAME: ftp_list_width
2254TYPE: size_t
2255DEFAULT: 32
2256LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
6b698a21 2257DOC_START
41bd17a4 2258 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
2259 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
2260 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
6b698a21 2261DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2262
41bd17a4 2263NAME: ftp_passive
2264TYPE: onoff
2265DEFAULT: on
2266LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 2267DOC_START
41bd17a4 2268 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
2269 connections, turn off this option.
2270DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2271
41bd17a4 2272NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
2273TYPE: onoff
2274DEFAULT: on
2275LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
2276DOC_START
2277 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
2278 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
2279 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
2280 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
2281 connection turn this off.
2282DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2283
41bd17a4 2284NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
2285TYPE: onoff
2286DEFAULT: on
2287LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
2288DOC_START
2289 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
2290 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
2291 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
2292 the FTP protocol.
2293
2294 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
2295 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
2296 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
2297 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
2298 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
2299DOC_END
2300
2301COMMENT_START
2302 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2303 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2304COMMENT_END
2305
2306NAME: diskd_program
2307TYPE: string
2308DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
2309LOC: Config.Program.diskd
2310DOC_START
2311 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
2312 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
2313 diskd as one of the store io modules.
2314DOC_END
2315
2316NAME: unlinkd_program
2317IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
2318TYPE: string
2319DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
2320LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
2321DOC_START
2322 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
2323DOC_END
2324
2325NAME: pinger_program
2326TYPE: string
2327DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
2328LOC: Config.Program.pinger
2329IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2330DOC_START
2331 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
2332DOC_END
2333
2334COMMENT_START
2335 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
2336 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2337COMMENT_END
2338
2339NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
2340TYPE: wordlist
2341LOC: Config.Program.redirect
2342DEFAULT: none
2343DOC_START
2344 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
2345 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
2346
2347 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
2348
2349 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method <NL>
2350
2351 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
2352 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
2353
2354 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
2355 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2356 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
2357
2358 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
2359DOC_END
2360
2361NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
2362TYPE: int
2363DEFAULT: 5
2364LOC: Config.redirectChildren
2365DOC_START
2366 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
2367 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
2368 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
2369 and other system resources.
2370DOC_END
2371
2372NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
2373TYPE: int
2374DEFAULT: 0
2375LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
2376DOC_START
2377 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
2378 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
2379 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2380DOC_END
2381
2382NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
2383TYPE: onoff
2384DEFAULT: on
2385LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
2386DOC_START
2387 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
2388 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
2389 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
2390
2391 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
2392 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
2393DOC_END
2394
2395NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
2396TYPE: acl_access
2397DEFAULT: none
2398LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
2399DOC_START
2400 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
2401 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
2402 are sent.
2403DOC_END
2404
2405NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
2406TYPE: onoff
2407LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
2408DEFAULT: off
2409DOC_START
2410 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
2411 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
2412 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
2413 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
2414 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
2415 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
2416 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
2417 users may have access to pages they should not
2418 be allowed to request.
2419DOC_END
2420
2421COMMENT_START
2422 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2423 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2424COMMENT_END
2425
f04b37d8 2426NAME: cache no_cache
2427TYPE: acl_access
2428DEFAULT: none
2429LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 2430DOC_START
f04b37d8 2431 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause the request to
2432 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
2433 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 2434
f04b37d8 2435 You must use the word 'DENY' to indicate the ACL names which should
2436 NOT be cached.
2437
2438 Default is to allow all to be cached
2439NOCOMMENT_START
2440#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
2441acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
2442cache deny QUERY
2443NOCOMMENT_END
41bd17a4 2444DOC_END
2445
2446NAME: refresh_pattern
2447TYPE: refreshpattern
2448LOC: Config.Refresh
2449DEFAULT: none
2450DOC_START
2451 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 2452
6b698a21 2453 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2454 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2455
41bd17a4 2456 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2457 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2458 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2459 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2460 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 2461
41bd17a4 2462 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2463 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2464 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 2465
41bd17a4 2466 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2467 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 2468
41bd17a4 2469 options: override-expire
2470 override-lastmod
2471 reload-into-ims
2472 ignore-reload
2473 ignore-no-cache
2474 ignore-no-store
2475 ignore-private
2476 ignore-auth
2477 refresh-ims
a0ec9f68 2478
41bd17a4 2479 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
2480 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
2481 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
2482 for problems which it causes.
6468fe10 2483
41bd17a4 2484 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
2485 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 2486
41bd17a4 2487 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2488 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2489 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2490 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 2491
41bd17a4 2492 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2493 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2494 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2495 it causes.
9bc73deb 2496
41bd17a4 2497 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2498 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2499 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2500 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2501 send it anyway.
2502
2503 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2504 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2505 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2506 liable for problems which it causes.
2507
2508 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2509 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2510 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2511 liable for problems which it causes.
2512
2513 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2514 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
2515 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
2516 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
2517 it causes.
2518
2519 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2520 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2521 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2522 if one is available.
2523
2524 Basically a cached object is:
2525
2526 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2527 STALE if age > max
2528 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2529 FRESH if age < min
2530 else STALE
2531
2532 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2533 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
2534 match the default will be used.
2535
2536 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2537 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2538 used.
2539
2540Suggested default:
2541NOCOMMENT_START
2542refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2543refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
2544refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2545NOCOMMENT_END
2546DOC_END
2547
2548NAME: quick_abort_min
2549COMMENT: (KB)
2550TYPE: kb_int64_t
2551DEFAULT: 16 KB
2552LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2553DOC_NONE
2554
2555NAME: quick_abort_max
2556COMMENT: (KB)
2557TYPE: kb_int64_t
2558DEFAULT: 16 KB
2559LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2560DOC_NONE
2561
2562NAME: quick_abort_pct
2563COMMENT: (percent)
2564TYPE: int
2565DEFAULT: 95
2566LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2567DOC_START
2568 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2569 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2570 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2571 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2572 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2573 downloads.
2574
2575 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2576 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2577 then.
2578
2579 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2580 it will finish the retrieval.
2581
2582 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2583 it will abort the retrieval.
2584
2585 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2586 it will finish the retrieval.
2587
2588 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2589 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2590 to '0 KB'.
2591
2592 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
2593 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
2594DOC_END
60d096f4 2595
41bd17a4 2596NAME: read_ahead_gap
2597COMMENT: buffer-size
2598TYPE: b_int64_t
2599LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2600DEFAULT: 16 KB
2601DOC_START
2602 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2603 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2604DOC_END
53e738c6 2605
41bd17a4 2606NAME: negative_ttl
2607COMMENT: time-units
2608TYPE: time_t
2609LOC: Config.negativeTtl
2610DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2611DOC_START
2612 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
2613 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
2614 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
2615 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
2616 negative caching of DNS lookups.
2617DOC_END
53e738c6 2618
41bd17a4 2619NAME: positive_dns_ttl
2620COMMENT: time-units
2621TYPE: time_t
2622LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
2623DEFAULT: 6 hours
2624DOC_START
2625 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
2626 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
2627 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
2628DOC_END
c4ab8329 2629
41bd17a4 2630NAME: negative_dns_ttl
2631COMMENT: time-units
2632TYPE: time_t
2633LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
2634DEFAULT: 1 minutes
2635DOC_START
2636 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
2637 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
2638 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
2639 much below 10 seconds.
2640DOC_END
7df0bfd7 2641
41bd17a4 2642NAME: range_offset_limit
2643COMMENT: (bytes)
2644TYPE: b_int64_t
2645LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
2646DEFAULT: 0 KB
2647DOC_START
2648 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
2649 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
2650 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
2651 is NOT cached.
c4ab8329 2652
41bd17a4 2653 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
2654 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
2655 sending anything to the client.
a7ad6e4e 2656
41bd17a4 2657 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
2658 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
a7ad6e4e 2659
41bd17a4 2660 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
2661 client requested. (default)
2662DOC_END
d95b862f 2663
41bd17a4 2664NAME: minimum_expiry_time
2665COMMENT: (seconds)
2666TYPE: time_t
2667LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
2668DEFAULT: 60 seconds
2669DOC_START
2670 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
2671 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
2672 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy enorinments it
2673 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
2674 is most likely better to make your server return a
2675 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
2676 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
2677 often be best set to 0.
2678DOC_END
c68e9c6b 2679
41bd17a4 2680NAME: store_avg_object_size
2681COMMENT: (kbytes)
2682TYPE: kb_size_t
2683DEFAULT: 13 KB
2684LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
2685DOC_START
2686 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
2687 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 2688DOC_END
2689
41bd17a4 2690NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
2691TYPE: int
2692DEFAULT: 20
2693LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
2694DOC_START
2695 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
2696 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
2697 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
2698DOC_END
2699
2700COMMENT_START
2701 HTTP OPTIONS
2702 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2703COMMENT_END
2704
f04b37d8 2705NAME: request_header_max_size
2706COMMENT: (KB)
2707TYPE: b_size_t
2708DEFAULT: 20 KB
2709LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
2710DOC_START
2711 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
2712 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2713 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
2714 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2715 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2716DOC_END
2717
2718NAME: reply_header_max_size
2719COMMENT: (KB)
2720TYPE: b_size_t
2721DEFAULT: 20 KB
2722LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
2723DOC_START
2724 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
2725 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2726 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
2727 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2728 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2729DOC_END
2730
2731NAME: request_body_max_size
2732COMMENT: (bytes)
2733TYPE: b_int64_t
2734DEFAULT: 0 KB
2735LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
2736DOC_START
2737 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
2738 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
2739 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
2740 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
2741 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
2742 be no limit imposed.
2743DOC_END
2744
41bd17a4 2745NAME: broken_posts
cccac0a2 2746TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 2747DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2748LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 2749DOC_START
41bd17a4 2750 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
2751 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 2752
41bd17a4 2753 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
2754 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 2755
41bd17a4 2756 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 2757
41bd17a4 2758 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
2759 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
2760 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
2761 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 2762
41bd17a4 2763Example:
2764 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
2765 broken_posts allow buggy_server
2766DOC_END
cccac0a2 2767
41bd17a4 2768NAME: via
2769IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
2770COMMENT: on|off
2771TYPE: onoff
2772DEFAULT: on
2773LOC: Config.onoff.via
2774DOC_START
2775 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
2776 replies as required by RFC2616.
2777DOC_END
4cc6eb12 2778
41bd17a4 2779NAME: ie_refresh
2780COMMENT: on|off
2781TYPE: onoff
2782LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
2783DEFAULT: off
2784DOC_START
2785 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
2786 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
2787 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
2788 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
2789 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
2790 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
2791 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
2792 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
2793 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
2794 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
2795 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
2796 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
2797 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
2798 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
2799 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
2800 force fresh content.
2801DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 2802
41bd17a4 2803NAME: vary_ignore_expire
2804COMMENT: on|off
2805TYPE: onoff
2806LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
2807DEFAULT: off
2808DOC_START
2809 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
2810 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
2811 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
2812 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
2813 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
2814 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
2815 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 2816DOC_END
c4ab8329 2817
41bd17a4 2818NAME: extension_methods
2819TYPE: wordlist
2820LOC: Config.ext_methods
cccac0a2 2821DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2822DOC_START
41bd17a4 2823 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
2824 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
2825DOC_END
0976f8db 2826
41bd17a4 2827NAME: request_entities
2828TYPE: onoff
2829LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
2830DEFAULT: off
2831DOC_START
2832 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
2833 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
2834 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 2835
41bd17a4 2836 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
2837 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
2838 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
2839 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
2840 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 2841DOC_END
6b53c392 2842
41bd17a4 2843NAME: request_header_access
2844IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
2845TYPE: http_header_access[]
2846LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 2847DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2848DOC_START
41bd17a4 2849 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 2850
41bd17a4 2851 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2852 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
2853 causes.
0976f8db 2854
41bd17a4 2855 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
2856 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
2857 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
2858 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
2859 mangling.
934b03fc 2860
41bd17a4 2861 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
2862 client to the server.
5401aa8d 2863
41bd17a4 2864 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
2865 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
2866 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 2867
41bd17a4 2868 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
2869 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 2870
41bd17a4 2871 request_header_access From deny all
2872 request_header_access Referer deny all
2873 request_header_access Server deny all
2874 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
2875 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
2876 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 2877
41bd17a4 2878 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
2879 you should use:
5401aa8d 2880
41bd17a4 2881 request_header_access Allow allow all
2882 request_header_access Authorization allow all
2883 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
2884 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
2885 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
2886 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
2887 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
2888 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
2889 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
2890 request_header_access Date allow all
2891 request_header_access Expires allow all
2892 request_header_access Host allow all
2893 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
2894 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
2895 request_header_access Location allow all
2896 request_header_access Pragma allow all
2897 request_header_access Accept allow all
2898 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
2899 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
2900 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
2901 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
2902 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
2903 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
2904 request_header_access Title allow all
2905 request_header_access Connection allow all
2906 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
2907 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 2908
41bd17a4 2909 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
2910 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 2911
41bd17a4 2912 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
2913 performed).
5401aa8d 2914DOC_END
2915
41bd17a4 2916NAME: reply_header_access
2917IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
2918TYPE: http_header_access[]
2919LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 2920DEFAULT: none
2921DOC_START
41bd17a4 2922 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 2923
41bd17a4 2924 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2925 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
2926 causes.
934b03fc 2927
41bd17a4 2928 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
2929 server to the client.
934b03fc 2930
41bd17a4 2931 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
2932 direction.
6b53c392 2933
41bd17a4 2934 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
2935 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
2936 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
2937 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
2938 mangling.
cccac0a2 2939
41bd17a4 2940 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
2941 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
2942 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 2943
41bd17a4 2944 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
2945 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 2946
41bd17a4 2947 reply_header_access From deny all
2948 reply_header_access Referer deny all
2949 reply_header_access Server deny all
2950 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
2951 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
2952 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 2953
41bd17a4 2954 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
2955 you should use:
cccac0a2 2956
41bd17a4 2957 reply_header_access Allow allow all
2958 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
2959 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
2960 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
2961 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
2962 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
2963 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
2964 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
2965 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
2966 reply_header_access Date allow all
2967 reply_header_access Expires allow all
2968 reply_header_access Host allow all
2969 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
2970 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
2971 reply_header_access Location allow all
2972 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
2973 reply_header_access Accept allow all
2974 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
2975 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
2976 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
2977 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
2978 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
2979 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
2980 reply_header_access Title allow all
2981 reply_header_access Connection allow all
2982 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
2983 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 2984
41bd17a4 2985 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
2986 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 2987
41bd17a4 2988 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
2989 performed).
cccac0a2 2990DOC_END
2991
41bd17a4 2992NAME: header_replace
2993IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
2994TYPE: http_header_replace[]
2995LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 2996DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2997DOC_START
2998 Usage: header_replace header_name message
2999 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 3000
41bd17a4 3001 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3002 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3003 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3004 option.
cccac0a2 3005
41bd17a4 3006 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 3007
41bd17a4 3008 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3009DOC_END
cccac0a2 3010
41bd17a4 3011NAME: relaxed_header_parser
3012COMMENT: on|off|warn
3013TYPE: tristate
3014LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
3015DEFAULT: on
3016DOC_START
3017 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
3018 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
3019 what the sending application intended even if the message
3020 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
3021 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 3022
41bd17a4 3023 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
3024 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 3025
41bd17a4 3026 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
3027 or response to be rejected.
3028DOC_END
7d90757b 3029
41bd17a4 3030COMMENT_START
3031 TIMEOUTS
3032 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3033COMMENT_END
3034
3035NAME: forward_timeout
3036COMMENT: time-units
3037TYPE: time_t
3038LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
3039DEFAULT: 4 minutes
3040DOC_START
3041 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
3042 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 3043DOC_END
3044
41bd17a4 3045NAME: connect_timeout
3046COMMENT: time-units
3047TYPE: time_t
3048LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
3049DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 3050DOC_START
41bd17a4 3051 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
3052 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
3053 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 3054DOC_END
3055
41bd17a4 3056NAME: peer_connect_timeout
3057COMMENT: time-units
3058TYPE: time_t
3059LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
3060DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3061DOC_START
41bd17a4 3062 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
3063 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
3064 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
3065 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
3066DOC_END
7f7db318 3067
41bd17a4 3068NAME: read_timeout
3069COMMENT: time-units
3070TYPE: time_t
3071LOC: Config.Timeout.read
3072DEFAULT: 15 minutes
3073DOC_START
3074 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
3075 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
3076 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
3077 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
3078 default is 15 minutes.
3079DOC_END
cccac0a2 3080
41bd17a4 3081NAME: request_timeout
3082TYPE: time_t
3083LOC: Config.Timeout.request
3084DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3085DOC_START
3086 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
3087 connection establishment.
3088DOC_END
cccac0a2 3089
41bd17a4 3090NAME: persistent_request_timeout
3091TYPE: time_t
3092LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
3093DEFAULT: 2 minutes
3094DOC_START
3095 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
3096 connection after the previous request completes.
3097DOC_END
cccac0a2 3098
41bd17a4 3099NAME: client_lifetime
3100COMMENT: time-units
3101TYPE: time_t
3102LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
3103DEFAULT: 1 day
3104DOC_START
3105 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
3106 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
3107 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
3108 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
3109 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
3110 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
3111 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 3112
41bd17a4 3113 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
3114 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
3115 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
3116 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
3117 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
3118 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 3119DOC_END
3120
41bd17a4 3121NAME: half_closed_clients
3122TYPE: onoff
3123LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
3124DEFAULT: on
4eb368f9 3125DOC_START
41bd17a4 3126 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
3127 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
3128 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
3129 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
3130 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
3131 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
3132 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
3133 "no more data to read."
4eb368f9 3134DOC_END
3135
41bd17a4 3136NAME: pconn_timeout
3137TYPE: time_t
3138LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
3139DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 3140DOC_START
41bd17a4 3141 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
3142 proxies.
3143DOC_END
cccac0a2 3144
41bd17a4 3145NAME: ident_timeout
3146TYPE: time_t
3147IFDEF: USE_IDENT
3148LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
3149DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3150DOC_START
3151 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 3152
41bd17a4 3153 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
3154 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
3155 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 3156DOC_END
3157
41bd17a4 3158NAME: shutdown_lifetime
3159COMMENT: time-units
3160TYPE: time_t
3161LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
3162DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3163DOC_START
41bd17a4 3164 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
3165 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
3166 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
3167 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
3168 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 3169DOC_END
0976f8db 3170
cccac0a2 3171COMMENT_START
3172 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3173 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3174COMMENT_END
3175
3176NAME: cache_mgr
3177TYPE: string
3178DEFAULT: webmaster
3179LOC: Config.adminEmail
3180DOC_START
3181 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3182 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3183DOC_END
3184
abacf776 3185NAME: mail_from
3186TYPE: string
3187DEFAULT: none
3188LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3189DOC_START
3190 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3191 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3192 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3193 src/globals.h before building squid.
3194DOC_END
3195
d084bf20 3196NAME: mail_program
3197TYPE: eol
3198DEFAULT: mail
3199LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3200DOC_START
3201 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
3202 The default is "mail". The specified program must complain
3203 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
3204 mail_program recipient < mailfile
3205 Optional command line options can be specified.
3206DOC_END
3207
cccac0a2 3208NAME: cache_effective_user
3209TYPE: string
5483d916 3210DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 3211LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3212DOC_START
3213 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3214 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 3215 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 3216 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 3217DOC_END
3218
cccac0a2 3219NAME: cache_effective_group
3220TYPE: string
3221DEFAULT: none
3222LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3223DOC_START
64e288bd 3224 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
3225 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
3226 from the groups membership.
3227
e3d74828 3228 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3229 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3230 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 3231 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 3232 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 3233 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 3234 group.
64e288bd 3235
3236 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
3237 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
3238 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 3239DOC_END
3240
d3caee79 3241NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3242COMMENT: on|off
3243TYPE: onoff
3244DEFAULT: off
3245LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3246DOC_START
3247 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3248DOC_END
3249
cccac0a2 3250NAME: visible_hostname
3251TYPE: string
3252LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3253DEFAULT: none
3254DOC_START
3255 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3256 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3257 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3258 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3259 names with this setting.
3260DOC_END
3261
cccac0a2 3262NAME: unique_hostname
3263TYPE: string
3264LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3265DEFAULT: none
3266DOC_START
3267 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3268 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3269 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3270DOC_END
3271
cccac0a2 3272NAME: hostname_aliases
3273TYPE: wordlist
3274LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3275DEFAULT: none
3276DOC_START
7f7db318 3277 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3278DOC_END
0976f8db 3279
cccac0a2 3280COMMENT_START
3281 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3282 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3283
3284 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3285 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3286 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3287 create cache hierarchies.
3288
3289 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3290 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3291 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3292
3293 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3294 following information from this configuration file:
3295
3296 http_port
3297 icp_port
3298 cache_mgr
3299
3300 All current information is processed regularly and made
3301 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3302COMMENT_END
3303
3304NAME: announce_period
3305TYPE: time_t
3306LOC: Config.Announce.period
3307DEFAULT: 0
3308DOC_START
3309 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3310 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3311 messages.
3312
3313 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3314 below.
3315
3316NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3317#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3318#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3319NOCOMMENT_END
3320DOC_END
3321
cccac0a2 3322NAME: announce_host
3323TYPE: string
3324DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3325LOC: Config.Announce.host
3326DOC_NONE
3327
3328NAME: announce_file
3329TYPE: string
3330DEFAULT: none
3331LOC: Config.Announce.file
3332DOC_NONE
3333
3334NAME: announce_port
3335TYPE: ushort
3336DEFAULT: 3131
3337LOC: Config.Announce.port
3338DOC_START
3339 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3340 number where the registration message will be sent.
3341
3342 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3343 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3344 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3345 message.
3346DOC_END
3347
8d6275c0 3348COMMENT_START
3349 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
3350 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3351COMMENT_END
3352
cccac0a2 3353NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
3354IFDEF: ESI
3355TYPE: string
3356LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3357DEFAULT: unset-id
3358DOC_START
3359 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3360 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3361 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3362 an identification token.
3363DOC_END
3364
3365NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
3366IFDEF: ESI
3367COMMENT: on|off
3368TYPE: onoff
3369DEFAULT: off
3370LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3371DOC_START
3372 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3373 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3374DOC_END
3375
3376NAME: esi_parser
3377IFDEF: ESI
964b44c3 3378COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3379TYPE: string
3380LOC: ESIParser::Type
3381DEFAULT: custom
3382DOC_START
3383 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3384 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3385 encodings.
3386DOC_END
0976f8db 3387
9edd9041 3388COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3389 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 3390 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3391COMMENT_END
3392
3393NAME: delay_pools
3394TYPE: delay_pool_count
3395DEFAULT: 0
3396IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3397LOC: Config.Delay
3398DOC_START
3399 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3400 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3401 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3402DOC_END
3403
3404NAME: delay_class
3405TYPE: delay_pool_class
3406DEFAULT: none
3407IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3408LOC: Config.Delay
3409DOC_START
3410 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3411 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3412 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3413 and here would be:
3414
3415Example:
3416 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3417 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3418 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3419 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3420 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3421
3422 The delay pool classes are:
3423
3424 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3425 bucket.
3426
3427 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3428 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3429 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3430
3431 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3432 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3433 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3434 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3435 32 of the IP address.
3436
3437 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
3438 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3439 only takes effect if the username is established
3440 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3441 http_access rules.
3442
3443 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
3444 external_acl's tag= reply).
3445
3446 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3447 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3448 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3449 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3450DOC_END
3451
3452NAME: delay_access
3453TYPE: delay_pool_access
3454DEFAULT: none
3455IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3456LOC: Config.Delay
3457DOC_START
3458 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3459
3460 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
3461 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
3462 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
3463 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
3464
3465 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3466 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3467
3468Example:
3469 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3470 delay_access 1 deny all
3471 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3472 delay_access 2 deny all
3473 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3474DOC_END
3475
3476NAME: delay_parameters
3477TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3478DEFAULT: none
3479IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3480LOC: Config.Delay
3481DOC_START
3482 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3483 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3484 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3485
3486delay_parameters pool aggregate
3487
3488 For a class 2 delay pool:
3489
3490delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3491
3492 For a class 3 delay pool:
3493
3494delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3495
3496 For a class 4 delay pool:
3497
3498delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3499
3500 For a class 5 delay pool:
3501
3502delay_parameters pool tag
3503
3504 The variables here are:
3505
3506 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3507 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3508 delay_class lines.
3509
3510 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3511 (class 1, 2, 3).
3512
3513 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3514 buckets (class 2, 3).
3515
3516 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3517 (class 3).
3518
3519 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
3520 (class 4).
3521
3522 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
3523 (class 5).
3524
3525 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3526 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3527 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3528 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3529
3530 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3531 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3532 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3533
3534delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3535
3536 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3537
3538 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3539 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3540 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3541 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3542 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3543 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3544 large downloads more significantly:
3545
3546delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
3547
3548 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
3549
3550 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
3551 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
3552
3553delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
3554DOC_END
3555
3556NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3557COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3558TYPE: ushort
3559DEFAULT: 50
3560IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3561LOC: Config.Delay.initial
3562DOC_START
3563 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3564 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3565 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3566 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3567 "seen" by squid).
3568DOC_END
3569
cccac0a2 3570COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3571 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 3572 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3573COMMENT_END
3574
8d6275c0 3575NAME: wccp_router
3576TYPE: address
3577LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3578DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3579IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3580DOC_NONE
3581NAME: wccp2_router
3582TYPE: sockaddr_in_list
3583LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 3584DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 3585IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3586DOC_START
8d6275c0 3587 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3588 Squid.
cccac0a2 3589
8d6275c0 3590 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 3591
8d6275c0 3592 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 3593
8d6275c0 3594 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
3595 which version of WCCP to use.
3596DOC_END
3597
3598NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 3599TYPE: int
8d6275c0 3600LOC: Config.Wccp.version
3601DEFAULT: 4
3602IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 3603DOC_START
8d6275c0 3604 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
3605 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
3606 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
3607 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
3608 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 3609
8d6275c0 3610 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
3611 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
3612 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
3613 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 3614DOC_END
3615
8d6275c0 3616NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
3617TYPE: onoff
3618LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
3619DEFAULT: on
3620IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3621DOC_START
3622 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
3623 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
3624DOC_END
cccac0a2 3625
8d6275c0 3626NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
3627TYPE: int
3628LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
3629DEFAULT: 1
3630IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3631DOC_START
699acd19 3632 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 3633 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 3634
8d6275c0 3635 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
3636 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 3637
8d6275c0 3638 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
3639 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 3640DOC_END
3641
8d6275c0 3642NAME: wccp2_return_method
3643TYPE: int
3644LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
3645DEFAULT: 1
3646IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3647DOC_START
699acd19 3648 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 3649 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
3650 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 3651
8d6275c0 3652 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
3653 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 3654
8d6275c0 3655 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
3656 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 3657
699acd19 3658 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 3659 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
3660 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
3661 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 3662DOC_END
3663
8d6275c0 3664NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
3665TYPE: int
3666LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
3667DEFAULT: 1
3668IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3669DOC_START
8d6275c0 3670 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
3671 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 3672
8d6275c0 3673 1 - Hash assignment
3674 2 - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 3675
8d6275c0 3676 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
3677 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
3678DOC_END
cccac0a2 3679
8d6275c0 3680NAME: wccp2_service
3681TYPE: wccp2_service
3682LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
3683DEFAULT: none
3684DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
3685IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3686DOC_START
3687 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
3688 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
3689 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
3690 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
3691 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
3692 using the wccp2_service_info option.
3693
3694 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
3695 just specifying the service id will suffice.
3696
3697 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
3698 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
3699
3700 Examples:
3701
3702 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
3703 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
3704 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
3705 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
3706
3707DOC_END
3708
3709NAME: wccp2_service_info
3710TYPE: wccp2_service_info
3711LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
3712DEFAULT: none
3713IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3714DOC_START
3715 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
3716 traffic you wish to have diverted.
3717
3718 The format is:
3719
3720 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
3721 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
3722
3723 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
3724 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
3725 + source_port_hash, dest_port_hash
3726 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
3727 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
3728 + ports_source
3729
3730 The port list can be one to eight entries.
3731
3732 Example:
3733
3734 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
3735 priority=240 ports=80
3736
3737 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
3738 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
3739DOC_END
3740
3741NAME: wccp2_weight
3742TYPE: int
3743LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
3744DEFAULT: 10000
3745IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3746DOC_START
3747 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
3748 hash proportional to their weight.
3749DOC_END
3750
3751NAME: wccp_address
3752TYPE: address
3753LOC: Config.Wccp.address
3754DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3755IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3756DOC_NONE
3757NAME: wccp2_address
3758TYPE: address
3759LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
3760DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3761IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3762DOC_START
3763 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
3764 interface address.
3765
3766 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
3767DOC_END
3768
3769COMMENT_START
3770 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
3771 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3772
3773 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
3774COMMENT_END
3775
3776NAME: client_persistent_connections
3777TYPE: onoff
3778LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
3779DEFAULT: on
3780DOC_NONE
3781
3782NAME: server_persistent_connections
3783TYPE: onoff
3784LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
3785DEFAULT: on
3786DOC_START
3787 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
3788 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
3789 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
3790 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
3791DOC_END
3792
3793NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
3794TYPE: onoff
3795LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
3796DEFAULT: off
3797DOC_START
3798 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
3799 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
3800 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
3801DOC_END
3802
3803NAME: detect_broken_pconn
3804TYPE: onoff
3805LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
3806DEFAULT: off
3807DOC_START
3808 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
3809 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
3810 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
3811 has mostly been seen on redirects.
3812
3813 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
3814 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
3815 after 10 seconds timeout.
3816DOC_END
3817
3818COMMENT_START
3819 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
3820 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3821COMMENT_END
3822
3823NAME: digest_generation
3824IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3825TYPE: onoff
3826LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
3827DEFAULT: on
3828DOC_START
3829 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
3830 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
3831 enabled if Squid is compiled with USE_CACHE_DIGESTS defined.
3832DOC_END
3833
3834NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
3835IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3836TYPE: int
3837LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
3838DEFAULT: 5
3839DOC_START
3840 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
3841 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
3842 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
3843DOC_END
3844
3845NAME: digest_rebuild_period
3846IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3847COMMENT: (seconds)
3848TYPE: time_t
3849LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
3850DEFAULT: 1 hour
3851DOC_START
3852 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest rebuilds.
3853DOC_END
3854
3855NAME: digest_rewrite_period
3856COMMENT: (seconds)
3857IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3858TYPE: time_t
3859LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
3860DEFAULT: 1 hour
3861DOC_START
3862 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest writes to
3863 disk.
3864DOC_END
3865
3866NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
3867COMMENT: (bytes)
3868TYPE: b_size_t
3869IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3870LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
3871DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
3872DOC_START
3873 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
3874 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
3875 default swap page.
3876DOC_END
3877
3878NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
3879COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3880IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3881TYPE: int
3882LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
3883DEFAULT: 10
3884DOC_START
3885 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
3886 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
3887DOC_END
3888
1db9eacd 3889COMMENT_START
5473c134 3890 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 3891 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3892COMMENT_END
3893
5473c134 3894NAME: snmp_port
3895TYPE: ushort
3896LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 3897DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 3898IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 3899DOC_START
87630341 3900 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
3901 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
3902 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
3903 set to "0" (disabled)
3904NOCOMMENT_START
3905#snmp_port 3401
3906NOCOMMENT_END
8d6275c0 3907DOC_END
3908
5473c134 3909NAME: snmp_access
3910TYPE: acl_access
3911LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 3912DEFAULT: none
5473c134 3913DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
3914IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 3915DOC_START
5473c134 3916 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 3917
5473c134 3918 All access to the agent is denied by default.
3919 usage:
8d6275c0 3920
5473c134 3921 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 3922
5473c134 3923Example:
3924 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
3925 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 3926DOC_END
3927
5473c134 3928NAME: snmp_incoming_address
3929TYPE: address
3930LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
3931DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3932IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3933DOC_NONE
3934NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
3935TYPE: address
3936LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
3937DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
3938IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 3939DOC_START
5473c134 3940 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 3941
5473c134 3942 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
3943 messages from SNMP agents.
3944 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
3945 agents.
cccac0a2 3946
5473c134 3947 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
3948 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 3949
5473c134 3950 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
3951 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
3952 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
3953 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 3954
5473c134 3955 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
3956 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 3957DOC_END
3958
5473c134 3959COMMENT_START
3960 ICP OPTIONS
3961 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3962COMMENT_END
3963
3964NAME: icp_port udp_port
3965TYPE: ushort
3966DEFAULT: 0
3967LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 3968DOC_START
5473c134 3969 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
3970 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
3971 Default is disabled (0).
3972NOCOMMENT_START
3973icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
3974NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 3975DOC_END
3976
5473c134 3977NAME: htcp_port
3978IFDEF: USE_HTCP
3979TYPE: ushort
87630341 3980DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 3981LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 3982DOC_START
5473c134 3983 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 3984 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
3985 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
3986NOCOMMENT_START
3987#htcp_port 4827
3988NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 3989DOC_END
3990
3991NAME: log_icp_queries
3992COMMENT: on|off
3993TYPE: onoff
3994DEFAULT: on
3995LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
3996DOC_START
3997 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
3998 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
3999 up or to simplify log analysis.
4000DOC_END
4001
5473c134 4002NAME: udp_incoming_address
4003TYPE: address
4004LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
4005DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4006DOC_NONE
cccac0a2 4007
5473c134 4008NAME: udp_outgoing_address
4009TYPE: address
4010LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
4011DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
cccac0a2 4012DOC_START
5473c134 4013 udp_incoming_address is used for the ICP socket receiving packets
4014 from other caches.
4015 udp_outgoing_address is used for ICP packets sent out to other
4016 caches.
cccac0a2 4017
5473c134 4018 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4019
5473c134 4020 A udp_incoming_address value of 0.0.0.0 indicates Squid
4021 should listen for UDP messages on all available interfaces.
cccac0a2 4022
5473c134 4023 If udp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
4024 it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address. Only
4025 change this if you want to have ICP queries sent using another
4026 address than where this Squid listens for ICP queries from other
4027 caches.
4028
4029 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
4030 have the same value since they both use port 3130.
cccac0a2 4031DOC_END
4032
3d1e3e43 4033NAME: icp_hit_stale
4034COMMENT: on|off
4035TYPE: onoff
4036DEFAULT: off
4037LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
4038DOC_START
4039 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
4040 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
4041 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
4042 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
4043 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
4044 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
4045 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
4046DOC_END
4047
5473c134 4048NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 4049TYPE: int
5473c134 4050DEFAULT: 4
4051LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 4052DOC_START
5473c134 4053 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4054 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 4055DOC_END
4056
5473c134 4057NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
4058TYPE: int
4059DEFAULT: 400
4060LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 4061DOC_START
5473c134 4062 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4063 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 4064DOC_END
4065
cccac0a2 4066NAME: netdb_low
4067TYPE: int
4068DEFAULT: 900
4069LOC: Config.Netdb.low
4070DOC_NONE
4071
4072NAME: netdb_high
4073TYPE: int
4074DEFAULT: 1000
4075LOC: Config.Netdb.high
4076DOC_START
4077 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
4078 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
4079 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
4080 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
4081DOC_END
4082
cccac0a2 4083NAME: netdb_ping_period
4084TYPE: time_t
4085LOC: Config.Netdb.period
4086DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4087DOC_START
4088 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
4089 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
4090 network. The default is five minutes.
4091DOC_END
4092
cccac0a2 4093NAME: query_icmp
4094COMMENT: on|off
4095TYPE: onoff
4096DEFAULT: off
4097LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
4098DOC_START
4099 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
4100 replies, enable this option.
4101
4102 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 4103 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
4104 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 4105 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
4106 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
4107 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
4108 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
4109 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
4110DOC_END
4111
4112NAME: test_reachability
4113COMMENT: on|off
4114TYPE: onoff
4115DEFAULT: off
4116LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
4117DOC_START
4118 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
4119 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
4120 database, or has a zero RTT.
4121DOC_END
4122
5473c134 4123NAME: icp_query_timeout
4124COMMENT: (msec)
4125DEFAULT: 0
4126TYPE: int
4127LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 4128DOC_START
5473c134 4129 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
4130 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
4131 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
4132 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
4133 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
4134 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 4135
5473c134 4136 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 4137DOC_END
4138
5473c134 4139NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
4140COMMENT: (msec)
4141DEFAULT: 2000
4142TYPE: int
4143LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 4144DOC_START
5473c134 4145 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4146 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
4147 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
4148 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4149 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4150 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4151DOC_END
4152
5473c134 4153NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
4154COMMENT: (msec)
4155DEFAULT: 5
4156TYPE: int
4157LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 4158DOC_START
5473c134 4159 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4160 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
4161 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
4162 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
4163 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4164 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4165 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4166DOC_END
4167
5473c134 4168NAME: background_ping_rate
4169COMMENT: time-units
4170TYPE: time_t
4171DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4172LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 4173DOC_START
5473c134 4174 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
4175 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 4176DOC_END
4177
5473c134 4178COMMENT_START
4179 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
4180 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4181COMMENT_END
4182
4183NAME: mcast_groups
4184TYPE: wordlist
4185LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 4186DEFAULT: none
4187DOC_START
5473c134 4188 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
4189 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 4190
5473c134 4191 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
4192 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
4193 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
4194 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
4195 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
4196 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
4197 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 4198
5473c134 4199 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
4200 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 4201
5473c134 4202 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
4203 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 4204
5473c134 4205 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 4206
5473c134 4207 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
4208DOC_END
8c01ada0 4209
5473c134 4210NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4211IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4212TYPE: address
4213LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4214DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4215DOC_START
4216 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4217 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 4218
5473c134 4219 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4220 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 4221DOC_END
4222
5473c134 4223NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
4224IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4225TYPE: ushort
4226LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4227DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 4228DOC_START
5473c134 4229 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4230 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4231 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4232DOC_END
cccac0a2 4233
5473c134 4234NAME: mcast_miss_port
4235IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4236TYPE: ushort
4237LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4238DEFAULT: 3135
4239DOC_START
4240 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4241 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4242DOC_END
cccac0a2 4243
5473c134 4244NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4245IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4246TYPE: string
4247LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4248DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4249DOC_START
4250 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4251 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4252DOC_END
8c01ada0 4253
5473c134 4254NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
4255COMMENT: (msec)
4256DEFAULT: 2000
4257TYPE: int
4258LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
4259DOC_START
4260 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
4261 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
4262 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
4263 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
4264 seconds.
cccac0a2 4265DOC_END
4266
5473c134 4267COMMENT_START
4268 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
4269 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4270COMMENT_END
4271
cccac0a2 4272NAME: icon_directory
4273TYPE: string
4274LOC: Config.icons.directory
4275DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4276DOC_START
4277 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
4278 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4279DOC_END
4280
f024c970 4281NAME: global_internal_static
4282TYPE: onoff
4283LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
4284DEFAULT: on
4285DOC_START
4286 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
4287 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
4288 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
4289 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
4290 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
4291 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
4292 the server generating a directory listing.
4293DOC_END
4294
5473c134 4295NAME: short_icon_urls
4296TYPE: onoff
4297LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
4298DEFAULT: on
4299DOC_START
4300 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
4301 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
4302 it's own name and port in the URL.
4303
4304 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
4305 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
4306DOC_END
4307
4308COMMENT_START
4309 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
4310 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4311COMMENT_END
4312
4313NAME: error_directory
4314TYPE: string
4315LOC: Config.errorDirectory
4316DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
4317DOC_START
4318 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
4319 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
4320 language or company copy the template English files to another
4321 directory and point this tag at them.
4322
4323 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4324 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
4325 langauge that Squid does not currently provide please consider
4326 contributing your translation back to the project.
4327DOC_END
4328
4329NAME: err_html_text
4330TYPE: eol
4331LOC: Config.errHtmlText
4332DEFAULT: none
4333DOC_START
4334 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
4335 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
4336 organizations Web page.
4337
4338 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
4339 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
4340 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
4341 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
4342DOC_END
4343
4344NAME: email_err_data
4345COMMENT: on|off
4346TYPE: onoff
4347LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
4348DEFAULT: on
4349DOC_START
4350 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
4351 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
4352 so that the email body contains the data.
4353 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
4354DOC_END
4355
4356NAME: deny_info
4357TYPE: denyinfo
4358LOC: Config.denyInfoList
4359DEFAULT: none
4360DOC_START
4361 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
4362 or deny_info http://... acl
4363 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
4364
4365 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
4366 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
4367 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
4368 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
4369
4370 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
4371 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
4372 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
4373 the first authentication related acl encountered
4374 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
4375 acl processed on the last http_access line.
4376
4377 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
4378 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
4379
4380 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
4381 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
4382 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
4383
4384 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
4385 by specifying TCP_RESET.
4386DOC_END
4387
4388COMMENT_START
4389 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
4390 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4391COMMENT_END
4392
4393NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4394TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4395LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4396DEFAULT: on
4397DOC_START
5473c134 4398 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4399 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
4400 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 4401
5473c134 4402 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
4403 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 4404
5473c134 4405 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4406 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4407 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 4408
5473c134 4409 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
4410 this directive.
8d6275c0 4411DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 4412
5473c134 4413NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4414TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4415LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4416DEFAULT: off
4417DOC_START
5473c134 4418 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
4419 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
4420 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 4421
5473c134 4422 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4423 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4424 fails.
4425
4426 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4427 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
4428 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 4429DOC_END
4430
5473c134 4431NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 4432TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 4433LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 4434DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 4435DOC_START
5473c134 4436 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 4437
5473c134 4438 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
4439 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
4440 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
4441 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
4442 something like:
0b0cfcf2 4443
5473c134 4444 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
4445 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 4446
5473c134 4447 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 4448
5473c134 4449 acl FTP proto FTP
4450 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 4451
5473c134 4452 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
4453 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
4454 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
4455 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
4456 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 4457
5473c134 4458 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4459 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4460 always_direct deny local-external
4461 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 4462
5473c134 4463 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
4464 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
4465 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
4466 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 4467
5473c134 4468 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
4469 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
4470 the replies see no_cache.
4471
4472 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
4473 and local_ip.
cccac0a2 4474DOC_END
0976f8db 4475
5473c134 4476NAME: never_direct
4477TYPE: acl_access
4478LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
4479DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4480DOC_START
5473c134 4481 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4482
4483 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
4484 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
4485
4486 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
4487 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
4488 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
4489 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
4490
4491 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4492 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
4493 never_direct deny local-servers
4494 never_direct allow all
4495
4496 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
4497 servers inside the firewall use something like:
4498
4499 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
4500 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4501 always_direct deny local-external
4502 always_direct allow local-intranet
4503 never_direct allow all
4504
4505 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
4506 and firewall_ip.
8d6275c0 4507DOC_END
0976f8db 4508
5473c134 4509COMMENT_START
4510 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
4511 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4512COMMENT_END
4513
cccac0a2 4514NAME: incoming_icp_average
4515TYPE: int
4516DEFAULT: 6
4517LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4518DOC_NONE
4519
4520NAME: incoming_http_average
4521TYPE: int
4522DEFAULT: 4
4523LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
4524DOC_NONE
4525
4526NAME: incoming_dns_average
4527TYPE: int
4528DEFAULT: 4
4529LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
4530DOC_NONE
4531
4532NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
4533TYPE: int
4534DEFAULT: 8
4535LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
4536DOC_NONE
4537
4538NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
4539TYPE: int
4540DEFAULT: 8
4541LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
4542DOC_NONE
4543
4544NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
4545TYPE: int
4546DEFAULT: 8
4547LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
4548DOC_START
5473c134 4549 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
4550 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
4551 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
4552DOC_END
4553
4554NAME: accept_filter
4555IFDEF: SO_ACCEPTFILTER
4556TYPE: string
4557DEFAULT: none
4558LOC: Config.accept_filter
4559DOC_START
4560 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
4561 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
4562 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
4563
4564 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 4565 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
5473c134 4566 See the accf_http(9) man page.
4567
4568EXAMPLE:
4569accept_filter httpready
4570DOC_END
4571
4572NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
4573COMMENT: (bytes)
4574TYPE: b_size_t
4575DEFAULT: 0 bytes
4576LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
4577DOC_START
4578 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
4579 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
4580 the default buffer size.
4581DOC_END
4582
4583COMMENT_START
4584 ICAP OPTIONS
4585 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4586COMMENT_END
4587
4588NAME: icap_enable
4589TYPE: onoff
4590IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4591COMMENT: on|off
4592LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
4593DEFAULT: off
4594DOC_START
53e738c6 4595 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 4596DOC_END
4597
4598NAME: icap_connect_timeout
4599TYPE: time_t
4600DEFAULT: none
4601LOC: TheICAPConfig.connect_timeout_raw
4602IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4603DOC_START
4604 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4605 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
4606 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
4607
4608 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
4609 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
4610 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
4611DOC_END
4612
4613NAME: icap_io_timeout
4614COMMENT: time-units
4615TYPE: time_t
4616DEFAULT: none
4617LOC: TheICAPConfig.io_timeout_raw
4618IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4619DOC_START
4620 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
4621 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
4622 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
4623 failure.
4624
4625 The default is read_timeout.
4626DOC_END
4627
4628NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
4629TYPE: int
4630IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4631LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_failure_limit
4632DEFAULT: 10
4633DOC_START
4634 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
4635 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
4636 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
4637 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
4638 OPTIONS. The per-service failure counter is reset to zero each
4639 time Squid fetches new service OPTIONS.
4640
4641 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
4642 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
4643 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 4644DOC_END
4645
5473c134 4646NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 4647TYPE: int
5473c134 4648IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4649LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_revival_delay
4650DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 4651DOC_START
5473c134 4652 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
4653 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
4654 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
4655 fetched.
cccac0a2 4656
5473c134 4657 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
4658 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 4659DOC_END
4660
5473c134 4661NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 4662TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4663IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4664COMMENT: on|off
4665LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
cccac0a2 4666DEFAULT: off
4667DOC_START
53e738c6 4668 Set this to 'on' if you want to enable the ICAP preview
4669 feature in Squid.
cccac0a2 4670DOC_END
4671
5473c134 4672NAME: icap_preview_size
4673TYPE: int
4674IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4675LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
4676DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 4677DOC_START
53e738c6 4678 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
4679 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
4680 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 4681DOC_END
4682
5473c134 4683NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
4684TYPE: int
4685IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4686LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
4687DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 4688DOC_START
53e738c6 4689 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 4690 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 4691DOC_END
4692
5473c134 4693NAME: icap_persistent_connections
4694TYPE: onoff
4695IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4696COMMENT: on|off
4697LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
4698DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 4699DOC_START
5473c134 4700 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
4701 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 4702DOC_END
4703
5473c134 4704NAME: icap_send_client_ip
4705TYPE: onoff
4706IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4707COMMENT: on|off
4708LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
4709DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 4710DOC_START
53e738c6 4711 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 4712DOC_END
4713
5473c134 4714NAME: icap_send_client_username
4715TYPE: onoff
4716IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4717COMMENT: on|off
4718LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
4719DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 4720DOC_START
5473c134 4721 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
4722 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
4723 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
4724 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 4725DOC_END
4726
5473c134 4727NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 4728TYPE: string
5473c134 4729IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4730LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_header
4731DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 4732DOC_START
5473c134 4733 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 4734DOC_END
4735
5473c134 4736NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 4737TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4738IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4739COMMENT: on|off
4740LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_encode
4741DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 4742DOC_START
5473c134 4743 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 4744DOC_END
4745
5473c134 4746NAME: icap_service
4747TYPE: icap_service_type
4748IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4749LOC: TheICAPConfig
4750DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4751DOC_START
53e738c6 4752 Defines a single ICAP service
cccac0a2 4753
53e738c6 4754 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
7d90757b 4755
53e738c6 4756 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 4757 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
4758 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
4759 are not yet supported.
53e738c6 4760 bypass = 1|0
f3db09e2 4761 If set to 1, the ICAP service is treated as optional. If the
4762 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
4763 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
4764 was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be bypassed.
4765 If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as essential and all
4766 ICAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
4767 HTTP client.
53e738c6 4768 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5473c134 4769
5473c134 4770Example:
4771icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
4772icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 4773DOC_END
4774
5473c134 4775NAME: icap_class
4776TYPE: icap_class_type
4777IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4778LOC: TheICAPConfig
4779DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4780DOC_START
53e738c6 4781 Defines an ICAP service chain. If there are multiple services per
4782 vectoring point, they are processed in the specified order.
5473c134 4783
53e738c6 4784 icap_class classname servicename...
5473c134 4785
4786Example:
4787icap_class class_1 service_1 service_2
4788icap class class_2 service_1 service_3
cccac0a2 4789DOC_END
4790
5473c134 4791NAME: icap_access
4792TYPE: icap_access_type
4793IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4794LOC: TheICAPConfig
cccac0a2 4795DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4796DOC_START
53e738c6 4797 Redirects a request through an ICAP service class, depending
4798 on given acls
5473c134 4799
53e738c6 4800 icap_access classname allow|deny [!]aclname...
5473c134 4801
53e738c6 4802 The icap_access statements are processed in the order they appear in
4803 this configuration file. If an access list matches, the processing stops.
4804 For an "allow" rule, the specified class is used for the request. A "deny"
4805 rule simply stops processing without using the class. You can also use the
4806 special classname "None".
cccac0a2 4807
53e738c6 4808 For backward compatibility, it is also possible to use services
4809 directly here.
5473c134 4810Example:
4811icap_access class_1 allow all
cccac0a2 4812DOC_END
4813
5473c134 4814COMMENT_START
4815 DNS OPTIONS
4816 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4817COMMENT_END
4818
4819NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 4820TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 4821DEFAULT: off
5473c134 4822LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 4823DOC_START
5473c134 4824 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
4825 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
4826 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 4827DOC_END
4828
5473c134 4829NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 4830TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 4831DEFAULT: on
5473c134 4832LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 4833DOC_START
5473c134 4834 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
4835 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
4836 Squid to be strict about the standard.
4837 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 4838DOC_END
4839
5473c134 4840NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 4841TYPE: string
5473c134 4842IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
4843DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
4844LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 4845DOC_START
5473c134 4846 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 4847DOC_END
4848
5473c134 4849NAME: dns_children
4850TYPE: int
4851IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
4852DEFAULT: 5
4853LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 4854DOC_START
5473c134 4855 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
4856 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
4857 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
4858 is 32. The default is 5.
58850d15 4859
5473c134 4860 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
58850d15 4861DOC_END
4862
5473c134 4863NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
4864TYPE: time_t
4865DEFAULT: 5 seconds
4866LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
4867IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 4868DOC_START
5473c134 4869 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
4870 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 4871
cccac0a2 4872DOC_END
4873
5473c134 4874NAME: dns_timeout
4875TYPE: time_t
4876DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4877LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
4878IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 4879DOC_START
5473c134 4880 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
4881 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
4882 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 4883DOC_END
4884
5473c134 4885NAME: dns_defnames
4886COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 4887TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 4888DEFAULT: off
5473c134 4889LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 4890DOC_START
5473c134 4891 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
4892 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
4893 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
4894 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 4895DOC_END
4896
5473c134 4897NAME: dns_nameservers
4898TYPE: wordlist
4899DEFAULT: none
4900LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 4901DOC_START
5473c134 4902 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
4903 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
4904 /etc/resolv.conf file.
4905 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
4906 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
4907 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
4908 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 4909
5473c134 4910 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 4911DOC_END
4912
5473c134 4913NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 4914TYPE: string
5473c134 4915DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
4916LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 4917DOC_START
5473c134 4918 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
4919 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
4920 default locations:
4921 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
4922 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
4923 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
4924 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
4925 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
4926 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
4927 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
4928 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 4929
5473c134 4930 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
4931 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
4932 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
4933 character are comments.
cccac0a2 4934
5473c134 4935 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
4936 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
4937 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
4938 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
4939 definitions.
cccac0a2 4940DOC_END
4941
5473c134 4942NAME: dns_testnames
4943TYPE: wordlist
4944LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
4945DEFAULT: none
4946DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
4947DOC_START
4948 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
4949
4950 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
cccac0a2 4951DOC_END
4952
5473c134 4953NAME: append_domain
4954TYPE: string
4955LOC: Config.appendDomain
4956DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 4957DOC_START
5473c134 4958 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
4959 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
4960
4961 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
4962 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
4963 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
4964
4965Example:
4966 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 4967DOC_END
4968
5473c134 4969NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
4970TYPE: onoff
4971LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 4972DEFAULT: on
4973DOC_START
5473c134 4974 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
4975 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
4976 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
4977 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
4978 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 4979DOC_END
4980
6bc15a4f 4981NAME: ipcache_size
4982COMMENT: (number of entries)
4983TYPE: int
4984DEFAULT: 1024
4985LOC: Config.ipcache.size
4986DOC_NONE
4987
4988NAME: ipcache_low
4989COMMENT: (percent)
4990TYPE: int
4991DEFAULT: 90
4992LOC: Config.ipcache.low
4993DOC_NONE
4994
4995NAME: ipcache_high
4996COMMENT: (percent)
4997TYPE: int
4998DEFAULT: 95
4999LOC: Config.ipcache.high
5000DOC_START
5001 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
5002DOC_END
5003
5004NAME: fqdncache_size
5005COMMENT: (number of entries)
5006TYPE: int
5007DEFAULT: 1024
5008LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
5009DOC_START
5010 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
5011DOC_END
5012
a58ff010 5013COMMENT_START
5473c134 5014 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 5015 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5016COMMENT_END
5017
5473c134 5018NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 5019COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5020TYPE: onoff
5021DEFAULT: on
5022LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 5023DOC_START
5473c134 5024 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
5025 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
5026 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
5027 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 5028DOC_END
5029
5473c134 5030NAME: memory_pools_limit
5031COMMENT: (bytes)
5032TYPE: b_size_t
5033DEFAULT: 5 MB
5034LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 5035DOC_START
5473c134 5036 Used only with memory_pools on:
5037 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 5038
5473c134 5039 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
5040 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
5041 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
5042 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
5043 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
5044 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
5045 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 5046
5473c134 5047 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5048 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 5049
5473c134 5050 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
5051 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5052
5053 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
5054 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
5055 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
5056 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 5057DOC_END
5058
5473c134 5059NAME: forwarded_for
5060COMMENT: on|off
5061TYPE: onoff
5062DEFAULT: on
5063LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 5064DOC_START
5473c134 5065 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
5066 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
5067 this:
5f8252d2 5068
5473c134 5069 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
5070
5071 If you disable this, it will appear as
5072
5073 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
5f8252d2 5074DOC_END
5075
5473c134 5076NAME: cachemgr_passwd
5077TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
5078DEFAULT: none
5079LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 5080DOC_START
5473c134 5081 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 5082
5473c134 5083 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
5084
5085 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
5086 5min
5087 60min
5088 asndb
5089 authenticator
5090 cbdata
5091 client_list
5092 comm_incoming
5093 config *
5094 counters
5095 delay
5096 digest_stats
5097 dns
5098 events
5099 filedescriptors
5100 fqdncache
5101 histograms
5102 http_headers
5103 info
5104 io
5105 ipcache
5106 mem
5107 menu
5108 netdb
5109 non_peers
5110 objects
5111 offline_toggle *
5112 pconn
5113 peer_select
5114 redirector
5115 refresh
5116 server_list
5117 shutdown *
5118 store_digest
5119 storedir
5120 utilization
5121 via_headers
5122 vm_objects
5123
5124 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
5125 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
5126
5127 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
5128 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
5129 password to "none".
5130
5131 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
5132
5133Example:
5134 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
5135 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
5136 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 5137DOC_END
5138
5473c134 5139NAME: client_db
a58ff010 5140COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5141TYPE: onoff
5142DEFAULT: on
5143LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 5144DOC_START
5473c134 5145 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
5146 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 5147DOC_END
5148
5473c134 5149NAME: refresh_all_ims
5150COMMENT: on|off
5151TYPE: onoff
5152DEFAULT: off
5153LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 5154DOC_START
5473c134 5155 When you enable this option, squid will always check
5156 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
5157 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
5158 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
5159 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 5160
5473c134 5161 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
5162 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 5163DOC_END
5164
5473c134 5165NAME: reload_into_ims
5166IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 5167COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5168TYPE: onoff
5169DEFAULT: off
5170LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 5171DOC_START
5473c134 5172 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
5173 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
5174 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
5175 feature could make you liable for problems which it
5176 causes.
5177
5178 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 5179DOC_END
5180
5473c134 5181NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
5182TYPE: int
5183LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
5184DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 5185DOC_START
5473c134 5186 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
5187 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
5188 each address is tried once).
5189
5190 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
5191 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
5192 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
5193
5194 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
5195 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 5196DOC_END
5197
5473c134 5198NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 5199TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5200LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 5201DEFAULT: off
5202DOC_START
5473c134 5203 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
5204 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
5205 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
5206 control errors.
5f8252d2 5207DOC_END
5208
5473c134 5209NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 5210TYPE: string
5473c134 5211LOC: Config.as_whois_server
5212DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5213DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 5214DOC_START
5473c134 5215 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
5216 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 5217DOC_END
5218
5473c134 5219NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 5220TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5221LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 5222DEFAULT: off
5223DOC_START
5473c134 5224 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
5225 objects.
a58ff010 5226DOC_END
5227
5473c134 5228NAME: uri_whitespace
5229TYPE: uri_whitespace
5230LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
5231DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 5232DOC_START
5473c134 5233 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
5234 URI. Options:
a58ff010 5235
5473c134 5236 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
5237 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
5238 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
5239 Request" message.
5240 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
5241 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
5242 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
5243 are in use.
5244 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
5245 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
5246 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
5247 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
5248 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
5249 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
5250 violation.
5251DOC_END
a58ff010 5252
5473c134 5253NAME: coredump_dir
5254TYPE: string
5255LOC: Config.coredump_dir
5256DEFAULT: none
5257DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
5258DOC_START
5259 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5260 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5261 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5262 and coredump files will be left there.
a58ff010 5263
5473c134 5264NOCOMMENT_START
5265# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5266coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
5267NOCOMMENT_END
5268DOC_END
a58ff010 5269
5473c134 5270NAME: chroot
5271TYPE: string
5272LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 5273DEFAULT: none
5274DOC_START
5473c134 5275 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
5276 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
5277 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
5278 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will may get an
5279 error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5280DOC_END
a58ff010 5281
5473c134 5282NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
5283TYPE: onoff
5284LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
5285DEFAULT: on
5286DOC_START
5287 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
5288 found not to preserve user session state across requests
5289 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 5290
5473c134 5291 By default Squid rotates IP's per request. By disabling
5292 this directive only connection failure triggers rotation.
a58ff010 5293DOC_END
5294
5473c134 5295NAME: pipeline_prefetch
5296TYPE: onoff
5297LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
5298DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 5299DOC_START
5473c134 5300 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
5301 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5302 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 5303
5473c134 5304 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
5305 reasons.
5306DOC_END
a58ff010 5307
5473c134 5308NAME: high_response_time_warning
5309TYPE: int
5310COMMENT: (msec)
5311LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
5312DEFAULT: 0
5313DOC_START
5314 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
5315 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
5316 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 5317DOC_END
5318
5473c134 5319NAME: high_page_fault_warning
5320TYPE: int
5321LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
5322DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 5323DOC_START
5473c134 5324 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
5325 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5326 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
5327 per second.
5328DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5329
5473c134 5330NAME: high_memory_warning
5331TYPE: b_size_t
5332LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 5333DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 5334DOC_START
5335 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 5336 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 5337 the administrators attention.
5338DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5339
5473c134 5340NAME: sleep_after_fork
5341COMMENT: (microseconds)
5342TYPE: int
5343LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
5344DEFAULT: 0
5345DOC_START
5346 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
5347 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
5348 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
5349 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
5350 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
5351 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
5352 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
5353 until all the child processes have been started.
5354 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
5355 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 5356DOC_END
5357
cccac0a2 5358EOF