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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 105COMMENT_END
106
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107# Options Removed in 3.2
108NAME: ignore_expect_100
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
112DOC_END
113
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114NAME: dns_v4_fallback
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 Remove this line.
118DOC_END
119
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120NAME: ftp_list_width
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
124DOC_END
125
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126NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
130DOC_END
131
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132NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_START
135 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
136DOC_END
137
138# Options Removed in 3.1
139NAME: dns_testnames
140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
143DOC_END
144
145NAME: extension_methods
146TYPE: obsolete
147DOC_START
148 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
149DOC_END
150
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151# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
152NAME: zero_buffers
153TYPE: obsolete
154DOC_NONE
155
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156# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
157NAME: incoming_rate
158TYPE: obsolete
159DOC_NONE
160
161NAME: server_http11
162TYPE: obsolete
163DOC_START
164 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
165DOC_END
166
167NAME: upgrade_http0.9
168TYPE: obsolete
169DOC_START
170 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
171DOC_END
172
173NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
174TYPE: obsolete
175DOC_START
176 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
177DOC_END
178
179# Options Removed in 3.0
180NAME: header_access
181TYPE: obsolete
182DOC_START
183 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
184 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
185DOC_END
186
187NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
188TYPE: obsolete
189DOC_START
190 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
191DOC_END
192
5473c134 193COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 194 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
196COMMENT_END
197
41bd17a4 198NAME: auth_param
199TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 200IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 201LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 202DEFAULT: none
203DOC_START
41bd17a4 204 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
205 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 206
41bd17a4 207 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
210 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
211 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
212 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
213 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
214 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
215 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
216 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
217 program entry).
cccac0a2 218
41bd17a4 219 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
220 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
221 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
222 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 223
41bd17a4 224 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
225 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
226 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
227 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
228 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
229 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
230 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
231 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
232 type acl.
cccac0a2 233
41bd17a4 234 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
235 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
236 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
237 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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238 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
239 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 240
41bd17a4 241 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 242
41bd17a4 243 "program" cmdline
244 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
245 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
246 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
247 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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248 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
249 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 250
41bd17a4 251 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
252 program is specified.
cccac0a2 253
41bd17a4 254 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
255 this line to something like
307b83b7 256
41bd17a4 257 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 258
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259 "utf8" on|off
260 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
261 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
262 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
263 username & password to the helper.
264
7353861b 265 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 266 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 267 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
268 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
269 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
270 authenticator processes.
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271
272 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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273 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
274 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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275 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
276 the maximum.
277
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278 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
279 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
280 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
281 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
282 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
283 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 284 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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285
286 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 287
41bd17a4 288 "realm" realmstring
289 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
290 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
291 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
292 password). There is no default.
293 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 294
41bd17a4 295 "credentialsttl" timetolive
296 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
297 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
298 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
299 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
300 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
301 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
302 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
303 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
304 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 305
41bd17a4 306 "casesensitive" on|off
307 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
308 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
309 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
310 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
311 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 312
41bd17a4 313 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 314
41bd17a4 315 "program" cmdline
316 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
317 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
318 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
319 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
320 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
321 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
322 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 323
41bd17a4 324 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
325 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 326
41bd17a4 327 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
328 something like
cccac0a2 329
7ce93108 330 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 331
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332 "utf8" on|off
333 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
334 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
335 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
336 username & password to the helper.
337
7353861b 338 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 339 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 340 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
341 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
342 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
343 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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344
345 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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346 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
347 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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348 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
349 the maximum.
350
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351 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
352 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
353 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
354 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
355 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
356 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
357 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
358
48d54e4d 359 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "realm" realmstring
362 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
363 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
364 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
365 password). There is no default.
366 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 367
41bd17a4 368 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
369 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
370 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
373 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
374 valid for.
cccac0a2 375
41bd17a4 376 "nonce_max_count" number
377 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
378 used.
cccac0a2 379
41bd17a4 380 "nonce_strictness" on|off
381 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
382 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
383 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
384 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 385
41bd17a4 386 "check_nonce_count" on|off
387 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
388 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
389 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
390 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 391
41bd17a4 392 "post_workaround" on|off
393 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
394 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
395 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 396
41bd17a4 397 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 398
41bd17a4 399 "program" cmdline
400 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
401 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
402 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
403 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
404 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
405 is not used.
cccac0a2 406
41bd17a4 407 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 408
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409 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
410 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 411 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
412 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
413 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
414 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
415 processes.
cccac0a2 416
48d54e4d 417 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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418 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
419 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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420 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
421 the maximum.
422
423 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 424
41bd17a4 425 "keep_alive" on|off
426 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
427 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
428 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
429 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
430 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 432 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 433
41bd17a4 434 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 435
41bd17a4 436 "program" cmdline
437 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
438 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
439 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
440 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
441 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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442 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
443 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
444 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 445 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
446 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 447
41bd17a4 448 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 449
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450 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
451 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 452 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
453 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
454 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
455 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
456 processes.
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457
458 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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459 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
460 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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461 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
462 the maximum.
463
464 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 465
41bd17a4 466 "keep_alive" on|off
467 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
468 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
469 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
470 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
471 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 473 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
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476 Examples:
477
41bd17a4 478#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
479#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 480#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 481#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 482#
41bd17a4 483#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 484#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 485#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 486#
41bd17a4 487#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 488#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 489#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
490#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
491#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
492#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 493#
41bd17a4 494#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 495#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 496#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
497#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 498DOC_END
cccac0a2 499
41bd17a4 500NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
501TYPE: time_t
502DEFAULT: 1 hour
503LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
504DOC_START
505 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
506 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
507 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
508 have good reason to.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
41bd17a4 511NAME: authenticate_ttl
512TYPE: time_t
513DEFAULT: 1 hour
514LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
515DOC_START
516 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
517 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
518 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
519 TTL are removed from memory.
520DOC_END
cccac0a2 521
41bd17a4 522NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
523TYPE: time_t
524LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
525DEFAULT: 0 seconds
526DOC_START
527 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
528 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
529 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
530 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
531 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
532 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
533 environment with relatively static address assignments.
534DOC_END
cccac0a2 535
3d1e3e43 536COMMENT_START
537 ACCESS CONTROLS
538 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
539COMMENT_END
540
41bd17a4 541NAME: external_acl_type
542TYPE: externalAclHelper
543LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 544DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 545DOC_START
41bd17a4 546 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
547 to look up the status
cccac0a2 548
41bd17a4 549 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 550
41bd17a4 551 Options:
cccac0a2 552
41bd17a4 553 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
554 for 1 hour)
555 negative_ttl=n
556 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
557 as ttl)
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558 children-max=n
559 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
560 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
561 children-startup=n
562 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
563 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
564 of this type. (default 0)
565 children-idle=n
566 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
567 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
568 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
569 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 570 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
571 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 572 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 573 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
574 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 575 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 576 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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577 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
578 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 579
41bd17a4 580 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 581
41bd17a4 582 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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583 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
584 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
585 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 586 %IDENT Ident user name
587 %SRC Client IP
588 %SRCPORT Client source port
589 %URI Requested URI
590 %DST Requested host
591 %PROTO Requested protocol
592 %PORT Requested port
593 %PATH Requested URL path
594 %METHOD Request method
595 %MYADDR Squid interface address
596 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
597 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
598 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
599 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
600 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
601 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 602
c68c9682 603 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 604 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 605 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 606 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 607 HTTP request header list member using ; as
608 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
609 character.
cccac0a2 610
c68c9682 611 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 612 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 613 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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614 %<{Hdr:;member}
615 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
616 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
617 character.
618
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620 an unchanging input format.
621
41bd17a4 622 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
623 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
624 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 625
41bd17a4 626 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
627 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
628 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
629 more details.
cccac0a2 630
41bd17a4 631 General result syntax:
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41bd17a4 633 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
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41bd17a4 635 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 637 user= The users name (login)
638 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
639 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
640 in error pages
641 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
642 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
643 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
644 %ea in logformat specifications
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41bd17a4 646 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
647 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 648
41bd17a4 649 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
650 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
651 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 652
41bd17a4 653 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
654 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
655 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
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657
41bd17a4 658NAME: acl
659TYPE: acl
660LOC: Config.aclList
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662DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
663DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
664DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
665DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
666DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
667ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 668DEFAULT: all src all
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669DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
670DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
671DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
672DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 673DOC_START
41bd17a4 674 Defining an Access List
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676 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
677 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
678 they are read from.
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680 acl aclname acltype argument ...
681 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 683 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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685 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
686 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
687 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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690 to access some external data source.
691 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
692 don't are marked as [fast].
693 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
694 for further information
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696 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
697
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698 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
699 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
700 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
701 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 702
41bd17a4 703 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
704 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
705 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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707 # other *BSD variants.
708 # [fast]
41bd17a4 709 #
710 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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711 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
712 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
713
714 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
715 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
716 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 717 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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719 # regex matching client name [slow]
720 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 721 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 722 #
41bd17a4 723 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
724 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
725 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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727 acl aclname src_as number ...
728 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 729 # [fast]
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730 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
731 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
732 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
733 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
734 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
735 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
736 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 737
6db78a1a 738 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 739 # [fast]
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740 # match against a named cache_peer entry
741 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
742
375eeb3b 743 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 744 # [fast]
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746 # S - Sunday
747 # M - Monday
748 # T - Tuesday
749 # W - Wednesday
750 # H - Thursday
751 # F - Friday
752 # A - Saturday
753 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
754
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755 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
756 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
757 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
758 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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760 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
761 # ranges are alloed
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762 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
763 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
764
b3567eb5 765 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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767 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
768
769 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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771 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
772 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 774 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 775 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 776
375eeb3b 777 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 778 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 779 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 780
375eeb3b 781 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 782 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 783 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 784 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 785
41bd17a4 786 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
787 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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789 # supplied credentials [slow]
790 #
791 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 792 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
793 #
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795 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
796 #
41bd17a4 797 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
798 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
799 # in access.log.
800 #
801 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
802 # to check username/password combinations (see
803 # auth_param directive).
804 #
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806 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 807 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 808
41bd17a4 809 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 810 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 811 # Example:
812 #
813 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 815 acl aclname maxconn number
816 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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817 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
818 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
819 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 820
41bd17a4 821 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
822 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
823 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 824 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 825 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
826 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
827 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
828 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
829 # request is denied)
830 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
831 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
832 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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834 acl aclname random probability
835 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
836 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
837 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
838
375eeb3b 839 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 840 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
841 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 842 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 843 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
844 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 845
41bd17a4 846 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
847 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
848 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 849 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 850
375eeb3b 851 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 852 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
853 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 854 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 855 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
856 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
857 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 858
41bd17a4 859 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
860 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
861 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 862 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 863
375eeb3b 864 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 865 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 866 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 868 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
869 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 870 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 871
41bd17a4 872 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
873 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 874 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 875
41bd17a4 876 acl aclname ext_user username ...
877 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 878 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 879 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 880
0ab50441 881 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 882 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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884 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
885 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
886 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
887 #
888 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
889 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
890 # http_reply_access.
891
38450a50 892IF USE_SSL
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894 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 895 #
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896 # For valid error names see in @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@/templates/error-details.txt
897 # template file.
cf1c09f6 898 #
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900 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
901 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
902 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
903 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
904 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
905 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
906 #
907 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
908 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
909 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
910 #
911 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
912 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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915 Examples:
916 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
917 acl myexample dst_as 1241
918 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
919 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
920 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 921
41bd17a4 922NOCOMMENT_START
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924# Recommended minimum configuration:
925#
e0855596 926
ee776778 927# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
928# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
929# should be allowed
930acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
931acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
932acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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933acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
934acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 936acl SSL_ports port 443
937acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
938acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
939acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
940acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
941acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
942acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
943acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
944acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
945acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
946acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
947acl CONNECT method CONNECT
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949DOC_END
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951NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
952TYPE: acl_access
953IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
954LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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955DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
956DOC_START
957 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
958 find the original source of a request.
959
960 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
961 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
962 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
963 rightmost address being the most recent.
964
965 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
966 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
967 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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969 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
970 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
971 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
972 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
973 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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975 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
976 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 977 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 978 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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979 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
980 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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983 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
984
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986
987 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
988 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
989 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
990 source address of the request. This may enable remote
991 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
992 based on the client's source addresses.
993
994 For example:
995
996 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
997 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
998 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
999 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1000DOC_END
1001
1002NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1003COMMENT: on|off
1004TYPE: onoff
1005IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1006DEFAULT: on
1007LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1008DOC_START
1009 Controls whether the indirect client address
1010 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1011 direct client address in acl matching.
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1013 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1014 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1016
1017NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1018COMMENT: on|off
1019TYPE: onoff
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1022LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1023DOC_START
1024 Controls whether the indirect client address
1025 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1026 direct client address in delay pools.
1027DOC_END
1028
1029NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1030COMMENT: on|off
1031TYPE: onoff
1032IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1033DEFAULT: on
1034LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1035DOC_START
1036 Controls whether the indirect client address
1037 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1038 direct client address in the access log.
1039DOC_END
1040
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1041NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1042COMMENT: on|off
1043TYPE: onoff
1044IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1045DEFAULT: off
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1046LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1047DOC_START
1048 Controls whether the indirect client address
1049 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1050 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1052 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1053 mode ports.
1054
1055 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1056 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1057 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1058 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1060
41bd17a4 1061NAME: http_access
1062TYPE: acl_access
1063LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1064DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1065DOC_START
1066 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
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41bd17a4 1068 Access to the HTTP port:
1069 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1071 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1073 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1074 the request.
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41bd17a4 1076 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1077 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1078 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1079 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1081 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1084 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1085
41bd17a4 1086NOCOMMENT_START
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1088#
1089# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1090#
1091# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1092http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1093http_access deny manager
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1095# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1096http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1098# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1099http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1101# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1102# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1103# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1104#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1106#
1107# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1108#
c8f4eac4 1109
ee776778 1110# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1111# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1112# from where browsing should be allowed
1113http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1114http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1115
41bd17a4 1116# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1117http_access deny all
1118NOCOMMENT_END
1119DOC_END
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1121NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1122TYPE: acl_access
1123LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1124DEFAULT: none
1125DOC_START
1126 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1127
1128 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1129 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1130 output.
1131
1132 If not set then only http_access is used.
1133DOC_END
1134
41bd17a4 1135NAME: http_reply_access
1136TYPE: acl_access
1137LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1138DEFAULT: none
1139DOC_START
1140 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1141
41bd17a4 1142 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1143
41bd17a4 1144 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1145 all replies
1a224843 1146
41bd17a4 1147 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1148 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1149 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1151 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1152 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1153DOC_END
1154
41bd17a4 1155NAME: icp_access
1156TYPE: acl_access
1157LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1158DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1159DOC_START
41bd17a4 1160 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1161 access lists
5473c134 1162
41bd17a4 1163 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1164
41bd17a4 1165 See http_access for details
1166
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1168 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1170# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1172#icp_access deny all
5473c134 1173DOC_END
1174
41bd17a4 1175NAME: htcp_access
1176IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1177TYPE: acl_access
1178LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1179DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1180DOC_START
41bd17a4 1181 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1182 access lists
5473c134 1183
41bd17a4 1184 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1185
41bd17a4 1186 See http_access for details
5473c134 1187
0b48417e 1188 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1189 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1190 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1191
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1193 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1195# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1196#htcp_access allow localnet
1197#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1198DOC_END
5473c134 1199
41bd17a4 1200NAME: htcp_clr_access
1201IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1202TYPE: acl_access
1203LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1204DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1205DOC_START
1206 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1207 on defined access lists
5473c134 1208
41bd17a4 1209 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1210
41bd17a4 1211 See http_access for details
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1214 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1216# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1217acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1218htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1219DOC_END
1220
41bd17a4 1221NAME: miss_access
1222TYPE: acl_access
1223LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1224DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1225DOC_START
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1226 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1227
1228 For example;
1229 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1230 a parent.
5473c134 1231
41bd17a4 1232 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1233 miss_access allow localclients
1234 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1235
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1237 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1238 objects (HITs).
1239
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1242 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1244 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1245 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1246DOC_END
1247
1248NAME: ident_lookup_access
1249TYPE: acl_access
1250IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1251DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1252LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1253DOC_START
41bd17a4 1254 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1255 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1256 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1257 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1258 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1259 any requests.
5473c134 1260
41bd17a4 1261 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1262 can follow this example:
5473c134 1263
4daaf3cb 1264 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1265 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1266 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1267
4daaf3cb 1268 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1269 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1270 the correct result.
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1272 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1273 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1274DOC_END
5473c134 1275
5b0f5383 1276NAME: reply_body_max_size
1277COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1278TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1279DEFAULT: none
1280LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1281DOC_START
1282 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1283 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1284 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1285 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1286 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1287 for this reply.
1288
1289 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1290 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1291 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1292 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1293 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1294 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1295 and they will receive a partial reply.
1296
1297 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1298 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1299 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1300 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1301
1302 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1303 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1304 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1305 the size of your largest error page.
1306
1307 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1308 no limit imposed.
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1310 Configuration Format is:
1311 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1312 ie.
1313 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1314
5b0f5383 1315DOC_END
1316
1317COMMENT_START
1318 NETWORK OPTIONS
1319 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1320COMMENT_END
1321
1322NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1323TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1324DEFAULT: none
1325LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1326DOC_START
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1327 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1328 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1329 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1330
1331 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1332 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1333 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1334 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1335 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1336 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1337 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1338
1339 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1340 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1341
1342 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1343 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1344 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1345
1346 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1347
c7b1dd5d 1348 Modes:
5b0f5383 1349
e77bdb4e 1350 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1351 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1352 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1353
1354 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1355 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1356 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1357
7f45065d 1358 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1359
caf3666d 1360 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1361 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1362 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1363 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1364 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1365
7a957a93 1366 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1367 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1368
1369 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1370
1371
1372 Accelerator Mode Options:
1373
5b0f5383 1374 defaultsite=domainname
1375 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1376 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1377 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1378
cf673853 1379 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1380
1381 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1383 https_port
5b0f5383 1384
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1385 vport Virtual host port support. Using the http_port number
1386 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1387
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1388 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1389 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1390
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1391 act-as-origin
1392 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1393 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1394 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1395
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1397
7f45065d 1398 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1400
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1401 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1402 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1403 never_direct was used.
1404
1405 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1406 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1407 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1408 http_access rules when using this.
1409
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1410
1411 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1413
1414 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1415 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1416 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1417 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1418 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1419 certificate will be selfsigned.
1420 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1421 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1422 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1423 years.
1424 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1425 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1426
1427 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1428 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1429 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1430 default value is 4MB.
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1432 TLS / SSL Options:
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1434 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1435
1436 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1437 if not specified, the certificate file is
1438 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1439 key file.
1440
1441 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1442 1 automatic (default)
1443 2 SSLv2 only
1444 3 SSLv3 only
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1445 4 TLSv1.0 only
1446 5 TLSv1.1 only
1447 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1448
1449 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1450 NOTE: some ciphers such as EDH ciphers depend on
1451 additional settings. If those settings are
1452 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1453 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1454
943c5f16 1455 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1456 being:
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1457 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1458 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1459 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1460 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1461 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1462 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1463 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1465 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1466 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1467 strength to some attacks.
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1468 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1469 complete list of options.
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1471 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1472 requesting a client certificate.
1473
1474 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1475 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1476 clientca will be used.
1477
1478 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1479 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1480
1481 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1482 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1483 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1484
1485 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1486 DH key exchanges. See OpenSSL documentation for details
1487 on how to create this file.
1488 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1489 option is not set.
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1490
1491 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1492 DELAYED_AUTH
1493 Don't request client certificates
1494 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1495 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1496 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1497 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1498 to OpenSSL.
1499 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1500 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1501 will result in a new SSL session.
1502 VERIFY_CRL
1503 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1504 certificates.
1505 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1506 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1507 client certificate chain.
1508
1509 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1510
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1512
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1513 connection-auth[=on|off]
1514 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1515 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1516 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1517
5b0f5383 1518 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1519 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1520 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1521 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1522 support is enabled.
1523 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1524
1525 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1526 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1527 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1528 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1529 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1530 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1531 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1532 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1533
81b6e9a7 1534 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1535 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1536
68924b6d 1537 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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1539 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1540 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1541 timeout the time before giving up.
1542
5b0f5383 1543 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1544 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1545 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1546 visible on the internal address.
1547
1548NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1550# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1551http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1552NOCOMMENT_END
1553DOC_END
1554
1555NAME: https_port
1556IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1557TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1558DEFAULT: none
1559LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1560DOC_START
7f45065d 1561 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1562
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1564 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1565
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1567 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1568
1569 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1570 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1571
7f45065d 1572 Modes:
5b0f5383 1573
7f45065d 1574 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1575
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1577 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1578 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1579
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1581 connections using the client IP address.
1582 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1583
caf3666d 1584 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1585 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1586 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1588 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1589
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1591 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 1592
38450a50 1593 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1594
7f45065d 1595 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1596
5b0f5383 1597
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1599
1600
1601 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1602
1603 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1604
1605 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1606 if not specified, the certificate file is
1607 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1608 key file.
1609
1610 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1611 1 automatic (default)
1612 2 SSLv2 only
1613 3 SSLv3 only
1614 4 TLSv1 only
1615
1616 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1617
1618 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1619 being:
1620 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1621 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1622 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1623 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1624 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1625 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1626 documentation for a complete list of options.
1627
1628 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1629 requesting a client certificate.
1630
1631 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1632 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1633 clientca will be used.
1634
1635 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1636 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1637
1638 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1639 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1640 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1641
1642 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1643 DH key exchanges.
1644
1645 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1646 DELAYED_AUTH
1647 Don't request client certificates
1648 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1649 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1650 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1651 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1652 to OpenSSL.
1653 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1654 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1655 will result in a new SSL session.
1656 VERIFY_CRL
1657 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1658 certificates.
1659 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1660 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1661 client certificate chain.
1662
1663 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1664
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1666 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1667 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1668 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1669 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1670 certificate will be selfsigned.
1671 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1672 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1673 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1674 years.
1675 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1676 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1677
1678 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1679 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1680 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1681 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 1682
859741ed 1683 See http_port for a list of available options.
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1685
41bd17a4 1686NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1687TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1688DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1689LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
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1692 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1693
41bd17a4 1694 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1695
41bd17a4 1696 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1697 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1698
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1700 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1701 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1702 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
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41bd17a4 1704 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1706 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1707
41bd17a4 1708 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1709 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1711 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1712
41bd17a4 1713 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1714 matching line.
cccac0a2 1715DOC_END
1716
41bd17a4 1717NAME: clientside_tos
1718TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1719DEFAULT: none
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1721DOC_START
1722 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1723 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1724
1725 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1726
1727 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1728 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1729
1730 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1731 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1732 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1733 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1734
1735 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1736 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1737DOC_END
1738
1739NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1740TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1741IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1743LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1744DOC_START
1745 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1746 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1747
1748 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1749
1750 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1751 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1752
1753 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1754 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1755 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1756 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1757DOC_END
1758
1759NAME: clientside_mark
1760TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1761IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1763LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
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1766 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1767
1768 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1769
1770 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1771 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1772
1773 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1774 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1775 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1776 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1777
1778 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1779 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1780DOC_END
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1783TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1784IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1785DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1786LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1787DOC_START
575cb927 1788 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1790 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1791 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1794 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1795 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1798 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1799 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1800
1801 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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1804
1805 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1807 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1808
1809 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1810
1811 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1812
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1814 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1815 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1816 specified in the mask are written.
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1818 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
1819 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1820 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1821 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1822 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1823
575cb927 1824 disable-preserve-miss
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1826 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1827 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1828 and masked with miss-mark.
1829 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1830 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1831 (MARK target).
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1833 miss-mask=0xFF
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1835 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1836 the TOS sent towards clients.
1837 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1838 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1839
1840 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1841 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1842 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1843 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1846
41bd17a4 1847NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1848TYPE: acl_address
1849DEFAULT: none
1850LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1851DOC_START
1852 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1853 based on the username or source address of the user making
1854 the request.
7f7db318 1855
41bd17a4 1856 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1859 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1862 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1863
1864 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1865 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1866
1867 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1868 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1869
1870 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1871 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
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41bd17a4 1873 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1874 matching line.
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1877 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1878 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1879
1880
1881 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1882 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1883 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1884 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1885
2dd51400 1886 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1887 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1889 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1890
cccac0a2 1891DOC_END
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1893NAME: host_verify_strict
1894TYPE: onoff
1895DEFAULT: off
1896LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1897DOC_START
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1899 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 1900 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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1902 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1903 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1904 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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1906 When set to ON:
1907 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
1908 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
1909
1910 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
1911 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
1912 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
1913 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
1914 and Request-URI components:
1915
1916 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
1917 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
1918 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
1919 or FQDN.
1920
1921 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
1922 the scheme-default port is assumed.
1923
1924
1925 When set to OFF (the default):
1926 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
1927 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
1928
1929 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1930
1931 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1932
1933 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 1934 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 1935
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1937 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
1938 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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1940 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
1941 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 1942
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7177edfb 1944 SECURITY NOTE:
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1946 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1947 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1948 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1949 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1950
1951 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1952 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1953 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1954 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1955 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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1957DOC_END
6b185b50 1958
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1959NAME: client_dst_passthru
1960TYPE: onoff
1961DEFAULT: on
1962LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1963DOC_START
1964 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1965 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1966 source using the HTTP Host header.
1967
1968 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
1969 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
1970 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
1971 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
1972
1973 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
1974 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
1975 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
1976
1977 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
1978 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
1979 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
1980
1981 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 1982DOC_END
1983
41bd17a4 1984COMMENT_START
1985 SSL OPTIONS
1986 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1987COMMENT_END
1988
1989NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1990IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1991TYPE: onoff
1992DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1993LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1994DOC_START
41bd17a4 1995 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1996 messages.
cccac0a2 1997DOC_END
1998
41bd17a4 1999NAME: ssl_engine
2000IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2001TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2002LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2003DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2004DOC_START
41bd17a4 2005 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2006 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2007DOC_END
2008
41bd17a4 2009NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
2010IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2011DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2012LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2013TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2014DOC_START
41bd17a4 2015 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2016DOC_END
2017
41bd17a4 2018NAME: sslproxy_client_key
2019IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2020DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2021LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2022TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2023DOC_START
41bd17a4 2024 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2025DOC_END
2026
41bd17a4 2027NAME: sslproxy_version
2028IFDEF: USE_SSL
2029DEFAULT: 1
2030LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2031TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2032DOC_START
41bd17a4 2033 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2034
2035 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2036
2037 1 automatic (default)
2038 2 SSLv2 only
2039 3 SSLv3 only
2040 4 TLSv1.0 only
2041 5 TLSv1.1 only
2042 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2043DOC_END
2044
41bd17a4 2045NAME: sslproxy_options
2046IFDEF: USE_SSL
2047DEFAULT: none
2048LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2049TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2050DOC_START
943c5f16 2051 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2052
2053 The most important being:
2054
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2055 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2056 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2057 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2058 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2059 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2060 SINGLE_DH_USE
2061 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2062 DH key exchanges
2063 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2064 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2065 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2066 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2067 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2068 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2069 strength to some attacks.
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2071 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2072 complete list of possible options.
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2074
41bd17a4 2075NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2076IFDEF: USE_SSL
2077DEFAULT: none
2078LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2079TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2080DOC_START
41bd17a4 2081 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2082
2083 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2084DOC_END
2085
41bd17a4 2086NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2087IFDEF: USE_SSL
2088DEFAULT: none
2089LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2090TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2091DOC_START
41bd17a4 2092 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2093 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2094DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2096NAME: sslproxy_capath
2097IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 2098DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2099LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2100TYPE: string
5473c134 2101DOC_START
41bd17a4 2102 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2103 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2104DOC_END
2105
4c9da963 2106NAME: ssl_bump
2107IFDEF: USE_SSL
caf3666d 2108TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2109LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
2110DEFAULT: none
2111DOC_START
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2112 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2113 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2114 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2115 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2116 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2117 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2118
2119 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2120
2121 The following bumping modes are supported:
2122
2123 client-first
2124 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2125 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2126 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2127 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2128
2129 server-first
2130 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2131 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2132 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2133 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2134
2135 none
2136 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2137 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2138 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2139 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2140
2141 By default, no connections are bumped.
2142
2143 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2144 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2145 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2146 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2147 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2148
e0c0d54c 2149 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2150 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2153
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2156 # localhost and those going to example.com.
e0855596 2157
e0855596 2158 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2159 ssl_bump none localhost
2160 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2161 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2162DOC_END
2163
41bd17a4 2164NAME: sslproxy_flags
2165IFDEF: USE_SSL
2166DEFAULT: none
2167LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2168TYPE: string
5473c134 2169DOC_START
41bd17a4 2170 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2171 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2172 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2173 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2174 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2175DOC_END
2176
4c9da963 2177NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2178IFDEF: USE_SSL
2179DEFAULT: none
2180LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2181TYPE: acl_access
2182DOC_START
2183 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2184
2185 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2186 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2187 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2188
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2190 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2191 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2192
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2194 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2195 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2196
2197 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2198 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2199 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2200 the connection may be insecure.
2201
2202 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2203
e0855596 2204 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 2205DOC_END
2206
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2207NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2208IFDEF: USE_SSL
2209DEFAULT: none
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2210POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2211POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2212POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2213TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2214LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2215DOC_START
2216
69742b76 2217 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
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69742b76 2219 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
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2222 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2223 default for trusted origin server certificates.
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2226 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2227 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
aebe6888 2228 signSelf
69742b76 2229 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
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2232 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2235
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2237 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2238 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2239 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2240 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2243 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2244 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2245 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2246 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2247 bump-server-first is used.
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2249
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2250NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2251IFDEF: USE_SSL
2252DEFAULT: none
2253TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2254LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2255DOC_START
2256
2257 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2258
69742b76 2259 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
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2262 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
fb2178bb 2263 setValidBefore
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2265 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
2266 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2267 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2268 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2269 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2270 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2271 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2274
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2276 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2277 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2278 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2279 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2280 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2283 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2284 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2285 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2286 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2287 bump-server-first is used.
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2289
41bd17a4 2290NAME: sslpassword_program
2291IFDEF: USE_SSL
2292DEFAULT: none
2293LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2294TYPE: string
5473c134 2295DOC_START
41bd17a4 2296 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2297 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2298 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2299 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2301 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2302 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2303 keys.
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2307 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2308 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2309COMMENT_END
2310
2311NAME: sslcrtd_program
2312TYPE: eol
2313IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2314DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2315LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2316DOC_START
2317 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2318 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2319 For more information use:
2320 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2321DOC_END
2322
2323NAME: sslcrtd_children
2324TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2325IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2326DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2327LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2328DOC_START
2329 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2330 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2331
2332 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2333 tuning.
2334
2335 startup=N
2336
2337 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2338 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2339 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2340
2341 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2342 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2343
2344 idle=N
2345
2346 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2347 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2348 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2349 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2350
2351 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2352DOC_END
2353
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41bd17a4 2355 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
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2357COMMENT_END
2358
41bd17a4 2359NAME: cache_peer
2360TYPE: peer
2361DEFAULT: none
2362LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2363DOC_START
41bd17a4 2364 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2366 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2367
41bd17a4 2368 For example,
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41bd17a4 2370 # proxy icp
2371 # hostname type port port options
2372 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2373 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2374 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2375 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2376 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2377 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2378
2379 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2380
2381 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2382 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2383 For web servers this is usually 80
2384
2385 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2386 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2387 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2388
2389
2390 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2391
2392 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2393 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2394
2395
2396 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2397
2398 multicast-responder
2399 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2400 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2401 replies will be accepted from it.
2402
2403 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2404 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2405
2406 background-ping
2407 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2408 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2409 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2410
2411
2412 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2413
2414 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2415 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2416
2417
2418 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2419 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2420 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2421 list of options described below.
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18191440 2423 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2424
18191440 2425 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2426 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2427 only-clr.
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2429 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2430 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2432 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2433 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2434 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2435
18191440 2436 htcp=forward-clr
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2437 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2438
2439
2440 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2441
2442 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2443 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2444
2445
2446 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2447 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2448 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2449
2450 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2451 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2452 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2453
2454 weighted-round-robin
2455 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2456 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2457 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2458 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2459 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2460
2461 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2462 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2463 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2464
2465 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2466
2467 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2469 multicast-siblings
2470 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2471 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2472 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2474 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2475 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2476 members of the same multicast group.
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2478
2479 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2480
2481 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2482 peer-selection mechanisms.
2483 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2484 larger weights are favored more.
2485 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2486 protocol is not in use.
2487
2488 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2489 times of parents.
2490 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2491 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2492 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2493
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2494 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2495 to this address.
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2496 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2497 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2498 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2499 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2500
2501 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2502 delay pools.
2503
2504 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2505 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2506 than the Squid default location.
2507
2508
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2510
2511 carp-key=key-specification
2512 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2513 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2514 scheme, host, port, path, params
2515 Order is not important.
2516
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2518
2519 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2520 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2521 is a web server.
2522
2523 forceddomain=name
2524 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2525 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2526 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2527 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2528
2529 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2530
2531 no-netdb-exchange
2532 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2533
2534
2535 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2536
2537 login=user:password
2538 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2539 requires proxy authentication.
2540
2541 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2542 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2543
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2544 login=PASSTHRU
2545 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2546 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2547 without alteration to the peer.
2548 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2549
2550 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2551 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2552 connection-auth options are also used.
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2554 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2555 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 2556
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2557 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2558 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2560 they may be sent instead.
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2561
2562 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2563 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2564 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2565 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2566 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2567
2568 login=*:password
2569 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2570 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2571 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2572 needed to identify each user.
2573 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2574 information which is added to the username. This can
2575 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2576 the login=username:password option above.
2577
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2578 login=NEGOTIATE
2579 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2580 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2581 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2582 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2583
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2585 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2586 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2587
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2588 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2589 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2590 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2591 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2592 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2593 used.
2594
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2596 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2597 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2598
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2599 connection-auth=on|off
2600 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2601 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2602 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2603 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2604 of the peer.
2605
2606
2607 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2608
2609 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2610
2611 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2612 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2613 this peer.
2614
2615 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2616 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2617 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2618 reference a combined file containing both the
2619 certificate and the key.
2620
3d96b0e8 2621 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2622 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2623 1 = automatic (default)
2624 2 = SSL v2 only
2625 3 = SSL v3 only
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2626 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2627 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2628 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2629
2630 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2631 to this peer.
2632
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2634
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2635 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2636 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2637 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2638 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2639 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2640 SINGLE_DH_USE
2641 Always create a new key when using
2642 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2643 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2644 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2645 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2646 strength to some attacks.
2647
2648 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2649 more complete list.
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2650
2651 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2652 when verifying the peer certificate.
2653
2654 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2655 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2656
2657 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2658 verifying the peer certificate.
2659
2660 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2661
41bd17a4 2662 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2663 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2664 verify.
2665 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2666 Don't use the default CA list built in
2667 to OpenSSL.
2668 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2669 Don't verify the peer certificate
2670 matches the server name
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2671
2672 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2673 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2674 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2675 used.
2676
2677 front-end-https
2678 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2679 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2680 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2681 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2682 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2683
2684
2685 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2686
2687 connect-timeout=N
2688 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2689 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2690
2691 connect-fail-limit=N
2692 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2693 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2694
2695 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2696 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2697 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2698 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2699 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2700 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2701 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2702
2703 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2704 peer. see also
2705
2706 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2707 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2708 but different ports.
2709 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2710 directives to dentify the peer.
2711 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2712 peername ACL type.
2713
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2714 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2715 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2716
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2717 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2718
41bd17a4 2719DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2721NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2722TYPE: hostdomain
2723DEFAULT: none
2724LOC: none
2725DOC_START
2726 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2727 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2728
41bd17a4 2729 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2730 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2731
41bd17a4 2732 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2733
41bd17a4 2734 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2735
41bd17a4 2736 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2737 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2738 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2739 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2740 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2741
41bd17a4 2742 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2743 either on the same or separate lines.
2744 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2745 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2746 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2747 for all requests.
2748 * There are no defaults.
2749 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2750 section.
2751DOC_END
dd9b1776 2752
41bd17a4 2753NAME: cache_peer_access
2754TYPE: peer_access
2755DEFAULT: none
2756LOC: none
2757DOC_START
2758 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2759 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2760
41bd17a4 2761 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2762
41bd17a4 2763 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2764 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2765 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2766DOC_END
dd9b1776 2767
41bd17a4 2768NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2769TYPE: hostdomaintype
2770DEFAULT: none
2771LOC: none
2772DOC_START
2773 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2774
41bd17a4 2775 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2776 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2777 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2778 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2779 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2780 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2781
41bd17a4 2782EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2783 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2784 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2785 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2786DOC_END
6bf4f823 2787
41bd17a4 2788NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2789COMMENT: (seconds)
2790DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2791TYPE: time_t
2792LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2793DOC_START
2794 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2795 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2796 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2797 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2798 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2799 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2800
41bd17a4 2801 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2802 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2803 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2804 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2805 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2806 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2807 instead of to your parents.
2808DOC_END
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2810NAME: forward_max_tries
2811DEFAULT: 10
2812TYPE: int
2813LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2814DOC_START
2815 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2816 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2817
2818 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2819 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2820DOC_END
2821
41bd17a4 2822NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2823TYPE: wordlist
2824DEFAULT: none
2825LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2826DOC_START
2827 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2828 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2829 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2830 list this option multiple times.
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2832 Example:
2833 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2834
2835 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2836DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2838COMMENT_START
2839 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2840 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2841COMMENT_END
2842
2843NAME: cache_mem
2844COMMENT: (bytes)
2845TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2846DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2847LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2848DOC_START
41bd17a4 2849 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2850 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2851 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2852 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2853
2854 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2855 for:
2856 * In-Transit objects
2857 * Hot Objects
2858 * Negative-Cached objects
2859
2860 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2861 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2862 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2863 priority.
2864
2865 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2866 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2867 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2868 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2869 not needed for in-transit objects.
2870
2871 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2872 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2873 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2874 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2875 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2876 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2877 objects.
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2879 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
2880 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
2881 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
2882 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 2883DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2885NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2886COMMENT: (bytes)
2887TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2888DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2889LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2890DOC_START
41bd17a4 2891 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2892 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2893 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2894 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2895DOC_END
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2898COMMENT: on|off
2899TYPE: YesNoNone
2900LOC: Config.memShared
2901DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 2902DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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2904 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
2905
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2906 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
2907 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
2908 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
2909 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
2910 caching is enabled).
2911
65b81b27 2912 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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2914 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
2915 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
2916 and GCC-style atomic operations).
2917
2918 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
2919 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
2920 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
2921
2922 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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2924
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2925NAME: memory_cache_mode
2926TYPE: memcachemode
2927LOC: Config
2928DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2929DOC_START
ea21d497 2930 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2931
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2932 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2933
2934 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2935 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2936 a second time before cached in memory.
2937
2938 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2940
41bd17a4 2941NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2942TYPE: removalpolicy
2943LOC: Config.memPolicy
2944DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2945DOC_START
41bd17a4 2946 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2947 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2948
41bd17a4 2949 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2950DOC_END
6b698a21 2951
41bd17a4 2952COMMENT_START
2953 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2954 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2955COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2956
41bd17a4 2957NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2958TYPE: removalpolicy
2959LOC: Config.replPolicy
2960DEFAULT: lru
2961DOC_START
2962 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2963 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2964
41bd17a4 2965 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2966 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2967 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2968 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2969
41bd17a4 2970 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2971
41bd17a4 2972 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2973
41bd17a4 2974 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2975 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2976 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2977 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2978
41bd17a4 2979 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2980 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2981 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2982 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2983
41bd17a4 2984 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2985 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2986 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2987
41bd17a4 2988 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2989 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2990 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2991
41bd17a4 2992 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2993 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2994 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2995DOC_END
0976f8db 2996
41bd17a4 2997NAME: cache_dir
2998TYPE: cachedir
2999DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3000LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 3001DOC_START
41bd17a4 3002 Usage:
0976f8db 3003
41bd17a4 3004 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3005
41bd17a4 3006 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3007 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3008
41bd17a4 3009 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3010 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3011 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3012
41bd17a4 3013 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3014 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3015 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3016 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3017 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 3018
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3019 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3020 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3021 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3022
41bd17a4 3023 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 3024
41bd17a4 3025 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3026 been there.
0976f8db 3027
41bd17a4 3028 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3029
41bd17a4 3030 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3031 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3032 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3033 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3034 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3035
56fba4d0 3036 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3037 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3038
56fba4d0 3039 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3040 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3041 is 256.
0976f8db 3042
41bd17a4 3043 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 3044
41bd17a4 3045 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3046 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3047 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3048
41bd17a4 3049 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3050
41bd17a4 3051 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3052
41bd17a4 3053 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 3054
41bd17a4 3055 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3056 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3057 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3058
41bd17a4 3059 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3060
41bd17a4 3061 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3062
41bd17a4 3063 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3064 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3065 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3066
41bd17a4 3067 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3068 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3069 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3070
41bd17a4 3071 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3072 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3073 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3074 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3075 time.
0976f8db 3076
2e55f083 3077 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 3078
df881a0f 3079 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 3080
2e55f083 3081 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3083 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3084 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3085 below for more info on the max-size option.
3086
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3088 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3089 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3090 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3091 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3092 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3093 expected swap wait time.
3094
df881a0f 3095 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3096 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3097 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3098 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3099 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3100 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3101 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3102 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3103 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3104 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3105 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3106 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3107 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3108 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3109
3110
41bd17a4 3111 The coss store type:
0976f8db 3112
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3113 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3114 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3115 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3116
41bd17a4 3117 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3118 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3119 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3120 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3121 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3122 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3123 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 3124
41bd17a4 3125 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3126 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3127 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 3128
41bd17a4 3129 Common options:
0976f8db 3130
41bd17a4 3131 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 3132
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3133 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
3134 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
3135 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
3136 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
3137
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3138 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
3139 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 3140 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
3141 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
3142 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 3143
41bd17a4 3144 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3145 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3146 option.
bebc043b 3147NOCOMMENT_START
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3148
3149# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3150#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3151NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3152DOC_END
0976f8db 3153
41bd17a4 3154NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3155TYPE: string
3156LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3157DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3158DOC_START
41bd17a4 3159 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 3160DOC_END
0976f8db 3161
41bd17a4 3162NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3163TYPE: int
3164LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3165DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 3166DOC_START
41bd17a4 3167 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3168 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3169 descriptors are open.
3170
3171 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3172DOC_END
0976f8db 3173
41bd17a4 3174NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 3175COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 3176TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 3177DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 3178LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 3179DOC_START
41bd17a4 3180 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3181 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3182 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 3183DOC_END
0976f8db 3184
41bd17a4 3185NAME: maximum_object_size
3186COMMENT: (bytes)
3187TYPE: b_int64_t
3188DEFAULT: 4096 KB
3189LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 3190DOC_START
41bd17a4 3191 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3192 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
3193 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3194 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3195 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
3196 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 3197
41bd17a4 3198 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3199 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3200 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 3201DOC_END
0976f8db 3202
41bd17a4 3203NAME: cache_swap_low
3204COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3205TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3206DEFAULT: 90
3207LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
3208DOC_NONE
3209
3210NAME: cache_swap_high
3211COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3212TYPE: int
3213DEFAULT: 95
3214LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3215DOC_START
41bd17a4 3216
3217 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
3218 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3219 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3220 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3221 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3222 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3223
3224 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3225 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3226 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 3227DOC_END
0976f8db 3228
5473c134 3229COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3230 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3231 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3232COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3233
41bd17a4 3234NAME: logformat
3235TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3236LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3237DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 3238DOC_START
41bd17a4 3239 Usage:
0976f8db 3240
41bd17a4 3241 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3242
41bd17a4 3243 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3244
41bd17a4 3245 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3246
41bd17a4 3247 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3248 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3249 as required according to their context and the output format
3250 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3251 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3252
41bd17a4 3253 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3254
41bd17a4 3255 " output in quoted string format
3256 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3257 # output in URL quoted format
3258 ' output as-is
5473c134 3259
41bd17a4 3260 - left aligned
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3261
3262 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3263 [width_min][.width_max]
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3264 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3265 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3266
41bd17a4 3267 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3268
41bd17a4 3269 Format codes:
5473c134 3270
3ff65596 3271 % a literal % character
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3272 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3273 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3274 a similar internal error identifier.
3275 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
3276
3277 Connection related format codes:
3278
41bd17a4 3279 >a Client source IP address
3280 >A Client FQDN
3281 >p Client source port
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3282 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3283 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3284 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3285
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3286 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3287 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3288
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3289 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3290 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3291 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3292 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3293 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3294
3295 Time related format codes:
3296
41bd17a4 3297 ts Seconds since epoch
3298 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3299 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3300 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3301 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3302 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3303 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3304 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
3305
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3306 Access Control related format codes:
3307
3308 et Tag returned by external acl
3309 ea Log string returned by external acl
3310 un User name (any available)
3311 ul User name from authentication
3312 ue User name from external acl helper
3313 ui User name from ident
3314 us User name from SSL
3315
3316 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3317
ca2e92d8 3318 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3319 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3320 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3321 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3322 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3323 as for >h
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3324 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3325 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3326 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3327 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3328 transfer encoding and control messages.
3329 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3330 received bodies.
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3331 [http::]mt MIME content type
3332 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3333 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3334 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3335 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3336 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3337 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3338 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3339 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3340 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3341 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3342 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3343 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3344 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3345 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3346 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3347 are not included
3348 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3349 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3350 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3351 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3352 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3353 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3354 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3355 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3356 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3357 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3358 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3359 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3360
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3361 Squid handling related format codes:
3362
3363 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3364 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3365
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3366 SSL-related format codes:
3367
3368 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3369
3370 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3371 a connection and for any request received on
3372 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3373 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3374 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3375 more information about these modes.
3376
3377 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3378 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3379 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3380
3381 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3382 logged.
3383
5038f9d8 3384 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3385 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3386
3387 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3388 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3389 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3390 transaction is in progress.
3391
5038f9d8 3392 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3393
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3394 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3395 meta-information from the last eCAP
3396 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3397 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3398 argument.
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3399
3400 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3401 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3402 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3403 value is recorded as an integer number,
3404 representing response time of one or more
3405 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3406 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3407 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3408 logged individually but added to the
3409 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3410 adapt::all_trs.
3411
3412 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3413 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3414 individual transactions are never added
3415 together. Instead, all transaction response
3416 times are recorded individually.
3417
3418 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3419 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3420 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3421
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3422 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3423
3424 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3425 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3426 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3427 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3428 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3429
3430 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3431 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3432 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3433 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3434 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3435
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3436 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3437
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3438logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3439logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3440logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3441logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3442logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3443
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3444 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3445 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3446 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3447
3448 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3449 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3450
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3452
41bd17a4 3453NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3454TYPE: access_log
3455LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3456DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3457DOC_START
41bd17a4 3458 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3459 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3460 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3461 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3462
3463 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3464 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3465 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3466 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3467
3468 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3469
bb7a1781 3470 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3471 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3472
3473 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3474 each request.
3475 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3476
3477 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3478 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3479 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3480
3481 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3482
3483 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3484 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3485 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3486
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3487 where facility could be any of:
3488 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3489
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3490 And priority could be any of:
3491 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3492
3493 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3494 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3495 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3496
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3497 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3498 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3499 Place Format: //host:port
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3501 Default:
82b7abe3 3502 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3503DOC_END
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3505NAME: icap_log
3506TYPE: access_log
3507IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3508LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3509DEFAULT: none
3510DOC_START
3511 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3512 transaction.
3513
3514 The icap_log option format is:
3515 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3516 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3517
3518 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3519 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3520 features.
3521
3522 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3523 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3524 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3525 log line.
3526
3527 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3528 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3529 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3530 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3531 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3532 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3533 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3534
3535 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3536
3537 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3538
3539 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3540 option in Squid configuration file.
3541
3542 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3543
3544 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3545 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3546
3547 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3548 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3549
3550 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3551 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3552 the socket).
3553
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3554 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3555 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3556 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3557 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3558 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3559 computed.
3560
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3562 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3563 the ICAP transaction is created and
3564 stops when the transaction is completed.
3565 Similar to tr.
3566
3567 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3568 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3569 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3570 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3571 is received.
3572
3573 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3574 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3575 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3576 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3577 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3578 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3579
3580 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3581
3582 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3583
3584 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3585
3586 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3587 definition, is called icap_squid:
3588
3589logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3590
5038f9d8 3591 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3593
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3594NAME: logfile_daemon
3595TYPE: string
3596DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3597LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3598DOC_START
3599 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3600 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3601
3602 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3603 L<data>\n - logfile data
3604 R\n - rotate file
3605 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3606 O\n - reopen file
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3607 F\n - flush file
3608 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3609 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3610
3611 No responses is expected.
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3613
5b0f5383 3614NAME: log_access
3615TYPE: acl_access
3616LOC: Config.accessList.log
3617DEFAULT: none
3618COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3619DOC_START
3620 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3621 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3622 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3623
3624 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3625 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3626DOC_END
3627
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3628NAME: log_icap
3629TYPE: acl_access
3630IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3631LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3632DEFAULT: none
3633DOC_START
3634 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3635 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3636DOC_END
3637
41bd17a4 3638NAME: cache_store_log
3639TYPE: string
df2eec10 3640DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3641LOC: Config.Log.store
3642DOC_START
3643 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3644 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3645 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
3646 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3647 disable it.
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3649 Example:
3650 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3651DOC_END
3652
41bd17a4 3653NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3654TYPE: string
3655LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3656DEFAULT: none
3657DOC_START
41bd17a4 3658 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3659 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3660 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3661 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3662 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3663 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3664 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3665
41bd17a4 3666 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3667 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3668 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3669 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3670
41bd17a4 3671 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3672 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3673
41bd17a4 3674 cache_swap_log.00
3675 cache_swap_log.01
3676 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3677
41bd17a4 3678 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3679 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3680 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3681 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3682 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3683 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3684 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3685DOC_END
3686
41bd17a4 3687NAME: logfile_rotate
3688TYPE: int
3689DEFAULT: 10
3690LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3691DOC_START
41bd17a4 3692 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3693 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3694 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3695 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3696 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3697 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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41bd17a4 3699 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3700 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3701 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3702 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3703 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3704 <pid>'.
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3705
3706 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3707 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3708DOC_END
5473c134 3709
41bd17a4 3710NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3711TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3712DOC_START
20efa1c2 3713 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3714DOC_END
3715
41bd17a4 3716NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3717TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3718DOC_START
8652f8e7 3719 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3720DOC_END
5473c134 3721
41bd17a4 3722NAME: mime_table
3723TYPE: string
3724DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3725LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3726DOC_START
3727 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3728 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3729 information if you do.
5473c134 3730DOC_END
3731
41bd17a4 3732NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3733COMMENT: on|off
3734TYPE: onoff
3735LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3736DEFAULT: off
3737DOC_START
3738 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3739 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3740 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3741 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3742 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3743DOC_END
5473c134 3744
41bd17a4 3745NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3746TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3747DOC_START
20efa1c2 3748 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3749DOC_END
3750
41bd17a4 3751NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3752TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3753DOC_START
20efa1c2 3754 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3755DOC_END
3756
41bd17a4 3757NAME: pid_filename
3758TYPE: string
3759DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3760LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3761DOC_START
41bd17a4 3762 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3763DOC_END
3764
41bd17a4 3765NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3766TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3767DOC_START
c581e96b 3768 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3769DOC_END
3770
41bd17a4 3771NAME: client_netmask
3772TYPE: address
3773LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3774DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3775DOC_START
41bd17a4 3776 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3777 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3778 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3779 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3780DOC_END
3781
41bd17a4 3782NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3783TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3784DOC_START
20efa1c2 3785 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3786DOC_END
3787
41bd17a4 3788NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3789TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3790LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3791DEFAULT: on
3792DOC_START
41bd17a4 3793 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3794 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3795DOC_END
3796
41bd17a4 3797NAME: buffered_logs
3798COMMENT: on|off
3799TYPE: onoff
3800DEFAULT: off
3801LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3802DOC_START
41bd17a4 3803 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3804 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3805 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3806 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3807 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 3808DOC_END
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2b753521 3810NAME: netdb_filename
3811TYPE: string
221faecb 3812DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3813LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3814IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3815DOC_START
3816 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3817 To disable, enter "none".
3818DOC_END
3819
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3820COMMENT_START
3821 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3822 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3823COMMENT_END
3824
3825NAME: cache_log
3826TYPE: string
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3827DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3828LOC: Debug::cache_log
3829DOC_START
3830 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3831 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3832 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3833DOC_END
3834
3835NAME: debug_options
3836TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3837DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3838LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3839DOC_START
3840 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3841 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3842 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3843 log file, so be careful.
3844
3845 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3846 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3847
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3849 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3850 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3851 events affecting Squid.
3852DOC_END
3853
3854NAME: coredump_dir
3855TYPE: string
3856LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3857DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3858DOC_START
3859 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3860 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3861 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3862 and coredump files will be left there.
3863
3864NOCOMMENT_START
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3866# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3867coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3868NOCOMMENT_END
3869DOC_END
3870
3871
41bd17a4 3872COMMENT_START
3873 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3874 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3875COMMENT_END
3876
3877NAME: ftp_user
3878TYPE: string
3879DEFAULT: Squid@
3880LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3881DOC_START
41bd17a4 3882 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3883 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3884 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3885
41bd17a4 3886 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3887 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3888 depending on how the cache is used.
3889 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3890 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3891DOC_END
0976f8db 3892
41bd17a4 3893NAME: ftp_passive
3894TYPE: onoff
3895DEFAULT: on
3896LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3897DOC_START
41bd17a4 3898 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3899 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 3900
3901 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3902DOC_END
3903
3904NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3905TYPE: onoff
3906DEFAULT: off
3907LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3908DOC_START
3909 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3910
3911 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3912 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3913 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3914
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3916 useful.
a689bd4e 3917 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3918 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3919
3920 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3921 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3922
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3924DOC_END
3925
3926NAME: ftp_epsv
3927TYPE: onoff
3928DEFAULT: on
3929LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3930DOC_START
3931 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3932
3933 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3934 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3935 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3936 will never be needed.
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3938 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3939 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3940 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3941
3942 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3943DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3944
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3945NAME: ftp_eprt
3946TYPE: onoff
3947DEFAULT: on
3948LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3949DOC_START
3950 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3951
3952 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3953 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3954 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3955
3956 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3957 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3958
3959 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3960 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3961 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3962 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3963
3964 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3965 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3966DOC_END
3967
41bd17a4 3968NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3969TYPE: onoff
3970DEFAULT: on
3971LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3972DOC_START
3973 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3974 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3975 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3976 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3977 connection turn this off.
3978DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3979
41bd17a4 3980NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3981TYPE: onoff
3982DEFAULT: on
3983LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3984DOC_START
3985 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3986 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3987 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3988 the FTP protocol.
3989
3990 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3991 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3992 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3993 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3994 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3995DOC_END
3996
3997COMMENT_START
3998 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3999 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4000COMMENT_END
4001
4002NAME: diskd_program
4003TYPE: string
4004DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4005LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4006DOC_START
4007 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4008 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4009 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4010DOC_END
4011
4012NAME: unlinkd_program
4013IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4014TYPE: string
4015DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4016LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4017DOC_START
4018 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4019DOC_END
4020
4021NAME: pinger_program
4022TYPE: string
4023DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4024LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4025IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4026DOC_START
4027 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4028DOC_END
4029
cc192b50 4030NAME: pinger_enable
4031TYPE: onoff
4032DEFAULT: on
4033LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4034IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4035DOC_START
4036 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4038 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4039DOC_END
4040
4041
41bd17a4 4042COMMENT_START
4043 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4044 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4045COMMENT_END
4046
4047NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4048TYPE: wordlist
4049LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4050DEFAULT: none
4051DOC_START
2c7aad89 4052 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4053 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4054
2c7aad89 4055 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4056
c71adec1 4057 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
4058
4059 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
4060 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
4061 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4062 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4063
4064 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
4065 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
4066
4067 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
4068 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 4069 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 4070
4071 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4072DOC_END
4073
4074NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4075TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4076DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4077LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4078DOC_START
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4079 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4080 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4081 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4082 and other system resources noticably.
4083
4084 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4085 tuning.
4086
4087 startup=
4088
4089 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4090 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4091 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4092
4093 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4094 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4095
4096 idle=
4097
4098 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4099 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4100 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4101 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4102
4103 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4104
41bd17a4 4105 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4106 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4107 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4109 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4110 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4111 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
4112 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
4113 to that request.
41bd17a4 4114DOC_END
4115
4116NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4117TYPE: onoff
4118DEFAULT: on
4119LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4120DOC_START
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4121 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4122 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4123 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4124
4125 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4126 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4127 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4128
41bd17a4 4129 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4130 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4131
4132 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4133 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4134 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4135DOC_END
4136
4137NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4138TYPE: acl_access
4139DEFAULT: none
4140LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4141DOC_START
4142 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4143 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
4144 are sent.
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4145
4146 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4147 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4148DOC_END
4149
4150NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4151TYPE: onoff
4152LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4153DEFAULT: off
4154DOC_START
4155 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4156 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4157 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4158 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4159 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4160 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4161 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4162 users may have access to pages they should not
4163 be allowed to request.
4164DOC_END
4165
4166COMMENT_START
4167 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4168 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4169COMMENT_END
4170
f04b37d8 4171NAME: cache no_cache
4172TYPE: acl_access
4173DEFAULT: none
4174LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4175DOC_START
240887f0 4176 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 4177 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4178 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 4179
240887f0 4180 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4181 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 4182
240887f0 4183 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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4184
4185 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4186 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4187DOC_END
4188
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4189NAME: max_stale
4190COMMENT: time-units
4191TYPE: time_t
4192LOC: Config.maxStale
4193DEFAULT: 1 week
4194DOC_START
4195 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4196 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4197 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4198DOC_END
4199
41bd17a4 4200NAME: refresh_pattern
4201TYPE: refreshpattern
4202LOC: Config.Refresh
4203DEFAULT: none
4204DOC_START
4205 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 4206
6b698a21 4207 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4208 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 4209
41bd17a4 4210 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4211 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4212 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4213 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4214 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 4215
41bd17a4 4216 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4217 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4218 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 4219
41bd17a4 4220 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4221 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 4222
41bd17a4 4223 options: override-expire
4224 override-lastmod
4225 reload-into-ims
4226 ignore-reload
4227 ignore-no-cache
4228 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 4229 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 4230 ignore-private
4231 ignore-auth
570d3f75 4232 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 4233 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 4234 store-stale
a0ec9f68 4235
41bd17a4 4236 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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4237 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4238 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4239 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4240 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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4242 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4243 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4244 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4245 the object fresh for that period of time.
4246
41bd17a4 4247 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4248 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 4249
41bd17a4 4250 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
4251 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
4252 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4253 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 4254
41bd17a4 4255 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4256 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4257 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4258 it causes.
9bc73deb 4259
41bd17a4 4260 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
4261 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
4262 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
4263 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
4264 send it anyway.
4265
4266 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4267 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4268 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4269 liable for problems which it causes.
4270
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4271 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4272 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4273 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4274 liable for problems which it causes.
4275
41bd17a4 4276 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4277 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4278 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4279 liable for problems which it causes.
4280
4281 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4282 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4283 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4284 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4285 it causes.
4286
4287 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4288 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4289 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4290 if one is available.
4291
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4292 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4293 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4294 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4295 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4296 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4297
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4298 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4299 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4300 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4301
41bd17a4 4302 Basically a cached object is:
4303
4304 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4305 STALE if age > max
4306 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4307 FRESH if age < min
4308 else STALE
4309
4310 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4311 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4312 match the default will be used.
4313
4314 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4315 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4316 used.
4317
41bd17a4 4318NOCOMMENT_START
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4320# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 4321refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4322refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4323refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4324refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4325NOCOMMENT_END
4326DOC_END
4327
4328NAME: quick_abort_min
4329COMMENT: (KB)
4330TYPE: kb_int64_t
4331DEFAULT: 16 KB
4332LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4333DOC_NONE
4334
4335NAME: quick_abort_max
4336COMMENT: (KB)
4337TYPE: kb_int64_t
4338DEFAULT: 16 KB
4339LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4340DOC_NONE
4341
4342NAME: quick_abort_pct
4343COMMENT: (percent)
4344TYPE: int
4345DEFAULT: 95
4346LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4347DOC_START
4348 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4349 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4350 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4351 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4352 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4353 downloads.
4354
4355 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4356 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4357 then.
4358
4359 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4360 it will finish the retrieval.
4361
4362 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4363 it will abort the retrieval.
4364
4365 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4366 it will finish the retrieval.
4367
4368 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4369 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4370 to '0 KB'.
4371
4372 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4373 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4374DOC_END
60d096f4 4375
41bd17a4 4376NAME: read_ahead_gap
4377COMMENT: buffer-size
4378TYPE: b_int64_t
4379LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4380DEFAULT: 16 KB
4381DOC_START
4382 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4383 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4384DOC_END
53e738c6 4385
41bd17a4 4386NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4387IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4388COMMENT: time-units
4389TYPE: time_t
4390LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4391DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4392DOC_START
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4393 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4394 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4395 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4396 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4397 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4398 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4399
4400 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4401
4402 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4403 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4404 causes.
41bd17a4 4405DOC_END
53e738c6 4406
41bd17a4 4407NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4408COMMENT: time-units
4409TYPE: time_t
4410LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4411DEFAULT: 6 hours
4412DOC_START
4413 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4414 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4415 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4416DOC_END
c4ab8329 4417
41bd17a4 4418NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4419COMMENT: time-units
4420TYPE: time_t
4421LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4422DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4423DOC_START
4424 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4425 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4426 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4427 much below 10 seconds.
4428DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4430NAME: range_offset_limit
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4431COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4432TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4433LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4434DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4435DOC_START
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4436 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4437
4438 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4439 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4440 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4441 the result is NOT cached.
4442
41bd17a4 4443 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4444 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4445 sending anything to the client.
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4446
4447 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4448 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4449 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4450 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4451
4452 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4453
4454 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4455 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4456
4457 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4458 client requested. (default)
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4459
4460 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4461 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4462
4463 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4464
4465 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4466 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4467 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4468 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4469DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4471NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4472COMMENT: (seconds)
4473TYPE: time_t
4474LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4475DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4476DOC_START
4477 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4478 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4479 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4480 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4481 is most likely better to make your server return a
4482 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4483 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4484 often be best set to 0.
4485DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4487NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4488COMMENT: (bytes)
4489TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4490DEFAULT: 13 KB
4491LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4492DOC_START
4493 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4494 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4495DOC_END
4496
41bd17a4 4497NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4498TYPE: int
4499DEFAULT: 20
4500LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4501DOC_START
4502 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4503 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4504 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4505DOC_END
4506
4507COMMENT_START
4508 HTTP OPTIONS
4509 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4510COMMENT_END
4511
f04b37d8 4512NAME: request_header_max_size
4513COMMENT: (KB)
4514TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4515DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4516LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4517DOC_START
4518 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4519 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4520 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4521 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4522 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4523DOC_END
4524
4525NAME: reply_header_max_size
4526COMMENT: (KB)
4527TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4528DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4529LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4530DOC_START
4531 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4532 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4533 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4534 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4535 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4536DOC_END
4537
4538NAME: request_body_max_size
4539COMMENT: (bytes)
4540TYPE: b_int64_t
4541DEFAULT: 0 KB
4542LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4543DOC_START
4544 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4545 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4546 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4547 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4548 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4549 be no limit imposed.
4550DOC_END
4551
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4552NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4553COMMENT: (bytes)
4554TYPE: b_size_t
4555DEFAULT: 512 KB
4556LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4557DOC_START
4558 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4559 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4560 a large file.
4561DOC_END
4562
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4563NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4564COMMENT: (bytes)
4565TYPE: b_int64_t
4566DEFAULT: 64 KB
4567LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4568DOC_START
4569 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4570 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4571 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4572 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4573 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4574 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4575
4576 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4577 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4578 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4579 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4580 as if dechunking was disabled.
4581
4582 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4583 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4584
4585 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4586 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4587 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4588DOC_END
4589
41bd17a4 4590NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4591IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4592TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4593DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4594LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4595DOC_START
41bd17a4 4596 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4597 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4598
41bd17a4 4599 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4600 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4601
41bd17a4 4602 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4603
41bd17a4 4604 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4605 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4606 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4607 a request with an extra CRLF.
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4609 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4610 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4611
41bd17a4 4612Example:
4613 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4614 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4615DOC_END
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22fff3bf 4617NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4618COMMENT: on|off
4619TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4620IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4621DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4622LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4623DOC_START
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4624 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4625 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4626
4627 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4628DOC_END
4629
41bd17a4 4630NAME: via
626096be 4631IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4632COMMENT: on|off
4633TYPE: onoff
4634DEFAULT: on
4635LOC: Config.onoff.via
4636DOC_START
4637 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4638 replies as required by RFC2616.
4639DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4640
41bd17a4 4641NAME: ie_refresh
4642COMMENT: on|off
4643TYPE: onoff
4644LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4645DEFAULT: off
4646DOC_START
4647 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4648 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4649 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4650 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4651 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4652 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4653 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4654 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4655 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4656 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4657 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4658 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4659 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4660 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4661 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4662 force fresh content.
4663DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4665NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4666COMMENT: on|off
4667TYPE: onoff
4668LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4669DEFAULT: off
4670DOC_START
4671 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4672 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4673 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4674 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4675 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4676
4677 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4678 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4679DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4681NAME: request_entities
4682TYPE: onoff
4683LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4684DEFAULT: off
4685DOC_START
4686 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4687 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4688 even if not explicitly forbidden.
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41bd17a4 4690 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4691 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4692 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4693 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4694 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4695DOC_END
6b53c392 4696
41bd17a4 4697NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4698IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4699TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4700LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4701DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4702DOC_START
41bd17a4 4703 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4704
41bd17a4 4705 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4706 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4707 causes.
0976f8db 4708
41bd17a4 4709 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4710 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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4711 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
4712 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
4713
4714 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
4715 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
4716 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
4717 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
4718 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4719
4720 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
4721 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
4722 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
4723
4724 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
4725 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
4726 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
4727 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
4728
4729 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
4730 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
4731 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
4732 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
4733 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
4734 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 4735
41bd17a4 4736 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4737 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4738
41bd17a4 4739 request_header_access From deny all
4740 request_header_access Referer deny all
4741 request_header_access Server deny all
4742 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4743 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4744 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4745
41bd17a4 4746 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4747 you should use:
5401aa8d 4748
41bd17a4 4749 request_header_access Allow allow all
4750 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4751 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4752 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4753 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4754 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4755 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4756 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4757 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4758 request_header_access Date allow all
4759 request_header_access Expires allow all
4760 request_header_access Host allow all
4761 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4762 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4763 request_header_access Location allow all
4764 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4765 request_header_access Accept allow all
4766 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4767 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4768 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4769 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4770 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4771 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4772 request_header_access Title allow all
4773 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4774 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4775
41bd17a4 4776 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4777 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4778
41bd17a4 4779 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4780 performed).
5401aa8d 4781DOC_END
4782
41bd17a4 4783NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4784IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4785TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4786LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4787DEFAULT: none
4788DOC_START
41bd17a4 4789 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4790
41bd17a4 4791 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4792 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4793 causes.
934b03fc 4794
41bd17a4 4795 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4796 server to the client.
934b03fc 4797
41bd17a4 4798 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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4799 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
4800 documentation.
cccac0a2 4801
41bd17a4 4802 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4803 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4804
41bd17a4 4805 reply_header_access From deny all
4806 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4807 reply_header_access Server deny all
4808 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4809 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4810 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4811
41bd17a4 4812 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4813 you should use:
cccac0a2 4814
41bd17a4 4815 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4816 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4817 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4818 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4819 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4820 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4821 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4822 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4823 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4824 reply_header_access Date allow all
4825 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4826 reply_header_access Host allow all
4827 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4828 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4829 reply_header_access Location allow all
4830 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4831 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4832 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4833 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4834 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4835 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4836 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4837 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4838 reply_header_access Title allow all
4839 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4840 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4841
41bd17a4 4842 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4843 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4844
41bd17a4 4845 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4846 performed).
cccac0a2 4847DOC_END
4848
75e4f2ea 4849NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4850IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4851TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 4852LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4853DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4854DOC_START
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4855 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4856 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4857
41bd17a4 4858 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4859 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4860 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4861 option.
cccac0a2 4862
41bd17a4 4863 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4864
41bd17a4 4865 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4866DOC_END
cccac0a2 4867
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4868NAME: reply_header_replace
4869IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4870TYPE: http_header_replace
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4871LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4872DEFAULT: none
4873DOC_START
4874 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4875 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4876
4877 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4878 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4879 with some fixed string.
4880
4881 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4882
4883 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4884DOC_END
4885
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4886NAME: request_header_add
4887TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
4888LOC: Config.request_header_add
4889DEFAULT: none
4890DOC_START
4891 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
4892 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
4893
4894 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
4895 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
4896 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
4897 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
4898 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4899
4900 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
4901 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
4902 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
4903 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
4904 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
4905 header field values are not merged.
4906
4907 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
4908 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
4909 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
4910
4911 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
4912 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
4913 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
4914 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
4915 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
4916 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
4917 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
4918 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
4919
4920 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
4921 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
4922 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
4923 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
4924 only.
4925DOC_END
4926
41bd17a4 4927NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4928COMMENT: on|off|warn
4929TYPE: tristate
4930LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4931DEFAULT: on
4932DOC_START
4933 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4934 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4935 what the sending application intended even if the message
4936 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4937 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4938
41bd17a4 4939 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4940 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4941
41bd17a4 4942 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4943 or response to be rejected.
4944DOC_END
7d90757b 4945
41bd17a4 4946COMMENT_START
4947 TIMEOUTS
4948 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4949COMMENT_END
4950
4951NAME: forward_timeout
4952COMMENT: time-units
4953TYPE: time_t
4954LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4955DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4956DOC_START
4957 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4958 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4959DOC_END
4960
41bd17a4 4961NAME: connect_timeout
4962COMMENT: time-units
4963TYPE: time_t
4964LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4965DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4966DOC_START
41bd17a4 4967 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4968 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4969 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4970DOC_END
4971
41bd17a4 4972NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4973COMMENT: time-units
4974TYPE: time_t
4975LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4976DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4977DOC_START
41bd17a4 4978 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4979 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4980 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4981 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4982DOC_END
7f7db318 4983
41bd17a4 4984NAME: read_timeout
4985COMMENT: time-units
4986TYPE: time_t
4987LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4988DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4989DOC_START
4990 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4991 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4992 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4993 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4994 default is 15 minutes.
4995DOC_END
cccac0a2 4996
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4997NAME: write_timeout
4998COMMENT: time-units
4999TYPE: time_t
5000LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5001DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5002DOC_START
5003 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5004 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5005 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5006 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5007 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5008 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5009 default is 15 minutes.
5010DOC_END
5011
41bd17a4 5012NAME: request_timeout
5013TYPE: time_t
5014LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5015DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5016DOC_START
6b2a2108 5017 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5018 connection establishment.
5019DOC_END
cccac0a2 5020
97b32442 5021NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5022TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5023LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5024DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5025DOC_START
5026 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5027 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5028DOC_END
cccac0a2 5029
41bd17a4 5030NAME: client_lifetime
5031COMMENT: time-units
5032TYPE: time_t
5033LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5034DEFAULT: 1 day
5035DOC_START
5036 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5037 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5038 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5039 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5040 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5041 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5042 day, 1440 minutes.
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41bd17a4 5044 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5045 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5046 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5047 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5048 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5049 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5050DOC_END
5051
41bd17a4 5052NAME: half_closed_clients
5053TYPE: onoff
5054LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5055DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5056DOC_START
41bd17a4 5057 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5058 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5059 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5060 fully-closed TCP connection.
5061
5062 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5063 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5064
abdf1651 5065 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5066 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5067 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5068 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5069DOC_END
5070
97b32442 5071NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5072TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5073LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5074DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5075DOC_START
41bd17a4 5076 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5077 proxies.
5078DOC_END
cccac0a2 5079
41bd17a4 5080NAME: ident_timeout
5081TYPE: time_t
5082IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5083LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5084DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5085DOC_START
5086 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5087
41bd17a4 5088 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5089 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5090 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5091DOC_END
5092
41bd17a4 5093NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5094COMMENT: time-units
5095TYPE: time_t
5096LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5097DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5098DOC_START
41bd17a4 5099 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5100 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5101 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5102 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5103 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5104DOC_END
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cccac0a2 5106COMMENT_START
5107 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5108 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5109COMMENT_END
5110
5111NAME: cache_mgr
5112TYPE: string
5113DEFAULT: webmaster
5114LOC: Config.adminEmail
5115DOC_START
5116 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
5117 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
5118DOC_END
5119
abacf776 5120NAME: mail_from
5121TYPE: string
5122DEFAULT: none
5123LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5124DOC_START
5125 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
5126 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 5127 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 5128 src/globals.h before building squid.
5129DOC_END
5130
d084bf20 5131NAME: mail_program
5132TYPE: eol
5133DEFAULT: mail
5134LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5135DOC_START
5136 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5137 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5138 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5139 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5140
d084bf20 5141 Optional command line options can be specified.
5142DOC_END
5143
cccac0a2 5144NAME: cache_effective_user
5145TYPE: string
5483d916 5146DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5147LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5148DOC_START
5149 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5150 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5151 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5152 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5153DOC_END
5154
cccac0a2 5155NAME: cache_effective_group
5156TYPE: string
5157DEFAULT: none
5158LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5159DOC_START
64e288bd 5160 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5161 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5162 from the groups membership.
5163
e3d74828 5164 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5165 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5166 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5167 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5168 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5169 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5170 group.
64e288bd 5171
5172 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5173 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5174 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5175DOC_END
5176
d3caee79 5177NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5178COMMENT: on|off
5179TYPE: onoff
5180DEFAULT: off
5181LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5182DOC_START
5183 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5184DOC_END
5185
cccac0a2 5186NAME: visible_hostname
5187TYPE: string
5188LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5189DEFAULT: none
5190DOC_START
5191 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 5192 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 5193 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5194 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5195 names with this setting.
5196DOC_END
5197
cccac0a2 5198NAME: unique_hostname
5199TYPE: string
5200LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5201DEFAULT: none
5202DOC_START
5203 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 5204 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5205 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 5206DOC_END
5207
cccac0a2 5208NAME: hostname_aliases
5209TYPE: wordlist
5210LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5211DEFAULT: none
5212DOC_START
7f7db318 5213 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 5214DOC_END
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5216NAME: umask
5217TYPE: int
5218LOC: Config.umask
5219DEFAULT: 027
5220DOC_START
5221 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5222 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5223
5224 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5225 your value with 0.
5226DOC_END
5227
cccac0a2 5228COMMENT_START
5229 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5230 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5231
5232 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5233 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5234 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5235 create cache hierarchies.
5236
5237 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5238 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5239 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5240
5241 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5242 following information from this configuration file:
5243
5244 http_port
5245 icp_port
5246 cache_mgr
5247
5248 All current information is processed regularly and made
5249 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5250COMMENT_END
5251
5252NAME: announce_period
5253TYPE: time_t
5254LOC: Config.Announce.period
5255DEFAULT: 0
5256DOC_START
5257 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
5258 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
5259 messages.
5260
e0855596 5261 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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5263 Example:
5264 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 5265DOC_END
5266
cccac0a2 5267NAME: announce_host
5268TYPE: string
5269DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5270LOC: Config.Announce.host
5271DOC_NONE
5272
5273NAME: announce_file
5274TYPE: string
5275DEFAULT: none
5276LOC: Config.Announce.file
5277DOC_NONE
5278
5279NAME: announce_port
ae870270 5280TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 5281DEFAULT: 3131
5282LOC: Config.Announce.port
5283DOC_START
5284 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
5285 number where the registration message will be sent.
5286
5287 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
5288 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
5289 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
5290 message.
5291DOC_END
5292
8d6275c0 5293COMMENT_START
5294 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5295 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5296COMMENT_END
5297
cccac0a2 5298NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5299TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5300DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5301LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5302DOC_START
5303 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5304 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5305 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5306 an identification token.
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5307
5308 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5309DOC_END
5310
5311NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5312COMMENT: on|off
5313TYPE: onoff
5314DEFAULT: off
5315LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5316DOC_START
5317 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
5318 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5319DOC_END
5320
5321NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5322IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5323COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5324TYPE: string
5325LOC: ESIParser::Type
5326DEFAULT: custom
5327DOC_START
5328 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5329 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5330 encodings.
5331DOC_END
0976f8db 5332
9edd9041 5333COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5334 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5335 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5336COMMENT_END
5337
5338NAME: delay_pools
5339TYPE: delay_pool_count
5340DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5341IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5342LOC: Config.Delay
5343DOC_START
5344 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5345 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5346 have a total of 2 delay pools.
5347DOC_END
5348
5349NAME: delay_class
5350TYPE: delay_pool_class
5351DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5352IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5353LOC: Config.Delay
5354DOC_START
5355 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5356 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5357 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5358 and here would be:
5359
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5361 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5362 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5363 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5364 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5365 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5366
5367 The delay pool classes are:
5368
5369 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5370 bucket.
5371
5372 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5373 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5374 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5375
5376 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5377 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5378 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5379 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5380 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5381
5382 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5383 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5384 only takes effect if the username is established
5385 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5386 http_access rules.
5387
5388 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5389 external_acl's tag= reply).
5390
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5391
5392 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5393 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5394 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5395
9edd9041 5396 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5397 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5398 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5399 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5400
5401 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5402 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5403DOC_END
5404
5405NAME: delay_access
5406TYPE: delay_pool_access
5407DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5408IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5409LOC: Config.Delay
5410DOC_START
5411 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5412
5413 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5414 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5415 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5416 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5417
5418 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5419 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5420
5421Example:
5422 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5423 delay_access 1 deny all
5424 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5425 delay_access 2 deny all
5426 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5427DOC_END
5428
5429NAME: delay_parameters
5430TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5431DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5432IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5433LOC: Config.Delay
5434DOC_START
5435 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5436 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5437 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5438
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5439 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5440 delay_pools pool 1
5441 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5442
5443 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5444 delay_pools pool 2
5445 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5446
5447 For a class 3 delay pool:
0b68481a
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5448 delay_pools pool 3
5449 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5450
5451 For a class 4 delay pool:
0b68481a
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5452 delay_pools pool 4
5453 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5454
5455 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5456 delay_pools pool 5
5457 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5458
0b68481a 5459 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5460
5461 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5462 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5463 delay_class lines.
5464
fdb47ac6 5465 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5466 (class 1, 2, 3).
5467
fdb47ac6 5468 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5469 buckets (class 2, 3).
5470
fdb47ac6 5471 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5472 (class 3).
5473
fdb47ac6 5474 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5475 (class 4).
5476
fdb47ac6 5477 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5478 (class 5).
5479
5480 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5481 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5482 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5483 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5484
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5485 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5486
5487
9edd9041 5488 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5489 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5490 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5491
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5492 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5493
5494 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5495
5496 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5497
0b68481a 5498
9edd9041 5499 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5500 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5501 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5502 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5503 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5504 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5505 large downloads more significantly:
5506
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5507 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5508
5509 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5510 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5511 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5512
9edd9041 5513
5514 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5515 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5516
0b68481a 5517 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5518DOC_END
5519
5520NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5521COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5522TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5523DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5524IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5525LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5526DOC_START
5527 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5528 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5529 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5530 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5531 "seen" by squid).
5532DOC_END
5533
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5534COMMENT_START
5535 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5536 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5537COMMENT_END
5538
5539NAME: client_delay_pools
5540TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5541DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5542IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5543LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5544DOC_START
5545 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5546 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5547
5548Example:
5549 client_delay_pools 2
5550DOC_END
5551
5552NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5553COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5554TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5555DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5556IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5557LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5558DOC_START
5559 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5560 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5561 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5562 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5563
5564 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5565 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5566 from client_delay_parameters.
5567
5568Example:
5569 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5570DOC_END
5571
5572NAME: client_delay_parameters
5573TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5574DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5575IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5576LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5577DOC_START
5578
5579 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5580 following format:
5581
5582 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5583
5584 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5585
5586 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5587
5588 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5589 speed_limit additions.
5590
5591 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5592 examples.
5593
5594Example:
5595 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5596 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5597DOC_END
5598
5599NAME: client_delay_access
5600TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5601DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5602IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5603LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5604DOC_START
5605
5606 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5607 request:
5608
5609 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5610
5611 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5612 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5613 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5614 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5615 limited.
5616
5617 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5618 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5619 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5620 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5621
5622 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5623
5624Example:
5625 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5626 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5627DOC_END
5628
cccac0a2 5629COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5630 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5631 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5632COMMENT_END
5633
8d6275c0 5634NAME: wccp_router
5635TYPE: address
5636LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5637DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5638IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5639DOC_START
5640 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5641 Squid.
5642
5643 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5644
5645 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5646
5647 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5648 which version of WCCP to use.
5649DOC_END
df2eec10 5650
8d6275c0 5651NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5652TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5653LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5654DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5655IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5656DOC_START
8d6275c0 5657 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5658 Squid.
cccac0a2 5659
8d6275c0 5660 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5661
8d6275c0 5662 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5663
8d6275c0 5664 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5665 which version of WCCP to use.
5666DOC_END
5667
5668NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5669TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5670LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5671DEFAULT: 4
5672IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5673DOC_START
8d6275c0 5674 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5675 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5676 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5677 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5678 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5679
8d6275c0 5680 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5681 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5682 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5683 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5684DOC_END
5685
8d6275c0 5686NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5687TYPE: onoff
5688LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5689DEFAULT: on
5690IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5691DOC_START
5692 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5693 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5694DOC_END
cccac0a2 5695
8d6275c0 5696NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5697TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5698LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5699DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5700IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5701DOC_START
699acd19 5702 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5703 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5704
451c4786
AJ
5705 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5706 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5707
8d6275c0 5708 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5709 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5710DOC_END
5711
8d6275c0 5712NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5713TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5714LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5715DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5716IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5717DOC_START
699acd19 5718 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5719 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5720 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5721
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5722 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5723 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5724
8d6275c0 5725 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5726 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5727
699acd19 5728 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5729 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5730 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5731 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5732DOC_END
5733
8d6275c0 5734NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5735TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5736LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5737DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5738IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5739DOC_START
8d6275c0 5740 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5741 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5742
451c4786 5743 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5744 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5745
8d6275c0 5746 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5747 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5748DOC_END
cccac0a2 5749
8d6275c0 5750NAME: wccp2_service
5751TYPE: wccp2_service
5752LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5753DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5754IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5755DOC_START
5756 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5757 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5758 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5759 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5760 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5761 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5762
5763 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5764 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5765
5766 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5767 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5768
5769 Examples:
5770
5771 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5772 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5773 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5774 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5775DOC_END
5776
5777NAME: wccp2_service_info
5778TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5779LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5780DEFAULT: none
5781IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5782DOC_START
5783 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5784 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5785
5786 The format is:
5787
5788 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5789 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5790
5791 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5792 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5793 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5794 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5795 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5796 + ports_source
5797
5798 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5799
5800 Example:
5801
5802 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5803 priority=240 ports=80
5804
5805 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5806 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5807DOC_END
5808
5809NAME: wccp2_weight
5810TYPE: int
5811LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5812DEFAULT: 10000
5813IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5814DOC_START
5815 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5816 hash proportional to their weight.
5817DOC_END
5818
5819NAME: wccp_address
5820TYPE: address
5821LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5822DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5823IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5824DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5825
8d6275c0 5826NAME: wccp2_address
5827TYPE: address
5828LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5829DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5830IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5831DOC_START
5832 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5833 interface address.
5834
5835 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5836DOC_END
5837
5838COMMENT_START
5839 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5840 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5841
5842 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5843COMMENT_END
5844
5845NAME: client_persistent_connections
5846TYPE: onoff
5847LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5848DEFAULT: on
5849DOC_NONE
5850
5851NAME: server_persistent_connections
5852TYPE: onoff
5853LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5854DEFAULT: on
5855DOC_START
5856 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5857 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5858 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5859 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5860DOC_END
5861
5862NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5863TYPE: onoff
5864LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5865DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5866DOC_START
5867 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5868 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5869 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5870DOC_END
5871
5872NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5873TYPE: onoff
5874LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5875DEFAULT: off
5876DOC_START
5877 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5878 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5879 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5880 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5881
5882 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5883 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5884 after 10 seconds timeout.
5885DOC_END
5886
5887COMMENT_START
5888 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5889 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5890COMMENT_END
5891
5892NAME: digest_generation
5893IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5894TYPE: onoff
5895LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5896DEFAULT: on
5897DOC_START
5898 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5899 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5900 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5901DOC_END
5902
5903NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5904IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5905TYPE: int
5906LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5907DEFAULT: 5
5908DOC_START
5909 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5910 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5911 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5912DOC_END
5913
5914NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5915IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5916COMMENT: (seconds)
5917TYPE: time_t
5918LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5919DEFAULT: 1 hour
5920DOC_START
749ceff8 5921 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5922DOC_END
5923
5924NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5925COMMENT: (seconds)
5926IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5927TYPE: time_t
5928LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5929DEFAULT: 1 hour
5930DOC_START
749ceff8 5931 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5932 disk.
5933DOC_END
5934
5935NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5936COMMENT: (bytes)
5937TYPE: b_size_t
5938IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5939LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5940DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5941DOC_START
5942 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5943 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5944 default swap page.
5945DOC_END
5946
5947NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5948COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5949IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5950TYPE: int
5951LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5952DEFAULT: 10
5953DOC_START
5954 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5955 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5956DOC_END
5957
1db9eacd 5958COMMENT_START
5473c134 5959 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5960 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5961COMMENT_END
5962
5473c134 5963NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5964TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5965LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5966DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5967IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5968DOC_START
87630341 5969 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5970 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5971 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5972 set to "0" (disabled)
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5973
5974 Example:
5975 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5976DOC_END
5977
5473c134 5978NAME: snmp_access
5979TYPE: acl_access
5980LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5981DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5982IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5983DOC_START
5473c134 5984 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5985
5473c134 5986 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5987 usage:
8d6275c0 5988
5473c134 5989 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5990
b3567eb5
FC
5991 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5992 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5993Example:
5994 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5995 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5996DOC_END
5997
5473c134 5998NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5999TYPE: address
6000LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6001DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 6002IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
6003DOC_NONE
df2eec10 6004
5473c134 6005NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6006TYPE: address
6007LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6008DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6009IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6010DOC_START
df2eec10 6011 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6012
5473c134 6013 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6014 messages from SNMP agents.
6015 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6016 agents.
cccac0a2 6017
0eb08770 6018 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 6019 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 6020
0eb08770
HN
6021 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6022 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6023 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6024 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6025
5473c134 6026 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
6027 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 6028DOC_END
6029
5473c134 6030COMMENT_START
6031 ICP OPTIONS
6032 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6033COMMENT_END
6034
6035NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6036TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6037DEFAULT: 0
6038LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6039DOC_START
5473c134 6040 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6041 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
6042 Default is disabled (0).
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6044 Example:
6045 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6046DOC_END
6047
5473c134 6048NAME: htcp_port
6049IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6050TYPE: u_short
87630341 6051DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 6052LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6053DOC_START
5473c134 6054 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6055 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
6056 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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6057
6058 Example:
6059 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6060DOC_END
6061
6062NAME: log_icp_queries
6063COMMENT: on|off
6064TYPE: onoff
6065DEFAULT: on
6066LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6067DOC_START
6068 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6069 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6070 up or to simplify log analysis.
6071DOC_END
6072
5473c134 6073NAME: udp_incoming_address
6074TYPE: address
6075LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6076DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 6077DOC_START
6078 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6079 caches.
6080
6081 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6082
6083 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6084 a specific interface/address.
6085
6086 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6087 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6088
6089 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6090
6091 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6092 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6093DOC_END
cccac0a2 6094
5473c134 6095NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6096TYPE: address
6097LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6098DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 6099DOC_START
8524d4b2 6100 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6101 caches.
cccac0a2 6102
5473c134 6103 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6104
8524d4b2 6105 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6106 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6107 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6108 caches.
6109
8524d4b2 6110 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6111 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6112
6113 see also; udp_incoming_address
6114
5473c134 6115 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6116 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6117DOC_END
6118
3d1e3e43 6119NAME: icp_hit_stale
6120COMMENT: on|off
6121TYPE: onoff
6122DEFAULT: off
6123LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6124DOC_START
6125 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6126 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6127 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6128 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6129 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6130 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6131 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6132DOC_END
6133
5473c134 6134NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 6135TYPE: int
5473c134 6136DEFAULT: 4
6137LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 6138DOC_START
5473c134 6139 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6140 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 6141DOC_END
6142
5473c134 6143NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
6144TYPE: int
6145DEFAULT: 400
6146LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 6147DOC_START
5473c134 6148 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6149 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 6150DOC_END
6151
cccac0a2 6152NAME: netdb_low
6153TYPE: int
6154DEFAULT: 900
6155LOC: Config.Netdb.low
6156DOC_NONE
6157
6158NAME: netdb_high
6159TYPE: int
6160DEFAULT: 1000
6161LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6162DOC_START
6163 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
6164 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6165 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
6166 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
6167DOC_END
6168
cccac0a2 6169NAME: netdb_ping_period
6170TYPE: time_t
6171LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6172DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6173DOC_START
6174 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6175 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6176 network. The default is five minutes.
6177DOC_END
6178
cccac0a2 6179NAME: query_icmp
6180COMMENT: on|off
6181TYPE: onoff
6182DEFAULT: off
6183LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6184DOC_START
6185 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6186 replies, enable this option.
6187
6188 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 6189 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6190 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 6191 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6192 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6193 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6194 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6195 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6196DOC_END
6197
6198NAME: test_reachability
6199COMMENT: on|off
6200TYPE: onoff
6201DEFAULT: off
6202LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6203DOC_START
6204 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6205 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6206 database, or has a zero RTT.
6207DOC_END
6208
5473c134 6209NAME: icp_query_timeout
6210COMMENT: (msec)
6211DEFAULT: 0
6212TYPE: int
6213LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 6214DOC_START
5473c134 6215 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6216 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6217 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6218 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6219 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6220 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 6221
5473c134 6222 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 6223DOC_END
6224
5473c134 6225NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6226COMMENT: (msec)
6227DEFAULT: 2000
6228TYPE: int
6229LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 6230DOC_START
5473c134 6231 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6232 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6233 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6234 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6235 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6236 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6237DOC_END
6238
5473c134 6239NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6240COMMENT: (msec)
6241DEFAULT: 5
6242TYPE: int
6243LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 6244DOC_START
5473c134 6245 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6246 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6247 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6248 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6249 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6250 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6251 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6252DOC_END
6253
5473c134 6254NAME: background_ping_rate
6255COMMENT: time-units
6256TYPE: time_t
6257DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6258LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 6259DOC_START
5473c134 6260 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6261 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 6262DOC_END
6263
5473c134 6264COMMENT_START
6265 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6266 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6267COMMENT_END
6268
6269NAME: mcast_groups
6270TYPE: wordlist
6271LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 6272DEFAULT: none
6273DOC_START
5473c134 6274 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6275 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 6276
5473c134 6277 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6278 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6279 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6280 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6281 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6282 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6283 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 6284
5473c134 6285 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6286 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 6287
5473c134 6288 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
6289 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 6290
5473c134 6291 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 6292
5473c134 6293 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6294DOC_END
8c01ada0 6295
5473c134 6296NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6297IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6298TYPE: address
6299LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 6300DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6301DOC_START
6302 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6303 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 6304
5473c134 6305 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6306 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 6307DOC_END
6308
5473c134 6309NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6310IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6311TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6312LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6313DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 6314DOC_START
5473c134 6315 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6316 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6317 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6318DOC_END
cccac0a2 6319
5473c134 6320NAME: mcast_miss_port
6321IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6322TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6323LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6324DEFAULT: 3135
6325DOC_START
6326 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6327 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6328DOC_END
cccac0a2 6329
5473c134 6330NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6331IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6332TYPE: string
6333LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6334DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6335DOC_START
6336 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6337 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6338DOC_END
8c01ada0 6339
5473c134 6340NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6341COMMENT: (msec)
6342DEFAULT: 2000
6343TYPE: int
6344LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6345DOC_START
6346 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6347 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6348 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6349 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6350 seconds.
cccac0a2 6351DOC_END
6352
5473c134 6353COMMENT_START
6354 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6355 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6356COMMENT_END
6357
cccac0a2 6358NAME: icon_directory
6359TYPE: string
6360LOC: Config.icons.directory
6361DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6362DOC_START
6363 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6364 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6365DOC_END
6366
f024c970 6367NAME: global_internal_static
6368TYPE: onoff
6369LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6370DEFAULT: on
6371DOC_START
6372 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6373 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6374 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6375 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6376 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6377 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6378 the server generating a directory listing.
6379DOC_END
6380
5473c134 6381NAME: short_icon_urls
6382TYPE: onoff
6383LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6384DEFAULT: on
6385DOC_START
6386 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6387 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6388 it's own name and port in the URL.
6389
6390 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6391 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6392DOC_END
6393
6394COMMENT_START
6395 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6396 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6397COMMENT_END
6398
6399NAME: error_directory
6400TYPE: string
6401LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6402DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6403DOC_START
6404 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6405 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6406 the error/template files to another directory and point
6407 this tag at them.
6408
6409 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6410 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6411
6412 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6413 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6414 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6415 contributing your translation back to the project.
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6416 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6417
6418 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6419 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6420DOC_END
6421
6422NAME: error_default_language
6423IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6424TYPE: string
6425LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6426DEFAULT: none
6427DOC_START
6428 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6429 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6430 preferences.
6431
6432 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6433
6434 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6435 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6436 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6437 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6438DOC_END
6439
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6440NAME: error_log_languages
6441IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6442TYPE: onoff
6443LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6444DEFAULT: on
6445DOC_START
6446 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6447 auto-negotiate for translations.
6448
6449 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6450 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6451 of its error page translations.
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6452DOC_END
6453
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6454NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6455TYPE: string
6456LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6457DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6458DOC_START
6459 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6460
6461 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6462DOC_END
6463
5473c134 6464NAME: err_html_text
6465TYPE: eol
6466LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6467DEFAULT: none
6468DOC_START
6469 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6470 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6471 organizations Web page.
6472
6473 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6474 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6475 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6476 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6477DOC_END
6478
6479NAME: email_err_data
6480COMMENT: on|off
6481TYPE: onoff
6482LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6483DEFAULT: on
6484DOC_START
6485 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6486 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6487 so that the email body contains the data.
6488 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6489DOC_END
6490
6491NAME: deny_info
6492TYPE: denyinfo
6493LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6494DEFAULT: none
6495DOC_START
6496 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6497 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6498 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6499
6500 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6501 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6502 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6503 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6504
6505 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6506 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6507 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6508 the first authentication related acl encountered
6509 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6510 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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6511 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6512 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6513
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6514 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6515 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6516 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6517
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6518 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6519 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6520 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6521
5473c134 6522 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6523 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6524
6525 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6526 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6527 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6528 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6529 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6530
6531 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6532 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6533 %B - FTP path URL
6534 %e - Error number
6535 %E - Error description
6536 %h - Squid hostname
6537 %H - Request domain name
6538 %i - Client IP Address
6539 %M - Request Method
6540 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6541 %p - Request Port number
6542 %P - Request Protocol name
6543 %R - Request URL path
6544 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6545 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6546 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6547 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6548 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6549 %x - Error name
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6550 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6551
5473c134 6552DOC_END
6553
6554COMMENT_START
6555 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6556 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6557COMMENT_END
6558
6559NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6560TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6561LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6562DEFAULT: on
6563DOC_START
5473c134 6564 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6565 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6566 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6567
5473c134 6568 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6569 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6570
5473c134 6571 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6572 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6573 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6574
5473c134 6575 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6576 this directive.
8d6275c0 6577DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6578
5473c134 6579NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6580TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6581LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6582DEFAULT: off
6583DOC_START
5473c134 6584 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6585 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6586 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6587
5473c134 6588 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6589 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6590 fails.
6591
6592 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6593 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6594 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6595DOC_END
6596
5473c134 6597NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6598TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6599LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6600DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6601DOC_START
5473c134 6602 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6603
5473c134 6604 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6605 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6606 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6607 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6608 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6609
5473c134 6610 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6611 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6612
5473c134 6613 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6614
5473c134 6615 acl FTP proto FTP
6616 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6617
5473c134 6618 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6619 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6620 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6621 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6622 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6623
5473c134 6624 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6625 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6626 always_direct deny local-external
6627 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6628
5473c134 6629 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6630 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6631 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6632 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6633
5473c134 6634 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6635 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6636 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6637
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6638 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6639 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6640DOC_END
0976f8db 6641
5473c134 6642NAME: never_direct
6643TYPE: acl_access
6644LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6645DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6646DOC_START
5473c134 6647 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6648
6649 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6650 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6651
6652 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6653 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6654 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6655 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6656
6657 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6658 never_direct deny local-servers
6659 never_direct allow all
6660
6661 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6662 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6663
6664 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6665 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6666 always_direct deny local-external
6667 always_direct allow local-intranet
6668 never_direct allow all
6669
b3567eb5
FC
6670 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6671 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6672DOC_END
0976f8db 6673
5473c134 6674COMMENT_START
6675 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6676 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6677COMMENT_END
6678
65d448bc 6679NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 6680TYPE: int
6681DEFAULT: 6
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6682LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
6683DOC_START
6684 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6685 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6686 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6687DOC_END
cccac0a2 6688
65d448bc 6689NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 6690TYPE: int
6691DEFAULT: 4
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6692LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
6693DOC_START
6694 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6695 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6696 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6697DOC_END
cccac0a2 6698
6699NAME: incoming_dns_average
6700TYPE: int
6701DEFAULT: 4
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6702LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
6703DOC_START
6704 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6705 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6706 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6707DOC_END
cccac0a2 6708
65d448bc 6709NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6710TYPE: int
6711DEFAULT: 8
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6712LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
6713DOC_START
6714 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6715 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6716 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6717DOC_END
cccac0a2 6718
6719NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6720TYPE: int
6721DEFAULT: 8
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6722LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
6723DOC_START
6724 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6725 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6726 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6727DOC_END
cccac0a2 6728
65d448bc 6729NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6730TYPE: int
6731DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 6732LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 6733DOC_START
5473c134 6734 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6735 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6736 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6737DOC_END
6738
6739NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6740TYPE: string
6741DEFAULT: none
6742LOC: Config.accept_filter
6743DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6744 FreeBSD:
6745
5473c134 6746 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6747 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6748 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6749
6750 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6751 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6752 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6753
6754 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6755 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6756 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6757
6758 Linux:
6759
6760 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6761 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6762 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6763 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6764 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6765EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6766# FreeBSD
5473c134 6767accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6768# Linux
6769accept_filter data
5473c134 6770DOC_END
6771
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6772NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6773TYPE: int
6774LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6775DEFAULT: -1
6776DOC_START
6777 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6778 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6779 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6780
6781 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6782 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6783
6784 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6785
6786 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6787 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6788DOC_END
6789
5473c134 6790NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6791COMMENT: (bytes)
6792TYPE: b_size_t
6793DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6794LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6795DOC_START
6796 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6797 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6798 the default buffer size.
6799DOC_END
6800
6801COMMENT_START
6802 ICAP OPTIONS
6803 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6804COMMENT_END
6805
6806NAME: icap_enable
6807TYPE: onoff
6808IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6809COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6810LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6811DEFAULT: off
6812DOC_START
53e738c6 6813 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6814DOC_END
6815
6816NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6817TYPE: time_t
6818DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6819LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6820IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6821DOC_START
6822 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6823 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6824 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6825
6826 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6827 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6828 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6829DOC_END
6830
6831NAME: icap_io_timeout
6832COMMENT: time-units
6833TYPE: time_t
6834DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6835LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6836IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6837DOC_START
6838 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6839 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6840 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6841 failure.
6842
6843 The default is read_timeout.
6844DOC_END
6845
6846NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6847COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6848TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6849IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6850LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6851DEFAULT: 10
6852DOC_START
6853 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6854 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6855 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6856 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6857 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6858
6859 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6860 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6861 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6862
6863 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6864 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6865 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6866 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6867 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6868
6869 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6870 effect on service failure expiration.
6871
6872 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6873 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6874 setting.
6875
6876 For example,
6877 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6878 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6879DOC_END
6880
5473c134 6881NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6882TYPE: int
5473c134 6883IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6884LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6885DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6886DOC_START
5473c134 6887 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6888 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6889 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6890 fetched.
cccac0a2 6891
5473c134 6892 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6893 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6894DOC_END
6895
5473c134 6896NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6897TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6898IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6899COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6900LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6901DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6902DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6903 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6904 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6905 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6906 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6907
6908 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6909 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6910 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6911
6912 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6913 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6914Example:
6915icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6916DOC_END
6917
5473c134 6918NAME: icap_preview_size
6919TYPE: int
6920IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6921LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6922DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6923DOC_START
53e738c6 6924 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6925 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6926 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6927DOC_END
6928
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6929NAME: icap_206_enable
6930TYPE: onoff
6931IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6932COMMENT: on|off
6933LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6934DEFAULT: on
6935DOC_START
6936 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6937 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6938 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6939 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6940
6941 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6942 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6943 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6944 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6945 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6946
6947 Example:
6948 icap_206_enable off
6949DOC_END
6950
5473c134 6951NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6952TYPE: int
6953IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6954LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6955DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6956DOC_START
53e738c6 6957 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6958 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6959DOC_END
6960
5473c134 6961NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6962TYPE: onoff
6963IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6964COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6965LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6966DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6967DOC_START
5473c134 6968 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6969 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6970DOC_END
6971
22fff3bf 6972NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6973TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6974IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6975COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6976LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6977DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6978DOC_START
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6979 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6980 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6981 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6982
6983 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6984DOC_END
6985
22fff3bf 6986NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6987TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6988IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6989COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6990LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6991DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6992DOC_START
5473c134 6993 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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6994 the adaptation service.
6995
6996 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6997 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6998 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6999DOC_END
7000
5473c134 7001NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7002TYPE: string
5473c134 7003IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7004LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7005DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7006DOC_START
db49f682 7007 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7008DOC_END
7009
5473c134 7010NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7011TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7012IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7013COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7014LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7015DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7016DOC_START
5473c134 7017 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7018DOC_END
7019
5473c134 7020NAME: icap_service
7021TYPE: icap_service_type
7022IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7023LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7024DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7025DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7026 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7027
c25c2836 7028 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 7029
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7030 id: ID
7031 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7032 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7033 services in squid.conf.
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7034
7035 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7036 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7037 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7038 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7039
c25c2836 7040 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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7041 ICAP server and service location.
7042
7043 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7044 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7045 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7046 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7047 service_names differ.
7048
7049
7050 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7051 the following name=value options:
7052
7053 bypass=on|off|1|0
7054 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7055 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7056 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7057 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7058 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7059 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7060 returned to the HTTP client.
7061
7062 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7063
7064 routing=on|off|1|0
7065 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7066 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7067 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7068 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7069 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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7070 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7071 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7072 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7073
7074 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7075 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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7076
7077 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7078 response header is ignored.
7079
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7080 ipv6=on|off
7081 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
7082 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
7083 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
7084
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7085 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
7086 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
7087 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
7088 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
7089 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
7090 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
7091 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
7092
7093 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
7094 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
7095 workers may use a given service.
7096
7097 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
7098 otherwise it is set to "wait".
7099
7100
7101 max-conn=number
7102 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7103 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7104
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7105 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7106 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 7107
5473c134 7108Example:
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7109icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7110icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 7111DOC_END
7112
5473c134 7113NAME: icap_class
7114TYPE: icap_class_type
7115IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7116LOC: none
5473c134 7117DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7118DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7119 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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7120 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7121 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 7122
62c7f90e 7123 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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7124 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7125 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 7126DOC_END
7127
5473c134 7128NAME: icap_access
7129TYPE: icap_access_type
7130IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7131LOC: none
cccac0a2 7132DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7133DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7134 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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7135 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7136 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 7137DOC_END
7138
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7139COMMENT_START
7140 eCAP OPTIONS
7141 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7142COMMENT_END
7143
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7144NAME: ecap_enable
7145TYPE: onoff
7146IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7147COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 7148LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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7149DEFAULT: off
7150DOC_START
7151 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7152DOC_END
7153
7154NAME: ecap_service
7155TYPE: ecap_service_type
7156IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 7157LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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7158DEFAULT: none
7159DOC_START
7160 Defines a single eCAP service
7161
c25c2836 7162 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 7163
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7164 id: ID
7165 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7166 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7167 services in squid.conf.
7168
7169 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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7170 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7171 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7172 are not yet supported.
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7173
7174 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7175 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7176 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7177 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7178 the service provider.
7179
7180
7181 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7182 the following name=value options:
7183
7184 bypass=on|off|1|0
7185 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7186 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7187 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 7188 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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7189 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7190 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 7191 HTTP client.
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7192
7193 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7194
7195 routing=on|off|1|0
7196 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7197 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7198 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7199
7200 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7201 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7202
7203 Routing is not allowed by default.
7204
7205 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7206 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7207
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7208
7209Example:
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7210ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7211ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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7212DOC_END
7213
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7214NAME: loadable_modules
7215TYPE: wordlist
7216IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7217LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7218DEFAULT: none
7219DOC_START
7220 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7221 preloaded module(s).
7222Example:
7223loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7224DOC_END
7225
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7226COMMENT_START
7227 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7228 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7229COMMENT_END
7230
7231NAME: adaptation_service_set
7232TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7233IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7234LOC: none
7235DEFAULT: none
7236DOC_START
7237
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7238 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
7239 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7240
7241 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7242
7243 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7244 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7245 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7246 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7247 intact.
62c7f90e 7248
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7249 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7250 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 7251
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7252 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7253 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7254
7255 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7256 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7257 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7258 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7259 transaction fails as well.
7260
7261 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7262 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7263 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7264 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7265 matters.
7266
7267 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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7268
7269Example:
7270adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7271adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7272DOC_END
7273
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7274NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7275TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7276IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7277LOC: none
7278DEFAULT: none
7279DOC_START
7280
7281 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
7282 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
7283 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
7284
7285 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
7286
7287 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
7288 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
7289 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7290 the previous service in the chain.
7291
7292 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7293 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7294
7295 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7296 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7297 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7298
7299 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7300 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7301
7302 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7303 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7304 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7305 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7306
7307 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7308
7309Example:
7310adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7311DOC_END
7312
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7313NAME: adaptation_access
7314TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7315IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7316LOC: none
7317DEFAULT: none
7318DOC_START
7319 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7320
7321 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7322 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7323
7324 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7325 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7326 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7327 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7328
7329 - services serving different vectoring points
7330 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7331 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7332 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7333
7334 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7335 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7336 adaptation_service_set for details.
7337
7338 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7339 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7340 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7341 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7342
7343 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7344 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7345
7346 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7347
7348Example:
7349adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7350DOC_END
7351
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7352NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7353TYPE: int
7354IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7355LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7356DEFAULT: 16
7357DOC_START
7358 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7359 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7360 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7361 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7362 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7363 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7364
7365 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
7366
7367 See also: icap_service routing=1
7368DOC_END
7369
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7370NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
7371TYPE: string
7372IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7373LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
7374DEFAULT: none
7375DOC_START
7376 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
7377 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
7378 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
7379 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7380 with the master transaction.
7381
7382 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7383 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7384
7385 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7386 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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7387 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7388
7389 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7390 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7391 to provide an option with a name specified in
7392 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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7394 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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7395 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7396
7397 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7398
7399Example:
7400# share authentication information among ICAP services
7401adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7402DOC_END
7403
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7404NAME: adaptation_meta
7405TYPE: adaptation_meta_type
7406IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7407LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7408DEFAULT: none
7409DOC_START
7410 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7411 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7412 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7413 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7414
7415 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7416 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7417
7418 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7419 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7420 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7421 example:
7422
7423 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7424 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7425
7426 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7427 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7428
7429 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7430 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7431
7432 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7433 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7434 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7435 and double quotes. For example,
7436 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
7437DOC_END
7438
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7439NAME: icap_retry
7440TYPE: acl_access
7441IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7442LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7443DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7444DOC_START
7445 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7446 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7447 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7448 that response are usually retriable.
7449
7450 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7451
7452 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7453 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7454
7455 See also: icap_retry_limit
7456DOC_END
7457
7458NAME: icap_retry_limit
7459TYPE: int
7460IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7461LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7462DEFAULT: 0
7463DOC_START
7464 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7465 no retries are allowed.
7466
7467 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7468 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7469 count against this limit.
7470
7471 See also: icap_retry
7472DOC_END
7473
7474
5473c134 7475COMMENT_START
7476 DNS OPTIONS
7477 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7478COMMENT_END
7479
7480NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7481TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7482DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7483LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7484DOC_START
5473c134 7485 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7486 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7487 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7488DOC_END
7489
5473c134 7490NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7491TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7492DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7493LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7494DOC_START
5473c134 7495 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7496 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7497 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7498 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7499DOC_END
7500
5473c134 7501NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7502TYPE: string
f64091a7 7503IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 7504DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7505LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7506DOC_START
5473c134 7507 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7508DOC_END
7509
5473c134 7510NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7511TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 7512IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 7513DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7514LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7515DOC_START
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7516 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7517 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7518 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7519 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7520 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7521
7522 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7523 tuning.
7524
7525 startup=
7526
7527 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7528 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7529 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7530
7531 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7532 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7533
7534 idle=
7535
7536 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7537 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7538 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7539 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7540DOC_END
7541
5473c134 7542NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7543TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7544DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7545LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 7546IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7547DOC_START
5473c134 7548 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7549 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7550DOC_END
7551
5473c134 7552NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7553TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7554DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7555LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 7556IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7557DOC_START
5473c134 7558 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7559 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7560 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7561DOC_END
7562
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7563NAME: dns_packet_max
7564TYPE: b_ssize_t
7565DEFAULT: none
7566LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 7567IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7568DOC_START
7569 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7570 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7571
7572 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7573 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7574 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7575 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7576 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7577
7578 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7579 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7580 necessary.
7581
7582 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7583 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7584 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7585 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7586 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7587 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7588 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7589DOC_END
7590
5473c134 7591NAME: dns_defnames
7592COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7593TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7594DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7595LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7596DOC_START
5473c134 7597 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7598 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7599 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7600 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7601DOC_END
7602
5473c134 7603NAME: dns_nameservers
7604TYPE: wordlist
7605DEFAULT: none
7606LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7607DOC_START
5473c134 7608 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7609 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7610 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7611 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7612 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7613 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7614 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7615
5473c134 7616 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7617DOC_END
7618
5473c134 7619NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7620TYPE: string
5473c134 7621DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7622LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7623DOC_START
5473c134 7624 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7625 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7626 default locations:
7627 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7628 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7629 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7630 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7631 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7632 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7633 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7634 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7635
5473c134 7636 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7637 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7638 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7639 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7640
5473c134 7641 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7642 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7643 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7644 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7645 definitions.
cccac0a2 7646DOC_END
7647
5473c134 7648NAME: append_domain
7649TYPE: string
7650LOC: Config.appendDomain
7651DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7652DOC_START
5473c134 7653 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7654 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7655
7656 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7657 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7658 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7659
7660Example:
7661 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7662DOC_END
7663
5473c134 7664NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7665TYPE: onoff
7666LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7667DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 7668IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 7669DOC_START
5473c134 7670 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7671 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7672 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7673 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7674 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7675DOC_END
7676
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7677NAME: dns_v4_first
7678TYPE: onoff
7679DEFAULT: off
7680LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 7681IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7682DOC_START
7683 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7684 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7685
7686 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7687 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7688 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7689
7690 WARNING:
7691 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7692 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7693 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7694DOC_END
7695
6bc15a4f 7696NAME: ipcache_size
7697COMMENT: (number of entries)
7698TYPE: int
7699DEFAULT: 1024
7700LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7701DOC_NONE
7702
7703NAME: ipcache_low
7704COMMENT: (percent)
7705TYPE: int
7706DEFAULT: 90
7707LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7708DOC_NONE
7709
7710NAME: ipcache_high
7711COMMENT: (percent)
7712TYPE: int
7713DEFAULT: 95
7714LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7715DOC_START
7716 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7717DOC_END
7718
7719NAME: fqdncache_size
7720COMMENT: (number of entries)
7721TYPE: int
7722DEFAULT: 1024
7723LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7724DOC_START
7725 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7726DOC_END
7727
a58ff010 7728COMMENT_START
5473c134 7729 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7730 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7731COMMENT_END
7732
5473c134 7733NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7734COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7735TYPE: onoff
7736DEFAULT: on
7737LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7738DOC_START
5473c134 7739 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7740 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7741 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7742 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7743DOC_END
7744
5473c134 7745NAME: memory_pools_limit
7746COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7747TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7748DEFAULT: 5 MB
7749LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7750DOC_START
5473c134 7751 Used only with memory_pools on:
7752 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7753
5473c134 7754 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7755 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7756 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7757 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7758 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7759 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7760 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7761
89646bd7 7762 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7763 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7764
5473c134 7765 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7766 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7767
7768 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7769 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7770 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7771 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7772DOC_END
7773
5473c134 7774NAME: forwarded_for
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7775COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7776TYPE: string
5473c134 7777DEFAULT: on
7778LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7779DOC_START
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7780 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7781 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7782
5473c134 7783 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7784
67c06f0d 7785 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7786
7787 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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7788
7789 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7790 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7791
7792 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7793 X-Forwarded-For header.
7794
7795 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7796 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7797DOC_END
7798
5473c134 7799NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7800TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7801DEFAULT: none
7802LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7803DOC_START
5473c134 7804 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7805
5473c134 7806 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7807
7808 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7809 5min
7810 60min
7811 asndb
7812 authenticator
7813 cbdata
7814 client_list
7815 comm_incoming
7816 config *
7817 counters
7818 delay
7819 digest_stats
7820 dns
7821 events
7822 filedescriptors
7823 fqdncache
7824 histograms
7825 http_headers
7826 info
7827 io
7828 ipcache
7829 mem
7830 menu
7831 netdb
7832 non_peers
7833 objects
7834 offline_toggle *
7835 pconn
7836 peer_select
b360c477 7837 reconfigure *
5473c134 7838 redirector
7839 refresh
7840 server_list
7841 shutdown *
7842 store_digest
7843 storedir
7844 utilization
7845 via_headers
7846 vm_objects
7847
7848 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7849 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7850
7851 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7852 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7853 password to "none".
7854
7855 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7856
7857Example:
7858 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7859 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7860 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7861DOC_END
7862
5473c134 7863NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7864COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7865TYPE: onoff
7866DEFAULT: on
7867LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7868DOC_START
5473c134 7869 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7870 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7871DOC_END
7872
5473c134 7873NAME: refresh_all_ims
7874COMMENT: on|off
7875TYPE: onoff
7876DEFAULT: off
7877LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7878DOC_START
5473c134 7879 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7880 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7881 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7882 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7883 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7884
5473c134 7885 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7886 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7887DOC_END
7888
5473c134 7889NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7890IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7891COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7892TYPE: onoff
7893DEFAULT: off
7894LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7895DOC_START
5473c134 7896 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7897 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7898 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7899 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7900 causes.
7901
7902 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7903DOC_END
7904
31ef19cd 7905NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7906TYPE: int
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7907LOC: Config.connect_retries
7908DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7909DOC_START
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7910 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7911 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7912 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
7913
7914 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7915 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 7916
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AJ
7917 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7918 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7919
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AJ
7920 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7921 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7922 a useful server.
a58ff010 7923DOC_END
7924
5473c134 7925NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7926TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7927LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7928DEFAULT: off
7929DOC_START
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7930 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
7931 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
7932 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
7933 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
7934
7935 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
7936 work around access control errors.
7937
7938 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
7939 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 7940DOC_END
7941
5473c134 7942NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7943TYPE: string
5473c134 7944LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7945DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7946DOC_START
5473c134 7947 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7948 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7949DOC_END
7950
5473c134 7951NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7952TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7953LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7954DEFAULT: off
7955DOC_START
5473c134 7956 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7957 objects.
a58ff010 7958DOC_END
7959
5473c134 7960NAME: uri_whitespace
7961TYPE: uri_whitespace
7962LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7963DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7964DOC_START
5473c134 7965 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7966 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7967
5473c134 7968 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7969 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7970 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7971 Request" message.
7972 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7973 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7974 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7975 are in use.
7976 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7977 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7978 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7979 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7980 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7981 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7982 violation.
7983DOC_END
a58ff010 7984
5473c134 7985NAME: chroot
7986TYPE: string
7987LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7988DEFAULT: none
7989DOC_START
9f37c18a 7990 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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7991 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7992 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7993 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7994 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7995DOC_END
a58ff010 7996
5473c134 7997NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7998TYPE: onoff
7999LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8000DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8001DOC_START
cc192b50 8002 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8003 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8004 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8005
5473c134 8006 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8007 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8008 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8009
cc192b50 8010 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8011DOC_END
8012
5473c134 8013NAME: pipeline_prefetch
8014TYPE: onoff
8015LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
8016DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 8017DOC_START
5473c134 8018 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
8019 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
8020 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 8021
5473c134 8022 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
8023 reasons.
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8024
8025 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8026DOC_END
a58ff010 8027
5473c134 8028NAME: high_response_time_warning
8029TYPE: int
8030COMMENT: (msec)
8031LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8032DEFAULT: 0
8033DOC_START
8034 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8035 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8036 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 8037DOC_END
8038
5473c134 8039NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8040TYPE: int
8041LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8042DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 8043DOC_START
5473c134 8044 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8045 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8046 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8047 per second.
8048DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8049
5473c134 8050NAME: high_memory_warning
8051TYPE: b_size_t
8052LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 8053DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 8054DOC_START
8055 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 8056 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 8057 the administrators attention.
8058DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8059
5473c134 8060NAME: sleep_after_fork
8061COMMENT: (microseconds)
8062TYPE: int
8063LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
8064DEFAULT: 0
8065DOC_START
8066 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
8067 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
8068 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
8069 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
8070 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
8071 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
8072 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
8073 until all the child processes have been started.
8074 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
8075 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 8076DOC_END
8077
b6696974 8078NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 8079IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
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8080COMMENT: on|off
8081TYPE: onoff
8082DEFAULT: on
8083LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
8084DOC_START
8085 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
8086 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
8087 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
8088 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
8089 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
8090 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
8091DOC_END
8092
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8093NAME: eui_lookup
8094TYPE: onoff
8095IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
8096DEFAULT: on
8097LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
8098DOC_START
8099 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8100DOC_END
8101
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8102NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8103TYPE: int
8104DEFAULT: 0
8105LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8106DOC_START
8107 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
8108
8109 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
8110
8111 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
8112 not all comm loops supports large values.
8113DOC_END
8114
13aeac35 8115NAME: workers
007d775d 8116TYPE: int
13aeac35 8117LOC: Config.workers
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8118DEFAULT: 1
8119DOC_START
13aeac35 8120 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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8121 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8122 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
13aeac35
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8123 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8124
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8125 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8126 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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8127DOC_END
8128
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8129NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8130TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8131LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8132DEFAULT: none
8133DOC_START
8134 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8135
8136 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8137
8138 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8139
8140 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8141 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8142
8143 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8144 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8145
8146 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8147
8148 See also: workers
8149DOC_END
8150
cccac0a2 8151EOF