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32
0f74202c 33COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 34 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
35 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
38 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
39 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 40
cccac0a2 41 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
42 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
43 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
44 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
45 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
46 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
47 case.
debd9a31 48
cccac0a2 49COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_START
52 NETWORK OPTIONS
53 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
54COMMENT_END
55
56NAME: http_port ascii_port
57TYPE: http_port_list
58DEFAULT: none
59LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
60DOC_START
61 Usage: port [options]
62 hostname:port [options]
63 1.2.3.4:port [options]
64
65 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
66 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
67 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
68 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
7f7db318 69 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
cccac0a2 70 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
71 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
72 address, so you can use the port number alone.
73
7f7db318 74 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
cccac0a2 75 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
76
77 The -a command line option will override the *first* port
78 number listed here. That option will NOT override an IP
79 address, however.
80
81 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
82
116c6cca 83 Options:
84
85 transparent Support for transparent proxies
86
87 accel Accelerator mode. Also set implicit by the other
88 accelerator directives
89
90 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
91 domain support
92
93 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support
94
95 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
96 than the http_port number
97
98 defaultsite= Main web site name for accelerators
99
100 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
101 Defaults to http
cccac0a2 102
5529ca8a 103 disable-pmtu-discovery=
6845f129 104 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
105 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
106 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
107 support is enabled.
108 always disable always PMTU discovery.
5529ca8a 109
110 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies Path-MTU
111 discovery can not work on traffic towards the clients. This is
112 the case when the intercepting device does not fully track
113 connections and fails to forward ICMP must fragment messages
114 to the cache server. If you have such setup and experience that
115 certain clients sporadically hang or never complete requests set
116 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
117
cccac0a2 118 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
7f7db318 119 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
cccac0a2 120 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
121 visible on the internal address.
122NOCOMMENT_START
123# Squid normally listens to port 3128
58c1507a 124http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
cccac0a2 125NOCOMMENT_END
126DOC_END
127
128NAME: https_port
129IFDEF: USE_SSL
130TYPE: https_port_list
131DEFAULT: none
132LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
133DOC_START
6845f129 134 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
cccac0a2 135
6845f129 136 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
137 requests.
cccac0a2 138
6845f129 139 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
140 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
141 accelerator level.
cccac0a2 142
143 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
144 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
b8c0c06d 145
cccac0a2 146 Options:
147
148 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
116c6cca 149 this port
cccac0a2 150
151 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests
116c6cca 152 with. Defaults to https
cccac0a2 153
154 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format)
7f7db318 155
cccac0a2 156 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
157 if not specified, the certificate file is
158 assumed to be a combined certificate and
159 key file
160
161 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
162 1 automatic (default)
163 2 SSLv2 only
164 3 SSLv3 only
165 4 TLSv1 only
166
167 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers
168
5ac1a5b3 169 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
cccac0a2 170 being:
171 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
172 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
173 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
174 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
175 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
176 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
116c6cca 177 documentation for a complete list of options
cccac0a2 178
179 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
180 requesting a client certificate
181
182 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
183 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
116c6cca 184 clientca will be used
cccac0a2 185
186 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
a82a4fe4 187 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates
188
189 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
190 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
191 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
cccac0a2 192
193 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
194 DH key exchanges
195
196 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
197 DELAYED_AUTH
198 Don't request client certificates
199 immediately, but wait until acl processing
a82a4fe4 200 requires a certificate (not yet implemented)
7f7db318 201 NO_DEFAULT_CA
a82a4fe4 202 Don't use the default CA lists built in
116c6cca 203 to OpenSSL
b13877cc 204 NO_SESSION_REUSE
205 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
206 will result in a new SSL session.
a82a4fe4 207 VERIFY_CRL
208 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
209 certificates
210 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
211 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
212 client certificate chain
116c6cca 213
6b2936d5 214 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
215
116c6cca 216 accel Accelerator mode. Also set implicit by the other
217 accelerator directives
218
219 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
220 domain support
221
222 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support
223
224 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
225 than the https_port number
cccac0a2 226
227DOC_END
228
229NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
230IFDEF: USE_SSL
231TYPE: onoff
232DEFAULT: off
233LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
234DOC_START
235 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
236 messages.
237DOC_END
238
239NAME: ssl_engine
240IFDEF: USE_SSL
241TYPE: string
242LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
243DEFAULT: none
244DOC_START
245 The openssl engine to use. You will need to set this if you
246 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
247DOC_END
248
249NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
250IFDEF: USE_SSL
251DEFAULT: none
252LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
253TYPE: string
254DOC_START
255 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
256DOC_END
257
258NAME: sslproxy_client_key
259IFDEF: USE_SSL
260DEFAULT: none
261LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
262TYPE: string
263DOC_START
264 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
265DOC_END
266
267NAME: sslproxy_version
268IFDEF: USE_SSL
269DEFAULT: 1
270LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
271TYPE: int
272DOC_START
273 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
274DOC_END
275
276NAME: sslproxy_options
277IFDEF: USE_SSL
278DEFAULT: none
279LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
280TYPE: string
281DOC_START
282 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
283DOC_END
284
285NAME: sslproxy_cipher
286IFDEF: USE_SSL
287DEFAULT: none
288LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
289TYPE: string
290DOC_START
291 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
292DOC_END
293
294NAME: sslproxy_cafile
295IFDEF: USE_SSL
296DEFAULT: none
297LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
298TYPE: string
299DOC_START
300 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
301 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
302DOC_END
303
304NAME: sslproxy_capath
305IFDEF: USE_SSL
306DEFAULT: none
307LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
308TYPE: string
309DOC_START
310 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
311 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
312DOC_END
313
314NAME: sslproxy_flags
315IFDEF: USE_SSL
316DEFAULT: none
317LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
318TYPE: string
319DOC_START
320 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
321 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates even if they fail to
322 verify.
323 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
324 to OpenSSL.
325DOC_END
326
307b83b7 327NAME: sslpassword_program
328IFDEF: USE_SSL
329DEFAULT: none
330LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
331TYPE: string
332DOC_START
333 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
334 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
335 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
336 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
337DOC_END
338
cccac0a2 339NAME: icp_port udp_port
340TYPE: ushort
341DEFAULT: 0
342LOC: Config.Port.icp
343DOC_START
344 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
345 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
346 Default is disabled (0).
347NOCOMMENT_START
58c1507a 348icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 349NOCOMMENT_END
350DOC_END
351
352NAME: htcp_port
353IFDEF: USE_HTCP
354TYPE: ushort
355DEFAULT: 4827
356LOC: Config.Port.htcp
357DOC_START
358 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
359 and from neighbor caches. Default is 4827. To disable use
360 "0".
361DOC_END
362
363
364NAME: mcast_groups
365TYPE: wordlist
366LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
367DEFAULT: none
368DOC_START
369 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
370 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
371
372 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
373 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
374 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
375 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
376 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
377 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
378 receive replies from multicast group members.
379
380 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
381 is already in use by another group of caches.
382
383 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
384 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
385
386 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
387
388 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
389DOC_END
390
391
392NAME: udp_incoming_address
393TYPE: address
394LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
395DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
396DOC_NONE
397
398NAME: udp_outgoing_address
399TYPE: address
400LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
401DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
402DOC_START
403 udp_incoming_address is used for the ICP socket receiving packets
404 from other caches.
405 udp_outgoing_address is used for ICP packets sent out to other
406 caches.
407
408 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
409
f939c0ca 410 A udp_incoming_address value of 0.0.0.0 indicates Squid
411 should listen for UDP messages on all available interfaces.
cccac0a2 412
413 If udp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 414 it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 415 change this if you want to have ICP queries sent using another
416 address than where this Squid listens for ICP queries from other
417 caches.
418
419 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
420 have the same value since they both use port 3130.
421DOC_END
9e7dbc51 422
cccac0a2 423COMMENT_START
424 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
425 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
426COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 427
cccac0a2 428NAME: cache_peer
429TYPE: peer
430DEFAULT: none
431LOC: Config.peers
432DOC_START
433 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
9e7dbc51 434
cccac0a2 435 cache_peer hostname type http_port icp_port [options]
0fdafae7 436
cccac0a2 437 For example,
d1b63fc8 438
cccac0a2 439 # proxy icp
440 # hostname type port port options
441 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
442 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
443 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
444 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
445
446 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
447
448 proxy_port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
449 requests.
450
451 icp_port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
452 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
453 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
454 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
455 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
456
457 options: proxy-only
458 weight=n
459 basetime=n
460 ttl=n
461 no-query
462 background-ping
463 default
464 round-robin
465 weighted-round-robin
466 carp
467 multicast-responder
468 closest-only
469 no-digest
470 no-netdb-exchange
471 no-delay
472 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
473 connect-timeout=nn
474 digest-url=url
475 allow-miss
476 max-conn
477 htcp
527ee50d 478 htcp-oldsquid
cccac0a2 479 originserver
480 name=xxx
481 forceddomain=name
482 ssl
483 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
484 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
485 sslversion=1|2|3|4
486 sslcipher=...
487 ssloptions=...
488 front-end-https[=on|auto]
b8c0c06d 489
7f7db318 490 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
cccac0a2 491 from this cache should not be saved locally.
492
493 use 'weight=n' to specify a weighted parent.
494 The weight must be an integer. The default weight
495 is 1, larger weights are favored more.
496
497 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
498 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
499 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
500 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
7f7db318 501 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 502
503 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
504 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
505 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
506 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
507 hosts, you must configure other group members as
508 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
509
510 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
511 neighbor.
512
513 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
7f7db318 514 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
515 round trip time updated and is usually used in
cccac0a2 516 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
517
518 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
519 be used as a "last-resort." You should probably
520 only use 'default' in situations where you cannot
521 use ICP with your parent cache(s).
522
523 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
524 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
525 absence of any ICP queries.
526
7f7db318 527 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
528 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
529 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
530 time. Closer parents are used more often.
cccac0a2 531 Usually used for background-ping parents.
532
533 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
7f7db318 534 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
cccac0a2 535 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
536 balancing hash function based on their weigth.
537
7f7db318 538 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
cccac0a2 539 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
540 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
541 will be accepted from it.
542
543 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
544 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
545 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
546
547 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
548 this neighbor.
549
550 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
551 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
552
553 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
554 from influencing the delay pools.
555
556 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
557 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
558 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
7f7db318 559 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
cccac0a2 560
561 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
65fca573 562 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
563 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
564 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
565 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
566 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
567 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
568 one proxy login.
7f7db318 569 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
cccac0a2 570 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
571
572 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
573 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
574 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
575 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
576 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
577 information which is added to the username. This can
578 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
579 the login=username:password option above.
580
581 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
582 specific connect timeout (also see the
583 peer_connect_timeout directive)
584
585 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
586 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
587 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
588 location.
589
590 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
591 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
592 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
593 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
594 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
595 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
596 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
597 source is a peer)
598
599 use 'max-conn' to limit the amount of connections Squid
600 may open to this peer.
601
602 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
603 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
604 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
d3803853 605
527ee50d 606 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
607
cccac0a2 608 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
609 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
610
611 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
7f7db318 612 host but different ports. This name can be used to
cccac0a2 613 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
614 directives.
615
616 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
617 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
618 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
619 name and using redirectors to feed this domainname
620 is not feasible.
621
7f7db318 622 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
cccac0a2 623 bs SSL/TLS encrypted.
624
625 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
626 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
627
628 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
629 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
7f7db318 630 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
cccac0a2 631 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
632
633 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
634 when connecting to this peer
635 1 = automatic (default)
636 2 = SSL v2 only
637 3 = SSL v3 only
638 4 = TLS v1 only
639
640 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL chipers
641 to use when connecting to this peer
642
643 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
644 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
645 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
646 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
647 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
648 a more complete list.
649
650 use cafile=... to specify a file containing additional
651 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
652
653 use capath=... to specify a directory containing additional
654 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
655
656 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
657 SSL implementation:
658 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
659 Accept certificates even if they fail to
660 verify.
7f7db318 661 NO_DEFAULT_CA
cccac0a2 662 Don't use the default CA list built in
663 to OpenSSL.
664 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
7f7db318 665 Don't verify the peer certificate
cccac0a2 666 matches the server name
667
668 use sslname= to specify the peer name as advertised
669 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
670 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
671 peer hostname will be used.
672
673 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
674 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend infront
675 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
7f7db318 676 on this header. If set to auto the header will
cccac0a2 677 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
678 URL.
679
680 NOTE: non-ICP neighbors must be specified as 'parent'.
681DOC_END
682
683NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
684TYPE: hostdomain
685DEFAULT: none
686LOC: none
687DOC_START
688 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
689 queried. Usage:
690
691 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
692 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
693
694 For example, specifying
695
696 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
697
698 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
699 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
700 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
7f7db318 701 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
cccac0a2 702 NOT in that domain.
703
704 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
705 either on the same or separate lines.
706 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
707 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
708 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
709 for all requests.
710 * There are no defaults.
711 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
712 section.
713DOC_END
714
715
716NAME: neighbor_type_domain
717TYPE: hostdomaintype
718DEFAULT: none
719LOC: none
720DOC_START
721 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
722
723 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
724 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
725 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
726 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
727 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
728 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
729
730EXAMPLE:
731 cache_peer parent cache.foo.org 3128 3130
732 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
733 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
734DOC_END
735
736NAME: icp_query_timeout
737COMMENT: (msec)
738DEFAULT: 0
739TYPE: int
740LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
741DOC_START
742 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
743 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
744 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
745 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
746 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
747 timeout (the old default), you would write:
748
749 icp_query_timeout 2000
750DOC_END
751
752NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
753COMMENT: (msec)
754DEFAULT: 2000
755TYPE: int
756LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
757DOC_START
758 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
759 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
760 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
761 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
762 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
763 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
764DOC_END
765
766NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
767COMMENT: (msec)
768DEFAULT: 5
769TYPE: int
770LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
771DOC_START
772 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
773 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
774 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
775 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
776 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
777 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
778 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
779DOC_END
780
781NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
782COMMENT: (msec)
783DEFAULT: 2000
784TYPE: int
785LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
786DOC_START
787 For Multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
788 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
789 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
790 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
791 seconds.
792DOC_END
793
794NAME: dead_peer_timeout
795COMMENT: (seconds)
796DEFAULT: 10 seconds
797TYPE: time_t
798LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
799DOC_START
800 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
801 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
802 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
803 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
804 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
805 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
806
807 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
808 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
809 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
810 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
811 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
812 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
813 instead of to your parents.
814DOC_END
815
816
817NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
818TYPE: wordlist
819DEFAULT: none
820LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
821DOC_START
822 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
823 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
824 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
825 list this option multiple times.
826NOCOMMENT_START
827#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
828hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
829NOCOMMENT_END
830DOC_END
934b03fc 831
6a566b9c 832
6192e873 833NAME: cache no_cache
cccac0a2 834TYPE: acl_access
835DEFAULT: none
836LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
837DOC_START
838 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause the request to
839 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
840 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
6a566b9c 841
cccac0a2 842 You must use the word 'DENY' to indicate the ACL names which should
843 NOT be cached.
1e5562e3 844
6192e873 845 Default is to allow all to be cached
cccac0a2 846NOCOMMENT_START
847#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
848acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
6192e873 849cache deny QUERY
cccac0a2 850NOCOMMENT_END
851DOC_END
852
853NAME: background_ping_rate
854COMMENT: time-units
855TYPE: time_t
856DEFAULT: 10 seconds
857LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
858DOC_START
859 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
860 have background-ping set.
861DOC_END
1e5562e3 862
934b03fc 863
cccac0a2 864COMMENT_START
865 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE CACHE SIZE
866 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
867COMMENT_END
868
869NAME: cache_mem
870COMMENT: (bytes)
871TYPE: b_size_t
872DEFAULT: 8 MB
873LOC: Config.memMaxSize
874DOC_START
875 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
876 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
877 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
878 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
879
880 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
881 for:
882 * In-Transit objects
883 * Hot Objects
884 * Negative-Cached objects
885
886 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
887 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
888 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
889 priority.
890
891 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
892 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
893 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
894 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
895 not needed for in-transit objects.
896
897 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
898 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
899 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
900 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
901 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
902 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
903 objects.
904DOC_END
905
906
907NAME: cache_swap_low
908COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
909TYPE: int
910DEFAULT: 90
911LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
912DOC_NONE
913
914NAME: cache_swap_high
915COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
916TYPE: int
917DEFAULT: 95
918LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
919DOC_START
920
921 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
922 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
923 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
924 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
925 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
926 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
7f7db318 927
cccac0a2 928 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
929 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
930 numbers closer together.
931DOC_END
932
933NAME: maximum_object_size
934COMMENT: (bytes)
935TYPE: b_size_t
936DEFAULT: 4096 KB
937LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
938DOC_START
939 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
940 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
941 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
942 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
943 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
944 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
945
946 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
947 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
948 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
949DOC_END
950
951NAME: minimum_object_size
952COMMENT: (bytes)
953TYPE: b_size_t
954DEFAULT: 0 KB
955LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
956DOC_START
957 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
958 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
959 means there is no minimum.
960DOC_END
961
962NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
963COMMENT: (bytes)
964TYPE: b_size_t
965DEFAULT: 8 KB
966LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
967DOC_START
6845f129 968 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
969 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
970 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
971 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem .
cccac0a2 972DOC_END
973
974NAME: ipcache_size
975COMMENT: (number of entries)
976TYPE: int
977DEFAULT: 1024
978LOC: Config.ipcache.size
979DOC_NONE
980
981NAME: ipcache_low
982COMMENT: (percent)
983TYPE: int
984DEFAULT: 90
985LOC: Config.ipcache.low
986DOC_NONE
987
988NAME: ipcache_high
989COMMENT: (percent)
990TYPE: int
991DEFAULT: 95
992LOC: Config.ipcache.high
993DOC_START
994 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
995DOC_END
996
997NAME: fqdncache_size
998COMMENT: (number of entries)
999TYPE: int
1000DEFAULT: 1024
1001LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
1002DOC_START
1003 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
1004DOC_END
1005
1006NAME: cache_replacement_policy
1007TYPE: removalpolicy
1008LOC: Config.replPolicy
1009DEFAULT: lru
1010DOC_START
1011 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
1012 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
1013
1014 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
1015 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
1016 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
1017 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
1018
1019 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
1020
1021 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
1022
1023 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
1024 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
1025 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
1026 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
1027
1028 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
1029 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
1030 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
1031 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
1032
1033 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
1034 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
1035 replacement policies.
1036
1037 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1038 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
1039 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
1040
1041 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
1042 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
1043 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
1044DOC_END
1045
1046NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1047TYPE: removalpolicy
1048LOC: Config.memPolicy
1049DEFAULT: lru
1050DOC_START
1051 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1052 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
1053
1054 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1055DOC_END
934b03fc 1056
1f7c9178 1057
cccac0a2 1058COMMENT_START
1059 LOGFILE PATHNAMES AND CACHE DIRECTORIES
1060 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1061COMMENT_END
9bc73deb 1062
cccac0a2 1063NAME: cache_dir
1064TYPE: cachedir
1065DEFAULT: none
1066DEFAULT_IF_NONE: ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
1067LOC: Config.cacheSwap
1068DOC_START
1069 Usage:
7f7db318 1070
cccac0a2 1071 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
cf5cc17e 1072
cccac0a2 1073 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
1074 cache among different disk partitions.
8e8d4f30 1075
cccac0a2 1076 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
5ac1a5b3 1077 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
cccac0a2 1078 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
934b03fc 1079
cccac0a2 1080 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
1081 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
7f7db318 1082 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
cccac0a2 1083 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
1084 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
1e5562e3 1085
cccac0a2 1086 The ufs store type:
1087
1088 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
1089 been there.
1090
1091 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1092
1093 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
1094 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
1095 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
1096 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
1097 subtract 20% and use that value.
1098
1099 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
1100 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
1101
1102 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
1103 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
1104 is 256.
1105
1106 The aufs store type:
1107
1108 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
1109 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1110 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
1111
1112 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1113
1114 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1115
1116 The diskd store type:
1117
1118 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
1119 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1120 disk-I/O.
1121
1122 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
1123
1124 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1125
1126 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
1127 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
1128 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
1129
1130 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
1131 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
44f991b5 1132 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
cccac0a2 1133
af9ad249 1134 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
1135 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
1136 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
1137 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
1138 time.
1139
1a224843 1140 The coss store type:
1141
1142 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
1143 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
1144 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
1145 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
1146 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
7f7db318 1147 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
1a224843 1148 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
1149
b8c0c06d 1150 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
c8f4eac4 1151 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
1152 this will be created by squid -z.
1153
cccac0a2 1154 Common options:
1155
1156 read-only, this cache_dir is read only.
1157
1158 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
1159 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
1160 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
1161 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
1162 ones with no max-size specification last.
1a224843 1163
7f7db318 1164 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
1a224843 1165 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
1166 option.
c8f4eac4 1167
1168 The null store type:
1169
1170 no options are allowed or required
cccac0a2 1171DOC_END
1172
1173
1174NAME: logformat
1175TYPE: logformat
1176LOC: Config.Log.logformats
1177DEFAULT: none
1178DOC_START
1179 Usage:
1180
1181 logformat <name> <format specification>
1182
1183 Defines an access log format.
1184
1185 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
7f7db318 1186
cccac0a2 1187 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
fa38076e 1188 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
cccac0a2 1189 as required according to their context and the output format
fa38076e 1190 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
1191 output format is desired.
cccac0a2 1192
1193 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
7f7db318 1194
fa38076e 1195 " output in quoted string format
1196 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
1197 # output in URL quoted format
1198 ' output as-is
1199
cccac0a2 1200 - left aligned
7f7db318 1201 width field width. If starting with 0 the
cccac0a2 1202 output is zero padded
1203 {arg} argument such as header name etc
1204
1205 Format codes:
1206
1207 >a Client source IP address
1208 >A Client FQDN
44eb213b 1209 >p Client source port
cccac0a2 1210 <A Server IP address or peer name
1211 la Local IP address (http_port)
1212 lp Local port number (http_port)
1213 ts Seconds since epoch
1214 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
1215 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
1216 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1217 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
1218 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1219 tr Response time (milliseconds)
1220 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
1221 on the format header[:[separator]element]
1222 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
1223 as for >h
1224 un User name
1225 ul User login
1226 ui User ident
1227 ue User from external acl
1228 Hs HTTP status code
1229 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
1230 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
1231 mt MIME content type
1232 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
1233 ru Request URL
1234 rv Request protocol version
1235 et Tag returned by external acl
1236 ea Log string returned by external acl
1237 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
6845f129 1238 <sH Reply high offset sent
03b29b6c 1239 <sS Upstream object size
cccac0a2 1240 % a literal % character
1241
1242logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
1243logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
1244logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
1245logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
1246DOC_END
1247
1248NAME: access_log cache_access_log
1249TYPE: access_log
1250LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
1251DEFAULT: none
1252DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@
1253DOC_START
1254 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
1255 ICP request. The format is:
1256 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
1257 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
1258
1259 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
1260 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
1261 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
1262 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
7f7db318 1263
c33aa074 1264 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
1265 a logformat name should not be specified.
1266
9197cd13 1267 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
1268
1269 access_log syslog[:facility|priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
1270 where facility could be any of:
1271 LOG_AUTHPRIV, LOG_DAEMON, LOG_LOCAL0 .. LOG_LOCAL7 or LOG_USER.
1272
1273 And priority could be any of:
1274 LOG_ERR, LOG_WARNING, LOG_NOTICE, LOG_INFO, LOG_DEBUG.
cccac0a2 1275DOC_END
1276
1277
1278NAME: cache_log
1279TYPE: string
1280DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
1281LOC: Config.Log.log
1282DOC_START
1283 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
1284 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
1285 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
1286DOC_END
1287
1288
1289NAME: cache_store_log
1290TYPE: string
1291DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
1292LOC: Config.Log.store
1293DOC_START
1294 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
1295 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
1296 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
1297 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
1298 disable it.
1299DOC_END
1300
1301
e2529a2c 1302NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
cccac0a2 1303TYPE: string
1304LOC: Config.Log.swap
1305DEFAULT: none
1306DOC_START
e2529a2c 1307 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
1308 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
1309 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
cccac0a2 1310 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
1311 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
1312 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
1313 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
1314
7f7db318 1315 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
cccac0a2 1316 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
1317 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
1318 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
7f7db318 1319
cccac0a2 1320 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
7f7db318 1321 these swap logs will have names such as:
cccac0a2 1322
1323 cache_swap_log.00
1324 cache_swap_log.01
1325 cache_swap_log.02
1326
1327 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
1328 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
1329 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
7f7db318 1330 lines in this file, these log files will NOT correspond to
cccac0a2 1331 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
7f7db318 1332 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
cccac0a2 1333 better to keep these log files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
1334DOC_END
1335
1336
1337NAME: emulate_httpd_log
1338COMMENT: on|off
1339TYPE: onoff
1340DEFAULT: off
1341LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
1342DOC_START
1343 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
1344 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
1345 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
1346 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
7f7db318 1347 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
cccac0a2 1348DOC_END
1349
1350NAME: log_ip_on_direct
1351COMMENT: on|off
1352TYPE: onoff
1353DEFAULT: on
1354LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
1355DOC_START
1356 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
1357 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
1358 prefer the old way set this to off.
1359DOC_END
1360
1361NAME: mime_table
1362TYPE: string
1363DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
1364LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
1365DOC_START
1366 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
1367 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
1368 information if you do.
1369DOC_END
1370
1371
1372NAME: log_mime_hdrs
1373COMMENT: on|off
1374TYPE: onoff
1375LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
1376DEFAULT: off
1377DOC_START
1378 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
1379 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
1380 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
1381 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
1382 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
1383DOC_END
1384
1385
1386NAME: useragent_log
1387TYPE: string
1388LOC: Config.Log.useragent
1389DEFAULT: none
1390IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
1391DOC_START
1392 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
1393 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
1394 is disabled.
1395DOC_END
1396
1397
1398NAME: referer_log
1399TYPE: string
1400LOC: Config.Log.referer
1401DEFAULT: none
1402IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
1403DOC_START
1404 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
1405 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
1406DOC_END
1407
1408
1409NAME: pid_filename
1410TYPE: string
1411DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
1412LOC: Config.pidFilename
1413DOC_START
1414 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
1415DOC_END
1416
1417
1418NAME: debug_options
d9e04dc7 1419TYPE: debug
cccac0a2 1420DEFAULT: ALL,1
1421LOC: Config.debugOptions
1422DOC_START
1423 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
1424 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
1425 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
1426 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
1427 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
1428 "ALL,1".
1429DOC_END
1430
1431
1432NAME: log_fqdn
1433COMMENT: on|off
1434TYPE: onoff
1435DEFAULT: off
1436LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
1437DOC_START
1438 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
1439 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
1440 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
1441 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
1442 browsing.
1443DOC_END
1444
1445
1446NAME: client_netmask
1447TYPE: address
1448LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
1449DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
1450DOC_START
1451 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
1452 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
1453 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
1454 the last digit set to '0'.
1455DOC_END
0976f8db 1456
0976f8db 1457
cccac0a2 1458COMMENT_START
1459 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
1460 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1461COMMENT_END
1462
1463NAME: ftp_user
1464TYPE: string
1465DEFAULT: Squid@
1466LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
1467DOC_START
1468 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
1469 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
1470 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
1471
7f7db318 1472 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
cccac0a2 1473 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
1474 depending on how the cache is used.
7f7db318 1475 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
cccac0a2 1476 (for example perl.com).
1477DOC_END
1478
1479NAME: ftp_list_width
1480TYPE: size_t
1481DEFAULT: 32
1482LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
1483DOC_START
1484 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
1485 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
1486 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
1487DOC_END
1488
1489NAME: ftp_passive
1490TYPE: onoff
1491DEFAULT: on
1492LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
1493DOC_START
1494 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
7f7db318 1495 connections, turn off this option.
cccac0a2 1496DOC_END
1497
1498NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
1499TYPE: onoff
1500DEFAULT: on
1501LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
1502DOC_START
1503 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
1504 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
1505 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
1506 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
7f7db318 1507 connection turn this off.
cccac0a2 1508DOC_END
1509
1510NAME: check_hostnames
1511TYPE: onoff
a78278e2 1512DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 1513LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
1514DOC_START
a78278e2 1515 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
1516 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
1517 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
1518DOC_END
1519
1520NAME: allow_underscore
1521TYPE: onoff
1522DEFAULT: on
1523LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
1524DOC_START
1525 Underscore characers is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
1526 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
1527 Squid to be strict about the standard.
1528 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 1529DOC_END
1530
dad0fe12 1531NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
1532TYPE: onoff
1533DEFAULT: on
1534LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
1535DOC_START
1536The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
1537as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
5ac1a5b3 1538implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
dad0fe12 1539the FTP protocol.
1540
1541If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
7f7db318 1542path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
1543try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
dad0fe12 1544operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
1545is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
1546DOC_END
1547
cccac0a2 1548NAME: cache_dns_program
1549TYPE: string
1550IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1551DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
1552LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
1553DOC_START
1554 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
1555DOC_END
1556
1557NAME: dns_children
1558TYPE: int
1559IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1560DEFAULT: 5
1561LOC: Config.dnsChildren
1562DOC_START
1563 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
1564 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
1565 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
1566 is 32. The default is 5.
1567
1568 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
1569DOC_END
1570
1571NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
1572TYPE: time_t
1573DEFAULT: 5 seconds
1574LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
1575IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1576DOC_START
1577 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
1578 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
1579
1580DOC_END
1581
1582NAME: dns_timeout
1583TYPE: time_t
1584DEFAULT: 5 minutes
1585LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
1586IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1587DOC_START
1588 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7f7db318 1589 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
1590 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 1591DOC_END
1592
1593NAME: dns_defnames
1594COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 1595TYPE: onoff
1596DEFAULT: off
1597LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 1598DOC_START
68836b58 1599 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
1600 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
cccac0a2 1601 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
68836b58 1602 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 1603DOC_END
1604
1605NAME: dns_nameservers
1606TYPE: wordlist
1607DEFAULT: none
1608LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
1609DOC_START
1610 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
1611 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
1612 /etc/resolv.conf file.
1613 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
1614 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
1615 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
1616 configurations are supported.
1617
1618 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
1619DOC_END
1620
1621NAME: hosts_file
1622TYPE: string
1623DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
1624LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
1625DOC_START
1626 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
1627 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7f7db318 1628 default locations:
cccac0a2 1629 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
1630 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6845f129 1631 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
fc4d8ed8 1632 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6845f129 1633 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
cccac0a2 1634 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
6845f129 1635 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
1636 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 1637
1638 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
1639 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
5ac1a5b3 1640 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
cccac0a2 1641 character are comments.
1642
7f7db318 1643 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
cccac0a2 1644 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7f7db318 1645 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
cccac0a2 1646 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
1647 definitions.
1648DOC_END
1649
1650NAME: diskd_program
1651TYPE: string
1652DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
1653LOC: Config.Program.diskd
1654DOC_START
1655 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
7f7db318 1656 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
cccac0a2 1657 diskd as one of the store io modules.
1658DOC_END
1659
1660NAME: unlinkd_program
1661IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
1662TYPE: string
1663DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
1664LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
1665DOC_START
1666 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
1667DOC_END
1668
1669NAME: pinger_program
1670TYPE: string
1671DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
1672LOC: Config.Program.pinger
1673IFDEF: USE_ICMP
1674DOC_START
1675 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
1676DOC_END
1677
1678
346be6ad 1679NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
cccac0a2 1680TYPE: wordlist
1681LOC: Config.Program.redirect
1682DEFAULT: none
1683DOC_START
1684 Specify the location of the executable for the URL redirector.
1685 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
1686 See the FAQ (section 15) for information on how to write one.
1687 By default, a redirector is not used.
1688DOC_END
1689
1690
dc62e7f7 1691NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
cccac0a2 1692TYPE: int
1693DEFAULT: 5
1694LOC: Config.redirectChildren
1695DOC_START
1696 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
1697 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
1698 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
1699 and other system resources.
1700DOC_END
1701
dc62e7f7 1702NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
cccac0a2 1703TYPE: int
1704DEFAULT: 0
1705LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
1706DOC_START
1707 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
7f7db318 1708 parallell. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
cccac0a2 1709 is a old-style singlethreaded redirector.
1710DOC_END
1711
dc62e7f7 1712NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
cccac0a2 1713TYPE: onoff
1714DEFAULT: on
1715LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
1716DOC_START
1717 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
7f7db318 1718 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
cccac0a2 1719 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
1720
1721 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
1722 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
1723DOC_END
1724
1725NAME: redirector_access
1726TYPE: acl_access
1727DEFAULT: none
1728LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
1729DOC_START
1730 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
1731 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
1732 are sent.
1733DOC_END
1734
1735NAME: auth_param
1736TYPE: authparam
1737LOC: Config.authConfiguration
1738DEFAULT: none
1739DOC_START
1740 This is used to pass parameters to the various authentication
1741 schemes.
1742 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
7f7db318 1743
1744 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
cccac0a2 1745 would tell the basic authentication scheme it's program parameter.
1746
7f7db318 1747 The order authentication prompts are presented to the client_agent
5ac1a5b3 1748 is dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file.
cccac0a2 1749 IE has a bug (it's not rfc 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
1750 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure schemes
1751 are presented. For now use the order in the file below. If other browsers
5ac1a5b3 1752 have difficulties (don't recognize the schemes offered even if you are using
7f7db318 1753 basic) either put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting
cccac0a2 1754 out their program entry).
1755
1756 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be shutdown
1757 by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on the fly and
1758 activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a different helper,
1759 but not unconfigure the helper completely.
1760
1761 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
7f7db318 1762
cccac0a2 1763 "program" cmdline
1764 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a
1765 program reads a line containing "username password" and replies
0a0c70cd 1766 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
1767 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
1768 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth.
1769 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a program
1770 is specified.
cccac0a2 1771
1772 If you want to use the traditional proxy authentication,
6845f129 1773 jump over to the ../helpers/basic_auth/NCSA directory and
cccac0a2 1774 type:
1775 % make
1776 % make install
1777
1778 Then, set this line to something like
1779
6845f129 1780 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
cccac0a2 1781
1782 "children" numberofchildren
1783 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1784 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1785 process a backlog of usercode/password verifications, slowing
1786 it down. When password verifications are done via a (slow)
1787 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1788 processes.
1789 auth_param basic children 5
1790
1791 "concurrency" concurrency
1792 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
1793 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
1794 one request at a time.
1795 auth_param basic concurrency 0
1796
1797 "realm" realmstring
1798 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1799 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
1800 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1801 password). There is no default.
1802 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1803
1804 "credentialsttl" timetolive
1805 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
1806 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
1807 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
1808 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
5ac1a5b3 1809 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
cccac0a2 1810 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
1811 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
1812 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
1813 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
1814
6845f129 1815 "casesensitive" on|off
1816 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
1817 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
1818 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
1819 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
1820 auth_param basic casesensitive off
64658378 1821
cccac0a2 1822 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
1823
1824 "program" cmdline
1825 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
1826 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
63a24aeb 1827 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
4c9fa5d5 1828 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
1829 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
0a0c70cd 1830 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
1831 available as %m in the returned error page.
4c9fa5d5 1832
1833 By default, the digest authentication is not used unless a
1834 program is specified.
1835
1836 If you want to use a digest authenticator, jump over to the
6845f129 1837 helpers/digest_auth/ directory and choose the authenticator
4c9fa5d5 1838 to use. In it's directory type
6845f129 1839 % make
1840 % make install
cccac0a2 1841
1842 Then, set this line to something like
1843
1844 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
1845
1846
1847 "children" numberofchildren
1848 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1849 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1850 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
1851 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
1852 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
1853 auth_param digest children 5
1854
1855 "realm" realmstring
1856 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1857 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
1858 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1859 password). There is no default.
1860 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1861
1862 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
1863 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
1864 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
1865
1866 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
1867 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
1868 valid for.
1869
1870 "nonce_max_count" number
1871 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
1872 used.
1873
1874 "nonce_strictness" on|off
5ac1a5b3 1875 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
cccac0a2 1876 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
1877 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
1878 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
1879
1880 "check_nonce_count" on|off
1881 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
1882 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
1883 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
1884 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
1885
1886 "post_workaround" on|off
1887 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
1888 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
5ac1a5b3 1889 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 1890
cccac0a2 1891 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
1892
1893 "program" cmdline
5ac1a5b3 1894 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
bdf7e1b4 1895 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
1896 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
5ac1a5b3 1897 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
1898 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
cccac0a2 1899 is not used.
1900
1901 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
1902
1903 "children" numberofchildren
1904 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1905 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1906 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
5ac1a5b3 1907 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
cccac0a2 1908 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1909 processes.
dd9b1776 1910
cccac0a2 1911 auth_param ntlm children 5
1912
dd9b1776 1913 "keep_alive" on|off
1914 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
1915 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
1916 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
1917 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
1918 supported by the proxy.
1919
1920 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
1921
6bf4f823 1922 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 1923
6bf4f823 1924 "program" cmdline
1925 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
1926 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
1927 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
1928 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
1929 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
1930 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least one acl
1931 of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate authenticator_program
1932 is not used.
1933 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
26819f1e 1934 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
6bf4f823 1935
1936 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
1937
1938 "children" numberofchildren
1939 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1940 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1941 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
1942 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
1943 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1944 processes.
1945 auth_param negotiate children 5
1946
1947 "keep_alive" on|off
1948 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
1949 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
1950 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
1951 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
1952 supported by the proxy.
1953
1954 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 1955
1956NOCOMMENT_START
6845f129 1957#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
6bf4f823 1958#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
1959#auth_param negotiate children 5
1960#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
26819f1e 1961#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
1962#auth_param ntlm children 5
1963#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
2d70df72 1964#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
1965#auth_param digest children 5
1966#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1967#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
1968#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
1969#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
94439e4e 1970#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6845f129 1971#auth_param basic children 5
1972#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1973#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
6b698a21 1974NOCOMMENT_END
1975DOC_END
0976f8db 1976
6b698a21 1977NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
1978TYPE: time_t
1979DEFAULT: 1 hour
1980LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
1981DOC_START
1982 The time period between garbage collection across the
5ac1a5b3 1983 username cache. This is a tradeoff between memory utilization
6b698a21 1984 (long intervals - say 2 days) and CPU (short intervals -
1985 say 1 minute). Only change if you have good reason to.
1986DOC_END
0976f8db 1987
6b698a21 1988NAME: authenticate_ttl
1989TYPE: time_t
1990DEFAULT: 1 hour
1991LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
1992DOC_START
1993 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
1994 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
1995 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
1996 TTL are removed from memory.
1997DOC_END
0976f8db 1998
6b698a21 1999NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
2000TYPE: time_t
2001LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
2002DEFAULT: 0 seconds
2003DOC_START
2004 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
2005 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
2006 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
2007 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
2008 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
2009 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
2010 environment with relatively static address assignments.
2011DOC_END
0976f8db 2012
6b698a21 2013NAME: external_acl_type
2014TYPE: externalAclHelper
2015LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
2016DEFAULT: none
2017DOC_START
2018 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
2019 to look up the status
7f7db318 2020
6b698a21 2021 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
7f7db318 2022
6b698a21 2023 Options:
0976f8db 2024
6b698a21 2025 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
2026 for 1 hour)
2027 negative_ttl=n
2028 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
2029 as ttl)
2030 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
2031 external acl lookups of this type.
2032 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Use 0 for old style
2033 helpers who can only process a single request at a
2034 time.
2035 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
2036 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
2037 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
2038 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
dc1af3cf 2039 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
7f7db318 2040
6b698a21 2041 FORMAT specifications
2042
2043 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
66b4345b 2044 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
6b698a21 2045 %IDENT Ident user name
2046 %SRC Client IP
2047 %SRCPORT Client source port
2048 %DST Requested host
2049 %PROTO Requested protocol
2050 %PORT Requested port
2051 %PATH Requested URL path
2052 %METHOD Request method
2053 %MYADDR Squid interface address
2054 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
4ac9968f 2055 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
3d61c476 2056 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
4ac9968f 2057 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
2058 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
6b698a21 2059 %{Header} HTTP request header
2060 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
2061 %{Hdr:;member}
2062 HTTP request header list member using ; as
2063 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
2064 character.
2065
2066 In addition, any string specified in the referencing acl will
2067 also be included in the helper request line, after the specified
2068 formats (see the "acl external" directive)
2069
2070 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
2071 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
2072 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
dc1af3cf 2073 more details. To protect from odd characters the data is URL
2074 escaped.
6b698a21 2075
2076 General result syntax:
7f7db318 2077
6b698a21 2078 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
0976f8db 2079
6b698a21 2080 Defined keywords:
0976f8db 2081
6b698a21 2082 user= The users name (login)
2083 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
2084 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
2085 in error pages
2086 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
2087 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
2088 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
2089 %ea in logformat specifications
0976f8db 2090
dc1af3cf 2091 Keyword values need to be URL escaped if they may contain
2092 contain whitespace or quotes.
2093
2094 In Squid-2.5 compatibility mode quoting using " and \ is used
2095 instead of URL escaping.
6b698a21 2096DOC_END
0976f8db 2097
6b698a21 2098COMMENT_START
2099 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2100 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2101COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2102
6b698a21 2103NAME: request_header_max_size
2104COMMENT: (KB)
2105TYPE: b_size_t
5b648f60 2106DEFAULT: 20 KB
6b698a21 2107LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
2108DOC_START
2109 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
2110 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2111 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
2112 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2113 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2114DOC_END
0976f8db 2115
6b698a21 2116NAME: request_body_max_size
2117COMMENT: (KB)
2118TYPE: b_size_t
2119DEFAULT: 0 KB
2120LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
2121DOC_START
2122 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
2123 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
2124 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
2125 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
2126 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
2127 be no limit imposed.
2128DOC_END
0976f8db 2129
6b698a21 2130NAME: refresh_pattern
2131TYPE: refreshpattern
2132LOC: Config.Refresh
2133DEFAULT: none
2134DOC_START
2135 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
0976f8db 2136
6b698a21 2137 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2138 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
0976f8db 2139
6b698a21 2140 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2141 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2142 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2143 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2144 has taken the appropriate actions.
0976f8db 2145
6b698a21 2146 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2147 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2148 will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2149
6b698a21 2150 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2151 expiry time will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2152
6b698a21 2153 options: override-expire
2154 override-lastmod
2155 reload-into-ims
2156 ignore-reload
38f9c547 2157 ignore-no-cache
2158 ignore-no-store
2159 ignore-private
2160 ignore-auth
6845f129 2161 refresh-ims
0976f8db 2162
6b698a21 2163 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
2164 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
2165 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
2166 for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2167
6b698a21 2168 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
7f7db318 2169 that were modified recently.
0976f8db 2170
6b698a21 2171 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2172 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2173 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2174 liable for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2175
6b698a21 2176 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2177 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2178 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2179 it causes.
7f7db318 2180
6845f129 2181 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2182 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2183 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2184 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2185 send it anyway.
38f9c547 2186
6845f129 2187 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2188 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2189 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2190 liable for problems which it causes.
38f9c547 2191
6845f129 2192 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2193 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2194 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2195 liable for problems which it causes.
38f9c547 2196
6845f129 2197 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2198 irrespective of ``Cache-control'' headers received from
2199 a server. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2200 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2201 it causes.
38f9c547 2202
4c3ef9b2 2203 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2204 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2205 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2206 if one is available.
2207
6b698a21 2208 Basically a cached object is:
0976f8db 2209
6b698a21 2210 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2211 STALE if age > max
2212 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2213 FRESH if age < min
2214 else STALE
0976f8db 2215
6b698a21 2216 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2217 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
7f7db318 2218 match the default will be used.
0976f8db 2219
6b698a21 2220 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2221 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2222 used.
0976f8db 2223
6b698a21 2224Suggested default:
2225NOCOMMENT_START
2226refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2227refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
2228refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2229NOCOMMENT_END
2230DOC_END
0976f8db 2231
6b698a21 2232NAME: quick_abort_min
2233COMMENT: (KB)
2234TYPE: kb_size_t
2235DEFAULT: 16 KB
2236LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2237DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2238
6b698a21 2239NAME: quick_abort_max
2240COMMENT: (KB)
2241TYPE: kb_size_t
2242DEFAULT: 16 KB
2243LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2244DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2245
6b698a21 2246NAME: quick_abort_pct
2247COMMENT: (percent)
2248TYPE: int
2249DEFAULT: 95
2250LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2251DOC_START
2252 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2253 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2254 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2255 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2256 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2257 downloads.
0976f8db 2258
6b698a21 2259 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2260 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2261 then.
0976f8db 2262
6b698a21 2263 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2264 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2265
6b698a21 2266 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2267 it will abort the retrieval.
0976f8db 2268
6b698a21 2269 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2270 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2271
6b698a21 2272 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2273 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2274 to '0 KB'.
0976f8db 2275
6b698a21 2276 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
7f7db318 2277 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
6b698a21 2278DOC_END
0976f8db 2279
6b698a21 2280NAME: read_ahead_gap
2281COMMENT: buffer-size
2282TYPE: kb_size_t
2283LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2284DEFAULT: 16 KB
2285DOC_START
2286 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2287 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2288DOC_END
0976f8db 2289
6b698a21 2290NAME: negative_ttl
2291COMMENT: time-units
2292TYPE: time_t
2293LOC: Config.negativeTtl
2294DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2295DOC_START
2296 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
2297 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
2298 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
2299 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
2300 negative caching of DNS lookups.
2301DOC_END
0976f8db 2302
0976f8db 2303
6b698a21 2304NAME: positive_dns_ttl
2305COMMENT: time-units
2306TYPE: time_t
2307LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
2308DEFAULT: 6 hours
2309DOC_START
2310 Time-to-Live (TTL) for positive caching of successful DNS lookups.
2311 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). If you want to minimize the
2312 use of Squid's ipcache, set this to 1, not 0.
2313DOC_END
0976f8db 2314
0976f8db 2315
6b698a21 2316NAME: negative_dns_ttl
2317COMMENT: time-units
2318TYPE: time_t
2319LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
2320DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2321DOC_START
2322 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
2323DOC_END
0976f8db 2324
6b698a21 2325NAME: range_offset_limit
2326COMMENT: (bytes)
2327TYPE: b_size_t
2328LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
2329DEFAULT: 0 KB
2330DOC_START
2331 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
2332 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
7f7db318 2333 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
6b698a21 2334 is NOT cached.
0976f8db 2335
6b698a21 2336 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
2337 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
2338 sending anything to the client.
0976f8db 2339
6b698a21 2340 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
7f7db318 2341 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
0976f8db 2342
6b698a21 2343 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
2344 client requested. (default)
2345DOC_END
0976f8db 2346
0976f8db 2347
6b698a21 2348COMMENT_START
2349 TIMEOUTS
2350 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2351COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2352
777831e0 2353NAME: forward_timeout
2354COMMENT: time-units
2355TYPE: time_t
2356LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
2357DEFAULT: 4 minutes
2358DOC_START
6845f129 2359 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
2360 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
777831e0 2361DOC_END
2362
6b698a21 2363NAME: connect_timeout
2364COMMENT: time-units
2365TYPE: time_t
2366LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
777831e0 2367DEFAULT: 1 minute
6b698a21 2368DOC_START
6845f129 2369 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
2370 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
2371 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
6b698a21 2372DOC_END
0976f8db 2373
6b698a21 2374NAME: peer_connect_timeout
2375COMMENT: time-units
2376TYPE: time_t
2377LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
2378DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2379DOC_START
2380 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
2381 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
2382 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
2383 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
2384DOC_END
0976f8db 2385
6b698a21 2386NAME: read_timeout
2387COMMENT: time-units
2388TYPE: time_t
2389LOC: Config.Timeout.read
2390DEFAULT: 15 minutes
2391DOC_START
2392 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
2393 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
2394 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
2395 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
2396 default is 15 minutes.
2397DOC_END
0976f8db 2398
0976f8db 2399
6b698a21 2400NAME: request_timeout
2401TYPE: time_t
2402LOC: Config.Timeout.request
2403DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2404DOC_START
2405 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
2406 connection establishment.
2407DOC_END
0976f8db 2408
0976f8db 2409
6b698a21 2410NAME: persistent_request_timeout
2411TYPE: time_t
2412LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
2413DEFAULT: 1 minute
2414DOC_START
2415 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
2416 connection after the previous request completes.
2417DOC_END
0976f8db 2418
0976f8db 2419
6b698a21 2420NAME: client_lifetime
2421COMMENT: time-units
2422TYPE: time_t
2423LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
2424DEFAULT: 1 day
2425DOC_START
7f7db318 2426 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6b698a21 2427 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
2428 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
2429 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
2430 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
2431 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
2432 day, 1440 minutes.
2433
2434 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
2435 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
2436 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
2437 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
2438 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
2439 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
2440DOC_END
2441
2442NAME: half_closed_clients
2443TYPE: onoff
2444LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
2445DEFAULT: on
2446DOC_START
2447 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
2448 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
2449 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
2450 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
2451 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
2452 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
2453 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
2454 "no more data to read."
2455DOC_END
0976f8db 2456
6b698a21 2457NAME: pconn_timeout
2458TYPE: time_t
2459LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
2460DEFAULT: 120 seconds
2461DOC_START
2462 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
2463 proxies.
2464DOC_END
0976f8db 2465
6b698a21 2466NAME: ident_timeout
2467TYPE: time_t
2468IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2469LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
2470DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2471DOC_START
2472 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
7f7db318 2473
6b698a21 2474 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
7f7db318 2475 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6b698a21 2476 many ident requests going at once.
2477DOC_END
0976f8db 2478
0976f8db 2479
6b698a21 2480NAME: shutdown_lifetime
2481COMMENT: time-units
2482TYPE: time_t
2483LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
2484DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2485DOC_START
2486 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
2487 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
2488 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
2489 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
2490 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
2491DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2492
6b698a21 2493COMMENT_START
2494 ACCESS CONTROLS
2495 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2496COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 2497
6b698a21 2498NAME: acl
2499TYPE: acl
2500LOC: Config.aclList
2501DEFAULT: none
2502DOC_START
2503 Defining an Access List
9e7dbc51 2504
6b698a21 2505 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
2506 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
9e7dbc51 2507
6b698a21 2508 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
9e7dbc51 2509
6b698a21 2510 acltype is one of the types described below
9e7dbc51 2511
6b698a21 2512 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2513 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2514
6b698a21 2515 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
2516 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
2517 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
2518 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
9e7dbc51 2519
5b807763 2520 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
2521 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
2522 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
5cb988c7 2523 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
5b807763 2524 #
2525 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
2526 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
2527 # find out its MAC address.
2528
6b698a21 2529 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
2530 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
2531 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
2532 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
7660b45d 2533 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
2534 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
2535 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9e7dbc51 2536
a0ec9f68 2537 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
2538
6b698a21 2539 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
2540 day-abbrevs:
2541 S - Sunday
2542 M - Monday
2543 T - Tuesday
2544 W - Wednesday
2545 H - Thursday
2546 F - Friday
2547 A - Saturday
2548 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
2549 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
2550 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
2551 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
2552 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
2553 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
2554 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
2555 acl aclname method GET POST ...
2556 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
00634927 2557 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
6845f129 2558 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
2559 # pattern match on Referer header
2560 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
6b698a21 2561 acl aclname ident username ...
2562 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
2563 # string match on ident output.
9e7dbc51 2564 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
6b698a21 2565 acl aclname src_as number ...
2566 acl aclname dst_as number ...
2567 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
9e7dbc51 2568 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
2569 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
6468fe10 2570 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
2571 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
d87ebd78 2572 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
2573 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
6468fe10 2574
6b698a21 2575 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
2576 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
2577 # list of valid usernames
c68e9c6b 2578 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
73e67ee0 2579 #
2580 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
2581 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
2582 # in access.log.
c68e9c6b 2583 #
2584 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
2585 # to check username/password combinations (see
f7d2a450 2586 # auth_param directive).
c68e9c6b 2587 #
d048c262 2588 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy as
2589 # the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
2590 # to respond to proxy authentication.
934b03fc 2591
6b698a21 2592 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
2593 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
dba79ac5 2594 # Example:
96d88dcb 2595 #
dba79ac5 2596 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
2597
6b698a21 2598 acl aclname maxconn number
2599 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
9bc73deb 2600 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
2601
6b698a21 2602 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
2603 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
c23e89cd 2604 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
60d096f4 2605 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
7f7db318 2606 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
be5caa55 2607 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
c23e89cd 2608 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
7f7db318 2609 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
be5caa55 2610 # request is denied)
2611 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
c23e89cd 2612 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
be5caa55 2613 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
60d096f4 2614
cccac0a2 2615 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
5ac1a5b3 2616 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
c4ab8329 2617 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
5ac1a5b3 2618 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
c4ab8329 2619 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
2620 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
2621 # http_reply_access.
2622
7df0bfd7 2623 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
2624 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
2625 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
2626 # ACLs.
2627
2628 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
2629 # regex match agains the mime type of the request generated
2630 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
2631 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
2632 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
2633 # to match the returned file type.
2634
00634927 2635 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
2636 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
2637 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
2638 # ACLs.
2639
cccac0a2 2640 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
2641 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
d9572179 2642 # external_acl_type directive.
c4ab8329 2643
cccac0a2 2644 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
2645 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2646 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2647
cccac0a2 2648 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
2649 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2650 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2651
cccac0a2 2652 acl aclname ext_user username ...
2653 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
2654 # string match on username returned by external acl processing
d95b862f 2655 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
2656
cccac0a2 2657Examples:
5b807763 2658acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
cccac0a2 2659acl myexample dst_as 1241
2660acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
2661acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
2662acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
c68e9c6b 2663
cccac0a2 2664NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2665#Recommended minimum configuration:
cccac0a2 2666acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
2667acl manager proto cache_object
2668acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
2669acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ec19153f 2670acl SSL_ports port 443
cccac0a2 2671acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
2672acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
ec19153f 2673acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
cccac0a2 2674acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
2675acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
2676acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
2677acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
2678acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
2679acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
2680acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
2681acl CONNECT method CONNECT
2682NOCOMMENT_END
2683DOC_END
2684
2685NAME: http_access
2686TYPE: acl_access
2687LOC: Config.accessList.http
2688DEFAULT: none
2689DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2690DOC_START
2691 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
2692
2693 Access to the HTTP port:
2694 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2695
2696 NOTE on default values:
2697
2698 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
2699 the request.
2700
2701 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
2702 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
7f7db318 2703 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
cccac0a2 2704 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
2705 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
2706 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
2707
2708NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2709#Recommended minimum configuration:
2710#
2711# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
cccac0a2 2712http_access allow manager localhost
2713http_access deny manager
6b53c392 2714# Deny requests to unknown ports
cccac0a2 2715http_access deny !Safe_ports
6b53c392 2716# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
cccac0a2 2717http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
c68e9c6b 2718#
7f7db318 2719# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
2720# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
4cc6eb12 2721# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
2722#http_access deny to_localhost
c68e9c6b 2723#
4cc6eb12 2724# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
2725
59f4a63e 2726# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt
b9d7fe3e 2727# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should
2728# be allowed
2729#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
2730#http_access allow our_networks
2731
6b53c392 2732# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
cccac0a2 2733http_access deny all
2734NOCOMMENT_END
2735DOC_END
c4ab8329 2736
cccac0a2 2737NAME: http_reply_access
2738TYPE: acl_access
2739LOC: Config.accessList.reply
2740DEFAULT: none
2741DEFAULT_IF_NONE: allow all
2742DOC_START
6845f129 2743 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
c4ab8329 2744
6845f129 2745 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
0976f8db 2746
6845f129 2747 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
cccac0a2 2748 all replies
0976f8db 2749
6845f129 2750 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
2751 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
2752 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
0976f8db 2753
cccac0a2 2754NOCOMMENT_START
c4ab8329 2755#Recommended minimum configuration:
2756#
2757# Insert your own rules here.
2758#
2759#
2760# and finally allow by default
cccac0a2 2761http_reply_access allow all
2762NOCOMMENT_END
2763DOC_END
6b53c392 2764
6b53c392 2765
cccac0a2 2766NAME: icp_access
2767TYPE: acl_access
2768LOC: Config.accessList.icp
2769DEFAULT: none
2770DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2771DOC_START
2772 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
2773 access lists
934b03fc 2774
cccac0a2 2775 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 2776
cccac0a2 2777 See http_access for details
0976f8db 2778
cccac0a2 2779NOCOMMENT_START
403b5e7b 2780#Allow ICP queries from everyone
cccac0a2 2781icp_access allow all
2782NOCOMMENT_END
2783DOC_END
934b03fc 2784
2785
5401aa8d 2786NAME: htcp_access
2787IFDEF: USE_HTCP
2788TYPE: acl_access
2789LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
2790DEFAULT: none
2791DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2792DOC_START
2793 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
2794 access lists
2795
2796 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2797
2798 See http_access for details
2799
2800#Allow HTCP queries from everyone
2801htcp_access allow all
2802DOC_END
2803
2804NAME: htcp_clr_access
2805IFDEF: USE_HTCP
2806TYPE: acl_access
2807LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
2808DEFAULT: none
2809DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2810DOC_START
2811 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
2812 on defined access lists
2813
2814 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2815
2816 See http_access for details
2817
2818#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
2819acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
2820htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
2821DOC_END
2822
2823
cccac0a2 2824NAME: miss_access
2825TYPE: acl_access
2826LOC: Config.accessList.miss
2827DEFAULT: none
2828DOC_START
2829 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
2830 a parent. For example:
934b03fc 2831
cccac0a2 2832 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
2833 miss_access allow localclients
2834 miss_access deny !localclients
934b03fc 2835
7f7db318 2836 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
cccac0a2 2837 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
934b03fc 2838
cccac0a2 2839 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
2840 to fetch MISSES from us.
6b53c392 2841
cccac0a2 2842NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2843#Default setting:
2844# miss_access allow all
cccac0a2 2845NOCOMMENT_END
2846DOC_END
2847
2848
2849NAME: cache_peer_access
2850TYPE: peer_access
2851DEFAULT: none
2852LOC: none
2853DOC_START
2854 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2855 using ACL elements.
2856
2857 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2858
2859 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2860 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2861 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
2862DOC_END
2863
2864NAME: ident_lookup_access
2865TYPE: acl_access
2866IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2867DEFAULT: none
2868DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2869LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
2870DOC_START
2871 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
2872 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
2873 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
2874 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
2875 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
2876 any requests.
2877
2878 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
2879 can follow this example:
2880
2881 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
2882 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
2883 ident_lookup_access deny all
2884
2885 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
2886 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
2887 the correct result.
2888DOC_END
2889
2890NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2891TYPE: acl_tos
2892DEFAULT: none
2893LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
2894DOC_START
2895 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
2896 connections with, based on the username or source address
2897 making the request.
2898
2899 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2900
2901 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2902 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
2903
2904 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2905 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2906 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net 0x00
2907 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2908
2909 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
2910 know what you're specifying. For more, see RFC 2474
2911
2912 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a byte, value 0 - 255, or
2913 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2914
2915 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2916 matching line.
2917DOC_END
2918
2919NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2920TYPE: acl_address
2921DEFAULT: none
2922LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2923DOC_START
2924 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2925 based on the username or sourceaddress of the user making
2926 the request.
7f7db318 2927
cccac0a2 2928 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
2929
5ac1a5b3 2930 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
7f7db318 2931 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
cccac0a2 2932 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
2933 source address 10.1.0.3.
2934
2935 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2936 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2937 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net
2938 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net
2939 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3
2940
2941 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2942 matching line.
2943DOC_END
2944
4eb368f9 2945NAME: reply_header_max_size
2946COMMENT: (KB)
2947TYPE: b_size_t
2948DEFAULT: 20 KB
2949LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
2950DOC_START
2951 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
2952 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2953 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
2954 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2955 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2956DOC_END
2957
cccac0a2 2958NAME: reply_body_max_size
2959COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
2960TYPE: acl_b_size_t
2961DEFAULT: none
2962LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
2963DOC_START
6845f129 2964 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
cccac0a2 2965 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
5ac1a5b3 2966 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
cccac0a2 2967 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
5ac1a5b3 2968 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
cccac0a2 2969 for this reply.
2970
7f7db318 2971 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
cccac0a2 2972 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
2973 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
2974 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
2975 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
2976 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
2977 and they will receive a partial reply.
2978
2979 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
2980 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
2981 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
2982 use this option if you have downstream caches.
2983
2984 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
2985 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
2986 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
2987 the size of your largest error page.
2988
2989 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
2990 no limit imposed.
2991DOC_END
2992
2993NAME: log_access
2994TYPE: acl_access
2995LOC: Config.accessList.log
2996DEFAULT: none
2997COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2998DOC_START
6845f129 2999 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
cccac0a2 3000 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3001 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
3002DOC_END
0976f8db 3003
cccac0a2 3004COMMENT_START
3005 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3006 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3007COMMENT_END
3008
3009NAME: cache_mgr
3010TYPE: string
3011DEFAULT: webmaster
3012LOC: Config.adminEmail
3013DOC_START
3014 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3015 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3016DOC_END
3017
3018
abacf776 3019NAME: mail_from
3020TYPE: string
3021DEFAULT: none
3022LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3023DOC_START
3024 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3025 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3026 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3027 src/globals.h before building squid.
3028DOC_END
3029
3030
d084bf20 3031NAME: mail_program
3032TYPE: eol
3033DEFAULT: mail
3034LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3035DOC_START
3036 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
3037 The default is "mail". The specified program must complain
3038 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
3039 mail_program recipient < mailfile
3040 Optional command line options can be specified.
3041DOC_END
3042
3043
cccac0a2 3044NAME: cache_effective_user
3045TYPE: string
3046DEFAULT: nobody
3047LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3048DOC_START
3049 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3050 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
3051 to UID to nobody. If you define cache_effective_user, but not
3052 cache_effective_group, Squid sets the GID to the effective
3053 user's default group ID (taken from the password file) and
3054 supplementary group list from the from groups membership of
3055 cache_effective_user.
3056DOC_END
3057
cccac0a2 3058
3059NAME: cache_effective_group
3060TYPE: string
3061DEFAULT: none
3062LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3063DOC_START
e3d74828 3064 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3065 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3066 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
3067 all other group privileges of the effective user is ignored
3068 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
3069 root the user starting Squid must be member of the specified
3070 group.
cccac0a2 3071DOC_END
3072
3073
d3caee79 3074NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3075COMMENT: on|off
3076TYPE: onoff
3077DEFAULT: off
3078LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3079DOC_START
3080 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3081DOC_END
3082
3083
cccac0a2 3084NAME: visible_hostname
3085TYPE: string
3086LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3087DEFAULT: none
3088DOC_START
3089 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3090 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3091 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3092 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3093 names with this setting.
3094DOC_END
3095
3096
3097NAME: unique_hostname
3098TYPE: string
3099LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3100DEFAULT: none
3101DOC_START
3102 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3103 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3104 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3105DOC_END
3106
3107
3108NAME: hostname_aliases
3109TYPE: wordlist
3110LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3111DEFAULT: none
3112DOC_START
7f7db318 3113 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3114DOC_END
0976f8db 3115
cccac0a2 3116COMMENT_START
3117 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3118 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3119
3120 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3121 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3122 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3123 create cache hierarchies.
3124
3125 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3126 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3127 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3128
3129 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3130 following information from this configuration file:
3131
3132 http_port
3133 icp_port
3134 cache_mgr
3135
3136 All current information is processed regularly and made
3137 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3138COMMENT_END
3139
3140NAME: announce_period
3141TYPE: time_t
3142LOC: Config.Announce.period
3143DEFAULT: 0
3144DOC_START
3145 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3146 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3147 messages.
3148
3149 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3150 below.
3151
3152NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3153#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3154#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3155NOCOMMENT_END
3156DOC_END
3157
3158
3159NAME: announce_host
3160TYPE: string
3161DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3162LOC: Config.Announce.host
3163DOC_NONE
3164
3165NAME: announce_file
3166TYPE: string
3167DEFAULT: none
3168LOC: Config.Announce.file
3169DOC_NONE
3170
3171NAME: announce_port
3172TYPE: ushort
3173DEFAULT: 3131
3174LOC: Config.Announce.port
3175DOC_START
3176 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3177 number where the registration message will be sent.
3178
3179 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3180 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3181 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3182 message.
3183DOC_END
3184
3185NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
3186IFDEF: ESI
3187TYPE: string
3188LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3189DEFAULT: unset-id
3190DOC_START
3191 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3192 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3193 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3194 an identification token.
3195DOC_END
3196
3197NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
3198IFDEF: ESI
3199COMMENT: on|off
3200TYPE: onoff
3201DEFAULT: off
3202LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3203DOC_START
3204 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3205 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3206DOC_END
3207
3208NAME: esi_parser
3209IFDEF: ESI
964b44c3 3210COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3211TYPE: string
3212LOC: ESIParser::Type
3213DEFAULT: custom
3214DOC_START
3215 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3216 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3217 encodings.
3218DOC_END
0976f8db 3219
cccac0a2 3220COMMENT_START
3221 MISCELLANEOUS
3222 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3223COMMENT_END
3224
3225NAME: dns_testnames
3226TYPE: wordlist
3227LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
3228DEFAULT: none
3229DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
3230DOC_START
3231 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
3232
3233 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
3234DOC_END
3235
3236
3237NAME: logfile_rotate
3238TYPE: int
3239DEFAULT: 10
3240LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
3241DOC_START
3242 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
87d69285 3243 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3244 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3245 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3246 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
cccac0a2 3247 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
3248
3249 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3250 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3251 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3252 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3253 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3254 <pid>'.
3255DOC_END
3256
3257
3258NAME: append_domain
3259TYPE: string
3260LOC: Config.appendDomain
3261DEFAULT: none
3262DOC_START
3263 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
3264 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
3265
7f7db318 3266 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
cccac0a2 3267 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
3268 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
3269
3270Example:
3271 append_domain .yourdomain.com
3272DOC_END
3273
3274
3275NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
3276COMMENT: (bytes)
3277TYPE: b_size_t
3278DEFAULT: 0 bytes
3279LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
3280DOC_START
3281 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
3282 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
3283 the default buffer size.
3284DOC_END
3285
3286NAME: err_html_text
3287TYPE: eol
3288LOC: Config.errHtmlText
3289DEFAULT: none
3290DOC_START
3291 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
3292 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
3293 organizations Web page.
3294
3295 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
3296 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
3297 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
3298 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
3299DOC_END
3300
3301NAME: email_err_data
3302COMMENT: on|off
3303TYPE: onoff
3304LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
3305DEFAULT: on
3306DOC_START
3307 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
3308 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7f7db318 3309 so that the email body contains the data.
cccac0a2 3310 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
3311DOC_END
3312
3313
3314NAME: deny_info
3315TYPE: denyinfo
3316LOC: Config.denyInfoList
3317DEFAULT: none
3318DOC_START
3319 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
3320 or deny_info http://... acl
3321 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
3322
3323 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
3324 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. A single ACL will cause
3325 the http_access check to fail. If a 'deny_info' line exists
7f7db318 3326 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
cccac0a2 3327
3328 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
3329 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
3330
7f7db318 3331 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
cccac0a2 3332 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
3333 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
3334
3335 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
3336 by specifying TCP_RESET.
3337DOC_END
3338
3339NAME: memory_pools
3340COMMENT: on|off
3341TYPE: onoff
3342DEFAULT: on
3343LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
3344DOC_START
3345 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
3346 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
3347 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
3348 routines, disable this.
3349DOC_END
3350
3351NAME: memory_pools_limit
3352COMMENT: (bytes)
3353TYPE: b_size_t
e838cf2f 3354DEFAULT: 5 MB
cccac0a2 3355LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
3356DOC_START
3357 Used only with memory_pools on:
3358 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
3359
3360 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
3361 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
3362 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
3363 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
3364 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
3365 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
3366 configuration will use less memory.
3367
7e7e02e1 3368 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
3369 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
cccac0a2 3370
3371 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
3372 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
3373
3374 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
3375 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
3376 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
3377 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
3378DOC_END
3379
3380NAME: via
3381IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3382COMMENT: on|off
3383TYPE: onoff
3384DEFAULT: on
3385LOC: Config.onoff.via
3386DOC_START
3387 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3388 replies as required by RFC2616.
3389DOC_END
3390
3391NAME: forwarded_for
3392COMMENT: on|off
3393TYPE: onoff
3394DEFAULT: on
3395LOC: opt_forwarded_for
3396DOC_START
3397 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
3398 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
3399 this:
3400
3401 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
3402
3403 If you disable this, it will appear as
3404
3405 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
3406DOC_END
3407
3408NAME: log_icp_queries
3409COMMENT: on|off
3410TYPE: onoff
3411DEFAULT: on
3412LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
3413DOC_START
3414 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
3415 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
3416 up or to simplify log analysis.
3417DOC_END
3418
3419NAME: icp_hit_stale
3420COMMENT: on|off
3421TYPE: onoff
3422DEFAULT: off
3423LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
3424DOC_START
3425 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
3426 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
3427 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7f7db318 3428 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
cccac0a2 3429 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7f7db318 3430 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
cccac0a2 3431 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
3432DOC_END
3433
3434
3435NAME: minimum_direct_hops
3436TYPE: int
3437DEFAULT: 4
3438LOC: Config.minDirectHops
3439DOC_START
3440 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3441 which are no more than this many hops away.
3442DOC_END
3443
3444NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
3445TYPE: int
3446DEFAULT: 400
3447LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
3448DOC_START
3449 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3450 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
3451DOC_END
3452
3453NAME: cachemgr_passwd
3454TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
3455DEFAULT: none
3456LOC: Config.passwd_list
3457DOC_START
3458 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
3459
3460 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
3461
3462 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
3463 5min
3464 60min
3465 asndb
3466 authenticator
3467 cbdata
3468 client_list
3469 comm_incoming
3470 config *
3471 counters
3472 delay
3473 digest_stats
3474 dns
3475 events
3476 filedescriptors
3477 fqdncache
3478 histograms
3479 http_headers
3480 info
3481 io
3482 ipcache
3483 mem
3484 menu
3485 netdb
3486 non_peers
3487 objects
3488 offline_toggle *
3489 pconn
3490 peer_select
3491 redirector
3492 refresh
3493 server_list
3494 shutdown *
3495 store_digest
3496 storedir
3497 utilization
3498 via_headers
3499 vm_objects
3500
3501 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
3502 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
3503
3504 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
3505 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
3506 password to "none".
3507
3508 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
3509
3510Example:
3511 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
3512 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
3513 cachemgr_passwd disable all
3514DOC_END
3515
3516NAME: store_avg_object_size
3517COMMENT: (kbytes)
3518TYPE: kb_size_t
3519DEFAULT: 13 KB
3520LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3521DOC_START
3522 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3523 cache can hold. See doc/Release-Notes-1.1.txt. The default is
3524 13 KB.
3525DOC_END
3526
3527NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3528TYPE: int
3529DEFAULT: 20
3530LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3531DOC_START
3532 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3533 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
c8f4eac4 3534 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
cccac0a2 3535DOC_END
3536
3537NAME: client_db
3538COMMENT: on|off
3539TYPE: onoff
3540DEFAULT: on
3541LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
3542DOC_START
7f7db318 3543 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
cccac0a2 3544 turn off client_db here.
3545DOC_END
3546
3547
3548NAME: netdb_low
3549TYPE: int
3550DEFAULT: 900
3551LOC: Config.Netdb.low
3552DOC_NONE
3553
3554NAME: netdb_high
3555TYPE: int
3556DEFAULT: 1000
3557LOC: Config.Netdb.high
3558DOC_START
3559 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
3560 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
3561 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
3562 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
3563DOC_END
3564
3565
3566NAME: netdb_ping_period
3567TYPE: time_t
3568LOC: Config.Netdb.period
3569DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3570DOC_START
3571 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
3572 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
3573 network. The default is five minutes.
3574DOC_END
3575
3576
3577NAME: query_icmp
3578COMMENT: on|off
3579TYPE: onoff
3580DEFAULT: off
3581LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
3582DOC_START
3583 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
3584 replies, enable this option.
3585
3586 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 3587 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
3588 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 3589 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
3590 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
3591 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
3592 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
3593 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
3594DOC_END
3595
3596NAME: test_reachability
3597COMMENT: on|off
3598TYPE: onoff
3599DEFAULT: off
3600LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
3601DOC_START
3602 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
3603 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
3604 database, or has a zero RTT.
3605DOC_END
3606
3607NAME: buffered_logs
3608COMMENT: on|off
3609TYPE: onoff
3610DEFAULT: off
3611LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3612DOC_START
3613 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3614 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3615 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3616 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3617 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3618DOC_END
3619
4c3ef9b2 3620NAME: refresh_all_ims
3621COMMENT: on|off
3622TYPE: onoff
3623DEFAULT: off
3624LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
3625DOC_START
3626 When you enable this option, squid will always check
3627 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
3628 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
3629 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
3630 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
3631
3632 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
3633 based on the age of the cached version.
3634DOC_END
3635
cccac0a2 3636NAME: reload_into_ims
3637IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3638COMMENT: on|off
3639TYPE: onoff
3640DEFAULT: off
3641LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
3642DOC_START
3643 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
3644 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
3645 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
3646 feature could make you liable for problems which it
3647 causes.
7f7db318 3648
cccac0a2 3649 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
3650DOC_END
3651
3652NAME: always_direct
3653TYPE: acl_access
3654LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
3655DEFAULT: none
3656DOC_START
3657 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3658
3659 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
3660 ALWAYS be forwarded directly to origin servers. For example,
3661 to always directly forward requests for local servers use
3662 something like:
3663
3664 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
3665 always_direct allow local-servers
3666
3667 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
3668
3669 acl FTP proto FTP
3670 always_direct allow FTP
3671
3672 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
3673 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
3674 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
3675 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
3676 some other rule. Example:
3677
3678 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3679 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3680 always_direct deny local-external
3681 always_direct allow local-servers
3682
3683 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
3684 and local_ip.
3685DOC_END
3686
3687NAME: never_direct
3688TYPE: acl_access
3689LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
3690DEFAULT: none
3691DOC_START
3692 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3693
3694 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
3695 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
3696
3697 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
3698 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
3699 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
3700 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
3701
3702 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3703 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
3704 never_direct deny local-servers
3705 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3706
3707 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
f939c0ca 3708 servers inside the firewall use something like:
cccac0a2 3709
3710 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
3711 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3712 always_direct deny local-external
3713 always_direct allow local-intranet
3714 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3715
cccac0a2 3716 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
3717 and firewall_ip.
3718DOC_END
3719
8c01ada0 3720NAME: request_header_access
cccac0a2 3721IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3722TYPE: http_header_access[]
8c01ada0 3723LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3724DEFAULT: none
3725DOC_START
8c01ada0 3726 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 3727
3728 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3729 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3730 causes.
3731
3732 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3733 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3734 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3735 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3736 mangling.
3737
8c01ada0 3738 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3739 client to the server.
3740
cccac0a2 3741 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3742 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3743 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3744
5ac1a5b3 3745 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
cccac0a2 3746 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3747
8c01ada0 3748 request_header_access From deny all
3749 request_header_access Referer deny all
3750 request_header_access Server deny all
3751 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3752 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3753 request_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3754
3755 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3756 you should use:
3757
8c01ada0 3758 request_header_access Allow allow all
3759 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3760 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
141ab88c 3761 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3762 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
8c01ada0 3763 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3764 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3765 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3766 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3767 request_header_access Date allow all
3768 request_header_access Expires allow all
3769 request_header_access Host allow all
3770 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3771 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3772 request_header_access Location allow all
3773 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3774 request_header_access Accept allow all
3775 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3776 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3777 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3778 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3779 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3780 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3781 request_header_access Title allow all
3782 request_header_access Connection allow all
3783 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3784 request_header_access All deny all
3785
3786 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3787 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
3788
3789 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3790 performed).
3791DOC_END
3792
3793NAME: reply_header_access
3794IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3795TYPE: http_header_access[]
3796LOC: Config.reply_header_access
3797DEFAULT: none
3798DOC_START
3799 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3800
3801 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3802 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3803 causes.
3804
3805 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3806 server to the client.
3807
3808 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3809 direction.
3810
3811 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3812 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3813 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3814 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3815 mangling.
3816
3817 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3818 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3819 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3820
5ac1a5b3 3821 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
8c01ada0 3822 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3823
3824 reply_header_access From deny all
3825 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3826 reply_header_access Server deny all
3827 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3828 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3829 reply_header_access Link deny all
3830
3831 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3832 you should use:
3833
3834 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3835 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3836 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
141ab88c 3837 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3838 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
8c01ada0 3839 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3840 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3841 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3842 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3843 reply_header_access Date allow all
3844 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3845 reply_header_access Host allow all
3846 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3847 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3848 reply_header_access Location allow all
3849 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3850 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3851 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3852 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3853 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3854 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3855 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3856 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3857 reply_header_access Title allow all
3858 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3859 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3860 reply_header_access All deny all
3861
3862 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3863 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3864
3865 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3866 performed).
3867DOC_END
3868
3869NAME: header_replace
3870IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3871TYPE: http_header_replace[]
8c01ada0 3872LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3873DEFAULT: none
3874DOC_START
3875 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3876 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
3877
3878 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3879 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3880 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3881 option.
3882
8c01ada0 3883 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
3884
cccac0a2 3885 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3886DOC_END
3887
3888NAME: icon_directory
3889TYPE: string
3890LOC: Config.icons.directory
3891DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3892DOC_START
3893 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
3894 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3895DOC_END
3896
f024c970 3897NAME: global_internal_static
3898TYPE: onoff
3899LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
3900DEFAULT: on
3901DOC_START
3902 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
3903 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
3904 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
3905 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
3906 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
3907 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
3908 the server generating a directory listing.
3909DOC_END
3910
e72a0ec0 3911NAME: short_icon_urls
3912TYPE: onoff
3913LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
3914DEFAULT: on
3915DOC_START
7f7db318 3916 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5ac1a5b3 3917 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
e72a0ec0 3918 it's own name and port in the URL.
3919
3920 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7f7db318 3921 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
e72a0ec0 3922DOC_END
3923
cccac0a2 3924NAME: error_directory
3925TYPE: string
3926LOC: Config.errorDirectory
3927DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
3928DOC_START
3929 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
3930 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
3931 language or company copy the template English files to another
3932 directory and point this tag at them.
3933DOC_END
3934
3935NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
3936TYPE: int
3937LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
4ed0e075 3938DEFAULT: 1
cccac0a2 3939DOC_START
3940 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
3941 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
3942 each address is tried once).
3943
4ed0e075 3944 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
cccac0a2 3945 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
3946 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
4ed0e075 3947
5ac1a5b3 3948 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
4ed0e075 3949 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
cccac0a2 3950DOC_END
3951
5894ad28 3952NAME: retry_on_error
3953TYPE: onoff
3954LOC: Config.retry.onerror
3955DEFAULT: off
3956DOC_START
3957 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
3958 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
3959 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
3960 control errors.
3961DOC_END
3962
cccac0a2 3963NAME: snmp_port
3964TYPE: ushort
3965LOC: Config.Port.snmp
3966DEFAULT: 3401
3967IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3968DOC_START
3969 Squid can now serve statistics and status information via SNMP.
3970 By default it listens to port 3401 on the machine. If you don't
3971 wish to use SNMP, set this to "0".
4ed0e075 3972
7f7db318 3973 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4ed0e075 3974 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
3975 acts on cachable requests.
cccac0a2 3976DOC_END
3977
3978NAME: snmp_access
3979TYPE: acl_access
3980LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
3981DEFAULT: none
3982DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
3983IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3984DOC_START
3985 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
3986
3987 All access to the agent is denied by default.
3988 usage:
3989
3990 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3991
3992Example:
3993 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
3994 snmp_access deny all
3995DOC_END
3996
3997NAME: snmp_incoming_address
3998TYPE: address
3999LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4000DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4001IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4002DOC_NONE
4003NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4004TYPE: address
4005LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4006DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4007IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4008DOC_START
4009 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
4010
4011 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4012 messages from SNMP agents.
4013 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4014 agents.
4015
4016 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4017 available network interfaces.
4018
4019 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 4020 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 4021 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4022 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
4023
4024 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4025 the same value since they both use port 3401.
4026DOC_END
4027
4028NAME: as_whois_server
4029TYPE: string
4030LOC: Config.as_whois_server
4031DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
4032DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
4033DOC_START
4034 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
4035 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
4036DOC_END
4037
4038NAME: wccp_router
4039TYPE: address
4040LOC: Config.Wccp.router
4041DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4042IFDEF: USE_WCCP
0b0cfcf2 4043DOC_NONE
4044NAME: wccp2_router
4045TYPE: sockaddr_in_list
4046LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
4047DEFAULT: none
4048IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4049DOC_START
4050 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
0b0cfcf2 4051 Squid.
4052
4053 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4054
4055 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4056
4057 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4058 which version of WCCP to use.
cccac0a2 4059DOC_END
4060
4061NAME: wccp_version
4062TYPE: int
4063LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4064DEFAULT: 4
4065IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4066DOC_START
0b0cfcf2 4067 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4068 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4069 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4070 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4071 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
4072
4073 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4074 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4075 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4076 do not specify this parameter.
4077DOC_END
4078
f67332d3 4079NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4080TYPE: onoff
4081LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4082DEFAULT: on
4083IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4084DOC_START
4085 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4086 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4087DOC_END
4088
0b0cfcf2 4089NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
4090TYPE: int
4091LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
4092DEFAULT: 1
4093IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4094DOC_START
4095 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
4096 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
4097
4098 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4099 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
4100
4101 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4102 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
4103DOC_END
4104
4105NAME: wccp2_return_method
4106TYPE: int
4107LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
4108DEFAULT: 1
4109IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4110DOC_START
4111 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
4112 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4113 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
4114
4115 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4116 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
4117
4118 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4119 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
4120
4121 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
4122 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4123 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4124 option is set to GRE.
4125DOC_END
4126
b7d249f9 4127NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
4128TYPE: int
4129LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
4130DEFAULT: 1
4131IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4132DOC_START
4133 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4134 Valid values are as follows:
4135
4136 1 - Hash assignment
4137 2 - Mask assignment
4138
4139 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4140 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4141DOC_END
4142
0b0cfcf2 4143NAME: wccp2_service
4144TYPE: wccp2_service
4145LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4146DEFAULT: none
4147DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4148IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4149DOC_START
4150 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4151 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4152 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4153 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4154 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4155 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4156
4157 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4158 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4159
4160 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4161 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4162
4163 Examples:
4164
4165 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4166 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4167 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4168 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
4169
cccac0a2 4170DOC_END
4171
0b0cfcf2 4172NAME: wccp2_service_info
4173TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4174LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4175DEFAULT: none
4176IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4177DOC_START
4178 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4179 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4180
4181 The format is:
4182
4183 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4184 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4185
4186 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4187 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
4188 + source_port_hash, dest_port_hash
4189 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4190 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4191 + ports_source
4192
4193 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4194
4195 Example:
4196
4197 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4198 priority=240 ports=80
4199
4200 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4201 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4202DOC_END
4203
f16fbc82 4204NAME: wccp2_weight
4205TYPE: int
4206LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4207DEFAULT: 10000
4208IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4209DOC_START
4210 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4211 hash proportional to their weight.
4212DOC_END
4213
0b0cfcf2 4214NAME: wccp_address
cccac0a2 4215TYPE: address
0b0cfcf2 4216LOC: Config.Wccp.address
cccac0a2 4217DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4218IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4219DOC_NONE
0b0cfcf2 4220NAME: wccp2_address
cccac0a2 4221TYPE: address
0b0cfcf2 4222LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4223DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4224IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4225DOC_START
0b0cfcf2 4226 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4227 interface address.
cccac0a2 4228
6845f129 4229 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4230DOC_END
0976f8db 4231
0976f8db 4232
cccac0a2 4233COMMENT_START
4234 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS (all require DELAY_POOLS compilation option)
4235 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4236COMMENT_END
4237
4238NAME: delay_pools
4239TYPE: delay_pool_count
4240DEFAULT: 0
4241IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4242LOC: Config.Delay
4243DOC_START
4244 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4245 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4246 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4247DOC_END
4248
4249NAME: delay_class
4250TYPE: delay_pool_class
4251DEFAULT: none
4252IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4253LOC: Config.Delay
4254DOC_START
4255 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4256 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4257 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4258 and here would be:
4259
4260Example:
4261 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4262 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4263 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4264 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4265 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
4266
4267 The delay pool classes are:
4268
4269 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4270 bucket.
4271
4272 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4273 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
4274 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
4275
4276 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4277 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4278 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4279 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
4280 32 of the IP address.
7f7db318 4281
4282 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
cccac0a2 4283 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4284 only takes effect if the username is established
4285 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4286 http_access rules.
4287
7f7db318 4288 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
cccac0a2 4289 external_acl's tag= reply).
4290
4291 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4292 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4293 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4294 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
4295DOC_END
4296
4297NAME: delay_access
4298TYPE: delay_pool_access
4299DEFAULT: none
4300IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4301LOC: Config.Delay
4302DOC_START
4303 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
8ed8fda3 4304
4305 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4306 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4307 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4308 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4309
4310 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
cccac0a2 4311 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4312
4313Example:
4314 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4315 delay_access 1 deny all
4316 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4317 delay_access 2 deny all
4318 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4319DOC_END
4320
4321NAME: delay_parameters
4322TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4323DEFAULT: none
4324IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4325LOC: Config.Delay
4326DOC_START
4327 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4328 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4329 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4330
4331delay_parameters pool aggregate
4332
4333 For a class 2 delay pool:
4334
4335delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4336
4337 For a class 3 delay pool:
4338
4339delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4340
4341 For a class 4 delay pool:
4342
4343delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4344
4345 For a class 5 delay pool:
4346
4347delay_parameters pool tag
4348
4349 The variables here are:
4350
4351 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4352 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4353 delay_class lines.
4354
4355 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
4356 (class 1, 2, 3).
4357
4358 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
4359 buckets (class 2, 3).
4360
4361 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
4362 (class 3).
4363
4364 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
4365 (class 4).
4366
4367 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
4368 (class 5).
4369
4370 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4371 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4372 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4373 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4374
4375 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4376 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4377 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4378
4379delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4380
4381 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4382
4383 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4384 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4385 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4386 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4387 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4388 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4389 large downloads more significantly:
4390
4391delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4392
4393 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4394
4395 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4396 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
7f7db318 4397
cccac0a2 4398delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4399DOC_END
4400
4401NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4402COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4403TYPE: ushort
4404DEFAULT: 50
4405IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4406LOC: Config.Delay.initial
4407DOC_START
4408 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
4409 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
4410 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
4411 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
4412 "seen" by squid).
4413DOC_END
4414
4415NAME: incoming_icp_average
4416TYPE: int
4417DEFAULT: 6
4418LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4419DOC_NONE
4420
4421NAME: incoming_http_average
4422TYPE: int
4423DEFAULT: 4
4424LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
4425DOC_NONE
4426
4427NAME: incoming_dns_average
4428TYPE: int
4429DEFAULT: 4
4430LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
4431DOC_NONE
4432
4433NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
4434TYPE: int
4435DEFAULT: 8
4436LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
4437DOC_NONE
4438
4439NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
4440TYPE: int
4441DEFAULT: 8
4442LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
4443DOC_NONE
4444
4445NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
4446TYPE: int
4447DEFAULT: 8
4448LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
4449DOC_START
4450 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
4451 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
4452 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
4453DOC_END
4454
4455NAME: max_open_disk_fds
4456TYPE: int
4457LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
4458DEFAULT: 0
4459DOC_START
4460 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
4461 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
4462 descriptors are open.
4463
4464 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
4465DOC_END
4466
4467NAME: offline_mode
4468TYPE: onoff
4469LOC: Config.onoff.offline
4470DEFAULT: off
4471DOC_START
4472 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
4473 objects.
4474DOC_END
4475
4476NAME: uri_whitespace
4477TYPE: uri_whitespace
4478LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
4479DEFAULT: strip
4480DOC_START
4481 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
4482 URI. Options:
4483
4484 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
4485 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
4486 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
4487 Request" message.
4488 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
4489 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
4490 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
4491 are in use.
4492 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
4493 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
4494 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
4495 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
4496 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
4497 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
4498 violation.
4499DOC_END
4500
4501NAME: broken_posts
4502TYPE: acl_access
4503DEFAULT: none
4504LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
4505DOC_START
4506 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4507 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
4508
4509 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4510 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
4511
4512 Quote from RFC 2068 section 4.1 on this matter:
4513
4514 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4515 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4516 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4517 a request with an extra CRLF.
4518
4519Example:
4520 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4521 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4522DOC_END
4523
4524NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4525IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4526TYPE: address
4527LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4528DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4529DOC_START
4530 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4531 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
4532
4533 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4534 certain you understand what you are doing.
4535DOC_END
4536
4537NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
964b44c3 4538IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
cccac0a2 4539TYPE: ushort
4540LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4541DEFAULT: 16
4542DOC_START
4543 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4544 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4545 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4546DOC_END
4547
4548NAME: mcast_miss_port
4549IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4550TYPE: ushort
4551LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4552DEFAULT: 3135
4553DOC_START
4554 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4555 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4556DOC_END
4557
4558NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4559IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4560TYPE: string
4561LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4562DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4563DOC_START
4564 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4565 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4566DOC_END
4567
4568NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
4569TYPE: onoff
4570LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
4571DEFAULT: on
4572DOC_START
4573 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4574 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cachable request type) direct
4575 to origin servers.
4576
7f7db318 4577 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
cccac0a2 4578 requests to parents.
4579
4580 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4581 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4582 ratio.
4583
7f7db318 4584 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
cccac0a2 4585 this directive.
4586DOC_END
4587
4588NAME: prefer_direct
4589TYPE: onoff
4590LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
4591DEFAULT: off
4592DOC_START
7f7db318 4593 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
cccac0a2 4594 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7f7db318 4595 going direct fails set this to on.
cccac0a2 4596
4597 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4598 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4599 fails.
4600DOC_END
4601
4602NAME: strip_query_terms
4603TYPE: onoff
4604LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
4605DEFAULT: on
4606DOC_START
4607 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
4608 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
4609DOC_END
4610
4611NAME: coredump_dir
4612TYPE: string
4613LOC: Config.coredump_dir
4614DEFAULT: none
4615DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
4616DOC_START
4617 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4618 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4619 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4620 and coredump files will be left there.
4621
4622NOCOMMENT_START
5ff76111 4623# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
cccac0a2 4624coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4625NOCOMMENT_END
4626DOC_END
4627
4628NAME: redirector_bypass
4629TYPE: onoff
4630LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4631DEFAULT: off
4632DOC_START
4633 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4634 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4635 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4636 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4637 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4638 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4639 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
7f7db318 4640 users may have access to pages they should not
cccac0a2 4641 be allowed to request.
4642DOC_END
4643
4644NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
4645TYPE: onoff
4646LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
4647DEFAULT: on
4648DOC_START
4649 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7f7db318 4650 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
cccac0a2 4651 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
4652 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
4653 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
4654DOC_END
4655
4656NAME: digest_generation
4657IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4658TYPE: onoff
4659LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4660DEFAULT: on
4661DOC_START
4662 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4663 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
4664 enabled if Squid is compiled with USE_CACHE_DIGESTS defined.
4665DOC_END
4666
4667NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4668IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4669TYPE: int
4670LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4671DEFAULT: 5
4672DOC_START
4673 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4674 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4675 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4676DOC_END
4677
4678NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4679IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4680COMMENT: (seconds)
4681TYPE: time_t
4682LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4683DEFAULT: 1 hour
4684DOC_START
4685 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest rebuilds.
4686DOC_END
4687
4688NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4689COMMENT: (seconds)
4690IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4691TYPE: time_t
4692LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4693DEFAULT: 1 hour
4694DOC_START
4695 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest writes to
4696 disk.
4697DOC_END
4698
4699NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4700COMMENT: (bytes)
4701TYPE: b_size_t
4702IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4703LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4704DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4705DOC_START
4706 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4707 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4708 default swap page.
4709DOC_END
4710
4711NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4712COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4713IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4714TYPE: int
4715LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4716DEFAULT: 10
4717DOC_START
4718 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4719 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4720DOC_END
4721
4722NAME: chroot
4723TYPE: string
4724LOC: Config.chroot_dir
4725DEFAULT: none
4726DOC_START
4727 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
4728 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
7f7db318 4729 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
cccac0a2 4730 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will get an
4731 error.
4732DOC_END
4733
4734NAME: client_persistent_connections
4735TYPE: onoff
4736LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4737DEFAULT: on
4738DOC_NONE
4739
4740NAME: server_persistent_connections
4741TYPE: onoff
4742LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4743DEFAULT: on
4744DOC_START
4745 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4746 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4747 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4748 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4749DOC_END
4750
58850d15 4751NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
a12a049a 4752TYPE: onoff
58850d15 4753LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4754DEFAULT: off
a12a049a 4755DOC_START
58850d15 4756 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4757 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4758 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
a12a049a 4759DOC_END
4760
21b92762 4761NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4762TYPE: onoff
4763LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4764DEFAULT: off
4765DOC_START
4766 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4767 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4768 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4769 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4770
4771 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4772 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4773 after 10 seconds timeout.
4774DOC_END
4775
58850d15 4776NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
4777TYPE: onoff
4778LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
4779DEFAULT: on
4780DOC_START
4781 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
4782 found not to preserve user session state across requests
4783 to different IP addresses.
4784
4785 By default Squid rotates IP's per request. By disabling
4786 this directive only connection failure triggers rotation.
4787DOC_END
4788
cccac0a2 4789NAME: pipeline_prefetch
4790TYPE: onoff
4791LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
4792DEFAULT: off
4793DOC_START
4794 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
4795 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5ac1a5b3 4796 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
cccac0a2 4797
4798 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
4799 reasons.
4800DOC_END
4801
4802NAME: extension_methods
4803TYPE: wordlist
4804LOC: Config.ext_methods
4805DEFAULT: none
4806DOC_START
4807 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
4808 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
4809DOC_END
4810
4811NAME: request_entities
4812TYPE: onoff
4813LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4814DEFAULT: off
4815DOC_START
4816 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4817 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4818 even if not explicitly forbidden.
4819
4820 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4821 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests.
4822DOC_END
4823
4824NAME: high_response_time_warning
4825TYPE: int
4826COMMENT: (msec)
4827LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
4828DEFAULT: 0
4829DOC_START
4830 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
4831 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
4832 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
4833DOC_END
4834
4835NAME: high_page_fault_warning
4836TYPE: int
4837LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
4838DEFAULT: 0
4839DOC_START
4840 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
4841 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4842 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
4843 per second.
4844DOC_END
4845
4846NAME: high_memory_warning
4847TYPE: b_size_t
4848LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
4849DEFAULT: 0
4850DOC_START
4851 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
4852 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4853 the administrators attention.
4854DOC_END
4855
4856NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
4857TYPE: string
4858LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
4859DEFAULT: least-load
4860DOC_START
4861 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
4862DOC_END
4863
4864NAME: forward_log
4865IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
4866TYPE: string
4867DEFAULT: none
4868LOC: Config.Log.forward
4869DOC_START
4870 Logs the server-side requests.
4871
4872 This is currently work in progress.
4873DOC_END
4874
4875NAME: ie_refresh
4876COMMENT: on|off
4877TYPE: onoff
4878LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4879DEFAULT: off
4880DOC_START
4881 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4882 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4883 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4884 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4885 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4886 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4887 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
7f7db318 4888 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
cccac0a2 4889 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4890 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4891 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4892 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4893 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4894 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4895 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4896 force fresh content.
4897DOC_END
4898
4899NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4900COMMENT: on|off
4901TYPE: onoff
4902LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4903DEFAULT: off
4904DOC_START
4905 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4906 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4907 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4908 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4909 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
4910 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
4911 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
4912DOC_END
4913
4914NAME: sleep_after_fork
4915COMMENT: (microseconds)
4916TYPE: int
4917LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
4918DEFAULT: 0
4919DOC_START
4920 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
4921 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
4922 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
4923 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7f7db318 4924 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
4925 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
cccac0a2 4926 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
4927 until all the child processes have been started.
b5d712b5 4928 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 millisencond) are
4929 rounded to 1000.
cccac0a2 4930DOC_END
4931
6a2f3fcf 4932NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4933COMMENT: (seconds)
4934TYPE: time_t
4935LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4936DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4937DOC_START
6845f129 4938 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4939 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
4940 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy enorinments it
4941 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4942 is most likely better to make your server return a
4943 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4c43e44e 4944 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4945 often be best set to 0.
6a2f3fcf 4946DOC_END
4947
df6fd596 4948NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4949COMMENT: on|off|warn
4950TYPE: tristate
4951LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4952DEFAULT: on
4953DOC_START
4954 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4955 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4956 what the sending application intended even if the message
4957 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4958 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
4959
4960 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4961 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
4962
4963 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4964 or response to be rejected.
4965DOC_END
4966
a58ff010 4967COMMENT_START
4968 ICAP OPTIONS
4969 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4970COMMENT_END
4971
4972NAME: icap_enable
4973TYPE: onoff
4974IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4975COMMENT: on|off
4976LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
4977DEFAULT: off
4978DOC_START
4979 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
4980DOC_END
4981
5f8252d2 4982NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
4983TYPE: int
4984IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4985LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_failure_limit
4986DEFAULT: 10
4987DOC_START
4988 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
4989 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
4990 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
4991 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
4992 OPTIONS. The per-service failure counter is reset to zero each
4993 time Squid fetches new service OPTIONS.
4994
4995 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
4996 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
4997 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
4998DOC_END
4999
5000NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
5001TYPE: int
5002IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5003LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_revival_delay
5004DEFAULT: 180
5005DOC_START
5006 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
5007 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
5008 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
5009 fetched.
5010
5011 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
5012 delay of 60 seconds.
5013DOC_END
5014
a58ff010 5015NAME: icap_preview_enable
5016TYPE: onoff
5017IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5018COMMENT: on|off
5019LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
5020DEFAULT: off
5021DOC_START
5022 Set this to 'on' if you want to enable the ICAP preview
5023 feature in Squid.
5024DOC_END
5025
5026NAME: icap_preview_size
5027TYPE: int
5028IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5029LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
5030DEFAULT: -1
5031DOC_START
5032 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
5033 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
5034 basis by OPTIONS requests.
5035DOC_END
5036
78e8cfc4 5037NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
5038TYPE: int
5039IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5040LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
5041DEFAULT: 60
5042DOC_START
5043 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5044 an Options-TTL header.
5045DOC_END
5046
12b91c99 5047NAME: icap_persistent_connections
5048TYPE: onoff
5049IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5050COMMENT: on|off
5051LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
5052DEFAULT: on
5053DOC_START
5054 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
5055 an ICAP server.
5056DOC_END
5057
a58ff010 5058NAME: icap_send_client_ip
5059TYPE: onoff
5060IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5061COMMENT: on|off
5062LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
5063DEFAULT: off
5064DOC_START
5065 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
5066DOC_END
5067
12b91c99 5068NAME: icap_send_client_username
a58ff010 5069TYPE: onoff
5070IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5071COMMENT: on|off
12b91c99 5072LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
a58ff010 5073DEFAULT: off
5074DOC_START
5f8252d2 5075 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
5076 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
5077 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
5078 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
5079DOC_END
5080
5081NAME: icap_client_username_header
5082TYPE: string
5083IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5084LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_header
5085DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
5086DOC_START
5087 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
5088DOC_END
5089
5090NAME: icap_client_username_encode
5091TYPE: onoff
5092IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5093COMMENT: on|off
5094LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_encode
5095DEFAULT: off
5096DOC_START
5097 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
a58ff010 5098DOC_END
5099
a58ff010 5100NAME: icap_service
5101TYPE: icap_service_type
5102IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5103LOC: TheICAPConfig
5104DEFAULT: none
5105DOC_START
5106 Defines a single ICAP service
5107
5108 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
5109
5110 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
5111 This specifies at which point of request processing the ICAP
5112 service should be plugged in.
5113 bypass = 1|0
5114 If set to 1 and the ICAP server cannot be reached, the request will go
5115 through without being processed by an ICAP server
5116 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5117
5118 Note: reqmod_precache and respmod_postcache is not yet implemented
5119
5120Example:
5121icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
5122icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
5123DOC_END
5124
5125NAME: icap_class
5126TYPE: icap_class_type
5127IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5128LOC: TheICAPConfig
5129DEFAULT: none
5130DOC_START
5131 Defines an ICAP service chain. If there are multiple services per
5132 vectoring point, they are processed in the specified order.
5133
5134 icap_class classname servicename...
5135
5136Example:
5137icap_class class_1 service_1 service_2
5138icap class class_2 service_1 service_3
5139DOC_END
5140
5141NAME: icap_access
5142TYPE: icap_access_type
5143IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5144LOC: TheICAPConfig
5145DEFAULT: none
5146DOC_START
5147 Redirects a request through an ICAP service class, depending
5148 on given acls
5149
5150 icap_access classname allow|deny [!]aclname...
5151
5152 The icap_access statements are processed in the order they appear in
5153 this configuration file. If an access list matches, the processing stops.
5154 For an "allow" rule, the specified class is used for the request. A "deny"
5155 rule simply stops processing without using the class. You can also use the
5156 special classname "None".
5157
5158 For backward compatibility, it is also possible to use services
5159 directly here.
5160Example:
5161icap_access class_1 allow all
5162DOC_END
5163
cccac0a2 5164EOF