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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 32
cccac0a2 33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
debd9a31 44
cccac0a2 45COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 46
592a09dc 47COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
60COMMENT_END
61
5473c134 62COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 63 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 64 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
65COMMENT_END
66
41bd17a4 67NAME: auth_param
68TYPE: authparam
69LOC: Config.authConfiguration
cccac0a2 70DEFAULT: none
71DOC_START
41bd17a4 72 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
73 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 74
41bd17a4 75 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 76
41bd17a4 77 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
78 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
79 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
80 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
81 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
82 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
83 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
84 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
85 program entry).
cccac0a2 86
41bd17a4 87 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
88 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
89 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
90 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 91
41bd17a4 92 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
93 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
94 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
95 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
96 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
97 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
98 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
99 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
100 type acl.
cccac0a2 101
41bd17a4 102 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
103 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
104 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
105 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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106 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
107 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 108
41bd17a4 109 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 110
41bd17a4 111 "program" cmdline
112 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
113 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
114 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
115 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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116 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
117 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 118
41bd17a4 119 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
120 program is specified.
cccac0a2 121
41bd17a4 122 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
123 this line to something like
307b83b7 124
41bd17a4 125 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 126
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127 "utf8" on|off
128 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
129 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
130 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
131 username & password to the helper.
132
7353861b 133 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 134 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 135 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
136 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
137 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
138 authenticator processes.
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139
140 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
141 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
142 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
143 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
144 the maximum.
145
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146 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
147 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
148 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
149 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
150 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
151 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 152 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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154 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 155
41bd17a4 156 "realm" realmstring
157 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
158 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
159 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
160 password). There is no default.
161 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 162
41bd17a4 163 "credentialsttl" timetolive
164 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
165 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
166 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
167 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
168 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
169 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
170 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
171 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
172 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 173
41bd17a4 174 "casesensitive" on|off
175 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
176 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
177 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
178 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
179 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 180
41bd17a4 181 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 182
41bd17a4 183 "program" cmdline
184 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
185 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
186 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
187 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
188 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
189 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
190 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 191
41bd17a4 192 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
193 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 194
41bd17a4 195 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
196 something like
cccac0a2 197
7ce93108 198 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 199
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200 "utf8" on|off
201 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
202 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
203 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
204 username & password to the helper.
205
7353861b 206 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 207 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 208 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
209 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
210 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
211 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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212
213 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
214 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
215 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
216 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
217 the maximum.
218
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219 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
220 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
221 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
222 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
223 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
224 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
225 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
226
48d54e4d 227 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 228
41bd17a4 229 "realm" realmstring
230 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
231 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
232 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
233 password). There is no default.
234 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 235
41bd17a4 236 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
237 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
238 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 239
41bd17a4 240 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
241 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
242 valid for.
cccac0a2 243
41bd17a4 244 "nonce_max_count" number
245 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
246 used.
cccac0a2 247
41bd17a4 248 "nonce_strictness" on|off
249 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
250 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
251 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
252 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 253
41bd17a4 254 "check_nonce_count" on|off
255 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
256 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
257 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
258 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 259
41bd17a4 260 "post_workaround" on|off
261 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
262 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
263 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 264
41bd17a4 265 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 266
41bd17a4 267 "program" cmdline
268 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
269 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
270 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
271 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
272 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
273 is not used.
cccac0a2 274
41bd17a4 275 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 276
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277 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
278 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 279 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
280 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
281 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
282 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
283 processes.
cccac0a2 284
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285 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
286 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
287 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
288 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
289 the maximum.
290
291 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 292
41bd17a4 293 "keep_alive" on|off
294 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
295 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
296 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
297 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
298 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 299
41bd17a4 300 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 301
41bd17a4 302 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 303
41bd17a4 304 "program" cmdline
305 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
306 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
307 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
308 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
309 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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310 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
311 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
312 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 313 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
314 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 315
41bd17a4 316 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 317
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318 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
319 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 320 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
321 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
322 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
323 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
324 processes.
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325
326 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
327 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
328 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
329 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
330 the maximum.
331
332 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 333
41bd17a4 334 "keep_alive" on|off
335 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
336 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
337 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
338 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
339 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 340
41bd17a4 341 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 342
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343
344 Examples:
345
41bd17a4 346#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
347#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 348#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 349#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 350#
41bd17a4 351#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 352#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 353#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 354#
41bd17a4 355#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 356#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 357#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
358#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
359#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
360#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 361#
41bd17a4 362#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 363#auth_param basic children 5 stratup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 364#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
365#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 366DOC_END
cccac0a2 367
41bd17a4 368NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
369TYPE: time_t
370DEFAULT: 1 hour
371LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
372DOC_START
373 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
374 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
375 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
376 have good reason to.
377DOC_END
cccac0a2 378
41bd17a4 379NAME: authenticate_ttl
380TYPE: time_t
381DEFAULT: 1 hour
382LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
383DOC_START
384 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
385 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
386 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
387 TTL are removed from memory.
388DOC_END
cccac0a2 389
41bd17a4 390NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
391TYPE: time_t
392LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
393DEFAULT: 0 seconds
394DOC_START
395 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
396 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
397 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
398 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
399 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
400 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
401 environment with relatively static address assignments.
402DOC_END
cccac0a2 403
3d1e3e43 404COMMENT_START
405 ACCESS CONTROLS
406 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
407COMMENT_END
408
41bd17a4 409NAME: external_acl_type
410TYPE: externalAclHelper
411LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 412DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 413DOC_START
41bd17a4 414 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
415 to look up the status
cccac0a2 416
41bd17a4 417 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 418
41bd17a4 419 Options:
cccac0a2 420
41bd17a4 421 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
422 for 1 hour)
423 negative_ttl=n
424 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
425 as ttl)
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426 children-max=n
427 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
428 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
429 children-startup=n
430 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
431 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
432 of this type. (default 0)
433 children-idle=n
434 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
435 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
436 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
437 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 438 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
439 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 440 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 441 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
442 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 443 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 444 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 445 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
446 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
1de68cc1 447 the default is 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 448
41bd17a4 449 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 450
41bd17a4 451 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
452 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
453 %IDENT Ident user name
454 %SRC Client IP
455 %SRCPORT Client source port
456 %URI Requested URI
457 %DST Requested host
458 %PROTO Requested protocol
459 %PORT Requested port
460 %PATH Requested URL path
461 %METHOD Request method
462 %MYADDR Squid interface address
463 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
464 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
465 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
466 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
467 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
468 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 469
c68c9682 470 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 471 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 472 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 473 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 474 HTTP request header list member using ; as
475 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
476 character.
cccac0a2 477
c68c9682 478 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 479 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 480 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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481 %<{Hdr:;member}
482 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
483 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
484 character.
485
41bd17a4 486 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
487 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
488 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 489
41bd17a4 490 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
491 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
492 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
493 more details.
cccac0a2 494
41bd17a4 495 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 496
41bd17a4 497 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 498
41bd17a4 499 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 500
41bd17a4 501 user= The users name (login)
502 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
503 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
504 in error pages
505 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
506 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
507 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
508 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 509
41bd17a4 510 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
511 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 512
41bd17a4 513 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
514 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
515 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 516
41bd17a4 517 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
518 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
519 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 520DOC_END
521
41bd17a4 522NAME: acl
523TYPE: acl
524LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 525DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 526DOC_START
41bd17a4 527 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 528
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529 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
530 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
531 they are read from.
cccac0a2 532
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533 acl aclname acltype argument ...
534 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 535
375eeb3b 536 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 537
41bd17a4 538 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
539 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 540
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541 Some acl types require suspending the current request in order
542 to access some external data source.
543 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
544 don't are marked as [fast].
545 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
546 for further information
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547
548 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
549
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550 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address [fast]
551 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses [fast]
552 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
553 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address [fast]
cccac0a2 554
41bd17a4 555 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
556 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
557 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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558 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
559 # other *BSD variants.
560 # [fast]
41bd17a4 561 #
562 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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563 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
564 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
565
566 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
567 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
568 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 569 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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570 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
571 # regex matching client name [slow]
572 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 573 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 574 #
41bd17a4 575 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
576 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
577 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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579 acl aclname src_as number ...
580 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 581 # [fast]
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583 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
584 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
585 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
586 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
587 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
588 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 589
6db78a1a 590 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 591 # [fast]
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592 # match against a named cache_peer entry
593 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
594
375eeb3b 595 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 596 # [fast]
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598 # S - Sunday
599 # M - Monday
600 # T - Tuesday
601 # W - Wednesday
602 # H - Thursday
603 # F - Friday
604 # A - Saturday
605 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
606
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608 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
609 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
610 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
e988aa40 611
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613 # ranges are alloed
614 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # local socket TCP port [fast]
615 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
e988aa40 616
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617 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
618
619 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 620
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622 # status code in reply [fast]
e988aa40 623
375eeb3b 624 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 625 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 626
375eeb3b 627 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 628 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 629 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 630
375eeb3b 631 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 632 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 633 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 634 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 635
41bd17a4 636 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
637 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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639 # supplied credentials [slow]
640 #
641 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 642 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
643 #
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645 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
646 #
41bd17a4 647 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
648 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
649 # in access.log.
650 #
651 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
652 # to check username/password combinations (see
653 # auth_param directive).
654 #
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656 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 657 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 658
41bd17a4 659 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 660 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 661 # Example:
662 #
663 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 664
41bd17a4 665 acl aclname maxconn number
666 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
b3567eb5 667 # more than <number> HTTP connections established. [fast]
1e5562e3 668
41bd17a4 669 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
670 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
671 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 672 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 673 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
674 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
675 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
676 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
677 # request is denied)
678 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
679 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
680 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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683 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
684 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
685 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
686
375eeb3b 687 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 688 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
689 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 690 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 691 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
692 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 693
41bd17a4 694 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
695 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
696 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 697 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 698
375eeb3b 699 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 700 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
701 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 702 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 703 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
704 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
705 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 706
41bd17a4 707 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
708 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
709 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 710 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 711
375eeb3b 712 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 713 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 714 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 715
41bd17a4 716 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
717 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 718 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 719
41bd17a4 720 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
721 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 722 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 723
41bd17a4 724 acl aclname ext_user username ...
725 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 726 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 727 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 728
0ab50441 729 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 730 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
cccac0a2 731
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733 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
734 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
735 #
736 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
737 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
738 # http_reply_access.
739
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741 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
742 acl myexample dst_as 1241
743 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
744 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
745 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 746
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749# Recommended minimum configuration:
750#
41bd17a4 751acl manager proto cache_object
ee776778 752acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
18a8e998 753@IPV6_ONLY_SETTING@acl localhost src ::1/128
7f83a5f6 754acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32
18a8e998 755@IPV6_ONLY_SETTING@acl to_localhost dst ::1/128
e0855596 756
ee776778 757# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
758# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
759# should be allowed
760acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
761acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
762acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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763@IPV6_ONLY_SETTING@acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
764@IPV6_ONLY_SETTING@acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
e0855596 765
41bd17a4 766acl SSL_ports port 443
767acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
768acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
769acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
770acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
771acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
772acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
773acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
774acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
775acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
776acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
777acl CONNECT method CONNECT
778NOCOMMENT_END
779DOC_END
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781NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
782TYPE: acl_access
783IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
784LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
785DEFAULT: none
786DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
787DOC_START
788 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
789 find the original source of a request.
790
791 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
792 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
793 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
794 rightmost address being the most recent.
795
796 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
797 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
798 to see where that host received the request from. If the
799 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, and if
800 acl_uses_indirect_client is on, then we continue backtracking
801 until we reach an address for which we are not allowed to
802 follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
803 address in the list. (If acl_uses_indirect_client is off, then
804 it's impossible to backtrack through more than one level of
805 X-Forwarded-For addresses.)
806
807 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
808 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 809 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 810 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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812 log_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 813
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815 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
816
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818
819 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
820 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
821 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
822 source address of the request. This may enable remote
823 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
824 based on the client's source addresses.
825
826 For example:
827
828 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
829 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
830 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
831 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
832DOC_END
833
834NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
835COMMENT: on|off
836TYPE: onoff
837IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
838DEFAULT: on
839LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
840DOC_START
841 Controls whether the indirect client address
842 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
843 direct client address in acl matching.
844DOC_END
845
846NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
847COMMENT: on|off
848TYPE: onoff
0dae2bca 849IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&DELAY_POOLS
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851LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
852DOC_START
853 Controls whether the indirect client address
854 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
855 direct client address in delay pools.
856DOC_END
857
858NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
859COMMENT: on|off
860TYPE: onoff
861IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
862DEFAULT: on
863LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
864DOC_START
865 Controls whether the indirect client address
866 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
867 direct client address in the access log.
868DOC_END
869
41bd17a4 870NAME: http_access
871TYPE: acl_access
872LOC: Config.accessList.http
873DEFAULT: none
874DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
875DOC_START
876 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 877
41bd17a4 878 Access to the HTTP port:
879 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 880
41bd17a4 881 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 883 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
884 the request.
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41bd17a4 886 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
887 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
888 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
889 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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891 lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 892
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894 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
895
41bd17a4 896NOCOMMENT_START
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898#
899# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 900#
901# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
902http_access allow manager localhost
903http_access deny manager
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905# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 906http_access deny !Safe_ports
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908# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 909http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 911# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
912# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
913# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
914#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 916#
917# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 918#
c8f4eac4 919
ee776778 920# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
921# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
922# from where browsing should be allowed
923http_access allow localnet
afb33856 924http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 925
41bd17a4 926# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
927http_access deny all
928NOCOMMENT_END
929DOC_END
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932TYPE: acl_access
933LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
934DEFAULT: none
935DOC_START
936 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
937
938 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
939 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
940 output.
941
942 If not set then only http_access is used.
943DOC_END
944
41bd17a4 945NAME: http_reply_access
946TYPE: acl_access
947LOC: Config.accessList.reply
948DEFAULT: none
949DOC_START
950 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 951
41bd17a4 952 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 953
41bd17a4 954 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
955 all replies
1a224843 956
41bd17a4 957 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
958 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
959 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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961 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
962 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 963DOC_END
964
41bd17a4 965NAME: icp_access
966TYPE: acl_access
967LOC: Config.accessList.icp
968DEFAULT: none
969DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 970DOC_START
41bd17a4 971 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
972 access lists
5473c134 973
41bd17a4 974 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 975
41bd17a4 976 See http_access for details
977
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979 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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981# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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983#icp_access deny all
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985
41bd17a4 986NAME: htcp_access
987IFDEF: USE_HTCP
988TYPE: acl_access
989LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
990DEFAULT: none
991DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 992DOC_START
41bd17a4 993 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
994 access lists
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41bd17a4 996 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 997
41bd17a4 998 See http_access for details
5473c134 999
0b48417e 1000 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1001 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1002 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
1003
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1005 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1007# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1009#htcp_access deny all
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41bd17a4 1012NAME: htcp_clr_access
1013IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1014TYPE: acl_access
1015LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
1016DEFAULT: none
1017DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1018DOC_START
1019 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1020 on defined access lists
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41bd17a4 1022 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1023
41bd17a4 1024 See http_access for details
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1027 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1029# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1030acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1031htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
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1033
41bd17a4 1034NAME: miss_access
1035TYPE: acl_access
1036LOC: Config.accessList.miss
df2eec10 1037DEFAULT: allow all
5473c134 1038DOC_START
41bd17a4 1039 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1040 a parent. For example:
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41bd17a4 1042 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1043 miss_access allow localclients
1044 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1045
41bd17a4 1046 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
1047 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 1048
41bd17a4 1049 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
1050 to fetch MISSES from us.
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1052 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1053 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1054DOC_END
1055
1056NAME: ident_lookup_access
1057TYPE: acl_access
1058IFDEF: USE_IDENT
1059DEFAULT: none
1060DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1061LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1062DOC_START
41bd17a4 1063 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1064 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1065 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1066 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1067 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1068 any requests.
5473c134 1069
41bd17a4 1070 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1071 can follow this example:
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4daaf3cb 1073 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1074 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1075 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1076
4daaf3cb 1077 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1078 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1079 the correct result.
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1081 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1082 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1083DOC_END
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5b0f5383 1085NAME: reply_body_max_size
1086COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1087TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1088DEFAULT: none
1089LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1090DOC_START
1091 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1092 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1093 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1094 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1095 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1096 for this reply.
1097
1098 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1099 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1100 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1101 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1102 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1103 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1104 and they will receive a partial reply.
1105
1106 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1107 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1108 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1109 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1110
1111 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1112 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1113 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1114 the size of your largest error page.
1115
1116 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1117 no limit imposed.
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1119 Configuration Format is:
1120 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1121 ie.
1122 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1123
5b0f5383 1124DOC_END
1125
1126COMMENT_START
1127 NETWORK OPTIONS
1128 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1129COMMENT_END
1130
1131NAME: http_port ascii_port
1132TYPE: http_port_list
1133DEFAULT: none
1134LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1135DOC_START
1136 Usage: port [options]
1137 hostname:port [options]
1138 1.2.3.4:port [options]
1139
1140 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1141 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1142 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1143 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1144 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
1145 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
1146 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
1147 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1148
1149 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1150 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1151
1152 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1153 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1154 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1155
1156 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1157
1158 Options:
1159
e77bdb4e 1160 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1161 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1162 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1163
1164 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1165 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1166 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1167
1168 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1169 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1170
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1172 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1173 never_direct was used.
1174
5b0f5383 1175 defaultsite=domainname
1176 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1177 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1178 accelerators should consider the default.
1179 Implies accel.
1180
1181 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1182 domain support. Implies accel.
1183
1184 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1185 Implies accel.
1186
1187 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1188 than the http_port number. Implies accel.
1189
1190 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1191 Defaults to http.
1192
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1194
1195 Warning: This option violates HTTP specifications if
1196 used in non-accelerator setups.
1197
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1199 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1200 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1202
5b0f5383 1203 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1204 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1205 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1206 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1207 support is enabled.
1208 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1209
1210 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1211 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1212 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1213 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1214 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1215 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1216 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1217 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1218
b3567eb5 1219 sslBump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
4c9da963 1220 establish secure connection with the client and with
1221 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1222 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1223 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1224
1225 When this option is enabled, additional options become
1226 available to specify SSL-related properties of the
1227 client-side connection: cert, key, version, cipher,
1228 options, clientca, cafile, capath, crlfile, dhparams,
1229 sslflags, and sslcontext. See the https_port directive
1230 for more information on these options.
1231
1232 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1233 the SslBump feature.
1234
81b6e9a7 1235 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1236 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1237
68924b6d 1238 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
b2130d58 1239 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections
1240 idle is the initial time before TCP starts probing
1241 the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1242 timeout the time before giving up.
1243
5b0f5383 1244 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1245 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1246 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1247 visible on the internal address.
1248
1249NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1251# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1252http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1253NOCOMMENT_END
1254DOC_END
1255
1256NAME: https_port
1257IFDEF: USE_SSL
1258TYPE: https_port_list
1259DEFAULT: none
1260LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1261DOC_START
1262 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1263
1264 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1265 requests.
1266
1267 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1268 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1269 accelerator level.
1270
1271 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1272 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1273
1274 Options:
1275
1276 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1277 defaultsite or vhost.
1278
1279 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1280 this port. Implies accel.
1281
1282 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1283 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1284 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1285 Implies accel.
1286
1287 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1288 Defaults to https.
1289
1290 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1291
1292 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1293 if not specified, the certificate file is
1294 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1295 key file.
1296
1297 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1298 1 automatic (default)
1299 2 SSLv2 only
1300 3 SSLv3 only
1301 4 TLSv1 only
1302
1303 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1304
1305 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1306 being:
1307 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1308 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1309 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1310 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1311 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1312 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1313 documentation for a complete list of options.
1314
1315 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1316 requesting a client certificate.
1317
1318 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1319 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1320 clientca will be used.
1321
1322 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1323 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1324
1325 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1326 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1327 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1328
1329 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1330 DH key exchanges.
1331
1332 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1333 DELAYED_AUTH
1334 Don't request client certificates
1335 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1336 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1337 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1338 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1339 to OpenSSL.
1340 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1341 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1342 will result in a new SSL session.
1343 VERIFY_CRL
1344 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1345 certificates.
1346 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1347 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1348 client certificate chain.
1349
1350 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1351
1352 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1353
1354 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1355 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1356
81b6e9a7 1357 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1358 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1359
5b0f5383 1360DOC_END
1361
41bd17a4 1362NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1363TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1364DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1365LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1366DOC_START
41bd17a4 1367 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1368 connections with, based on the username or source address
1369 making the request.
5473c134 1370
41bd17a4 1371 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1372
41bd17a4 1373 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1374 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1375
41bd17a4 1376 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1377 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2c73de90 1378 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1379 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1380
41bd17a4 1381 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1383 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1384
41bd17a4 1385 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1386 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1387 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1388 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1389
41bd17a4 1390 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1391 matching line.
cccac0a2 1392
41bd17a4 1393 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1394 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1395 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1396 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1397DOC_END
1398
41bd17a4 1399NAME: clientside_tos
1400TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1401DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1402LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1403DOC_START
41bd17a4 1404 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1405 connections with, based on the username or source address
1406 making the request.
1407DOC_END
cccac0a2 1408
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1410TYPE: QosConfig
7172612f 1411IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
575cb927 1412DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1413LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1414DOC_START
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1415 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
1416 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced.
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1419 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1420 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1423 Note that in practice often only values up to 0x3F are usable
1424 as the two highest bits have been redefined for use by ECN
1425 (RFC3168).
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1428
1429 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1430
1431 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1432
1433 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1434
1435
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1437
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1439 linux kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch.
1440 The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1441
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1443 If set, any HTTP response towards clients will
1444 have the TOS value of the response comming from the
1445 remote server masked with the value of miss-mask.
1446
1447 miss-mask=0xFF
1448 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the
1449 remote server, before copying the value to the TOS sent
1450 towards clients.
1451 Default: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
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1454
41bd17a4 1455NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1456TYPE: acl_address
1457DEFAULT: none
1458LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1459DOC_START
1460 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1461 based on the username or source address of the user making
1462 the request.
7f7db318 1463
41bd17a4 1464 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1465
41bd17a4 1466 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1467 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1468 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1469 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1470
17148b2f 1471 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1472 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1473 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1474 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1475 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1476
41bd17a4 1477 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1478 matching line.
cccac0a2 1479
41bd17a4 1480 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1481 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1482 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1483 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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1486 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
1487 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option to
1488 re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1489
1490 IPv6 Magic:
1491
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1493 internets.
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1495 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1496 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1497
1498 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1499 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1500 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1501
1502 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1503 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1504 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
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1506 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1507 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1508
1509 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1510 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
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1512 WARNING:
1513 'dst ipv6' bases its selection assuming DIRECT access.
1514 If peers are used the peername ACL are needed to select outgoing
1515 address which can link to the peer.
1516
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1518 previously in the http_access rules to locate the destination IP.
1519 Some more magic may be needed for that:
1520 http_access allow to_ipv6 !all
1521 (meaning, allow if to IPv6 but not from anywhere ;)
1522
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1524
41bd17a4 1525COMMENT_START
1526 SSL OPTIONS
1527 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1528COMMENT_END
1529
1530NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1531IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1532TYPE: onoff
1533DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1534LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1535DOC_START
41bd17a4 1536 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1537 messages.
cccac0a2 1538DOC_END
1539
41bd17a4 1540NAME: ssl_engine
1541IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1542TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1543LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1544DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1545DOC_START
41bd17a4 1546 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1547 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1548DOC_END
1549
41bd17a4 1550NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1551IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1552DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1553LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1554TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1555DOC_START
41bd17a4 1556 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1557DOC_END
1558
41bd17a4 1559NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1560IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1561DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1562LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1563TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1564DOC_START
41bd17a4 1565 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1566DOC_END
1567
41bd17a4 1568NAME: sslproxy_version
1569IFDEF: USE_SSL
1570DEFAULT: 1
1571LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1572TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1573DOC_START
41bd17a4 1574 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1575DOC_END
1576
41bd17a4 1577NAME: sslproxy_options
1578IFDEF: USE_SSL
1579DEFAULT: none
1580LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1581TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1582DOC_START
41bd17a4 1583 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1585 The most important being:
1586
1587 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1588 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1589 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1590 SINGLE_DH_USE
1591 Always create a new key when using
1592 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1593
1594 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1595 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1596 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 1597DOC_END
1598
41bd17a4 1599NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1600IFDEF: USE_SSL
1601DEFAULT: none
1602LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1603TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1604DOC_START
41bd17a4 1605 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1607 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1608DOC_END
1609
41bd17a4 1610NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1611IFDEF: USE_SSL
1612DEFAULT: none
1613LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1614TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1615DOC_START
41bd17a4 1616 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1617 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1618DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1620NAME: sslproxy_capath
1621IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1622DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1623LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1624TYPE: string
5473c134 1625DOC_START
41bd17a4 1626 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1627 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1628DOC_END
1629
4c9da963 1630NAME: ssl_bump
1631IFDEF: USE_SSL
1632TYPE: acl_access
1633LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1634DEFAULT: none
1635DOC_START
1636 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1637 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1638 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1639 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1640
1641 By default, no requests are bumped.
1642
1643 See also: http_port sslBump
1644
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1646 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1648
1649 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1650 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1651
1652 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1653 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1654 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1655 ssl_bump deny localhost
1656 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1657 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1658DOC_END
1659
41bd17a4 1660NAME: sslproxy_flags
1661IFDEF: USE_SSL
1662DEFAULT: none
1663LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1664TYPE: string
5473c134 1665DOC_START
41bd17a4 1666 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1667 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1668 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1669 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1670 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1671DOC_END
1672
4c9da963 1673
1674NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1675IFDEF: USE_SSL
1676DEFAULT: none
1677LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1678TYPE: acl_access
1679DOC_START
1680 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1681
1682 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1683 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1684 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1685
1686 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1687 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1688 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1689
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1691 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1692 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 1693
1694 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1695 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1696 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1697 the connection may be insecure.
1698
1699 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1700
e0855596 1701 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 1702DOC_END
1703
1704
1705
41bd17a4 1706NAME: sslpassword_program
1707IFDEF: USE_SSL
1708DEFAULT: none
1709LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1710TYPE: string
5473c134 1711DOC_START
41bd17a4 1712 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1713 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1714 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1715 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
5473c134 1716DOC_END
1717
cccac0a2 1718COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1719 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1720 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1721COMMENT_END
1722
41bd17a4 1723NAME: cache_peer
1724TYPE: peer
1725DEFAULT: none
1726LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1727DOC_START
41bd17a4 1728 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 1729
41bd17a4 1730 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 1731
41bd17a4 1732 For example,
2b94f655 1733
41bd17a4 1734 # proxy icp
1735 # hostname type port port options
1736 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 1737 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 1738 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1739 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
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1741 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
1742
1743 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
1744
1745 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
1746 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
1747 For web servers this is usually 80
1748
1749 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
1750 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
1751 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
1752
1753
1754 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
1755
1756 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
1757 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
1758
1759
1760 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
1761
1762 multicast-responder
1763 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
1764 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
1765 replies will be accepted from it.
1766
1767 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
1768 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
1769
1770 background-ping
1771 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
1772 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
1773 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
1774
1775
1776 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
1777
1778 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
1779 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
1780
1781
1782 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
1783 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
1784 instead of 3130.
1785
1786 htcp-oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions.
1787
1788 htcp-no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
1789 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
1790 htcp-only-clr.
1791
1792 htcp-only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
1793 This cannot be used with htcp-no-clr.
1794
1795 htcp-no-purge-clr
1796 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
1797 they do not result from PURGE requests.
1798
1799 htcp-forward-clr
1800 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
1801
1802
1803 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
1804
1805 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
1806 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
1807
1808
1809 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
1810 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
1811 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
1812
1813 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
1814 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
1815 weight=N can be used to add bias.
1816
1817 weighted-round-robin
1818 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
1819 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
1820 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
1821 Usually used for background-ping parents.
1822 weight=N can be used to add bias.
1823
1824 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
1825 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
1826 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
1827
1828 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
1829
1830 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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1832 multicast-siblings
1833 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
1834 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
1835 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
1836 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
1837 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
1838 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
1839 members of the same multicast group.
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1841
1842 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
1843
1844 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
1845 peer-selection mechanisms.
1846 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1847 larger weights are favored more.
1848 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1849 protocol is not in use.
1850
1851 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
1852 times of parents.
1853 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1854 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1855 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
1856
1857 ttl=N Specify a IP multicast TTL to use when sending an ICP
1858 queries to this address.
1859 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1860 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1861 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1862 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
1863
1864 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
1865 delay pools.
1866
1867 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
1868 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
1869 than the Squid default location.
1870
1871
1872 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
1873
1874 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
1875 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
1876 is a web server.
1877
1878 forceddomain=name
1879 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
1880 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
1881 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
1882 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
1883
1884 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
1885
1886 no-netdb-exchange
1887 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
1888
1889
1890 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
1891
1892 login=user:password
1893 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
1894 requires proxy authentication.
1895
1896 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
1897 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
1898
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1900 Send login details received from client to this peer.
1901 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
1902 without alteration to the peer.
1903 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
1904
1905 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
1906 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
1907 connection-auth options are also used.
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1909 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
1910 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 1911
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1913 to pass on, but username and password are available
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1915 they may be sent instead.
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1917 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
1918 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
1919 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
1920 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
1921 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
1922
1923 login=*:password
1924 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
1925 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
1926 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
1927 needed to identify each user.
1928 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
1929 information which is added to the username. This can
1930 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
1931 the login=username:password option above.
1932
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1934 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
1935 requires a secure proxy authentication.
1936 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
1937 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
1938
1939 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
1940 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
1941 requires a secure proxy authentication.
1942 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
1943 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
1944 used.
1945
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1947 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
1948 connection oriented authentication, and any such
1949 challenges received from there should be ignored.
1950 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
1951 of the peer.
1952
1953
1954 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
1955
1956 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
1957
1958 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1959 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
1960 this peer.
1961
1962 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
1963 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
1964 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
1965 reference a combined file containing both the
1966 certificate and the key.
1967
1968 sslversion=1|2|3|4
1969 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
1970 1 = automatic (default)
1971 2 = SSL v2 only
1972 3 = SSL v3 only
1973 4 = TLS v1 only
1974
1975 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
1976 to this peer.
1977
1978 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
1979 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1980 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1981 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1982 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
1983 a more complete list.
1984
1985 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
1986 when verifying the peer certificate.
1987
1988 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
1989 use when verifying the peer certificate.
1990
1991 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
1992 verifying the peer certificate.
1993
1994 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
1995
41bd17a4 1996 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
1997 Accept certificates even if they fail to
1998 verify.
1999 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2000 Don't use the default CA list built in
2001 to OpenSSL.
2002 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2003 Don't verify the peer certificate
2004 matches the server name
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2006 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2007 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2008 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2009 used.
2010
2011 front-end-https
2012 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2013 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2014 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2015 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2016 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2017
2018
2019 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2020
2021 connect-timeout=N
2022 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2023 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2024
2025 connect-fail-limit=N
2026 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2027 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2028
2029 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2030 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2031 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2032 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2033 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2034 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2035 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2036
2037 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2038 peer. see also
2039
2040 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2041 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2042 but different ports.
2043 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2044 directives to dentify the peer.
2045 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2046 peername ACL type.
2047
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2049 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2050
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2051 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2052
41bd17a4 2053DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2055NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2056TYPE: hostdomain
2057DEFAULT: none
2058LOC: none
2059DOC_START
2060 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2061 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2062
41bd17a4 2063 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2064 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2065
41bd17a4 2066 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2067
41bd17a4 2068 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2069
41bd17a4 2070 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2071 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2072 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2073 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2074 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2075
41bd17a4 2076 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2077 either on the same or separate lines.
2078 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2079 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2080 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2081 for all requests.
2082 * There are no defaults.
2083 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2084 section.
2085DOC_END
dd9b1776 2086
41bd17a4 2087NAME: cache_peer_access
2088TYPE: peer_access
2089DEFAULT: none
2090LOC: none
2091DOC_START
2092 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2093 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2094
41bd17a4 2095 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2096
41bd17a4 2097 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2098 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2099 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2100DOC_END
dd9b1776 2101
41bd17a4 2102NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2103TYPE: hostdomaintype
2104DEFAULT: none
2105LOC: none
2106DOC_START
2107 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2108
41bd17a4 2109 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2110 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2111 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2112 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2113 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2114 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2115
41bd17a4 2116EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2117 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2118 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2119 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2120DOC_END
6bf4f823 2121
41bd17a4 2122NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2123COMMENT: (seconds)
2124DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2125TYPE: time_t
2126LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2127DOC_START
2128 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2129 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2130 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2131 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2132 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2133 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2134
41bd17a4 2135 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2136 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2137 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2138 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2139 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2140 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2141 instead of to your parents.
2142DOC_END
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2144NAME: forward_max_tries
2145DEFAULT: 10
2146TYPE: int
2147LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2148DOC_START
2149 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2150 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
2151DOC_END
2152
41bd17a4 2153NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2154TYPE: wordlist
2155DEFAULT: none
2156LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2157DOC_START
2158 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2159 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2160 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2161 list this option multiple times.
2162 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
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2165# We recommend you to use at least the following line.
41bd17a4 2166hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 2167NOCOMMENT_END
2168DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2170COMMENT_START
2171 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2172 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2173COMMENT_END
2174
2175NAME: cache_mem
2176COMMENT: (bytes)
2177TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2178DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2179LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2180DOC_START
41bd17a4 2181 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2182 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2183 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2184 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2185
2186 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2187 for:
2188 * In-Transit objects
2189 * Hot Objects
2190 * Negative-Cached objects
2191
2192 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2193 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2194 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2195 priority.
2196
2197 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2198 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2199 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2200 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2201 not needed for in-transit objects.
2202
2203 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2204 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2205 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2206 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2207 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2208 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2209 objects.
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41bd17a4 2212NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2213COMMENT: (bytes)
2214TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2215DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2216LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2217DOC_START
41bd17a4 2218 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2219 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2220 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2221 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2222DOC_END
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2224NAME: memory_cache_mode
2225TYPE: memcachemode
2226LOC: Config
2227DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2228DOC_START
ea21d497 2229 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2230
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2231 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2232
2233 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2234 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2235 a second time before cached in memory.
2236
2237 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2239
41bd17a4 2240NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2241TYPE: removalpolicy
2242LOC: Config.memPolicy
2243DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2244DOC_START
41bd17a4 2245 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2246 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2247
41bd17a4 2248 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2249DOC_END
6b698a21 2250
41bd17a4 2251COMMENT_START
2252 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2253 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2254COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2255
41bd17a4 2256NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2257TYPE: removalpolicy
2258LOC: Config.replPolicy
2259DEFAULT: lru
2260DOC_START
2261 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2262 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2263
41bd17a4 2264 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2265 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2266 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2267 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2268
41bd17a4 2269 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2270
41bd17a4 2271 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2272
41bd17a4 2273 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2274 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2275 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2276 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2277
41bd17a4 2278 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2279 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2280 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2281 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2282
41bd17a4 2283 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2284 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2285 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2286
41bd17a4 2287 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2288 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2289 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2290
41bd17a4 2291 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2292 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2293 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2294DOC_END
0976f8db 2295
41bd17a4 2296NAME: cache_dir
2297TYPE: cachedir
2298DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2299LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2300DOC_START
41bd17a4 2301 Usage:
0976f8db 2302
41bd17a4 2303 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2304
41bd17a4 2305 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2306 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2307
41bd17a4 2308 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2309 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2310 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2311
41bd17a4 2312 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2313 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2314 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2315 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2316 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2317
41bd17a4 2318 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2319
41bd17a4 2320 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2321 been there.
0976f8db 2322
41bd17a4 2323 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2324
41bd17a4 2325 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2326 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2327 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2328 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2329 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2330
41bd17a4 2331 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2332 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2333
41bd17a4 2334 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2335 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2336 is 256.
0976f8db 2337
41bd17a4 2338 The aufs store type:
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41bd17a4 2340 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2341 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2342 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2343
41bd17a4 2344 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2345
41bd17a4 2346 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2347
41bd17a4 2348 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2349
41bd17a4 2350 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2351 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2352 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2353
41bd17a4 2354 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
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41bd17a4 2356 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2357
41bd17a4 2358 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2359 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2360 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2361
41bd17a4 2362 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2363 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2364 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2365
41bd17a4 2366 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2367 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2368 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2369 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2370 time.
0976f8db 2371
41bd17a4 2372 The coss store type:
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2375 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2376 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2377
41bd17a4 2378 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2379 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2380 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2381 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2382 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2383 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2384 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2385
41bd17a4 2386 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2387 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2388 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2389
41bd17a4 2390 Common options:
0976f8db 2391
41bd17a4 2392 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2393
41bd17a4 2394 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
2395 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
2396 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2397 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2398 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2399
41bd17a4 2400 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2401 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2402 option.
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2405# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2406#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
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6b698a21 2408DOC_END
0976f8db 2409
41bd17a4 2410NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2411TYPE: string
2412LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2413DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2414DOC_START
41bd17a4 2415 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2416DOC_END
0976f8db 2417
41bd17a4 2418NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2419TYPE: int
2420LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2421DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2422DOC_START
41bd17a4 2423 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2424 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2425 descriptors are open.
2426
2427 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2428DOC_END
0976f8db 2429
41bd17a4 2430NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2431COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2432TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2433DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2434LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2435DOC_START
41bd17a4 2436 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2437 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2438 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2439DOC_END
0976f8db 2440
41bd17a4 2441NAME: maximum_object_size
2442COMMENT: (bytes)
2443TYPE: b_int64_t
2444DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2445LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2446DOC_START
41bd17a4 2447 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2448 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2449 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2450 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2451 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2452 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2453
41bd17a4 2454 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2455 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2456 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2457DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2459NAME: cache_swap_low
2460COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2461TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2462DEFAULT: 90
2463LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2464DOC_NONE
2465
2466NAME: cache_swap_high
2467COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2468TYPE: int
2469DEFAULT: 95
2470LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2471DOC_START
41bd17a4 2472
2473 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2474 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2475 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2476 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2477 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2478 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2479
2480 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2481 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2482 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2483DOC_END
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5473c134 2485COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2486 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2487 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2488COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2489
41bd17a4 2490NAME: logformat
2491TYPE: logformat
2492LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 2493DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2494DOC_START
41bd17a4 2495 Usage:
0976f8db 2496
41bd17a4 2497 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2498
41bd17a4 2499 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2500
41bd17a4 2501 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2502
41bd17a4 2503 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2504 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2505 as required according to their context and the output format
2506 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2507 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2508
41bd17a4 2509 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2510
41bd17a4 2511 " output in quoted string format
2512 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2513 # output in URL quoted format
2514 ' output as-is
5473c134 2515
41bd17a4 2516 - left aligned
2517 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2518 output is zero padded
2519 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2520
41bd17a4 2521 Format codes:
5473c134 2522
3ff65596 2523 % a literal % character
41bd17a4 2524 >a Client source IP address
2525 >A Client FQDN
2526 >p Client source port
2527 <A Server IP address or peer name
2528 la Local IP address (http_port)
2529 lp Local port number (http_port)
17fde513 2530 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
41bd17a4 2531 ts Seconds since epoch
2532 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2533 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2534 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2535 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2536 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2537 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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2539
2540 HTTP cache related format codes:
2541
ca2e92d8 2542 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 2543 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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2545 Optional header name argument as for >h
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2546 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2547 as for >h
2548 [http::]un User name
2549 [http::]ul User name from authentication
2550 [http::]ui User name from ident
2551 [http::]us User name from SSL
2552 [http::]ue User name from external acl helper
2553 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2554 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
2555 [http::]Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2556 [http::]Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2557 [http::]mt MIME content type
2558 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2559 [http::]ru Request URL
2560 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2561 [http::]rv Request protocol version
2562 [http::]et Tag returned by external acl
2563 [http::]ea Log string returned by external acl
2564 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2565 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2566 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
2567 are not included
2568 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
2569 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
2570 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
2571 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
2572 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
2573 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
2574 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
2575 and stops when the last response byte is received.
2576 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
2577 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
2578 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
2579 with the last I/O with the last peer.
2580
2581 If ICAP is enabled, the following two codes become available (as
2582 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
2583
2584 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
2585 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
2586 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
2587 transaction is in progress.
2588
2589 icap::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response
2590 related to the HTTP transaction. Like
2591 <h, accepts an optional header name
2592 argument. Will not change semantics
2593 when multiple ICAP transactions per HTTP
2594 transaction are supported.
2595
2596 If adaptation is enabled the following two codes become available:
2597
2598 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
2599 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
2600 the order of transaction start time. Each time
2601 value is recorded as an integer number,
2602 representing response time of one or more
2603 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
2604 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
2605 being retried or repeated, its time is not
2606 logged individually but added to the
2607 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
2608 adapt::all_trs.
2609
2610 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
2611 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
2612 individual transactions are never added
2613 together. Instead, all transaction response
2614 times are recorded individually.
2615
2616 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
2617 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
2618 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 2619
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2621
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2622logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2623logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
2624logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2625logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2626DOC_END
2627
41bd17a4 2628NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2629TYPE: access_log
2630LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
02424612 2631DEFAULT: none
82b7abe3 2632DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 2633DOC_START
41bd17a4 2634 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2635 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 2636 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 2637 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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2638
2639 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 2640 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2641 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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2642 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
2643
2644 ===== Modules Currently available =====
2645
2646 none Do not log any requests matchign these ACL.
2647 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
2648
2649 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
2650 each request.
2651 Place: the filename and path to be written.
2652
2653 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
2654 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
2655 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
2656
2657 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
2658
2659 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
2660 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
2661 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 2662
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2663 where facility could be any of:
2664 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 2665
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2666 And priority could be any of:
2667 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
2668
2669 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
2670 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
2671 Place Format: \\host:port
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2672
2673 Default:
82b7abe3 2674 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 2675DOC_END
5473c134 2676
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2677NAME: icap_log
2678TYPE: access_log
2679IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
2680LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
2681DEFAULT: none
2682DOC_START
2683 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
2684 transaction.
2685
2686 The icap_log option format is:
2687 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2688 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
2689
2690 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
2691 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
2692 features.
2693
2694 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
2695 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
2696 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
2697 log line.
2698
2699 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
2700 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
2701 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
2702 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
2703 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
2704 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
2705 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
2706
2707 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
2708
2709 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
2710
2711 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
2712 option in Squid configuration file.
2713
2714 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
2715
2716 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
2717 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
2718
2719 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
2720 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
2721
2722 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
2723 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
2724 the socket).
2725
2726 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
2727 milliseconds). The timer starts when
2728 the ICAP transaction is created and
2729 stops when the transaction is completed.
2730 Similar to tr.
2731
2732 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
2733 timer starts when the first ICAP request
2734 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
2735 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
2736 is received.
2737
2738 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
2739 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
2740 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
2741 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
2742 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
2743 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
2744
2745 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
2746
2747 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
2748
2749 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
2750
2751 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
2752 definition, is called icap_squid:
2753
2754logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
2755
2756 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %icap::<last_h
2757DOC_END
2758
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2759NAME: logfile_daemon
2760TYPE: string
2761DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
2762LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
2763DOC_START
2764 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
2765 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
2766DOC_END
2767
5b0f5383 2768NAME: log_access
2769TYPE: acl_access
2770LOC: Config.accessList.log
2771DEFAULT: none
2772COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2773DOC_START
2774 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2775 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2776 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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2777
2778 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2779 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 2780DOC_END
2781
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2782NAME: log_icap
2783TYPE: acl_access
2784IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
2785LOC: Config.accessList.icap
2786DEFAULT: none
2787DOC_START
2788 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
2789 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
2790DOC_END
2791
41bd17a4 2792NAME: cache_store_log
2793TYPE: string
df2eec10 2794DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2795LOC: Config.Log.store
2796DOC_START
2797 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2798 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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2800 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 2801 disable it.
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2802
2803 Example:
2804 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 2805DOC_END
2806
41bd17a4 2807NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2808TYPE: string
2809LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2810DEFAULT: none
2811DOC_START
41bd17a4 2812 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2813 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2814 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2815 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2816 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2817 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2818 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2819
41bd17a4 2820 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2821 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2822 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2823 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2824
41bd17a4 2825 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2826 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2827
41bd17a4 2828 cache_swap_log.00
2829 cache_swap_log.01
2830 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2831
41bd17a4 2832 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2833 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2834 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2835 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2836 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2837 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2838 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2839DOC_END
2840
41bd17a4 2841NAME: logfile_rotate
2842TYPE: int
2843DEFAULT: 10
2844LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2845DOC_START
41bd17a4 2846 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2847 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2848 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2849 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2850 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2851 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2852
41bd17a4 2853 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2854 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2855 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2856 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2857 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2858 <pid>'.
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2860 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
2861 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 2862DOC_END
5473c134 2863
41bd17a4 2864NAME: emulate_httpd_log
2865COMMENT: on|off
2866TYPE: onoff
2867DEFAULT: off
2868LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
2869DOC_START
2870 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
2871 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
2872 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
2873 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
2874 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 2875DOC_END
2876
41bd17a4 2877NAME: log_ip_on_direct
2878COMMENT: on|off
2879TYPE: onoff
5473c134 2880DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 2881LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 2882DOC_START
41bd17a4 2883 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
2884 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
2885 prefer the old way set this to off.
2886DOC_END
5473c134 2887
41bd17a4 2888NAME: mime_table
2889TYPE: string
2890DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
2891LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
2892DOC_START
2893 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
2894 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
2895 information if you do.
5473c134 2896DOC_END
2897
41bd17a4 2898NAME: log_mime_hdrs
2899COMMENT: on|off
2900TYPE: onoff
2901LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
2902DEFAULT: off
2903DOC_START
2904 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
2905 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
2906 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
2907 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
2908 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
2909DOC_END
5473c134 2910
41bd17a4 2911NAME: useragent_log
2912TYPE: string
2913LOC: Config.Log.useragent
2914DEFAULT: none
2915IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 2916DOC_START
41bd17a4 2917 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
2918 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
2919 is disabled.
5473c134 2920DOC_END
2921
41bd17a4 2922NAME: referer_log referrer_log
2923TYPE: string
2924LOC: Config.Log.referer
2925DEFAULT: none
2926IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 2927DOC_START
41bd17a4 2928 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
2929 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
2930 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
2931 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
2932 and we accept both.
5473c134 2933DOC_END
2934
41bd17a4 2935NAME: pid_filename
2936TYPE: string
2937DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
2938LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 2939DOC_START
41bd17a4 2940 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 2941DOC_END
2942
41bd17a4 2943NAME: log_fqdn
2944COMMENT: on|off
2945TYPE: onoff
2946DEFAULT: off
2947LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 2948DOC_START
41bd17a4 2949 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
2950 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
2951 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
2952 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
2953 browsing.
5473c134 2954DOC_END
2955
41bd17a4 2956NAME: client_netmask
2957TYPE: address
2958LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
2959DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5473c134 2960DOC_START
41bd17a4 2961 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
2962 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
2963 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
2964 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 2965DOC_END
2966
41bd17a4 2967NAME: forward_log
2968IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
2969TYPE: string
2970DEFAULT: none
2971LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 2972DOC_START
41bd17a4 2973 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 2974
41bd17a4 2975 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 2976DOC_END
2977
41bd17a4 2978NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 2979TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 2980LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 2981DEFAULT: on
2982DOC_START
41bd17a4 2983 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
2984 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 2985DOC_END
2986
41bd17a4 2987NAME: buffered_logs
2988COMMENT: on|off
2989TYPE: onoff
2990DEFAULT: off
2991LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 2992DOC_START
41bd17a4 2993 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2994 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2995 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2996 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2997 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 2998DOC_END
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2b753521 3000NAME: netdb_filename
3001TYPE: string
3002DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3003LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3004IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3005DOC_START
3006 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3007 To disable, enter "none".
3008DOC_END
3009
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3011 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3012 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3013COMMENT_END
3014
3015NAME: cache_log
3016TYPE: string
3017DEFAULT: none
3018DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3019LOC: Debug::cache_log
3020DOC_START
3021 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3022 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3023 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3024DOC_END
3025
3026NAME: debug_options
3027TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3028DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3029LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3030DOC_START
3031 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3032 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3033 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3034 log file, so be careful.
3035
3036 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3037 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3038
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3039 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3040 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3041 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3042 events affecting Squid.
3043DOC_END
3044
3045NAME: coredump_dir
3046TYPE: string
3047LOC: Config.coredump_dir
3048DEFAULT: none
3049DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3050DOC_START
3051 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3052 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3053 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3054 and coredump files will be left there.
3055
3056NOCOMMENT_START
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3058# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3059coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3060NOCOMMENT_END
3061DOC_END
3062
3063
41bd17a4 3064COMMENT_START
3065 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3066 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3067COMMENT_END
3068
3069NAME: ftp_user
3070TYPE: string
3071DEFAULT: Squid@
3072LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3073DOC_START
41bd17a4 3074 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3075 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3076 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3077
41bd17a4 3078 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3079 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3080 depending on how the cache is used.
3081 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3082 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3083DOC_END
0976f8db 3084
41bd17a4 3085NAME: ftp_passive
3086TYPE: onoff
3087DEFAULT: on
3088LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3089DOC_START
41bd17a4 3090 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3091 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 3092
3093 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3094DOC_END
3095
3096NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3097TYPE: onoff
3098DEFAULT: off
3099LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3100DOC_START
3101 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3102
3103 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3104 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3105 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3106
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3107 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
3108 useful.
a689bd4e 3109 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3110 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3111
3112 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3113 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3114
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3115 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3116DOC_END
3117
3118NAME: ftp_epsv
3119TYPE: onoff
3120DEFAULT: on
3121LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3122DOC_START
3123 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3124
3125 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3126 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3127 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3128 will never be needed.
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3129
3130 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3131 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3132 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3133
3134 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3135DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3136
41bd17a4 3137NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3138TYPE: onoff
3139DEFAULT: on
3140LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3141DOC_START
3142 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3143 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3144 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3145 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3146 connection turn this off.
3147DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3148
41bd17a4 3149NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3150TYPE: onoff
3151DEFAULT: on
3152LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3153DOC_START
3154 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3155 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3156 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3157 the FTP protocol.
3158
3159 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3160 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3161 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3162 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3163 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3164DOC_END
3165
3166COMMENT_START
3167 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3168 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3169COMMENT_END
3170
3171NAME: diskd_program
3172TYPE: string
3173DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3174LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3175DOC_START
3176 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3177 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3178 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3179DOC_END
3180
3181NAME: unlinkd_program
3182IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3183TYPE: string
3184DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3185LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3186DOC_START
3187 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3188DOC_END
3189
3190NAME: pinger_program
3191TYPE: string
3192DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3193LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3194IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3195DOC_START
3196 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3197DOC_END
3198
cc192b50 3199NAME: pinger_enable
3200TYPE: onoff
3201DEFAULT: on
3202LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3203IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3204DOC_START
3205 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3206 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3207 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3208DOC_END
3209
3210
41bd17a4 3211COMMENT_START
3212 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3213 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3214COMMENT_END
3215
3216NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3217TYPE: wordlist
3218LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3219DEFAULT: none
3220DOC_START
3221 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
3222 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3223
3224 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
3225
c71adec1 3226 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3227
3228 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3229 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3230 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3231 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3232
3233 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3234 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3235
3236 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3237 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
3238 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
3239
3240 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3241DOC_END
3242
3243NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3244TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3245DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3246LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3247DOC_START
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3248 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3249 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3250 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3251 and other system resources noticably.
3252
3253 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3254 tuning.
3255
3256 startup=
3257
3258 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3259 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3260 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3261
3262 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3263 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3264
3265 idle=
3266
3267 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3268 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3269 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3270 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3271
3272 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3273
41bd17a4 3274 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3275 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3276 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3277
3278 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3279 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3280 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3281 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3282 to that request.
41bd17a4 3283DOC_END
3284
3285NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3286TYPE: onoff
3287DEFAULT: on
3288LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3289DOC_START
3290 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
3291 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
3292 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
3293
3294 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3295 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
3296DOC_END
3297
3298NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3299TYPE: acl_access
3300DEFAULT: none
3301LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3302DOC_START
3303 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3304 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3305 are sent.
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3306
3307 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3308 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3309DOC_END
3310
3311NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3312TYPE: onoff
3313LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3314DEFAULT: off
3315DOC_START
3316 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3317 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3318 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3319 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3320 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3321 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3322 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3323 users may have access to pages they should not
3324 be allowed to request.
3325DOC_END
3326
3327COMMENT_START
3328 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3329 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3330COMMENT_END
3331
f04b37d8 3332NAME: cache no_cache
3333TYPE: acl_access
3334DEFAULT: none
3335LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3336DOC_START
240887f0 3337 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3338 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3339 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3340
240887f0 3341 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3342 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3343
240887f0 3344 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3345
3346 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3347 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3348DOC_END
3349
3350NAME: refresh_pattern
3351TYPE: refreshpattern
3352LOC: Config.Refresh
3353DEFAULT: none
3354DOC_START
3355 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3356
6b698a21 3357 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3358 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3359
41bd17a4 3360 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3361 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3362 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3363 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3364 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3365
41bd17a4 3366 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3367 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3368 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3369
41bd17a4 3370 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3371 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3372
41bd17a4 3373 options: override-expire
3374 override-lastmod
3375 reload-into-ims
3376 ignore-reload
3377 ignore-no-cache
3378 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3379 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3380 ignore-private
3381 ignore-auth
3382 refresh-ims
a0ec9f68 3383
41bd17a4 3384 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3385 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3386 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3387 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3388 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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3390 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3391 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3392 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3393 the object fresh for that period of time.
3394
41bd17a4 3395 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3396 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3397
41bd17a4 3398 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3399 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3400 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3401 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3402
41bd17a4 3403 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3404 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3405 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3406 it causes.
9bc73deb 3407
41bd17a4 3408 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3409 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3410 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3411 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3412 send it anyway.
3413
3414 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3415 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3416 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3417 liable for problems which it causes.
3418
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3419 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3420 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3421 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3422 liable for problems which it causes.
3423
41bd17a4 3424 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3425 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3426 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3427 liable for problems which it causes.
3428
3429 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3430 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3431 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3432 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3433 it causes.
3434
3435 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3436 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3437 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3438 if one is available.
3439
3440 Basically a cached object is:
3441
3442 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3443 STALE if age > max
3444 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3445 FRESH if age < min
3446 else STALE
3447
3448 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3449 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3450 match the default will be used.
3451
3452 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3453 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3454 used.
3455
41bd17a4 3456NOCOMMENT_START
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3458# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 3459refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3460refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 3461refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 3462refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3463NOCOMMENT_END
3464DOC_END
3465
3466NAME: quick_abort_min
3467COMMENT: (KB)
3468TYPE: kb_int64_t
3469DEFAULT: 16 KB
3470LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3471DOC_NONE
3472
3473NAME: quick_abort_max
3474COMMENT: (KB)
3475TYPE: kb_int64_t
3476DEFAULT: 16 KB
3477LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3478DOC_NONE
3479
3480NAME: quick_abort_pct
3481COMMENT: (percent)
3482TYPE: int
3483DEFAULT: 95
3484LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3485DOC_START
3486 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3487 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3488 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3489 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3490 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3491 downloads.
3492
3493 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3494 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3495 then.
3496
3497 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3498 it will finish the retrieval.
3499
3500 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3501 it will abort the retrieval.
3502
3503 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3504 it will finish the retrieval.
3505
3506 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3507 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3508 to '0 KB'.
3509
3510 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3511 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3512DOC_END
60d096f4 3513
41bd17a4 3514NAME: read_ahead_gap
3515COMMENT: buffer-size
3516TYPE: b_int64_t
3517LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3518DEFAULT: 16 KB
3519DOC_START
3520 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3521 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3522DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3524NAME: negative_ttl
ac9cc053 3525IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 3526COMMENT: time-units
3527TYPE: time_t
3528LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 3529DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 3530DOC_START
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3531 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3532 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3533 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3534 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3535 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3536 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3537
3538 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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3539
3540 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3541 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3542 causes.
41bd17a4 3543DOC_END
53e738c6 3544
41bd17a4 3545NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3546COMMENT: time-units
3547TYPE: time_t
3548LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3549DEFAULT: 6 hours
3550DOC_START
3551 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3552 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3553 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3554DOC_END
c4ab8329 3555
41bd17a4 3556NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3557COMMENT: time-units
3558TYPE: time_t
3559LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3560DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3561DOC_START
3562 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3563 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3564 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3565 much below 10 seconds.
3566DOC_END
7df0bfd7 3567
41bd17a4 3568NAME: range_offset_limit
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3569COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
3570TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 3571LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 3572DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3573DOC_START
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3574 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
3575
3576 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
3577 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
3578 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
3579 the result is NOT cached.
3580
41bd17a4 3581 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3582 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3583 sending anything to the client.
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3584
3585 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
3586 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
3587 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
3588 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
3589
3590 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
3591
3592 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
3593 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
3594
3595 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 3596 client requested. (default)
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3597
3598 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 3599 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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3600
3601 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
3602
3603 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
3604 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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3605 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
3606 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 3607DOC_END
d95b862f 3608
41bd17a4 3609NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3610COMMENT: (seconds)
3611TYPE: time_t
3612LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3613DEFAULT: 60 seconds
3614DOC_START
3615 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
3616 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 3617 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 3618 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
3619 is most likely better to make your server return a
3620 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
3621 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
3622 often be best set to 0.
3623DOC_END
c68e9c6b 3624
41bd17a4 3625NAME: store_avg_object_size
3626COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 3627TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 3628DEFAULT: 13 KB
3629LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3630DOC_START
3631 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3632 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 3633DOC_END
3634
41bd17a4 3635NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3636TYPE: int
3637DEFAULT: 20
3638LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3639DOC_START
3640 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3641 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3642 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
3643DOC_END
3644
3645COMMENT_START
3646 HTTP OPTIONS
3647 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3648COMMENT_END
3649
f04b37d8 3650NAME: request_header_max_size
3651COMMENT: (KB)
3652TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3653DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3654LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
3655DOC_START
3656 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
3657 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3658 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
3659 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3660 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3661DOC_END
3662
3663NAME: reply_header_max_size
3664COMMENT: (KB)
3665TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3666DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3667LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
3668DOC_START
3669 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
3670 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3671 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
3672 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3673 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3674DOC_END
3675
3676NAME: request_body_max_size
3677COMMENT: (bytes)
3678TYPE: b_int64_t
3679DEFAULT: 0 KB
3680LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
3681DOC_START
3682 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
3683 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
3684 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
3685 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
3686 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
3687 be no limit imposed.
3688DOC_END
3689
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3690NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
3691COMMENT: (bytes)
3692TYPE: b_int64_t
3693DEFAULT: 64 KB
3694LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
3695DOC_START
3696 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
3697 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
3698 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
3699 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
3700 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
3701 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
3702
3703 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
3704 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
3705 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
3706 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
3707 as if dechunking was disabled.
3708
3709 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
3710 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
3711
3712 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
3713 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
3714 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
3715DOC_END
3716
41bd17a4 3717NAME: broken_posts
aa49962c 3718IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 3719TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 3720DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3721LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 3722DOC_START
41bd17a4 3723 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
3724 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 3725
41bd17a4 3726 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
3727 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 3728
41bd17a4 3729 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 3730
41bd17a4 3731 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
3732 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
3733 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
3734 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 3735
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3736 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3737 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3738
41bd17a4 3739Example:
3740 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
3741 broken_posts allow buggy_server
3742DOC_END
cccac0a2 3743
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3744NAME: icap_uses_indirect_client
3745COMMENT: on|off
3746TYPE: onoff
0dae2bca 3747IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&ICAP_CLIENT
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3748DEFAULT: on
3749LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.icap_uses_indirect_client
3750DOC_START
3751 Controls whether the indirect client address
3752 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) instead of the
3753 direct client address is passed to an ICAP
3754 server as "X-Client-IP".
3755DOC_END
3756
41bd17a4 3757NAME: via
3758IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3759COMMENT: on|off
3760TYPE: onoff
3761DEFAULT: on
3762LOC: Config.onoff.via
3763DOC_START
3764 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3765 replies as required by RFC2616.
3766DOC_END
4cc6eb12 3767
41bd17a4 3768NAME: ie_refresh
3769COMMENT: on|off
3770TYPE: onoff
3771LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
3772DEFAULT: off
3773DOC_START
3774 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
3775 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
3776 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
3777 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
3778 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
3779 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
3780 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
3781 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
3782 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
3783 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
3784 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
3785 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
3786 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
3787 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
3788 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
3789 force fresh content.
3790DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 3791
41bd17a4 3792NAME: vary_ignore_expire
3793COMMENT: on|off
3794TYPE: onoff
3795LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
3796DEFAULT: off
3797DOC_START
3798 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
3799 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
3800 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
3801 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
3802 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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3803
3804 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
3805 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 3806DOC_END
c4ab8329 3807
41bd17a4 3808NAME: request_entities
3809TYPE: onoff
3810LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
3811DEFAULT: off
3812DOC_START
3813 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
3814 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
3815 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 3816
41bd17a4 3817 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
3818 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
3819 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
3820 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
3821 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 3822DOC_END
6b53c392 3823
41bd17a4 3824NAME: request_header_access
3825IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3826TYPE: http_header_access[]
3827LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3828DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 3829DOC_START
41bd17a4 3830 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 3831
41bd17a4 3832 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3833 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3834 causes.
0976f8db 3835
41bd17a4 3836 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3837 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3838 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3839 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3840 mangling.
934b03fc 3841
41bd17a4 3842 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3843 client to the server.
5401aa8d 3844
41bd17a4 3845 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3846 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3847 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 3848
41bd17a4 3849 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3850 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 3851
41bd17a4 3852 request_header_access From deny all
3853 request_header_access Referer deny all
3854 request_header_access Server deny all
3855 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3856 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3857 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 3858
41bd17a4 3859 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3860 you should use:
5401aa8d 3861
41bd17a4 3862 request_header_access Allow allow all
3863 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3864 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3865 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3866 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3867 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3868 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3869 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3870 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3871 request_header_access Date allow all
3872 request_header_access Expires allow all
3873 request_header_access Host allow all
3874 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3875 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3876 request_header_access Location allow all
3877 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3878 request_header_access Accept allow all
3879 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3880 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3881 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3882 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3883 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3884 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3885 request_header_access Title allow all
3886 request_header_access Connection allow all
3887 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3888 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 3889
41bd17a4 3890 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3891 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 3892
41bd17a4 3893 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3894 performed).
5401aa8d 3895DOC_END
3896
41bd17a4 3897NAME: reply_header_access
3898IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3899TYPE: http_header_access[]
3900LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 3901DEFAULT: none
3902DOC_START
41bd17a4 3903 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 3904
41bd17a4 3905 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3906 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3907 causes.
934b03fc 3908
41bd17a4 3909 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3910 server to the client.
934b03fc 3911
41bd17a4 3912 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3913 direction.
6b53c392 3914
41bd17a4 3915 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3916 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3917 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3918 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3919 mangling.
cccac0a2 3920
41bd17a4 3921 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3922 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3923 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 3924
41bd17a4 3925 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3926 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 3927
41bd17a4 3928 reply_header_access From deny all
3929 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3930 reply_header_access Server deny all
3931 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3932 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3933 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3934
41bd17a4 3935 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3936 you should use:
cccac0a2 3937
41bd17a4 3938 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3939 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3940 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3941 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3942 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3943 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3944 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3945 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3946 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3947 reply_header_access Date allow all
3948 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3949 reply_header_access Host allow all
3950 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3951 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3952 reply_header_access Location allow all
3953 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3954 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3955 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3956 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3957 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3958 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3959 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3960 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3961 reply_header_access Title allow all
3962 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3963 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3964 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 3965
41bd17a4 3966 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3967 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3968
41bd17a4 3969 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3970 performed).
cccac0a2 3971DOC_END
3972
41bd17a4 3973NAME: header_replace
3974IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3975TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3976LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3977DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3978DOC_START
3979 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3980 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 3981
41bd17a4 3982 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3983 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3984 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3985 option.
cccac0a2 3986
41bd17a4 3987 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 3988
41bd17a4 3989 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3990DOC_END
cccac0a2 3991
41bd17a4 3992NAME: relaxed_header_parser
3993COMMENT: on|off|warn
3994TYPE: tristate
3995LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
3996DEFAULT: on
3997DOC_START
3998 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
3999 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4000 what the sending application intended even if the message
4001 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4002 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4003
41bd17a4 4004 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4005 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4006
41bd17a4 4007 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4008 or response to be rejected.
4009DOC_END
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4011NAME: ignore_expect_100
4012COMMENT: on|off
4013IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4014TYPE: onoff
4015LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_expect_100
4016DEFAULT: off
4017DOC_START
4018 This option makes Squid ignore any Expect: 100-continue header present
4019 in the request. RFC 2616 requires that Squid being unable to satisfy
4020 the response expectation MUST return a 417 error.
4021
4022 Note: Enabling this is a HTTP protocol violation, but some clients may
4023 not handle it well..
4024DOC_END
4025
41bd17a4 4026COMMENT_START
4027 TIMEOUTS
4028 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4029COMMENT_END
4030
4031NAME: forward_timeout
4032COMMENT: time-units
4033TYPE: time_t
4034LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4035DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4036DOC_START
4037 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4038 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4039DOC_END
4040
41bd17a4 4041NAME: connect_timeout
4042COMMENT: time-units
4043TYPE: time_t
4044LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4045DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4046DOC_START
41bd17a4 4047 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4048 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4049 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4050DOC_END
4051
41bd17a4 4052NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4053COMMENT: time-units
4054TYPE: time_t
4055LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4056DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4057DOC_START
41bd17a4 4058 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4059 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4060 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4061 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4062DOC_END
7f7db318 4063
41bd17a4 4064NAME: read_timeout
4065COMMENT: time-units
4066TYPE: time_t
4067LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4068DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4069DOC_START
4070 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4071 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4072 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4073 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4074 default is 15 minutes.
4075DOC_END
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4077NAME: write_timeout
4078COMMENT: time-units
4079TYPE: time_t
4080LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4081DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4082DOC_START
4083 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4084 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4085 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4086 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4087 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4088 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4089 default is 15 minutes.
4090DOC_END
4091
41bd17a4 4092NAME: request_timeout
4093TYPE: time_t
4094LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4095DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4096DOC_START
4097 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4098 connection establishment.
4099DOC_END
cccac0a2 4100
41bd17a4 4101NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4102TYPE: time_t
4103LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4104DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4105DOC_START
4106 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4107 connection after the previous request completes.
4108DOC_END
cccac0a2 4109
41bd17a4 4110NAME: client_lifetime
4111COMMENT: time-units
4112TYPE: time_t
4113LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4114DEFAULT: 1 day
4115DOC_START
4116 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4117 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4118 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4119 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4120 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4121 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4122 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4123
41bd17a4 4124 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4125 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4126 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4127 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4128 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4129 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4130DOC_END
4131
41bd17a4 4132NAME: half_closed_clients
4133TYPE: onoff
4134LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4135DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4136DOC_START
41bd17a4 4137 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4138 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4139 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4140 fully-closed TCP connection.
4141
4142 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4143 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4144
abdf1651 4145 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4146 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4147 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4148 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4149DOC_END
4150
41bd17a4 4151NAME: pconn_timeout
4152TYPE: time_t
4153LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4154DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4155DOC_START
41bd17a4 4156 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4157 proxies.
4158DOC_END
cccac0a2 4159
41bd17a4 4160NAME: ident_timeout
4161TYPE: time_t
4162IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4163LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4164DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4165DOC_START
4166 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4167
41bd17a4 4168 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4169 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4170 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4171DOC_END
4172
41bd17a4 4173NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4174COMMENT: time-units
4175TYPE: time_t
4176LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4177DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4178DOC_START
41bd17a4 4179 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4180 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4181 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4182 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4183 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4184DOC_END
0976f8db 4185
cccac0a2 4186COMMENT_START
4187 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4188 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4189COMMENT_END
4190
4191NAME: cache_mgr
4192TYPE: string
4193DEFAULT: webmaster
4194LOC: Config.adminEmail
4195DOC_START
4196 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4197 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4198DOC_END
4199
abacf776 4200NAME: mail_from
4201TYPE: string
4202DEFAULT: none
4203LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4204DOC_START
4205 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4206 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4207 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4208 src/globals.h before building squid.
4209DOC_END
4210
d084bf20 4211NAME: mail_program
4212TYPE: eol
4213DEFAULT: mail
4214LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4215DOC_START
4216 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4217 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4218 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4219 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4220
d084bf20 4221 Optional command line options can be specified.
4222DOC_END
4223
cccac0a2 4224NAME: cache_effective_user
4225TYPE: string
5483d916 4226DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4227LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4228DOC_START
4229 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4230 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4231 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4232 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4233DOC_END
4234
cccac0a2 4235NAME: cache_effective_group
4236TYPE: string
4237DEFAULT: none
4238LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4239DOC_START
64e288bd 4240 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4241 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4242 from the groups membership.
4243
e3d74828 4244 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4245 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4246 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4247 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4248 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4249 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4250 group.
64e288bd 4251
4252 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4253 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4254 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4255DOC_END
4256
d3caee79 4257NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4258COMMENT: on|off
4259TYPE: onoff
4260DEFAULT: off
4261LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4262DOC_START
4263 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4264DOC_END
4265
cccac0a2 4266NAME: visible_hostname
4267TYPE: string
4268LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4269DEFAULT: none
4270DOC_START
4271 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4272 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4273 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4274 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4275 names with this setting.
4276DOC_END
4277
cccac0a2 4278NAME: unique_hostname
4279TYPE: string
4280LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4281DEFAULT: none
4282DOC_START
4283 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4284 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4285 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4286DOC_END
4287
cccac0a2 4288NAME: hostname_aliases
4289TYPE: wordlist
4290LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4291DEFAULT: none
4292DOC_START
7f7db318 4293 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4294DOC_END
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4296NAME: umask
4297TYPE: int
4298LOC: Config.umask
4299DEFAULT: 027
4300DOC_START
4301 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4302 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4303
4304 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4305 your value with 0.
4306DOC_END
4307
cccac0a2 4308COMMENT_START
4309 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4310 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4311
4312 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4313 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4314 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4315 create cache hierarchies.
4316
4317 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4318 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4319 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4320
4321 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4322 following information from this configuration file:
4323
4324 http_port
4325 icp_port
4326 cache_mgr
4327
4328 All current information is processed regularly and made
4329 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4330COMMENT_END
4331
4332NAME: announce_period
4333TYPE: time_t
4334LOC: Config.Announce.period
4335DEFAULT: 0
4336DOC_START
4337 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4338 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4339 messages.
4340
e0855596 4341 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 4342
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4343 Example:
4344 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4345DOC_END
4346
cccac0a2 4347NAME: announce_host
4348TYPE: string
4349DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4350LOC: Config.Announce.host
4351DOC_NONE
4352
4353NAME: announce_file
4354TYPE: string
4355DEFAULT: none
4356LOC: Config.Announce.file
4357DOC_NONE
4358
4359NAME: announce_port
4360TYPE: ushort
4361DEFAULT: 3131
4362LOC: Config.Announce.port
4363DOC_START
4364 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4365 number where the registration message will be sent.
4366
4367 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4368 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4369 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4370 message.
4371DOC_END
4372
8d6275c0 4373COMMENT_START
4374 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4375 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4376COMMENT_END
4377
cccac0a2 4378NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4379TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 4380DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4381LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4382DOC_START
4383 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4384 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4385 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4386 an identification token.
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4387
4388 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 4389DOC_END
4390
4391NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 4392COMMENT: on|off
4393TYPE: onoff
4394DEFAULT: off
4395LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4396DOC_START
4397 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4398 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4399DOC_END
4400
4401NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4402IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4403COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4404TYPE: string
4405LOC: ESIParser::Type
4406DEFAULT: custom
4407DOC_START
4408 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4409 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4410 encodings.
4411DOC_END
0976f8db 4412
9edd9041 4413COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4414 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4415 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4416COMMENT_END
4417
4418NAME: delay_pools
4419TYPE: delay_pool_count
4420DEFAULT: 0
4421IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4422LOC: Config.Delay
4423DOC_START
4424 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4425 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4426 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4427DOC_END
4428
4429NAME: delay_class
4430TYPE: delay_pool_class
4431DEFAULT: none
4432IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4433LOC: Config.Delay
4434DOC_START
4435 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4436 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4437 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4438 and here would be:
4439
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4440 Example:
4441 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4442 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4443 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4444 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4445 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 4446
4447 The delay pool classes are:
4448
4449 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4450 bucket.
4451
4452 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4453 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 4454 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4455
4456 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4457 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4458 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4459 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 4460 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4461
4462 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4463 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4464 only takes effect if the username is established
4465 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4466 http_access rules.
4467
4468 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4469 external_acl's tag= reply).
4470
4471 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4472 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4473 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4474 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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4475
4476 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4477 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 4478DOC_END
4479
4480NAME: delay_access
4481TYPE: delay_pool_access
4482DEFAULT: none
4483IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4484LOC: Config.Delay
4485DOC_START
4486 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4487
4488 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4489 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4490 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4491 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4492
4493 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
4494 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4495
4496Example:
4497 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4498 delay_access 1 deny all
4499 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4500 delay_access 2 deny all
4501 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4502DOC_END
4503
4504NAME: delay_parameters
4505TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4506DEFAULT: none
4507IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4508LOC: Config.Delay
4509DOC_START
4510 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4511 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4512 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4513
4514delay_parameters pool aggregate
4515
4516 For a class 2 delay pool:
4517
4518delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4519
4520 For a class 3 delay pool:
4521
4522delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4523
4524 For a class 4 delay pool:
4525
4526delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4527
4528 For a class 5 delay pool:
4529
4530delay_parameters pool tag
4531
4532 The variables here are:
4533
4534 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4535 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4536 delay_class lines.
4537
4538 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
4539 (class 1, 2, 3).
4540
4541 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
4542 buckets (class 2, 3).
4543
4544 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
4545 (class 3).
4546
4547 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
4548 (class 4).
4549
4550 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
4551 (class 5).
4552
4553 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4554 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4555 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4556 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4557
4558 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4559 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4560 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4561
4562delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4563
4564 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4565
4566 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4567 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4568 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4569 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4570 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4571 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4572 large downloads more significantly:
4573
4574delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4575
4576 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4577
4578 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4579 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
4580
4581delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4582DOC_END
4583
4584NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4585COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4586TYPE: ushort
4587DEFAULT: 50
4588IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4589LOC: Config.Delay.initial
4590DOC_START
4591 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
4592 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
4593 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
4594 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
4595 "seen" by squid).
4596DOC_END
4597
cccac0a2 4598COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4599 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 4600 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4601COMMENT_END
4602
8d6275c0 4603NAME: wccp_router
4604TYPE: address
4605LOC: Config.Wccp.router
4606DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4607IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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4608DOC_START
4609 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4610 Squid.
4611
4612 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4613
4614 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4615
4616 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4617 which version of WCCP to use.
4618DOC_END
df2eec10 4619
8d6275c0 4620NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 4621TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 4622LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 4623DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4624IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4625DOC_START
8d6275c0 4626 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4627 Squid.
cccac0a2 4628
8d6275c0 4629 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 4630
8d6275c0 4631 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 4632
8d6275c0 4633 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4634 which version of WCCP to use.
4635DOC_END
4636
4637NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 4638TYPE: int
8d6275c0 4639LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4640DEFAULT: 4
4641IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 4642DOC_START
8d6275c0 4643 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4644 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4645 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4646 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4647 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 4648
8d6275c0 4649 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4650 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4651 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4652 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 4653DOC_END
4654
8d6275c0 4655NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4656TYPE: onoff
4657LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4658DEFAULT: on
4659IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4660DOC_START
4661 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4662 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4663DOC_END
cccac0a2 4664
8d6275c0 4665NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 4666TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4667LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 4668DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4669IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4670DOC_START
699acd19 4671 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 4672 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4673
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4674 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4675 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4676
8d6275c0 4677 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4678 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 4679DOC_END
4680
8d6275c0 4681NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 4682TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4683LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 4684DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4685IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4686DOC_START
699acd19 4687 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 4688 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4689 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4690
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4691 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4692 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4693
8d6275c0 4694 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4695 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 4696
699acd19 4697 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 4698 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4699 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4700 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 4701DOC_END
4702
8d6275c0 4703NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 4704TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 4705LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 4706DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 4707IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4708DOC_START
8d6275c0 4709 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4710 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4711
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4712 hash - Hash assignment
4713 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 4714
8d6275c0 4715 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4716 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4717DOC_END
cccac0a2 4718
8d6275c0 4719NAME: wccp2_service
4720TYPE: wccp2_service
4721LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4722DEFAULT: none
4723DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4724IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4725DOC_START
4726 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4727 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4728 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4729 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4730 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4731 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4732
4733 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4734 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4735
4736 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4737 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4738
4739 Examples:
4740
4741 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4742 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4743 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4744 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 4745DOC_END
4746
4747NAME: wccp2_service_info
4748TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4749LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4750DEFAULT: none
4751IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4752DOC_START
4753 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4754 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4755
4756 The format is:
4757
4758 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4759 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4760
4761 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4762 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 4763 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 4764 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4765 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4766 + ports_source
4767
4768 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4769
4770 Example:
4771
4772 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4773 priority=240 ports=80
4774
4775 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4776 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4777DOC_END
4778
4779NAME: wccp2_weight
4780TYPE: int
4781LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4782DEFAULT: 10000
4783IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4784DOC_START
4785 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4786 hash proportional to their weight.
4787DOC_END
4788
4789NAME: wccp_address
4790TYPE: address
4791LOC: Config.Wccp.address
4792DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4793IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4794DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4795
8d6275c0 4796NAME: wccp2_address
4797TYPE: address
4798LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4799DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4800IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4801DOC_START
4802 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4803 interface address.
4804
4805 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4806DOC_END
4807
4808COMMENT_START
4809 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
4810 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4811
4812 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
4813COMMENT_END
4814
4815NAME: client_persistent_connections
4816TYPE: onoff
4817LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4818DEFAULT: on
4819DOC_NONE
4820
4821NAME: server_persistent_connections
4822TYPE: onoff
4823LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4824DEFAULT: on
4825DOC_START
4826 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4827 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4828 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4829 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4830DOC_END
4831
4832NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
4833TYPE: onoff
4834LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4835DEFAULT: off
4836DOC_START
4837 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4838 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4839 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
4840DOC_END
4841
4842NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4843TYPE: onoff
4844LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4845DEFAULT: off
4846DOC_START
4847 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4848 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4849 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4850 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4851
4852 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4853 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4854 after 10 seconds timeout.
4855DOC_END
4856
4857COMMENT_START
4858 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
4859 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4860COMMENT_END
4861
4862NAME: digest_generation
4863IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4864TYPE: onoff
4865LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4866DEFAULT: on
4867DOC_START
4868 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4869 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 4870 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 4871DOC_END
4872
4873NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4874IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4875TYPE: int
4876LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4877DEFAULT: 5
4878DOC_START
4879 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4880 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4881 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4882DOC_END
4883
4884NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4885IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4886COMMENT: (seconds)
4887TYPE: time_t
4888LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4889DEFAULT: 1 hour
4890DOC_START
749ceff8 4891 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 4892DOC_END
4893
4894NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4895COMMENT: (seconds)
4896IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4897TYPE: time_t
4898LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4899DEFAULT: 1 hour
4900DOC_START
749ceff8 4901 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 4902 disk.
4903DOC_END
4904
4905NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4906COMMENT: (bytes)
4907TYPE: b_size_t
4908IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4909LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4910DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4911DOC_START
4912 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4913 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4914 default swap page.
4915DOC_END
4916
4917NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4918COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4919IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4920TYPE: int
4921LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4922DEFAULT: 10
4923DOC_START
4924 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4925 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4926DOC_END
4927
1db9eacd 4928COMMENT_START
5473c134 4929 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 4930 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4931COMMENT_END
4932
5473c134 4933NAME: snmp_port
4934TYPE: ushort
4935LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 4936DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4937IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4938DOC_START
87630341 4939 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
4940 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
4941 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
4942 set to "0" (disabled)
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4943
4944 Example:
4945 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 4946DOC_END
4947
5473c134 4948NAME: snmp_access
4949TYPE: acl_access
4950LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 4951DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4952DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4953IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4954DOC_START
5473c134 4955 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 4956
5473c134 4957 All access to the agent is denied by default.
4958 usage:
8d6275c0 4959
5473c134 4960 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 4961
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4962 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4963 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 4964Example:
4965 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
4966 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 4967DOC_END
4968
5473c134 4969NAME: snmp_incoming_address
4970TYPE: address
4971LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4972DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4973IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4974DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4975
5473c134 4976NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4977TYPE: address
4978LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4979DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4980IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 4981DOC_START
df2eec10 4982 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 4983
5473c134 4984 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4985 messages from SNMP agents.
4986 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4987 agents.
cccac0a2 4988
5473c134 4989 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4990 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 4991
5473c134 4992 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
4993 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
4994 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4995 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 4996
5473c134 4997 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4998 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 4999DOC_END
5000
5473c134 5001COMMENT_START
5002 ICP OPTIONS
5003 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5004COMMENT_END
5005
5006NAME: icp_port udp_port
5007TYPE: ushort
5008DEFAULT: 0
5009LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5010DOC_START
5473c134 5011 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5012 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5013 Default is disabled (0).
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5014
5015 Example:
5016 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5017DOC_END
5018
5473c134 5019NAME: htcp_port
5020IFDEF: USE_HTCP
5021TYPE: ushort
87630341 5022DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5023LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5024DOC_START
5473c134 5025 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5026 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5027 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5028
5029 Example:
5030 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5031DOC_END
5032
5033NAME: log_icp_queries
5034COMMENT: on|off
5035TYPE: onoff
5036DEFAULT: on
5037LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5038DOC_START
5039 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5040 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5041 up or to simplify log analysis.
5042DOC_END
5043
5473c134 5044NAME: udp_incoming_address
5045TYPE: address
5046LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
5047DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
8524d4b2 5048DOC_START
5049 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5050 caches.
5051
5052 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5053
5054 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5055 a specific interface/address.
5056
5057 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5058 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5059
5060 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5061
5062 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5063 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5064DOC_END
cccac0a2 5065
5473c134 5066NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5067TYPE: address
5068LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
5069DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
cccac0a2 5070DOC_START
8524d4b2 5071 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5072 caches.
cccac0a2 5073
5473c134 5074 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5075
8524d4b2 5076 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5077 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5078 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5079 caches.
5080
8524d4b2 5081 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5082 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5083
5084 see also; udp_incoming_address
5085
5473c134 5086 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5087 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5088DOC_END
5089
3d1e3e43 5090NAME: icp_hit_stale
5091COMMENT: on|off
5092TYPE: onoff
5093DEFAULT: off
5094LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5095DOC_START
5096 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5097 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5098 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5099 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5100 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5101 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5102 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5103DOC_END
5104
5473c134 5105NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5106TYPE: int
5473c134 5107DEFAULT: 4
5108LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5109DOC_START
5473c134 5110 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5111 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5112DOC_END
5113
5473c134 5114NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5115TYPE: int
5116DEFAULT: 400
5117LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5118DOC_START
5473c134 5119 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5120 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5121DOC_END
5122
cccac0a2 5123NAME: netdb_low
5124TYPE: int
5125DEFAULT: 900
5126LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5127DOC_NONE
5128
5129NAME: netdb_high
5130TYPE: int
5131DEFAULT: 1000
5132LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5133DOC_START
5134 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5135 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5136 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5137 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5138DOC_END
5139
cccac0a2 5140NAME: netdb_ping_period
5141TYPE: time_t
5142LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5143DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5144DOC_START
5145 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5146 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5147 network. The default is five minutes.
5148DOC_END
5149
cccac0a2 5150NAME: query_icmp
5151COMMENT: on|off
5152TYPE: onoff
5153DEFAULT: off
5154LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5155DOC_START
5156 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5157 replies, enable this option.
5158
5159 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5160 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5161 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5162 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5163 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5164 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5165 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5166 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5167DOC_END
5168
5169NAME: test_reachability
5170COMMENT: on|off
5171TYPE: onoff
5172DEFAULT: off
5173LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5174DOC_START
5175 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5176 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5177 database, or has a zero RTT.
5178DOC_END
5179
5473c134 5180NAME: icp_query_timeout
5181COMMENT: (msec)
5182DEFAULT: 0
5183TYPE: int
5184LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5185DOC_START
5473c134 5186 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5187 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5188 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5189 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5190 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5191 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5192
5473c134 5193 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5194DOC_END
5195
5473c134 5196NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5197COMMENT: (msec)
5198DEFAULT: 2000
5199TYPE: int
5200LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5201DOC_START
5473c134 5202 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5203 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5204 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5205 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5206 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5207 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5208DOC_END
5209
5473c134 5210NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5211COMMENT: (msec)
5212DEFAULT: 5
5213TYPE: int
5214LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5215DOC_START
5473c134 5216 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5217 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5218 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5219 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5220 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5221 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5222 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5223DOC_END
5224
5473c134 5225NAME: background_ping_rate
5226COMMENT: time-units
5227TYPE: time_t
5228DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5229LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5230DOC_START
5473c134 5231 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5232 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5233DOC_END
5234
5473c134 5235COMMENT_START
5236 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5237 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5238COMMENT_END
5239
5240NAME: mcast_groups
5241TYPE: wordlist
5242LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5243DEFAULT: none
5244DOC_START
5473c134 5245 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5246 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5247
5473c134 5248 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5249 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5250 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5251 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5252 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5253 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5254 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5255
5473c134 5256 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5257 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5258
5473c134 5259 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5260 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5261
5473c134 5262 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5263
5473c134 5264 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5265DOC_END
8c01ada0 5266
5473c134 5267NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5268IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5269TYPE: address
5270LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
5271DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5272DOC_START
5273 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5274 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5275
5473c134 5276 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5277 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5278DOC_END
5279
5473c134 5280NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5281IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5282TYPE: ushort
5283LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5284DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5285DOC_START
5473c134 5286 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5287 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5288 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5289DOC_END
cccac0a2 5290
5473c134 5291NAME: mcast_miss_port
5292IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5293TYPE: ushort
5294LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5295DEFAULT: 3135
5296DOC_START
5297 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5298 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5299DOC_END
cccac0a2 5300
5473c134 5301NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5302IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5303TYPE: string
5304LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5305DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5306DOC_START
5307 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5308 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5309DOC_END
8c01ada0 5310
5473c134 5311NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5312COMMENT: (msec)
5313DEFAULT: 2000
5314TYPE: int
5315LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5316DOC_START
5317 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5318 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5319 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5320 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5321 seconds.
cccac0a2 5322DOC_END
5323
5473c134 5324COMMENT_START
5325 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5326 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5327COMMENT_END
5328
cccac0a2 5329NAME: icon_directory
5330TYPE: string
5331LOC: Config.icons.directory
5332DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5333DOC_START
5334 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5335 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5336DOC_END
5337
f024c970 5338NAME: global_internal_static
5339TYPE: onoff
5340LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5341DEFAULT: on
5342DOC_START
5343 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5344 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5345 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5346 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5347 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5348 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5349 the server generating a directory listing.
5350DOC_END
5351
5473c134 5352NAME: short_icon_urls
5353TYPE: onoff
5354LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5355DEFAULT: on
5356DOC_START
5357 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5358 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5359 it's own name and port in the URL.
5360
5361 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5362 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5363DOC_END
5364
5365COMMENT_START
5366 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5367 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5368COMMENT_END
5369
5370NAME: error_directory
5371TYPE: string
5372LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 5373DEFAULT: none
5473c134 5374DOC_START
5375 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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5376 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5377 the error/template files to another directory and point
5378 this tag at them.
5379
5380 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5381 on error pages if used.
5473c134 5382
5383 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5384 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 5385 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 5386 contributing your translation back to the project.
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5387 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5388
5389 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
5390 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
5391DOC_END
5392
5393NAME: error_default_language
5394IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5395TYPE: string
5396LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
5397DEFAULT: none
5398DOC_START
5399 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
5400 if no existing translation matches the clients language
5401 preferences.
5402
5403 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
5404
5405 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5406 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
5407 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
5408 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 5409DOC_END
5410
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5411NAME: error_log_languages
5412IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5413TYPE: onoff
5414LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
5415DEFAULT: on
5416DOC_START
5417 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
5418 auto-negotiate for translations.
5419
5420 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
5421 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 5422 of its error page translations.
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5423DOC_END
5424
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5425NAME: err_page_stylesheet
5426TYPE: string
5427LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
5428DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
5429DOC_START
5430 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
5431
5432 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
5433DOC_END
5434
5473c134 5435NAME: err_html_text
5436TYPE: eol
5437LOC: Config.errHtmlText
5438DEFAULT: none
5439DOC_START
5440 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
5441 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
5442 organizations Web page.
5443
5444 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
5445 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
5446 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
5447 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
5448DOC_END
5449
5450NAME: email_err_data
5451COMMENT: on|off
5452TYPE: onoff
5453LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
5454DEFAULT: on
5455DOC_START
5456 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
5457 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
5458 so that the email body contains the data.
5459 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
5460DOC_END
5461
5462NAME: deny_info
5463TYPE: denyinfo
5464LOC: Config.denyInfoList
5465DEFAULT: none
5466DOC_START
5467 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
5468 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 5469 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 5470
5471 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
5472 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
5473 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
5474 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
5475
5476 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
5477 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
5478 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
5479 the first authentication related acl encountered
5480 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
5481 acl processed on the last http_access line.
5482
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5483 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
5484 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
5485 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 5486
5473c134 5487 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
5488 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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5489
5490 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
5491 get redirected (302) to the specified URL after formattgin tags have
5492 been replaced.
5493
5494 URL FORMAT TAGS:
5495 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
5496 %B - FTP path URL
5497 %e - Error number
5498 %E - Error description
5499 %h - Squid hostname
5500 %H - Request domain name
5501 %i - Client IP Address
5502 %M - Request Method
5503 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
5504 %p - Request Port number
5505 %P - Request Protocol name
5506 %R - Request URL path
5507 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
5508 %U - Full canonical URL from client
5509 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
5510 %u - Full canonical URL from client
5511 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
5512 %% - Literal percent (%) code
5513
5473c134 5514DOC_END
5515
5516COMMENT_START
5517 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
5518 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5519COMMENT_END
5520
5521NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 5522TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5523LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 5524DEFAULT: on
5525DOC_START
5473c134 5526 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
5527 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
5528 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 5529
5473c134 5530 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
5531 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 5532
5473c134 5533 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
5534 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
5535 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 5536
5473c134 5537 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
5538 this directive.
8d6275c0 5539DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 5540
5473c134 5541NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 5542TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5543LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 5544DEFAULT: off
5545DOC_START
5473c134 5546 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
5547 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
5548 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 5549
5473c134 5550 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
5551 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
5552 fails.
5553
5554 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
5555 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
5556 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 5557DOC_END
5558
5473c134 5559NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 5560TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 5561LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 5562DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 5563DOC_START
5473c134 5564 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 5565
5473c134 5566 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
5567 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
5568 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
5569 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
5570 something like:
0b0cfcf2 5571
5473c134 5572 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
5573 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 5574
5473c134 5575 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 5576
5473c134 5577 acl FTP proto FTP
5578 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 5579
5473c134 5580 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
5581 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
5582 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
5583 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
5584 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 5585
5473c134 5586 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5587 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5588 always_direct deny local-external
5589 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 5590
5473c134 5591 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
5592 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
5593 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
5594 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 5595
5473c134 5596 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
5597 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 5598 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 5599
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5600 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5601 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 5602DOC_END
0976f8db 5603
5473c134 5604NAME: never_direct
5605TYPE: acl_access
5606LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
5607DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5608DOC_START
5473c134 5609 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5610
5611 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
5612 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
5613
5614 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
5615 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
5616 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
5617 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
5618
5619 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 5620 never_direct deny local-servers
5621 never_direct allow all
5622
5623 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
5624 servers inside the firewall use something like:
5625
5626 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
5627 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5628 always_direct deny local-external
5629 always_direct allow local-intranet
5630 never_direct allow all
5631
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5632 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5633 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 5634DOC_END
0976f8db 5635
5473c134 5636COMMENT_START
5637 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
5638 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5639COMMENT_END
5640
cccac0a2 5641NAME: incoming_icp_average
5642TYPE: int
5643DEFAULT: 6
5644LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
5645DOC_NONE
5646
5647NAME: incoming_http_average
5648TYPE: int
5649DEFAULT: 4
5650LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
5651DOC_NONE
5652
5653NAME: incoming_dns_average
5654TYPE: int
5655DEFAULT: 4
5656LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
5657DOC_NONE
5658
5659NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
5660TYPE: int
5661DEFAULT: 8
5662LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
5663DOC_NONE
5664
5665NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
5666TYPE: int
5667DEFAULT: 8
5668LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
5669DOC_NONE
5670
5671NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
5672TYPE: int
5673DEFAULT: 8
5674LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
5675DOC_START
5473c134 5676 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
5677 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
5678 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
5679DOC_END
5680
5681NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 5682TYPE: string
5683DEFAULT: none
5684LOC: Config.accept_filter
5685DOC_START
0b4d4be5 5686 FreeBSD:
5687
5473c134 5688 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
5689 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
5690 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
5691
5692 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 5693 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 5694 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
5695
5696 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
5697 to Squid until there is some data to process.
5698 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
5699
5700 Linux:
5701
5702 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
5703 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
5704 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
5705 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
5706 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 5707EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 5708# FreeBSD
5473c134 5709accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 5710# Linux
5711accept_filter data
5473c134 5712DOC_END
5713
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5714NAME: client_ip_max_connections
5715TYPE: int
5716LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
5717DEFAULT: -1
5718DOC_START
5719 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
5720 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
5721 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
5722
5723 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
5724 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
5725
5726 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
5727
5728 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
5729 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
5730DOC_END
5731
5473c134 5732NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
5733COMMENT: (bytes)
5734TYPE: b_size_t
5735DEFAULT: 0 bytes
5736LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
5737DOC_START
5738 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
5739 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
5740 the default buffer size.
5741DOC_END
5742
5743COMMENT_START
5744 ICAP OPTIONS
5745 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5746COMMENT_END
5747
5748NAME: icap_enable
5749TYPE: onoff
5750IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5751COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5752LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 5753DEFAULT: off
5754DOC_START
53e738c6 5755 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 5756DOC_END
5757
5758NAME: icap_connect_timeout
5759TYPE: time_t
5760DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 5761LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 5762IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5763DOC_START
5764 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5765 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
5766 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
5767
5768 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
5769 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
5770 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
5771DOC_END
5772
5773NAME: icap_io_timeout
5774COMMENT: time-units
5775TYPE: time_t
5776DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 5777LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 5778IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5779DOC_START
5780 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
5781 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
5782 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
5783 failure.
5784
5785 The default is read_timeout.
5786DOC_END
5787
5788NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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5789COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
5790TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 5791IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 5792LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 5793DEFAULT: 10
5794DOC_START
5795 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
5796 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
5797 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
5798 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 5799 OPTIONS.
5473c134 5800
5801 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
5802 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
5803 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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5804
5805 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
5806 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
5807 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
5808 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
5809 value into ten time slots of equal length.
5810
5811 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
5812 effect on service failure expiration.
5813
5814 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
5815 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
5816 setting.
5817
5818 For example,
5819 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
5820 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 5821DOC_END
5822
5473c134 5823NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 5824TYPE: int
5473c134 5825IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5826LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 5827DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 5828DOC_START
5473c134 5829 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
5830 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
5831 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
5832 fetched.
cccac0a2 5833
5473c134 5834 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
5835 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 5836DOC_END
5837
5473c134 5838NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 5839TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5840IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5841COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5842LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 5843DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5844DOC_START
ac7a62f9 5845 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
5846 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
5847 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
5848 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
5849
5850 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
5851 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
5852 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
5853
5854 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
5855 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
5856Example:
5857icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 5858DOC_END
5859
5473c134 5860NAME: icap_preview_size
5861TYPE: int
5862IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5863LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 5864DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 5865DOC_START
53e738c6 5866 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
5867 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
5868 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5869DOC_END
5870
5473c134 5871NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
5872TYPE: int
5873IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5874LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 5875DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 5876DOC_START
53e738c6 5877 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 5878 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 5879DOC_END
5880
5473c134 5881NAME: icap_persistent_connections
5882TYPE: onoff
5883IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5884COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5885LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 5886DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5887DOC_START
5473c134 5888 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
5889 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 5890DOC_END
5891
5473c134 5892NAME: icap_send_client_ip
5893TYPE: onoff
5894IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5895COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5896LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_ip
5473c134 5897DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5898DOC_START
53e738c6 5899 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 5900DOC_END
5901
5473c134 5902NAME: icap_send_client_username
5903TYPE: onoff
5904IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5905COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5906LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_username
5473c134 5907DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5908DOC_START
5473c134 5909 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
5910 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
5911 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
5912 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 5913DOC_END
5914
5473c134 5915NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 5916TYPE: string
5473c134 5917IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5918LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 5919DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 5920DOC_START
5473c134 5921 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 5922DOC_END
5923
5473c134 5924NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 5925TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5926IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5927COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5928LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 5929DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5930DOC_START
5473c134 5931 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 5932DOC_END
5933
5473c134 5934NAME: icap_service
5935TYPE: icap_service_type
5936IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5937LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 5938DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5939DOC_START
a22e6cd3 5940 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 5941
a22e6cd3 5942 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
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5944 service_name: ID
5945 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
5946
5947 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 5948 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
5949 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
5950 are not yet supported.
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5951
5952 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
5953 ICAP server and service location.
5954
5955 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
5956 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
5957 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
5958 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
5959 service_names differ.
5960
5961
5962 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
5963 the following name=value options:
5964
5965 bypass=on|off|1|0
5966 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
5967 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
5968 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
5969 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
5970 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
5971 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
5972 returned to the HTTP client.
5973
5974 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
5975
5976 routing=on|off|1|0
5977 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
5978 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
5979 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
5980 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
5981 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
5982 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf and
5983 should have the same method and vectoring point as the current
5984 ICAP transaction. Services violating these rules are ignored.
5985 An empty X-Next-Services value results in an empty plan which
5986 ends the current adaptation.
5987
5988 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
5989 response header is ignored.
5990
5991 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
5992 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 5993
5473c134 5994Example:
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5995icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
5996icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 5997DOC_END
5998
5473c134 5999NAME: icap_class
6000TYPE: icap_class_type
6001IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6002LOC: none
5473c134 6003DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6004DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6005 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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6006 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6007 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6008
62c7f90e 6009 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6010 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6011 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6012DOC_END
6013
5473c134 6014NAME: icap_access
6015TYPE: icap_access_type
6016IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6017LOC: none
cccac0a2 6018DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6019DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6020 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6021 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6022 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6023DOC_END
6024
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6025COMMENT_START
6026 eCAP OPTIONS
6027 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6028COMMENT_END
6029
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6030NAME: ecap_enable
6031TYPE: onoff
6032IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6033COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6034LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6035DEFAULT: off
6036DOC_START
6037 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6038DOC_END
6039
6040NAME: ecap_service
6041TYPE: ecap_service_type
6042IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6043LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6044DEFAULT: none
6045DOC_START
6046 Defines a single eCAP service
6047
6048 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
6049
6050 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6051 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6052 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6053 are not yet supported.
6054 bypass = 1|0
6055 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
6056 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
6057 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
6058 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
6059 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
6060 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
6061 HTTP client.
6062 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6063
6064Example:
6065ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
6066ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
6067DOC_END
6068
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6069NAME: loadable_modules
6070TYPE: wordlist
6071IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6072LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6073DEFAULT: none
6074DOC_START
6075 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6076 preloaded module(s).
6077Example:
6078loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6079DOC_END
6080
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6081COMMENT_START
6082 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6083 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6084COMMENT_END
6085
6086NAME: adaptation_service_set
6087TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6088IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6089LOC: none
6090DEFAULT: none
6091DOC_START
6092
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6093 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6094 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6095
6096 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6097
6098 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6099 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6100 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6101 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6102 intact.
62c7f90e 6103
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6104 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6105 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6106
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6107 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6108 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6109
6110 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6111 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6112 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6113 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6114 transaction fails as well.
6115
6116 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6117 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6118 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6119 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6120 matters.
6121
6122 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6123
6124Example:
6125adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6126adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6127DOC_END
6128
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6129NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6130TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6131IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6132LOC: none
6133DEFAULT: none
6134DOC_START
6135
6136 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6137 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6138 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6139
6140 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6141
6142 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6143 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6144 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6145 the previous service in the chain.
6146
6147 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6148 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6149
6150 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6151 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6152 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6153
6154 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6155 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6156
6157 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6158 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6159 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6160 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6161
6162 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6163
6164Example:
6165adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6166DOC_END
6167
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6168NAME: adaptation_access
6169TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6170IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6171LOC: none
6172DEFAULT: none
6173DOC_START
6174 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6175
6176 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6177 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6178
6179 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6180 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6181 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6182 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6183
6184 - services serving different vectoring points
6185 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6186 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6187 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6188
6189 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6190 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6191 adaptation_service_set for details.
6192
6193 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6194 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6195 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6196 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6197
6198 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6199 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6200
6201 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6202
6203Example:
6204adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6205DOC_END
6206
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6207NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6208TYPE: int
6209IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6210LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6211DEFAULT: 16
6212DOC_START
6213 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6214 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6215 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6216 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6217 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6218 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6219
6220 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6221
6222 See also: icap_service routing=1
6223DOC_END
6224
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6225NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6226TYPE: string
6227IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6228LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6229DEFAULT: none
6230DOC_START
6231 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6232 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6233 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6234 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6235 with the master transaction.
6236
6237 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6238 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6239
6240 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6241 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
6242 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names. Squid will store
6243 and forward that ICAP header field to subsequent ICAP
6244 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6245
6246 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6247
6248Example:
6249# share authentication information among ICAP services
6250adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6251DOC_END
6252
6253NAME: icap_retry
6254TYPE: acl_access
6255IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6256LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
6257DEFAULT: none
6258DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6259DOC_START
6260 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
6261 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
6262 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
6263 that response are usually retriable.
6264
6265 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6266
6267 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
6268 due to persistent connection race conditions.
6269
6270 See also: icap_retry_limit
6271DOC_END
6272
6273NAME: icap_retry_limit
6274TYPE: int
6275IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6276LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
6277DEFAULT: 0
6278DOC_START
6279 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
6280 no retries are allowed.
6281
6282 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
6283 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6284 count against this limit.
6285
6286 See also: icap_retry
6287DOC_END
6288
6289
5473c134 6290COMMENT_START
6291 DNS OPTIONS
6292 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6293COMMENT_END
6294
6295NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6296TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6297DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6298LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6299DOC_START
5473c134 6300 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6301 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6302 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 6303DOC_END
6304
5473c134 6305NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6306TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6307DEFAULT: on
5473c134 6308LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6309DOC_START
5473c134 6310 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6311 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6312 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6313 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 6314DOC_END
6315
5473c134 6316NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 6317TYPE: string
5473c134 6318IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6319DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6320LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 6321DOC_START
5473c134 6322 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 6323DOC_END
6324
5473c134 6325NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 6326TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5473c134 6327IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
48d54e4d 6328DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 6329LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 6330DOC_START
48d54e4d
AJ
6331 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
6332 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
6333 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
6334 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
6335 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
6336
6337 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6338 tuning.
6339
6340 startup=
6341
6342 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6343 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6344 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
6345
6346 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6347 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
6348
6349 idle=
6350
6351 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6352 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6353 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6354 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 6355DOC_END
6356
5473c134 6357NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
6358TYPE: time_t
6359DEFAULT: 5 seconds
6360LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
6361IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6362DOC_START
5473c134 6363 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
6364 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 6365DOC_END
6366
5473c134 6367NAME: dns_timeout
6368TYPE: time_t
6369DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6370LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
6371IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6372DOC_START
5473c134 6373 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
6374 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
6375 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 6376DOC_END
6377
5473c134 6378NAME: dns_defnames
6379COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 6380TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6381DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6382LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 6383DOC_START
5473c134 6384 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
6385 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
6386 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
6387 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 6388DOC_END
6389
5473c134 6390NAME: dns_nameservers
6391TYPE: wordlist
6392DEFAULT: none
6393LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 6394DOC_START
5473c134 6395 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
6396 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
6397 /etc/resolv.conf file.
6398 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
6399 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
6400 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
6401 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 6402
5473c134 6403 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 6404DOC_END
6405
5473c134 6406NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 6407TYPE: string
5473c134 6408DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
6409LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 6410DOC_START
5473c134 6411 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
6412 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
6413 default locations:
6414 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
6415 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6416 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
6417 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6418 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
6419 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
6420 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
6421 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 6422
5473c134 6423 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
6424 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
6425 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
6426 character are comments.
cccac0a2 6427
5473c134 6428 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
6429 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
6430 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
6431 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
6432 definitions.
cccac0a2 6433DOC_END
6434
5473c134 6435NAME: append_domain
6436TYPE: string
6437LOC: Config.appendDomain
6438DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 6439DOC_START
5473c134 6440 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
6441 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
6442
6443 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
6444 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
6445 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
6446
6447Example:
6448 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 6449DOC_END
6450
5473c134 6451NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
6452TYPE: onoff
6453LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 6454DEFAULT: on
6455DOC_START
5473c134 6456 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
6457 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
6458 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
6459 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
6460 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 6461DOC_END
6462
cc192b50 6463NAME: dns_v4_fallback
6464TYPE: onoff
6465DEFAULT: on
6466LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
6467DOC_START
6468 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
6469 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
6470 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
6471
6472 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
6473 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
6474
6475 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
6476 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
6477
6478 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
6479 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
6480 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
6481DOC_END
6482
6bc15a4f 6483NAME: ipcache_size
6484COMMENT: (number of entries)
6485TYPE: int
6486DEFAULT: 1024
6487LOC: Config.ipcache.size
6488DOC_NONE
6489
6490NAME: ipcache_low
6491COMMENT: (percent)
6492TYPE: int
6493DEFAULT: 90
6494LOC: Config.ipcache.low
6495DOC_NONE
6496
6497NAME: ipcache_high
6498COMMENT: (percent)
6499TYPE: int
6500DEFAULT: 95
6501LOC: Config.ipcache.high
6502DOC_START
6503 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
6504DOC_END
6505
6506NAME: fqdncache_size
6507COMMENT: (number of entries)
6508TYPE: int
6509DEFAULT: 1024
6510LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
6511DOC_START
6512 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
6513DOC_END
6514
a58ff010 6515COMMENT_START
5473c134 6516 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 6517 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6518COMMENT_END
6519
5473c134 6520NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 6521COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6522TYPE: onoff
6523DEFAULT: on
6524LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 6525DOC_START
5473c134 6526 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
6527 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
6528 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
6529 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 6530DOC_END
6531
5473c134 6532NAME: memory_pools_limit
6533COMMENT: (bytes)
6534TYPE: b_size_t
6535DEFAULT: 5 MB
6536LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 6537DOC_START
5473c134 6538 Used only with memory_pools on:
6539 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 6540
5473c134 6541 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
6542 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
6543 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
6544 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
6545 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
6546 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
6547 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 6548
5473c134 6549 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
6550 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 6551
5473c134 6552 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
6553 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
6554
6555 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
6556 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
6557 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
6558 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 6559DOC_END
6560
5473c134 6561NAME: forwarded_for
67c06f0d
AJ
6562COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
6563TYPE: string
5473c134 6564DEFAULT: on
6565LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 6566DOC_START
67c06f0d
AJ
6567 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
6568 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 6569
5473c134 6570 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
6571
67c06f0d 6572 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 6573
6574 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
67c06f0d
AJ
6575
6576 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
6577 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
6578
6579 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
6580 X-Forwarded-For header.
6581
6582 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
6583 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place itself as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 6584DOC_END
6585
5473c134 6586NAME: cachemgr_passwd
6587TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
6588DEFAULT: none
6589LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 6590DOC_START
5473c134 6591 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 6592
5473c134 6593 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
6594
6595 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
6596 5min
6597 60min
6598 asndb
6599 authenticator
6600 cbdata
6601 client_list
6602 comm_incoming
6603 config *
6604 counters
6605 delay
6606 digest_stats
6607 dns
6608 events
6609 filedescriptors
6610 fqdncache
6611 histograms
6612 http_headers
6613 info
6614 io
6615 ipcache
6616 mem
6617 menu
6618 netdb
6619 non_peers
6620 objects
6621 offline_toggle *
6622 pconn
6623 peer_select
b360c477 6624 reconfigure *
5473c134 6625 redirector
6626 refresh
6627 server_list
6628 shutdown *
6629 store_digest
6630 storedir
6631 utilization
6632 via_headers
6633 vm_objects
6634
6635 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
6636 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
6637
6638 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
6639 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
6640 password to "none".
6641
6642 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
6643
6644Example:
6645 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
6646 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
6647 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 6648DOC_END
6649
5473c134 6650NAME: client_db
a58ff010 6651COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6652TYPE: onoff
6653DEFAULT: on
6654LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 6655DOC_START
5473c134 6656 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
6657 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 6658DOC_END
6659
5473c134 6660NAME: refresh_all_ims
6661COMMENT: on|off
6662TYPE: onoff
6663DEFAULT: off
6664LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 6665DOC_START
5473c134 6666 When you enable this option, squid will always check
6667 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
6668 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
6669 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
6670 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 6671
5473c134 6672 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
6673 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 6674DOC_END
6675
5473c134 6676NAME: reload_into_ims
6677IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 6678COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6679TYPE: onoff
6680DEFAULT: off
6681LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 6682DOC_START
5473c134 6683 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
6684 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
6685 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
6686 feature could make you liable for problems which it
6687 causes.
6688
6689 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 6690DOC_END
6691
5473c134 6692NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
6693TYPE: int
6694LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
6695DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 6696DOC_START
5473c134 6697 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
6698 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
6699 each address is tried once).
6700
6701 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
6702 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
6703 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
6704
6705 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
6706 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 6707DOC_END
6708
5473c134 6709NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 6710TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6711LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 6712DEFAULT: off
6713DOC_START
5473c134 6714 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
6715 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
6716 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
6717 control errors.
5f8252d2 6718DOC_END
6719
5473c134 6720NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 6721TYPE: string
5473c134 6722LOC: Config.as_whois_server
6723DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
6724DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 6725DOC_START
5473c134 6726 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
6727 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 6728DOC_END
6729
5473c134 6730NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 6731TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6732LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 6733DEFAULT: off
6734DOC_START
5473c134 6735 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
6736 objects.
a58ff010 6737DOC_END
6738
5473c134 6739NAME: uri_whitespace
6740TYPE: uri_whitespace
6741LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
6742DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 6743DOC_START
5473c134 6744 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
6745 URI. Options:
a58ff010 6746
5473c134 6747 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
6748 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
6749 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
6750 Request" message.
6751 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
6752 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
6753 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
6754 are in use.
6755 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
6756 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
6757 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
6758 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
6759 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
6760 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
6761 violation.
6762DOC_END
a58ff010 6763
5473c134 6764NAME: chroot
6765TYPE: string
6766LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 6767DEFAULT: none
6768DOC_START
9f37c18a 6769 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
2d89f399
HN
6770 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
6771 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
6772 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
6773 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 6774DOC_END
a58ff010 6775
5473c134 6776NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
6777TYPE: onoff
6778LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 6779DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6780DOC_START
cc192b50 6781 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
6782 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
6783 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
6784
5473c134 6785 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
6786 found not to preserve user session state across requests
6787 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 6788
cc192b50 6789 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 6790DOC_END
6791
5473c134 6792NAME: pipeline_prefetch
6793TYPE: onoff
6794LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
6795DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 6796DOC_START
5473c134 6797 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
6798 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
6799 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 6800
5473c134 6801 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
6802 reasons.
6803DOC_END
a58ff010 6804
5473c134 6805NAME: high_response_time_warning
6806TYPE: int
6807COMMENT: (msec)
6808LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
6809DEFAULT: 0
6810DOC_START
6811 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
6812 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
6813 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 6814DOC_END
6815
5473c134 6816NAME: high_page_fault_warning
6817TYPE: int
6818LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
6819DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 6820DOC_START
5473c134 6821 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
6822 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
6823 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
6824 per second.
6825DOC_END
cc9f92d4 6826
5473c134 6827NAME: high_memory_warning
6828TYPE: b_size_t
6829LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 6830DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 6831DOC_START
6832 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 6833 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 6834 the administrators attention.
6835DOC_END
cc9f92d4 6836
5473c134 6837NAME: sleep_after_fork
6838COMMENT: (microseconds)
6839TYPE: int
6840LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
6841DEFAULT: 0
6842DOC_START
6843 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
6844 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
6845 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
6846 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
6847 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
6848 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
6849 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
6850 until all the child processes have been started.
6851 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
6852 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 6853DOC_END
6854
b6696974 6855NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 6856IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
b6696974
GS
6857COMMENT: on|off
6858TYPE: onoff
6859DEFAULT: on
6860LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
6861DOC_START
6862 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
6863 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
6864 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
6865 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
6866 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
6867 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
6868DOC_END
6869
a98c2da5
AJ
6870NAME: eui_lookup
6871TYPE: onoff
6872IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
6873DEFAULT: on
6874LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
6875DOC_START
6876 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
6877DOC_END
6878
cccac0a2 6879EOF