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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 105COMMENT_END
106
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107# Options Removed in 3.2
108NAME: ignore_expect_100
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
112DOC_END
113
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114NAME: dns_v4_fallback
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 Remove this line.
118DOC_END
119
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120NAME: ftp_list_width
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
124DOC_END
125
126NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
130DOC_END
131
132# Options Removed in 3.1
133NAME: dns_testnames
134TYPE: obsolete
135DOC_START
136 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
137DOC_END
138
139NAME: extension_methods
140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
143DOC_END
144
145# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
146NAME: incoming_rate
147TYPE: obsolete
148DOC_NONE
149
150NAME: server_http11
151TYPE: obsolete
152DOC_START
153 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
154DOC_END
155
156NAME: upgrade_http0.9
157TYPE: obsolete
158DOC_START
159 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
160DOC_END
161
162NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
163TYPE: obsolete
164DOC_START
165 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
166DOC_END
167
168# Options Removed in 3.0
169NAME: header_access
170TYPE: obsolete
171DOC_START
172 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
173 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
174DOC_END
175
176NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
177TYPE: obsolete
178DOC_START
179 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
180DOC_END
181
5473c134 182COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 183 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 184 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
185COMMENT_END
186
41bd17a4 187NAME: auth_param
188TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 189IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 190LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 191DEFAULT: none
192DOC_START
41bd17a4 193 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
194 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 195
41bd17a4 196 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 197
41bd17a4 198 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
199 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
200 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
201 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
202 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
203 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
204 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
205 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
206 program entry).
cccac0a2 207
41bd17a4 208 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
209 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
210 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
211 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 212
41bd17a4 213 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
214 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
215 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
216 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
217 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
218 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
219 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
220 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
221 type acl.
cccac0a2 222
41bd17a4 223 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
224 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
225 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
226 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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227 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
228 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 229
41bd17a4 230 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 231
41bd17a4 232 "program" cmdline
233 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
234 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
235 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
236 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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237 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
238 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 239
41bd17a4 240 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
241 program is specified.
cccac0a2 242
41bd17a4 243 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
244 this line to something like
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41bd17a4 246 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 247
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248 "utf8" on|off
249 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
250 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
251 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
252 username & password to the helper.
253
7353861b 254 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 255 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 256 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
257 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
258 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
259 authenticator processes.
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260
261 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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262 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
263 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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264 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
265 the maximum.
266
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267 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
268 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
269 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
270 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
271 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
272 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 273 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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274
275 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 276
41bd17a4 277 "realm" realmstring
278 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
279 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
280 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
281 password). There is no default.
282 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 283
41bd17a4 284 "credentialsttl" timetolive
285 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
286 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
287 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
288 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
289 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
290 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
291 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
292 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
293 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 294
41bd17a4 295 "casesensitive" on|off
296 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
297 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
298 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
299 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
300 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 301
41bd17a4 302 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 303
41bd17a4 304 "program" cmdline
305 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
306 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
307 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
308 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
309 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
310 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
311 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 312
41bd17a4 313 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
314 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 315
41bd17a4 316 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
317 something like
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7ce93108 319 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 320
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321 "utf8" on|off
322 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
323 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
324 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
325 username & password to the helper.
326
7353861b 327 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 328 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 329 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
330 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
331 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
332 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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333
334 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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335 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
336 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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337 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
338 the maximum.
339
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340 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
341 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
342 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
343 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
344 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
345 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
346 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
347
48d54e4d 348 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 349
41bd17a4 350 "realm" realmstring
351 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
352 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
353 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
354 password). There is no default.
355 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 356
41bd17a4 357 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
358 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
359 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
362 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
363 valid for.
cccac0a2 364
41bd17a4 365 "nonce_max_count" number
366 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
367 used.
cccac0a2 368
41bd17a4 369 "nonce_strictness" on|off
370 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
371 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
372 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
373 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 374
41bd17a4 375 "check_nonce_count" on|off
376 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
377 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
378 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
379 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 380
41bd17a4 381 "post_workaround" on|off
382 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
383 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
384 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 385
41bd17a4 386 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 387
41bd17a4 388 "program" cmdline
389 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
390 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
391 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
392 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
393 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
394 is not used.
cccac0a2 395
41bd17a4 396 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 397
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398 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
399 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 400 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
401 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
402 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
403 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
404 processes.
cccac0a2 405
48d54e4d 406 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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407 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
408 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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409 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
410 the maximum.
411
412 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 413
41bd17a4 414 "keep_alive" on|off
415 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
416 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
417 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
418 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
419 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 420
41bd17a4 421 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 424
41bd17a4 425 "program" cmdline
426 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
427 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
428 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
429 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
430 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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431 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
432 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
433 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 434 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
435 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 436
41bd17a4 437 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 438
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439 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
440 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 441 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
442 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
443 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
444 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
445 processes.
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446
447 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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448 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
449 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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450 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
451 the maximum.
452
453 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 454
41bd17a4 455 "keep_alive" on|off
456 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
457 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
458 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
459 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
460 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 462 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 463
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465 Examples:
466
41bd17a4 467#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
468#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 469#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 470#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 471#
41bd17a4 472#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 473#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 474#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 475#
41bd17a4 476#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 477#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 478#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
479#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
480#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
481#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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41bd17a4 483#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 484#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 485#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
486#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 487DOC_END
cccac0a2 488
41bd17a4 489NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
490TYPE: time_t
491DEFAULT: 1 hour
492LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
493DOC_START
494 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
495 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
496 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
497 have good reason to.
498DOC_END
cccac0a2 499
41bd17a4 500NAME: authenticate_ttl
501TYPE: time_t
502DEFAULT: 1 hour
503LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
504DOC_START
505 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
506 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
507 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
508 TTL are removed from memory.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
41bd17a4 511NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
512TYPE: time_t
513LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
514DEFAULT: 0 seconds
515DOC_START
516 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
517 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
518 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
519 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
520 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
521 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
522 environment with relatively static address assignments.
523DOC_END
cccac0a2 524
3d1e3e43 525COMMENT_START
526 ACCESS CONTROLS
527 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
528COMMENT_END
529
41bd17a4 530NAME: external_acl_type
531TYPE: externalAclHelper
532LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 533DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 534DOC_START
41bd17a4 535 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
536 to look up the status
cccac0a2 537
41bd17a4 538 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 539
41bd17a4 540 Options:
cccac0a2 541
41bd17a4 542 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
543 for 1 hour)
544 negative_ttl=n
545 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
546 as ttl)
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547 children-max=n
548 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
549 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
550 children-startup=n
551 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
552 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
553 of this type. (default 0)
554 children-idle=n
555 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
556 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
557 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
558 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 559 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
560 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 561 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 562 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
563 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 564 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 565 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 566 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
567 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
055421ee 568 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 569
41bd17a4 570 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 571
41bd17a4 572 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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573 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
574 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
575 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 576 %IDENT Ident user name
577 %SRC Client IP
578 %SRCPORT Client source port
579 %URI Requested URI
580 %DST Requested host
581 %PROTO Requested protocol
582 %PORT Requested port
583 %PATH Requested URL path
584 %METHOD Request method
585 %MYADDR Squid interface address
586 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
587 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
588 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
589 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
590 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
591 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 592
c68c9682 593 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 594 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 595 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 596 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 597 HTTP request header list member using ; as
598 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
599 character.
cccac0a2 600
c68c9682 601 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 602 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 603 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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604 %<{Hdr:;member}
605 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
606 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
607 character.
608
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609 %% The percent sign. Useful for helpers which need
610 an unchanging input format.
611
41bd17a4 612 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
613 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
614 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 615
41bd17a4 616 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
617 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
618 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
619 more details.
cccac0a2 620
41bd17a4 621 General result syntax:
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41bd17a4 623 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 624
41bd17a4 625 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 627 user= The users name (login)
628 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
629 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
630 in error pages
631 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
632 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
633 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
634 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 635
41bd17a4 636 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
637 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 638
41bd17a4 639 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
640 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
641 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 642
41bd17a4 643 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
644 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
645 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 646DOC_END
647
41bd17a4 648NAME: acl
649TYPE: acl
650LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 651DEFAULT: all src all
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652DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
653DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
654DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
655DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
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41bd17a4 657 Defining an Access List
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659 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
660 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
661 they are read from.
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663 acl aclname acltype argument ...
664 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 666 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 667
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669 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
670 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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673 to access some external data source.
674 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
675 don't are marked as [fast].
676 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
677 for further information
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679 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
680
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681 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
682 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
683 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
684 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 685
41bd17a4 686 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
687 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
688 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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690 # other *BSD variants.
691 # [fast]
41bd17a4 692 #
693 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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694 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
695 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
696
697 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
698 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
699 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 700 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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701 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
702 # regex matching client name [slow]
703 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 704 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 705 #
41bd17a4 706 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
707 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
708 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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710 acl aclname src_as number ...
711 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 712 # [fast]
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713 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
714 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
715 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
716 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
717 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
718 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
719 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 720
6db78a1a 721 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 722 # [fast]
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723 # match against a named cache_peer entry
724 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
725
375eeb3b 726 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 727 # [fast]
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729 # S - Sunday
730 # M - Monday
731 # T - Tuesday
732 # W - Wednesday
733 # H - Thursday
734 # F - Friday
735 # A - Saturday
736 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
737
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739 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
740 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
741 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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744 # ranges are alloed
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745 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
746 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
747
b3567eb5 748 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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750 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
751
752 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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755 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 757 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 758 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 760 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 761 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 762 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 764 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 765 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 766 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 767 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 768
41bd17a4 769 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
770 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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772 # supplied credentials [slow]
773 #
774 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 775 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
776 #
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778 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
779 #
41bd17a4 780 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
781 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
782 # in access.log.
783 #
784 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
785 # to check username/password combinations (see
786 # auth_param directive).
787 #
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789 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 790 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 791
41bd17a4 792 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 793 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 794 # Example:
795 #
796 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 797
41bd17a4 798 acl aclname maxconn number
799 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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801 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
802 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 803
41bd17a4 804 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
805 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
806 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 807 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 808 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
809 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
810 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
811 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
812 # request is denied)
813 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
814 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
815 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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818 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
819 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
820 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
821
375eeb3b 822 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 823 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
824 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 825 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 826 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
827 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 828
41bd17a4 829 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
830 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
831 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 832 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 833
375eeb3b 834 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 835 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
836 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 837 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 838 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
839 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
840 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 841
41bd17a4 842 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
843 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
844 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 845 # ACLs [fast]
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375eeb3b 847 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 848 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 849 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 850
41bd17a4 851 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
852 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 853 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 854
41bd17a4 855 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
856 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 857 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 858
41bd17a4 859 acl aclname ext_user username ...
860 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 861 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 862 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 863
0ab50441 864 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 865 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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867 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
868 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
869 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
870 #
871 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
872 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
873 # http_reply_access.
874
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876 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
877 acl myexample dst_as 1241
878 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
879 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
880 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 881
41bd17a4 882NOCOMMENT_START
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883#
884# Recommended minimum configuration:
885#
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ee776778 887# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
888# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
889# should be allowed
890acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
891acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
892acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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893acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
894acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 896acl SSL_ports port 443
897acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
898acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
899acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
900acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
901acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
902acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
903acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
904acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
905acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
906acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
907acl CONNECT method CONNECT
908NOCOMMENT_END
909DOC_END
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911NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
912TYPE: acl_access
913IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
914LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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915DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
916DOC_START
917 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
918 find the original source of a request.
919
920 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
921 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
922 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
923 rightmost address being the most recent.
924
925 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
926 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
927 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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928 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
929 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
930 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
931 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
932 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
933 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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935 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
936 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 937 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 938 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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939 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
940 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 941
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943 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
944
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945 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
946
947 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
948 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
949 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
950 source address of the request. This may enable remote
951 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
952 based on the client's source addresses.
953
954 For example:
955
956 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
957 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
958 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
959 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
960DOC_END
961
962NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
963COMMENT: on|off
964TYPE: onoff
965IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
966DEFAULT: on
967LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
968DOC_START
969 Controls whether the indirect client address
970 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
971 direct client address in acl matching.
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973 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
974 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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976
977NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
978COMMENT: on|off
979TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 980IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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982LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
983DOC_START
984 Controls whether the indirect client address
985 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
986 direct client address in delay pools.
987DOC_END
988
989NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
990COMMENT: on|off
991TYPE: onoff
992IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
993DEFAULT: on
994LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
995DOC_START
996 Controls whether the indirect client address
997 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
998 direct client address in the access log.
999DOC_END
1000
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1001NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1002COMMENT: on|off
1003TYPE: onoff
1004IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1005DEFAULT: off
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1006LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1007DOC_START
1008 Controls whether the indirect client address
1009 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1010 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1012 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1013 mode ports.
1014
1015 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1016 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1017 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1018 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1020
41bd17a4 1021NAME: http_access
1022TYPE: acl_access
1023LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1024DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1025DOC_START
1026 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
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41bd17a4 1028 Access to the HTTP port:
1029 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1030
41bd17a4 1031 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1033 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1034 the request.
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41bd17a4 1036 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1037 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1038 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1039 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1041 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1044 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1045
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1048#
1049# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1050#
1051# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1052http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1053http_access deny manager
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1055# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1056http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1058# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1059http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1061# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1062# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1063# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1064#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1066#
1067# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1068#
c8f4eac4 1069
ee776778 1070# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1071# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1072# from where browsing should be allowed
1073http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1074http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1075
41bd17a4 1076# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1077http_access deny all
1078NOCOMMENT_END
1079DOC_END
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1081NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1082TYPE: acl_access
1083LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1084DEFAULT: none
1085DOC_START
1086 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1087
1088 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1089 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1090 output.
1091
1092 If not set then only http_access is used.
1093DOC_END
1094
41bd17a4 1095NAME: http_reply_access
1096TYPE: acl_access
1097LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1098DEFAULT: none
1099DOC_START
1100 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1101
41bd17a4 1102 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1103
41bd17a4 1104 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1105 all replies
1a224843 1106
41bd17a4 1107 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1108 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1109 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1111 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1112 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1113DOC_END
1114
41bd17a4 1115NAME: icp_access
1116TYPE: acl_access
1117LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1118DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1119DOC_START
41bd17a4 1120 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1121 access lists
5473c134 1122
41bd17a4 1123 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1124
41bd17a4 1125 See http_access for details
1126
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1128 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1130# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1132#icp_access deny all
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1134
41bd17a4 1135NAME: htcp_access
1136IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1137TYPE: acl_access
1138LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1139DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1140DOC_START
41bd17a4 1141 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1142 access lists
5473c134 1143
41bd17a4 1144 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1145
41bd17a4 1146 See http_access for details
5473c134 1147
0b48417e 1148 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1149 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1150 using the htcp option.
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1153 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1155# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1157#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1158DOC_END
5473c134 1159
41bd17a4 1160NAME: htcp_clr_access
1161IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1162TYPE: acl_access
1163LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1164DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1165DOC_START
1166 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1167 on defined access lists
5473c134 1168
41bd17a4 1169 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1170
41bd17a4 1171 See http_access for details
5473c134 1172
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1174 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1176# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1177acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1178htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1179DOC_END
1180
41bd17a4 1181NAME: miss_access
1182TYPE: acl_access
1183LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1184DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1185DOC_START
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1186 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1187
1188 For example;
1189 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1190 a parent.
5473c134 1191
41bd17a4 1192 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1193 miss_access allow localclients
1194 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1195
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1197 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1198 objects (HITs).
1199
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1202 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1204 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1205 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1206DOC_END
1207
1208NAME: ident_lookup_access
1209TYPE: acl_access
1210IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1211DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1212LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1213DOC_START
41bd17a4 1214 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1215 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1216 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1217 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1218 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1219 any requests.
5473c134 1220
41bd17a4 1221 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1222 can follow this example:
5473c134 1223
4daaf3cb 1224 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1225 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1226 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1227
4daaf3cb 1228 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1229 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1230 the correct result.
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1232 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1233 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1234DOC_END
5473c134 1235
5b0f5383 1236NAME: reply_body_max_size
1237COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1238TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1239DEFAULT: none
1240LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1241DOC_START
1242 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1243 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1244 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1245 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1246 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1247 for this reply.
1248
1249 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1250 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1251 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1252 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1253 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1254 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1255 and they will receive a partial reply.
1256
1257 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1258 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1259 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1260 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1261
1262 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1263 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1264 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1265 the size of your largest error page.
1266
1267 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1268 no limit imposed.
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1270 Configuration Format is:
1271 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1272 ie.
1273 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1274
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1276
1277COMMENT_START
1278 NETWORK OPTIONS
1279 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1280COMMENT_END
1281
1282NAME: http_port ascii_port
1283TYPE: http_port_list
1284DEFAULT: none
1285LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1286DOC_START
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1287 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1288 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1289 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1290
1291 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1292 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1293 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1294 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1295 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1296 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1297 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1298
1299 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1300 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1301
1302 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1303 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1304 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1305
1306 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1307
c7b1dd5d 1308 Modes:
5b0f5383 1309
e77bdb4e 1310 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1311 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1312 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1313
1314 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1315 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1316 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1317
7f45065d 1318 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1319
3a0c8eb5 1320 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
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1322 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1323 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1324 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1325
1326 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1327 the SslBump feature.
1328
1329 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1330
1331
1332 Accelerator Mode Options:
1333
5b0f5383 1334 defaultsite=domainname
1335 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1336 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1337 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1338
cf673853 1339 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1340
1341 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1343 https_port
5b0f5383 1344
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1346 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1347
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1348 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1349 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1350
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1351 act-as-origin
1352 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1353 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1354 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1355
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1357
7f45065d 1358 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1360
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1362 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1363 never_direct was used.
1364
1365 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1366 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1367 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1368 http_access rules when using this.
1369
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1371 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1373
1374 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1375 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1376 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1377 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1378 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1379 certificate will be selfsigned.
1380 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1381 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1382 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1383 years.
1384 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1385 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1386
1387 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1388 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1389 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1390 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1391 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
1392
1393 TLS / SSL Options:
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1395 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1396
1397 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1398 if not specified, the certificate file is
1399 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1400 key file.
1401
1402 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1403 1 automatic (default)
1404 2 SSLv2 only
1405 3 SSLv3 only
1406 4 TLSv1 only
1407
1408 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1410 additional settings. If those settings are
1411 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1412 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1413
943c5f16 1414 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
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1415 being:
1416 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1417 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1418 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1419 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1420 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1422 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1423 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1424 strength to some attacks.
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1425 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1426 complete list of options.
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1428 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1429 requesting a client certificate.
1430
1431 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1432 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1433 clientca will be used.
1434
1435 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1436 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1437
1438 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1439 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1440 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1441
1442 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1443 DH key exchanges. See OpenSSL documentation for details
1444 on how to create this file.
1445 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1446 option is not set.
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1448 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1449 DELAYED_AUTH
1450 Don't request client certificates
1451 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1452 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1453 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1454 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1455 to OpenSSL.
1456 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1457 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1458 will result in a new SSL session.
1459 VERIFY_CRL
1460 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1461 certificates.
1462 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1463 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1464 client certificate chain.
1465
1466 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1467
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1469
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1470 connection-auth[=on|off]
1471 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1472 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1473 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1474
5b0f5383 1475 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1476 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1477 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1478 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1479 support is enabled.
1480 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1481
1482 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1483 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1484 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1485 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1486 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1487 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1488 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1489 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1490
81b6e9a7 1491 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1492 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1493
68924b6d 1494 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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1496 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1497 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1498 timeout the time before giving up.
1499
5b0f5383 1500 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1501 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1502 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1503 visible on the internal address.
1504
1505NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1507# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1508http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1509NOCOMMENT_END
1510DOC_END
1511
1512NAME: https_port
1513IFDEF: USE_SSL
1514TYPE: https_port_list
1515DEFAULT: none
1516LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1517DOC_START
7f45065d 1518 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1519
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1521 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1522
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1523 This is most useful for situations where you are running squid in
1524 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1525
1526 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1527 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1528
859741ed 1529 See http_port for a list of available options.
5b0f5383 1530DOC_END
1531
41bd17a4 1532NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1533TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1534DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1535LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1536DOC_START
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1537 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
1538 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1539
41bd17a4 1540 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1541
41bd17a4 1542 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1543 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1545 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1546 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1547 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1548 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1549
41bd17a4 1550 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1551 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1552 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1553
41bd17a4 1554 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1555 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1557 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1558
41bd17a4 1559 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1560 matching line.
cccac0a2 1561DOC_END
1562
41bd17a4 1563NAME: clientside_tos
1564TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1565DEFAULT: none
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1566LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
1567DOC_START
1568 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1569 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1570
1571 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1572
1573 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1574 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1575
1576 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1577 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1578 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1579 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1580
1581 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1582 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1583DOC_END
1584
1585NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1586TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1587IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1589LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1590DOC_START
1591 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1592 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1593
1594 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1595
1596 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1597 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1598
1599 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1600 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1601 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1602 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1603DOC_END
1604
1605NAME: clientside_mark
1606TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1607IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1609LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1610DOC_START
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1612 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1613
1614 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1615
1616 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1617 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1618
1619 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1620 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1621 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1622 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1623
1624 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1625 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1626DOC_END
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1629TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1630IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1631DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1632LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
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575cb927 1634 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1636 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1637 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1640 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1641 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1644 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1645 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1646
1647 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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1650
1651 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1653 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1654
1655 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1656
1657 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1658
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1660 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1661 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1662 specified in the mask are written.
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1665 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1666 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1667 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1668 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1669
575cb927 1670 disable-preserve-miss
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1671 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
1672 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1673 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1674 and masked with miss-mark.
1675 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1676 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1677 (MARK target).
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1679 miss-mask=0xFF
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1681 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1682 the TOS sent towards clients.
1683 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1684 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1685
1686 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1687 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1688 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1689 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1692
41bd17a4 1693NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1694TYPE: acl_address
1695DEFAULT: none
1696LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1697DOC_START
1698 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1699 based on the username or source address of the user making
1700 the request.
7f7db318 1701
41bd17a4 1702 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1705 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1708 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1709
1710 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1711 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1712
1713 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1714 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1715
1716 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1717 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1718
41bd17a4 1719 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1720 matching line.
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1723 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1724 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1725
1726
1727 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1728 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1729 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1730 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 1732 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
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1735 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
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1740TYPE: onoff
1741DEFAULT: off
1742LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1743DOC_START
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1745 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
1746 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL'). Squid
1747 responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page and logs a security
1748 warning if there is no match.
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1751 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic as well. For
1752 those traffic types, Squid also enables the following checks, comparing
1753 the corresponding Host header and Request-URI components:
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1756 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
1757 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP or FQDN.
1758
1759 * Port numbers must be identical,
1760 but if a port is missing, the scheme-default port is assumed.
1761
1762 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1763 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1764 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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1767NAME: client_dst_passthru
1768TYPE: onoff
1769DEFAULT: on
1770LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1771DOC_START
1772 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1773 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1774 source.
1775
1776 This option (on by default) prevents cache_peer and alternative DNS
1777 entries being used on intercepted traffic. Both of which lead to
1778 the security vulnerability outlined below.
1779
1780 SECURITY WARNING:
1781
1782 This directive should only be disabled if cache_peer are required.
1783
1784 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1785 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1786 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1787 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1788
1789 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1790 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1791 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1792 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1793 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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1796
41bd17a4 1797COMMENT_START
1798 SSL OPTIONS
1799 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1800COMMENT_END
1801
1802NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1803IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1804TYPE: onoff
1805DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1806LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1807DOC_START
41bd17a4 1808 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1809 messages.
cccac0a2 1810DOC_END
1811
41bd17a4 1812NAME: ssl_engine
1813IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1814TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1815LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1816DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1817DOC_START
41bd17a4 1818 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1819 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1820DOC_END
1821
41bd17a4 1822NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1823IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1824DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1825LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1826TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1827DOC_START
41bd17a4 1828 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1829DOC_END
1830
41bd17a4 1831NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1832IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1833DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1834LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1835TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1836DOC_START
41bd17a4 1837 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1838DOC_END
1839
41bd17a4 1840NAME: sslproxy_version
1841IFDEF: USE_SSL
1842DEFAULT: 1
1843LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1844TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1845DOC_START
41bd17a4 1846 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1848
41bd17a4 1849NAME: sslproxy_options
1850IFDEF: USE_SSL
1851DEFAULT: none
1852LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1853TYPE: string
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1857 The most important being:
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1860 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1861 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1862 SINGLE_DH_USE
1863 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
1864 DH key exchanges
1865 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
1866 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
1867 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
1868 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
1869 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
1870 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
1871 strength to some attacks.
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1874 complete list of possible options.
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1876
41bd17a4 1877NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1878IFDEF: USE_SSL
1879DEFAULT: none
1880LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1881TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1882DOC_START
41bd17a4 1883 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1885 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1886DOC_END
1887
41bd17a4 1888NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1889IFDEF: USE_SSL
1890DEFAULT: none
1891LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1892TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1893DOC_START
41bd17a4 1894 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1895 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1896DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1898NAME: sslproxy_capath
1899IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1900DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1901LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1902TYPE: string
5473c134 1903DOC_START
41bd17a4 1904 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1905 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1906DOC_END
1907
4c9da963 1908NAME: ssl_bump
1909IFDEF: USE_SSL
1910TYPE: acl_access
1911LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1912DEFAULT: none
1913DOC_START
1914 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1915 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1916 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1917 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1918
1919 By default, no requests are bumped.
1920
e0c0d54c 1921 See also: http_port ssl-bump
4c9da963 1922
e0c0d54c 1923 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 1924 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1926
1927 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1928 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1929
1930 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1931 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1932 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1933 ssl_bump deny localhost
1934 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1935 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1936DOC_END
1937
41bd17a4 1938NAME: sslproxy_flags
1939IFDEF: USE_SSL
1940DEFAULT: none
1941LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1942TYPE: string
5473c134 1943DOC_START
41bd17a4 1944 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1945 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1946 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1947 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1948 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1949DOC_END
1950
4c9da963 1951NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1952IFDEF: USE_SSL
1953DEFAULT: none
1954LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1955TYPE: acl_access
1956DOC_START
1957 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1958
1959 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1960 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1961 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1962
1963 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1964 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1965 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1966
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1968 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1969 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 1970
1971 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1972 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1973 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1974 the connection may be insecure.
1975
1976 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1977
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4c9da963 1979DOC_END
1980
41bd17a4 1981NAME: sslpassword_program
1982IFDEF: USE_SSL
1983DEFAULT: none
1984LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1985TYPE: string
5473c134 1986DOC_START
41bd17a4 1987 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1988 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1989 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1990 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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1992 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
1993 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
1994 keys.
5473c134 1995DOC_END
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1998 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
1999 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2000COMMENT_END
2001
2002NAME: sslcrtd_program
2003TYPE: eol
2004IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2005DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2006LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2007DOC_START
2008 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2009 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2010 For more information use:
2011 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2012DOC_END
2013
2014NAME: sslcrtd_children
2015TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2016IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2017DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2018LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2019DOC_START
2020 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2021 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2022
2023 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2024 tuning.
2025
2026 startup=N
2027
2028 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2029 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2030 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2031
2032 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2033 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2034
2035 idle=N
2036
2037 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2038 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2039 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2040 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2041
2042 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2043DOC_END
2044
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41bd17a4 2046 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2047 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2048COMMENT_END
2049
41bd17a4 2050NAME: cache_peer
2051TYPE: peer
2052DEFAULT: none
2053LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2054DOC_START
41bd17a4 2055 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2057 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
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41bd17a4 2059 For example,
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41bd17a4 2061 # proxy icp
2062 # hostname type port port options
2063 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2064 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2065 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2066 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2067 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2069
2070 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2071
2072 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2073 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2074 For web servers this is usually 80
2075
2076 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2077 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2078 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2079
2080
2081 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2082
2083 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2084 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2085
2086
2087 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2088
2089 multicast-responder
2090 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2091 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2092 replies will be accepted from it.
2093
2094 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2095 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2096
2097 background-ping
2098 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2099 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2100 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2101
2102
2103 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2104
2105 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2106 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2107
2108
2109 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2110 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2112 list of options described below.
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18191440 2114 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2115
18191440 2116 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2117 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2118 only-clr.
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2121 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2123 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2124 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2125 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2126
18191440 2127 htcp=forward-clr
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2128 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2129
2130
2131 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2132
2133 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2134 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2135
2136
2137 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2138 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2139 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2140
2141 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2142 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2143 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2144
2145 weighted-round-robin
2146 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2147 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2148 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2149 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2150 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2151
2152 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2153 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2154 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2155
2156 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2157
2158 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2160 multicast-siblings
2161 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2162 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2163 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2165 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2166 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2167 members of the same multicast group.
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2169
2170 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2171
2172 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2173 peer-selection mechanisms.
2174 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2175 larger weights are favored more.
2176 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2177 protocol is not in use.
2178
2179 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2180 times of parents.
2181 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2182 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2183 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2184
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2186 to this address.
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2188 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2189 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2190 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2191
2192 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2193 delay pools.
2194
2195 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2196 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2197 than the Squid default location.
2198
2199
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2201
2202 carp-key=key-specification
2203 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2204 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2205 scheme, host, port, path, params
2206 Order is not important.
2207
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2209
2210 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2211 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2212 is a web server.
2213
2214 forceddomain=name
2215 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2216 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2217 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2218 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2219
2220 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2221
2222 no-netdb-exchange
2223 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2224
2225
2226 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2227
2228 login=user:password
2229 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2230 requires proxy authentication.
2231
2232 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2233 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2234
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2236 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2237 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2238 without alteration to the peer.
2239 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2240
2241 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2242 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2243 connection-auth options are also used.
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2246 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2249 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2251 they may be sent instead.
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2253 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2254 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2255 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2256 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2257 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2258
2259 login=*:password
2260 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2261 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2262 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2263 needed to identify each user.
2264 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2265 information which is added to the username. This can
2266 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2267 the login=username:password option above.
2268
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2270 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2271 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2272 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2273 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2274
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2276 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2277 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2278
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2280 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2281 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2282 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2283 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2284 used.
2285
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2287 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2288 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
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2291 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2292 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2293 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2294 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2295 of the peer.
2296
2297
2298 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2299
2300 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2301
2302 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2303 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2304 this peer.
2305
2306 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2307 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2308 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2309 reference a combined file containing both the
2310 certificate and the key.
2311
2312 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2313 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2314 1 = automatic (default)
2315 2 = SSL v2 only
2316 3 = SSL v3 only
2317 4 = TLS v1 only
2318
2319 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2320 to this peer.
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2323
2324 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2325 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2326 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2327 SINGLE_DH_USE
2328 Always create a new key when using
2329 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2330 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2331 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2332 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2333 strength to some attacks.
2334
2335 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2336 more complete list.
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2338 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2339 when verifying the peer certificate.
2340
2341 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2342 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2343
2344 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2345 verifying the peer certificate.
2346
2347 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2348
41bd17a4 2349 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2350 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2351 verify.
2352 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2353 Don't use the default CA list built in
2354 to OpenSSL.
2355 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2356 Don't verify the peer certificate
2357 matches the server name
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2359 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2360 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2361 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2362 used.
2363
2364 front-end-https
2365 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2366 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2367 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2368 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2369 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2370
2371
2372 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2373
2374 connect-timeout=N
2375 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2376 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2377
2378 connect-fail-limit=N
2379 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2380 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2381
2382 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2383 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2384 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2385 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2386 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2387 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2388 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2389
2390 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2391 peer. see also
2392
2393 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2394 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2395 but different ports.
2396 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2397 directives to dentify the peer.
2398 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2399 peername ACL type.
2400
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2401 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2402 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2403
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2404 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2405
41bd17a4 2406DOC_END
cccac0a2 2407
41bd17a4 2408NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2409TYPE: hostdomain
2410DEFAULT: none
2411LOC: none
2412DOC_START
2413 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2414 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2415
41bd17a4 2416 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2417 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2418
41bd17a4 2419 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2420
41bd17a4 2421 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2422
41bd17a4 2423 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2424 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2425 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2426 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2427 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2428
41bd17a4 2429 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2430 either on the same or separate lines.
2431 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2432 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2433 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2434 for all requests.
2435 * There are no defaults.
2436 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2437 section.
2438DOC_END
dd9b1776 2439
41bd17a4 2440NAME: cache_peer_access
2441TYPE: peer_access
2442DEFAULT: none
2443LOC: none
2444DOC_START
2445 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2446 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2447
41bd17a4 2448 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2449
41bd17a4 2450 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2451 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2452 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2453DOC_END
dd9b1776 2454
41bd17a4 2455NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2456TYPE: hostdomaintype
2457DEFAULT: none
2458LOC: none
2459DOC_START
2460 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2461
41bd17a4 2462 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2463 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2464 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2465 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2466 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2467 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2468
41bd17a4 2469EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2470 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2471 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2472 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2473DOC_END
6bf4f823 2474
41bd17a4 2475NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2476COMMENT: (seconds)
2477DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2478TYPE: time_t
2479LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2480DOC_START
2481 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2482 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2483 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2484 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2485 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2486 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2487
41bd17a4 2488 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2489 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2490 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2491 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2492 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2493 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2494 instead of to your parents.
2495DOC_END
cccac0a2 2496
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2497NAME: forward_max_tries
2498DEFAULT: 10
2499TYPE: int
2500LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2501DOC_START
2502 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2503 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2504
2505 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2506 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2507DOC_END
2508
41bd17a4 2509NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2510TYPE: wordlist
2511DEFAULT: none
2512LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2513DOC_START
2514 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2515 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2516 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2517 list this option multiple times.
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2519 Example:
2520 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2521
2522 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2523DOC_END
0976f8db 2524
41bd17a4 2525COMMENT_START
2526 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2527 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2528COMMENT_END
2529
2530NAME: cache_mem
2531COMMENT: (bytes)
2532TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2533DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2534LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2535DOC_START
41bd17a4 2536 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2537 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2538 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2539 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2540
2541 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2542 for:
2543 * In-Transit objects
2544 * Hot Objects
2545 * Negative-Cached objects
2546
2547 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2548 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2549 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2550 priority.
2551
2552 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2553 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2554 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2555 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2556 not needed for in-transit objects.
2557
2558 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2559 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2560 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2561 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2562 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2563 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2564 objects.
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2565
2566 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
2567 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
2568 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
2569 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 2570DOC_END
0976f8db 2571
41bd17a4 2572NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2573COMMENT: (bytes)
2574TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2575DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2576LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2577DOC_START
41bd17a4 2578 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2579 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2580 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2581 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2582DOC_END
0976f8db 2583
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2584NAME: memory_cache_shared
2585COMMENT: on|off
2586TYPE: YesNoNone
2587LOC: Config.memShared
2588DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 2589DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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2590DOC_START
2591 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
2592
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2593 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
2594 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
2595 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
2596 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
2597 caching is enabled).
2598
65b81b27 2599 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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2600 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
2601 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
2602 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
2603 and GCC-style atomic operations).
2604
2605 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
2606 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
2607 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
2608
2609 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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2610DOC_END
2611
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2612NAME: memory_cache_mode
2613TYPE: memcachemode
2614LOC: Config
2615DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2616DOC_START
ea21d497 2617 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2618
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2619 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2620
2621 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2622 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2623 a second time before cached in memory.
2624
2625 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2626DOC_END
2627
41bd17a4 2628NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2629TYPE: removalpolicy
2630LOC: Config.memPolicy
2631DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2632DOC_START
41bd17a4 2633 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2634 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2635
41bd17a4 2636 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2637DOC_END
6b698a21 2638
41bd17a4 2639COMMENT_START
2640 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2641 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2642COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2643
41bd17a4 2644NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2645TYPE: removalpolicy
2646LOC: Config.replPolicy
2647DEFAULT: lru
2648DOC_START
2649 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2650 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2651
41bd17a4 2652 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2653 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2654 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2655 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2656
41bd17a4 2657 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2658
41bd17a4 2659 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2660
41bd17a4 2661 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2662 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2663 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2664 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2665
41bd17a4 2666 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2667 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2668 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2669 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2670
41bd17a4 2671 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2672 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2673 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2674
41bd17a4 2675 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2676 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2677 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2678
41bd17a4 2679 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2680 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2681 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2682DOC_END
0976f8db 2683
41bd17a4 2684NAME: cache_dir
2685TYPE: cachedir
2686DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2687LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2688DOC_START
41bd17a4 2689 Usage:
0976f8db 2690
41bd17a4 2691 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2692
41bd17a4 2693 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2694 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2695
41bd17a4 2696 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2697 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2698 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2699
41bd17a4 2700 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2701 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2702 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2703 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2704 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2705
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2706 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2707 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2708 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2709
41bd17a4 2710 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2711
41bd17a4 2712 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2713 been there.
0976f8db 2714
41bd17a4 2715 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2716
41bd17a4 2717 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2718 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2719 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2720 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2721 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2722
56fba4d0 2723 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2724 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2725
56fba4d0 2726 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2727 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2728 is 256.
0976f8db 2729
41bd17a4 2730 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2731
41bd17a4 2732 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2733 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2734 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2735
41bd17a4 2736 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2737
41bd17a4 2738 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2739
41bd17a4 2740 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2741
41bd17a4 2742 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2743 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2744 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2745
41bd17a4 2746 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2747
41bd17a4 2748 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2749
41bd17a4 2750 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2751 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2752 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2753
41bd17a4 2754 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2755 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2756 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2757
41bd17a4 2758 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2759 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2760 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2761 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2762 time.
0976f8db 2763
2e55f083 2764 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 2765
df881a0f 2766 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 2767
2e55f083 2768 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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2769 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
2770 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
2771 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
2772 below for more info on the max-size option.
2773
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2774 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
2775 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
2776 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
2777 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
2778 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
2779 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
2780 expected swap wait time.
2781
df881a0f 2782 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 2783 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 2784 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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2785 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
2786 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
2787 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
2788 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
2789 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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2790 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
2791 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
2792 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
2793 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
2794 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
2795 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
2796
2797
41bd17a4 2798 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2799
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2800 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2801 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2802 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2803
41bd17a4 2804 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2805 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2806 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2807 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2808 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2809 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2810 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2811
41bd17a4 2812 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2813 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2814 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2815
41bd17a4 2816 Common options:
0976f8db 2817
41bd17a4 2818 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2819
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2820 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
2821 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
2822 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
2823 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
2824
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2825 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
2826 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 2827 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2828 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2829 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2830
41bd17a4 2831 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2832 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2833 option.
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2835
2836# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2837#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2838NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2839DOC_END
0976f8db 2840
41bd17a4 2841NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2842TYPE: string
2843LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2844DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2845DOC_START
41bd17a4 2846 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2847DOC_END
0976f8db 2848
41bd17a4 2849NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2850TYPE: int
2851LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2852DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2853DOC_START
41bd17a4 2854 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2855 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2856 descriptors are open.
2857
2858 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2859DOC_END
0976f8db 2860
41bd17a4 2861NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2862COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2863TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2864DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2865LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2866DOC_START
41bd17a4 2867 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2868 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2869 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2870DOC_END
0976f8db 2871
41bd17a4 2872NAME: maximum_object_size
2873COMMENT: (bytes)
2874TYPE: b_int64_t
2875DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2876LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2877DOC_START
41bd17a4 2878 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2879 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2880 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2881 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2882 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2883 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2884
41bd17a4 2885 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2886 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2887 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2888DOC_END
0976f8db 2889
41bd17a4 2890NAME: cache_swap_low
2891COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2892TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2893DEFAULT: 90
2894LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2895DOC_NONE
2896
2897NAME: cache_swap_high
2898COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2899TYPE: int
2900DEFAULT: 95
2901LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2902DOC_START
41bd17a4 2903
2904 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2905 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2906 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2907 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2908 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2909 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2910
2911 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2912 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2913 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2914DOC_END
0976f8db 2915
5473c134 2916COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2917 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2918 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2919COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2920
41bd17a4 2921NAME: logformat
2922TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 2923LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 2924DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2925DOC_START
41bd17a4 2926 Usage:
0976f8db 2927
41bd17a4 2928 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2929
41bd17a4 2930 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2931
41bd17a4 2932 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2933
41bd17a4 2934 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2935 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2936 as required according to their context and the output format
2937 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2938 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2939
41bd17a4 2940 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2941
41bd17a4 2942 " output in quoted string format
2943 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2944 # output in URL quoted format
2945 ' output as-is
5473c134 2946
41bd17a4 2947 - left aligned
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2949 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
2950 [width_min][.width_max]
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2952 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 2953
41bd17a4 2954 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2955
41bd17a4 2956 Format codes:
5473c134 2957
3ff65596 2958 % a literal % character
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2959 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
2960 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
2961 a similar internal error identifier.
2962 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
2963
2964 Connection related format codes:
2965
41bd17a4 2966 >a Client source IP address
2967 >A Client FQDN
2968 >p Client source port
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2969 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
2970 >la Local IP address the client connected to
2971 >lp Local port number the client connected to
2972
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2974 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
2975
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2976 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
2977 <A Server FQDN or peer name
2978 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 2979 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 2980 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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2981
2982 Time related format codes:
2983
41bd17a4 2984 ts Seconds since epoch
2985 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2986 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2987 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2988 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2989 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2990 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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2991 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
2992
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2993 Access Control related format codes:
2994
2995 et Tag returned by external acl
2996 ea Log string returned by external acl
2997 un User name (any available)
2998 ul User name from authentication
2999 ue User name from external acl helper
3000 ui User name from ident
3001 us User name from SSL
3002
3003 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3004
ca2e92d8 3005 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3006 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3007 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3008 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3009 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3010 as for >h
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3011 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3012 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3013 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3014 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3015 transfer encoding and control messages.
3016 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3017 received bodies.
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3018 [http::]mt MIME content type
3019 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3020 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3021 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3022 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3023 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3024 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3025 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3026 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3027 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3028 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3029 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3030 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3031 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3032 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3033 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3034 are not included
3035 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3036 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3037 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3038 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3039 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3040 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3041 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3042 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3043 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3044 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3045 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3046 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3047
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3048 Squid handling related format codes:
3049
3050 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3051 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3052
5038f9d8 3053 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3055
3056 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3057 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3058 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3059 transaction is in progress.
3060
5038f9d8 3061 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3062
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3064 meta-information from the last eCAP
3065 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3066 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3067 argument.
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3069 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3070 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3071 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3072 value is recorded as an integer number,
3073 representing response time of one or more
3074 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3075 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3076 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3077 logged individually but added to the
3078 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3079 adapt::all_trs.
3080
3081 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3082 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3083 individual transactions are never added
3084 together. Instead, all transaction response
3085 times are recorded individually.
3086
3087 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3088 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3089 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3090
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3092
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3093logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3094logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3095logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3096logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3097logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3098
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3099 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3100 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3101 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3102
3103 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3104 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3105
5473c134 3106DOC_END
3107
41bd17a4 3108NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3109TYPE: access_log
3110LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3111DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3112DOC_START
41bd17a4 3113 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3114 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3115 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3116 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3117
3118 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3119 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3120 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3121 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3122
3123 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3124
bb7a1781 3125 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3126 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3127
3128 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3129 each request.
3130 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3131
3132 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3133 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3134 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3135
3136 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3137
3138 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3139 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3140 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3141
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3143 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3144
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3145 And priority could be any of:
3146 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3147
3148 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3149 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3150 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3151
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3152 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3153 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3154 Place Format: //host:port
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3156 Default:
82b7abe3 3157 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3158DOC_END
5473c134 3159
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3160NAME: icap_log
3161TYPE: access_log
3162IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3163LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3164DEFAULT: none
3165DOC_START
3166 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3167 transaction.
3168
3169 The icap_log option format is:
3170 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3171 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3172
3173 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3174 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3175 features.
3176
3177 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3178 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3179 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3180 log line.
3181
3182 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3183 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3184 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3185 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3186 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3187 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3188 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3189
3190 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3191
3192 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3193
3194 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3195 option in Squid configuration file.
3196
3197 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3198
3199 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3200 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3201
3202 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3203 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3204
3205 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3206 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3207 the socket).
3208
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3210 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3211 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3212 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3213 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3214 computed.
3215
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3217 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3218 the ICAP transaction is created and
3219 stops when the transaction is completed.
3220 Similar to tr.
3221
3222 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3223 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3224 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3225 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3226 is received.
3227
3228 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3229 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3230 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3231 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3232 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3233 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3234
3235 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3236
3237 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3238
3239 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3240
3241 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3242 definition, is called icap_squid:
3243
3244logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3245
5038f9d8 3246 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3248
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3249NAME: logfile_daemon
3250TYPE: string
3251DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3252LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3253DOC_START
3254 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3255 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3257 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3258 L<data>\n - logfile data
3259 R\n - rotate file
3260 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3261 O\n - reopen file
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3262 F\n - flush file
3263 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3264 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3265
3266 No responses is expected.
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3268
5b0f5383 3269NAME: log_access
3270TYPE: acl_access
3271LOC: Config.accessList.log
3272DEFAULT: none
3273COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3274DOC_START
3275 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3276 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3277 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3278
3279 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3280 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3281DOC_END
3282
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3283NAME: log_icap
3284TYPE: acl_access
3285IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3286LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3287DEFAULT: none
3288DOC_START
3289 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3290 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3291DOC_END
3292
41bd17a4 3293NAME: cache_store_log
3294TYPE: string
df2eec10 3295DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3296LOC: Config.Log.store
3297DOC_START
3298 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3299 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3301 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3302 disable it.
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3304 Example:
3305 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
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3307
41bd17a4 3308NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3309TYPE: string
3310LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3311DEFAULT: none
3312DOC_START
41bd17a4 3313 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3314 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3315 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3316 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3317 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3318 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3319 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3320
41bd17a4 3321 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3322 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3323 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3324 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3325
41bd17a4 3326 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3327 these swap logs will have names such as:
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41bd17a4 3329 cache_swap_log.00
3330 cache_swap_log.01
3331 cache_swap_log.02
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41bd17a4 3333 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3334 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3335 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3336 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3337 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3338 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3339 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3340DOC_END
3341
41bd17a4 3342NAME: logfile_rotate
3343TYPE: int
3344DEFAULT: 10
3345LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3346DOC_START
41bd17a4 3347 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3348 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3349 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3350 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3351 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3352 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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41bd17a4 3354 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3355 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3356 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3357 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3358 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3359 <pid>'.
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3361 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3362 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3363DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3365NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3366TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3367DOC_START
20efa1c2 3368 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3369DOC_END
3370
41bd17a4 3371NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3372TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3373DOC_START
8652f8e7 3374 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3375DOC_END
5473c134 3376
41bd17a4 3377NAME: mime_table
3378TYPE: string
3379DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3380LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3381DOC_START
3382 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3383 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3384 information if you do.
5473c134 3385DOC_END
3386
41bd17a4 3387NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3388COMMENT: on|off
3389TYPE: onoff
3390LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3391DEFAULT: off
3392DOC_START
3393 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3394 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3395 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3396 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3397 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3398DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3400NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3401TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3402DOC_START
20efa1c2 3403 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3404DOC_END
3405
41bd17a4 3406NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3407TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3408DOC_START
20efa1c2 3409 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3410DOC_END
3411
41bd17a4 3412NAME: pid_filename
3413TYPE: string
3414DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3415LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3416DOC_START
41bd17a4 3417 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3418DOC_END
3419
41bd17a4 3420NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3421TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3422DOC_START
c581e96b 3423 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3424DOC_END
3425
41bd17a4 3426NAME: client_netmask
3427TYPE: address
3428LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3429DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3430DOC_START
41bd17a4 3431 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3432 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3433 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3434 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3435DOC_END
3436
41bd17a4 3437NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3438TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3439DOC_START
20efa1c2 3440 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3441DOC_END
3442
41bd17a4 3443NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3444TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3445LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3446DEFAULT: on
3447DOC_START
41bd17a4 3448 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3449 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3450DOC_END
3451
41bd17a4 3452NAME: buffered_logs
3453COMMENT: on|off
3454TYPE: onoff
3455DEFAULT: off
3456LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3457DOC_START
41bd17a4 3458 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3459 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3460 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3461 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3462 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
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2b753521 3465NAME: netdb_filename
3466TYPE: string
221faecb 3467DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3468LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3469IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3470DOC_START
3471 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3472 To disable, enter "none".
3473DOC_END
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3476 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3477 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3478COMMENT_END
3479
3480NAME: cache_log
3481TYPE: string
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3483LOC: Debug::cache_log
3484DOC_START
3485 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3486 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3487 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3488DOC_END
3489
3490NAME: debug_options
3491TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3492DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3493LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3494DOC_START
3495 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3496 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3497 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3498 log file, so be careful.
3499
3500 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3501 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3502
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3504 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3506 events affecting Squid.
3507DOC_END
3508
3509NAME: coredump_dir
3510TYPE: string
3511LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3513DOC_START
3514 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3515 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3516 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3517 and coredump files will be left there.
3518
3519NOCOMMENT_START
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3522coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3523NOCOMMENT_END
3524DOC_END
3525
3526
41bd17a4 3527COMMENT_START
3528 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3529 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3530COMMENT_END
3531
3532NAME: ftp_user
3533TYPE: string
3534DEFAULT: Squid@
3535LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3536DOC_START
41bd17a4 3537 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3538 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3539 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3540
41bd17a4 3541 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3542 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3543 depending on how the cache is used.
3544 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3545 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3546DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3548NAME: ftp_passive
3549TYPE: onoff
3550DEFAULT: on
3551LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3552DOC_START
41bd17a4 3553 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3554 connections, turn off this option.
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3556 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3557DOC_END
3558
3559NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3560TYPE: onoff
3561DEFAULT: off
3562LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3563DOC_START
3564 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3565
3566 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3567 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3568 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3569
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3570 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
3571 useful.
a689bd4e 3572 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3573 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3574
3575 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3576 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3577
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3578 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3579DOC_END
3580
3581NAME: ftp_epsv
3582TYPE: onoff
3583DEFAULT: on
3584LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3585DOC_START
3586 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3587
3588 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3589 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3590 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3591 will never be needed.
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3592
3593 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3594 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3595 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3596
3597 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3598DOC_END
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3600NAME: ftp_eprt
3601TYPE: onoff
3602DEFAULT: on
3603LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3604DOC_START
3605 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3606
3607 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3608 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3609 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3610
3611 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3612 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3613
3614 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3615 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3616 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3617 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3618
3619 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3620 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3621DOC_END
3622
41bd17a4 3623NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3624TYPE: onoff
3625DEFAULT: on
3626LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3627DOC_START
3628 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3629 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3630 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3631 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3632 connection turn this off.
3633DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3634
41bd17a4 3635NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3636TYPE: onoff
3637DEFAULT: on
3638LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3639DOC_START
3640 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3641 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3642 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3643 the FTP protocol.
3644
3645 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3646 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3647 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3648 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3649 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3650DOC_END
3651
3652COMMENT_START
3653 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3654 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3655COMMENT_END
3656
3657NAME: diskd_program
3658TYPE: string
3659DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3660LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3661DOC_START
3662 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3663 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3664 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3665DOC_END
3666
3667NAME: unlinkd_program
3668IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3669TYPE: string
3670DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3671LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3672DOC_START
3673 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3674DOC_END
3675
3676NAME: pinger_program
3677TYPE: string
3678DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3679LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3680IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3681DOC_START
3682 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3683DOC_END
3684
cc192b50 3685NAME: pinger_enable
3686TYPE: onoff
3687DEFAULT: on
3688LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3689IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3690DOC_START
3691 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3692 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3693 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3694DOC_END
3695
3696
41bd17a4 3697COMMENT_START
3698 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3699 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3700COMMENT_END
3701
3702NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3703TYPE: wordlist
3704LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3705DEFAULT: none
3706DOC_START
2c7aad89 3707 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 3708 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3709
2c7aad89 3710 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 3711
c71adec1 3712 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3713
3714 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3715 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3716 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3717 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3718
3719 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3720 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3721
3722 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3723 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 3724 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 3725
3726 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3727DOC_END
3728
3729NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3730TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3731DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3732LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3733DOC_START
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3734 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3735 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3736 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3737 and other system resources noticably.
3738
3739 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3740 tuning.
3741
3742 startup=
3743
3744 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3745 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3746 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3747
3748 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3749 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3750
3751 idle=
3752
3753 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3754 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3755 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3756 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3757
3758 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3759
41bd17a4 3760 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3761 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3762 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3763
3764 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3765 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3766 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3767 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3768 to that request.
41bd17a4 3769DOC_END
3770
3771NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3772TYPE: onoff
3773DEFAULT: on
3774LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3775DOC_START
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3776 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
3777 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
3778 any Host: header in redirected requests.
3779
3780 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
3781 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
3782 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
3783
41bd17a4 3784 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3785 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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3786
3787 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
3788 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
3789 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 3790DOC_END
3791
3792NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3793TYPE: acl_access
3794DEFAULT: none
3795LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3796DOC_START
3797 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3798 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3799 are sent.
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3800
3801 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3802 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3803DOC_END
3804
3805NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3806TYPE: onoff
3807LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3808DEFAULT: off
3809DOC_START
3810 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3811 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3812 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3813 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3814 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3815 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3816 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3817 users may have access to pages they should not
3818 be allowed to request.
3819DOC_END
3820
3821COMMENT_START
3822 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3823 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3824COMMENT_END
3825
f04b37d8 3826NAME: cache no_cache
3827TYPE: acl_access
3828DEFAULT: none
3829LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3830DOC_START
240887f0 3831 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3832 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3833 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3834
240887f0 3835 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3836 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3837
240887f0 3838 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3839
3840 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3841 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3842DOC_END
3843
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3844NAME: max_stale
3845COMMENT: time-units
3846TYPE: time_t
3847LOC: Config.maxStale
3848DEFAULT: 1 week
3849DOC_START
3850 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
3851 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
3852 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
3853DOC_END
3854
41bd17a4 3855NAME: refresh_pattern
3856TYPE: refreshpattern
3857LOC: Config.Refresh
3858DEFAULT: none
3859DOC_START
3860 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3861
6b698a21 3862 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3863 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3864
41bd17a4 3865 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3866 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3867 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3868 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3869 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3870
41bd17a4 3871 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3872 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3873 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3874
41bd17a4 3875 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3876 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3877
41bd17a4 3878 options: override-expire
3879 override-lastmod
3880 reload-into-ims
3881 ignore-reload
3882 ignore-no-cache
3883 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3884 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3885 ignore-private
3886 ignore-auth
570d3f75 3887 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 3888 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 3889 store-stale
a0ec9f68 3890
41bd17a4 3891 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3892 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3893 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3894 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3895 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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3897 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3898 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3899 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3900 the object fresh for that period of time.
3901
41bd17a4 3902 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3903 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3904
41bd17a4 3905 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3906 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3907 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3908 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3909
41bd17a4 3910 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3911 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3912 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3913 it causes.
9bc73deb 3914
41bd17a4 3915 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3916 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3917 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3918 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3919 send it anyway.
3920
3921 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3922 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3923 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3924 liable for problems which it causes.
3925
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3926 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3927 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3928 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3929 liable for problems which it causes.
3930
41bd17a4 3931 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3932 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3933 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3934 liable for problems which it causes.
3935
3936 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3937 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3938 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3939 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3940 it causes.
3941
3942 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3943 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3944 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3945 if one is available.
3946
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3947 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3948 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3949 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3950 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3951 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3952
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3953 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
3954 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
3955 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
3956
41bd17a4 3957 Basically a cached object is:
3958
3959 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3960 STALE if age > max
3961 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3962 FRESH if age < min
3963 else STALE
3964
3965 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3966 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3967 match the default will be used.
3968
3969 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3970 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3971 used.
3972
41bd17a4 3973NOCOMMENT_START
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3975# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 3976refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3977refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 3978refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 3979refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3980NOCOMMENT_END
3981DOC_END
3982
3983NAME: quick_abort_min
3984COMMENT: (KB)
3985TYPE: kb_int64_t
3986DEFAULT: 16 KB
3987LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3988DOC_NONE
3989
3990NAME: quick_abort_max
3991COMMENT: (KB)
3992TYPE: kb_int64_t
3993DEFAULT: 16 KB
3994LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3995DOC_NONE
3996
3997NAME: quick_abort_pct
3998COMMENT: (percent)
3999TYPE: int
4000DEFAULT: 95
4001LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4002DOC_START
4003 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4004 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4005 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4006 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4007 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4008 downloads.
4009
4010 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4011 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4012 then.
4013
4014 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4015 it will finish the retrieval.
4016
4017 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4018 it will abort the retrieval.
4019
4020 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4021 it will finish the retrieval.
4022
4023 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4024 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4025 to '0 KB'.
4026
4027 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4028 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4029DOC_END
60d096f4 4030
41bd17a4 4031NAME: read_ahead_gap
4032COMMENT: buffer-size
4033TYPE: b_int64_t
4034LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4035DEFAULT: 16 KB
4036DOC_START
4037 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4038 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4039DOC_END
53e738c6 4040
41bd17a4 4041NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4042IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4043COMMENT: time-units
4044TYPE: time_t
4045LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4046DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4047DOC_START
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4048 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4049 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4050 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4051 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4052 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4053 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4054
4055 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4056
4057 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4058 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4059 causes.
41bd17a4 4060DOC_END
53e738c6 4061
41bd17a4 4062NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4063COMMENT: time-units
4064TYPE: time_t
4065LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4066DEFAULT: 6 hours
4067DOC_START
4068 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4069 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4070 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4071DOC_END
c4ab8329 4072
41bd17a4 4073NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4074COMMENT: time-units
4075TYPE: time_t
4076LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4077DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4078DOC_START
4079 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4080 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4081 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4082 much below 10 seconds.
4083DOC_END
7df0bfd7 4084
41bd17a4 4085NAME: range_offset_limit
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4086COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4087TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4088LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4089DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4090DOC_START
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4091 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4092
4093 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4094 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4095 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4096 the result is NOT cached.
4097
41bd17a4 4098 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4099 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4100 sending anything to the client.
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4101
4102 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4103 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4104 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4105 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4106
4107 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4108
4109 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4110 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4111
4112 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4113 client requested. (default)
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4114
4115 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4116 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4117
4118 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4119
4120 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4121 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4122 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4123 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4124DOC_END
d95b862f 4125
41bd17a4 4126NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4127COMMENT: (seconds)
4128TYPE: time_t
4129LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4130DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4131DOC_START
4132 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4133 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4134 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4135 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4136 is most likely better to make your server return a
4137 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4138 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4139 often be best set to 0.
4140DOC_END
c68e9c6b 4141
41bd17a4 4142NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4143COMMENT: (bytes)
4144TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4145DEFAULT: 13 KB
4146LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4147DOC_START
4148 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4149 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4150DOC_END
4151
41bd17a4 4152NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4153TYPE: int
4154DEFAULT: 20
4155LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4156DOC_START
4157 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4158 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4159 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4160DOC_END
4161
4162COMMENT_START
4163 HTTP OPTIONS
4164 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4165COMMENT_END
4166
f04b37d8 4167NAME: request_header_max_size
4168COMMENT: (KB)
4169TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4170DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4171LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4172DOC_START
4173 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4174 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4175 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4176 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4177 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4178DOC_END
4179
4180NAME: reply_header_max_size
4181COMMENT: (KB)
4182TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4183DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4184LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4185DOC_START
4186 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4187 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4188 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4189 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4190 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4191DOC_END
4192
4193NAME: request_body_max_size
4194COMMENT: (bytes)
4195TYPE: b_int64_t
4196DEFAULT: 0 KB
4197LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4198DOC_START
4199 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4200 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4201 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4202 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4203 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4204 be no limit imposed.
4205DOC_END
4206
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4207NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4208COMMENT: (bytes)
4209TYPE: b_size_t
4210DEFAULT: 512 KB
4211LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4212DOC_START
4213 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4214 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4215 a large file.
4216DOC_END
4217
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4218NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4219COMMENT: (bytes)
4220TYPE: b_int64_t
4221DEFAULT: 64 KB
4222LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4223DOC_START
4224 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4225 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4226 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4227 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4228 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4229 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4230
4231 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4232 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4233 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4234 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4235 as if dechunking was disabled.
4236
4237 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4238 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4239
4240 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4241 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4242 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4243DOC_END
4244
41bd17a4 4245NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4246IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4247TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4248DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4249LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4250DOC_START
41bd17a4 4251 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4252 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4253
41bd17a4 4254 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4255 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4256
41bd17a4 4257 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4258
41bd17a4 4259 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4260 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4261 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4262 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 4263
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4264 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4265 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4266
41bd17a4 4267Example:
4268 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4269 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4270DOC_END
cccac0a2 4271
22fff3bf 4272NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4273COMMENT: on|off
4274TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4275IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4276DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4277LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4278DOC_START
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4279 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4280 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4281
4282 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4283DOC_END
4284
41bd17a4 4285NAME: via
626096be 4286IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4287COMMENT: on|off
4288TYPE: onoff
4289DEFAULT: on
4290LOC: Config.onoff.via
4291DOC_START
4292 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4293 replies as required by RFC2616.
4294DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4295
41bd17a4 4296NAME: ie_refresh
4297COMMENT: on|off
4298TYPE: onoff
4299LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4300DEFAULT: off
4301DOC_START
4302 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4303 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4304 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4305 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4306 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4307 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4308 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4309 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4310 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4311 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4312 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4313 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4314 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4315 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4316 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4317 force fresh content.
4318DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 4319
41bd17a4 4320NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4321COMMENT: on|off
4322TYPE: onoff
4323LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4324DEFAULT: off
4325DOC_START
4326 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4327 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4328 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4329 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4330 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4331
4332 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4333 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4334DOC_END
c4ab8329 4335
41bd17a4 4336NAME: request_entities
4337TYPE: onoff
4338LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4339DEFAULT: off
4340DOC_START
4341 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4342 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4343 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4344
41bd17a4 4345 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4346 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4347 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4348 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4349 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4350DOC_END
6b53c392 4351
41bd17a4 4352NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4353IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4354TYPE: http_header_access[]
4355LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4356DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4357DOC_START
41bd17a4 4358 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4359
41bd17a4 4360 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4361 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4362 causes.
0976f8db 4363
41bd17a4 4364 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4365 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4366 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4367 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4368 mangling.
934b03fc 4369
41bd17a4 4370 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4371 client to the server.
5401aa8d 4372
41bd17a4 4373 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4374 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4375 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 4376
41bd17a4 4377 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4378 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4379
41bd17a4 4380 request_header_access From deny all
4381 request_header_access Referer deny all
4382 request_header_access Server deny all
4383 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4384 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4385 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4386
41bd17a4 4387 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4388 you should use:
5401aa8d 4389
41bd17a4 4390 request_header_access Allow allow all
4391 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4392 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4393 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4394 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4395 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4396 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4397 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4398 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4399 request_header_access Date allow all
4400 request_header_access Expires allow all
4401 request_header_access Host allow all
4402 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4403 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4404 request_header_access Location allow all
4405 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4406 request_header_access Accept allow all
4407 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4408 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4409 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4410 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4411 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4412 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4413 request_header_access Title allow all
4414 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4415 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4416
41bd17a4 4417 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4418 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4419
41bd17a4 4420 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4421 performed).
5401aa8d 4422DOC_END
4423
41bd17a4 4424NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4425IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4426TYPE: http_header_access[]
4427LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4428DEFAULT: none
4429DOC_START
41bd17a4 4430 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4431
41bd17a4 4432 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4433 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4434 causes.
934b03fc 4435
41bd17a4 4436 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4437 server to the client.
934b03fc 4438
41bd17a4 4439 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4440 direction.
6b53c392 4441
41bd17a4 4442 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4443 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4444 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4445 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4446 mangling.
cccac0a2 4447
41bd17a4 4448 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4449 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4450 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 4451
41bd17a4 4452 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4453 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4454
41bd17a4 4455 reply_header_access From deny all
4456 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4457 reply_header_access Server deny all
4458 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4459 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4460 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4461
41bd17a4 4462 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4463 you should use:
cccac0a2 4464
41bd17a4 4465 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4466 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4467 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4468 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4469 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4470 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4471 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4472 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4473 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4474 reply_header_access Date allow all
4475 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4476 reply_header_access Host allow all
4477 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4478 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4479 reply_header_access Location allow all
4480 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4481 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4482 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4483 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4484 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4485 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4486 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4487 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4488 reply_header_access Title allow all
4489 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4490 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4491
41bd17a4 4492 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4493 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4494
41bd17a4 4495 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4496 performed).
cccac0a2 4497DOC_END
4498
75e4f2ea 4499NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4500IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4501TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4502LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4503DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4504DOC_START
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4505 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4506 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4507
41bd17a4 4508 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4509 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4510 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4511 option.
cccac0a2 4512
41bd17a4 4513 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4514
41bd17a4 4515 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4516DOC_END
cccac0a2 4517
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4518NAME: reply_header_replace
4519IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4520TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4521LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4522DEFAULT: none
4523DOC_START
4524 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4525 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4526
4527 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4528 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4529 with some fixed string.
4530
4531 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4532
4533 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4534DOC_END
4535
41bd17a4 4536NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4537COMMENT: on|off|warn
4538TYPE: tristate
4539LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4540DEFAULT: on
4541DOC_START
4542 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4543 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4544 what the sending application intended even if the message
4545 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4546 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4547
41bd17a4 4548 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4549 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4550
41bd17a4 4551 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4552 or response to be rejected.
4553DOC_END
7d90757b 4554
41bd17a4 4555COMMENT_START
4556 TIMEOUTS
4557 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4558COMMENT_END
4559
4560NAME: forward_timeout
4561COMMENT: time-units
4562TYPE: time_t
4563LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4564DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4565DOC_START
4566 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4567 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4568DOC_END
4569
41bd17a4 4570NAME: connect_timeout
4571COMMENT: time-units
4572TYPE: time_t
4573LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4574DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4575DOC_START
41bd17a4 4576 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4577 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4578 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4579DOC_END
4580
41bd17a4 4581NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4582COMMENT: time-units
4583TYPE: time_t
4584LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4585DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4586DOC_START
41bd17a4 4587 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4588 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4589 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4590 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4591DOC_END
7f7db318 4592
41bd17a4 4593NAME: read_timeout
4594COMMENT: time-units
4595TYPE: time_t
4596LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4597DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4598DOC_START
4599 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4600 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4601 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4602 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4603 default is 15 minutes.
4604DOC_END
cccac0a2 4605
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4606NAME: write_timeout
4607COMMENT: time-units
4608TYPE: time_t
4609LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4610DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4611DOC_START
4612 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4613 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4614 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4615 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4616 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4617 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4618 default is 15 minutes.
4619DOC_END
4620
41bd17a4 4621NAME: request_timeout
4622TYPE: time_t
4623LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4624DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4625DOC_START
4626 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4627 connection establishment.
4628DOC_END
cccac0a2 4629
97b32442 4630NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 4631TYPE: time_t
97b32442 4632LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 4633DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4634DOC_START
4635 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 4636 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 4637DOC_END
cccac0a2 4638
41bd17a4 4639NAME: client_lifetime
4640COMMENT: time-units
4641TYPE: time_t
4642LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4643DEFAULT: 1 day
4644DOC_START
4645 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4646 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4647 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4648 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4649 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4650 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4651 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4652
41bd17a4 4653 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4654 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4655 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4656 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4657 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4658 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4659DOC_END
4660
41bd17a4 4661NAME: half_closed_clients
4662TYPE: onoff
4663LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4664DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4665DOC_START
41bd17a4 4666 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4667 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4668 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4669 fully-closed TCP connection.
4670
4671 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4672 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4673
abdf1651 4674 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4675 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4676 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4677 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4678DOC_END
4679
97b32442 4680NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 4681TYPE: time_t
97b32442 4682LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 4683DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4684DOC_START
41bd17a4 4685 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4686 proxies.
4687DOC_END
cccac0a2 4688
41bd17a4 4689NAME: ident_timeout
4690TYPE: time_t
4691IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4692LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4693DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4694DOC_START
4695 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4696
41bd17a4 4697 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4698 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4699 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4700DOC_END
4701
41bd17a4 4702NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4703COMMENT: time-units
4704TYPE: time_t
4705LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4706DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4707DOC_START
41bd17a4 4708 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4709 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4710 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4711 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4712 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4713DOC_END
0976f8db 4714
cccac0a2 4715COMMENT_START
4716 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4717 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4718COMMENT_END
4719
4720NAME: cache_mgr
4721TYPE: string
4722DEFAULT: webmaster
4723LOC: Config.adminEmail
4724DOC_START
4725 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4726 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4727DOC_END
4728
abacf776 4729NAME: mail_from
4730TYPE: string
4731DEFAULT: none
4732LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4733DOC_START
4734 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4735 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4736 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4737 src/globals.h before building squid.
4738DOC_END
4739
d084bf20 4740NAME: mail_program
4741TYPE: eol
4742DEFAULT: mail
4743LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4744DOC_START
4745 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4746 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4747 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4748 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4749
d084bf20 4750 Optional command line options can be specified.
4751DOC_END
4752
cccac0a2 4753NAME: cache_effective_user
4754TYPE: string
5483d916 4755DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4756LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4757DOC_START
4758 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4759 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4760 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4761 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4762DOC_END
4763
cccac0a2 4764NAME: cache_effective_group
4765TYPE: string
4766DEFAULT: none
4767LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4768DOC_START
64e288bd 4769 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4770 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4771 from the groups membership.
4772
e3d74828 4773 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4774 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4775 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4776 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4777 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4778 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4779 group.
64e288bd 4780
4781 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4782 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4783 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4784DOC_END
4785
d3caee79 4786NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4787COMMENT: on|off
4788TYPE: onoff
4789DEFAULT: off
4790LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4791DOC_START
4792 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4793DOC_END
4794
cccac0a2 4795NAME: visible_hostname
4796TYPE: string
4797LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4798DEFAULT: none
4799DOC_START
4800 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4801 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4802 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4803 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4804 names with this setting.
4805DOC_END
4806
cccac0a2 4807NAME: unique_hostname
4808TYPE: string
4809LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4810DEFAULT: none
4811DOC_START
4812 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4813 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4814 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4815DOC_END
4816
cccac0a2 4817NAME: hostname_aliases
4818TYPE: wordlist
4819LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4820DEFAULT: none
4821DOC_START
7f7db318 4822 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4823DOC_END
0976f8db 4824
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4825NAME: umask
4826TYPE: int
4827LOC: Config.umask
4828DEFAULT: 027
4829DOC_START
4830 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4831 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4832
4833 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4834 your value with 0.
4835DOC_END
4836
cccac0a2 4837COMMENT_START
4838 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4839 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4840
4841 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4842 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4843 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4844 create cache hierarchies.
4845
4846 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4847 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4848 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4849
4850 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4851 following information from this configuration file:
4852
4853 http_port
4854 icp_port
4855 cache_mgr
4856
4857 All current information is processed regularly and made
4858 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4859COMMENT_END
4860
4861NAME: announce_period
4862TYPE: time_t
4863LOC: Config.Announce.period
4864DEFAULT: 0
4865DOC_START
4866 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4867 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4868 messages.
4869
e0855596 4870 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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4872 Example:
4873 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4874DOC_END
4875
cccac0a2 4876NAME: announce_host
4877TYPE: string
4878DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4879LOC: Config.Announce.host
4880DOC_NONE
4881
4882NAME: announce_file
4883TYPE: string
4884DEFAULT: none
4885LOC: Config.Announce.file
4886DOC_NONE
4887
4888NAME: announce_port
ae870270 4889TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 4890DEFAULT: 3131
4891LOC: Config.Announce.port
4892DOC_START
4893 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4894 number where the registration message will be sent.
4895
4896 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4897 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4898 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4899 message.
4900DOC_END
4901
8d6275c0 4902COMMENT_START
4903 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4904 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4905COMMENT_END
4906
cccac0a2 4907NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4908TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 4909DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4910LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4911DOC_START
4912 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4913 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4914 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4915 an identification token.
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4916
4917 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 4918DOC_END
4919
4920NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 4921COMMENT: on|off
4922TYPE: onoff
4923DEFAULT: off
4924LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4925DOC_START
4926 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4927 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4928DOC_END
4929
4930NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4931IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4932COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4933TYPE: string
4934LOC: ESIParser::Type
4935DEFAULT: custom
4936DOC_START
4937 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4938 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4939 encodings.
4940DOC_END
0976f8db 4941
9edd9041 4942COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4943 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4944 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4945COMMENT_END
4946
4947NAME: delay_pools
4948TYPE: delay_pool_count
4949DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 4950IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4951LOC: Config.Delay
4952DOC_START
4953 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4954 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4955 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4956DOC_END
4957
4958NAME: delay_class
4959TYPE: delay_pool_class
4960DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4961IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4962LOC: Config.Delay
4963DOC_START
4964 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4965 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4966 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4967 and here would be:
4968
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4969 Example:
4970 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4971 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4972 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4973 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4974 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 4975
4976 The delay pool classes are:
4977
4978 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4979 bucket.
4980
4981 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4982 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 4983 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4984
4985 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4986 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4987 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4988 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 4989 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4990
4991 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4992 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4993 only takes effect if the username is established
4994 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4995 http_access rules.
4996
4997 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4998 external_acl's tag= reply).
4999
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5000
5001 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5002 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5003 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5004
9edd9041 5005 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5006 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5007 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5008 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5009
5010 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5011 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5012DOC_END
5013
5014NAME: delay_access
5015TYPE: delay_pool_access
5016DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5017IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5018LOC: Config.Delay
5019DOC_START
5020 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5021
5022 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5023 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5024 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5025 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5026
5027 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5028 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5029
5030Example:
5031 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5032 delay_access 1 deny all
5033 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5034 delay_access 2 deny all
5035 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5036DOC_END
5037
5038NAME: delay_parameters
5039TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5040DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5041IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5042LOC: Config.Delay
5043DOC_START
5044 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5045 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5046 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5047
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5048 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5049 delay_pools pool 1
5050 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5051
5052 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5053 delay_pools pool 2
5054 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5055
5056 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5057 delay_pools pool 3
5058 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5059
5060 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5061 delay_pools pool 4
5062 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5063
5064 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5065 delay_pools pool 5
5066 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5067
0b68481a 5068 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5069
5070 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5071 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5072 delay_class lines.
5073
fdb47ac6 5074 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5075 (class 1, 2, 3).
5076
fdb47ac6 5077 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5078 buckets (class 2, 3).
5079
fdb47ac6 5080 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5081 (class 3).
5082
fdb47ac6 5083 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5084 (class 4).
5085
fdb47ac6 5086 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5087 (class 5).
5088
5089 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5090 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5091 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5092 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5093
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5094 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5095
5096
9edd9041 5097 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5098 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5099 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5100
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5101 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5102
5103 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5104
5105 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5106
0b68481a 5107
9edd9041 5108 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5109 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5110 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5111 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5112 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5113 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5114 large downloads more significantly:
5115
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5116 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5117
5118 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5119 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5120 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5121
9edd9041 5122
5123 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5124 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5125
0b68481a 5126 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5127DOC_END
5128
5129NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5130COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5131TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5132DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5133IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5134LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5135DOC_START
5136 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5137 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5138 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5139 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5140 "seen" by squid).
5141DOC_END
5142
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5143COMMENT_START
5144 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5145 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5146COMMENT_END
5147
5148NAME: client_delay_pools
5149TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5150DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5151IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5152LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5153DOC_START
5154 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5155 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5156
5157Example:
5158 client_delay_pools 2
5159DOC_END
5160
5161NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5162COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5163TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5164DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5165IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5166LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5167DOC_START
5168 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5169 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5170 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5171 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5172
5173 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5174 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5175 from client_delay_parameters.
5176
5177Example:
5178 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5179DOC_END
5180
5181NAME: client_delay_parameters
5182TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5183DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5184IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5185LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5186DOC_START
5187
5188 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5189 following format:
5190
5191 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5192
5193 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5194
5195 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5196
5197 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5198 speed_limit additions.
5199
5200 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5201 examples.
5202
5203Example:
5204 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5205 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5206DOC_END
5207
5208NAME: client_delay_access
5209TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5210DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5211IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5212LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5213DOC_START
5214
5215 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5216 request:
5217
5218 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5219
5220 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5221 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5222 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5223 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5224 limited.
5225
5226 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5227 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5228 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5229 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5230
5231 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5232
5233Example:
5234 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5235 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5236DOC_END
5237
cccac0a2 5238COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5239 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5240 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5241COMMENT_END
5242
8d6275c0 5243NAME: wccp_router
5244TYPE: address
5245LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5246DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5247IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5248DOC_START
5249 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5250 Squid.
5251
5252 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5253
5254 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5255
5256 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5257 which version of WCCP to use.
5258DOC_END
df2eec10 5259
8d6275c0 5260NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5261TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5262LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5263DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5264IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5265DOC_START
8d6275c0 5266 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5267 Squid.
cccac0a2 5268
8d6275c0 5269 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5270
8d6275c0 5271 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5272
8d6275c0 5273 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5274 which version of WCCP to use.
5275DOC_END
5276
5277NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5278TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5279LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5280DEFAULT: 4
5281IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5282DOC_START
8d6275c0 5283 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5284 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5285 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5286 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5287 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5288
8d6275c0 5289 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5290 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5291 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5292 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5293DOC_END
5294
8d6275c0 5295NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5296TYPE: onoff
5297LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5298DEFAULT: on
5299IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5300DOC_START
5301 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5302 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5303DOC_END
cccac0a2 5304
8d6275c0 5305NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5306TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5307LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5308DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5309IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5310DOC_START
699acd19 5311 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5312 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5313
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5314 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5315 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5316
8d6275c0 5317 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5318 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5319DOC_END
5320
8d6275c0 5321NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5322TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5323LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5324DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5325IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5326DOC_START
699acd19 5327 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5328 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5329 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
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5331 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5332 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5333
8d6275c0 5334 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5335 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5336
699acd19 5337 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5338 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5339 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5340 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5341DOC_END
5342
8d6275c0 5343NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5344TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5345LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5346DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5347IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5348DOC_START
8d6275c0 5349 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5350 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5351
451c4786 5352 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5353 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5354
8d6275c0 5355 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5356 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5357DOC_END
cccac0a2 5358
8d6275c0 5359NAME: wccp2_service
5360TYPE: wccp2_service
5361LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5362DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5363IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5364DOC_START
5365 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5366 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5367 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5368 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5369 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5370 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5371
5372 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5373 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5374
5375 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5376 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5377
5378 Examples:
5379
5380 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5381 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5382 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5383 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5384DOC_END
5385
5386NAME: wccp2_service_info
5387TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5388LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5389DEFAULT: none
5390IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5391DOC_START
5392 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5393 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5394
5395 The format is:
5396
5397 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5398 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5399
5400 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5401 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5402 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5403 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5404 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5405 + ports_source
5406
5407 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5408
5409 Example:
5410
5411 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5412 priority=240 ports=80
5413
5414 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5415 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5416DOC_END
5417
5418NAME: wccp2_weight
5419TYPE: int
5420LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5421DEFAULT: 10000
5422IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5423DOC_START
5424 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5425 hash proportional to their weight.
5426DOC_END
5427
5428NAME: wccp_address
5429TYPE: address
5430LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5431DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5432IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5433DOC_NONE
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8d6275c0 5435NAME: wccp2_address
5436TYPE: address
5437LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5438DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5439IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5440DOC_START
5441 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5442 interface address.
5443
5444 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5445DOC_END
5446
5447COMMENT_START
5448 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5449 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5450
5451 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5452COMMENT_END
5453
5454NAME: client_persistent_connections
5455TYPE: onoff
5456LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5457DEFAULT: on
5458DOC_NONE
5459
5460NAME: server_persistent_connections
5461TYPE: onoff
5462LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5463DEFAULT: on
5464DOC_START
5465 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5466 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5467 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5468 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5469DOC_END
5470
5471NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5472TYPE: onoff
5473LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5474DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5475DOC_START
5476 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5477 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5478 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5479DOC_END
5480
5481NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5482TYPE: onoff
5483LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5484DEFAULT: off
5485DOC_START
5486 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5487 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5488 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5489 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5490
5491 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5492 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5493 after 10 seconds timeout.
5494DOC_END
5495
5496COMMENT_START
5497 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5498 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5499COMMENT_END
5500
5501NAME: digest_generation
5502IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5503TYPE: onoff
5504LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5505DEFAULT: on
5506DOC_START
5507 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5508 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5509 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5510DOC_END
5511
5512NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5513IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5514TYPE: int
5515LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5516DEFAULT: 5
5517DOC_START
5518 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5519 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5520 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5521DOC_END
5522
5523NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5524IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5525COMMENT: (seconds)
5526TYPE: time_t
5527LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5528DEFAULT: 1 hour
5529DOC_START
749ceff8 5530 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5531DOC_END
5532
5533NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5534COMMENT: (seconds)
5535IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5536TYPE: time_t
5537LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5538DEFAULT: 1 hour
5539DOC_START
749ceff8 5540 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5541 disk.
5542DOC_END
5543
5544NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5545COMMENT: (bytes)
5546TYPE: b_size_t
5547IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5548LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5549DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5550DOC_START
5551 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5552 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5553 default swap page.
5554DOC_END
5555
5556NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5557COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5558IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5559TYPE: int
5560LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5561DEFAULT: 10
5562DOC_START
5563 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5564 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5565DOC_END
5566
1db9eacd 5567COMMENT_START
5473c134 5568 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5569 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5570COMMENT_END
5571
5473c134 5572NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5573TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5574LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5575DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5576IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5577DOC_START
87630341 5578 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5579 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5580 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5581 set to "0" (disabled)
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5582
5583 Example:
5584 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5585DOC_END
5586
5473c134 5587NAME: snmp_access
5588TYPE: acl_access
5589LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5590DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5591IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5592DOC_START
5473c134 5593 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5594
5473c134 5595 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5596 usage:
8d6275c0 5597
5473c134 5598 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5599
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5600 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5601 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5602Example:
5603 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5604 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5605DOC_END
5606
5473c134 5607NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5608TYPE: address
5609LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5610DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5611IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5612DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5613
5473c134 5614NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5615TYPE: address
5616LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5617DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5618IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5619DOC_START
df2eec10 5620 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5621
5473c134 5622 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5623 messages from SNMP agents.
5624 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5625 agents.
cccac0a2 5626
0eb08770 5627 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5628 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5629
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5630 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5631 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5632 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5633 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5634
5473c134 5635 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5636 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5637DOC_END
5638
5473c134 5639COMMENT_START
5640 ICP OPTIONS
5641 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5642COMMENT_END
5643
5644NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 5645TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5646DEFAULT: 0
5647LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5648DOC_START
5473c134 5649 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5650 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5651 Default is disabled (0).
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5652
5653 Example:
5654 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5655DOC_END
5656
5473c134 5657NAME: htcp_port
5658IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 5659TYPE: u_short
87630341 5660DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5661LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5662DOC_START
5473c134 5663 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5664 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5665 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5666
5667 Example:
5668 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5669DOC_END
5670
5671NAME: log_icp_queries
5672COMMENT: on|off
5673TYPE: onoff
5674DEFAULT: on
5675LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5676DOC_START
5677 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5678 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5679 up or to simplify log analysis.
5680DOC_END
5681
5473c134 5682NAME: udp_incoming_address
5683TYPE: address
5684LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5685DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5686DOC_START
5687 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5688 caches.
5689
5690 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5691
5692 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5693 a specific interface/address.
5694
5695 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5696 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5697
5698 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5699
5700 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5701 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5702DOC_END
cccac0a2 5703
5473c134 5704NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5705TYPE: address
5706LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5707DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5708DOC_START
8524d4b2 5709 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5710 caches.
cccac0a2 5711
5473c134 5712 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5713
8524d4b2 5714 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5715 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5716 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5717 caches.
5718
8524d4b2 5719 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5720 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5721
5722 see also; udp_incoming_address
5723
5473c134 5724 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5725 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5726DOC_END
5727
3d1e3e43 5728NAME: icp_hit_stale
5729COMMENT: on|off
5730TYPE: onoff
5731DEFAULT: off
5732LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5733DOC_START
5734 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5735 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5736 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5737 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5738 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5739 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5740 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5741DOC_END
5742
5473c134 5743NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5744TYPE: int
5473c134 5745DEFAULT: 4
5746LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5747DOC_START
5473c134 5748 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5749 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5750DOC_END
5751
5473c134 5752NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5753TYPE: int
5754DEFAULT: 400
5755LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5756DOC_START
5473c134 5757 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5758 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5759DOC_END
5760
cccac0a2 5761NAME: netdb_low
5762TYPE: int
5763DEFAULT: 900
5764LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5765DOC_NONE
5766
5767NAME: netdb_high
5768TYPE: int
5769DEFAULT: 1000
5770LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5771DOC_START
5772 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5773 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5774 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5775 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5776DOC_END
5777
cccac0a2 5778NAME: netdb_ping_period
5779TYPE: time_t
5780LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5781DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5782DOC_START
5783 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5784 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5785 network. The default is five minutes.
5786DOC_END
5787
cccac0a2 5788NAME: query_icmp
5789COMMENT: on|off
5790TYPE: onoff
5791DEFAULT: off
5792LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5793DOC_START
5794 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5795 replies, enable this option.
5796
5797 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5798 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5799 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5800 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5801 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5802 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5803 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5804 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5805DOC_END
5806
5807NAME: test_reachability
5808COMMENT: on|off
5809TYPE: onoff
5810DEFAULT: off
5811LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5812DOC_START
5813 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5814 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5815 database, or has a zero RTT.
5816DOC_END
5817
5473c134 5818NAME: icp_query_timeout
5819COMMENT: (msec)
5820DEFAULT: 0
5821TYPE: int
5822LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5823DOC_START
5473c134 5824 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5825 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5826 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5827 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5828 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5829 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5830
5473c134 5831 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5832DOC_END
5833
5473c134 5834NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5835COMMENT: (msec)
5836DEFAULT: 2000
5837TYPE: int
5838LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5839DOC_START
5473c134 5840 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5841 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5842 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5843 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5844 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5845 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5846DOC_END
5847
5473c134 5848NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5849COMMENT: (msec)
5850DEFAULT: 5
5851TYPE: int
5852LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5853DOC_START
5473c134 5854 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5855 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5856 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5857 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5858 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5859 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5860 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5861DOC_END
5862
5473c134 5863NAME: background_ping_rate
5864COMMENT: time-units
5865TYPE: time_t
5866DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5867LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5868DOC_START
5473c134 5869 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5870 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5871DOC_END
5872
5473c134 5873COMMENT_START
5874 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5875 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5876COMMENT_END
5877
5878NAME: mcast_groups
5879TYPE: wordlist
5880LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5881DEFAULT: none
5882DOC_START
5473c134 5883 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5884 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5885
5473c134 5886 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5887 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5888 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5889 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5890 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5891 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5892 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5893
5473c134 5894 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5895 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5896
5473c134 5897 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5898 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5899
5473c134 5900 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5901
5473c134 5902 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5903DOC_END
8c01ada0 5904
5473c134 5905NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5906IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5907TYPE: address
5908LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 5909DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5910DOC_START
5911 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5912 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5913
5473c134 5914 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5915 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5916DOC_END
5917
5473c134 5918NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5919IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5920TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5921LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5922DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5923DOC_START
5473c134 5924 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5925 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5926 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5927DOC_END
cccac0a2 5928
5473c134 5929NAME: mcast_miss_port
5930IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5931TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5932LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5933DEFAULT: 3135
5934DOC_START
5935 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5936 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5937DOC_END
cccac0a2 5938
5473c134 5939NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5940IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5941TYPE: string
5942LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5943DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5944DOC_START
5945 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5946 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5947DOC_END
8c01ada0 5948
5473c134 5949NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5950COMMENT: (msec)
5951DEFAULT: 2000
5952TYPE: int
5953LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5954DOC_START
5955 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5956 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5957 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5958 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5959 seconds.
cccac0a2 5960DOC_END
5961
5473c134 5962COMMENT_START
5963 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5964 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5965COMMENT_END
5966
cccac0a2 5967NAME: icon_directory
5968TYPE: string
5969LOC: Config.icons.directory
5970DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5971DOC_START
5972 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5973 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5974DOC_END
5975
f024c970 5976NAME: global_internal_static
5977TYPE: onoff
5978LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5979DEFAULT: on
5980DOC_START
5981 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5982 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5983 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5984 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5985 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5986 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5987 the server generating a directory listing.
5988DOC_END
5989
5473c134 5990NAME: short_icon_urls
5991TYPE: onoff
5992LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5993DEFAULT: on
5994DOC_START
5995 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5996 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5997 it's own name and port in the URL.
5998
5999 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6000 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6001DOC_END
6002
6003COMMENT_START
6004 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6005 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6006COMMENT_END
6007
6008NAME: error_directory
6009TYPE: string
6010LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6011DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6012DOC_START
6013 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6014 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6015 the error/template files to another directory and point
6016 this tag at them.
6017
6018 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6019 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6020
6021 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6022 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6023 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6024 contributing your translation back to the project.
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6025 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6026
6027 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6028 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6029DOC_END
6030
6031NAME: error_default_language
6032IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6033TYPE: string
6034LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6035DEFAULT: none
6036DOC_START
6037 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6038 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6039 preferences.
6040
6041 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6042
6043 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6044 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6045 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6046 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6047DOC_END
6048
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6049NAME: error_log_languages
6050IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6051TYPE: onoff
6052LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6053DEFAULT: on
6054DOC_START
6055 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6056 auto-negotiate for translations.
6057
6058 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6059 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6060 of its error page translations.
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6061DOC_END
6062
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6063NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6064TYPE: string
6065LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6066DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6067DOC_START
6068 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6069
6070 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6071DOC_END
6072
5473c134 6073NAME: err_html_text
6074TYPE: eol
6075LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6076DEFAULT: none
6077DOC_START
6078 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6079 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6080 organizations Web page.
6081
6082 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6083 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6084 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6085 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6086DOC_END
6087
6088NAME: email_err_data
6089COMMENT: on|off
6090TYPE: onoff
6091LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6092DEFAULT: on
6093DOC_START
6094 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6095 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6096 so that the email body contains the data.
6097 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6098DOC_END
6099
6100NAME: deny_info
6101TYPE: denyinfo
6102LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6103DEFAULT: none
6104DOC_START
6105 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6106 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6107 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6108
6109 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6110 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6111 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6112 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6113
6114 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6115 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6116 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6117 the first authentication related acl encountered
6118 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6119 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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6121 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6122
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6123 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6124 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6125 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6126
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6127 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6128 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6129 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6130
5473c134 6131 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6132 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6133
6134 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6135 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6136 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6137 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6138 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6139
6140 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6141 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6142 %B - FTP path URL
6143 %e - Error number
6144 %E - Error description
6145 %h - Squid hostname
6146 %H - Request domain name
6147 %i - Client IP Address
6148 %M - Request Method
6149 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6150 %p - Request Port number
6151 %P - Request Protocol name
6152 %R - Request URL path
6153 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6154 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6155 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6156 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6157 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6158 %x - Error name
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6159 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6160
5473c134 6161DOC_END
6162
6163COMMENT_START
6164 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6165 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6166COMMENT_END
6167
6168NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6169TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6170LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6171DEFAULT: on
6172DOC_START
5473c134 6173 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6174 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6175 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6176
5473c134 6177 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6178 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6179
5473c134 6180 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6181 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6182 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6183
5473c134 6184 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6185 this directive.
8d6275c0 6186DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6187
5473c134 6188NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6189TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6190LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6191DEFAULT: off
6192DOC_START
5473c134 6193 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6194 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6195 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6196
5473c134 6197 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6198 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6199 fails.
6200
6201 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6202 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6203 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6204DOC_END
6205
5473c134 6206NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6207TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6208LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6209DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6210DOC_START
5473c134 6211 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6212
5473c134 6213 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6214 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6215 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6216 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6217 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6218
5473c134 6219 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6220 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6221
5473c134 6222 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6223
5473c134 6224 acl FTP proto FTP
6225 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6226
5473c134 6227 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6228 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6229 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6230 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6231 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6232
5473c134 6233 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6234 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6235 always_direct deny local-external
6236 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6237
5473c134 6238 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6239 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6240 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6241 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6242
5473c134 6243 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6244 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6245 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6246
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6247 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6248 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6249DOC_END
0976f8db 6250
5473c134 6251NAME: never_direct
6252TYPE: acl_access
6253LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6254DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6255DOC_START
5473c134 6256 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6257
6258 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6259 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6260
6261 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6262 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6263 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6264 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6265
6266 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6267 never_direct deny local-servers
6268 never_direct allow all
6269
6270 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6271 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6272
6273 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6274 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6275 always_direct deny local-external
6276 always_direct allow local-intranet
6277 never_direct allow all
6278
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6279 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6280 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6281DOC_END
0976f8db 6282
5473c134 6283COMMENT_START
6284 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6285 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6286COMMENT_END
6287
cccac0a2 6288NAME: incoming_icp_average
6289TYPE: int
6290DEFAULT: 6
6291LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
6292DOC_NONE
6293
6294NAME: incoming_http_average
6295TYPE: int
6296DEFAULT: 4
6297LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
6298DOC_NONE
6299
6300NAME: incoming_dns_average
6301TYPE: int
6302DEFAULT: 4
6303LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
6304DOC_NONE
6305
6306NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6307TYPE: int
6308DEFAULT: 8
6309LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
6310DOC_NONE
6311
6312NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6313TYPE: int
6314DEFAULT: 8
6315LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
6316DOC_NONE
6317
6318NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6319TYPE: int
6320DEFAULT: 8
6321LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
6322DOC_START
5473c134 6323 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6324 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6325 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6326DOC_END
6327
6328NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6329TYPE: string
6330DEFAULT: none
6331LOC: Config.accept_filter
6332DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6333 FreeBSD:
6334
5473c134 6335 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6336 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6337 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6338
6339 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6340 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6341 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6342
6343 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6344 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6345 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6346
6347 Linux:
6348
6349 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6350 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6351 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6352 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6353 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6354EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6355# FreeBSD
5473c134 6356accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6357# Linux
6358accept_filter data
5473c134 6359DOC_END
6360
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6361NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6362TYPE: int
6363LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6364DEFAULT: -1
6365DOC_START
6366 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6367 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6368 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6369
6370 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6371 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6372
6373 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6374
6375 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6376 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6377DOC_END
6378
5473c134 6379NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6380COMMENT: (bytes)
6381TYPE: b_size_t
6382DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6383LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6384DOC_START
6385 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6386 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6387 the default buffer size.
6388DOC_END
6389
6390COMMENT_START
6391 ICAP OPTIONS
6392 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6393COMMENT_END
6394
6395NAME: icap_enable
6396TYPE: onoff
6397IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6398COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6399LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6400DEFAULT: off
6401DOC_START
53e738c6 6402 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6403DOC_END
6404
6405NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6406TYPE: time_t
6407DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6408LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6409IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6410DOC_START
6411 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6412 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6413 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6414
6415 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6416 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6417 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6418DOC_END
6419
6420NAME: icap_io_timeout
6421COMMENT: time-units
6422TYPE: time_t
6423DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6424LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6425IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6426DOC_START
6427 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6428 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6429 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6430 failure.
6431
6432 The default is read_timeout.
6433DOC_END
6434
6435NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6436COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6437TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6438IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6439LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6440DEFAULT: 10
6441DOC_START
6442 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6443 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6444 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6445 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6446 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6447
6448 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6449 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6450 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6451
6452 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6453 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6454 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6455 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6456 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6457
6458 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6459 effect on service failure expiration.
6460
6461 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6462 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6463 setting.
6464
6465 For example,
6466 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6467 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6468DOC_END
6469
5473c134 6470NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6471TYPE: int
5473c134 6472IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6473LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6474DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6475DOC_START
5473c134 6476 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6477 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6478 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6479 fetched.
cccac0a2 6480
5473c134 6481 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6482 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6483DOC_END
6484
5473c134 6485NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6486TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6487IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6488COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6489LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6490DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6491DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6492 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6493 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6494 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6495 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6496
6497 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6498 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6499 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6500
6501 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6502 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6503Example:
6504icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6505DOC_END
6506
5473c134 6507NAME: icap_preview_size
6508TYPE: int
6509IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6510LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6511DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6512DOC_START
53e738c6 6513 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6514 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6515 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6516DOC_END
6517
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6518NAME: icap_206_enable
6519TYPE: onoff
6520IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6521COMMENT: on|off
6522LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6523DEFAULT: on
6524DOC_START
6525 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6526 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6527 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6528 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6529
6530 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6531 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6532 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6533 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6534 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6535
6536 Example:
6537 icap_206_enable off
6538DOC_END
6539
5473c134 6540NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6541TYPE: int
6542IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6543LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6544DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6545DOC_START
53e738c6 6546 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6547 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6548DOC_END
6549
5473c134 6550NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6551TYPE: onoff
6552IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6553COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6554LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6555DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6556DOC_START
5473c134 6557 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6558 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6559DOC_END
6560
22fff3bf 6561NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6562TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6563IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6564COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6565LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6566DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6567DOC_START
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6568 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6569 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6570 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6571
6572 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6573DOC_END
6574
22fff3bf 6575NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6576TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6577IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6578COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6579LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6580DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6581DOC_START
5473c134 6582 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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6583 the adaptation service.
6584
6585 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6586 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6587 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6588DOC_END
6589
5473c134 6590NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6591TYPE: string
5473c134 6592IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6593LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6594DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6595DOC_START
db49f682 6596 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 6597DOC_END
6598
5473c134 6599NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6600TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6601IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6602COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6603LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6604DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6605DOC_START
5473c134 6606 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6607DOC_END
6608
5473c134 6609NAME: icap_service
6610TYPE: icap_service_type
6611IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6612LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6613DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6614DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6615 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6616
c25c2836 6617 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
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6619 id: ID
6620 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
6621 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
6622 services in squid.conf.
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6623
6624 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6625 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6626 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6627 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 6628
c25c2836 6629 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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6630 ICAP server and service location.
6631
6632 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6633 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6634 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6635 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6636 service_names differ.
6637
6638
6639 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6640 the following name=value options:
6641
6642 bypass=on|off|1|0
6643 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6644 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6645 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6646 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6647 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6648 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6649 returned to the HTTP client.
6650
6651 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6652
6653 routing=on|off|1|0
6654 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6655 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6656 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6657 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6658 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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6659 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
6660 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
6661 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
6662
6663 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6664 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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6665
6666 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6667 response header is ignored.
6668
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6669 ipv6=on|off
6670 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6671 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6672 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6673
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6674 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
6675 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
6676 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
6677 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
6678 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
6679 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
6680 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
6681
6682 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
6683 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
6684 workers may use a given service.
6685
6686 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
6687 otherwise it is set to "wait".
6688
6689
6690 max-conn=number
6691 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
6692 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
6693
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6694 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6695 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 6696
5473c134 6697Example:
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6698icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
6699icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 6700DOC_END
6701
5473c134 6702NAME: icap_class
6703TYPE: icap_class_type
6704IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6705LOC: none
5473c134 6706DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6707DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6708 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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6709 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6710 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6711
62c7f90e 6712 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6713 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6714 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6715DOC_END
6716
5473c134 6717NAME: icap_access
6718TYPE: icap_access_type
6719IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6720LOC: none
cccac0a2 6721DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6722DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6723 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6724 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6725 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6726DOC_END
6727
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6728COMMENT_START
6729 eCAP OPTIONS
6730 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6731COMMENT_END
6732
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6733NAME: ecap_enable
6734TYPE: onoff
6735IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6736COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6737LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6738DEFAULT: off
6739DOC_START
6740 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6741DOC_END
6742
6743NAME: ecap_service
6744TYPE: ecap_service_type
6745IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6746LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6747DEFAULT: none
6748DOC_START
6749 Defines a single eCAP service
6750
c25c2836 6751 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 6752
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6753 id: ID
6754 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
6755 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
6756 services in squid.conf.
6757
6758 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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6759 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6760 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6761 are not yet supported.
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6762
6763 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6764 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
6765 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
6766 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
6767 the service provider.
6768
6769
6770 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
6771 the following name=value options:
6772
6773 bypass=on|off|1|0
6774 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
6775 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
6776 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 6777 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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6778 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
6779 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 6780 HTTP client.
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6781
6782 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6783
6784 routing=on|off|1|0
6785 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
6786 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6787 returning a chain of services to be used next.
6788
6789 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6790 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
6791
6792 Routing is not allowed by default.
6793
6794 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
6795 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
6796
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6798Example:
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6799ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
6800ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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6801DOC_END
6802
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6803NAME: loadable_modules
6804TYPE: wordlist
6805IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6806LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6807DEFAULT: none
6808DOC_START
6809 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6810 preloaded module(s).
6811Example:
6812loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6813DOC_END
6814
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6815COMMENT_START
6816 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6817 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6818COMMENT_END
6819
6820NAME: adaptation_service_set
6821TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6822IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6823LOC: none
6824DEFAULT: none
6825DOC_START
6826
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6827 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6828 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6829
6830 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6831
6832 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6833 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6834 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6835 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6836 intact.
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6838 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6839 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6840
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6841 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6842 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6843
6844 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6845 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6846 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6847 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6848 transaction fails as well.
6849
6850 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6851 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6852 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6853 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6854 matters.
6855
6856 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6858Example:
6859adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6860adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6861DOC_END
6862
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6863NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6864TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6865IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6866LOC: none
6867DEFAULT: none
6868DOC_START
6869
6870 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6871 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6872 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6873
6874 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6875
6876 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6877 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6878 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6879 the previous service in the chain.
6880
6881 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6882 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6883
6884 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6885 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6886 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6887
6888 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6889 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6890
6891 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6892 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6893 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6894 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6895
6896 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6897
6898Example:
6899adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6900DOC_END
6901
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6902NAME: adaptation_access
6903TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6904IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6905LOC: none
6906DEFAULT: none
6907DOC_START
6908 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6909
6910 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6911 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6912
6913 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6914 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6915 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6916 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6917
6918 - services serving different vectoring points
6919 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6920 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6921 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6922
6923 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6924 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6925 adaptation_service_set for details.
6926
6927 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6928 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6929 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6930 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6931
6932 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6933 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6934
6935 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6936
6937Example:
6938adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6939DOC_END
6940
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6941NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6942TYPE: int
6943IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6944LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6945DEFAULT: 16
6946DOC_START
6947 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6948 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6949 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6950 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6951 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6952 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6953
6954 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6955
6956 See also: icap_service routing=1
6957DOC_END
6958
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6959NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6960TYPE: string
6961IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6962LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6963DEFAULT: none
6964DOC_START
6965 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6966 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6967 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6968 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6969 with the master transaction.
6970
6971 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6972 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6973
6974 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6975 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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6976 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
6977
6978 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6979 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
6980 to provide an option with a name specified in
6981 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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6982
6983 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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6984 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6985
6986 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6987
6988Example:
6989# share authentication information among ICAP services
6990adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6991DOC_END
6992
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6993NAME: adaptation_meta
6994TYPE: adaptation_meta_type
6995IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6996LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
6997DEFAULT: none
6998DOC_START
6999 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7000 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7001 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7002 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7003
7004 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7005 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7006
7007 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7008 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7009 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7010 example:
7011
7012 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7013 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7014
7015 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7016 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7017
7018 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7019 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7020
7021 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7022 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7023 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7024 and double quotes. For example,
7025 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
7026DOC_END
7027
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7028NAME: icap_retry
7029TYPE: acl_access
7030IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7031LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7032DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7033DOC_START
7034 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7035 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7036 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7037 that response are usually retriable.
7038
7039 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7040
7041 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7042 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7043
7044 See also: icap_retry_limit
7045DOC_END
7046
7047NAME: icap_retry_limit
7048TYPE: int
7049IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7050LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7051DEFAULT: 0
7052DOC_START
7053 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7054 no retries are allowed.
7055
7056 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7057 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7058 count against this limit.
7059
7060 See also: icap_retry
7061DOC_END
7062
7063
5473c134 7064COMMENT_START
7065 DNS OPTIONS
7066 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7067COMMENT_END
7068
7069NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7070TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7071DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7072LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7073DOC_START
5473c134 7074 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7075 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7076 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7077DOC_END
7078
5473c134 7079NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7080TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7081DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7082LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7083DOC_START
5473c134 7084 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7085 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7086 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7087 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7088DOC_END
7089
5473c134 7090NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7091TYPE: string
f64091a7 7092IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 7093DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7094LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7095DOC_START
5473c134 7096 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7097DOC_END
7098
5473c134 7099NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7100TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 7101IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 7102DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7103LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7104DOC_START
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7105 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7106 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7107 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7108 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7109 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7110
7111 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7112 tuning.
7113
7114 startup=
7115
7116 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7117 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7118 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7119
7120 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7121 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7122
7123 idle=
7124
7125 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7126 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7127 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7128 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7129DOC_END
7130
5473c134 7131NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7132TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7133DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7134LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 7135IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7136DOC_START
5473c134 7137 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7138 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7139DOC_END
7140
5473c134 7141NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7142TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7143DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7144LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 7145IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7146DOC_START
5473c134 7147 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7148 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7149 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7150DOC_END
7151
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7152NAME: dns_packet_max
7153TYPE: b_ssize_t
7154DEFAULT: none
7155LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 7156IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7157DOC_START
7158 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7159 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7160
7161 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7162 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7163 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7164 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7165 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7166
7167 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7168 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7169 necessary.
7170
7171 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7172 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7173 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7174 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7175 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7176 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7177 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7178DOC_END
7179
5473c134 7180NAME: dns_defnames
7181COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7182TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7183DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7184LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7185DOC_START
5473c134 7186 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7187 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7188 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7189 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7190DOC_END
7191
5473c134 7192NAME: dns_nameservers
7193TYPE: wordlist
7194DEFAULT: none
7195LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7196DOC_START
5473c134 7197 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7198 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7199 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7200 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7201 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7202 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7203 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7204
5473c134 7205 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7206DOC_END
7207
5473c134 7208NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7209TYPE: string
5473c134 7210DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7211LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7212DOC_START
5473c134 7213 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7214 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7215 default locations:
7216 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7217 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7218 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7219 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7220 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7221 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7222 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7223 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7224
5473c134 7225 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7226 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7227 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7228 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7229
5473c134 7230 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7231 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7232 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7233 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7234 definitions.
cccac0a2 7235DOC_END
7236
5473c134 7237NAME: append_domain
7238TYPE: string
7239LOC: Config.appendDomain
7240DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7241DOC_START
5473c134 7242 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7243 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7244
7245 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7246 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7247 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7248
7249Example:
7250 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7251DOC_END
7252
5473c134 7253NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7254TYPE: onoff
7255LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7256DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 7257IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 7258DOC_START
5473c134 7259 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7260 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7261 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7262 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7263 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7264DOC_END
7265
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7266NAME: dns_v4_first
7267TYPE: onoff
7268DEFAULT: off
7269LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 7270IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7271DOC_START
7272 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7273 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7274
7275 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7276 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7277 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7278
7279 WARNING:
7280 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7281 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7282 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7283DOC_END
7284
6bc15a4f 7285NAME: ipcache_size
7286COMMENT: (number of entries)
7287TYPE: int
7288DEFAULT: 1024
7289LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7290DOC_NONE
7291
7292NAME: ipcache_low
7293COMMENT: (percent)
7294TYPE: int
7295DEFAULT: 90
7296LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7297DOC_NONE
7298
7299NAME: ipcache_high
7300COMMENT: (percent)
7301TYPE: int
7302DEFAULT: 95
7303LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7304DOC_START
7305 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7306DOC_END
7307
7308NAME: fqdncache_size
7309COMMENT: (number of entries)
7310TYPE: int
7311DEFAULT: 1024
7312LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7313DOC_START
7314 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7315DOC_END
7316
a58ff010 7317COMMENT_START
5473c134 7318 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7319 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7320COMMENT_END
7321
5473c134 7322NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7323COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7324TYPE: onoff
7325DEFAULT: on
7326LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7327DOC_START
5473c134 7328 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7329 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7330 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7331 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7332DOC_END
7333
5473c134 7334NAME: memory_pools_limit
7335COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7336TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7337DEFAULT: 5 MB
7338LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7339DOC_START
5473c134 7340 Used only with memory_pools on:
7341 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7342
5473c134 7343 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7344 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7345 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7346 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7347 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7348 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7349 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7350
89646bd7 7351 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7352 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7353
5473c134 7354 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7355 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7356
7357 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7358 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7359 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7360 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7361DOC_END
7362
5473c134 7363NAME: forwarded_for
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7364COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7365TYPE: string
5473c134 7366DEFAULT: on
7367LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7368DOC_START
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7369 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7370 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7371
5473c134 7372 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7373
67c06f0d 7374 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7375
7376 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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7378 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7379 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7380
7381 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7382 X-Forwarded-For header.
7383
7384 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7385 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7386DOC_END
7387
5473c134 7388NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7389TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7390DEFAULT: none
7391LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7392DOC_START
5473c134 7393 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7394
5473c134 7395 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7396
7397 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7398 5min
7399 60min
7400 asndb
7401 authenticator
7402 cbdata
7403 client_list
7404 comm_incoming
7405 config *
7406 counters
7407 delay
7408 digest_stats
7409 dns
7410 events
7411 filedescriptors
7412 fqdncache
7413 histograms
7414 http_headers
7415 info
7416 io
7417 ipcache
7418 mem
7419 menu
7420 netdb
7421 non_peers
7422 objects
7423 offline_toggle *
7424 pconn
7425 peer_select
b360c477 7426 reconfigure *
5473c134 7427 redirector
7428 refresh
7429 server_list
7430 shutdown *
7431 store_digest
7432 storedir
7433 utilization
7434 via_headers
7435 vm_objects
7436
7437 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7438 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7439
7440 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7441 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7442 password to "none".
7443
7444 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7445
7446Example:
7447 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7448 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7449 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7450DOC_END
7451
5473c134 7452NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7453COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7454TYPE: onoff
7455DEFAULT: on
7456LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7457DOC_START
5473c134 7458 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7459 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7460DOC_END
7461
5473c134 7462NAME: refresh_all_ims
7463COMMENT: on|off
7464TYPE: onoff
7465DEFAULT: off
7466LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7467DOC_START
5473c134 7468 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7469 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7470 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7471 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7472 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7473
5473c134 7474 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7475 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7476DOC_END
7477
5473c134 7478NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7479IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7480COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7481TYPE: onoff
7482DEFAULT: off
7483LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7484DOC_START
5473c134 7485 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7486 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7487 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7488 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7489 causes.
7490
7491 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7492DOC_END
7493
31ef19cd 7494NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7495TYPE: int
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7496LOC: Config.connect_retries
7497DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7498DOC_START
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7499 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7500 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7501 complete within the connection timeout period.
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7502
7503 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7504 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 7505
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7506 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7507 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7508
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7509 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7510 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7511 a useful server.
a58ff010 7512DOC_END
7513
5473c134 7514NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7515TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7516LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7517DEFAULT: off
7518DOC_START
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7519 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
7520 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
7521 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
7522 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
7523
7524 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
7525 work around access control errors.
7526
7527 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
7528 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 7529DOC_END
7530
5473c134 7531NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7532TYPE: string
5473c134 7533LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7534DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7535DOC_START
5473c134 7536 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7537 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7538DOC_END
7539
5473c134 7540NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7541TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7542LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7543DEFAULT: off
7544DOC_START
5473c134 7545 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7546 objects.
a58ff010 7547DOC_END
7548
5473c134 7549NAME: uri_whitespace
7550TYPE: uri_whitespace
7551LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7552DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7553DOC_START
5473c134 7554 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7555 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7556
5473c134 7557 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7558 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7559 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7560 Request" message.
7561 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7562 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7563 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7564 are in use.
7565 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7566 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7567 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7568 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7569 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7570 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7571 violation.
7572DOC_END
a58ff010 7573
5473c134 7574NAME: chroot
7575TYPE: string
7576LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7577DEFAULT: none
7578DOC_START
9f37c18a 7579 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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7580 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7581 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7582 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7583 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7584DOC_END
a58ff010 7585
5473c134 7586NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7587TYPE: onoff
7588LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7589DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7590DOC_START
cc192b50 7591 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7592 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7593 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7594
5473c134 7595 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7596 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7597 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 7598
cc192b50 7599 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 7600DOC_END
7601
5473c134 7602NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7603TYPE: onoff
7604LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7605DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 7606DOC_START
5473c134 7607 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7608 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7609 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 7610
5473c134 7611 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7612 reasons.
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7613
7614 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 7615DOC_END
a58ff010 7616
5473c134 7617NAME: high_response_time_warning
7618TYPE: int
7619COMMENT: (msec)
7620LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7621DEFAULT: 0
7622DOC_START
7623 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7624 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7625 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 7626DOC_END
7627
5473c134 7628NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7629TYPE: int
7630LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7631DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 7632DOC_START
5473c134 7633 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7634 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7635 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7636 per second.
7637DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7638
5473c134 7639NAME: high_memory_warning
7640TYPE: b_size_t
7641LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 7642DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 7643DOC_START
7644 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7645 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7646 the administrators attention.
7647DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7648
5473c134 7649NAME: sleep_after_fork
7650COMMENT: (microseconds)
7651TYPE: int
7652LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7653DEFAULT: 0
7654DOC_START
7655 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7656 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7657 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7658 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7659 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7660 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7661 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7662 until all the child processes have been started.
7663 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7664 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7665DOC_END
7666
b6696974 7667NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7668IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
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7669COMMENT: on|off
7670TYPE: onoff
7671DEFAULT: on
7672LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7673DOC_START
7674 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7675 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7676 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7677 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7678 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7679 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7680DOC_END
7681
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7682NAME: eui_lookup
7683TYPE: onoff
7684IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7685DEFAULT: on
7686LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7687DOC_START
7688 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7689DOC_END
7690
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7691NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7692TYPE: int
7693DEFAULT: 0
7694LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7695DOC_START
7696 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7697
7698 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7699
7700 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7701 not all comm loops supports large values.
7702DOC_END
7703
13aeac35 7704NAME: workers
007d775d 7705TYPE: int
13aeac35 7706LOC: Config.workers
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7707DEFAULT: 1
7708DOC_START
13aeac35 7709 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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7710 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7711 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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7712 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7713
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7714 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7715 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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7716DOC_END
7717
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7718NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7719TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7720LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7721DEFAULT: none
7722DOC_START
7723 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7724
7725 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7726
7727 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7728
7729 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7730 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7731
7732 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7733 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7734
7735 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7736
7737 See also: workers
7738DOC_END
7739
cccac0a2 7740EOF