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