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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
69
70 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
71 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
72 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
73 disable that support.
74
75 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
76 files using the syntax:
77 parameters("/path/filename")
78 For example:
79 acl whitelist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/whitelist.txt")
80
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81 Conditional configuration
82
83 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
84 depend on conditions:
85
86 if <CONDITION>
87 ... regular configuration directives ...
88 [else
89 ... regular configuration directives ...]
90 endif
91
92 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
93 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
94 configuration directives.
95
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96 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
97
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98 These individual conditions types are supported:
99
100 true
101 Always evaluates to true.
102 false
103 Always evaluates to false.
104 <integer> = <integer>
105 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
106
107
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108 SMP-Related Macros
109
110 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
111
112 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
113 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
114
115 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
116 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
117 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 118COMMENT_END
119
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120# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
121NAME: broken_vary_encoding
122TYPE: obsolete
123DOC_START
124 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
125DOC_END
126
127NAME: cache_vary
128TYPE: obsolete
129DOC_START
130 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
131DOC_END
132
133NAME: collapsed_forwarding
134TYPE: obsolete
135DOC_START
136 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3. see http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3495
137DOC_END
138
139NAME: error_map
140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
143DOC_END
144
145NAME: external_refresh_check
146TYPE: obsolete
147DOC_START
148 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
149DOC_END
150
151NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
152TYPE: obsolete
153DOC_START
154 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
155DOC_END
156
157NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
158TYPE: obsolete
159DOC_START
160 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
161DOC_END
162
163NAME: refresh_stale_hit
164TYPE: obsolete
165DOC_START
166 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
167DOC_END
168
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169# no Options Removed in 3.3
170
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171# Options Removed in 3.2
172NAME: ignore_expect_100
173TYPE: obsolete
174DOC_START
175 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
176DOC_END
177
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178NAME: dns_v4_fallback
179TYPE: obsolete
180DOC_START
4ded749e 181 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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182DOC_END
183
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184NAME: ftp_list_width
185TYPE: obsolete
186DOC_START
187 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
188DOC_END
189
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190NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
191TYPE: obsolete
192DOC_START
193 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
194DOC_END
195
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196NAME: update_headers
197TYPE: obsolete
198DOC_START
199 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
200DOC_END
201
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202NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
203TYPE: obsolete
204DOC_START
205 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
206DOC_END
207
208# Options Removed in 3.1
209NAME: dns_testnames
210TYPE: obsolete
211DOC_START
212 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
213DOC_END
214
215NAME: extension_methods
216TYPE: obsolete
217DOC_START
218 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
219DOC_END
220
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221# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
222NAME: zero_buffers
223TYPE: obsolete
224DOC_NONE
225
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226# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
227NAME: incoming_rate
228TYPE: obsolete
229DOC_NONE
230
231NAME: server_http11
232TYPE: obsolete
233DOC_START
234 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
235DOC_END
236
237NAME: upgrade_http0.9
238TYPE: obsolete
239DOC_START
240 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
241DOC_END
242
243NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
244TYPE: obsolete
245DOC_START
246 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
247DOC_END
248
249# Options Removed in 3.0
250NAME: header_access
251TYPE: obsolete
252DOC_START
253 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
254 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
255DOC_END
256
257NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
258TYPE: obsolete
259DOC_START
260 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
261DOC_END
262
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263NAME: wais_relay_host
264TYPE: obsolete
265DOC_START
266 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
267DOC_END
268
269NAME: wais_relay_port
270TYPE: obsolete
271DOC_START
272 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
273DOC_END
274
5473c134 275COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 276 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 277 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
278COMMENT_END
279
41bd17a4 280NAME: auth_param
281TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 282IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 283LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 284DEFAULT: none
285DOC_START
41bd17a4 286 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
287 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 288
41bd17a4 289 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 290
41bd17a4 291 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
292 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
293 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
294 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
295 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
296 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
297 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
298 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
299 program entry).
cccac0a2 300
41bd17a4 301 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
302 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
303 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
304 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 305
41bd17a4 306 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
307 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
308 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
309 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
310 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
311 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
312 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
313 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
314 type acl.
cccac0a2 315
41bd17a4 316 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
317 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
318 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
319 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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320 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
321 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 322
41bd17a4 323 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 324
41bd17a4 325 "program" cmdline
326 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
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327 reads a line containing "username password" and replies with one of
328 three results:
329
330 OK
331 the user exists.
332
333 ERR
334 the user does not exist.
335
336 BH
4ded749e 337 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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338 a result being identified.
339
340 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
341 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
342
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343 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
344 proxy_auth.
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41bd17a4 346 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
347 program is specified.
cccac0a2 348
41bd17a4 349 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
350 this line to something like
307b83b7 351
f6c0fef2 352 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/basic_ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 353
d2a89ac1 354 "utf8" on|off
4ded749e 355 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
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356 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
357 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
358 username & password to the helper.
359
7353861b 360 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 361 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 362 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
363 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
364 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
365 authenticator processes.
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366
367 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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368 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
369 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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370 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
371 the maximum.
372
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373 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
374 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
375 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
376 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
377 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
4ded749e 378 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
41bd17a4 379 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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380
381 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 382
41bd17a4 383 "realm" realmstring
384 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
385 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
386 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
387 password). There is no default.
388 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 389
41bd17a4 390 "credentialsttl" timetolive
391 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
392 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
393 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
394 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
395 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
396 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
397 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
398 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
399 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 400
41bd17a4 401 "casesensitive" on|off
402 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
403 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
404 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
405 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
406 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 407
41bd17a4 408 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 409
41bd17a4 410 "program" cmdline
411 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
412 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
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413 replies with one of three results:
414
415 OK ha1="..."
416 the user exists. The ha1= key is mandatory and
417 contains the appropriate H(A1) value, hex encoded.
418 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
419
420 ERR
421 the user does not exist.
422
423 BH
4ded749e 424 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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425 a result being identified.
426
427 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
428 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 429
41bd17a4 430 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
431 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 432
41bd17a4 433 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
434 something like
cccac0a2 435
7ce93108 436 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 437
d2a89ac1 438 "utf8" on|off
4ded749e 439 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
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440 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
441 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
442 username & password to the helper.
443
7353861b 444 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 445 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 446 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
447 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
448 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
449 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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450
451 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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452 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
453 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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454 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
455 the maximum.
456
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457 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
458 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
459 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
460 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
461 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
4ded749e 462 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
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463 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
464
48d54e4d 465 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 466
41bd17a4 467 "realm" realmstring
468 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
469 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
470 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
471 password). There is no default.
472 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 473
41bd17a4 474 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
475 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
476 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 477
41bd17a4 478 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
479 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
480 valid for.
cccac0a2 481
41bd17a4 482 "nonce_max_count" number
483 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
484 used.
cccac0a2 485
41bd17a4 486 "nonce_strictness" on|off
487 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
488 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
4ded749e 489 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
41bd17a4 490 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 491
41bd17a4 492 "check_nonce_count" on|off
493 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
494 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
495 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
496 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 497
41bd17a4 498 "post_workaround" on|off
499 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
500 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
501 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 502
41bd17a4 503 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 504
41bd17a4 505 "program" cmdline
506 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
507 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
508 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
509 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
5269ec0e 510 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator program
41bd17a4 511 is not used.
cccac0a2 512
e4752e21 513 auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 514
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515 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
516 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 517 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
518 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
519 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
520 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
521 processes.
cccac0a2 522
48d54e4d 523 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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524 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
525 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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526 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
527 the maximum.
528
529 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 530
41bd17a4 531 "keep_alive" on|off
532 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
533 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
534 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
535 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
536 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 537
41bd17a4 538 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 539
41bd17a4 540 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 541
41bd17a4 542 "program" cmdline
543 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
544 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
545 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
546 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
547 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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548 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
549 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
5269ec0e 550 authenticator program is not used.
41bd17a4 551 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
552 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 553
e4752e21 554 auth_param negotiate program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 555
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556 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
557 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 558 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
559 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
4ded749e 560 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
41bd17a4 561 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
562 processes.
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563
564 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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565 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
566 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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567 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
568 the maximum.
569
570 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
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41bd17a4 572 "keep_alive" on|off
573 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
574 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
575 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
576 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
577 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 579 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 580
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581
582 Examples:
583
41bd17a4 584#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
585#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 586#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 587#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 588#
41bd17a4 589#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 590#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 591#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 592#
41bd17a4 593#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 594#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 595#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
596#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
597#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
598#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 599#
41bd17a4 600#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 601#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 602#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
603#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 604DOC_END
cccac0a2 605
41bd17a4 606NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
607TYPE: time_t
608DEFAULT: 1 hour
609LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
610DOC_START
611 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 612 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 613 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
614 have good reason to.
615DOC_END
cccac0a2 616
41bd17a4 617NAME: authenticate_ttl
618TYPE: time_t
619DEFAULT: 1 hour
620LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
621DOC_START
622 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
623 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
624 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
625 TTL are removed from memory.
626DOC_END
cccac0a2 627
41bd17a4 628NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
629TYPE: time_t
630LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
c35dd848 631DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 632DOC_START
633 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
634 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
635 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
636 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 637 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 638 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
639 environment with relatively static address assignments.
640DOC_END
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3d1e3e43 642COMMENT_START
643 ACCESS CONTROLS
644 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
645COMMENT_END
646
41bd17a4 647NAME: external_acl_type
648TYPE: externalAclHelper
649LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 650DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 651DOC_START
41bd17a4 652 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
653 to look up the status
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41bd17a4 655 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 656
41bd17a4 657 Options:
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41bd17a4 659 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
660 for 1 hour)
661 negative_ttl=n
662 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
663 as ttl)
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665 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
666 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
667 children-startup=n
668 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
669 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
670 of this type. (default 0)
671 children-idle=n
672 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
673 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
674 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
675 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 676 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
677 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 678 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 679 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
680 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 681 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 682 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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683 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
684 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 685
41bd17a4 686 FORMAT specifications
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41bd17a4 688 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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689 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
690 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
691 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 692 %IDENT Ident user name
693 %SRC Client IP
694 %SRCPORT Client source port
695 %URI Requested URI
696 %DST Requested host
697 %PROTO Requested protocol
698 %PORT Requested port
699 %PATH Requested URL path
700 %METHOD Request method
701 %MYADDR Squid interface address
702 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
703 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
704 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
705 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
706 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
707 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 708
c68c9682 709 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 710 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 711 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 712 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 713 HTTP request header list member using ; as
714 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
715 character.
cccac0a2 716
c68c9682 717 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 718 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 719 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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720 %<{Hdr:;member}
721 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
722 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
723 character.
724
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725 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
726 %DATA The ACL arguments. If not used then any arguments
727 is automatically added at the end of the line
728 sent to the helper.
729 NOTE: this will encode the arguments as one token,
730 whereas the default will pass each separately.
731
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732 %% The percent sign. Useful for helpers which need
733 an unchanging input format.
734
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736 General request syntax:
737
738 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
739
740
741 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
742 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
743 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
744
745 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
746 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
747
748 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
749 each value in requests against whitespaces.
750
751 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
752 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
753
754 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
755
756 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
757 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
758 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
759 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
760 of the response relating to its request.
761
762
763 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
764 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
765 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
766
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41bd17a4 768 General result syntax:
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771
772 Result consists of one of the codes:
773
774 OK
775 the ACL test produced a match.
776
777 ERR
778 the ACL test does not produce a match.
779
780 BH
4ded749e 781 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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783
784 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
785 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 787 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 789 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 790
41bd17a4 791 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
5269ec0e 792
05e52854 793 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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794 Available as %o in error pages.
795 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
796
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797 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
798 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 800 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 801 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 802
05e52854 803 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
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805 All response keyword values need to be a single token with URL
806 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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807 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
808 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
809 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 810
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812
5269ec0e 813 user=John%20Smith
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814 user="John Smith"
815 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
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817
41bd17a4 818NAME: acl
819TYPE: acl
820LOC: Config.aclList
38450a50 821IF USE_SSL
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822DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
823DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
824DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
825DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
826DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
827ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 828DEFAULT: all src all
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829DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
830DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
831DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
832DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 833DOC_START
41bd17a4 834 Defining an Access List
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836 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
837 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
838 they are read from.
cccac0a2 839
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840 acl aclname acltype argument ...
841 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 842
375eeb3b 843 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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846 The available options are:
847
848 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
849 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
850 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
851 without -i.
852
853 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
854 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
855 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
856 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
857 without any warnings or lookups.
858
859 -- Used to stop processing all options, in the case the first acl
860 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
861 is a valid domain name)
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864 to access some external data source.
865 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
866 don't are marked as [fast].
867 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
868 for further information
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870 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
871
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872 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
873 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 874 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 875 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 876
41bd17a4 877 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
878 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
879 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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881 # other *BSD variants.
882 # [fast]
41bd17a4 883 #
884 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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885 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
886 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
887
888 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
889 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 890 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 891 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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893 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 894 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 895 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 896 #
41bd17a4 897 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
898 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
899 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 900
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901 acl aclname src_as number ...
902 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 903 # [fast]
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904 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
905 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
906 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
907 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
908 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
909 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
910 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 911
6db78a1a 912 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 913 # [fast]
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915 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
916
375eeb3b 917 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 918 # [fast]
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920 # S - Sunday
921 # M - Monday
922 # T - Tuesday
923 # W - Wednesday
924 # H - Thursday
925 # F - Friday
926 # A - Saturday
927 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
928
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930 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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931 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
932 # regex matching on URL login field
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933 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
934 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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936 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
937 # ranges are alloed
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938 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
939 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
940
b3567eb5 941 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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943 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
944
945 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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948 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 950 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 951 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 952
375eeb3b 953 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 954 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 955 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 957 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 958 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 959 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 960 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 961
41bd17a4 962 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
963 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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965 # supplied credentials [slow]
966 #
967 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 968 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
969 #
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971 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
972 #
41bd17a4 973 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
974 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
975 # in access.log.
976 #
977 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
978 # to check username/password combinations (see
979 # auth_param directive).
980 #
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982 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 983 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 984
41bd17a4 985 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 986 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 987 # Example:
988 #
989 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 990
41bd17a4 991 acl aclname maxconn number
992 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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994 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
995 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 996
41bd17a4 997 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
998 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
999 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 1000 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 1001 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
1002 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
1003 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
1004 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
1005 # request is denied)
1006 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
1007 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
1008 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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1010 acl aclname random probability
1011 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
1012 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
1013 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
1014
375eeb3b 1015 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1016 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
1017 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 1018 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 1019 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1020 # to match the returned file type.
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41bd17a4 1022 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1023 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1024 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1025 # ACL [fast]
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375eeb3b 1027 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1028 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1029 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1030 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1031 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1032 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1033 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 1035 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1036 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1037 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1038 # ACLs [fast]
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375eeb3b 1040 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1041 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1042 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 1044 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1045 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 1046 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
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41bd17a4 1048 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1049 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 1050 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 1051
41bd17a4 1052 acl aclname ext_user username ...
1053 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1054 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1055 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1056
0ab50441 1057 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 1058 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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1061 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1062 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1063 #
1064 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1065 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1066 # http_reply_access.
1067
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1069 # match transaction annotation [fast]
1070 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
1071 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
1072 # also has one of the given values.
1073 # Names and values are compared using a string equality test.
1074 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
1075 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
1076
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1079 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1080 #
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1081 # For valid error names see in @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@/templates/error-details.txt
1082 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1083 #
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1085 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1086 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1087 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1088 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1089 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1090 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1091 #
1092 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1093 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1094 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1095 #
1096 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1097 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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1101 #
1102 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1103 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1104 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1105 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1106 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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1108 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1109 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1110 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1111 #
1112 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1113 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1114 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1115 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1116 #
1117 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1118 # and slow otherwise.
1119
1120 acl aclname all-of acl1 acl2 ...
1121 # match all of the acls [fast or slow]
1122 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1123 #
1124 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1125 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1126 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1127 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1128 #
1129 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1130 # and slow otherwise.
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1133 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1134 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1135 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1136 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1137 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 1138
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1141# Recommended minimum configuration:
1142#
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ee776778 1144# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1145# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1146# should be allowed
1147acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1148acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1149acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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1151acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1153acl SSL_ports port 443
1154acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1155acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1156acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1157acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1158acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1159acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1160acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1161acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1162acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1163acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1164acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1165NOCOMMENT_END
1166DOC_END
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1168NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1169TYPE: acl_access
1170IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1171LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1172DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1173DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
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1175 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
1176 find the original source of a request.
1177
1178 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1179 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
1180 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
1181 rightmost address being the most recent.
1182
1183 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
1184 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
1185 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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1187 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
1188 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
1189 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
1190 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
1191 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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1193 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1194 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1195 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1196 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1198 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1201 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1202
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1204
1205 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
1206 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
1207 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1208 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1209 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1210 based on the client's source addresses.
1211
1212 For example:
1213
1214 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1215 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1216 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1217 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1218DOC_END
1219
1220NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1221COMMENT: on|off
1222TYPE: onoff
1223IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1224DEFAULT: on
1225LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1226DOC_START
1227 Controls whether the indirect client address
1228 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1229 direct client address in acl matching.
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1231 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1232 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1234
1235NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1236COMMENT: on|off
1237TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1238IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1240LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1241DOC_START
1242 Controls whether the indirect client address
1243 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1244 direct client address in delay pools.
1245DOC_END
1246
1247NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1248COMMENT: on|off
1249TYPE: onoff
1250IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1251DEFAULT: on
1252LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1253DOC_START
1254 Controls whether the indirect client address
1255 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1256 direct client address in the access log.
1257DOC_END
1258
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1259NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1260COMMENT: on|off
1261TYPE: onoff
1262IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1263DEFAULT: off
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1264LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1265DOC_START
1266 Controls whether the indirect client address
1267 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1268 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1270 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1271 mode ports.
1272
1273 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1274 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1275 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1276 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1278
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1279NAME: spoof_client_ip
1280TYPE: acl_access
1281LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1282DEFAULT: none
1283DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1284DOC_START
1285 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1286 defined access lists.
1287
1288 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1289
1290 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1291 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1292
1293 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1294
1295 This clause supports fast acl types.
1296 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1297DOC_END
1298
41bd17a4 1299NAME: http_access
1300TYPE: acl_access
1301LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1302DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1303DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1304DOC_START
1305 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1306
41bd17a4 1307 Access to the HTTP port:
1308 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1309
41bd17a4 1310 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1311
41bd17a4 1312 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1313 the request.
cccac0a2 1314
41bd17a4 1315 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1316 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1317 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1318 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1320 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1323 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1324
41bd17a4 1325NOCOMMENT_START
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1327#
1328# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1329#
e0855596 1330# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1331http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1333# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1334http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
e0855596 1335
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1337http_access allow localhost manager
1338http_access deny manager
1339
41bd17a4 1340# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1341# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1342# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1343#http_access deny to_localhost
e0855596 1344
41bd17a4 1345#
1346# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1347#
c8f4eac4 1348
ee776778 1349# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1350# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1351# from where browsing should be allowed
1352http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1353http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1354
41bd17a4 1355# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1356http_access deny all
1357NOCOMMENT_END
1358DOC_END
7d90757b 1359
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1360NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1361TYPE: acl_access
1362LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1363DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1364DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1366 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1367
1368 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1369 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1370 output.
1371
1372 If not set then only http_access is used.
1373DOC_END
1374
41bd17a4 1375NAME: http_reply_access
1376TYPE: acl_access
1377LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1378DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1379DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1380DOC_START
1381 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1382
41bd17a4 1383 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1384
41bd17a4 1385 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1386 all replies.
1a224843 1387
41bd17a4 1388 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1389 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1390 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1392 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1393 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1394DOC_END
1395
41bd17a4 1396NAME: icp_access
1397TYPE: acl_access
1398LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1400DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1401DOC_START
41bd17a4 1402 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1403 access lists
5473c134 1404
41bd17a4 1405 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1406
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1408 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1409 using ICP.
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1412 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1414# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1415#icp_access allow localnet
1416#icp_access deny all
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1418
41bd17a4 1419NAME: htcp_access
1420IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1421TYPE: acl_access
1422LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1424DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1425DOC_START
41bd17a4 1426 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1427 access lists
5473c134 1428
41bd17a4 1429 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1432 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
5473c134 1433
0b48417e 1434 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1435 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1436 using the htcp option.
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1439 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1441# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1442#htcp_access allow localnet
1443#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1444DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1446NAME: htcp_clr_access
1447IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1448TYPE: acl_access
1449LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1451DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1452DOC_START
1453 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1455 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1456
41bd17a4 1457 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1460 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1462# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1463acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1464htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1465htcp_clr_access deny all
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1467
41bd17a4 1468NAME: miss_access
1469TYPE: acl_access
1470LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1471DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1472DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1473DOC_START
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1474 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1475
1476 For example;
1477 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1478 a parent.
5473c134 1479
638402dd 1480 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1481 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1482 miss_access allow all
5473c134 1483
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1485 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1486 objects (HITs).
1487
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1488 The default for this setting allows all clients who passed the
1489 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1491 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1492 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1493DOC_END
1494
1495NAME: ident_lookup_access
1496TYPE: acl_access
1497IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1499DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1500LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1501DOC_START
41bd17a4 1502 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1503 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1504 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1505 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1506 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1507 any requests.
5473c134 1508
41bd17a4 1509 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1510 can follow this example:
5473c134 1511
4daaf3cb 1512 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1513 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1514 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1515
4daaf3cb 1516 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1517 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1518 the correct result.
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1520 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1521 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1522DOC_END
5473c134 1523
5b0f5383 1524NAME: reply_body_max_size
1525COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1526TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1527DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1528DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1529LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1530DOC_START
1531 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1532 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1533 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1534 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1535 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1536 for this reply.
1537
1538 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1539 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1540 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1541 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1542 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1543 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1544 and they will receive a partial reply.
1545
1546 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1547 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1548 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1549 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1550
1551 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1552 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1553 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1554 the size of your largest error page.
1555
1556 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1557 no limit imposed.
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1559 Configuration Format is:
1560 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1561 ie.
1562 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1563
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1565
1566COMMENT_START
1567 NETWORK OPTIONS
1568 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1569COMMENT_END
1570
1571NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1572TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1573DEFAULT: none
1574LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1575DOC_START
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1576 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1577 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1578 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1579
1580 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1581 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1582 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1583 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1584 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1585 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1586 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1587
1588 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1589 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1590
1591 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1592 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1593 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1594
1595 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1596
c7b1dd5d 1597 Modes:
5b0f5383 1598
e77bdb4e 1599 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1600 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1601 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1602
1603 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1604 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1605 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1606
7f45065d 1607 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1608
caf3666d 1609 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1610 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1611 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1613 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1614
7a957a93 1615 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1616 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1617
1618 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1619
1620
1621 Accelerator Mode Options:
1622
5b0f5383 1623 defaultsite=domainname
1624 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1625 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1626 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1627
cf673853 1628 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1629
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1630 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated and intercepted
1631 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
1632 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
1633 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
1634 produce a FATAL error.
1635 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
5b0f5383 1636
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1637 vport Virtual host port support. Using the http_port number
1638 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1639
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1640 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1641 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1642
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1644 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1645 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1646 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1647
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1649
7f45065d 1650 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1652
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1653 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1654 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1655 never_direct was used.
1656
1657 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1658 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1659 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1660 http_access rules when using this.
1661
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1663 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1665
1666 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1667 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1668 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1669 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1670 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1671 certificate will be selfsigned.
1672 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1673 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1674 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1675 years.
1676 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1677 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1678
1679 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1680 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1681 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1682 default value is 4MB.
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1684 TLS / SSL Options:
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1686 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1687
1688 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1689 if not specified, the certificate file is
1690 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1691 key file.
1692
1693 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1694 1 automatic (default)
1695 2 SSLv2 only
1696 3 SSLv3 only
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1697 4 TLSv1.0 only
1698 5 TLSv1.1 only
1699 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1701 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1703 additional settings. If those settings are
1704 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1705 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1706
943c5f16 1707 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1708 being:
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1709 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1710 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1711 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1712 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1713 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1714 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1715 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1717 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1718 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1719 strength to some attacks.
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1720 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1721 complete list of options.
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1723 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1724 requesting a client certificate.
1725
1726 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1727 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1728 clientca will be used.
1729
1730 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1731 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1732
1733 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1734 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1735 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1736
1737 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1739 on how to create this file.
1740 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1741 option is not set.
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1743 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1744 DELAYED_AUTH
1745 Don't request client certificates
1746 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1747 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1748 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1749 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1750 to OpenSSL.
1751 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1752 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1753 will result in a new SSL session.
1754 VERIFY_CRL
1755 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1756 certificates.
1757 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1758 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1759 client certificate chain.
1760
1761 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1762
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1764
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1765 connection-auth[=on|off]
1766 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1767 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1768 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1769
5b0f5383 1770 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1771 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1772 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1773 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1774 support is enabled.
1775 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1776
1777 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1778 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1779 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1780 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1781 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1782 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1783 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1784 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1785
81b6e9a7 1786 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1787 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1788
68924b6d 1789 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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1791 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1792 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1793 timeout the time before giving up.
1794
5b0f5383 1795 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1796 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1797 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1798 visible on the internal address.
1799
1800NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 1801
5b0f5383 1802# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1803http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1804NOCOMMENT_END
1805DOC_END
1806
1807NAME: https_port
1808IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1809TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1810DEFAULT: none
1811LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1812DOC_START
7f45065d 1813 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1814
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1816 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1817
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1819 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1820
1821 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1822 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1823
7f45065d 1824 Modes:
5b0f5383 1825
7f45065d 1826 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1827
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1829 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1830 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1831
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1833 connections using the client IP address.
1834 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1835
caf3666d 1836 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1837 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1838 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1840 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1841
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1843 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 1844
38450a50 1845 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1846
7f45065d 1847 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
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1851
1852
1853 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1854
1855 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1856
1857 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1858 if not specified, the certificate file is
1859 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1860 key file.
1861
1862 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1863 1 automatic (default)
1864 2 SSLv2 only
1865 3 SSLv3 only
1866 4 TLSv1 only
1867
1868 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1869
1870 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1871 being:
1872 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1873 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1874 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1875 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1876 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1877 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1878 documentation for a complete list of options.
1879
1880 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1881 requesting a client certificate.
1882
1883 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1884 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1885 clientca will be used.
1886
1887 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1888 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1889
1890 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1891 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1892 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1893
1894 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1895 DH key exchanges.
1896
1897 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1898 DELAYED_AUTH
1899 Don't request client certificates
1900 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1901 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1902 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1903 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1904 to OpenSSL.
1905 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1906 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1907 will result in a new SSL session.
1908 VERIFY_CRL
1909 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1910 certificates.
1911 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1912 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1913 client certificate chain.
1914
1915 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1916
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1918 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1919 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1920 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1921 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1922 certificate will be selfsigned.
1923 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1924 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1925 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1926 years.
1927 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1928 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1929
1930 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1931 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1932 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1933 default value is 4MB.
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859741ed 1935 See http_port for a list of available options.
5b0f5383 1936DOC_END
1937
41bd17a4 1938NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1939TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1940DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1941LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1942DOC_START
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1943 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
1944 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1945
41bd17a4 1946 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1947
41bd17a4 1948 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1949 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1950
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1951 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1952 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1953 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1954 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
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41bd17a4 1956 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1957 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1958 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1959
41bd17a4 1960 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1961 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1963 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1964
41bd17a4 1965 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1966 matching line.
cccac0a2 1967DOC_END
1968
41bd17a4 1969NAME: clientside_tos
1970TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1971DEFAULT: none
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1972LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
1973DOC_START
1974 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1975 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1976
1977 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1978
1979 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1980 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1981
1982 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1983 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1984 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1985 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1986
1987 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1988 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1989DOC_END
1990
1991NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1992TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1993IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1994DEFAULT: none
1995LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1996DOC_START
1997 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1998 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1999
2000 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2001
2002 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2003 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2004
2005 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2006 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2007 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2008 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
2009DOC_END
2010
2011NAME: clientside_mark
2012TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2013IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2015LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
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2017 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
2018 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2019
2020 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2021
2022 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2023 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2024
2025 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2026 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2027 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2028 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
2029
2030 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
2031 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 2032DOC_END
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2035TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 2036IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 2037DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 2038LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 2039DOC_START
575cb927 2040 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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2042 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
2043 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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2045 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
2046 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2047 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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2050 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
2051 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2052
2053 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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2055 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
2056
2057 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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2059 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
2060
2061 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
2062
2063 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
2064
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2066 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2067 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2068 specified in the mask are written.
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2070 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
2071 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2072 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2073 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2074 with all variants of netfilter.
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575cb927 2076 disable-preserve-miss
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2077 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2078 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2079 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2080 and masked with miss-mark.
2081 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2082 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2083 (MARK target).
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2085 miss-mask=0xFF
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2086 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2087 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2088 the TOS sent towards clients.
2089 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2090 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2091
2092 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2093 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2094 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2095 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2098
41bd17a4 2099NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2100TYPE: acl_address
2101DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2102DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2103LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2104DOC_START
2105 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2106 based on the username or source address of the user making
2107 the request.
7f7db318 2108
41bd17a4 2109 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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2112 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2114 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2115 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2116
2117 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2118 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2119
2120 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2121 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2122
2123 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2124 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2125
41bd17a4 2126 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2127 matching line.
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2130 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2131 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2132
2133
2134 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2135 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2136 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2137 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 2139 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
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2142 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
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2146NAME: host_verify_strict
2147TYPE: onoff
2148DEFAULT: off
2149LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2150DOC_START
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2152 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2153 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2155 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2156 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2157 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2159 When set to ON:
2160 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2161 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2162
2163 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2164 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2165 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2166 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2167 and Request-URI components:
2168
2169 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2170 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2171 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2172 or FQDN.
2173
2174 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2175 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2176
2177
2178 When set to OFF (the default):
2179 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2180 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2181
2182 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2183
2184 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2185
2186 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2187 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2188
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2190 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2191 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2192
2193 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2194 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2195
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2199 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2200 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2201 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2202 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2203
2204 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2205 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2206 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2207 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2208 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2210DOC_END
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2212NAME: client_dst_passthru
2213TYPE: onoff
2214DEFAULT: on
2215LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2216DOC_START
2217 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2218 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2219 source using the HTTP Host header.
2220
2221 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2222 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2223 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2224 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2225
2226 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2227 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2228 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2229
2230 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2231 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2232 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2233
2234 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2235DOC_END
2236
41bd17a4 2237COMMENT_START
2238 SSL OPTIONS
2239 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2240COMMENT_END
2241
2242NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
2243IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2244TYPE: onoff
2245DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2246LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2247DOC_START
41bd17a4 2248 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2249 messages.
cccac0a2 2250DOC_END
2251
41bd17a4 2252NAME: ssl_engine
2253IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2254TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2255LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2256DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2257DOC_START
41bd17a4 2258 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2259 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2260DOC_END
2261
41bd17a4 2262NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
2263IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2264DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2265LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2266TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2267DOC_START
41bd17a4 2268 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2269DOC_END
2270
41bd17a4 2271NAME: sslproxy_client_key
2272IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2273DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2274LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2275TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2276DOC_START
41bd17a4 2277 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2278DOC_END
2279
41bd17a4 2280NAME: sslproxy_version
2281IFDEF: USE_SSL
2282DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 2283DEFAULT_DOC: automatic SSL/TLS version negotiation
41bd17a4 2284LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2285TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2286DOC_START
41bd17a4 2287 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2289 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2290
2291 1 automatic (default)
2292 2 SSLv2 only
2293 3 SSLv3 only
2294 4 TLSv1.0 only
2295 5 TLSv1.1 only
2296 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2297DOC_END
2298
41bd17a4 2299NAME: sslproxy_options
2300IFDEF: USE_SSL
2301DEFAULT: none
2302LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2303TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2304DOC_START
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2307 The most important being:
2308
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2309 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2310 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2311 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2312 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2313 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2315 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2316 DH key exchanges
2317 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2318 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2319 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2320 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2321 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2322 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2323 strength to some attacks.
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2326 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 2327DOC_END
2328
41bd17a4 2329NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2330IFDEF: USE_SSL
2331DEFAULT: none
2332LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2333TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2334DOC_START
41bd17a4 2335 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2336
2337 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2338DOC_END
2339
41bd17a4 2340NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2341IFDEF: USE_SSL
2342DEFAULT: none
2343LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2344TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2345DOC_START
41bd17a4 2346 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2347 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2348DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2350NAME: sslproxy_capath
2351IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 2352DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2353LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2354TYPE: string
5473c134 2355DOC_START
41bd17a4 2356 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2357 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2358DOC_END
2359
4c9da963 2360NAME: ssl_bump
2361IFDEF: USE_SSL
caf3666d 2362TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2363LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
638402dd 2364DEFAULT_DOC: Does not bump unless rules are present in squid.conf
4c9da963 2365DEFAULT: none
2366DOC_START
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2367 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2368 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2369 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2370 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2371 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2372 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2373
2374 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2375
2376 The following bumping modes are supported:
2377
2378 client-first
2379 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2380 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2381 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2382 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2383
2384 server-first
2385 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2386 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2387 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2388 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2389
2390 none
2391 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2392 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2393 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2394 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2395
2396 By default, no connections are bumped.
2397
2398 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2399 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2400 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2401 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2402 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2403
e0c0d54c 2404 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2405 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
e0855596 2406
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2408
e0855596 2409
caf3666d 2410 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from
638402dd 2411 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 2412
e0855596 2413 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2414 ssl_bump none localhost
2415 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2416 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2417DOC_END
2418
41bd17a4 2419NAME: sslproxy_flags
2420IFDEF: USE_SSL
2421DEFAULT: none
2422LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2423TYPE: string
5473c134 2424DOC_START
41bd17a4 2425 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2426 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2427 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2428 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2429 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2430DOC_END
2431
4c9da963 2432NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2433IFDEF: USE_SSL
2434DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2435DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 2436LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2437TYPE: acl_access
2438DOC_START
2439 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2440
2441 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2442 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2443 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2444
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2445 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
2446 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2447 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2448
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2450 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2451 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2452
2453 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 2454 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
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2456 SQUID_X509_V_ERR_INFINITE_VALIDATION error cannot be bypassed
2457 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
2458
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2459 SECURITY WARNING:
2460 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
2461 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
2462 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 2463
638402dd 2464 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 2465DOC_END
2466
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2467NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2468IFDEF: USE_SSL
2469DEFAULT: none
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2470POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2471POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2472POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2473TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2474LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2475DOC_START
2476
69742b76 2477 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 2478
69742b76 2479 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2480
aebe6888 2481 signTrusted
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2482 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
2483 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2484 default for trusted origin server certificates.
638402dd 2485
aebe6888 2486 signUntrusted
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2487 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2488 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2489 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 2490
aebe6888 2491 signSelf
69742b76 2492 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2493 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2494 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
2495 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2498
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2499 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2500 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2501 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2502 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2503 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2505 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2506 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2507 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2508 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2509 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2510 bump-server-first is used.
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2512
638402dd 2513NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
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2514IFDEF: USE_SSL
2515DEFAULT: none
2516TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2517LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2518DOC_START
2519
2520 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2521
69742b76 2522 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2523
fb2178bb 2524 setValidAfter
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2525 Sets the "Not After" property to the "Not After" property of
2526 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 2527
fb2178bb 2528 setValidBefore
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2529 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
2530 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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2532 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2533 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2534 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2535 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2536 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2537 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2539 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2540
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2541 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
2542 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2543 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2544 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2545 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2546 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2548 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2549 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2550 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2551 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2552 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2553 bump-server-first is used.
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2555
41bd17a4 2556NAME: sslpassword_program
2557IFDEF: USE_SSL
2558DEFAULT: none
2559LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2560TYPE: string
5473c134 2561DOC_START
41bd17a4 2562 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2563 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2564 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2565 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2566
2567 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2568 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2569 keys.
5473c134 2570DOC_END
2571
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2573 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2574 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2575COMMENT_END
2576
2577NAME: sslcrtd_program
2578TYPE: eol
2579IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2580DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2581LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2582DOC_START
2583 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2584 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2585 For more information use:
2586 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2587DOC_END
2588
2589NAME: sslcrtd_children
2590TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2591IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2592DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2593LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2594DOC_START
2595 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2596 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2597
2598 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2599 tuning.
2600
2601 startup=N
2602
2603 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2604 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2605 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2606
2607 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2608 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2609
2610 idle=N
2611
2612 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2613 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2614 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2615 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2616
2617 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2618DOC_END
2619
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2620NAME: sslcrtvalidator_program
2621TYPE: eol
2622IFDEF: USE_SSL
2623DEFAULT: none
2624LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
2625DOC_START
2626 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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2627 process.
2628
2629 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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2630
2631 Options:
638402dd 2632 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results. The default is 60 secs
14798e73 2633 cache=n limit the result cache size. The default value is 2048
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2634DOC_END
2635
2636NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
2637TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2638IFDEF: USE_SSL
413bb969 2639DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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2640LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
2641DOC_START
638402dd 2642 The maximum number of processes spawn to service SSL server.
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2644
2645 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2646 tuning.
2647
2648 startup=N
2649
2650 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2651 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2652 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2653
2654 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2655 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2656
2657 idle=N
2658
2659 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2660 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2661 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2662 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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2664 concurrency=
2665
2666 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
2667 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the certficate validator
2668 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2669
2670 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
2671 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
2672 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
2673 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
2674 to that request.
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2675
2676 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
2677DOC_END
2678
cccac0a2 2679COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2680 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2681 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2682COMMENT_END
2683
41bd17a4 2684NAME: cache_peer
2685TYPE: peer
2686DEFAULT: none
2687LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2688DOC_START
41bd17a4 2689 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 2690
41bd17a4 2691 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2692
41bd17a4 2693 For example,
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41bd17a4 2695 # proxy icp
2696 # hostname type port port options
2697 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2698 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2699 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2700 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2701 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2702 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2703
2704 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2705
2706 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2707 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2708 For web servers this is usually 80
2709
2710 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2711 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2712 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2713
2714
2715 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2716
2717 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2718 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2719
2720
2721 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2722
2723 multicast-responder
2724 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2725 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2726 replies will be accepted from it.
2727
2728 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2729 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2730
2731 background-ping
2732 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2733 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2734 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2735
2736
2737 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2738
2739 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2740 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2741
2742
2743 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2744 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2745 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2746 list of options described below.
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18191440 2748 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2749
18191440 2750 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2751 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2752 only-clr.
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2754 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2755 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2b94f655 2756
18191440 2757 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2758 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2759 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2760
18191440 2761 htcp=forward-clr
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2762 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2763
2764
2765 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2766
2767 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2768 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2769
2770
2771 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2772 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2773 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2774
2775 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2776 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2777 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2778
2779 weighted-round-robin
2780 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2781 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2782 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2783 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2784 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2785
2786 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2787 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2788 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2789
2790 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2791
2792 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2794 multicast-siblings
2795 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2796 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2797 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2798 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2799 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2800 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2801 members of the same multicast group.
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2802
2803
2804 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2805
2806 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2807 peer-selection mechanisms.
2808 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2809 larger weights are favored more.
2810 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2811 protocol is not in use.
2812
2813 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2814 times of parents.
2815 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2816 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2817 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2818
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2819 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2820 to this address.
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2821 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2822 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2823 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2824 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2825
2826 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2827 delay pools.
2828
2829 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2830 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2831 than the Squid default location.
2832
2833
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2835
2836 carp-key=key-specification
2837 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2838 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2839 scheme, host, port, path, params
2840 Order is not important.
2841
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2842 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2843
2844 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2845 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2846 is a web server.
2847
2848 forceddomain=name
2849 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2850 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2851 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2852 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2853
2854 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2855
2856 no-netdb-exchange
2857 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2858
2859
2860 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2861
2862 login=user:password
2863 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2864 requires proxy authentication.
2865
2866 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2867 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2868
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2869 login=PASSTHRU
2870 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2871 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2872 without alteration to the peer.
2873 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2874
2875 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2876 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2877 connection-auth options are also used.
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2879 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2880 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2882 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2883 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2885 they may be sent instead.
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2886
2887 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2888 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2889 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2890 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2891 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2892
2893 login=*:password
2894 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2895 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2896 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2897 needed to identify each user.
2898 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2899 information which is added to the username. This can
2900 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2901 the login=username:password option above.
2902
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2903 login=NEGOTIATE
2904 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2905 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2906 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2907 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2908
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2909 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
2910 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2911 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2912
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2913 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2914 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2915 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2916 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2917 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2918 used.
2919
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2920 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
2921 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2922 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2923
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2924 connection-auth=on|off
2925 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2926 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2927 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2928 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2929 of the peer.
2930
2931
2932 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2933
2934 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2935
2936 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2937 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2938 this peer.
2939
2940 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2941 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2942 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2943 reference a combined file containing both the
2944 certificate and the key.
2945
3d96b0e8 2946 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2947 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2948 1 = automatic (default)
2949 2 = SSL v2 only
2950 3 = SSL v3 only
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2951 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2952 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2953 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2954
2955 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2956 to this peer.
2957
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2958 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL implementation options:
2959
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2960 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2961 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2962 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2963 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2964 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2965 SINGLE_DH_USE
2966 Always create a new key when using
2967 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2968 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2969 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2970 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2971 strength to some attacks.
2972
2973 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2974 more complete list.
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2975
2976 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2977 when verifying the peer certificate.
2978
2979 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2980 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2981
2982 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2983 verifying the peer certificate.
2984
2985 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2986
41bd17a4 2987 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2988 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2989 verify.
2990 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2991 Don't use the default CA list built in
2992 to OpenSSL.
2993 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2994 Don't verify the peer certificate
2995 matches the server name
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2996
2997 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2998 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2999 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
3000 used.
3001
3002 front-end-https
3003 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
3004 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
3005 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
3006 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
3007 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
3008
3009
3010 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
3011
3012 connect-timeout=N
3013 A peer-specific connect timeout.
3014 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
3015
3016 connect-fail-limit=N
3017 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
3018 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
3019
3020 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
3021 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
3022 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
3023 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
3024 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
3025 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
3026 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
3027
3028 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
3029 peer. see also
3030
3031 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
3032 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
3033 but different ports.
3034 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
3035 directives to dentify the peer.
3036 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3037 peername ACL type.
3038
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3039 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3040 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3041 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
b0758e04 3042
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3043 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
3044
41bd17a4 3045DOC_END
cccac0a2 3046
41bd17a4 3047NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
3048TYPE: hostdomain
3049DEFAULT: none
3050LOC: none
3051DOC_START
3052 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
638402dd 3053 queried.
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3055 Usage:
3056 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
3057 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 3058
41bd17a4 3059 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 3060
41bd17a4 3061 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 3062
41bd17a4 3063 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
3064 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
3065 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
3066 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
3067 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 3068
41bd17a4 3069 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
3070 either on the same or separate lines.
3071 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
3072 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
3073 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
3074 for all requests.
3075 * There are no defaults.
3076 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
3077 section.
3078DOC_END
dd9b1776 3079
41bd17a4 3080NAME: cache_peer_access
3081TYPE: peer_access
3082DEFAULT: none
3083LOC: none
3084DOC_START
3085 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
3086 using ACL elements.
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3088 Usage:
3089 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 3090
41bd17a4 3091 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
3092 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 3093 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 3094DOC_END
dd9b1776 3095
41bd17a4 3096NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3097TYPE: hostdomaintype
3098DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3099DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3100LOC: none
3101DOC_START
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3102 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3103 about specific domains to the peer.
3104
3105 Usage:
3106 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 3107
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3108 For example:
3109 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3110 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
6bf4f823 3111
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3112 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3113 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3114DOC_END
6bf4f823 3115
41bd17a4 3116NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3117COMMENT: (seconds)
3118DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3119TYPE: time_t
3120LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3121DOC_START
3122 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3123 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3124 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3125 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3126 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3127 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3128
41bd17a4 3129 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3130 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3131 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3132 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3133 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3134 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3135 instead of to your parents.
3136DOC_END
cccac0a2 3137
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3138NAME: forward_max_tries
3139DEFAULT: 10
3140TYPE: int
3141LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3142DOC_START
3143 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3144 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3145
3146 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3147 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3148DOC_END
3149
41bd17a4 3150NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
3151TYPE: wordlist
3152DEFAULT: none
3153LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
3154DOC_START
3155 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
3156 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
3157 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
3158 list this option multiple times.
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3160 Example:
3161 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
3162
3163 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 3164DOC_END
0976f8db 3165
41bd17a4 3166COMMENT_START
3167 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3168 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3169COMMENT_END
3170
3171NAME: cache_mem
3172COMMENT: (bytes)
3173TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3174DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3175LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3176DOC_START
41bd17a4 3177 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3178 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3179 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3180 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3181
3182 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3183 for:
3184 * In-Transit objects
3185 * Hot Objects
3186 * Negative-Cached objects
3187
3188 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3189 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3190 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3191 priority.
3192
3193 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3194 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3195 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3196 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3197 not needed for in-transit objects.
3198
3199 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3200 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3201 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3202 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3203 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3204 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3205 objects.
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3206
3207 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3208 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3209 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3210 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3211DOC_END
0976f8db 3212
41bd17a4 3213NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3214COMMENT: (bytes)
3215TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3216DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3217LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3218DOC_START
41bd17a4 3219 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3220 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3221 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3222 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3223DOC_END
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3225NAME: memory_cache_shared
3226COMMENT: on|off
3227TYPE: YesNoNone
3228LOC: Config.memShared
3229DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3230DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3231DOC_START
3232 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3233
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3234 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3235 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3236 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3237 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3238 caching is enabled).
3239
65b81b27 3240 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3241 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3242 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3243 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3244 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3245
3246 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3247 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3248 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3249
3250 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3251DOC_END
3252
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3253NAME: memory_cache_mode
3254TYPE: memcachemode
3255LOC: Config
3256DEFAULT: always
638402dd 3257DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 3258DOC_START
ea21d497 3259 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3260
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3261 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3262
3263 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3264 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3265 a second time before cached in memory.
3266
3267 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3268DOC_END
3269
41bd17a4 3270NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3271TYPE: removalpolicy
3272LOC: Config.memPolicy
3273DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3274DOC_START
41bd17a4 3275 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3276 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3277
638402dd 3278 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 3279DOC_END
6b698a21 3280
41bd17a4 3281COMMENT_START
3282 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3283 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3284COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3285
41bd17a4 3286NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3287TYPE: removalpolicy
3288LOC: Config.replPolicy
3289DEFAULT: lru
3290DOC_START
3291 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3292 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3293
41bd17a4 3294 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3295 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3296 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3297 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3298
638402dd 3299 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 3300
41bd17a4 3301 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3302
41bd17a4 3303 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3304 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3305 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3306 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3307
41bd17a4 3308 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3309 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3310 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3311 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3312
41bd17a4 3313 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3314 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3315 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3316
41bd17a4 3317 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3318 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3319 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3320
41bd17a4 3321 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3322 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3323 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3324DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3326NAME: cache_dir
3327TYPE: cachedir
3328DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3329DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 3330LOC: Config.cacheSwap
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3332 Format:
3333 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3334
41bd17a4 3335 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3336 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3337
41bd17a4 3338 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3339 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3340 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3341
41bd17a4 3342 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3343 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3344 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3345 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3346 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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3348 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3349 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3350 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3351
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3353 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 3354
41bd17a4 3355 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3356 been there.
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3358 Usage:
3359 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3360
41bd17a4 3361 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3362 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3363 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3364 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3365 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3366
56fba4d0 3367 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3368 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3369
56fba4d0 3370 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3371 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3372 is 256.
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3375 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 3376
41bd17a4 3377 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3378 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3379 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
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3381 Usage:
3382 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3383
41bd17a4 3384 see argument descriptions under ufs above
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3387 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 3388
41bd17a4 3389 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3390 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3391 disk-I/O.
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3393 Usage:
3394 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3395
41bd17a4 3396 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3397
41bd17a4 3398 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3399 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3400 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3401
41bd17a4 3402 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3403 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3404 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3405
41bd17a4 3406 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3407 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3408 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3409 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3410 time.
0976f8db 3411
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3413 ==== The rock store type ====
3414
3415 Usage:
df881a0f 3416 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 3417
2e55f083 3418 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3419 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
3420 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3421 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3422 below for more info on the max-size option.
3423
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3424 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
3425 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
3426 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
3427 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
3428 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
3429
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3430 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3431 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3432 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3433 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3434 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3435 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3436 expected swap wait time.
3437
df881a0f 3438 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3439 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3440 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3441 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3442 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3443 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3444 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3445 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3446 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3447 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3448 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3449 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3450 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3451 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3452
3453
638402dd 3454 ==== The coss store type ====
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3456 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3457 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3458 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3459
41bd17a4 3460 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3461 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3462 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3463 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3464 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3465 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3466 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 3467
41bd17a4 3468 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3469 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3470 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 3471
0976f8db 3472
638402dd 3473 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
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3475 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
3476
3477 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3478 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
3479 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
3480 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
3481 (e.g. COSS).
3482 Defaults to 0.
3483
3484 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3485 supports.
3486 The value in maximum_object_size directive, sets
3487 a default unless more specific details are available
3488 about the cache_dir (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 3489
41bd17a4 3490 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 3491 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 3492
41bd17a4 3493 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3494 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3495 option.
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3499# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3500#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
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6b698a21 3502DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3504NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3505TYPE: string
3506LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3507DEFAULT: least-load
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3509 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
3510 object will fit into more than one.
3511
3512 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
3513 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
3514 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
3515 cache_dir.
3516
3517 Algorithms:
3518
3519 least-load
3520
3521 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
3522 sizes and disk speeds.
3523
3524 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
3525 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
3526 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
3527
3528 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
3529 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
3530 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
3531 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
3532
3533
3534 round-robin
3535
3536 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
3537 disk sizes.
3538
3539 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
3540 cache_dir is used.
3541
3542 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
3543 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
3544 max-size parameters.
3545
3546 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
3547 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
3548 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
3549
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41bd17a4 3552NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3553TYPE: int
3554LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3555DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 3556DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 3557DOC_START
41bd17a4 3558 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3559 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3560 descriptors are open.
3561
3562 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3563DOC_END
0976f8db 3564
41bd17a4 3565NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 3566COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 3567TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 3568DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 3569DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
41bd17a4 3570LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 3571DOC_START
41bd17a4 3572 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
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3573 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3574 means all responses can be stored.
6b698a21 3575DOC_END
0976f8db 3576
41bd17a4 3577NAME: maximum_object_size
3578COMMENT: (bytes)
3579TYPE: b_int64_t
b51ec8c8 3580DEFAULT: 4 MB
41bd17a4 3581LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 3582DOC_START
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3583 The default limit on size of objects stored to disk.
3584 This size is used for cache_dir where max-size is not set.
3585 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3586
3587 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
41bd17a4 3588 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
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3589 hits).
3590
3591 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
41bd17a4 3592 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 3593
41bd17a4 3594 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3595 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3596 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 3597DOC_END
0976f8db 3598
41bd17a4 3599NAME: cache_swap_low
3600COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3601TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3602DEFAULT: 90
3603LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
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3604DOC_START
3605 The low-water mark for cache object replacement.
3606 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3607 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3608 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3609 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3610 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3611
3612 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3613 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3614 numbers closer together.
3615
3616 See also cache_swap_high
3617DOC_END
41bd17a4 3618
3619NAME: cache_swap_high
3620COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3621TYPE: int
3622DEFAULT: 95
3623LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3624DOC_START
638402dd 3625 The high-water mark for cache object replacement.
41bd17a4 3626 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3627 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3628 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3629 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3630 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3631
3632 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3633 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3634 numbers closer together.
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3635
3636 See also cache_swap_low
6b698a21 3637DOC_END
0976f8db 3638
5473c134 3639COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3640 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3641 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3642COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3643
41bd17a4 3644NAME: logformat
3645TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3646LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3647DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3648DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 3649DOC_START
41bd17a4 3650 Usage:
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41bd17a4 3652 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3653
41bd17a4 3654 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3655
41bd17a4 3656 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
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41bd17a4 3658 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3659 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3660 as required according to their context and the output format
3661 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3662 output format is desired.
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41bd17a4 3664 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3665
41bd17a4 3666 " output in quoted string format
3667 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3668 # output in URL quoted format
3669 ' output as-is
5473c134 3670
41bd17a4 3671 - left aligned
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3672
3673 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3674 [width_min][.width_max]
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3675 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3676 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3677
41bd17a4 3678 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3679
41bd17a4 3680 Format codes:
5473c134 3681
3ff65596 3682 % a literal % character
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3683 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3684 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3685 a similar internal error identifier.
3686 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
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3687 note The meta header specified by the argument. Also
3688 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3689 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
3690 If no argument given all meta headers logged.
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3691
3692 Connection related format codes:
3693
41bd17a4 3694 >a Client source IP address
3695 >A Client FQDN
3696 >p Client source port
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3697 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3698 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3699 >lp Local port number the client connected to
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3700 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
3701 >nfmark Client connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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3703 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3704 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3705
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3706 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3707 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3708 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3709 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3710 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3711 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
3712 <nfmark Server connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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3713
3714 Time related format codes:
3715
41bd17a4 3716 ts Seconds since epoch
3717 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3718 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3719 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3720 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3721 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3722 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3723 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
3724
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3725 Access Control related format codes:
3726
3727 et Tag returned by external acl
3728 ea Log string returned by external acl
3729 un User name (any available)
3730 ul User name from authentication
3731 ue User name from external acl helper
3732 ui User name from ident
3733 us User name from SSL
3734
3735 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3736
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3737 [http::]>h Original received request header.
3738 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3739 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
3740 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
3741 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
3742 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
3743 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
3744 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3745 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 3746 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3747 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3748 as for >h
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3749 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3750 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3751 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3752 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3753 transfer encoding and control messages.
3754 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3755 received bodies.
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3756 [http::]mt MIME content type
3757 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3758 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3759 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3760 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3761 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3762 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3763 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3764 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3765 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3766 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3767 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3768 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3769 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3770 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3771 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3772 are not included
3773 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3774 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3775 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3776 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3777 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3778 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3779 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3780 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3781 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3782 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3783 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3784 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3785
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3786 Squid handling related format codes:
3787
3788 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3789 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3790
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3792
3793 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3794
3795 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3796 a connection and for any request received on
3797 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3798 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3799 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3800 more information about these modes.
3801
3802 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3803 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3804 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3805
3806 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3807 logged.
3808
5038f9d8 3809 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3810 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3811
3812 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3813 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3814 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3815 transaction is in progress.
3816
5038f9d8 3817 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3818
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3819 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3820 meta-information from the last eCAP
3821 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3822 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3823 argument.
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3824
3825 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3826 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3827 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3828 value is recorded as an integer number,
3829 representing response time of one or more
3830 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3831 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3832 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3833 logged individually but added to the
3834 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3835 adapt::all_trs.
3836
3837 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3838 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3839 individual transactions are never added
3840 together. Instead, all transaction response
3841 times are recorded individually.
3842
3843 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3844 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3845 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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3847 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3848
3849 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3850 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3851 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3852 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3853 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3854
3855 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3856 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3857 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3858 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3859 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3860
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3861 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3862
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3863logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3864logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3865logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3866logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3867logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3868
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3869 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3870 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3871 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3872
3873 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3874 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3875
5473c134 3876DOC_END
3877
41bd17a4 3878NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3879TYPE: access_log
3880LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3881DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3882DOC_START
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3883 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
3884 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
3885 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
3886
3887 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
3888 access_log none [acl acl ...]
3889
3890 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 3891 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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3892
3893 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
3894 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
3895 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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3896
3897 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3898 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3899 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3900 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3901
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3902 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
3903
3904 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
3905 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
3906 to 'squid'.
3907
3908 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
3909 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
3910 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
3911 should flush records before the buffer becomes
3912 full to avoid overflows under normal
3913 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
3914 module-dependent though). The on-error option
3915 controls overflow handling.
3916
3917 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
3918 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
3919 affected log records. The default 'die' action
3920 kills the affected worker. The drop action
3921 support has not been tested for modules other
3922 than tcp.
3923
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3924 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3925
bb7a1781 3926 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3927 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3928
3929 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3930 each request.
3931 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3932
3933 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3934 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3935 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3936
3937 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3938
3939 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3940 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3941 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3942
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3943 where facility could be any of:
3944 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3945
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3946 And priority could be any of:
3947 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3948
3949 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3950 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3951 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3952
2bf4e8fa 3953 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 3954 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 3955 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3956 Place Format: //host:port
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3957
3958 Default:
82b7abe3 3959 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3960DOC_END
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3962NAME: icap_log
3963TYPE: access_log
3964IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3965LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3966DEFAULT: none
3967DOC_START
3968 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3969 transaction.
3970
3971 The icap_log option format is:
3972 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3973 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3974
3975 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3976 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3977 features.
3978
3979 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3980 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3981 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3982 log line.
3983
3984 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3985 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3986 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3987 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3988 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3989 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3990 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3991
3992 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3993
3994 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3995
3996 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3997 option in Squid configuration file.
3998
3999 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
4000
4001 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
4002 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
4003
4004 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
4005 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
4006
4007 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
4008 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
4009 the socket).
4010
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4011 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
4012 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
4013 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
4014 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
4015 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
4016 computed.
4017
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4018 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
4019 milliseconds). The timer starts when
4020 the ICAP transaction is created and
4021 stops when the transaction is completed.
4022 Similar to tr.
4023
4024 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
4025 timer starts when the first ICAP request
4026 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
4027 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
4028 is received.
4029
4030 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
4031 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
4032 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
4033 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
4034 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
4035 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
4036
4037 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
4038
4039 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
4040
4041 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
4042
4043 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
4044 definition, is called icap_squid:
4045
4046logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
4047
5038f9d8 4048 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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4049DOC_END
4050
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4051NAME: logfile_daemon
4052TYPE: string
4053DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
4054LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
4055DOC_START
4056 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
4057 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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4058
4059 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
4060 L<data>\n - logfile data
4061 R\n - rotate file
4062 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 4063 O\n - reopen file
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4064 F\n - flush file
4065 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
4066 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
4067
4068 No responses is expected.
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4069DOC_END
4070
5b0f5383 4071NAME: log_access
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4072TYPE: obsolete
4073DOC_START
4074 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
4075DOC_END
4076
4077NAME: log_icap
4078TYPE: obsolete
4079DOC_START
4080 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
4081DOC_END
4082
4083NAME: stats_collection
5b0f5383 4084TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 4085LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
5b0f5383 4086DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4087DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 4088COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
4089DOC_START
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4090 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
4091 in performance counters.
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4092
4093 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4094 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 4095DOC_END
4096
41bd17a4 4097NAME: cache_store_log
4098TYPE: string
df2eec10 4099DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4100LOC: Config.Log.store
4101DOC_START
4102 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
4103 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 4104 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 4105 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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4106 disable it (the default).
4107
4108 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
4109 of modules supported.
4110
e0855596 4111 Example:
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4112 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
4113 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 4114DOC_END
4115
41bd17a4 4116NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
4117TYPE: string
4118LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 4119DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4120DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 4121DOC_START
41bd17a4 4122 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
4123 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
4124 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
4125 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
4126 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
4127 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
4128 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 4129
41bd17a4 4130 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
4131 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
4132 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
4133 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 4134
41bd17a4 4135 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
4136 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 4137
41bd17a4 4138 cache_swap_log.00
4139 cache_swap_log.01
4140 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 4141
41bd17a4 4142 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
4143 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
4144 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
4145 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
4146 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
4147 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
4148 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 4149DOC_END
4150
41bd17a4 4151NAME: logfile_rotate
4152TYPE: int
4153DEFAULT: 10
4154LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 4155DOC_START
41bd17a4 4156 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
4157 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
4158 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
4159 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
4160 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4161 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 4162
41bd17a4 4163 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
4164 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
4165 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
4166 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
4167 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
4168 <pid>'.
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4170 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
4171 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
41bd17a4 4172DOC_END
5473c134 4173
41bd17a4 4174NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 4175TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 4176DOC_START
20efa1c2 4177 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 4178DOC_END
4179
41bd17a4 4180NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 4181TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4182DOC_START
8652f8e7 4183 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 4184DOC_END
5473c134 4185
41bd17a4 4186NAME: mime_table
4187TYPE: string
4188DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
4189LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
4190DOC_START
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4191 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
4192
4193 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
4194 examples and formatting information if you do.
5473c134 4195DOC_END
4196
41bd17a4 4197NAME: log_mime_hdrs
4198COMMENT: on|off
4199TYPE: onoff
4200LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
4201DEFAULT: off
4202DOC_START
4203 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
4204 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
4205 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
4206 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
4207 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
4208DOC_END
5473c134 4209
41bd17a4 4210NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 4211TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4212DOC_START
20efa1c2 4213 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 4214DOC_END
4215
41bd17a4 4216NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 4217TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4218DOC_START
20efa1c2 4219 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 4220DOC_END
4221
41bd17a4 4222NAME: pid_filename
4223TYPE: string
4224DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4225LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4226DOC_START
41bd17a4 4227 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4228DOC_END
4229
41bd17a4 4230NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 4231TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4232DOC_START
c581e96b 4233 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 4234DOC_END
4235
41bd17a4 4236NAME: client_netmask
4237TYPE: address
4238LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4239DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 4240DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 4241DOC_START
41bd17a4 4242 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4243 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4244 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4245 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4246DOC_END
4247
41bd17a4 4248NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 4249TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4250DOC_START
20efa1c2 4251 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 4252DOC_END
4253
41bd17a4 4254NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4255TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4256LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 4257DEFAULT: on
4258DOC_START
41bd17a4 4259 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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4260 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
4261
4262 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
4263 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 4264DOC_END
4265
41bd17a4 4266NAME: buffered_logs
4267COMMENT: on|off
4268TYPE: onoff
4269DEFAULT: off
4270LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 4271DOC_START
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4272 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
4273 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
4274 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
4275 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
4276 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
4277 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
4278
4279 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
4280 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
4281 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
4282
fb0c2f17 4283 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 4284DOC_END
0976f8db 4285
2b753521 4286NAME: netdb_filename
4287TYPE: string
221faecb 4288DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 4289LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 4290IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 4291DOC_START
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4292 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
4293 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
4294
2b753521 4295 To disable, enter "none".
4296DOC_END
4297
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4298COMMENT_START
4299 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
4300 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4301COMMENT_END
4302
4303NAME: cache_log
4304TYPE: string
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4305DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
4306LOC: Debug::cache_log
4307DOC_START
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4308 Squid administrative logging file.
4309
4310 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
4311 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
4312 rotated with "debug_options"
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4313DOC_END
4314
4315NAME: debug_options
4316TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 4317DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 4318DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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4319LOC: Debug::debugOptions
4320DOC_START
4321 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
4322 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
4323 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
4324 log file, so be careful.
4325
4326 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 4327 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
62493678 4328
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4329 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
4330 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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4331 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
4332 events affecting Squid.
4333DOC_END
4334
4335NAME: coredump_dir
4336TYPE: string
4337LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 4338DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 4339DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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4340DOC_START
4341 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4342 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4343 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4344 and coredump files will be left there.
4345
4346NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 4347
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4348# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
4349coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4350NOCOMMENT_END
4351DOC_END
4352
4353
41bd17a4 4354COMMENT_START
4355 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4356 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4357COMMENT_END
4358
4359NAME: ftp_user
4360TYPE: string
4361DEFAULT: Squid@
4362LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4363DOC_START
41bd17a4 4364 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 4365 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 4366 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4367
41bd17a4 4368 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4369 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4370 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 4371 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 4372 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4373DOC_END
0976f8db 4374
41bd17a4 4375NAME: ftp_passive
4376TYPE: onoff
4377DEFAULT: on
4378LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4379DOC_START
41bd17a4 4380 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4381 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 4382
4383 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4384DOC_END
4385
4386NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4387TYPE: onoff
4388DEFAULT: off
4389LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4390DOC_START
4391 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4392
4393 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4394 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4395 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4396
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4398 useful.
a689bd4e 4399 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4400 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4401
4402 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4403 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4404
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4405 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4406DOC_END
4407
4408NAME: ftp_epsv
4409TYPE: onoff
4410DEFAULT: on
4411LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
4412DOC_START
4413 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4414
4415 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4416 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4417 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4418 will never be needed.
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4419
4420 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
4421 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4422 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
4423
4424 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4425DOC_END
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4427NAME: ftp_eprt
4428TYPE: onoff
4429DEFAULT: on
4430LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4431DOC_START
4432 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4433
4434 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4435 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4436 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4437
4438 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4439 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4440
4441 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4442 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4443 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4444 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4445
4446 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4447 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4448DOC_END
4449
41bd17a4 4450NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4451TYPE: onoff
4452DEFAULT: on
4453LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4454DOC_START
4455 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4456 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4457 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4458 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4459 connection turn this off.
4460DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4461
41bd17a4 4462NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4463TYPE: onoff
4464DEFAULT: on
4465LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4466DOC_START
4467 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4468 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4469 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4470 the FTP protocol.
4471
4472 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4473 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4474 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4475 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4476 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4477DOC_END
4478
4479COMMENT_START
4480 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4481 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4482COMMENT_END
4483
4484NAME: diskd_program
4485TYPE: string
4486DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4487LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4488DOC_START
4489 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4490 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4491 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4492DOC_END
4493
4494NAME: unlinkd_program
4495IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4496TYPE: string
4497DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4498LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4499DOC_START
4500 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4501DOC_END
4502
4503NAME: pinger_program
4504TYPE: string
4505DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4506LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4507IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4508DOC_START
4509 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4510DOC_END
4511
cc192b50 4512NAME: pinger_enable
4513TYPE: onoff
4514DEFAULT: on
4515LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4516IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4517DOC_START
4518 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4519 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4520 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4521DOC_END
4522
4523
41bd17a4 4524COMMENT_START
4525 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4526 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4527COMMENT_END
4528
4529NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4530TYPE: wordlist
4531LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4532DEFAULT: none
4533DOC_START
2c7aad89 4534 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4535 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4536
2c7aad89 4537 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4538
24eac830 4539 [channel-ID <SP>] URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kv-pairs]<NL>
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4542 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4543
24eac830 4544 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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4545
4546 The result code can be:
4547
4548 OK status=30N url="..."
4549 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4550 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4551 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4552 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4553 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
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4555 OK rewrite-url="..."
4556 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4557 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4558 the client as the response to its request.
4559
4560 ERR
4561 Do not change the URL.
4562
4563 BH
4ded749e 4564 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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4565 a result being identified.
4566
4567
4568 In the future, the interface protocol will be extended with
24eac830 4569 key=value pairs ("kv-pairs" shown above). Helper programs
c71adec1 4570 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4571 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4572
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4573 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4574 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4575 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4576 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4577 of the response relating to its request.
4578
4579 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
4580 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 4581
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4582 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
4583 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
4584 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
4585 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
4586 interface.
41bd17a4 4587
4588 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4589DOC_END
4590
4591NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4592TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4593DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4594LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4595DOC_START
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4596 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4597 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4598 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4599 and other system resources noticably.
4600
4601 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4602 tuning.
4603
4604 startup=
4605
4606 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4607 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4608 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4609
4610 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4611 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4612
4613 idle=
4614
4615 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4616 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4617 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4618 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4619
4620 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4621
41bd17a4 4622 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4623 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4624 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4626 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4627 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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4628 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4629 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
41bd17a4 4630DOC_END
4631
4632NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4633TYPE: onoff
4634DEFAULT: on
4635LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4636DOC_START
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4637 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4638 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4639 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4640
4641 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4642 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4643 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4644
41bd17a4 4645 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4646 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4647
4648 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4649 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4650 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4651DOC_END
4652
4653NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4654TYPE: acl_access
4655DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4656DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 4657LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4658DOC_START
4659 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 4660 sent to the redirector processes.
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4661
4662 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4663 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4664DOC_END
4665
4666NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4667TYPE: onoff
4668LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4669DEFAULT: off
4670DOC_START
4671 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
638402dd 4672 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
41bd17a4 4673 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4674 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4675 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4676 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4677 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4678 users may have access to pages they should not
4679 be allowed to request.
4680DOC_END
4681
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4683 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
4684 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4685COMMENT_END
4686
4687NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
4688TYPE: wordlist
4689LOC: Config.Program.store_id
4690DEFAULT: none
4691DOC_START
4692 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
4693 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4694
4695 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
4696
4697 [channel-ID <SP>] URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kv-pairs]<NL>
4698
4699
4700 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4701
4702 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
4703
4704 The result code can be:
4705
4706 OK store-id="..."
4707 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
4708
4709 ERR
4710 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
4711
4712 BH
4713 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
4714 a result being identified.
4715
4716
4717 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4718 kv-pairs with keys they do not support.
4719
4720 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4721 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4722 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4723 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4724 of the response relating to its request.
4725
4726 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
4727 returned from the helper and not the URL.
4728
4729 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
4730 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
4731
4732 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
4733DOC_END
4734
4735NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
4736TYPE: HelperChildConfig
4737DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
4738LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
4739DOC_START
4740 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
4741 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4742 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4743 and other system resources noticably.
4744
4745 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4746 tuning.
4747
4748 startup=
4749
4750 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4751 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4752 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4753
4754 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4755 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4756
4757 idle=
4758
4759 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4760 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4761 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4762 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4763
4764 concurrency=
4765
4766 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
4767 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
4768 is a old-style single threaded program.
4769
4770 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4771 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4772 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4773 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
4774DOC_END
4775
4776NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
4777TYPE: acl_access
4778DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4779DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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4780LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
4781DOC_START
4782 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4783 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
4784 are sent.
4785
4786 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4787 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4788DOC_END
4789
4790NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
4791TYPE: onoff
4792LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
4793DEFAULT: on
4794DOC_START
4795 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4796 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
4797 and the helper queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4798 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4799 helpers. You should only enable this if the helperss
4800 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4801 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
4802 option, users may not get objects from cache.
4803DOC_END
4804
41bd17a4 4805COMMENT_START
4806 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4807 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4808COMMENT_END
4809
f04b37d8 4810NAME: cache no_cache
4811TYPE: acl_access
4812DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4813DEFAULT_DOC: Allow caching, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
f04b37d8 4814LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4815DOC_START
240887f0 4816 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 4817 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4818 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 4819
240887f0 4820 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4821 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 4822
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4823 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4824 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4825DOC_END
4826
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4827NAME: max_stale
4828COMMENT: time-units
4829TYPE: time_t
4830LOC: Config.maxStale
4831DEFAULT: 1 week
4832DOC_START
4833 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4834 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4835 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4836DOC_END
4837
41bd17a4 4838NAME: refresh_pattern
4839TYPE: refreshpattern
4840LOC: Config.Refresh
4841DEFAULT: none
4842DOC_START
4843 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 4844
6b698a21 4845 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4846 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 4847
41bd17a4 4848 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4849 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4850 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4851 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4852 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 4853
41bd17a4 4854 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4855 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4856 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 4857
41bd17a4 4858 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4859 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 4860
41bd17a4 4861 options: override-expire
4862 override-lastmod
4863 reload-into-ims
4864 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 4865 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 4866 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 4867 ignore-private
4868 ignore-auth
570d3f75 4869 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 4870 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 4871 store-stale
a0ec9f68 4872
41bd17a4 4873 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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4874 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4875 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4876 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4877 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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4879 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4880 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4881 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4882 the object fresh for that period of time.
4883
41bd17a4 4884 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4885 that were modified recently.
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4887 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
4888 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
4889 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
4890 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
4891 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4892 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 4893
41bd17a4 4894 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4895 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4896 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4897 it causes.
9bc73deb 4898
41bd17a4 4899 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4900 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4901 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4902 liable for problems which it causes.
4903
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4904 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4905 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4906 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4907 liable for problems which it causes.
4908
41bd17a4 4909 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4910 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4911 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4912 liable for problems which it causes.
4913
4914 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4915 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4916 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4917 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4918 it causes.
4919
4920 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4921 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4922 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4923 if one is available.
4924
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4925 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4926 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4927 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4928 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4929 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4930
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4931 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4932 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4933 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4934
41bd17a4 4935 Basically a cached object is:
4936
4937 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4938 STALE if age > max
4939 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4940 FRESH if age < min
4941 else STALE
4942
4943 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4944 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4945 match the default will be used.
4946
4947 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4948 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4949 used.
4950
41bd17a4 4951NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 4952
638402dd 4953#
e0855596 4954# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 4955#
41bd17a4 4956refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4957refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4958refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4959refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4960NOCOMMENT_END
4961DOC_END
4962
4963NAME: quick_abort_min
4964COMMENT: (KB)
4965TYPE: kb_int64_t
4966DEFAULT: 16 KB
4967LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4968DOC_NONE
4969
4970NAME: quick_abort_max
4971COMMENT: (KB)
4972TYPE: kb_int64_t
4973DEFAULT: 16 KB
4974LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4975DOC_NONE
4976
4977NAME: quick_abort_pct
4978COMMENT: (percent)
4979TYPE: int
4980DEFAULT: 95
4981LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4982DOC_START
4983 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4984 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4985 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4986 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4987 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4988 downloads.
4989
4990 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4991 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4992 then.
4993
4994 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4995 it will finish the retrieval.
4996
4997 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4998 it will abort the retrieval.
4999
5000 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
5001 it will finish the retrieval.
5002
5003 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
5004 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
5005 to '0 KB'.
5006
5007 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
5008 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
5009DOC_END
60d096f4 5010
41bd17a4 5011NAME: read_ahead_gap
5012COMMENT: buffer-size
5013TYPE: b_int64_t
5014LOC: Config.readAheadGap
5015DEFAULT: 16 KB
5016DOC_START
5017 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
5018 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
5019DOC_END
53e738c6 5020
41bd17a4 5021NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 5022IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5023COMMENT: time-units
5024TYPE: time_t
5025LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 5026DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 5027DOC_START
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5028 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
5029 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
5030 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
5031 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
5032 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
5033 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
5034
5035 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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5036
5037 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5038 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5039 causes.
41bd17a4 5040DOC_END
53e738c6 5041
41bd17a4 5042NAME: positive_dns_ttl
5043COMMENT: time-units
5044TYPE: time_t
5045LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
5046DEFAULT: 6 hours
5047DOC_START
5048 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
5049 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
5050 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
5051DOC_END
c4ab8329 5052
41bd17a4 5053NAME: negative_dns_ttl
5054COMMENT: time-units
5055TYPE: time_t
5056LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
5057DEFAULT: 1 minutes
5058DOC_START
5059 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
5060 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
5061 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
5062 much below 10 seconds.
5063DOC_END
7df0bfd7 5064
41bd17a4 5065NAME: range_offset_limit
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5066COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
5067TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 5068LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 5069DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5070DOC_START
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5071 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
5072
5073 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
5074 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
5075 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
5076 the result is NOT cached.
5077
41bd17a4 5078 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
5079 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
5080 sending anything to the client.
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5081
5082 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
5083 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
5084 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
5085 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
5086
5087 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
5088
5089 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
5090 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
5091
5092 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 5093 client requested. (default)
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5094
5095 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 5096 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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5097
5098 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
5099
5100 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
5101 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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5102 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
5103 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 5104DOC_END
d95b862f 5105
41bd17a4 5106NAME: minimum_expiry_time
5107COMMENT: (seconds)
5108TYPE: time_t
5109LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
5110DEFAULT: 60 seconds
5111DOC_START
5112 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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5113 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
5114 The default is 60 seconds.
5115
5116 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
5117 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
5118 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
5119
5120 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
5121 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 5122DOC_END
c68e9c6b 5123
41bd17a4 5124NAME: store_avg_object_size
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5125COMMENT: (bytes)
5126TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 5127DEFAULT: 13 KB
5128LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
5129DOC_START
5130 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
5131 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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5132
5133 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
5134 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
5135 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
5136 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
5137
5138 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
5139 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 5140DOC_END
5141
41bd17a4 5142NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
5143TYPE: int
5144DEFAULT: 20
5145LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
5146DOC_START
5147 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
5148 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
5149 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
5150DOC_END
5151
5152COMMENT_START
5153 HTTP OPTIONS
5154 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5155COMMENT_END
5156
f04b37d8 5157NAME: request_header_max_size
5158COMMENT: (KB)
5159TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5160DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5161LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
5162DOC_START
5163 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
5164 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5165 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
5166 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5167 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5168DOC_END
5169
5170NAME: reply_header_max_size
5171COMMENT: (KB)
5172TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5173DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5174LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
5175DOC_START
5176 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
5177 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5178 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
5179 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5180 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5181DOC_END
5182
5183NAME: request_body_max_size
5184COMMENT: (bytes)
5185TYPE: b_int64_t
5186DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 5187DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 5188LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
5189DOC_START
5190 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
5191 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
5192 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
5193 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
5194 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
5195 be no limit imposed.
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5196
5197 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
5198 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 5199DOC_END
5200
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5201NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
5202COMMENT: (bytes)
5203TYPE: b_size_t
5204DEFAULT: 512 KB
5205LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
5206DOC_START
5207 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
5208 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
5209 a large file.
5210DOC_END
5211
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5212NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
5213COMMENT: (bytes)
5214TYPE: b_int64_t
5215DEFAULT: 64 KB
5216LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
5217DOC_START
5218 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
5219 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
5220 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
5221 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
5222 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
5223 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
5224
5225 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
5226 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
5227 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
5228 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
5229 as if dechunking was disabled.
5230
5231 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
5232 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
5233
5234 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
5235 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
5236 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
5237DOC_END
5238
41bd17a4 5239NAME: broken_posts
626096be 5240IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 5241TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 5242DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5243DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 5244LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 5245DOC_START
41bd17a4 5246 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
5247 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 5248
41bd17a4 5249 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
5250 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 5251
41bd17a4 5252 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 5253
41bd17a4 5254 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
5255 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
5256 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
5257 a request with an extra CRLF.
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5259 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5260 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5261
41bd17a4 5262Example:
5263 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
5264 broken_posts allow buggy_server
5265DOC_END
cccac0a2 5266
22fff3bf 5267NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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5268COMMENT: on|off
5269TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 5270IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 5271DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 5272LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 5273DOC_START
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5274 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
5275 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
5276
5277 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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5278DOC_END
5279
41bd17a4 5280NAME: via
626096be 5281IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5282COMMENT: on|off
5283TYPE: onoff
5284DEFAULT: on
5285LOC: Config.onoff.via
5286DOC_START
5287 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
5288 replies as required by RFC2616.
5289DOC_END
4cc6eb12 5290
41bd17a4 5291NAME: ie_refresh
5292COMMENT: on|off
5293TYPE: onoff
5294LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
5295DEFAULT: off
5296DOC_START
5297 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
5298 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
5299 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
5300 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
5301 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
5302 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
5303 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
5304 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
5305 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
5306 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
5307 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
5308 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
5309 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
5310 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
5311 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
5312 force fresh content.
5313DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5315NAME: vary_ignore_expire
5316COMMENT: on|off
5317TYPE: onoff
5318LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
5319DEFAULT: off
5320DOC_START
5321 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
5322 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
5323 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
5324 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
5325 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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5326
5327 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
5328 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 5329DOC_END
c4ab8329 5330
41bd17a4 5331NAME: request_entities
5332TYPE: onoff
5333LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
5334DEFAULT: off
5335DOC_START
5336 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
5337 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
5338 even if not explicitly forbidden.
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41bd17a4 5340 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
5341 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
5342 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
5343 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
5344 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 5345DOC_END
6b53c392 5346
41bd17a4 5347NAME: request_header_access
626096be 5348IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5349TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5350LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5351DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5352DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5353DOC_START
41bd17a4 5354 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 5355
41bd17a4 5356 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5357 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5358 causes.
0976f8db 5359
41bd17a4 5360 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
5361 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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5362 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
5363 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
5364
5365 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
5366 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
5367 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
5368 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
5369 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5370
5371 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
5372 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
5373 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
5374
5375 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
5376 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
5377 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
5378 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
5379
5380 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
5381 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
5382 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
5383 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
5384 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
5385 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 5386
41bd17a4 5387 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5388 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 5389
41bd17a4 5390 request_header_access From deny all
5391 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 5392 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 5393
41bd17a4 5394 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5395 you should use:
5401aa8d 5396
41bd17a4 5397 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5398 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5399 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 5400 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
5401 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
5402 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 5403 request_header_access Host allow all
5404 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 5405 request_header_access Pragma allow all
5406 request_header_access Accept allow all
5407 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5408 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5409 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5410 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5411 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 5412
638402dd 5413 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 5414
638402dd 5415 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 5416DOC_END
5417
41bd17a4 5418NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 5419IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5420TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5421LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 5422DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5423DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5424DOC_START
41bd17a4 5425 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 5426
41bd17a4 5427 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5428 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5429 causes.
934b03fc 5430
41bd17a4 5431 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
5432 server to the client.
934b03fc 5433
41bd17a4 5434 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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5435 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
5436 documentation.
cccac0a2 5437
41bd17a4 5438 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5439 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 5440
41bd17a4 5441 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 5442 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
5443 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 5444
41bd17a4 5445 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5446 you should use:
cccac0a2 5447
41bd17a4 5448 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 5449 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 5450 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
5451 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
5452 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
5453 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
5454 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
5455 reply_header_access Date allow all
5456 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 5457 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
5458 reply_header_access Location allow all
5459 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 5460 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5461 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
5462 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 5463 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 5464 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5465 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 5466
638402dd 5467 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 5468
41bd17a4 5469 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5470 performed).
cccac0a2 5471DOC_END
5472
75e4f2ea 5473NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 5474IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5475TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 5476LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5477DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5478DOC_START
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5479 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
5480 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 5481
41bd17a4 5482 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 5483 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 5484 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 5485
41bd17a4 5486 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 5487
41bd17a4 5488 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5489DOC_END
cccac0a2 5490
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5491NAME: reply_header_replace
5492IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5493TYPE: http_header_replace
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5494LOC: Config.reply_header_access
5495DEFAULT: none
5496DOC_START
5497 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
5498 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
5499
5500 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5501 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
5502 with some fixed string.
5503
5504 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
5505
5506 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5507DOC_END
5508
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5509NAME: request_header_add
5510TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
5511LOC: Config.request_header_add
5512DEFAULT: none
5513DOC_START
5514 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
5515 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
5516
5517 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
5518 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
5519 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
5520 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
5521 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5522
5523 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
5524 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
5525 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
5526 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
5527 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
5528 header field values are not merged.
5529
5530 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
5531 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
5532 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
5533
5534 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
5535 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
5536 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
5537 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
5538 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
5539 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
5540 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
5541 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
5542
5543 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
5544 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
5545 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
5546 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
5547 only.
5548DOC_END
5549
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5550NAME: note
5551TYPE: note
5552LOC: Config.notes
5553DEFAULT: none
5554DOC_START
5555 This option used to log custom information about the master
5556 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
5557 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
5558 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
5559 authentication information.
5560 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
5561
5562 note key value acl ...
5563 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
5564DOC_END
5565
41bd17a4 5566NAME: relaxed_header_parser
5567COMMENT: on|off|warn
5568TYPE: tristate
5569LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
5570DEFAULT: on
5571DOC_START
5572 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
5573 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
5574 what the sending application intended even if the message
5575 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
5576 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 5577
41bd17a4 5578 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
5579 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 5580
41bd17a4 5581 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
5582 or response to be rejected.
5583DOC_END
7d90757b 5584
41bd17a4 5585COMMENT_START
5586 TIMEOUTS
5587 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5588COMMENT_END
5589
5590NAME: forward_timeout
5591COMMENT: time-units
5592TYPE: time_t
5593LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
5594DEFAULT: 4 minutes
5595DOC_START
5596 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
5597 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 5598DOC_END
5599
41bd17a4 5600NAME: connect_timeout
5601COMMENT: time-units
5602TYPE: time_t
5603LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
5604DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 5605DOC_START
41bd17a4 5606 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5607 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
5608 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 5609DOC_END
5610
41bd17a4 5611NAME: peer_connect_timeout
5612COMMENT: time-units
5613TYPE: time_t
5614LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
5615DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5616DOC_START
41bd17a4 5617 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
5618 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
5619 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
5620 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
5621DOC_END
7f7db318 5622
41bd17a4 5623NAME: read_timeout
5624COMMENT: time-units
5625TYPE: time_t
5626LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5627DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5628DOC_START
5629 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5630 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5631 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5632 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5633 default is 15 minutes.
5634DOC_END
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5636NAME: write_timeout
5637COMMENT: time-units
5638TYPE: time_t
5639LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5640DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5641DOC_START
5642 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5643 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5644 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5645 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5646 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5647 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5648 default is 15 minutes.
5649DOC_END
5650
41bd17a4 5651NAME: request_timeout
5652TYPE: time_t
5653LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5654DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5655DOC_START
6b2a2108 5656 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5657 connection establishment.
5658DOC_END
cccac0a2 5659
97b32442 5660NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5661TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5662LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5663DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5664DOC_START
5665 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5666 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5667DOC_END
cccac0a2 5668
41bd17a4 5669NAME: client_lifetime
5670COMMENT: time-units
5671TYPE: time_t
5672LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5673DEFAULT: 1 day
5674DOC_START
5675 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5676 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5677 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5678 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5679 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5680 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5681 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 5682
41bd17a4 5683 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5684 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5685 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5686 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5687 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5688 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5689DOC_END
5690
41bd17a4 5691NAME: half_closed_clients
5692TYPE: onoff
5693LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5694DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5695DOC_START
41bd17a4 5696 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5697 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5698 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5699 fully-closed TCP connection.
5700
5701 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5702 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5703
abdf1651 5704 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5705 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5706 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5707 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5708DOC_END
5709
97b32442 5710NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5711TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5712LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5713DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5714DOC_START
41bd17a4 5715 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5716 proxies.
5717DOC_END
cccac0a2 5718
41bd17a4 5719NAME: ident_timeout
5720TYPE: time_t
5721IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5722LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5723DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5724DOC_START
5725 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5726
41bd17a4 5727 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5728 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5729 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5730DOC_END
5731
41bd17a4 5732NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5733COMMENT: time-units
5734TYPE: time_t
5735LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5736DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5737DOC_START
41bd17a4 5738 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5739 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5740 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5741 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5742 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5743DOC_END
0976f8db 5744
cccac0a2 5745COMMENT_START
5746 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5747 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5748COMMENT_END
5749
5750NAME: cache_mgr
5751TYPE: string
5752DEFAULT: webmaster
5753LOC: Config.adminEmail
5754DOC_START
5755 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 5756 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 5757DOC_END
5758
abacf776 5759NAME: mail_from
5760TYPE: string
5761DEFAULT: none
5762LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5763DOC_START
5764 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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5765 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
5766
5767 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 5768DOC_END
5769
d084bf20 5770NAME: mail_program
5771TYPE: eol
5772DEFAULT: mail
5773LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5774DOC_START
5775 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5776 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5777 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5778 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5779
d084bf20 5780 Optional command line options can be specified.
5781DOC_END
5782
cccac0a2 5783NAME: cache_effective_user
5784TYPE: string
5483d916 5785DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5786LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5787DOC_START
5788 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5789 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5790 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5791 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5792DOC_END
5793
cccac0a2 5794NAME: cache_effective_group
5795TYPE: string
5796DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5797DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 5798LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5799DOC_START
64e288bd 5800 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5801 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5802 from the groups membership.
5803
e3d74828 5804 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5805 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5806 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5807 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5808 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5809 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5810 group.
64e288bd 5811
5812 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5813 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5814 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5815DOC_END
5816
d3caee79 5817NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5818COMMENT: on|off
5819TYPE: onoff
5820DEFAULT: off
5821LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5822DOC_START
5823 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5824DOC_END
5825
cccac0a2 5826NAME: visible_hostname
5827TYPE: string
5828LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5829DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5830DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 5831DOC_START
5832 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 5833 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 5834 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5835 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5836 names with this setting.
5837DOC_END
5838
cccac0a2 5839NAME: unique_hostname
5840TYPE: string
5841LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5842DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5843DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5844DOC_START
5845 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 5846 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5847 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 5848DOC_END
5849
cccac0a2 5850NAME: hostname_aliases
5851TYPE: wordlist
5852LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5853DEFAULT: none
5854DOC_START
7f7db318 5855 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 5856DOC_END
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5858NAME: umask
5859TYPE: int
5860LOC: Config.umask
5861DEFAULT: 027
5862DOC_START
5863 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5864 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5865
5866 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5867 your value with 0.
5868DOC_END
5869
cccac0a2 5870COMMENT_START
5871 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5872 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5873
5874 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5875 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5876 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5877 create cache hierarchies.
5878
5879 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5880 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5881 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5882
5883 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5884 following information from this configuration file:
5885
5886 http_port
5887 icp_port
5888 cache_mgr
5889
5890 All current information is processed regularly and made
5891 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5892COMMENT_END
5893
5894NAME: announce_period
5895TYPE: time_t
5896LOC: Config.Announce.period
5897DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 5898DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 5899DOC_START
638402dd 5900 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 5901
e0855596 5902 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 5903
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5904 Example:
5905 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 5906DOC_END
5907
cccac0a2 5908NAME: announce_host
5909TYPE: string
5910DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5911LOC: Config.Announce.host
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5912DOC_START
5913 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
5914
5915 See also announce_port and announce_file
5916DOC_END
cccac0a2 5917
5918NAME: announce_file
5919TYPE: string
5920DEFAULT: none
5921LOC: Config.Announce.file
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5922DOC_START
5923 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
5924 registration messages.
5925DOC_END
cccac0a2 5926
5927NAME: announce_port
ae870270 5928TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 5929DEFAULT: 3131
5930LOC: Config.Announce.port
5931DOC_START
638402dd 5932 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 5933
638402dd 5934 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 5935DOC_END
5936
8d6275c0 5937COMMENT_START
5938 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5939 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5940COMMENT_END
5941
cccac0a2 5942NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5943TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5944DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5945DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 5946LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5947DOC_START
5948 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5949 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5950 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5951 an identification token.
5952DOC_END
5953
5954NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5955COMMENT: on|off
5956TYPE: onoff
5957DEFAULT: off
5958LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5959DOC_START
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5960 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
5961 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
5962
cccac0a2 5963 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5964DOC_END
5965
5966NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5967IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5968COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5969TYPE: string
5970LOC: ESIParser::Type
5971DEFAULT: custom
5972DOC_START
5973 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5974 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5975 encodings.
5976DOC_END
0976f8db 5977
9edd9041 5978COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5979 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5980 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5981COMMENT_END
5982
5983NAME: delay_pools
5984TYPE: delay_pool_count
5985DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5986IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5987LOC: Config.Delay
5988DOC_START
5989 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5990 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5991 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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5992
5993 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
5994 configuration details.
9edd9041 5995DOC_END
5996
5997NAME: delay_class
5998TYPE: delay_pool_class
5999DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6000IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6001LOC: Config.Delay
6002DOC_START
6003 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
6004 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
6005 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
6006 and here would be:
6007
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6008 Example:
6009 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
6010 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
6011 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
6012 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
6013 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 6014
6015 The delay pool classes are:
6016
6017 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6018 bucket.
6019
6020 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6021 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 6022 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6023
6024 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6025 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
6026 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
6027 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 6028 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6029
6030 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
6031 additional limit on a per user basis. This
6032 only takes effect if the username is established
6033 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
6034 http_access rules.
6035
6036 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
6037 external_acl's tag= reply).
6038
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6039
6040 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
6041 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
6042 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
6043
9edd9041 6044 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
6045 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
6046 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
6047 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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6048
6049 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
6050 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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6051
6052 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6053 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6054
6055 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 6056DOC_END
6057
6058NAME: delay_access
6059TYPE: delay_pool_access
6060DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6061DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6062IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6063LOC: Config.Delay
6064DOC_START
6065 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
6066
6067 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
6068 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
6069 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
6070 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
6071
6072 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
6073 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
6074
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6075 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
6076 delay_access 1 deny all
6077 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
6078 delay_access 2 deny all
6079 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
6080
6081 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
6082
9edd9041 6083DOC_END
6084
6085NAME: delay_parameters
6086TYPE: delay_pool_rates
6087DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6088IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6089LOC: Config.Delay
6090DOC_START
6091 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
6092 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 6093 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 6094
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6095 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6096 delay_pools pool 1
6097 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 6098
6099 For a class 2 delay pool:
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6100 delay_pools pool 2
6101 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 6102
6103 For a class 3 delay pool:
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6104 delay_pools pool 3
6105 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 6106
6107 For a class 4 delay pool:
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6108 delay_pools pool 4
6109 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 6110
6111 For a class 5 delay pool:
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6112 delay_pools pool 5
6113 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 6114
0b68481a 6115 The option variables are:
9edd9041 6116
6117 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
6118 number specified in delay_pools as used in
6119 delay_class lines.
6120
fdb47ac6 6121 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 6122 (class 1, 2, 3).
6123
fdb47ac6 6124 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 6125 buckets (class 2, 3).
6126
fdb47ac6 6127 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 6128 (class 3).
6129
fdb47ac6 6130 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 6131 (class 4).
6132
fdb47ac6 6133 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 6134 (class 5).
6135
6136 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
6137 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
6138 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
6139 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
6140
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6141 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
6142
6143
9edd9041 6144 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 6145 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 6146 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
6147
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6148 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
6149
6150 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 6151
6152 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
6153
0b68481a 6154
9edd9041 6155 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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6156 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
6157 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
6158 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 6159 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
6160 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
6161 large downloads more significantly:
6162
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6163 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
6164
6165 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
6166 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
6167 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 6168
9edd9041 6169
6170 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 6171 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 6172
0b68481a 6173 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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6174
6175
6176 See also delay_class and delay_access.
6177
9edd9041 6178DOC_END
6179
6180NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
6181COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 6182TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 6183DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6184IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6185LOC: Config.Delay.initial
6186DOC_START
6187 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
6188 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
6189 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
6190 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
6191 "seen" by squid).
6192DOC_END
6193
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6194COMMENT_START
6195 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
6196 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6197COMMENT_END
6198
6199NAME: client_delay_pools
6200TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
6201DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6202IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6203LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6204DOC_START
6205 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
6206 preceed other client_delay_* options.
6207
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6208 Example:
6209 client_delay_pools 2
6210
6211 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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6212DOC_END
6213
6214NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
6215COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 6216TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 6217DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6218IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6219LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
6220DOC_START
6221 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
6222 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
6223 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
6224 buckets are periodically deleted up.
6225
6226 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
6227 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
6228 from client_delay_parameters.
6229
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6230 Example:
6231 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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6232DOC_END
6233
6234NAME: client_delay_parameters
6235TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
6236DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6237IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6238LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6239DOC_START
6240
6241 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
6242 following format:
6243
6244 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
6245
6246 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
6247
6248 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
6249
6250 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
6251 speed_limit additions.
6252
6253 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
6254 examples.
6255
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6256 Example:
6257 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
6258 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
6259
6260 See also client_delay_access.
6261
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6262DOC_END
6263
6264NAME: client_delay_access
6265TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
6266DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6267DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6268IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6269LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6270DOC_START
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6271 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
6272 request:
6273
6274 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
6275
6276 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
6277 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
6278 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
6279 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
6280 limited.
6281
6282 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
6283 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
6284 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
6285 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
6286
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6287 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6288 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6289 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
6290 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
6291
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6293
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6294 Example:
6295 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
6296 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
6297
6298
6299 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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6300DOC_END
6301
cccac0a2 6302COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6303 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 6304 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6305COMMENT_END
6306
8d6275c0 6307NAME: wccp_router
6308TYPE: address
6309LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 6310DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6311DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 6312IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6313DOC_START
6314 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6315 Squid.
6316
6317 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
6318
6319 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
6320
6321 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6322 which version of WCCP to use.
6323DOC_END
df2eec10 6324
8d6275c0 6325NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 6326TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 6327LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 6328DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6329DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 6330IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6331DOC_START
8d6275c0 6332 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6333 Squid.
cccac0a2 6334
8d6275c0 6335 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 6336
8d6275c0 6337 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 6338
8d6275c0 6339 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6340 which version of WCCP to use.
6341DOC_END
6342
6343NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 6344TYPE: int
8d6275c0 6345LOC: Config.Wccp.version
6346DEFAULT: 4
6347IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 6348DOC_START
8d6275c0 6349 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
6350 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
6351 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
6352 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
6353 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 6354
8d6275c0 6355 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
6356 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
6357 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
6358 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 6359DOC_END
6360
8d6275c0 6361NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
6362TYPE: onoff
6363LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
6364DEFAULT: on
6365IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6366DOC_START
6367 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
6368 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
6369DOC_END
cccac0a2 6370
8d6275c0 6371NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 6372TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6373LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 6374DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6375IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6376DOC_START
699acd19 6377 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 6378 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6379
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6380 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6381 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6382
8d6275c0 6383 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6384 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 6385DOC_END
6386
8d6275c0 6387NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 6388TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6389LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 6390DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6391IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6392DOC_START
699acd19 6393 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 6394 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
6395 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6396
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6397 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6398 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6399
8d6275c0 6400 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6401 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 6402
699acd19 6403 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 6404 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
6405 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
6406 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 6407DOC_END
6408
8d6275c0 6409NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 6410TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 6411LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 6412DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 6413IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6414DOC_START
8d6275c0 6415 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
6416 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6417
451c4786 6418 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 6419 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 6420
8d6275c0 6421 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
6422 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
6423DOC_END
cccac0a2 6424
8d6275c0 6425NAME: wccp2_service
6426TYPE: wccp2_service
6427LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 6428DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 6429DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 6430IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6431DOC_START
6432 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
6433 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
6434 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
6435 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
6436 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
6437 using the wccp2_service_info option.
6438
6439 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
6440 just specifying the service id will suffice.
6441
6442 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
6443 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
6444
6445 Examples:
6446
6447 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
6448 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
6449 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
6450 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 6451DOC_END
6452
6453NAME: wccp2_service_info
6454TYPE: wccp2_service_info
6455LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
6456DEFAULT: none
6457IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6458DOC_START
6459 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
6460 traffic you wish to have diverted.
6461
6462 The format is:
6463
6464 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
6465 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
6466
6467 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
6468 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 6469 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 6470 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
6471 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
6472 + ports_source
6473
6474 The port list can be one to eight entries.
6475
6476 Example:
6477
6478 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
6479 priority=240 ports=80
6480
6481 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
6482 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
6483DOC_END
6484
6485NAME: wccp2_weight
6486TYPE: int
6487LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
6488DEFAULT: 10000
6489IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6490DOC_START
6491 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
6492 hash proportional to their weight.
6493DOC_END
6494
6495NAME: wccp_address
6496TYPE: address
6497LOC: Config.Wccp.address
6498DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6499DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6500IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6501DOC_START
6502 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
6503 interface address.
6504
6505 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6506DOC_END
df2eec10 6507
8d6275c0 6508NAME: wccp2_address
6509TYPE: address
6510LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
6511DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6512DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6513IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6514DOC_START
6515 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
6516 interface address.
6517
6518 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6519DOC_END
6520
6521COMMENT_START
6522 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
6523 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6524
6525 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
6526COMMENT_END
6527
6528NAME: client_persistent_connections
6529TYPE: onoff
6530LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
6531DEFAULT: on
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6532DOC_START
6533 Persistent connection support for clients.
6534 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6535 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
6536DOC_END
8d6275c0 6537
6538NAME: server_persistent_connections
6539TYPE: onoff
6540LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
6541DEFAULT: on
6542DOC_START
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6543 Persistent connection support for servers.
6544 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6545 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 6546DOC_END
6547
6548NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
6549TYPE: onoff
6550LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 6551DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 6552DOC_START
6553 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
6554 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
6555 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
6556DOC_END
6557
6558NAME: detect_broken_pconn
6559TYPE: onoff
6560LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
6561DEFAULT: off
6562DOC_START
6563 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
6564 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
6565 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
6566 has mostly been seen on redirects.
6567
6568 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
6569 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
6570 after 10 seconds timeout.
6571DOC_END
6572
6573COMMENT_START
6574 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
6575 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6576COMMENT_END
6577
6578NAME: digest_generation
6579IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6580TYPE: onoff
6581LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
6582DEFAULT: on
6583DOC_START
6584 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
6585 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 6586 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 6587DOC_END
6588
6589NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
6590IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6591TYPE: int
6592LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
6593DEFAULT: 5
6594DOC_START
6595 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
6596 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
6597 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
6598DOC_END
6599
6600NAME: digest_rebuild_period
6601IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6602COMMENT: (seconds)
6603TYPE: time_t
6604LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
6605DEFAULT: 1 hour
6606DOC_START
749ceff8 6607 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 6608DOC_END
6609
6610NAME: digest_rewrite_period
6611COMMENT: (seconds)
6612IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6613TYPE: time_t
6614LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
6615DEFAULT: 1 hour
6616DOC_START
749ceff8 6617 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 6618 disk.
6619DOC_END
6620
6621NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
6622COMMENT: (bytes)
6623TYPE: b_size_t
6624IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6625LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
6626DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
6627DOC_START
6628 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
6629 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
6630 default swap page.
6631DOC_END
6632
6633NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
6634COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
6635IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6636TYPE: int
6637LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
6638DEFAULT: 10
6639DOC_START
6640 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
6641 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
6642DOC_END
6643
1db9eacd 6644COMMENT_START
5473c134 6645 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 6646 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6647COMMENT_END
6648
5473c134 6649NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 6650TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6651LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 6652DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6653DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 6654IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6655DOC_START
87630341 6656 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
6657 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
6658 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
6659 set to "0" (disabled)
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6660
6661 Example:
6662 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 6663DOC_END
6664
5473c134 6665NAME: snmp_access
6666TYPE: acl_access
6667LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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6668DEFAULT: none
6669DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 6670IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6671DOC_START
5473c134 6672 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 6673
5473c134 6674 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6675 usage:
8d6275c0 6676
5473c134 6677 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 6678
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6679 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6680 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 6681
5473c134 6682Example:
6683 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6684 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 6685DOC_END
6686
5473c134 6687NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6688TYPE: address
6689LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6690DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6691DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 6692IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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6693DOC_START
6694 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
6695
6696 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6697 messages from SNMP agents.
6698
6699 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
6700 available network interfaces.
6701DOC_END
df2eec10 6702
5473c134 6703NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6704TYPE: address
6705LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6706DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6707DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 6708IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6709DOC_START
638402dd 6710 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6711
5473c134 6712 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6713 agents.
cccac0a2 6714
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6716 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6717 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6718 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6719
5473c134 6720 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 6721 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6722DOC_END
6723
5473c134 6724COMMENT_START
6725 ICP OPTIONS
6726 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6727COMMENT_END
6728
6729NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6730TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6731DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6732DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 6733LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6734DOC_START
5473c134 6735 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6736 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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6737
6738 Example:
6739 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6740DOC_END
6741
5473c134 6742NAME: htcp_port
6743IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6744TYPE: u_short
87630341 6745DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6746DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 6747LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6748DOC_START
5473c134 6749 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6750 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 6751 4827.
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6752
6753 Example:
6754 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6755DOC_END
6756
6757NAME: log_icp_queries
6758COMMENT: on|off
6759TYPE: onoff
6760DEFAULT: on
6761LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6762DOC_START
6763 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6764 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6765 up or to simplify log analysis.
6766DOC_END
6767
5473c134 6768NAME: udp_incoming_address
6769TYPE: address
6770LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6771DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6772DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 6773DOC_START
6774 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6775 caches.
6776
6777 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6778
6779 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6780 a specific interface/address.
6781
6782 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6783 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6784
6785 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6786
6787 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6788 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6789DOC_END
cccac0a2 6790
5473c134 6791NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6792TYPE: address
6793LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6794DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6795DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 6796DOC_START
8524d4b2 6797 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6798 caches.
cccac0a2 6799
5473c134 6800 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6801
8524d4b2 6802 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6803 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6804 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6805 caches.
6806
8524d4b2 6807 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6808 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6809
6810 see also; udp_incoming_address
6811
5473c134 6812 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6813 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6814DOC_END
6815
3d1e3e43 6816NAME: icp_hit_stale
6817COMMENT: on|off
6818TYPE: onoff
6819DEFAULT: off
6820LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6821DOC_START
6822 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6823 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6824 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6825 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6826 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6827 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6828 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6829DOC_END
6830
5473c134 6831NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 6832TYPE: int
5473c134 6833DEFAULT: 4
6834LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 6835DOC_START
5473c134 6836 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6837 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 6838DOC_END
6839
5473c134 6840NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 6841COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 6842TYPE: int
6843DEFAULT: 400
6844LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 6845DOC_START
5473c134 6846 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6847 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 6848DOC_END
6849
cccac0a2 6850NAME: netdb_low
6851TYPE: int
6852DEFAULT: 900
6853LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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6854DOC_START
6855 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
6856
6857 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
6858
6859 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6860 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
6861 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
6862 mark is reached.
6863DOC_END
cccac0a2 6864
6865NAME: netdb_high
6866TYPE: int
6867DEFAULT: 1000
6868LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6869DOC_START
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6870 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
6871
6872 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
6873
6874 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6875 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
6876 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
6877 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 6878DOC_END
6879
cccac0a2 6880NAME: netdb_ping_period
6881TYPE: time_t
6882LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6883DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6884DOC_START
6885 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6886 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6887 network. The default is five minutes.
6888DOC_END
6889
cccac0a2 6890NAME: query_icmp
6891COMMENT: on|off
6892TYPE: onoff
6893DEFAULT: off
6894LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6895DOC_START
6896 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6897 replies, enable this option.
6898
6899 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 6900 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6901 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 6902 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6903 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6904 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6905 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6906 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6907DOC_END
6908
6909NAME: test_reachability
6910COMMENT: on|off
6911TYPE: onoff
6912DEFAULT: off
6913LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6914DOC_START
6915 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6916 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6917 database, or has a zero RTT.
6918DOC_END
6919
5473c134 6920NAME: icp_query_timeout
6921COMMENT: (msec)
6922DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6923DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 6924TYPE: int
6925LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 6926DOC_START
5473c134 6927 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6928 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6929 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6930 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6931 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6932 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 6933
5473c134 6934 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 6935DOC_END
6936
5473c134 6937NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6938COMMENT: (msec)
6939DEFAULT: 2000
6940TYPE: int
6941LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 6942DOC_START
5473c134 6943 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6944 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6945 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6946 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6947 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6948 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6949DOC_END
6950
5473c134 6951NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6952COMMENT: (msec)
6953DEFAULT: 5
6954TYPE: int
6955LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 6956DOC_START
5473c134 6957 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6958 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6959 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6960 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6961 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6962 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6963 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6964DOC_END
6965
5473c134 6966NAME: background_ping_rate
6967COMMENT: time-units
6968TYPE: time_t
6969DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6970LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 6971DOC_START
5473c134 6972 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6973 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 6974DOC_END
6975
5473c134 6976COMMENT_START
6977 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6978 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6979COMMENT_END
6980
6981NAME: mcast_groups
6982TYPE: wordlist
6983LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 6984DEFAULT: none
6985DOC_START
5473c134 6986 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6987 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 6988
5473c134 6989 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6990 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6991 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6992 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6993 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6994 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6995 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 6996
5473c134 6997 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6998 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 6999
5473c134 7000 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
7001 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 7002
5473c134 7003 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 7004
5473c134 7005 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
7006DOC_END
8c01ada0 7007
5473c134 7008NAME: mcast_miss_addr
7009IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7010TYPE: address
7011LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 7012DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7013DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 7014DOC_START
7015 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
7016 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 7017
5473c134 7018 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
7019 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 7020DOC_END
7021
5473c134 7022NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
7023IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7024TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7025LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
7026DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 7027DOC_START
5473c134 7028 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
7029 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
7030 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
7031DOC_END
cccac0a2 7032
5473c134 7033NAME: mcast_miss_port
7034IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7035TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7036LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
7037DEFAULT: 3135
7038DOC_START
7039 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
7040 'mcast_miss_addr'.
7041DOC_END
cccac0a2 7042
5473c134 7043NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
7044IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7045TYPE: string
7046LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
7047DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
7048DOC_START
7049 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
7050 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
7051DOC_END
8c01ada0 7052
5473c134 7053NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
7054COMMENT: (msec)
7055DEFAULT: 2000
7056TYPE: int
7057LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
7058DOC_START
7059 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
7060 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
7061 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
7062 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
7063 seconds.
cccac0a2 7064DOC_END
7065
5473c134 7066COMMENT_START
7067 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
7068 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7069COMMENT_END
7070
cccac0a2 7071NAME: icon_directory
7072TYPE: string
7073LOC: Config.icons.directory
7074DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7075DOC_START
7076 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
7077 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7078DOC_END
7079
f024c970 7080NAME: global_internal_static
7081TYPE: onoff
7082LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
7083DEFAULT: on
7084DOC_START
7085 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
7086 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
7087 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
7088 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
7089 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
7090 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
7091 the server generating a directory listing.
7092DOC_END
7093
5473c134 7094NAME: short_icon_urls
7095TYPE: onoff
7096LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
7097DEFAULT: on
7098DOC_START
7099 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
7100 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
7101 it's own name and port in the URL.
7102
7103 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7104 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
7105DOC_END
7106
7107COMMENT_START
7108 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
7109 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7110COMMENT_END
7111
7112NAME: error_directory
7113TYPE: string
7114LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 7115DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7116DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 7117DOC_START
7118 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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7119 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
7120 the error/template files to another directory and point
7121 this tag at them.
7122
7123 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
7124 on error pages if used.
5473c134 7125
7126 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7127 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 7128 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 7129 contributing your translation back to the project.
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7130 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
7131
7132 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
7133 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
7134DOC_END
7135
7136NAME: error_default_language
7137IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7138TYPE: string
7139LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
7140DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7141DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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7142DOC_START
7143 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
7144 if no existing translation matches the clients language
7145 preferences.
7146
7147 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
7148
7149 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7150 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
7151 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
7152 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 7153DOC_END
7154
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7155NAME: error_log_languages
7156IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7157TYPE: onoff
7158LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
7159DEFAULT: on
7160DOC_START
7161 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
7162 auto-negotiate for translations.
7163
7164 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
7165 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 7166 of its error page translations.
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7167DOC_END
7168
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7169NAME: err_page_stylesheet
7170TYPE: string
7171LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
7172DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
7173DOC_START
7174 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
7175
7176 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
7177DOC_END
7178
5473c134 7179NAME: err_html_text
7180TYPE: eol
7181LOC: Config.errHtmlText
7182DEFAULT: none
7183DOC_START
7184 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
7185 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
7186 organizations Web page.
7187
7188 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
7189 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
7190 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
7191 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
7192DOC_END
7193
7194NAME: email_err_data
7195COMMENT: on|off
7196TYPE: onoff
7197LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
7198DEFAULT: on
7199DOC_START
7200 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
7201 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7202 so that the email body contains the data.
7203 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
7204DOC_END
7205
7206NAME: deny_info
7207TYPE: denyinfo
7208LOC: Config.denyInfoList
7209DEFAULT: none
7210DOC_START
7211 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
7212 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 7213 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 7214
7215 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
7216 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
7217 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
7218 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
7219
7220 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
7221 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
7222 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
7223 the first authentication related acl encountered
7224 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
7225 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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7226 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
7227 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 7228
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7229 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
7230 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
7231 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 7232
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7233 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
7234 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
7235 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
7236
5473c134 7237 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
7238 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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7239
7240 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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7241 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
7242 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
7243 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
7244 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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7245
7246 URL FORMAT TAGS:
7247 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
7248 %B - FTP path URL
7249 %e - Error number
7250 %E - Error description
7251 %h - Squid hostname
7252 %H - Request domain name
7253 %i - Client IP Address
7254 %M - Request Method
7255 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
7256 %p - Request Port number
7257 %P - Request Protocol name
7258 %R - Request URL path
7259 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
7260 %U - Full canonical URL from client
7261 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
7262 %u - Full canonical URL from client
7263 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 7264 %x - Error name
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7265 %% - Literal percent (%) code
7266
5473c134 7267DOC_END
7268
7269COMMENT_START
7270 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
7271 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7272COMMENT_END
7273
7274NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7275TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7276LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7277DEFAULT: on
7278DOC_START
5473c134 7279 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
7280 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
7281 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 7282
638402dd 7283 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 7284 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 7285
5473c134 7286 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
7287 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
7288 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 7289
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7290 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
7291 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
7292 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 7293DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 7294
5473c134 7295NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7296TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7297LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7298DEFAULT: off
7299DOC_START
5473c134 7300 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
7301 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7302 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 7303
5473c134 7304 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
7305 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
7306 fails.
7307
7308 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
7309 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
7310 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 7311DOC_END
7312
5473c134 7313NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 7314TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 7315LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 7316DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7317DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 7318DOC_START
5473c134 7319 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 7320
5473c134 7321 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
7322 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
7323 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
7324 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
7325 something like:
0b0cfcf2 7326
5473c134 7327 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
7328 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 7329
5473c134 7330 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 7331
5473c134 7332 acl FTP proto FTP
7333 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 7334
5473c134 7335 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
7336 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
7337 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
7338 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
7339 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 7340
5473c134 7341 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7342 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
7343 always_direct deny local-external
7344 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 7345
5473c134 7346 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
7347 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
7348 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
7349 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 7350
5473c134 7351 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
7352 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 7353 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 7354
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7355 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7356 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 7357DOC_END
0976f8db 7358
5473c134 7359NAME: never_direct
7360TYPE: acl_access
7361LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
7362DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7363DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 7364DOC_START
5473c134 7365 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7366
7367 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
7368 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
7369
7370 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
7371 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
7372 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
7373 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
7374
7375 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 7376 never_direct deny local-servers
7377 never_direct allow all
7378
7379 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
7380 servers inside the firewall use something like:
7381
7382 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
7383 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7384 always_direct deny local-external
7385 always_direct allow local-intranet
7386 never_direct allow all
7387
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7388 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7389 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 7390DOC_END
0976f8db 7391
5473c134 7392COMMENT_START
7393 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
7394 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7395COMMENT_END
7396
65d448bc 7397NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 7398TYPE: int
7399DEFAULT: 6
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7400LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
7401DOC_START
7402 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7403 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7404 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7405DOC_END
cccac0a2 7406
65d448bc 7407NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 7408TYPE: int
7409DEFAULT: 4
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7410LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
7411DOC_START
7412 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7413 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7414 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7415DOC_END
cccac0a2 7416
7417NAME: incoming_dns_average
7418TYPE: int
7419DEFAULT: 4
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7420LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
7421DOC_START
7422 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7423 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7424 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7425DOC_END
cccac0a2 7426
65d448bc 7427NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7428TYPE: int
7429DEFAULT: 8
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7430LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
7431DOC_START
7432 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7433 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7434 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7435DOC_END
cccac0a2 7436
7437NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
7438TYPE: int
7439DEFAULT: 8
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7440LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
7441DOC_START
7442 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7443 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7444 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7445DOC_END
cccac0a2 7446
65d448bc 7447NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7448TYPE: int
7449DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 7450LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 7451DOC_START
5473c134 7452 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7453 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7454 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7455DOC_END
7456
7457NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 7458TYPE: string
7459DEFAULT: none
7460LOC: Config.accept_filter
7461DOC_START
0b4d4be5 7462 FreeBSD:
7463
5473c134 7464 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
7465 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
7466 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
7467
7468 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 7469 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 7470 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
7471
7472 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
7473 to Squid until there is some data to process.
7474 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
7475
7476 Linux:
7477
7478 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
7479 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
7480 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
7481 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
7482 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 7483EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 7484# FreeBSD
5473c134 7485accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 7486# Linux
7487accept_filter data
5473c134 7488DOC_END
7489
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7490NAME: client_ip_max_connections
7491TYPE: int
7492LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
7493DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7494DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
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7495DOC_START
7496 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
7497 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
7498 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
7499
7500 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
7501 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
7502
7503 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
7504
7505 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
7506 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
7507DOC_END
7508
5473c134 7509NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
7510COMMENT: (bytes)
7511TYPE: b_size_t
7512DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 7513DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 7514LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
7515DOC_START
7516 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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7517 as easy to change your kernel's default.
7518 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 7519DOC_END
7520
7521COMMENT_START
7522 ICAP OPTIONS
7523 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7524COMMENT_END
7525
7526NAME: icap_enable
7527TYPE: onoff
7528IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7529COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7530LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 7531DEFAULT: off
7532DOC_START
53e738c6 7533 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 7534DOC_END
7535
7536NAME: icap_connect_timeout
7537TYPE: time_t
7538DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7539LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 7540IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7541DOC_START
7542 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7543 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
7544 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
7545
7546 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
7547 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
7548 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
7549DOC_END
7550
7551NAME: icap_io_timeout
7552COMMENT: time-units
7553TYPE: time_t
7554DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7555DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 7556LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 7557IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7558DOC_START
7559 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
7560 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
7561 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
7562 failure.
5473c134 7563DOC_END
7564
7565NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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7566COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
7567TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 7568IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 7569LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7570DEFAULT: 10
7571DOC_START
7572 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
7573 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
7574 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
7575 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 7576 OPTIONS.
5473c134 7577
7578 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
7579 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
7580 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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7581
7582 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
7583 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
7584 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
7585 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
7586 value into ten time slots of equal length.
7587
7588 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
7589 effect on service failure expiration.
7590
7591 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
7592 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
7593 setting.
7594
7595 For example,
7596 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
7597 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 7598DOC_END
7599
5473c134 7600NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 7601TYPE: int
5473c134 7602IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7603LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 7604DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 7605DOC_START
5473c134 7606 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
7607 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
7608 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
7609 fetched.
cccac0a2 7610
5473c134 7611 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
7612 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 7613DOC_END
7614
5473c134 7615NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 7616TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7617IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7618COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7619LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 7620DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7621DOC_START
ac7a62f9 7622 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
7623 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
7624 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
7625 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
7626
7627 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
7628 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
7629 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
7630
7631 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
7632 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
7633Example:
7634icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 7635DOC_END
7636
5473c134 7637NAME: icap_preview_size
7638TYPE: int
7639IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7640LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 7641DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7642DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 7643DOC_START
53e738c6 7644 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 7645 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 7646DOC_END
7647
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7648NAME: icap_206_enable
7649TYPE: onoff
7650IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7651COMMENT: on|off
7652LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
7653DEFAULT: on
7654DOC_START
7655 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
7656 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
7657 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
7658 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
7659
7660 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
7661 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
7662 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
7663 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
7664 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
7665
7666 Example:
7667 icap_206_enable off
7668DOC_END
7669
5473c134 7670NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
7671TYPE: int
7672IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7673LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 7674DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 7675DOC_START
53e738c6 7676 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 7677 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 7678DOC_END
7679
5473c134 7680NAME: icap_persistent_connections
7681TYPE: onoff
7682IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7683COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7684LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 7685DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7686DOC_START
5473c134 7687 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
7688 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 7689DOC_END
7690
22fff3bf 7691NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 7692TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7693IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7694COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7695LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 7696DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7697DOC_START
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7698 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
7699 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
7700 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
7701
7702 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 7703DOC_END
7704
22fff3bf 7705NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 7706TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7707IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7708COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7709LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 7710DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7711DOC_START
5473c134 7712 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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7713 the adaptation service.
7714
7715 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 7716 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7717 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 7718DOC_END
7719
5473c134 7720NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7721TYPE: string
5473c134 7722IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7723LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7724DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7725DOC_START
db49f682 7726 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7727DOC_END
7728
5473c134 7729NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7730TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7731IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7732COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7733LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7734DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7735DOC_START
5473c134 7736 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7737DOC_END
7738
5473c134 7739NAME: icap_service
7740TYPE: icap_service_type
7741IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7742LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7743DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7744DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7745 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7746
c25c2836 7747 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 7748
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7749 id: ID
7750 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7751 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7752 services in squid.conf.
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7753
7754 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7755 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7756 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7757 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7758
c25c2836 7759 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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7760 ICAP server and service location.
7761
7762 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7763 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7764 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7765 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7766 service_names differ.
7767
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7768 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
7769 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
a22e6cd3
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7770
7771 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7772 the following name=value options:
7773
7774 bypass=on|off|1|0
7775 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7776 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7777 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7778 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7779 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7780 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7781 returned to the HTTP client.
7782
7783 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7784
7785 routing=on|off|1|0
7786 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7787 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7788 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7789 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7790 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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7791 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7792 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7793 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7794
7795 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7796 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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7797
7798 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7799 response header is ignored.
7800
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7801 ipv6=on|off
7802 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
7803 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
7804 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
7805
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7806 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
7807 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
7808 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
7809 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
7810 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
7811 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
7812 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
7813
7814 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
7815 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
7816 workers may use a given service.
7817
7818 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
7819 otherwise it is set to "wait".
7820
7821
7822 max-conn=number
7823 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7824 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7825
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7826 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7827 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 7828
5473c134 7829Example:
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7830icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7831icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 7832DOC_END
7833
5473c134 7834NAME: icap_class
7835TYPE: icap_class_type
7836IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7837LOC: none
5473c134 7838DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7839DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7840 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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7841 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7842 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 7843
62c7f90e 7844 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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7845 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7846 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 7847DOC_END
7848
5473c134 7849NAME: icap_access
7850TYPE: icap_access_type
7851IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7852LOC: none
cccac0a2 7853DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7854DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7855 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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7856 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7857 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 7858DOC_END
7859
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7860COMMENT_START
7861 eCAP OPTIONS
7862 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7863COMMENT_END
7864
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7865NAME: ecap_enable
7866TYPE: onoff
7867IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7868COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 7869LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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7870DEFAULT: off
7871DOC_START
7872 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7873DOC_END
7874
7875NAME: ecap_service
7876TYPE: ecap_service_type
7877IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 7878LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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7879DEFAULT: none
7880DOC_START
7881 Defines a single eCAP service
7882
c25c2836 7883 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 7884
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7885 id: ID
7886 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7887 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7888 services in squid.conf.
7889
7890 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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7891 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7892 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7893 are not yet supported.
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7894
7895 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7896 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7897 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7898 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7899 the service provider.
7900
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7901 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
7902 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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7903
7904 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7905 the following name=value options:
7906
7907 bypass=on|off|1|0
7908 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7909 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7910 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 7911 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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7912 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7913 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 7914 HTTP client.
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7915
7916 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7917
7918 routing=on|off|1|0
7919 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7920 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7921 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7922
7923 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7924 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7925
7926 Routing is not allowed by default.
7927
7928 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7929 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7930
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7932Example:
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7933ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7934ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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7935DOC_END
7936
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7937NAME: loadable_modules
7938TYPE: wordlist
7939IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7940LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7941DEFAULT: none
7942DOC_START
7943 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7944 preloaded module(s).
7945Example:
7946loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7947DOC_END
7948
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7949COMMENT_START
7950 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7951 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7952COMMENT_END
7953
7954NAME: adaptation_service_set
7955TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7956IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7957LOC: none
7958DEFAULT: none
7959DOC_START
7960
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7962 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7963
7964 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7965
7966 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7967 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7968 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7969 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7970 intact.
62c7f90e 7971
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7972 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7973 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 7974
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7975 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7976 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7977
7978 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7979 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7980 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7981 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7982 transaction fails as well.
7983
7984 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7985 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7986 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7987 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7988 matters.
7989
7990 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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7991
7992Example:
7993adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7994adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7995DOC_END
7996
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7997NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7998TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7999IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8000LOC: none
8001DEFAULT: none
8002DOC_START
8003
8004 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
8005 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
8006 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
8007
8008 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
8009
8010 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
8011 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
8012 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
8013 the previous service in the chain.
8014
8015 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8016 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
8017
8018 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
8019 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
8020 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
8021
8022 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
8023 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8024
8025 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
8026 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
8027 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
8028 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
8029
8030 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
8031
8032Example:
8033adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
8034DOC_END
8035
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8036NAME: adaptation_access
8037TYPE: adaptation_access_type
8038IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8039LOC: none
8040DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8041DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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8042DOC_START
8043 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
8044
8045 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8046 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8047
8048 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
8049 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
8050 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
8051 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
8052
8053 - services serving different vectoring points
8054 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
8055 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
8056 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
8057
8058 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
8059 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
8060 adaptation_service_set for details.
8061
8062 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
8063 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
8064 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
8065 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
8066
8067 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
8068 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
8069
8070 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
8071
8072Example:
8073adaptation_access service_1 allow all
8074DOC_END
8075
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8076NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
8077TYPE: int
8078IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8079LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
8080DEFAULT: 16
8081DOC_START
8082 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
8083 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
8084 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
8085 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
8086 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
8087 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
8088
8089 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
8090
8091 See also: icap_service routing=1
8092DOC_END
8093
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8094NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
8095TYPE: string
8096IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8097LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
8098DEFAULT: none
8099DOC_START
8100 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
8101 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
8102 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
8103 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
8104 with the master transaction.
8105
8106 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
8107 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
8108
8109 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8110 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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8111 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
8112
8113 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8114 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
8115 to provide an option with a name specified in
8116 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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8118 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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8119 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
8120
8121 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
8122
8123Example:
8124# share authentication information among ICAP services
8125adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
8126DOC_END
8127
71be37e0 8128NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 8129TYPE: note
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8130IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8131LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
8132DEFAULT: none
8133DOC_START
8134 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
8135 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
8136 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
8137 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
8138
8139 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
8140 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
8141
8142 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
8143 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
8144 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
8145 example:
8146
8147 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
8148 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
8149
8150 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
8151 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
8152
8153 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
8154 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
8155
8156 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
8157 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
8158 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
8159 and double quotes. For example,
8160 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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8161
8162 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
8163 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
8164 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
8165 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
8166 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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8167DOC_END
8168
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8169NAME: icap_retry
8170TYPE: acl_access
8171IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8172LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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8173DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
8174DOC_START
8175 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
8176 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
8177 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
8178 that response are usually retriable.
8179
8180 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8181
8182 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
8183 due to persistent connection race conditions.
8184
8185 See also: icap_retry_limit
8186DOC_END
8187
8188NAME: icap_retry_limit
8189TYPE: int
8190IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8191LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
8192DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8193DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 8194DOC_START
638402dd 8195 Limits the number of retries allowed.
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8196
8197 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
8198 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
8199 count against this limit.
8200
8201 See also: icap_retry
8202DOC_END
8203
8204
5473c134 8205COMMENT_START
8206 DNS OPTIONS
8207 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8208COMMENT_END
8209
8210NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8211TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8212DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8213LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8214DOC_START
5473c134 8215 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
8216 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
8217 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 8218DOC_END
8219
5473c134 8220NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8221TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8222DEFAULT: on
5473c134 8223LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8224DOC_START
5473c134 8225 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
8226 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
8227 Squid to be strict about the standard.
8228 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 8229DOC_END
8230
5473c134 8231NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 8232TYPE: string
f64091a7 8233IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 8234DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
8235LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 8236DOC_START
5473c134 8237 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 8238DOC_END
8239
5473c134 8240NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 8241TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 8242IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 8243DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 8244LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 8245DOC_START
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8246 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
8247 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
8248 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
8249 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
8250 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
8251
8252 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
8253 tuning.
8254
8255 startup=
8256
8257 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
8258 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
8259 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
8260
8261 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
8262 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
8263
8264 idle=
8265
8266 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
8267 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
8268 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
8269 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 8270DOC_END
8271
5473c134 8272NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 8273TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 8274DEFAULT: 5 seconds
8275LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 8276IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 8277DOC_START
5473c134 8278 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
8279 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 8280DOC_END
8281
5473c134 8282NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 8283TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 8284DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 8285LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 8286IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 8287DOC_START
5473c134 8288 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
8289 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
8290 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 8291DOC_END
8292
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8293NAME: dns_packet_max
8294TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 8295DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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8296DEFAULT: none
8297LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 8298IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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8299DOC_START
8300 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
8301 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
8302
8303 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
8304 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
8305 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
8306 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
8307 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
8308
8309 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
8310 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
8311 necessary.
8312
8313 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
8314 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
8315 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
8316 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
8317 sizes being advertised by Squid.
8318 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
8319 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
8320DOC_END
8321
5473c134 8322NAME: dns_defnames
8323COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 8324TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8325DEFAULT: off
638402dd 8326DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 8327LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 8328DOC_START
5473c134 8329 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
8330 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
8331 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
8332 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 8333DOC_END
8334
5473c134 8335NAME: dns_nameservers
8336TYPE: wordlist
8337DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8338DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5473c134 8339LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 8340DOC_START
5473c134 8341 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
8342 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
8343 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 8344
5473c134 8345 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
8346 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
8347 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
8348 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 8349
5473c134 8350 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 8351DOC_END
8352
5473c134 8353NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 8354TYPE: string
5473c134 8355DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
8356LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 8357DOC_START
5473c134 8358 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
8359 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
8360 default locations:
8361 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
8362 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8363 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
8364 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8365 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
8366 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
8367 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
8368 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 8369
5473c134 8370 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
8371 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
8372 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
8373 character are comments.
cccac0a2 8374
5473c134 8375 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
8376 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
8377 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
8378 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
8379 definitions.
cccac0a2 8380DOC_END
8381
5473c134 8382NAME: append_domain
8383TYPE: string
8384LOC: Config.appendDomain
8385DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8386DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 8387DOC_START
5473c134 8388 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
8389 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
8390
8391 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
8392 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
8393 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
8394
8395Example:
8396 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 8397DOC_END
8398
5473c134 8399NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
8400TYPE: onoff
8401LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 8402DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 8403IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 8404DOC_START
5473c134 8405 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
8406 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
8407 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
8408 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
8409 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 8410DOC_END
8411
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8412NAME: dns_v4_first
8413TYPE: onoff
8414DEFAULT: off
8415LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 8416IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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8417DOC_START
8418 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
8419 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
8420
8421 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
8422 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
8423 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
8424
8425 WARNING:
8426 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
8427 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
8428 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
8429DOC_END
8430
6bc15a4f 8431NAME: ipcache_size
8432COMMENT: (number of entries)
8433TYPE: int
8434DEFAULT: 1024
8435LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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8436DOC_START
8437 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
8438DOC_END
6bc15a4f 8439
8440NAME: ipcache_low
8441COMMENT: (percent)
8442TYPE: int
8443DEFAULT: 90
8444LOC: Config.ipcache.low
8445DOC_NONE
8446
8447NAME: ipcache_high
8448COMMENT: (percent)
8449TYPE: int
8450DEFAULT: 95
8451LOC: Config.ipcache.high
8452DOC_START
8453 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
8454DOC_END
8455
8456NAME: fqdncache_size
8457COMMENT: (number of entries)
8458TYPE: int
8459DEFAULT: 1024
8460LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
8461DOC_START
8462 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
8463DOC_END
8464
a58ff010 8465COMMENT_START
5473c134 8466 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 8467 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8468COMMENT_END
8469
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8470NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
8471COMMENT: on|off
8472TYPE: onoff
8473DEFAULT: on
8474LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
8475DOC_START
8476 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
8477 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
8478 parameter value is interpreted or used.
8479 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
8480 section for more details.
8481DOC_END
8482
5473c134 8483NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 8484COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8485TYPE: onoff
8486DEFAULT: on
8487LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 8488DOC_START
5473c134 8489 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
8490 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
8491 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
8492 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 8493DOC_END
8494
5473c134 8495NAME: memory_pools_limit
8496COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 8497TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 8498DEFAULT: 5 MB
8499LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 8500DOC_START
5473c134 8501 Used only with memory_pools on:
8502 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 8503
5473c134 8504 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
8505 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
8506 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
8507 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
8508 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
8509 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
8510 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 8511
89646bd7 8512 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 8513 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 8514
5473c134 8515 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 8516 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 8517
8518 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
8519 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
8520 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
8521 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 8522DOC_END
8523
5473c134 8524NAME: forwarded_for
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8525COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
8526TYPE: string
5473c134 8527DEFAULT: on
8528LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 8529DOC_START
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8530 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
8531 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 8532
5473c134 8533 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
8534
67c06f0d 8535 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 8536
8537 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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8538
8539 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
8540 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
8541
8542 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
8543 X-Forwarded-For header.
8544
8545 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 8546 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 8547DOC_END
8548
5473c134 8549NAME: cachemgr_passwd
8550TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
8551DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8552DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 8553LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 8554DOC_START
5473c134 8555 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 8556
5473c134 8557 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
8558
8559 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
8560 5min
8561 60min
8562 asndb
8563 authenticator
8564 cbdata
8565 client_list
8566 comm_incoming
8567 config *
8568 counters
8569 delay
8570 digest_stats
8571 dns
8572 events
8573 filedescriptors
8574 fqdncache
8575 histograms
8576 http_headers
8577 info
8578 io
8579 ipcache
8580 mem
8581 menu
8582 netdb
8583 non_peers
8584 objects
8585 offline_toggle *
8586 pconn
8587 peer_select
b360c477 8588 reconfigure *
5473c134 8589 redirector
8590 refresh
8591 server_list
8592 shutdown *
8593 store_digest
8594 storedir
8595 utilization
8596 via_headers
8597 vm_objects
8598
8599 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
8600 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
8601
8602 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
8603 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
8604 password to "none".
8605
8606 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
8607
8608Example:
8609 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
8610 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
8611 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 8612DOC_END
8613
5473c134 8614NAME: client_db
a58ff010 8615COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8616TYPE: onoff
8617DEFAULT: on
8618LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 8619DOC_START
5473c134 8620 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
8621 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 8622DOC_END
8623
5473c134 8624NAME: refresh_all_ims
8625COMMENT: on|off
8626TYPE: onoff
8627DEFAULT: off
8628LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 8629DOC_START
5473c134 8630 When you enable this option, squid will always check
8631 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
8632 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
8633 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
8634 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 8635
5473c134 8636 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
8637 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 8638DOC_END
8639
5473c134 8640NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 8641IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 8642COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8643TYPE: onoff
8644DEFAULT: off
8645LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 8646DOC_START
5473c134 8647 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
8648 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
8649 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
8650 feature could make you liable for problems which it
8651 causes.
8652
8653 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 8654DOC_END
8655
31ef19cd 8656NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 8657TYPE: int
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8658LOC: Config.connect_retries
8659DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8660DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 8661DOC_START
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8662 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
8663 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
8664 complete within the connection timeout period.
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8665
8666 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
8667 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 8668
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8669 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
8670 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 8671
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8672 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
8673 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
8674 a useful server.
a58ff010 8675DOC_END
8676
5473c134 8677NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 8678TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8679LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 8680DEFAULT: off
8681DOC_START
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8682 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
8683 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
8684 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
8685 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
8686
8687 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
8688 work around access control errors.
8689
8690 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
8691 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 8692DOC_END
8693
5473c134 8694NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 8695TYPE: string
5473c134 8696LOC: Config.as_whois_server
8697DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 8698DOC_START
5473c134 8699 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
8700 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 8701DOC_END
8702
5473c134 8703NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 8704TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8705LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 8706DEFAULT: off
8707DOC_START
5473c134 8708 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
8709 objects.
a58ff010 8710DOC_END
8711
5473c134 8712NAME: uri_whitespace
8713TYPE: uri_whitespace
8714LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
8715DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 8716DOC_START
5473c134 8717 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
8718 URI. Options:
a58ff010 8719
5473c134 8720 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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8721 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
8722 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
8723 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
8724
5473c134 8725 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
8726 Request" message.
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8727 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
8728 handling of HTTP request URL.
8729
5473c134 8730 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
8731 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
8732 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
8733 are in use.
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8734 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
8735 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
8736 URL field.
8737
5473c134 8738 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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8739 encoded according to RFC1738.
8740
5473c134 8741 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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8742 first whitespace.
8743
8744
8745 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
8746 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 8747DOC_END
a58ff010 8748
5473c134 8749NAME: chroot
8750TYPE: string
8751LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 8752DEFAULT: none
8753DOC_START
9f37c18a 8754 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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8755 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8756 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8757 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8758 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 8759DOC_END
a58ff010 8760
5473c134 8761NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8762TYPE: onoff
8763LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8764DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8765DOC_START
cc192b50 8766 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8767 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8768 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8769
5473c134 8770 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8771 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8772 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8773
cc192b50 8774 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8775DOC_END
8776
5473c134 8777NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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8778TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
8779LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
8780DEFAULT: 0
8781DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 8782DOC_START
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8783 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
8784 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
8785 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
8786 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
8787 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
8788 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 8789
079a8480 8790 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 8791 reasons.
a0e23afd 8792
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8793 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
8794
a0e23afd 8795 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8796DOC_END
a58ff010 8797
5473c134 8798NAME: high_response_time_warning
8799TYPE: int
8800COMMENT: (msec)
8801LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8802DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8803DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 8804DOC_START
8805 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8806 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8807 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 8808DOC_END
8809
5473c134 8810NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8811TYPE: int
8812LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8813DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8814DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 8815DOC_START
5473c134 8816 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8817 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8818 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8819 per second.
8820DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8821
5473c134 8822NAME: high_memory_warning
8823TYPE: b_size_t
8824LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 8825DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 8826DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 8827DOC_START
8828 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 8829 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 8830 the administrators attention.
8831DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8832
5473c134 8833NAME: sleep_after_fork
8834COMMENT: (microseconds)
8835TYPE: int
8836LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
8837DEFAULT: 0
8838DOC_START
8839 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
8840 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
8841 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
8842 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
8843 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
8844 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
8845 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
8846 until all the child processes have been started.
8847 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
8848 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 8849DOC_END
8850
b6696974 8851NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 8852IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
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8853COMMENT: on|off
8854TYPE: onoff
8855DEFAULT: on
8856LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
8857DOC_START
8858 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
8859 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
8860 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
8861 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
8862 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
8863 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
8864DOC_END
8865
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8866NAME: eui_lookup
8867TYPE: onoff
8868IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
8869DEFAULT: on
8870LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
8871DOC_START
8872 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8873DOC_END
8874
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8875NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8876TYPE: int
8877DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8878DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
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8879LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8880DOC_START
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8881 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
8882 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 8883
638402dd 8884 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
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8885
8886 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 8887 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
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8888DOC_END
8889
13aeac35 8890NAME: workers
007d775d 8891TYPE: int
13aeac35 8892LOC: Config.workers
007d775d 8893DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 8894DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
007d775d 8895DOC_START
13aeac35 8896 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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8897 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8898 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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8899 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8900
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8901 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8902 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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8903DOC_END
8904
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8905NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8906TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8907LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8908DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8909DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
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8910DOC_START
8911 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8912
8913 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8914
8915 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8916
8917 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8918 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8919
8920 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8921 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8922
8923 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8924
8925 See also: workers
8926DOC_END
8927
cccac0a2 8928EOF