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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 32
cccac0a2 33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
debd9a31 44
cccac0a2 45COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 46
592a09dc 47COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
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60
61
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62 Conditional configuration
63
64 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
65 depend on conditions:
66
67 if <CONDITION>
68 ... regular configuration directives ...
69 [else
70 ... regular configuration directives ...]
71 endif
72
73 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
74 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
75 configuration directives.
76
77 These individual conditions types are supported:
78
79 true
80 Always evaluates to true.
81 false
82 Always evaluates to false.
83 <integer> = <integer>
84 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
85
86
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87 SMP-Related Macros
88
89 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
90
91 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
92 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
93
94 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
95 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
96 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 97COMMENT_END
98
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99# Options Removed in 3.2
100NAME: ignore_expect_100
101TYPE: obsolete
102DOC_START
103 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
104DOC_END
105
106NAME: ftp_list_width
107TYPE: obsolete
108DOC_START
109 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
110DOC_END
111
112NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
113TYPE: obsolete
114DOC_START
115 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
116DOC_END
117
118# Options Removed in 3.1
119NAME: dns_testnames
120TYPE: obsolete
121DOC_START
122 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
123DOC_END
124
125NAME: extension_methods
126TYPE: obsolete
127DOC_START
128 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
129DOC_END
130
131# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
132NAME: incoming_rate
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_NONE
135
136NAME: server_http11
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
140DOC_END
141
142NAME: upgrade_http0.9
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
146DOC_END
147
148NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
152DOC_END
153
154# Options Removed in 3.0
155NAME: header_access
156TYPE: obsolete
157DOC_START
158 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
159 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
160DOC_END
161
162NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
163TYPE: obsolete
164DOC_START
165 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
166DOC_END
167
5473c134 168COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 169 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
171COMMENT_END
172
41bd17a4 173NAME: auth_param
174TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 175IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 176LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 177DEFAULT: none
178DOC_START
41bd17a4 179 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
180 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 181
41bd17a4 182 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 183
41bd17a4 184 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
185 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
186 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
187 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
188 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
189 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
190 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
191 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
192 program entry).
cccac0a2 193
41bd17a4 194 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
195 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
196 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
197 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 198
41bd17a4 199 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
200 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
201 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
202 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
203 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
204 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
205 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
206 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
207 type acl.
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
210 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
211 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
212 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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213 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
214 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 215
41bd17a4 216 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 "program" cmdline
219 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
220 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
221 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
222 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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223 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
224 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 225
41bd17a4 226 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
227 program is specified.
cccac0a2 228
41bd17a4 229 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
230 this line to something like
307b83b7 231
41bd17a4 232 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 233
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234 "utf8" on|off
235 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
236 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
237 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
238 username & password to the helper.
239
7353861b 240 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 241 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 242 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
243 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
244 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
245 authenticator processes.
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246
247 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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248 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
249 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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250 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
251 the maximum.
252
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253 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
254 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
255 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
256 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
257 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
258 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 259 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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260
261 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 262
41bd17a4 263 "realm" realmstring
264 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
265 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
266 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
267 password). There is no default.
268 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 269
41bd17a4 270 "credentialsttl" timetolive
271 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
272 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
273 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
274 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
275 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
276 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
277 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
278 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
279 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 280
41bd17a4 281 "casesensitive" on|off
282 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
283 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
284 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
285 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
286 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 287
41bd17a4 288 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 289
41bd17a4 290 "program" cmdline
291 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
292 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
293 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
294 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
295 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
296 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
297 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 298
41bd17a4 299 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
300 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 301
41bd17a4 302 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
303 something like
cccac0a2 304
7ce93108 305 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 306
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307 "utf8" on|off
308 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
309 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
310 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
311 username & password to the helper.
312
7353861b 313 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 314 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 315 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
316 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
317 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
318 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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319
320 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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321 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
322 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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323 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
324 the maximum.
325
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326 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
327 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
328 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
329 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
330 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
331 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
332 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
333
48d54e4d 334 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 335
41bd17a4 336 "realm" realmstring
337 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
338 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
339 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
340 password). There is no default.
341 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 342
41bd17a4 343 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
344 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
345 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 346
41bd17a4 347 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
348 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
349 valid for.
cccac0a2 350
41bd17a4 351 "nonce_max_count" number
352 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
353 used.
cccac0a2 354
41bd17a4 355 "nonce_strictness" on|off
356 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
357 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
358 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
359 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "check_nonce_count" on|off
362 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
363 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
364 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
365 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 366
41bd17a4 367 "post_workaround" on|off
368 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
369 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
370 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 "program" cmdline
375 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
376 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
377 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
378 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
379 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
380 is not used.
cccac0a2 381
41bd17a4 382 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 383
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384 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
385 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 386 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
387 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
388 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
389 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
390 processes.
cccac0a2 391
48d54e4d 392 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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393 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
394 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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395 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
396 the maximum.
397
398 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 399
41bd17a4 400 "keep_alive" on|off
401 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
402 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
403 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
404 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
405 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 406
41bd17a4 407 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 408
41bd17a4 409 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 410
41bd17a4 411 "program" cmdline
412 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
413 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
414 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
415 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
416 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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417 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
418 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
419 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 420 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
421 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 424
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425 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
426 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 427 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
428 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
429 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
430 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
431 processes.
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432
433 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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434 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
435 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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436 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
437 the maximum.
438
439 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 440
41bd17a4 441 "keep_alive" on|off
442 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
443 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
444 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
445 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
446 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 447
41bd17a4 448 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 449
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451 Examples:
452
41bd17a4 453#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
454#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 455#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 456#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 457#
41bd17a4 458#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 459#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 460#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 461#
41bd17a4 462#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 463#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 464#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
465#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
466#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
467#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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41bd17a4 469#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 470#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 471#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
472#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 473DOC_END
cccac0a2 474
41bd17a4 475NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
476TYPE: time_t
477DEFAULT: 1 hour
478LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
479DOC_START
480 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
481 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
482 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
483 have good reason to.
484DOC_END
cccac0a2 485
41bd17a4 486NAME: authenticate_ttl
487TYPE: time_t
488DEFAULT: 1 hour
489LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
490DOC_START
491 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
492 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
493 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
494 TTL are removed from memory.
495DOC_END
cccac0a2 496
41bd17a4 497NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
498TYPE: time_t
499LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
500DEFAULT: 0 seconds
501DOC_START
502 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
503 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
504 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
505 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
506 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
507 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
508 environment with relatively static address assignments.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
3d1e3e43 511COMMENT_START
512 ACCESS CONTROLS
513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
514COMMENT_END
515
41bd17a4 516NAME: external_acl_type
517TYPE: externalAclHelper
518LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 519DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 520DOC_START
41bd17a4 521 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
522 to look up the status
cccac0a2 523
41bd17a4 524 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 525
41bd17a4 526 Options:
cccac0a2 527
41bd17a4 528 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
529 for 1 hour)
530 negative_ttl=n
531 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
532 as ttl)
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533 children-max=n
534 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
535 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
536 children-startup=n
537 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
538 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
539 of this type. (default 0)
540 children-idle=n
541 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
542 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
543 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
544 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 545 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
546 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 547 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 548 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
549 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 550 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 551 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 552 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
553 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
055421ee 554 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 555
41bd17a4 556 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 557
41bd17a4 558 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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559 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
560 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
561 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 562 %IDENT Ident user name
563 %SRC Client IP
564 %SRCPORT Client source port
565 %URI Requested URI
566 %DST Requested host
567 %PROTO Requested protocol
568 %PORT Requested port
569 %PATH Requested URL path
570 %METHOD Request method
571 %MYADDR Squid interface address
572 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
573 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
574 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
575 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
576 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
577 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 578
c68c9682 579 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 580 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 581 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 582 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 583 HTTP request header list member using ; as
584 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
585 character.
cccac0a2 586
c68c9682 587 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 588 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 589 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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590 %<{Hdr:;member}
591 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
592 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
593 character.
594
41bd17a4 595 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
596 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
597 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 598
41bd17a4 599 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
600 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
601 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
602 more details.
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41bd17a4 604 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 605
41bd17a4 606 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 607
41bd17a4 608 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 609
41bd17a4 610 user= The users name (login)
611 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
612 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
613 in error pages
614 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
615 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
616 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
617 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 618
41bd17a4 619 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
620 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 621
41bd17a4 622 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
623 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
624 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 625
41bd17a4 626 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
627 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
628 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 629DOC_END
630
41bd17a4 631NAME: acl
632TYPE: acl
633LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 634DEFAULT: all src all
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635DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
636DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
637DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
638DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 639DOC_START
41bd17a4 640 Defining an Access List
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642 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
643 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
644 they are read from.
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646 acl aclname acltype argument ...
647 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 648
375eeb3b 649 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 650
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652 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
653 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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656 to access some external data source.
657 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
658 don't are marked as [fast].
659 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
660 for further information
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662 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
663
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664 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
665 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
666 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
667 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 668
41bd17a4 669 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
670 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
671 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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673 # other *BSD variants.
674 # [fast]
41bd17a4 675 #
676 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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677 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
678 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
679
680 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
681 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
682 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 683 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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684 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
685 # regex matching client name [slow]
686 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 687 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 688 #
41bd17a4 689 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
690 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
691 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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693 acl aclname src_as number ...
694 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 695 # [fast]
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696 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
697 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
698 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
699 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
700 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
701 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
702 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
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6db78a1a 704 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 705 # [fast]
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706 # match against a named cache_peer entry
707 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
708
375eeb3b 709 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 710 # [fast]
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712 # S - Sunday
713 # M - Monday
714 # T - Tuesday
715 # W - Wednesday
716 # H - Thursday
717 # F - Friday
718 # A - Saturday
719 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
720
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722 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
723 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
724 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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726 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
727 # ranges are alloed
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728 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
729 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
730
b3567eb5 731 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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733 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
734
735 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 736
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738 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 740 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 741 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 742
375eeb3b 743 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 744 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 745 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 746
375eeb3b 747 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 748 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 749 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 750 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 751
41bd17a4 752 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
753 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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755 # supplied credentials [slow]
756 #
757 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 758 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
759 #
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761 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
762 #
41bd17a4 763 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
764 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
765 # in access.log.
766 #
767 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
768 # to check username/password combinations (see
769 # auth_param directive).
770 #
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772 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 773 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 774
41bd17a4 775 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 776 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 777 # Example:
778 #
779 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 780
41bd17a4 781 acl aclname maxconn number
782 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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783 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
784 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
785 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 786
41bd17a4 787 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
788 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
789 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 790 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 791 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
792 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
793 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
794 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
795 # request is denied)
796 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
797 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
798 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 799
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800 acl aclname random probability
801 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
802 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
803 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
804
375eeb3b 805 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 806 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
807 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 808 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 809 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
810 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 811
41bd17a4 812 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
813 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
814 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 815 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 816
375eeb3b 817 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 818 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
819 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 820 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 821 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
822 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
823 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 824
41bd17a4 825 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
826 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
827 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 828 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 829
375eeb3b 830 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 831 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 832 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 833
41bd17a4 834 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
835 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 836 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 837
41bd17a4 838 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
839 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 840 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 841
41bd17a4 842 acl aclname ext_user username ...
843 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 844 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 845 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 846
0ab50441 847 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 848 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
cccac0a2 849
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850 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
851 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
852 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
853 #
854 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
855 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
856 # http_reply_access.
857
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859 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
860 acl myexample dst_as 1241
861 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
862 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
863 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 864
41bd17a4 865NOCOMMENT_START
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867# Recommended minimum configuration:
868#
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ee776778 870# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
871# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
872# should be allowed
873acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
874acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
875acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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876acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
877acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 879acl SSL_ports port 443
880acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
881acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
882acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
883acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
884acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
885acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
886acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
887acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
888acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
889acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
890acl CONNECT method CONNECT
891NOCOMMENT_END
892DOC_END
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894NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
895TYPE: acl_access
896IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
897LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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898DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
899DOC_START
900 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
901 find the original source of a request.
902
903 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
904 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
905 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
906 rightmost address being the most recent.
907
908 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
909 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
910 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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911 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
912 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
913 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
914 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
915 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
916 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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918 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
919 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 920 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 921 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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922 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
923 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 924
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926 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
927
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928 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
929
930 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
931 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
932 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
933 source address of the request. This may enable remote
934 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
935 based on the client's source addresses.
936
937 For example:
938
939 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
940 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
941 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
942 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
943DOC_END
944
945NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
946COMMENT: on|off
947TYPE: onoff
948IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
949DEFAULT: on
950LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
951DOC_START
952 Controls whether the indirect client address
953 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
954 direct client address in acl matching.
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956 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
957 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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959
960NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
961COMMENT: on|off
962TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 963IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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965LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
966DOC_START
967 Controls whether the indirect client address
968 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
969 direct client address in delay pools.
970DOC_END
971
972NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
973COMMENT: on|off
974TYPE: onoff
975IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
976DEFAULT: on
977LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
978DOC_START
979 Controls whether the indirect client address
980 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
981 direct client address in the access log.
982DOC_END
983
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984NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
985COMMENT: on|off
986TYPE: onoff
987IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 988DEFAULT: off
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989LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
990DOC_START
991 Controls whether the indirect client address
992 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
993 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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995 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
996 mode ports.
997
998 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
999 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
1000 of folow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
1001 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1003
41bd17a4 1004NAME: http_access
1005TYPE: acl_access
1006LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1007DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1008DOC_START
1009 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1010
41bd17a4 1011 Access to the HTTP port:
1012 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1013
41bd17a4 1014 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1016 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1017 the request.
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41bd17a4 1019 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1020 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1021 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1022 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1024 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1027 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1028
41bd17a4 1029NOCOMMENT_START
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1031#
1032# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1033#
1034# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1035http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1036http_access deny manager
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1038# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1039http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1041# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1042http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1044# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1045# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1046# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1047#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1049#
1050# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1051#
c8f4eac4 1052
ee776778 1053# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1054# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1055# from where browsing should be allowed
1056http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1057http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1058
41bd17a4 1059# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1060http_access deny all
1061NOCOMMENT_END
1062DOC_END
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1064NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1065TYPE: acl_access
1066LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1067DEFAULT: none
1068DOC_START
1069 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1070
1071 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1072 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1073 output.
1074
1075 If not set then only http_access is used.
1076DOC_END
1077
41bd17a4 1078NAME: http_reply_access
1079TYPE: acl_access
1080LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1081DEFAULT: none
1082DOC_START
1083 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1084
41bd17a4 1085 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1086
41bd17a4 1087 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1088 all replies
1a224843 1089
41bd17a4 1090 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1091 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1092 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1094 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1095 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1096DOC_END
1097
41bd17a4 1098NAME: icp_access
1099TYPE: acl_access
1100LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1101DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1102DOC_START
41bd17a4 1103 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1104 access lists
5473c134 1105
41bd17a4 1106 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1107
41bd17a4 1108 See http_access for details
1109
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1111 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1113# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1115#icp_access deny all
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1117
41bd17a4 1118NAME: htcp_access
1119IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1120TYPE: acl_access
1121LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1122DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1123DOC_START
41bd17a4 1124 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1125 access lists
5473c134 1126
41bd17a4 1127 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1129 See http_access for details
5473c134 1130
0b48417e 1131 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1132 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1133 using the htcp option.
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1136 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1138# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1140#htcp_access deny all
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41bd17a4 1143NAME: htcp_clr_access
1144IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1145TYPE: acl_access
1146LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1147DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1148DOC_START
1149 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1150 on defined access lists
5473c134 1151
41bd17a4 1152 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1153
41bd17a4 1154 See http_access for details
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1157 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1159# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1160acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1161htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
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1163
41bd17a4 1164NAME: miss_access
1165TYPE: acl_access
1166LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1167DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1168DOC_START
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1169 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1170
1171 For example;
1172 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1173 a parent.
5473c134 1174
41bd17a4 1175 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1176 miss_access allow localclients
1177 miss_access deny !localclients
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1179 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1180 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1181 objects (HITs).
1182
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1185 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1187 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1188 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1189DOC_END
1190
1191NAME: ident_lookup_access
1192TYPE: acl_access
1193IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1194DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1195LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1196DOC_START
41bd17a4 1197 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1198 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1199 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1200 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1201 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1202 any requests.
5473c134 1203
41bd17a4 1204 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1205 can follow this example:
5473c134 1206
4daaf3cb 1207 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1208 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1209 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1210
4daaf3cb 1211 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1212 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1213 the correct result.
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1215 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1216 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1217DOC_END
5473c134 1218
5b0f5383 1219NAME: reply_body_max_size
1220COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1221TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1222DEFAULT: none
1223LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1224DOC_START
1225 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1226 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1227 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1228 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1229 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1230 for this reply.
1231
1232 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1233 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1234 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1235 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1236 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1237 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1238 and they will receive a partial reply.
1239
1240 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1241 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1242 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1243 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1244
1245 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1246 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1247 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1248 the size of your largest error page.
1249
1250 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1251 no limit imposed.
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1253 Configuration Format is:
1254 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1255 ie.
1256 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1257
5b0f5383 1258DOC_END
1259
1260COMMENT_START
1261 NETWORK OPTIONS
1262 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1263COMMENT_END
1264
1265NAME: http_port ascii_port
1266TYPE: http_port_list
1267DEFAULT: none
1268LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1269DOC_START
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1270 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1271 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1272 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1273
1274 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1275 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1276 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1277 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1278 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1279 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1280 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1281
1282 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1283 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1284
1285 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1286 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1287 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1288
1289 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1290
c7b1dd5d 1291 Modes:
5b0f5383 1292
e77bdb4e 1293 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1294 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1295 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1296
1297 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1298 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1299 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1300
7f45065d 1301 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1302
3a0c8eb5 1303 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
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1305 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1306 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1307 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1308
1309 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1310 the SslBump feature.
1311
1312 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1313
1314
1315 Accelerator Mode Options:
1316
5b0f5383 1317 defaultsite=domainname
1318 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1319 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1320 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1321
cf673853 1322 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1323
1324 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1326 https_port
5b0f5383 1327
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1329 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1330
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1332 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1333
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1335 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1336 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1337 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1338
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1340
7f45065d 1341 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1343
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1345 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1346 never_direct was used.
1347
1348 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1349 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1350 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1351 http_access rules when using this.
1352
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1354 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1355
1356 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1357
1358 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1359 if not specified, the certificate file is
1360 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1361 key file.
1362
1363 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1364 1 automatic (default)
1365 2 SSLv2 only
1366 3 SSLv3 only
1367 4 TLSv1 only
1368
1369 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1370
1371 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1372 being:
1373 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1374 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1375 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1376 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1377 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1378 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1379 documentation for a complete list of options.
1380
1381 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1382 requesting a client certificate.
1383
1384 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1385 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1386 clientca will be used.
1387
1388 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1389 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1390
1391 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1392 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1393 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1394
1395 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1396 DH key exchanges.
1397
1398 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1399 DELAYED_AUTH
1400 Don't request client certificates
1401 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1402 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1403 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1404 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1405 to OpenSSL.
1406 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1407 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1408 will result in a new SSL session.
1409 VERIFY_CRL
1410 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1411 certificates.
1412 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1413 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1414 client certificate chain.
1415
1416 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1417
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1419 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1420 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1421 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1422 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1423 certificate will be selfsigned.
1424 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1425 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1426 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1427 years.
1428 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1429 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1430
1431 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1432 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1433 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1434 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1435 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
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1437 Other Options:
1438
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1440 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1441 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1443
5b0f5383 1444 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1445 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1446 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1447 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1448 support is enabled.
1449 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1450
1451 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1452 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1453 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1454 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1455 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1456 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1457 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1458 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1459
81b6e9a7 1460 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1461 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1462
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1465 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1466 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1467 timeout the time before giving up.
1468
5b0f5383 1469 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1470 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1471 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1472 visible on the internal address.
1473
1474NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1476# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1477http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1478NOCOMMENT_END
1479DOC_END
1480
1481NAME: https_port
1482IFDEF: USE_SSL
1483TYPE: https_port_list
1484DEFAULT: none
1485LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1486DOC_START
7f45065d 1487 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1488
1489 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1490 requests.
1491
1492 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1493 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1494 accelerator level.
1495
1496 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1497 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1498
7f45065d 1499 Modes:
5b0f5383 1500
7f45065d 1501 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1502
7f45065d 1503 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1504
5b0f5383 1505
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1507
1508
1509 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1510
1511 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1512
1513 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1514 if not specified, the certificate file is
1515 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1516 key file.
1517
1518 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1519 1 automatic (default)
1520 2 SSLv2 only
1521 3 SSLv3 only
1522 4 TLSv1 only
1523
1524 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1525
1526 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1527 being:
1528 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1529 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1530 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1531 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1532 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1533 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1534 documentation for a complete list of options.
1535
1536 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1537 requesting a client certificate.
1538
1539 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1540 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1541 clientca will be used.
1542
1543 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1544 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1545
1546 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1547 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1548 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1549
1550 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1551 DH key exchanges.
1552
1553 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1554 DELAYED_AUTH
1555 Don't request client certificates
1556 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1557 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1558 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1559 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1560 to OpenSSL.
1561 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1562 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1563 will result in a new SSL session.
1564 VERIFY_CRL
1565 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1566 certificates.
1567 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1568 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1569 client certificate chain.
1570
1571 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1572
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1574
41bd17a4 1575NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1576TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1577DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1578LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1579DOC_START
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1580 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
1581 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1582
41bd17a4 1583 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1584
41bd17a4 1585 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1586 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1589 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1590 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1591 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1592
41bd17a4 1593 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1595 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1596
41bd17a4 1597 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1598 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1600 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1601
41bd17a4 1602 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1603 matching line.
cccac0a2 1604DOC_END
1605
41bd17a4 1606NAME: clientside_tos
1607TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1608DEFAULT: none
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1610DOC_START
1611 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1612 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1613
1614 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1615
1616 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1617 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1618
1619 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1620 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1621 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1622 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1623
1624 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1625 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1626DOC_END
1627
1628NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1629TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1630IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1632LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1633DOC_START
1634 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1635 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1636
1637 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1638
1639 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1640 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1641
1642 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1643 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1644 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1645 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1646DOC_END
1647
1648NAME: clientside_mark
1649TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1650IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1652LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1653DOC_START
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1655 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1656
1657 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1658
1659 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1660 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1661
1662 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1663 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1664 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1665 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1666
1667 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1668 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1669DOC_END
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1672TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1673IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1674DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1675LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1676DOC_START
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1679 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1680 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
7172612f 1681
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1683 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1684 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1687 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1688 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1689
1690 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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1693
1694 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1696 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1697
1698 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1699
1700 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1701
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1703 over the preserve-miss feature (see below).
575cb927 1704
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1706 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1707 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1708 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1709 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1710
575cb927 1711 disable-preserve-miss
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1713 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1714 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1715 and masked with miss-mark.
1716 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1717 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1718 (MARK target).
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1720 miss-mask=0xFF
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1722 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1723 the TOS sent towards clients.
1724 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1725 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1726
1727 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1728 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1729 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1730 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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41bd17a4 1734NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1735TYPE: acl_address
1736DEFAULT: none
1737LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1738DOC_START
1739 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1740 based on the username or source address of the user making
1741 the request.
7f7db318 1742
41bd17a4 1743 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1746 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1749 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1750
1751 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1752 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1753
1754 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1755 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1756
1757 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1758 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1759
41bd17a4 1760 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1761 matching line.
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1763 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
1764 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1765 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1766
1767
1768 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1769 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1770 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1771 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 1773 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
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1776 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1777
cccac0a2 1778DOC_END
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1780NAME: client_dst_passthru
1781TYPE: onoff
1782DEFAULT: on
1783LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1784DOC_START
1785 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1786 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1787 source.
1788
1789 This option (on by default) prevents cache_peer and alternative DNS
1790 entries being used on intercepted traffic. Both of which lead to
1791 the security vulnerability outlined below.
1792
1793 SECURITY WARNING:
1794
1795 This directive should only be disabled if cache_peer are required.
1796
1797 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1798 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1799 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1800 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1801
1802 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1803 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1804 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1805 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1806 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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cccac0a2 1808DOC_END
1809
41bd17a4 1810COMMENT_START
1811 SSL OPTIONS
1812 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1813COMMENT_END
1814
1815NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1816IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1817TYPE: onoff
1818DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1819LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1820DOC_START
41bd17a4 1821 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1822 messages.
cccac0a2 1823DOC_END
1824
41bd17a4 1825NAME: ssl_engine
1826IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1827TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1828LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1829DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1830DOC_START
41bd17a4 1831 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1832 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1833DOC_END
1834
41bd17a4 1835NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1836IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1837DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1838LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1839TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1840DOC_START
41bd17a4 1841 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1842DOC_END
1843
41bd17a4 1844NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1845IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1846DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1847LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1848TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1849DOC_START
41bd17a4 1850 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1851DOC_END
1852
41bd17a4 1853NAME: sslproxy_version
1854IFDEF: USE_SSL
1855DEFAULT: 1
1856LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1857TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1858DOC_START
41bd17a4 1859 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1860DOC_END
1861
41bd17a4 1862NAME: sslproxy_options
1863IFDEF: USE_SSL
1864DEFAULT: none
1865LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1866TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1867DOC_START
41bd17a4 1868 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1870 The most important being:
1871
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
1876 Always create a new key when using
1877 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1878
1879 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1880 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1881 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 1882DOC_END
1883
41bd17a4 1884NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1885IFDEF: USE_SSL
1886DEFAULT: none
1887LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1888TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1889DOC_START
41bd17a4 1890 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1892 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1893DOC_END
1894
41bd17a4 1895NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1896IFDEF: USE_SSL
1897DEFAULT: none
1898LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1899TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1900DOC_START
41bd17a4 1901 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1902 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1903DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1905NAME: sslproxy_capath
1906IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1907DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1908LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1909TYPE: string
5473c134 1910DOC_START
41bd17a4 1911 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1912 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1913DOC_END
1914
4c9da963 1915NAME: ssl_bump
1916IFDEF: USE_SSL
1917TYPE: acl_access
1918LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1919DEFAULT: none
1920DOC_START
1921 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1922 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1923 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1924 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1925
1926 By default, no requests are bumped.
1927
e0c0d54c 1928 See also: http_port ssl-bump
4c9da963 1929
e0c0d54c 1930 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 1931 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1933
1934 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1935 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1936
1937 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1938 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1939 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1940 ssl_bump deny localhost
1941 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1942 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1943DOC_END
1944
41bd17a4 1945NAME: sslproxy_flags
1946IFDEF: USE_SSL
1947DEFAULT: none
1948LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1949TYPE: string
5473c134 1950DOC_START
41bd17a4 1951 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1952 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1953 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1954 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1955 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1956DOC_END
1957
4c9da963 1958NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1959IFDEF: USE_SSL
1960DEFAULT: none
1961LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1962TYPE: acl_access
1963DOC_START
1964 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1965
1966 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1967 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1968 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1969
1970 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1971 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1972 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1973
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1975 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1976 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 1977
1978 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1979 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1980 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1981 the connection may be insecure.
1982
1983 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1984
e0855596 1985 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 1986DOC_END
1987
41bd17a4 1988NAME: sslpassword_program
1989IFDEF: USE_SSL
1990DEFAULT: none
1991LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1992TYPE: string
5473c134 1993DOC_START
41bd17a4 1994 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1995 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1996 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1997 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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1999 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2000 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2001 keys.
5473c134 2002DOC_END
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2005 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2006 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2007COMMENT_END
2008
2009NAME: sslcrtd_program
2010TYPE: eol
2011IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2012DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2013LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2014DOC_START
2015 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2016 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2017 For more information use:
2018 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2019DOC_END
2020
2021NAME: sslcrtd_children
2022TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2023IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2024DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2025LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2026DOC_START
2027 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2028 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2029
2030 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2031 tuning.
2032
2033 startup=N
2034
2035 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2036 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2037 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2038
2039 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2040 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2041
2042 idle=N
2043
2044 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2045 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2046 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2047 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2048
2049 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2050DOC_END
2051
cccac0a2 2052COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2053 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2054 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2055COMMENT_END
2056
41bd17a4 2057NAME: cache_peer
2058TYPE: peer
2059DEFAULT: none
2060LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2061DOC_START
41bd17a4 2062 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2064 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2065
41bd17a4 2066 For example,
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41bd17a4 2068 # proxy icp
2069 # hostname type port port options
2070 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2071 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2072 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2073 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
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2075 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2076
2077 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2078
2079 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2080 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2081 For web servers this is usually 80
2082
2083 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2084 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2085 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2086
2087
2088 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2089
2090 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2091 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2092
2093
2094 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2095
2096 multicast-responder
2097 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2098 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2099 replies will be accepted from it.
2100
2101 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2102 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2103
2104 background-ping
2105 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2106 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2107 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2108
2109
2110 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2111
2112 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2113 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2114
2115
2116 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2117 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2119 list of options described below.
2b94f655 2120
18191440 2121 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2122
18191440 2123 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2124 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2125 only-clr.
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2128 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2b94f655 2129
18191440 2130 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2132 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2133
18191440 2134 htcp=forward-clr
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2135 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2136
2137
2138 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2139
2140 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2141 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2142
2143
2144 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2145 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2146 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2147
2148 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2149 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2150 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2151
2152 weighted-round-robin
2153 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2154 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2155 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2156 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2157 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2158
2159 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2160 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2161 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2162
2163 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2164
2165 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2167 multicast-siblings
2168 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2169 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2170 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
2171 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2172 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2173 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2174 members of the same multicast group.
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2176
2177 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2178
2179 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2180 peer-selection mechanisms.
2181 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2182 larger weights are favored more.
2183 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2184 protocol is not in use.
2185
2186 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2187 times of parents.
2188 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2189 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2190 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2191
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2193 to this address.
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2195 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2196 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2197 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2198
2199 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2200 delay pools.
2201
2202 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2203 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2204 than the Squid default location.
2205
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2208
2209 carp-key=key-specification
2210 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2211 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2212 scheme, host, port, path, params
2213 Order is not important.
2214
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2216
2217 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2218 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2219 is a web server.
2220
2221 forceddomain=name
2222 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2223 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2224 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2225 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2226
2227 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2228
2229 no-netdb-exchange
2230 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2231
2232
2233 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2234
2235 login=user:password
2236 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2237 requires proxy authentication.
2238
2239 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2240 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2241
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2243 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2244 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2245 without alteration to the peer.
2246 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2247
2248 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2249 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2250 connection-auth options are also used.
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2253 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2256 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2258 they may be sent instead.
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2260 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2261 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2262 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2263 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2264 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2265
2266 login=*:password
2267 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2268 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2269 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2270 needed to identify each user.
2271 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2272 information which is added to the username. This can
2273 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2274 the login=username:password option above.
2275
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2277 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2278 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2279 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2280 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2281
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2283 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2284 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2285
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2287 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2288 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2289 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2290 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2291 used.
2292
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2294 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2295 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2296
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2298 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2299 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2300 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2301 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2302 of the peer.
2303
2304
2305 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2306
2307 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2308
2309 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2310 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2311 this peer.
2312
2313 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2314 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2315 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2316 reference a combined file containing both the
2317 certificate and the key.
2318
2319 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2320 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2321 1 = automatic (default)
2322 2 = SSL v2 only
2323 3 = SSL v3 only
2324 4 = TLS v1 only
2325
2326 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2327 to this peer.
2328
2329 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2330 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2331 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2332 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2333 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2334 a more complete list.
2335
2336 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2337 when verifying the peer certificate.
2338
2339 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2340 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2341
2342 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2343 verifying the peer certificate.
2344
2345 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2346
41bd17a4 2347 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2348 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2349 verify.
2350 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2351 Don't use the default CA list built in
2352 to OpenSSL.
2353 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2354 Don't verify the peer certificate
2355 matches the server name
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2357 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2358 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2359 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2360 used.
2361
2362 front-end-https
2363 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2364 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2365 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2366 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2367 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2368
2369
2370 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2371
2372 connect-timeout=N
2373 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2374 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2375
2376 connect-fail-limit=N
2377 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2378 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2379
2380 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2381 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2382 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2383 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2384 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2385 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2386 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2387
2388 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2389 peer. see also
2390
2391 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2392 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2393 but different ports.
2394 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2395 directives to dentify the peer.
2396 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2397 peername ACL type.
2398
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2400 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2401
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2403
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41bd17a4 2406NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2407TYPE: hostdomain
2408DEFAULT: none
2409LOC: none
2410DOC_START
2411 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2412 queried. Usage:
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41bd17a4 2414 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2415 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2416
41bd17a4 2417 For example, specifying
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41bd17a4 2419 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2420
41bd17a4 2421 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2422 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2423 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2424 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2425 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2426
41bd17a4 2427 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2428 either on the same or separate lines.
2429 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2430 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2431 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2432 for all requests.
2433 * There are no defaults.
2434 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2435 section.
2436DOC_END
dd9b1776 2437
41bd17a4 2438NAME: cache_peer_access
2439TYPE: peer_access
2440DEFAULT: none
2441LOC: none
2442DOC_START
2443 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2444 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2445
41bd17a4 2446 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2447
41bd17a4 2448 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2449 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2450 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2451DOC_END
dd9b1776 2452
41bd17a4 2453NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2454TYPE: hostdomaintype
2455DEFAULT: none
2456LOC: none
2457DOC_START
2458 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2459
41bd17a4 2460 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2461 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2462 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2463 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2464 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2465 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2466
41bd17a4 2467EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2468 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2469 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2470 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2471DOC_END
6bf4f823 2472
41bd17a4 2473NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2474COMMENT: (seconds)
2475DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2476TYPE: time_t
2477LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2478DOC_START
2479 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2480 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2481 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2482 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2483 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2484 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2485
41bd17a4 2486 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2487 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2488 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2489 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2490 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2491 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2492 instead of to your parents.
2493DOC_END
cccac0a2 2494
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2495NAME: forward_max_tries
2496DEFAULT: 10
2497TYPE: int
2498LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2499DOC_START
2500 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2501 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2502
2503 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2504 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2505DOC_END
2506
41bd17a4 2507NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2508TYPE: wordlist
2509DEFAULT: none
2510LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2511DOC_START
2512 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2513 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2514 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2515 list this option multiple times.
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2517 Example:
2518 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2519
2520 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2521DOC_END
0976f8db 2522
41bd17a4 2523COMMENT_START
2524 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2525 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2526COMMENT_END
2527
2528NAME: cache_mem
2529COMMENT: (bytes)
2530TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2531DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2532LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2533DOC_START
41bd17a4 2534 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2535 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2536 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2537 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2538
2539 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2540 for:
2541 * In-Transit objects
2542 * Hot Objects
2543 * Negative-Cached objects
2544
2545 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2546 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2547 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2548 priority.
2549
2550 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2551 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2552 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2553 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2554 not needed for in-transit objects.
2555
2556 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2557 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2558 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2559 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2560 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2561 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2562 objects.
6b698a21 2563DOC_END
0976f8db 2564
41bd17a4 2565NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2566COMMENT: (bytes)
2567TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2568DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2569LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2570DOC_START
41bd17a4 2571 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2572 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2573 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2574 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2575DOC_END
0976f8db 2576
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2577NAME: memory_cache_shared
2578COMMENT: on|off
2579TYPE: YesNoNone
2580LOC: Config.memShared
2581DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 2582DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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2583DOC_START
2584 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
2585
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2586 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
2587 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
2588 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
2589 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
2590 caching is enabled).
2591
65b81b27 2592 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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2593 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
2594 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
2595 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
2596 and GCC-style atomic operations).
2597
2598 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
2599 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
2600 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
2601
2602 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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2603DOC_END
2604
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2605NAME: memory_cache_mode
2606TYPE: memcachemode
2607LOC: Config
2608DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2609DOC_START
ea21d497 2610 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2611
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2612 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2613
2614 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2615 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2616 a second time before cached in memory.
2617
2618 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2619DOC_END
2620
41bd17a4 2621NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2622TYPE: removalpolicy
2623LOC: Config.memPolicy
2624DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2625DOC_START
41bd17a4 2626 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2627 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2628
41bd17a4 2629 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2630DOC_END
6b698a21 2631
41bd17a4 2632COMMENT_START
2633 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2634 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2635COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2636
41bd17a4 2637NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2638TYPE: removalpolicy
2639LOC: Config.replPolicy
2640DEFAULT: lru
2641DOC_START
2642 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2643 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2644
41bd17a4 2645 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2646 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2647 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2648 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2649
41bd17a4 2650 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2651
41bd17a4 2652 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2653
41bd17a4 2654 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2655 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2656 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2657 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2658
41bd17a4 2659 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2660 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2661 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2662 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2663
41bd17a4 2664 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2665 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2666 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2667
41bd17a4 2668 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2669 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2670 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2671
41bd17a4 2672 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2673 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2674 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2675DOC_END
0976f8db 2676
41bd17a4 2677NAME: cache_dir
2678TYPE: cachedir
2679DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2680LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2681DOC_START
41bd17a4 2682 Usage:
0976f8db 2683
41bd17a4 2684 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2685
41bd17a4 2686 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2687 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2688
41bd17a4 2689 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2690 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2691 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2692
41bd17a4 2693 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2694 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2695 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2696 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2697 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2698
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2699 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2700 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2701 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2702
41bd17a4 2703 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2704
41bd17a4 2705 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2706 been there.
0976f8db 2707
41bd17a4 2708 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2709
41bd17a4 2710 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2711 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2712 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2713 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2714 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2715
56fba4d0 2716 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2717 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2718
56fba4d0 2719 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2720 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2721 is 256.
0976f8db 2722
41bd17a4 2723 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2724
41bd17a4 2725 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2726 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2727 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2728
41bd17a4 2729 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2730
41bd17a4 2731 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2732
41bd17a4 2733 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2734
41bd17a4 2735 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2736 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2737 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2738
41bd17a4 2739 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2740
41bd17a4 2741 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2742
41bd17a4 2743 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2744 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2745 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2746
41bd17a4 2747 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2748 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2749 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2750
41bd17a4 2751 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2752 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2753 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2754 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2755 time.
0976f8db 2756
2e55f083 2757 The rock store type:
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2759 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes>
2760
2e55f083 2761 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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2762 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
2763 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
2764 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
2765 below for more info on the max-size option.
2766
41bd17a4 2767 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2768
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2769 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2770 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2771 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2772
41bd17a4 2773 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2774 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2775 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2776 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2777 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2778 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2779 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2780
41bd17a4 2781 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2782 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2783 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2784
41bd17a4 2785 Common options:
0976f8db 2786
41bd17a4 2787 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2788
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2789 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
2790 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
2791 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
2792 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
2793
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2794 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
2795 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 2796 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2797 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2798 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2799
41bd17a4 2800 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2801 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2802 option.
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2804
2805# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2806#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2807NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2808DOC_END
0976f8db 2809
41bd17a4 2810NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2811TYPE: string
2812LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2813DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2814DOC_START
41bd17a4 2815 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2816DOC_END
0976f8db 2817
41bd17a4 2818NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2819TYPE: int
2820LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2821DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2822DOC_START
41bd17a4 2823 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2824 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2825 descriptors are open.
2826
2827 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2828DOC_END
0976f8db 2829
41bd17a4 2830NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2831COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2832TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2833DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2834LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2835DOC_START
41bd17a4 2836 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2837 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2838 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2839DOC_END
0976f8db 2840
41bd17a4 2841NAME: maximum_object_size
2842COMMENT: (bytes)
2843TYPE: b_int64_t
2844DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2845LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2846DOC_START
41bd17a4 2847 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2848 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2849 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2850 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2851 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2852 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2853
41bd17a4 2854 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2855 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2856 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2857DOC_END
0976f8db 2858
41bd17a4 2859NAME: cache_swap_low
2860COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2861TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2862DEFAULT: 90
2863LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2864DOC_NONE
2865
2866NAME: cache_swap_high
2867COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2868TYPE: int
2869DEFAULT: 95
2870LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2871DOC_START
41bd17a4 2872
2873 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2874 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2875 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2876 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2877 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2878 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2879
2880 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2881 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2882 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2883DOC_END
0976f8db 2884
5473c134 2885COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2886 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2887 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2888COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2889
41bd17a4 2890NAME: logformat
2891TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 2892LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 2893DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2894DOC_START
41bd17a4 2895 Usage:
0976f8db 2896
41bd17a4 2897 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2898
41bd17a4 2899 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2900
41bd17a4 2901 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2902
41bd17a4 2903 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2904 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2905 as required according to their context and the output format
2906 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2907 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2908
41bd17a4 2909 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2910
41bd17a4 2911 " output in quoted string format
2912 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2913 # output in URL quoted format
2914 ' output as-is
5473c134 2915
41bd17a4 2916 - left aligned
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2918 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
2919 [width_min][.width_max]
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2921 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 2922
41bd17a4 2923 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2924
41bd17a4 2925 Format codes:
5473c134 2926
3ff65596 2927 % a literal % character
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2928 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
2929 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
2930 a similar internal error identifier.
2931 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
2932
2933 Connection related format codes:
2934
41bd17a4 2935 >a Client source IP address
2936 >A Client FQDN
2937 >p Client source port
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2938 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
2939 >la Local IP address the client connected to
2940 >lp Local port number the client connected to
2941
2942 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
2943 <A Server FQDN or peer name
2944 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 2945 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 2946 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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2947
2948 Time related format codes:
2949
41bd17a4 2950 ts Seconds since epoch
2951 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2952 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2953 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2954 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2955 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2956 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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2957 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
2958
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2959 Access Control related format codes:
2960
2961 et Tag returned by external acl
2962 ea Log string returned by external acl
2963 un User name (any available)
2964 ul User name from authentication
2965 ue User name from external acl helper
2966 ui User name from ident
2967 us User name from SSL
2968
2969 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 2970
ca2e92d8 2971 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 2972 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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2973 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
2974 Optional header name argument as for >h
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2975 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2976 as for >h
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2977 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2978 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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2979 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
2980 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
2981 transfer encoding and control messages.
2982 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
2983 received bodies.
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2984 [http::]mt MIME content type
2985 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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2986 [http::]>rm Request method from client
2987 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
2988 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
2989 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
2990 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 2991 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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2992 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
2993 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 2994 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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2996 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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2997 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2998 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2999 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3000 are not included
3001 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3002 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3003 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3004 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3005 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3006 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3007 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3008 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3009 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3010 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3011 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3012 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3013
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3014 Squid handling related format codes:
3015
3016 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3017 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3018
5038f9d8 3019 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3020 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3021
3022 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3023 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3024 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3025 transaction is in progress.
3026
5038f9d8 3027 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
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3030 meta-information from the last eCAP
3031 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3032 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3033 argument.
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3035 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3036 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3037 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3038 value is recorded as an integer number,
3039 representing response time of one or more
3040 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3041 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3042 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3043 logged individually but added to the
3044 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3045 adapt::all_trs.
3046
3047 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3048 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3049 individual transactions are never added
3050 together. Instead, all transaction response
3051 times are recorded individually.
3052
3053 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3054 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3055 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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3057 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3058
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3059logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3060logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3061logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3062logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3063logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3064
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3065 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3066 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3067 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3068
3069 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3070 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3071
5473c134 3072DOC_END
3073
41bd17a4 3074NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3075TYPE: access_log
3076LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3077DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3078DOC_START
41bd17a4 3079 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3080 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3081 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3082 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3084 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3085 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3086 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3087 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3088
3089 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3090
bb7a1781 3091 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3092 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3093
3094 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3095 each request.
3096 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3097
3098 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3099 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3100 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3101
3102 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3103
3104 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3105 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3106 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3107
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3108 where facility could be any of:
3109 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3110
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3111 And priority could be any of:
3112 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3113
3114 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3115 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3116 Place Format: \\host:port
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3118 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3119 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3120 Place Format: \\host:port
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3121
3122 Default:
82b7abe3 3123 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3124DOC_END
5473c134 3125
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3126NAME: icap_log
3127TYPE: access_log
3128IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3129LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3130DEFAULT: none
3131DOC_START
3132 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3133 transaction.
3134
3135 The icap_log option format is:
3136 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3137 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3138
3139 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3140 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3141 features.
3142
3143 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3144 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3145 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3146 log line.
3147
3148 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3149 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3150 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3151 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3152 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3153 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3154 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3155
3156 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3157
3158 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3159
3160 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3161 option in Squid configuration file.
3162
3163 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3164
3165 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3166 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3167
3168 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3169 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3170
3171 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3172 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3173 the socket).
3174
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3175 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3176 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3177 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3178 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3179 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3180 computed.
3181
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3183 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3184 the ICAP transaction is created and
3185 stops when the transaction is completed.
3186 Similar to tr.
3187
3188 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3189 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3190 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3191 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3192 is received.
3193
3194 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3195 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3196 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3197 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3198 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3199 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3200
3201 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3202
3203 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3204
3205 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3206
3207 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3208 definition, is called icap_squid:
3209
3210logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3211
5038f9d8 3212 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3214
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3215NAME: logfile_daemon
3216TYPE: string
3217DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3218LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3219DOC_START
3220 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3221 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3222
3223 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3224 L<data>\n - logfile data
3225 R\n - rotate file
3226 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3227 O\n - reopen file
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3228 F\n - flush file
3229 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3230 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3231
3232 No responses is expected.
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3233DOC_END
3234
5b0f5383 3235NAME: log_access
3236TYPE: acl_access
3237LOC: Config.accessList.log
3238DEFAULT: none
3239COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3240DOC_START
3241 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3242 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3243 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3244
3245 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3246 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3247DOC_END
3248
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3249NAME: log_icap
3250TYPE: acl_access
3251IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3252LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3253DEFAULT: none
3254DOC_START
3255 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3256 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3257DOC_END
3258
41bd17a4 3259NAME: cache_store_log
3260TYPE: string
df2eec10 3261DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3262LOC: Config.Log.store
3263DOC_START
3264 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3265 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3266 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
3267 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3268 disable it.
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3270 Example:
3271 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3272DOC_END
3273
41bd17a4 3274NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3275TYPE: string
3276LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3277DEFAULT: none
3278DOC_START
41bd17a4 3279 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3280 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3281 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3282 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3283 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3284 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3285 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3286
41bd17a4 3287 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3288 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3289 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3290 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3291
41bd17a4 3292 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3293 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3294
41bd17a4 3295 cache_swap_log.00
3296 cache_swap_log.01
3297 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3298
41bd17a4 3299 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3300 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3301 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3302 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3303 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3304 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3305 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3306DOC_END
3307
41bd17a4 3308NAME: logfile_rotate
3309TYPE: int
3310DEFAULT: 10
3311LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3312DOC_START
41bd17a4 3313 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3314 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3315 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3316 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3317 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3318 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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41bd17a4 3320 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3321 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3322 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3323 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3324 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3325 <pid>'.
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3327 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3328 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3329DOC_END
5473c134 3330
41bd17a4 3331NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3332TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3333DOC_START
20efa1c2 3334 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3335DOC_END
3336
41bd17a4 3337NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3338TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3339DOC_START
8652f8e7 3340 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3341DOC_END
5473c134 3342
41bd17a4 3343NAME: mime_table
3344TYPE: string
3345DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3346LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3347DOC_START
3348 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3349 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3350 information if you do.
5473c134 3351DOC_END
3352
41bd17a4 3353NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3354COMMENT: on|off
3355TYPE: onoff
3356LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3357DEFAULT: off
3358DOC_START
3359 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3360 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3361 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3362 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3363 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3364DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3366NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3367TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3368DOC_START
20efa1c2 3369 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3370DOC_END
3371
41bd17a4 3372NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3373TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3374DOC_START
20efa1c2 3375 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3376DOC_END
3377
41bd17a4 3378NAME: pid_filename
3379TYPE: string
3380DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3381LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3382DOC_START
41bd17a4 3383 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3384DOC_END
3385
41bd17a4 3386NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3387TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3388DOC_START
c581e96b 3389 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3390DOC_END
3391
41bd17a4 3392NAME: client_netmask
3393TYPE: address
3394LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3395DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3396DOC_START
41bd17a4 3397 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3398 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3399 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3400 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3401DOC_END
3402
41bd17a4 3403NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3404TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3405DOC_START
20efa1c2 3406 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3407DOC_END
3408
41bd17a4 3409NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3410TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3411LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3412DEFAULT: on
3413DOC_START
41bd17a4 3414 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3415 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3416DOC_END
3417
41bd17a4 3418NAME: buffered_logs
3419COMMENT: on|off
3420TYPE: onoff
3421DEFAULT: off
3422LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3423DOC_START
41bd17a4 3424 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3425 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3426 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3427 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3428 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
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2b753521 3431NAME: netdb_filename
3432TYPE: string
3433DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3434LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3435IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3436DOC_START
3437 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3438 To disable, enter "none".
3439DOC_END
3440
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3442 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3443 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3444COMMENT_END
3445
3446NAME: cache_log
3447TYPE: string
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3448DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3449LOC: Debug::cache_log
3450DOC_START
3451 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3452 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3453 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3454DOC_END
3455
3456NAME: debug_options
3457TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3458DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3459LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3460DOC_START
3461 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3462 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3463 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3464 log file, so be careful.
3465
3466 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3467 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3468
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3470 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3471 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3472 events affecting Squid.
3473DOC_END
3474
3475NAME: coredump_dir
3476TYPE: string
3477LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3478DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3479DOC_START
3480 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3481 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3482 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3483 and coredump files will be left there.
3484
3485NOCOMMENT_START
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3487# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3488coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3489NOCOMMENT_END
3490DOC_END
3491
3492
41bd17a4 3493COMMENT_START
3494 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3495 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3496COMMENT_END
3497
3498NAME: ftp_user
3499TYPE: string
3500DEFAULT: Squid@
3501LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3502DOC_START
41bd17a4 3503 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3504 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3505 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3506
41bd17a4 3507 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3508 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3509 depending on how the cache is used.
3510 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3511 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3512DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3514NAME: ftp_passive
3515TYPE: onoff
3516DEFAULT: on
3517LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3518DOC_START
41bd17a4 3519 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3520 connections, turn off this option.
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3522 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3523DOC_END
3524
3525NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3526TYPE: onoff
3527DEFAULT: off
3528LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3529DOC_START
3530 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3531
3532 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3533 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3534 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3535
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3537 useful.
a689bd4e 3538 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3539 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3540
3541 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3542 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3543
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3545DOC_END
3546
3547NAME: ftp_epsv
3548TYPE: onoff
3549DEFAULT: on
3550LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3551DOC_START
3552 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3553
3554 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3555 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3556 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3557 will never be needed.
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3559 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3560 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3561 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3562
3563 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3564DOC_END
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3566NAME: ftp_eprt
3567TYPE: onoff
3568DEFAULT: on
3569LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3570DOC_START
3571 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3572
3573 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3574 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3575 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3576
3577 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3578 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3579
3580 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3581 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3582 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3583 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3584
3585 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3586 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3587DOC_END
3588
41bd17a4 3589NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3590TYPE: onoff
3591DEFAULT: on
3592LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3593DOC_START
3594 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3595 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3596 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3597 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3598 connection turn this off.
3599DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3600
41bd17a4 3601NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3602TYPE: onoff
3603DEFAULT: on
3604LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3605DOC_START
3606 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3607 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3608 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3609 the FTP protocol.
3610
3611 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3612 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3613 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3614 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3615 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3616DOC_END
3617
3618COMMENT_START
3619 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3620 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3621COMMENT_END
3622
3623NAME: diskd_program
3624TYPE: string
3625DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3626LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3627DOC_START
3628 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3629 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3630 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3631DOC_END
3632
3633NAME: unlinkd_program
3634IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3635TYPE: string
3636DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3637LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3638DOC_START
3639 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3640DOC_END
3641
3642NAME: pinger_program
3643TYPE: string
3644DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3645LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3646IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3647DOC_START
3648 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3649DOC_END
3650
cc192b50 3651NAME: pinger_enable
3652TYPE: onoff
3653DEFAULT: on
3654LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3655IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3656DOC_START
3657 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3658 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3659 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3660DOC_END
3661
3662
41bd17a4 3663COMMENT_START
3664 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3665 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3666COMMENT_END
3667
3668NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3669TYPE: wordlist
3670LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3671DEFAULT: none
3672DOC_START
2c7aad89 3673 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 3674 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3675
2c7aad89 3676 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 3677
c71adec1 3678 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3679
3680 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3681 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3682 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3683 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3684
3685 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3686 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3687
3688 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3689 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 3690 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 3691
3692 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3693DOC_END
3694
3695NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3696TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3697DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3698LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3699DOC_START
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3700 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3701 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3702 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3703 and other system resources noticably.
3704
3705 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3706 tuning.
3707
3708 startup=
3709
3710 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3711 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3712 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3713
3714 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3715 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3716
3717 idle=
3718
3719 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3720 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3721 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3722 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3723
3724 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3725
41bd17a4 3726 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3727 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3728 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3729
3730 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3731 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3732 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3733 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3734 to that request.
41bd17a4 3735DOC_END
3736
3737NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3738TYPE: onoff
3739DEFAULT: on
3740LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3741DOC_START
3742 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
3743 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
3744 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
3745
3746 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3747 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
3748DOC_END
3749
3750NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3751TYPE: acl_access
3752DEFAULT: none
3753LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3754DOC_START
3755 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3756 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3757 are sent.
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3758
3759 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3760 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3761DOC_END
3762
3763NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3764TYPE: onoff
3765LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3766DEFAULT: off
3767DOC_START
3768 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3769 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3770 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3771 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3772 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3773 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3774 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3775 users may have access to pages they should not
3776 be allowed to request.
3777DOC_END
3778
3779COMMENT_START
3780 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3781 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3782COMMENT_END
3783
f04b37d8 3784NAME: cache no_cache
3785TYPE: acl_access
3786DEFAULT: none
3787LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3788DOC_START
240887f0 3789 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3790 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3791 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3792
240887f0 3793 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3794 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3795
240887f0 3796 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3797
3798 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3799 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3800DOC_END
3801
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3802NAME: max_stale
3803COMMENT: time-units
3804TYPE: time_t
3805LOC: Config.maxStale
3806DEFAULT: 1 week
3807DOC_START
3808 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
3809 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
3810 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
3811DOC_END
3812
41bd17a4 3813NAME: refresh_pattern
3814TYPE: refreshpattern
3815LOC: Config.Refresh
3816DEFAULT: none
3817DOC_START
3818 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3819
6b698a21 3820 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3821 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3822
41bd17a4 3823 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3824 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3825 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3826 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3827 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3828
41bd17a4 3829 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3830 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3831 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3832
41bd17a4 3833 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3834 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3835
41bd17a4 3836 options: override-expire
3837 override-lastmod
3838 reload-into-ims
3839 ignore-reload
3840 ignore-no-cache
3841 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3842 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3843 ignore-private
3844 ignore-auth
570d3f75 3845 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 3846 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 3847 store-stale
a0ec9f68 3848
41bd17a4 3849 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3850 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3851 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3852 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3853 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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3855 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3856 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3857 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3858 the object fresh for that period of time.
3859
41bd17a4 3860 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3861 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3862
41bd17a4 3863 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3864 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3865 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3866 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3867
41bd17a4 3868 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3869 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3870 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3871 it causes.
9bc73deb 3872
41bd17a4 3873 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3874 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3875 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3876 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3877 send it anyway.
3878
3879 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3880 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3881 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3882 liable for problems which it causes.
3883
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3884 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3885 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3886 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3887 liable for problems which it causes.
3888
41bd17a4 3889 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3890 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3891 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3892 liable for problems which it causes.
3893
3894 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3895 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3896 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3897 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3898 it causes.
3899
3900 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3901 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3902 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3903 if one is available.
3904
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3905 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3906 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3907 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3908 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3909 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3910
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3911 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
3912 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
3913 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
3914
41bd17a4 3915 Basically a cached object is:
3916
3917 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3918 STALE if age > max
3919 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3920 FRESH if age < min
3921 else STALE
3922
3923 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3924 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3925 match the default will be used.
3926
3927 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3928 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3929 used.
3930
41bd17a4 3931NOCOMMENT_START
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3932
3933# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 3934refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3935refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 3936refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 3937refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3938NOCOMMENT_END
3939DOC_END
3940
3941NAME: quick_abort_min
3942COMMENT: (KB)
3943TYPE: kb_int64_t
3944DEFAULT: 16 KB
3945LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3946DOC_NONE
3947
3948NAME: quick_abort_max
3949COMMENT: (KB)
3950TYPE: kb_int64_t
3951DEFAULT: 16 KB
3952LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3953DOC_NONE
3954
3955NAME: quick_abort_pct
3956COMMENT: (percent)
3957TYPE: int
3958DEFAULT: 95
3959LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3960DOC_START
3961 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3962 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3963 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3964 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3965 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3966 downloads.
3967
3968 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3969 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3970 then.
3971
3972 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3973 it will finish the retrieval.
3974
3975 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3976 it will abort the retrieval.
3977
3978 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3979 it will finish the retrieval.
3980
3981 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3982 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3983 to '0 KB'.
3984
3985 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3986 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3987DOC_END
60d096f4 3988
41bd17a4 3989NAME: read_ahead_gap
3990COMMENT: buffer-size
3991TYPE: b_int64_t
3992LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3993DEFAULT: 16 KB
3994DOC_START
3995 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3996 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3997DOC_END
53e738c6 3998
41bd17a4 3999NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4000IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4001COMMENT: time-units
4002TYPE: time_t
4003LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4004DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4005DOC_START
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4006 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4007 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4008 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4009 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4010 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4011 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4012
4013 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4014
4015 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4016 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4017 causes.
41bd17a4 4018DOC_END
53e738c6 4019
41bd17a4 4020NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4021COMMENT: time-units
4022TYPE: time_t
4023LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4024DEFAULT: 6 hours
4025DOC_START
4026 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4027 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4028 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4029DOC_END
c4ab8329 4030
41bd17a4 4031NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4032COMMENT: time-units
4033TYPE: time_t
4034LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4035DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4036DOC_START
4037 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4038 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4039 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4040 much below 10 seconds.
4041DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4043NAME: range_offset_limit
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4044COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4045TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4046LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4047DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4048DOC_START
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4049 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4050
4051 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4052 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4053 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4054 the result is NOT cached.
4055
41bd17a4 4056 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4057 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4058 sending anything to the client.
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4059
4060 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4061 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4062 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4063 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4064
4065 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4066
4067 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4068 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4069
4070 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4071 client requested. (default)
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4072
4073 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4074 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4075
4076 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4077
4078 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4079 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4080 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4081 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4082DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4084NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4085COMMENT: (seconds)
4086TYPE: time_t
4087LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4088DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4089DOC_START
4090 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4091 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4092 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4093 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4094 is most likely better to make your server return a
4095 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4096 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4097 often be best set to 0.
4098DOC_END
c68e9c6b 4099
41bd17a4 4100NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4101COMMENT: (bytes)
4102TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4103DEFAULT: 13 KB
4104LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4105DOC_START
4106 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4107 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4108DOC_END
4109
41bd17a4 4110NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4111TYPE: int
4112DEFAULT: 20
4113LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4114DOC_START
4115 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4116 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4117 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4118DOC_END
4119
4120COMMENT_START
4121 HTTP OPTIONS
4122 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4123COMMENT_END
4124
f04b37d8 4125NAME: request_header_max_size
4126COMMENT: (KB)
4127TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4128DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4129LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4130DOC_START
4131 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4132 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4133 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4134 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4135 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4136DOC_END
4137
4138NAME: reply_header_max_size
4139COMMENT: (KB)
4140TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4141DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4142LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4143DOC_START
4144 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4145 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4146 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4147 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4148 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4149DOC_END
4150
4151NAME: request_body_max_size
4152COMMENT: (bytes)
4153TYPE: b_int64_t
4154DEFAULT: 0 KB
4155LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4156DOC_START
4157 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4158 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4159 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4160 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4161 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4162 be no limit imposed.
4163DOC_END
4164
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4165NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4166COMMENT: (bytes)
4167TYPE: b_size_t
4168DEFAULT: 512 KB
4169LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4170DOC_START
4171 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4172 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4173 a large file.
4174DOC_END
4175
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4176NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4177COMMENT: (bytes)
4178TYPE: b_int64_t
4179DEFAULT: 64 KB
4180LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4181DOC_START
4182 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4183 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4184 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4185 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4186 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4187 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4188
4189 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4190 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4191 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4192 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4193 as if dechunking was disabled.
4194
4195 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4196 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4197
4198 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4199 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4200 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4201DOC_END
4202
41bd17a4 4203NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4204IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4205TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4206DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4207LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4208DOC_START
41bd17a4 4209 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4210 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4211
41bd17a4 4212 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4213 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4214
41bd17a4 4215 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4216
41bd17a4 4217 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4218 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4219 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4220 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 4221
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4222 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4223 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4224
41bd17a4 4225Example:
4226 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4227 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4228DOC_END
cccac0a2 4229
22fff3bf 4230NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4231COMMENT: on|off
4232TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4233IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4234DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4235LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4236DOC_START
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4237 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4238 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4239
4240 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4241DOC_END
4242
41bd17a4 4243NAME: via
626096be 4244IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4245COMMENT: on|off
4246TYPE: onoff
4247DEFAULT: on
4248LOC: Config.onoff.via
4249DOC_START
4250 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4251 replies as required by RFC2616.
4252DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4253
41bd17a4 4254NAME: ie_refresh
4255COMMENT: on|off
4256TYPE: onoff
4257LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4258DEFAULT: off
4259DOC_START
4260 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4261 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4262 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4263 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4264 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4265 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4266 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4267 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4268 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4269 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4270 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4271 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4272 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4273 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4274 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4275 force fresh content.
4276DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 4277
41bd17a4 4278NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4279COMMENT: on|off
4280TYPE: onoff
4281LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4282DEFAULT: off
4283DOC_START
4284 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4285 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4286 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4287 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4288 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4289
4290 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4291 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4292DOC_END
c4ab8329 4293
41bd17a4 4294NAME: request_entities
4295TYPE: onoff
4296LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4297DEFAULT: off
4298DOC_START
4299 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4300 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4301 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4302
41bd17a4 4303 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4304 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4305 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4306 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4307 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4308DOC_END
6b53c392 4309
41bd17a4 4310NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4311IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4312TYPE: http_header_access[]
4313LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4314DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4315DOC_START
41bd17a4 4316 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4317
41bd17a4 4318 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4319 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4320 causes.
0976f8db 4321
41bd17a4 4322 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4323 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4324 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4325 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4326 mangling.
934b03fc 4327
41bd17a4 4328 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4329 client to the server.
5401aa8d 4330
41bd17a4 4331 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4332 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4333 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 4334
41bd17a4 4335 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4336 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4337
41bd17a4 4338 request_header_access From deny all
4339 request_header_access Referer deny all
4340 request_header_access Server deny all
4341 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4342 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4343 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4344
41bd17a4 4345 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4346 you should use:
5401aa8d 4347
41bd17a4 4348 request_header_access Allow allow all
4349 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4350 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4351 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4352 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4353 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4354 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4355 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4356 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4357 request_header_access Date allow all
4358 request_header_access Expires allow all
4359 request_header_access Host allow all
4360 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4361 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4362 request_header_access Location allow all
4363 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4364 request_header_access Accept allow all
4365 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4366 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4367 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4368 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4369 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4370 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4371 request_header_access Title allow all
4372 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4373 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4374
41bd17a4 4375 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4376 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4377
41bd17a4 4378 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4379 performed).
5401aa8d 4380DOC_END
4381
41bd17a4 4382NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4383IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4384TYPE: http_header_access[]
4385LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4386DEFAULT: none
4387DOC_START
41bd17a4 4388 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4389
41bd17a4 4390 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4391 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4392 causes.
934b03fc 4393
41bd17a4 4394 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4395 server to the client.
934b03fc 4396
41bd17a4 4397 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4398 direction.
6b53c392 4399
41bd17a4 4400 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4401 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4402 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4403 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4404 mangling.
cccac0a2 4405
41bd17a4 4406 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4407 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4408 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 4409
41bd17a4 4410 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4411 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4412
41bd17a4 4413 reply_header_access From deny all
4414 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4415 reply_header_access Server deny all
4416 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4417 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4418 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4419
41bd17a4 4420 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4421 you should use:
cccac0a2 4422
41bd17a4 4423 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4424 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4425 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4426 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4427 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4428 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4429 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4430 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4431 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4432 reply_header_access Date allow all
4433 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4434 reply_header_access Host allow all
4435 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4436 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4437 reply_header_access Location allow all
4438 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4439 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4440 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4441 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4442 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4443 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4444 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4445 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4446 reply_header_access Title allow all
4447 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4448 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4449
41bd17a4 4450 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4451 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4452
41bd17a4 4453 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4454 performed).
cccac0a2 4455DOC_END
4456
75e4f2ea 4457NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4458IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4459TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4460LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4461DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4462DOC_START
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4463 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4464 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4465
41bd17a4 4466 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4467 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4468 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4469 option.
cccac0a2 4470
41bd17a4 4471 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4472
41bd17a4 4473 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4474DOC_END
cccac0a2 4475
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4476NAME: reply_header_replace
4477IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4478TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4479LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4480DEFAULT: none
4481DOC_START
4482 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4483 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4484
4485 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4486 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4487 with some fixed string.
4488
4489 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4490
4491 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4492DOC_END
4493
41bd17a4 4494NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4495COMMENT: on|off|warn
4496TYPE: tristate
4497LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4498DEFAULT: on
4499DOC_START
4500 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4501 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4502 what the sending application intended even if the message
4503 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4504 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4505
41bd17a4 4506 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4507 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4508
41bd17a4 4509 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4510 or response to be rejected.
4511DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4513COMMENT_START
4514 TIMEOUTS
4515 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4516COMMENT_END
4517
4518NAME: forward_timeout
4519COMMENT: time-units
4520TYPE: time_t
4521LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4522DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4523DOC_START
4524 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4525 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4526DOC_END
4527
41bd17a4 4528NAME: connect_timeout
4529COMMENT: time-units
4530TYPE: time_t
4531LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4532DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4533DOC_START
41bd17a4 4534 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4535 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4536 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4537DOC_END
4538
41bd17a4 4539NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4540COMMENT: time-units
4541TYPE: time_t
4542LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4543DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4544DOC_START
41bd17a4 4545 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4546 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4547 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4548 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4549DOC_END
7f7db318 4550
41bd17a4 4551NAME: read_timeout
4552COMMENT: time-units
4553TYPE: time_t
4554LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4555DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4556DOC_START
4557 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4558 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4559 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4560 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4561 default is 15 minutes.
4562DOC_END
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4564NAME: write_timeout
4565COMMENT: time-units
4566TYPE: time_t
4567LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4568DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4569DOC_START
4570 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4571 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4572 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4573 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4574 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4575 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4576 default is 15 minutes.
4577DOC_END
4578
41bd17a4 4579NAME: request_timeout
4580TYPE: time_t
4581LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4582DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4583DOC_START
4584 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4585 connection establishment.
4586DOC_END
cccac0a2 4587
41bd17a4 4588NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4589TYPE: time_t
4590LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4591DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4592DOC_START
4593 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4594 connection after the previous request completes.
4595DOC_END
cccac0a2 4596
41bd17a4 4597NAME: client_lifetime
4598COMMENT: time-units
4599TYPE: time_t
4600LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4601DEFAULT: 1 day
4602DOC_START
4603 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4604 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4605 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4606 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4607 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4608 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4609 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4610
41bd17a4 4611 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4612 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4613 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4614 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4615 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4616 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4617DOC_END
4618
41bd17a4 4619NAME: half_closed_clients
4620TYPE: onoff
4621LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4622DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4623DOC_START
41bd17a4 4624 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4625 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4626 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4627 fully-closed TCP connection.
4628
4629 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4630 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4631
abdf1651 4632 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4633 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4634 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4635 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4636DOC_END
4637
41bd17a4 4638NAME: pconn_timeout
4639TYPE: time_t
4640LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4641DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4642DOC_START
41bd17a4 4643 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4644 proxies.
4645DOC_END
cccac0a2 4646
41bd17a4 4647NAME: ident_timeout
4648TYPE: time_t
4649IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4650LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4651DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4652DOC_START
4653 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4654
41bd17a4 4655 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4656 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4657 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4658DOC_END
4659
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4660NAME: disk_io_timeout
4661TYPE: time_msec
4662DEFAULT: 0 milliseconds
4663LOC: Config.Timeout.disk_io
4664DOC_START
4665 Squid will not start a new disk I/O operation if it estimates that the
4666 operation will take more than the specified disk I/O timeout.
4667 Only Rock Store supports this timeout for now.
4668
4669 By default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
4670 enforcement.
4671DOC_END
4672
4673
4674
41bd17a4 4675NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4676COMMENT: time-units
4677TYPE: time_t
4678LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4679DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4680DOC_START
41bd17a4 4681 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4682 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4683 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4684 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4685 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4686DOC_END
0976f8db 4687
cccac0a2 4688COMMENT_START
4689 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4690 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4691COMMENT_END
4692
4693NAME: cache_mgr
4694TYPE: string
4695DEFAULT: webmaster
4696LOC: Config.adminEmail
4697DOC_START
4698 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4699 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4700DOC_END
4701
abacf776 4702NAME: mail_from
4703TYPE: string
4704DEFAULT: none
4705LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4706DOC_START
4707 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4708 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4709 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4710 src/globals.h before building squid.
4711DOC_END
4712
d084bf20 4713NAME: mail_program
4714TYPE: eol
4715DEFAULT: mail
4716LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4717DOC_START
4718 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4719 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4720 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4721 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4722
d084bf20 4723 Optional command line options can be specified.
4724DOC_END
4725
cccac0a2 4726NAME: cache_effective_user
4727TYPE: string
5483d916 4728DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4729LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4730DOC_START
4731 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4732 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4733 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4734 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4735DOC_END
4736
cccac0a2 4737NAME: cache_effective_group
4738TYPE: string
4739DEFAULT: none
4740LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4741DOC_START
64e288bd 4742 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4743 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4744 from the groups membership.
4745
e3d74828 4746 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4747 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4748 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4749 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4750 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4751 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4752 group.
64e288bd 4753
4754 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4755 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4756 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4757DOC_END
4758
d3caee79 4759NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4760COMMENT: on|off
4761TYPE: onoff
4762DEFAULT: off
4763LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4764DOC_START
4765 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4766DOC_END
4767
cccac0a2 4768NAME: visible_hostname
4769TYPE: string
4770LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4771DEFAULT: none
4772DOC_START
4773 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4774 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4775 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4776 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4777 names with this setting.
4778DOC_END
4779
cccac0a2 4780NAME: unique_hostname
4781TYPE: string
4782LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4783DEFAULT: none
4784DOC_START
4785 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4786 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4787 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4788DOC_END
4789
cccac0a2 4790NAME: hostname_aliases
4791TYPE: wordlist
4792LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4793DEFAULT: none
4794DOC_START
7f7db318 4795 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4796DOC_END
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4798NAME: umask
4799TYPE: int
4800LOC: Config.umask
4801DEFAULT: 027
4802DOC_START
4803 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4804 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4805
4806 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4807 your value with 0.
4808DOC_END
4809
cccac0a2 4810COMMENT_START
4811 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4812 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4813
4814 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4815 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4816 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4817 create cache hierarchies.
4818
4819 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4820 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4821 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4822
4823 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4824 following information from this configuration file:
4825
4826 http_port
4827 icp_port
4828 cache_mgr
4829
4830 All current information is processed regularly and made
4831 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4832COMMENT_END
4833
4834NAME: announce_period
4835TYPE: time_t
4836LOC: Config.Announce.period
4837DEFAULT: 0
4838DOC_START
4839 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4840 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4841 messages.
4842
e0855596 4843 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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4845 Example:
4846 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4847DOC_END
4848
cccac0a2 4849NAME: announce_host
4850TYPE: string
4851DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4852LOC: Config.Announce.host
4853DOC_NONE
4854
4855NAME: announce_file
4856TYPE: string
4857DEFAULT: none
4858LOC: Config.Announce.file
4859DOC_NONE
4860
4861NAME: announce_port
ae870270 4862TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 4863DEFAULT: 3131
4864LOC: Config.Announce.port
4865DOC_START
4866 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4867 number where the registration message will be sent.
4868
4869 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4870 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4871 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4872 message.
4873DOC_END
4874
8d6275c0 4875COMMENT_START
4876 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4877 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4878COMMENT_END
4879
cccac0a2 4880NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4881TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 4882DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4883LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4884DOC_START
4885 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4886 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4887 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4888 an identification token.
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4889
4890 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 4891DOC_END
4892
4893NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 4894COMMENT: on|off
4895TYPE: onoff
4896DEFAULT: off
4897LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4898DOC_START
4899 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4900 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4901DOC_END
4902
4903NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4904IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4905COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4906TYPE: string
4907LOC: ESIParser::Type
4908DEFAULT: custom
4909DOC_START
4910 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4911 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4912 encodings.
4913DOC_END
0976f8db 4914
9edd9041 4915COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4916 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4917 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4918COMMENT_END
4919
4920NAME: delay_pools
4921TYPE: delay_pool_count
4922DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 4923IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4924LOC: Config.Delay
4925DOC_START
4926 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4927 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4928 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4929DOC_END
4930
4931NAME: delay_class
4932TYPE: delay_pool_class
4933DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4934IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4935LOC: Config.Delay
4936DOC_START
4937 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4938 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4939 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4940 and here would be:
4941
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4942 Example:
4943 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4944 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4945 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4946 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4947 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 4948
4949 The delay pool classes are:
4950
4951 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4952 bucket.
4953
4954 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4955 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 4956 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4957
4958 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4959 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4960 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4961 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 4962 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4963
4964 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4965 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4966 only takes effect if the username is established
4967 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4968 http_access rules.
4969
4970 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4971 external_acl's tag= reply).
4972
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4973
4974 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
4975 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
4976 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
4977
9edd9041 4978 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4979 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4980 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4981 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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4982
4983 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4984 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 4985DOC_END
4986
4987NAME: delay_access
4988TYPE: delay_pool_access
4989DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4990IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4991LOC: Config.Delay
4992DOC_START
4993 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4994
4995 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4996 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4997 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4998 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4999
5000 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5001 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5002
5003Example:
5004 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5005 delay_access 1 deny all
5006 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5007 delay_access 2 deny all
5008 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5009DOC_END
5010
5011NAME: delay_parameters
5012TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5013DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5014IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5015LOC: Config.Delay
5016DOC_START
5017 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5018 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5019 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5020
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5021 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5022 delay_pools pool 1
5023 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5024
5025 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5026 delay_pools pool 2
5027 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5028
5029 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5030 delay_pools pool 3
5031 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5032
5033 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5034 delay_pools pool 4
5035 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5036
5037 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5038 delay_pools pool 5
5039 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5040
0b68481a 5041 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5042
5043 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5044 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5045 delay_class lines.
5046
fdb47ac6 5047 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5048 (class 1, 2, 3).
5049
fdb47ac6 5050 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5051 buckets (class 2, 3).
5052
fdb47ac6 5053 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5054 (class 3).
5055
fdb47ac6 5056 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5057 (class 4).
5058
fdb47ac6 5059 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5060 (class 5).
5061
5062 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5063 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5064 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5065 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5066
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5067 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5068
5069
9edd9041 5070 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5071 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5072 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5073
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5074 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5075
5076 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5077
5078 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5079
0b68481a 5080
9edd9041 5081 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5082 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5083 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5084 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5085 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5086 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5087 large downloads more significantly:
5088
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5089 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5090
5091 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5092 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5093 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5094
9edd9041 5095
5096 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5097 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5098
0b68481a 5099 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5100DOC_END
5101
5102NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5103COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5104TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5105DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5106IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5107LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5108DOC_START
5109 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5110 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5111 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5112 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5113 "seen" by squid).
5114DOC_END
5115
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5116COMMENT_START
5117 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5118 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5119COMMENT_END
5120
5121NAME: client_delay_pools
5122TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5123DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5124IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5125LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5126DOC_START
5127 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5128 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5129
5130Example:
5131 client_delay_pools 2
5132DOC_END
5133
5134NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5135COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5136TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5137DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5138IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5139LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5140DOC_START
5141 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5142 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5143 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5144 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5145
5146 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5147 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5148 from client_delay_parameters.
5149
5150Example:
5151 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5152DOC_END
5153
5154NAME: client_delay_parameters
5155TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5156DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5157IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5158LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5159DOC_START
5160
5161 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5162 following format:
5163
5164 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5165
5166 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5167
5168 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5169
5170 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5171 speed_limit additions.
5172
5173 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5174 examples.
5175
5176Example:
5177 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5178 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5179DOC_END
5180
5181NAME: client_delay_access
5182TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5183DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5184IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5185LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5186DOC_START
5187
5188 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5189 request:
5190
5191 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5192
5193 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5194 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5195 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5196 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5197 limited.
5198
5199 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5200 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5201 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5202 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5203
5204 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5205
5206Example:
5207 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5208 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5209DOC_END
5210
cccac0a2 5211COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5212 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5213 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5214COMMENT_END
5215
8d6275c0 5216NAME: wccp_router
5217TYPE: address
5218LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5219DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5220IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5221DOC_START
5222 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5223 Squid.
5224
5225 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5226
5227 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5228
5229 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5230 which version of WCCP to use.
5231DOC_END
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8d6275c0 5233NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5234TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5235LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5236DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5237IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5238DOC_START
8d6275c0 5239 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5240 Squid.
cccac0a2 5241
8d6275c0 5242 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5243
8d6275c0 5244 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5245
8d6275c0 5246 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5247 which version of WCCP to use.
5248DOC_END
5249
5250NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5251TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5252LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5253DEFAULT: 4
5254IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5255DOC_START
8d6275c0 5256 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5257 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5258 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5259 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5260 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5261
8d6275c0 5262 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5263 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5264 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5265 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5266DOC_END
5267
8d6275c0 5268NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5269TYPE: onoff
5270LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5271DEFAULT: on
5272IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5273DOC_START
5274 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5275 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5276DOC_END
cccac0a2 5277
8d6275c0 5278NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5279TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5280LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5281DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5282IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5283DOC_START
699acd19 5284 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5285 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5286
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5287 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5288 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5289
8d6275c0 5290 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5291 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5292DOC_END
5293
8d6275c0 5294NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5295TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5296LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5297DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5298IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5299DOC_START
699acd19 5300 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5301 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5302 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5303
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5304 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5305 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5306
8d6275c0 5307 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5308 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5309
699acd19 5310 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5311 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5312 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5313 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5314DOC_END
5315
8d6275c0 5316NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5317TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5318LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5319DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5320IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5321DOC_START
8d6275c0 5322 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5323 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5324
451c4786 5325 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5326 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5327
8d6275c0 5328 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5329 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5330DOC_END
cccac0a2 5331
8d6275c0 5332NAME: wccp2_service
5333TYPE: wccp2_service
5334LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5335DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5336IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5337DOC_START
5338 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5339 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5340 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5341 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5342 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5343 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5344
5345 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5346 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5347
5348 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5349 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5350
5351 Examples:
5352
5353 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5354 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5355 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5356 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5357DOC_END
5358
5359NAME: wccp2_service_info
5360TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5361LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5362DEFAULT: none
5363IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5364DOC_START
5365 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5366 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5367
5368 The format is:
5369
5370 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5371 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5372
5373 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5374 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5375 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5376 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5377 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5378 + ports_source
5379
5380 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5381
5382 Example:
5383
5384 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5385 priority=240 ports=80
5386
5387 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5388 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5389DOC_END
5390
5391NAME: wccp2_weight
5392TYPE: int
5393LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5394DEFAULT: 10000
5395IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5396DOC_START
5397 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5398 hash proportional to their weight.
5399DOC_END
5400
5401NAME: wccp_address
5402TYPE: address
5403LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5404DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5405IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5406DOC_NONE
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8d6275c0 5408NAME: wccp2_address
5409TYPE: address
5410LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5411DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5412IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5413DOC_START
5414 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5415 interface address.
5416
5417 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5418DOC_END
5419
5420COMMENT_START
5421 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5422 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5423
5424 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5425COMMENT_END
5426
5427NAME: client_persistent_connections
5428TYPE: onoff
5429LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5430DEFAULT: on
5431DOC_NONE
5432
5433NAME: server_persistent_connections
5434TYPE: onoff
5435LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5436DEFAULT: on
5437DOC_START
5438 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5439 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5440 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5441 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5442DOC_END
5443
5444NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5445TYPE: onoff
5446LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5447DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5448DOC_START
5449 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5450 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5451 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5452DOC_END
5453
5454NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5455TYPE: onoff
5456LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5457DEFAULT: off
5458DOC_START
5459 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5460 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5461 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5462 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5463
5464 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5465 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5466 after 10 seconds timeout.
5467DOC_END
5468
5469COMMENT_START
5470 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5471 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5472COMMENT_END
5473
5474NAME: digest_generation
5475IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5476TYPE: onoff
5477LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5478DEFAULT: on
5479DOC_START
5480 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5481 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5482 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5483DOC_END
5484
5485NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5486IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5487TYPE: int
5488LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5489DEFAULT: 5
5490DOC_START
5491 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5492 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5493 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5494DOC_END
5495
5496NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5497IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5498COMMENT: (seconds)
5499TYPE: time_t
5500LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5501DEFAULT: 1 hour
5502DOC_START
749ceff8 5503 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5504DOC_END
5505
5506NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5507COMMENT: (seconds)
5508IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5509TYPE: time_t
5510LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5511DEFAULT: 1 hour
5512DOC_START
749ceff8 5513 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5514 disk.
5515DOC_END
5516
5517NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5518COMMENT: (bytes)
5519TYPE: b_size_t
5520IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5521LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5522DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5523DOC_START
5524 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5525 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5526 default swap page.
5527DOC_END
5528
5529NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5530COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5531IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5532TYPE: int
5533LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5534DEFAULT: 10
5535DOC_START
5536 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5537 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5538DOC_END
5539
1db9eacd 5540COMMENT_START
5473c134 5541 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5542 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5543COMMENT_END
5544
5473c134 5545NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5546TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5547LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5548DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5549IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5550DOC_START
87630341 5551 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5552 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5553 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5554 set to "0" (disabled)
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5556 Example:
5557 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5558DOC_END
5559
5473c134 5560NAME: snmp_access
5561TYPE: acl_access
5562LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5563DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5564IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5565DOC_START
5473c134 5566 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5567
5473c134 5568 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5569 usage:
8d6275c0 5570
5473c134 5571 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5572
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5573 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5574 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5575Example:
5576 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5577 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5578DOC_END
5579
5473c134 5580NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5581TYPE: address
5582LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5583DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5584IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5585DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5586
5473c134 5587NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5588TYPE: address
5589LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5590DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5591IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5592DOC_START
df2eec10 5593 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5594
5473c134 5595 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5596 messages from SNMP agents.
5597 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5598 agents.
cccac0a2 5599
0eb08770 5600 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5601 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5602
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5603 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5604 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5605 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5606 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5607
5473c134 5608 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5609 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5610DOC_END
5611
5473c134 5612COMMENT_START
5613 ICP OPTIONS
5614 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5615COMMENT_END
5616
5617NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 5618TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5619DEFAULT: 0
5620LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5621DOC_START
5473c134 5622 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5623 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5624 Default is disabled (0).
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5626 Example:
5627 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5628DOC_END
5629
5473c134 5630NAME: htcp_port
5631IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 5632TYPE: u_short
87630341 5633DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5634LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5635DOC_START
5473c134 5636 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5637 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5638 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5639
5640 Example:
5641 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5642DOC_END
5643
5644NAME: log_icp_queries
5645COMMENT: on|off
5646TYPE: onoff
5647DEFAULT: on
5648LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5649DOC_START
5650 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5651 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5652 up or to simplify log analysis.
5653DOC_END
5654
5473c134 5655NAME: udp_incoming_address
5656TYPE: address
5657LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5658DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5659DOC_START
5660 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5661 caches.
5662
5663 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5664
5665 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5666 a specific interface/address.
5667
5668 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5669 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5670
5671 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5672
5673 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5674 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5675DOC_END
cccac0a2 5676
5473c134 5677NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5678TYPE: address
5679LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5680DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5681DOC_START
8524d4b2 5682 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5683 caches.
cccac0a2 5684
5473c134 5685 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5686
8524d4b2 5687 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5688 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5689 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5690 caches.
5691
8524d4b2 5692 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5693 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5694
5695 see also; udp_incoming_address
5696
5473c134 5697 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5698 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5699DOC_END
5700
3d1e3e43 5701NAME: icp_hit_stale
5702COMMENT: on|off
5703TYPE: onoff
5704DEFAULT: off
5705LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5706DOC_START
5707 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5708 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5709 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5710 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5711 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5712 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5713 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5714DOC_END
5715
5473c134 5716NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5717TYPE: int
5473c134 5718DEFAULT: 4
5719LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5720DOC_START
5473c134 5721 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5722 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5723DOC_END
5724
5473c134 5725NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5726TYPE: int
5727DEFAULT: 400
5728LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5729DOC_START
5473c134 5730 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5731 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5732DOC_END
5733
cccac0a2 5734NAME: netdb_low
5735TYPE: int
5736DEFAULT: 900
5737LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5738DOC_NONE
5739
5740NAME: netdb_high
5741TYPE: int
5742DEFAULT: 1000
5743LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5744DOC_START
5745 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5746 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5747 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5748 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5749DOC_END
5750
cccac0a2 5751NAME: netdb_ping_period
5752TYPE: time_t
5753LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5754DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5755DOC_START
5756 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5757 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5758 network. The default is five minutes.
5759DOC_END
5760
cccac0a2 5761NAME: query_icmp
5762COMMENT: on|off
5763TYPE: onoff
5764DEFAULT: off
5765LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5766DOC_START
5767 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5768 replies, enable this option.
5769
5770 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5771 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5772 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5773 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5774 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5775 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5776 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5777 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5778DOC_END
5779
5780NAME: test_reachability
5781COMMENT: on|off
5782TYPE: onoff
5783DEFAULT: off
5784LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5785DOC_START
5786 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5787 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5788 database, or has a zero RTT.
5789DOC_END
5790
5473c134 5791NAME: icp_query_timeout
5792COMMENT: (msec)
5793DEFAULT: 0
5794TYPE: int
5795LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5796DOC_START
5473c134 5797 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5798 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5799 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5800 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5801 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5802 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5803
5473c134 5804 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5805DOC_END
5806
5473c134 5807NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5808COMMENT: (msec)
5809DEFAULT: 2000
5810TYPE: int
5811LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5812DOC_START
5473c134 5813 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5814 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5815 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5816 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5817 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5818 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5819DOC_END
5820
5473c134 5821NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5822COMMENT: (msec)
5823DEFAULT: 5
5824TYPE: int
5825LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5826DOC_START
5473c134 5827 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5828 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5829 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5830 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5831 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5832 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5833 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5834DOC_END
5835
5473c134 5836NAME: background_ping_rate
5837COMMENT: time-units
5838TYPE: time_t
5839DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5840LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5841DOC_START
5473c134 5842 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5843 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5844DOC_END
5845
5473c134 5846COMMENT_START
5847 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5848 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5849COMMENT_END
5850
5851NAME: mcast_groups
5852TYPE: wordlist
5853LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5854DEFAULT: none
5855DOC_START
5473c134 5856 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5857 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5858
5473c134 5859 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5860 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5861 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5862 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5863 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5864 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5865 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5866
5473c134 5867 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5868 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5869
5473c134 5870 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5871 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5872
5473c134 5873 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5874
5473c134 5875 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5876DOC_END
8c01ada0 5877
5473c134 5878NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5879IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5880TYPE: address
5881LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 5882DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5883DOC_START
5884 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5885 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5886
5473c134 5887 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5888 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5889DOC_END
5890
5473c134 5891NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5892IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5893TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5894LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5895DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5896DOC_START
5473c134 5897 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5898 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5899 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5900DOC_END
cccac0a2 5901
5473c134 5902NAME: mcast_miss_port
5903IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5904TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5905LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5906DEFAULT: 3135
5907DOC_START
5908 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5909 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5910DOC_END
cccac0a2 5911
5473c134 5912NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5913IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5914TYPE: string
5915LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5916DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5917DOC_START
5918 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5919 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5920DOC_END
8c01ada0 5921
5473c134 5922NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5923COMMENT: (msec)
5924DEFAULT: 2000
5925TYPE: int
5926LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5927DOC_START
5928 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5929 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5930 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5931 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5932 seconds.
cccac0a2 5933DOC_END
5934
5473c134 5935COMMENT_START
5936 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5937 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5938COMMENT_END
5939
cccac0a2 5940NAME: icon_directory
5941TYPE: string
5942LOC: Config.icons.directory
5943DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5944DOC_START
5945 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5946 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5947DOC_END
5948
f024c970 5949NAME: global_internal_static
5950TYPE: onoff
5951LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5952DEFAULT: on
5953DOC_START
5954 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5955 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5956 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5957 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5958 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5959 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5960 the server generating a directory listing.
5961DOC_END
5962
5473c134 5963NAME: short_icon_urls
5964TYPE: onoff
5965LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5966DEFAULT: on
5967DOC_START
5968 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5969 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5970 it's own name and port in the URL.
5971
5972 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5973 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5974DOC_END
5975
5976COMMENT_START
5977 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5978 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5979COMMENT_END
5980
5981NAME: error_directory
5982TYPE: string
5983LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 5984DEFAULT: none
5473c134 5985DOC_START
5986 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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5987 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5988 the error/template files to another directory and point
5989 this tag at them.
5990
5991 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5992 on error pages if used.
5473c134 5993
5994 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5995 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 5996 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 5997 contributing your translation back to the project.
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5998 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5999
6000 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6001 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6002DOC_END
6003
6004NAME: error_default_language
6005IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6006TYPE: string
6007LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6008DEFAULT: none
6009DOC_START
6010 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6011 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6012 preferences.
6013
6014 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6015
6016 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6017 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6018 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6019 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6020DOC_END
6021
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6022NAME: error_log_languages
6023IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6024TYPE: onoff
6025LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6026DEFAULT: on
6027DOC_START
6028 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6029 auto-negotiate for translations.
6030
6031 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6032 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6033 of its error page translations.
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6034DOC_END
6035
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6036NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6037TYPE: string
6038LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6039DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6040DOC_START
6041 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6042
6043 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6044DOC_END
6045
5473c134 6046NAME: err_html_text
6047TYPE: eol
6048LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6049DEFAULT: none
6050DOC_START
6051 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6052 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6053 organizations Web page.
6054
6055 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6056 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6057 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6058 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6059DOC_END
6060
6061NAME: email_err_data
6062COMMENT: on|off
6063TYPE: onoff
6064LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6065DEFAULT: on
6066DOC_START
6067 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6068 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6069 so that the email body contains the data.
6070 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6071DOC_END
6072
6073NAME: deny_info
6074TYPE: denyinfo
6075LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6076DEFAULT: none
6077DOC_START
6078 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6079 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6080 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6081
6082 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6083 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6084 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6085 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6086
6087 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6088 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6089 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6090 the first authentication related acl encountered
6091 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6092 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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6094 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6095
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6096 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6097 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6098 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6099
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6100 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6101 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6102 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6103
5473c134 6104 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6105 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6106
6107 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6108 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6109 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6110 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6111 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6112
6113 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6114 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6115 %B - FTP path URL
6116 %e - Error number
6117 %E - Error description
6118 %h - Squid hostname
6119 %H - Request domain name
6120 %i - Client IP Address
6121 %M - Request Method
6122 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6123 %p - Request Port number
6124 %P - Request Protocol name
6125 %R - Request URL path
6126 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6127 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6128 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6129 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6130 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6131 %x - Error name
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6132 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6133
5473c134 6134DOC_END
6135
6136COMMENT_START
6137 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6138 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6139COMMENT_END
6140
6141NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6142TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6143LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6144DEFAULT: on
6145DOC_START
5473c134 6146 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6147 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6148 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6149
5473c134 6150 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6151 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6152
5473c134 6153 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6154 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6155 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6156
5473c134 6157 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6158 this directive.
8d6275c0 6159DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6160
5473c134 6161NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6162TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6163LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6164DEFAULT: off
6165DOC_START
5473c134 6166 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6167 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6168 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6169
5473c134 6170 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6171 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6172 fails.
6173
6174 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6175 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6176 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6177DOC_END
6178
5473c134 6179NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6180TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6181LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6182DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6183DOC_START
5473c134 6184 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6185
5473c134 6186 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6187 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6188 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6189 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6190 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6191
5473c134 6192 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6193 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6194
5473c134 6195 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6196
5473c134 6197 acl FTP proto FTP
6198 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6199
5473c134 6200 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6201 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6202 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6203 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6204 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6205
5473c134 6206 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6207 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6208 always_direct deny local-external
6209 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6210
5473c134 6211 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6212 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6213 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6214 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6215
5473c134 6216 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6217 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6218 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6219
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6220 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6221 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6222DOC_END
0976f8db 6223
5473c134 6224NAME: never_direct
6225TYPE: acl_access
6226LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6227DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6228DOC_START
5473c134 6229 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6230
6231 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6232 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6233
6234 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6235 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6236 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6237 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6238
6239 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6240 never_direct deny local-servers
6241 never_direct allow all
6242
6243 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6244 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6245
6246 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6247 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6248 always_direct deny local-external
6249 always_direct allow local-intranet
6250 never_direct allow all
6251
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6252 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6253 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6254DOC_END
0976f8db 6255
5473c134 6256COMMENT_START
6257 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6258 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6259COMMENT_END
6260
cccac0a2 6261NAME: incoming_icp_average
6262TYPE: int
6263DEFAULT: 6
6264LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
6265DOC_NONE
6266
6267NAME: incoming_http_average
6268TYPE: int
6269DEFAULT: 4
6270LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
6271DOC_NONE
6272
6273NAME: incoming_dns_average
6274TYPE: int
6275DEFAULT: 4
6276LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
6277DOC_NONE
6278
6279NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6280TYPE: int
6281DEFAULT: 8
6282LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
6283DOC_NONE
6284
6285NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6286TYPE: int
6287DEFAULT: 8
6288LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
6289DOC_NONE
6290
6291NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6292TYPE: int
6293DEFAULT: 8
6294LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
6295DOC_START
5473c134 6296 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6297 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6298 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6299DOC_END
6300
6301NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6302TYPE: string
6303DEFAULT: none
6304LOC: Config.accept_filter
6305DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6306 FreeBSD:
6307
5473c134 6308 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6309 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6310 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6311
6312 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6313 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6314 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6315
6316 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6317 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6318 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6319
6320 Linux:
6321
6322 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6323 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6324 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6325 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6326 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6327EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6328# FreeBSD
5473c134 6329accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6330# Linux
6331accept_filter data
5473c134 6332DOC_END
6333
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6334NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6335TYPE: int
6336LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6337DEFAULT: -1
6338DOC_START
6339 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6340 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6341 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6342
6343 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6344 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6345
6346 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6347
6348 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6349 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6350DOC_END
6351
5473c134 6352NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6353COMMENT: (bytes)
6354TYPE: b_size_t
6355DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6356LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6357DOC_START
6358 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6359 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6360 the default buffer size.
6361DOC_END
6362
6363COMMENT_START
6364 ICAP OPTIONS
6365 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6366COMMENT_END
6367
6368NAME: icap_enable
6369TYPE: onoff
6370IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6371COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6372LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6373DEFAULT: off
6374DOC_START
53e738c6 6375 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6376DOC_END
6377
6378NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6379TYPE: time_t
6380DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6381LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6382IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6383DOC_START
6384 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6385 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6386 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6387
6388 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6389 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6390 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6391DOC_END
6392
6393NAME: icap_io_timeout
6394COMMENT: time-units
6395TYPE: time_t
6396DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6397LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6398IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6399DOC_START
6400 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6401 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6402 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6403 failure.
6404
6405 The default is read_timeout.
6406DOC_END
6407
6408NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6409COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6410TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6411IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6412LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6413DEFAULT: 10
6414DOC_START
6415 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6416 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6417 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6418 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6419 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6420
6421 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6422 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6423 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6424
6425 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6426 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6427 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6428 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6429 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6430
6431 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6432 effect on service failure expiration.
6433
6434 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6435 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6436 setting.
6437
6438 For example,
6439 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6440 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6441DOC_END
6442
5473c134 6443NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6444TYPE: int
5473c134 6445IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6446LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6447DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6448DOC_START
5473c134 6449 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6450 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6451 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6452 fetched.
cccac0a2 6453
5473c134 6454 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6455 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6456DOC_END
6457
5473c134 6458NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6459TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6460IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6461COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6462LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6463DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6464DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6465 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6466 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6467 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6468 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6469
6470 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6471 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6472 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6473
6474 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6475 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6476Example:
6477icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6478DOC_END
6479
5473c134 6480NAME: icap_preview_size
6481TYPE: int
6482IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6483LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6484DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6485DOC_START
53e738c6 6486 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6487 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6488 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6489DOC_END
6490
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6491NAME: icap_206_enable
6492TYPE: onoff
6493IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6494COMMENT: on|off
6495LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6496DEFAULT: on
6497DOC_START
6498 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6499 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6500 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6501 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6502
6503 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6504 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6505 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6506 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6507 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6508
6509 Example:
6510 icap_206_enable off
6511DOC_END
6512
5473c134 6513NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6514TYPE: int
6515IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6516LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6517DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6518DOC_START
53e738c6 6519 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6520 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6521DOC_END
6522
5473c134 6523NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6524TYPE: onoff
6525IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6526COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6527LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6528DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6529DOC_START
5473c134 6530 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6531 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6532DOC_END
6533
22fff3bf 6534NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6535TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6536IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6537COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6538LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6539DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6540DOC_START
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6541 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6542 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6543 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6544
6545 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6546DOC_END
6547
22fff3bf 6548NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6549TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6550IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6551COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6552LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6553DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6554DOC_START
5473c134 6555 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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6556 the adaptation service.
6557
6558 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6559 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6560 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6561DOC_END
6562
5473c134 6563NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6564TYPE: string
5473c134 6565IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6566LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6567DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6568DOC_START
db49f682 6569 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 6570DOC_END
6571
5473c134 6572NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6573TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6574IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6575COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6576LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6577DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6578DOC_START
5473c134 6579 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6580DOC_END
6581
5473c134 6582NAME: icap_service
6583TYPE: icap_service_type
6584IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6585LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6586DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6587DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6588 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6589
a22e6cd3 6590 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
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6592 service_name: ID
6593 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
6594
6595 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6596 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6597 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6598 are not yet supported.
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6599
6600 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
6601 ICAP server and service location.
6602
6603 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6604 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6605 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6606 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6607 service_names differ.
6608
6609
6610 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6611 the following name=value options:
6612
6613 bypass=on|off|1|0
6614 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6615 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6616 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6617 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6618 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6619 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6620 returned to the HTTP client.
6621
6622 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6623
6624 routing=on|off|1|0
6625 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6626 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6627 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6628 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6629 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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6630 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
6631 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
6632 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
6633
6634 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6635 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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6636
6637 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6638 response header is ignored.
6639
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6640 ipv6=on|off
6641 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6642 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6643 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6644
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6645 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
6646 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
6647 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
6648 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
6649 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
6650 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
6651 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
6652
6653 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
6654 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
6655 workers may use a given service.
6656
6657 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
6658 otherwise it is set to "wait".
6659
6660
6661 max-conn=number
6662 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
6663 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
6664
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6665 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6666 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 6667
5473c134 6668Example:
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6669icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
6670icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 6671DOC_END
6672
5473c134 6673NAME: icap_class
6674TYPE: icap_class_type
6675IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6676LOC: none
5473c134 6677DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6678DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6679 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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6680 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6681 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6682
62c7f90e 6683 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6684 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6685 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6686DOC_END
6687
5473c134 6688NAME: icap_access
6689TYPE: icap_access_type
6690IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6691LOC: none
cccac0a2 6692DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6693DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6694 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6695 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6696 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6697DOC_END
6698
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6699COMMENT_START
6700 eCAP OPTIONS
6701 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6702COMMENT_END
6703
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6704NAME: ecap_enable
6705TYPE: onoff
6706IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6707COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6708LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6709DEFAULT: off
6710DOC_START
6711 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6712DOC_END
6713
6714NAME: ecap_service
6715TYPE: ecap_service_type
6716IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6717LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6718DEFAULT: none
6719DOC_START
6720 Defines a single eCAP service
6721
6722 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
6723
6724 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6725 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6726 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6727 are not yet supported.
6728 bypass = 1|0
6729 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
6730 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
6731 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
6732 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
6733 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
6734 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
6735 HTTP client.
6736 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6737
6738Example:
6739ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
6740ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
6741DOC_END
6742
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6743NAME: loadable_modules
6744TYPE: wordlist
6745IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6746LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6747DEFAULT: none
6748DOC_START
6749 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6750 preloaded module(s).
6751Example:
6752loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6753DOC_END
6754
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6755COMMENT_START
6756 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6757 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6758COMMENT_END
6759
6760NAME: adaptation_service_set
6761TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6762IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6763LOC: none
6764DEFAULT: none
6765DOC_START
6766
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6767 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6768 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6769
6770 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6771
6772 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6773 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6774 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6775 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6776 intact.
62c7f90e 6777
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6778 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6779 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6780
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6781 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6782 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6783
6784 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6785 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6786 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6787 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6788 transaction fails as well.
6789
6790 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6791 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6792 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6793 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6794 matters.
6795
6796 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6798Example:
6799adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6800adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6801DOC_END
6802
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6803NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6804TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6805IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6806LOC: none
6807DEFAULT: none
6808DOC_START
6809
6810 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6811 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6812 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6813
6814 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6815
6816 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6817 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6818 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6819 the previous service in the chain.
6820
6821 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6822 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6823
6824 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6825 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6826 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6827
6828 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6829 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6830
6831 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6832 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6833 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6834 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6835
6836 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6837
6838Example:
6839adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6840DOC_END
6841
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6842NAME: adaptation_access
6843TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6844IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6845LOC: none
6846DEFAULT: none
6847DOC_START
6848 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6849
6850 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6851 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6852
6853 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6854 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6855 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6856 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6857
6858 - services serving different vectoring points
6859 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6860 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6861 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6862
6863 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6864 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6865 adaptation_service_set for details.
6866
6867 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6868 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6869 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6870 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6871
6872 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6873 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6874
6875 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6876
6877Example:
6878adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6879DOC_END
6880
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6881NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6882TYPE: int
6883IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6884LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6885DEFAULT: 16
6886DOC_START
6887 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6888 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6889 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6890 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6891 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6892 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6893
6894 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6895
6896 See also: icap_service routing=1
6897DOC_END
6898
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6899NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6900TYPE: string
6901IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6902LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6903DEFAULT: none
6904DOC_START
6905 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6906 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6907 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6908 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6909 with the master transaction.
6910
6911 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6912 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6913
6914 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6915 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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6916 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
6917
6918 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6919 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
6920 to provide an option with a name specified in
6921 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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6922
6923 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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6924 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6925
6926 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6927
6928Example:
6929# share authentication information among ICAP services
6930adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6931DOC_END
6932
6933NAME: icap_retry
6934TYPE: acl_access
6935IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6936LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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6937DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6938DOC_START
6939 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
6940 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
6941 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
6942 that response are usually retriable.
6943
6944 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6945
6946 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
6947 due to persistent connection race conditions.
6948
6949 See also: icap_retry_limit
6950DOC_END
6951
6952NAME: icap_retry_limit
6953TYPE: int
6954IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6955LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
6956DEFAULT: 0
6957DOC_START
6958 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
6959 no retries are allowed.
6960
6961 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
6962 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6963 count against this limit.
6964
6965 See also: icap_retry
6966DOC_END
6967
6968
5473c134 6969COMMENT_START
6970 DNS OPTIONS
6971 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6972COMMENT_END
6973
6974NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6975TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6976DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6977LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6978DOC_START
5473c134 6979 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6980 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6981 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 6982DOC_END
6983
5473c134 6984NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6985TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6986DEFAULT: on
5473c134 6987LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6988DOC_START
5473c134 6989 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6990 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6991 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6992 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 6993DOC_END
6994
5473c134 6995NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 6996TYPE: string
5473c134 6997IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6998DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6999LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7000DOC_START
5473c134 7001 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7002DOC_END
7003
5473c134 7004NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7005TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5473c134 7006IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
48d54e4d 7007DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7008LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7009DOC_START
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7010 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7011 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7012 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7013 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7014 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7015
7016 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7017 tuning.
7018
7019 startup=
7020
7021 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7022 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7023 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7024
7025 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7026 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7027
7028 idle=
7029
7030 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7031 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7032 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7033 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7034DOC_END
7035
5473c134 7036NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7037TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7038DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7039LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
7040IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 7041DOC_START
5473c134 7042 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7043 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7044DOC_END
7045
5473c134 7046NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7047TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7048DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7049LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
7050IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 7051DOC_START
5473c134 7052 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7053 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7054 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7055DOC_END
7056
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7057NAME: dns_packet_max
7058TYPE: b_ssize_t
7059DEFAULT: none
7060LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
7061IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
7062DOC_START
7063 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7064 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7065
7066 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7067 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7068 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7069 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7070 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7071
7072 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7073 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7074 necessary.
7075
7076 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7077 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7078 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7079 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7080 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7081 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7082 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7083DOC_END
7084
5473c134 7085NAME: dns_defnames
7086COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7087TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7088DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7089LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7090DOC_START
5473c134 7091 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7092 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7093 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7094 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7095DOC_END
7096
5473c134 7097NAME: dns_nameservers
7098TYPE: wordlist
7099DEFAULT: none
7100LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7101DOC_START
5473c134 7102 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7103 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7104 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7105 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7106 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7107 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7108 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7109
5473c134 7110 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7111DOC_END
7112
5473c134 7113NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7114TYPE: string
5473c134 7115DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7116LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7117DOC_START
5473c134 7118 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7119 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7120 default locations:
7121 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7122 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7123 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7124 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7125 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7126 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7127 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7128 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7129
5473c134 7130 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7131 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7132 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7133 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7134
5473c134 7135 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7136 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7137 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7138 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7139 definitions.
cccac0a2 7140DOC_END
7141
5473c134 7142NAME: append_domain
7143TYPE: string
7144LOC: Config.appendDomain
7145DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7146DOC_START
5473c134 7147 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7148 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7149
7150 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7151 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7152 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7153
7154Example:
7155 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7156DOC_END
7157
5473c134 7158NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7159TYPE: onoff
7160LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7161DEFAULT: on
f10a6c8a 7162IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
df6fd596 7163DOC_START
5473c134 7164 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7165 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7166 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7167 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7168 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7169DOC_END
7170
cc192b50 7171NAME: dns_v4_fallback
7172TYPE: onoff
7173DEFAULT: on
7174LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
f10a6c8a 7175IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cc192b50 7176DOC_START
7177 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
7178 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
7179 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
7180
7181 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
7182 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
7183
7184 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
7185 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
7186
7187 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
7188 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
7189 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
7190DOC_END
7191
6bc15a4f 7192NAME: ipcache_size
7193COMMENT: (number of entries)
7194TYPE: int
7195DEFAULT: 1024
7196LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7197DOC_NONE
7198
7199NAME: ipcache_low
7200COMMENT: (percent)
7201TYPE: int
7202DEFAULT: 90
7203LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7204DOC_NONE
7205
7206NAME: ipcache_high
7207COMMENT: (percent)
7208TYPE: int
7209DEFAULT: 95
7210LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7211DOC_START
7212 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7213DOC_END
7214
7215NAME: fqdncache_size
7216COMMENT: (number of entries)
7217TYPE: int
7218DEFAULT: 1024
7219LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7220DOC_START
7221 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7222DOC_END
7223
a58ff010 7224COMMENT_START
5473c134 7225 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7226 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7227COMMENT_END
7228
5473c134 7229NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7230COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7231TYPE: onoff
7232DEFAULT: on
7233LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7234DOC_START
5473c134 7235 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7236 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7237 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7238 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7239DOC_END
7240
5473c134 7241NAME: memory_pools_limit
7242COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7243TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7244DEFAULT: 5 MB
7245LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7246DOC_START
5473c134 7247 Used only with memory_pools on:
7248 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7249
5473c134 7250 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7251 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7252 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7253 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7254 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7255 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7256 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7257
89646bd7 7258 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7259 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7260
5473c134 7261 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7262 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7263
7264 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7265 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7266 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7267 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7268DOC_END
7269
5473c134 7270NAME: forwarded_for
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7271COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7272TYPE: string
5473c134 7273DEFAULT: on
7274LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7275DOC_START
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7276 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7277 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7278
5473c134 7279 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7280
67c06f0d 7281 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7282
7283 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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7284
7285 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7286 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7287
7288 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7289 X-Forwarded-For header.
7290
7291 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7292 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7293DOC_END
7294
5473c134 7295NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7296TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7297DEFAULT: none
7298LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7299DOC_START
5473c134 7300 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7301
5473c134 7302 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7303
7304 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7305 5min
7306 60min
7307 asndb
7308 authenticator
7309 cbdata
7310 client_list
7311 comm_incoming
7312 config *
7313 counters
7314 delay
7315 digest_stats
7316 dns
7317 events
7318 filedescriptors
7319 fqdncache
7320 histograms
7321 http_headers
7322 info
7323 io
7324 ipcache
7325 mem
7326 menu
7327 netdb
7328 non_peers
7329 objects
7330 offline_toggle *
7331 pconn
7332 peer_select
b360c477 7333 reconfigure *
5473c134 7334 redirector
7335 refresh
7336 server_list
7337 shutdown *
7338 store_digest
7339 storedir
7340 utilization
7341 via_headers
7342 vm_objects
7343
7344 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7345 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7346
7347 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7348 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7349 password to "none".
7350
7351 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7352
7353Example:
7354 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7355 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7356 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7357DOC_END
7358
5473c134 7359NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7360COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7361TYPE: onoff
7362DEFAULT: on
7363LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7364DOC_START
5473c134 7365 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7366 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7367DOC_END
7368
5473c134 7369NAME: refresh_all_ims
7370COMMENT: on|off
7371TYPE: onoff
7372DEFAULT: off
7373LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7374DOC_START
5473c134 7375 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7376 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7377 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7378 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7379 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7380
5473c134 7381 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7382 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7383DOC_END
7384
5473c134 7385NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7386IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7387COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7388TYPE: onoff
7389DEFAULT: off
7390LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7391DOC_START
5473c134 7392 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7393 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7394 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7395 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7396 causes.
7397
7398 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7399DOC_END
7400
31ef19cd 7401NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7402TYPE: int
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AJ
7403LOC: Config.connect_retries
7404DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7405DOC_START
aed188fd
AJ
7406 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7407 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7408 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
7409
7410 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7411 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 7412
31ef19cd
AJ
7413 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7414 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7415
31ef19cd
AJ
7416 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7417 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7418 a useful server.
a58ff010 7419DOC_END
7420
5473c134 7421NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7422TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7423LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7424DEFAULT: off
7425DOC_START
5473c134 7426 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
7427 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
7428 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
7429 control errors.
5f8252d2 7430DOC_END
7431
5473c134 7432NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7433TYPE: string
5473c134 7434LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7435DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7436DOC_START
5473c134 7437 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7438 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7439DOC_END
7440
5473c134 7441NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7442TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7443LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7444DEFAULT: off
7445DOC_START
5473c134 7446 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7447 objects.
a58ff010 7448DOC_END
7449
5473c134 7450NAME: uri_whitespace
7451TYPE: uri_whitespace
7452LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7453DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7454DOC_START
5473c134 7455 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7456 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7457
5473c134 7458 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7459 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7460 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7461 Request" message.
7462 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7463 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7464 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7465 are in use.
7466 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7467 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7468 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7469 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7470 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7471 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7472 violation.
7473DOC_END
a58ff010 7474
5473c134 7475NAME: chroot
7476TYPE: string
7477LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7478DEFAULT: none
7479DOC_START
9f37c18a 7480 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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7481 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7482 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7483 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7484 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7485DOC_END
a58ff010 7486
5473c134 7487NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7488TYPE: onoff
7489LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7490DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7491DOC_START
cc192b50 7492 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7493 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7494 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7495
5473c134 7496 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7497 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7498 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 7499
cc192b50 7500 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 7501DOC_END
7502
5473c134 7503NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7504TYPE: onoff
7505LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7506DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 7507DOC_START
5473c134 7508 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7509 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7510 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 7511
5473c134 7512 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7513 reasons.
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7514
7515 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 7516DOC_END
a58ff010 7517
5473c134 7518NAME: high_response_time_warning
7519TYPE: int
7520COMMENT: (msec)
7521LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7522DEFAULT: 0
7523DOC_START
7524 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7525 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7526 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 7527DOC_END
7528
5473c134 7529NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7530TYPE: int
7531LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7532DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 7533DOC_START
5473c134 7534 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7535 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7536 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7537 per second.
7538DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7539
5473c134 7540NAME: high_memory_warning
7541TYPE: b_size_t
7542LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 7543DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 7544DOC_START
7545 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7546 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7547 the administrators attention.
7548DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7549
5473c134 7550NAME: sleep_after_fork
7551COMMENT: (microseconds)
7552TYPE: int
7553LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7554DEFAULT: 0
7555DOC_START
7556 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7557 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7558 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7559 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7560 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7561 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7562 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7563 until all the child processes have been started.
7564 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7565 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7566DOC_END
7567
b6696974 7568NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7569IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
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7570COMMENT: on|off
7571TYPE: onoff
7572DEFAULT: on
7573LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7574DOC_START
7575 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7576 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7577 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7578 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7579 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7580 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7581DOC_END
7582
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7583NAME: eui_lookup
7584TYPE: onoff
7585IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7586DEFAULT: on
7587LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7588DOC_START
7589 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7590DOC_END
7591
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7592NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7593TYPE: int
7594DEFAULT: 0
7595LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7596DOC_START
7597 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7598
7599 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7600
7601 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7602 not all comm loops supports large values.
7603DOC_END
7604
13aeac35 7605NAME: workers
007d775d 7606TYPE: int
13aeac35 7607LOC: Config.workers
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7608DEFAULT: 1
7609DOC_START
13aeac35 7610 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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7611 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7612 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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7613 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7614
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7615 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7616 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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7618
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7619NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7620TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7621LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7622DEFAULT: none
7623DOC_START
7624 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7625
7626 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7627
7628 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7629
7630 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7631 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7632
7633 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7634 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7635
7636 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7637
7638 See also: workers
7639DOC_END
7640
cccac0a2 7641EOF