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bde978a6 1## Copyright (C) 1996-2015 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors
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2##
3## Squid software is distributed under GPLv2+ license and includes
4## contributions from numerous individuals and organizations.
5## Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.
6##
9cef6668 7
0f74202c 8COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 9 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 10 ----------------------------
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11
12 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
13 This documentation can also be found online at:
14 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
15
16 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
17 FAQ and other documentation:
18 http://www.squid-cache.org/
19 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
20 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
21
22 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
23 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
24 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
25
26 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
27 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
28 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
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cccac0a2 30COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 31
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33 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 34 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 35 supported.
36
37 For example,
38
39 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
40
41 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
42 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
43 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
44 configuration files.
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46 Values with byte units
47
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48 Squid accepts size units on some size related directives. All
49 such directives are documented with a default value displaying
50 a unit.
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51
52 Units accepted by Squid are:
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53 bytes - byte
54 KB - Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
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55 MB - Megabyte
56 GB - Gigabyte
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58 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
59
60 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
61 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
62 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
63 disable that support.
64
65 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
66 files using the syntax:
67 parameters("/path/filename")
68 For example:
69 acl whitelist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/whitelist.txt")
70
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71 Conditional configuration
72
73 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
74 depend on conditions:
75
76 if <CONDITION>
77 ... regular configuration directives ...
78 [else
79 ... regular configuration directives ...]
80 endif
81
82 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
83 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
84 configuration directives.
85
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86 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
87
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88 These individual conditions types are supported:
89
90 true
91 Always evaluates to true.
92 false
93 Always evaluates to false.
94 <integer> = <integer>
95 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
96
97
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98 SMP-Related Macros
99
100 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
101
102 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
103 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
104
105 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
106 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
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107 across all Squid processes of the current service instance.
108
109 ${service_name} expands into the current Squid service instance
110 name identifier which is provided by -n on the command line.
111
592a09dc 112COMMENT_END
113
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114# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
115NAME: broken_vary_encoding
116TYPE: obsolete
117DOC_START
118 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
119DOC_END
120
121NAME: cache_vary
122TYPE: obsolete
123DOC_START
124 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
125DOC_END
126
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127NAME: error_map
128TYPE: obsolete
129DOC_START
130 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
131DOC_END
132
133NAME: external_refresh_check
134TYPE: obsolete
135DOC_START
136 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
137DOC_END
138
96598f93 139NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
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140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
143DOC_END
144
96598f93 145NAME: refresh_stale_hit
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146TYPE: obsolete
147DOC_START
148 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
149DOC_END
150
7e62a74f 151# Options removed in 3.6
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152NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
153TYPE: obsolete
154DOC_START
155 Replace with dstdomain ACLs and cache_peer_access.
156DOC_END
157
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158NAME: sslproxy_cafile
159TYPE: obsolete
160DOC_START
161 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cafile= instead.
162DOC_END
163
164NAME: sslproxy_capath
165TYPE: obsolete
166DOC_START
167 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options capath= instead.
168DOC_END
169
170NAME: sslproxy_cipher
171TYPE: obsolete
172DOC_START
173 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cipher= instead.
174DOC_END
175
176NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
177TYPE: obsolete
178DOC_START
179 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cert= instead.
180DOC_END
181
182NAME: sslproxy_client_key
183TYPE: obsolete
184DOC_START
185 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options key= instead.
186DOC_END
187
188NAME: sslproxy_flags
189TYPE: obsolete
190DOC_START
191 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options flags= instead.
192DOC_END
193
194NAME: sslproxy_options
195TYPE: obsolete
196DOC_START
197 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
198DOC_END
199
200NAME: sslproxy_version
201TYPE: obsolete
202DOC_START
1cc44095 203 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
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204DOC_END
205
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206# Options removed in 3.5
207NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
208TYPE: obsolete
209DOC_START
210 Remove this line. Use always_direct or cache_peer_access ACLs instead if you need to prevent cache_peer use.
211DOC_END
212
a8f70484 213# Options removed in 3.4
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214NAME: log_access
215TYPE: obsolete
216DOC_START
217 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
218DOC_END
219
220NAME: log_icap
221TYPE: obsolete
222DOC_START
223 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
224DOC_END
225
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226# Options Removed in 3.3
227NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
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228TYPE: obsolete
229DOC_START
2d4eefd9 230 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now configured by 'cache_miss_revalidate'.
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231DOC_END
232
76f44481 233# Options Removed in 3.2
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234NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
235TYPE: obsolete
236DOC_START
237 Remove this line. Squid is now HTTP/1.1 compliant.
238DOC_END
239
74d81220 240NAME: dns_v4_fallback
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241TYPE: obsolete
242DOC_START
74d81220 243 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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244DOC_END
245
74d81220 246NAME: emulate_httpd_log
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247TYPE: obsolete
248DOC_START
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249 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
250DOC_END
251
252NAME: forward_log
253TYPE: obsolete
254DOC_START
255 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
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256DOC_END
257
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258NAME: ftp_list_width
259TYPE: obsolete
260DOC_START
261 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
262DOC_END
263
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264NAME: ignore_expect_100
265TYPE: obsolete
266DOC_START
267 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
268DOC_END
269
270NAME: log_fqdn
271TYPE: obsolete
272DOC_START
273 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
274DOC_END
275
276NAME: log_ip_on_direct
277TYPE: obsolete
278DOC_START
279 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
280DOC_END
281
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282NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
283TYPE: obsolete
284DOC_START
285 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
286DOC_END
287
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288NAME: referer_log referrer_log
289TYPE: obsolete
290DOC_START
291 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
292DOC_END
293
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294NAME: update_headers
295TYPE: obsolete
296DOC_START
297 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
298DOC_END
299
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300NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
301TYPE: obsolete
302DOC_START
303 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
304DOC_END
305
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306NAME: useragent_log
307TYPE: obsolete
308DOC_START
309 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
310DOC_END
311
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312# Options Removed in 3.1
313NAME: dns_testnames
314TYPE: obsolete
315DOC_START
316 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
317DOC_END
318
319NAME: extension_methods
320TYPE: obsolete
321DOC_START
322 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
323DOC_END
324
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325# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
326NAME: zero_buffers
327TYPE: obsolete
328DOC_NONE
329
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330# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
331NAME: incoming_rate
332TYPE: obsolete
333DOC_NONE
334
335NAME: server_http11
336TYPE: obsolete
337DOC_START
338 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
339DOC_END
340
341NAME: upgrade_http0.9
342TYPE: obsolete
343DOC_START
344 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
345DOC_END
346
347NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
348TYPE: obsolete
349DOC_START
350 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
351DOC_END
352
353# Options Removed in 3.0
354NAME: header_access
355TYPE: obsolete
356DOC_START
357 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
358 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
359DOC_END
360
361NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
362TYPE: obsolete
363DOC_START
364 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
365DOC_END
366
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367NAME: wais_relay_host
368TYPE: obsolete
369DOC_START
370 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
371DOC_END
372
373NAME: wais_relay_port
374TYPE: obsolete
375DOC_START
376 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
377DOC_END
378
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379COMMENT_START
380 OPTIONS FOR SMP
381 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
382COMMENT_END
383
384NAME: workers
385TYPE: int
386LOC: Config.workers
387DEFAULT: 1
388DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
389DOC_START
390 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
391 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
392 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
393 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
394
395 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
396 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
397DOC_END
398
399NAME: cpu_affinity_map
400TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
401LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
402DEFAULT: none
403DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
404DOC_START
405 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
406
407 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
408
409 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
410
411 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
412 four even cores, starting with core #1.
413
414 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
415 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
416
417 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
418
419 See also: workers
420DOC_END
421
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41bd17a4 423 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 424 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
425COMMENT_END
426
41bd17a4 427NAME: auth_param
428TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 429IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 430LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 431DEFAULT: none
432DOC_START
41bd17a4 433 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
434 schemes supported by Squid.
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66c583dc 436 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 437
41bd17a4 438 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
439 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
440 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
441 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
442 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
443 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
444 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
445 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
446 program entry).
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41bd17a4 448 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
449 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
450 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
451 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 452
41bd17a4 453 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
454 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
455 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
456 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
457 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
458 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
459 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
460 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
461 type acl.
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41bd17a4 463 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
464 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
465 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
466 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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467 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
468 authentication disabled.
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470 === Parameters common to all schemes. ===
471
472 "program" cmdline
66c583dc 473 Specifies the command for the external authenticator.
d4806c91 474
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475 By default, each authentication scheme is not used unless a
476 program is specified.
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478 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers for
479 more details on helper operations and creating your own.
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481 "key_extras" format
482 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for
483 the authentication helper. "Quoted" format values may contain
484 spaces and logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro
485 can be used. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if
486 the helper request is sent before the required macro
487 information is available to Squid.
488
489 By default, Squid uses request formats provided in
490 scheme-specific examples below (search for %credentials).
491
492 The expanded key_extras value is added to the Squid credentials
493 cache and, hence, will affect authentication. It can be used to
494 autenticate different users with identical user names (e.g.,
495 when user authentication depends on http_port).
496
497 Avoid adding frequently changing information to key_extras. For
498 example, if you add user source IP, and it changes frequently
499 in your environment, then max_user_ip ACL is going to treat
500 every user+IP combination as a unique "user", breaking the ACL
501 and wasting a lot of memory on those user records. It will also
502 force users to authenticate from scratch whenever their IP
503 changes.
504
505 "realm" string
506 Specifies the protection scope (aka realm name) which is to be
507 reported to the client for the authentication scheme. It is
508 commonly part of the text the user will see when prompted for
509 their username and password.
510
511 For Basic the default is "Squid proxy-caching web server".
512 For Digest there is no default, this parameter is mandatory.
513 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
5269ec0e 514
6825b101 515 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N] [queue-size=N]
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517 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If
518 you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
519 a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it down. When
520 password verifications are done via a (slow) network you are
521 likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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523 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact
524 amount run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup
525 and reconfigure. Squid will start more in groups of up to
526 idle=N in an attempt to meet traffic needs and to keep idle=N
527 free above those traffic needs up to the maximum.
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529 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests
530 the helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers
531 who only supports one request at a time. Setting this to a
532 number greater than 0 changes the protocol used to include a
533 channel ID field first on the request/response line, allowing
534 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallel
535 without waiting for the response.
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537 Concurrency must not be set unless it's known the helper
538 supports the input format with channel-ID fields.
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540 The queue-size= option sets the maximum number of queued
541 requests. If the queued requests exceed queue size for more
542 than 3 minutes then squid aborts its operation.
543 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren/
544
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545 NOTE: NTLM and Negotiate schemes do not support concurrency
546 in the Squid code module even though some helpers can.
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549IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_BASIC
550 === Basic authentication parameters ===
d2a89ac1 551
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552 "utf8" on|off
553 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
554 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
555 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
556 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
d1b63fc8 557
41bd17a4 558 "credentialsttl" timetolive
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559 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
560 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
561 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
562 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.
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564 NOTE: setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
565 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
566 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
567 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
568 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
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570 "casesensitive" on|off
571 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases
572 are case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled
573 using both lower and upper case letters, but some are case
574 sensitive. This makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL
575 processing and similar.
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577ENDIF
578IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_DIGEST
579 === Digest authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 580
d2a89ac1 581 "utf8" on|off
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582 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
583 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
584 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
585 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
cccac0a2 586
41bd17a4 587 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
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588 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
589 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 590
41bd17a4 591 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
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592 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
593 valid for.
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41bd17a4 595 "nonce_max_count" number
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596 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
597 used.
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41bd17a4 599 "nonce_strictness" on|off
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600 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
601 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
602 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
603 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 604
41bd17a4 605 "check_nonce_count" on|off
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606 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
607 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
608 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
609 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 610
41bd17a4 611 "post_workaround" on|off
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612 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who send an
613 incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing the
614 same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
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616ENDIF
617IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NEGOTIATE
618 === Negotiate authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 619
41bd17a4 620 "keep_alive" on|off
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621 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
622 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
623 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
624 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
625 are supported by the proxy.
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627ENDIF
628IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NTLM
629 === NTLM authentication parameters ===
d3803853 630
41bd17a4 631 "keep_alive" on|off
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632 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
633 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
634 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
635 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
636 are supported by the proxy.
637ENDIF
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639 === Example Configuration ===
640
641 This configuration displays the recommended authentication scheme
642 order from most to least secure with recommended minimum configuration
643 settings for each scheme:
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41bd17a4 645#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 646#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 647#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 648#
66c583dc 649#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 650#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 651#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
652#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
653#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
654#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 655#
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656#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
657#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
658#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
659#
41bd17a4 660#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 661#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 662#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
663#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 664DOC_END
cccac0a2 665
41bd17a4 666NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
667TYPE: time_t
668DEFAULT: 1 hour
669LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
670DOC_START
671 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 672 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 673 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
674 have good reason to.
675DOC_END
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41bd17a4 677NAME: authenticate_ttl
678TYPE: time_t
679DEFAULT: 1 hour
680LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
681DOC_START
682 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
683 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
684 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
685 TTL are removed from memory.
686DOC_END
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41bd17a4 688NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
689TYPE: time_t
690LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
c35dd848 691DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 692DOC_START
693 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
694 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
695 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
696 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 697 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 698 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
699 environment with relatively static address assignments.
700DOC_END
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3d1e3e43 702COMMENT_START
703 ACCESS CONTROLS
704 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
705COMMENT_END
706
41bd17a4 707NAME: external_acl_type
708TYPE: externalAclHelper
709LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 710DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 711DOC_START
41bd17a4 712 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
713 to look up the status
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41bd17a4 715 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 716
41bd17a4 717 Options:
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41bd17a4 719 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
720 for 1 hour)
4f8d0a65 721
41bd17a4 722 negative_ttl=n
723 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
724 as ttl)
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726 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
727 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
728 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
729
730 cache=n Limit the result cache size, default is 262144.
731 The expanded FORMAT value is used as the cache key, so
732 if the details in FORMAT are highly variable a larger
733 cache may be needed to produce reduction in helper load.
734
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735 children-max=n
736 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
737 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
4f8d0a65 738
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739 children-startup=n
740 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
741 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
742 of this type. (default 0)
4f8d0a65 743
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744 children-idle=n
745 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
746 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
747 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
748 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
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41bd17a4 750 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
751 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
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753 queue-size=N The queue-size= option sets the maximum number of queued
754 requests. If the queued requests exceed queue size
4f8d0a65 755 the acl is ignored.
6825b101 756 The default value is set to 2*children-max.
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758 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers.
759
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760 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
761 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
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41bd17a4 764 FORMAT specifications
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41bd17a4 766 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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767 %un A user name. Expands to the first available name
768 from the following list of information sources:
769 - authenticated user name, like %ul or %LOGIN
770 - user name sent by an external ACL, like %EXT_USER
771 - SSL client name, like %us in logformat
772 - ident user name, like %ui in logformat
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773 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
774 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
775 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 776 %IDENT Ident user name
777 %SRC Client IP
778 %SRCPORT Client source port
779 %URI Requested URI
780 %DST Requested host
4e3f4dc7 781 %PROTO Requested URL scheme
41bd17a4 782 %PORT Requested port
783 %PATH Requested URL path
784 %METHOD Request method
785 %MYADDR Squid interface address
786 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
787 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
788 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
789 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
790 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
f06585e0 791 %USER_CA_CERT_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
cedca6e7 792 %ssl::>sni SSL client SNI sent to Squid
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793 %ssl::<cert_subject SSL server certificate DN
794 %ssl::<cert_issuer SSL server certificate issuer DN
7b0ca1e8 795
c68c9682 796 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 797 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 798 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 799 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 800 HTTP request header list member using ; as
801 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
802 character.
cccac0a2 803
c68c9682 804 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 805 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 806 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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807 %<{Hdr:;member}
808 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
809 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
810 character.
811
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812 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
813 %DATA The ACL arguments. If not used then any arguments
814 is automatically added at the end of the line
815 sent to the helper.
816 NOTE: this will encode the arguments as one token,
817 whereas the default will pass each separately.
818
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820 an unchanging input format.
821
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824
825 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
826
827
828 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
829 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
830 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
831
832 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
833 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
834
835 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
836 each value in requests against whitespaces.
837
838 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
839 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
840
841 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
842
843 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
844 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
845 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
846 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
847 of the response relating to its request.
848
849
850 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
851 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
852 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
853
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41bd17a4 855 General result syntax:
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858
859 Result consists of one of the codes:
860
861 OK
862 the ACL test produced a match.
863
864 ERR
865 the ACL test does not produce a match.
866
867 BH
4ded749e 868 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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869 a result being identified.
870
871 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
872 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 874 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 876 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 877
41bd17a4 878 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
5269ec0e 879
05e52854 880 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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881 Available as %o in error pages.
882 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
883
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884 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
885 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 887 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 888 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 889
457857fe 890 clt_conn_tag= Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
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891 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation
892 for this kv-pair.
457857fe 893
05e52854 894 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
6a566b9c 895
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896 All response keyword values need to be a single token with URL
897 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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898 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
899 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
900 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 901
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902 Some example key values:
903
5269ec0e 904 user=John%20Smith
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905 user="John Smith"
906 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
cccac0a2 907DOC_END
908
41bd17a4 909NAME: acl
910TYPE: acl
911LOC: Config.aclList
cb4f4424 912IF USE_OPENSSL
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913DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
914DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
915DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
916DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
917DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
918ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 919DEFAULT: all src all
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920DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
921DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
922DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
923DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 924DOC_START
41bd17a4 925 Defining an Access List
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927 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
928 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
929 they are read from.
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931 acl aclname acltype argument ...
932 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 933
375eeb3b 934 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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937 The available options are:
938
939 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
940 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
941 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
942 without -i.
943
944 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
945 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
946 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
947 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
948 without any warnings or lookups.
949
950 -- Used to stop processing all options, in the case the first acl
951 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
952 is a valid domain name)
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955 to access some external data source.
956 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
957 don't are marked as [fast].
958 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
959 for further information
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961 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
962
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963 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
964 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 965 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 966 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 967
41bd17a4 968 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
b3567eb5 969 # [fast]
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970 # The 'arp' ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
971 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other
972 # BSD variants.
41bd17a4 973 #
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975 # clients that are on the same subnet. If the client is on a
976 # different subnet, then Squid cannot find out its address.
977 #
978 # NOTE 2: IPv6 protocol does not contain ARP. MAC/EUI is either
979 # encoded directly in the IPv6 address or not available.
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981 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
982 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 983 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 984 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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986 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 987 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 988 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 989 #
41bd17a4 990 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
991 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
992 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 993
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994 acl aclname src_as number ...
995 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 996 # [fast]
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997 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
998 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
999 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
1000 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
1001 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
1002 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
1003 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 1004
6db78a1a 1005 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 1006 # [fast]
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1007 # match against a named cache_peer entry
1008 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
1009
375eeb3b 1010 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 1011 # [fast]
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1013 # S - Sunday
1014 # M - Monday
1015 # T - Tuesday
1016 # W - Wednesday
1017 # H - Thursday
1018 # F - Friday
1019 # A - Saturday
1020 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
1021
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1022 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
1023 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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1024 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
1025 # regex matching on URL login field
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1026 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
1027 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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1029 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
1030 # ranges are alloed
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1031 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
1032 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
1033
3cc0f4e7 1034 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # *_port name [fast]
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1036 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
1037
1038 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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1040 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
1041 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 1043 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1044 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 1046 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1047 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 1048 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 1050 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 1051 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1052 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 1053 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 1054
41bd17a4 1055 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
1056 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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1058 # supplied credentials [slow]
1059 #
1060 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 1061 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
1062 #
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1064 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
1065 #
41bd17a4 1066 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
1067 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
1068 # in access.log.
1069 #
1070 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
1071 # to check username/password combinations (see
1072 # auth_param directive).
1073 #
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1075 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 1076 # to respond to proxy authentication.
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41bd17a4 1078 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 1079 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 1080 # Example:
1081 #
1082 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 1084 acl aclname maxconn number
1085 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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1086 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
1087 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
1088 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 1089
41bd17a4 1090 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
1091 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
1092 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 1093 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 1094 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
1095 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
1096 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
1097 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
1098 # request is denied)
1099 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
1100 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
1101 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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1104 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
1105 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
1106 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
1107
375eeb3b 1108 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1109 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
1110 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 1111 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 1112 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1113 # to match the returned file type.
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41bd17a4 1115 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1116 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1117 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1118 # ACL [fast]
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375eeb3b 1120 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1121 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1122 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1123 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1124 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1125 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1126 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 1128 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1129 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1130 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1131 # ACLs [fast]
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375eeb3b 1133 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1134 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1135 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 1137 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1138 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
2927ae41 1139 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1140
41bd17a4 1141 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1142 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
2927ae41 1143 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1144
41bd17a4 1145 acl aclname ext_user username ...
1146 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1147 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1148 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1149
0ab50441 1150 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
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1152 # DEPRECATED. Only the first tag will match with this ACL.
1153 # Use the 'note' ACL instead for handling multiple tag values.
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1156 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1157 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1158 #
1159 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1160 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1161 # http_reply_access.
1162
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1164 # match transaction annotation [fast]
1165 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
1166 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
1167 # also has one of the given values.
1168 # Names and values are compared using a string equality test.
1169 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
1170 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
1171
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1173 # Matches the name of any icap_service, ecap_service,
1174 # adaptation_service_set, or adaptation_service_chain that Squid
1175 # has used (or attempted to use) for the master transaction.
1176 # This ACL must be defined after the corresponding adaptation
1177 # service is named in squid.conf. This ACL is usable with
1178 # adaptation_meta because it starts matching immediately after
1179 # the service has been selected for adaptation.
1180
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1183 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1184 #
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1186 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1187 #
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1189 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1190 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1191 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1192 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1193 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1194 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1195 #
1196 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1197 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1198 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1199 #
1200 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1201 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
00352183 1202
72b12f9e 1203 acl aclname server_cert_fingerprint [-sha1] fingerprint
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1205 #
1206 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1207 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1208 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1209 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1210 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
5d65362c 1211
652fcffd 1212 acl aclname at_step step
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1214 # Never matches and should not be used outside the ssl_bump context.
1215 #
1216 # At each SslBump step, Squid evaluates ssl_bump directives to find
1217 # the next bumping action (e.g., peek or splice). Valid SslBump step
1218 # values and the corresponding ssl_bump evaluation moments are:
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1220 # SslBump2: After getting SSL Client Hello info.
1221 # SslBump3: After getting SSL Server Hello info.
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1223 acl aclname ssl::server_name .foo.com ...
1224 # matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
1225 #
1226 # The server name is obtained during Ssl-Bump steps from such sources
1227 # as CONNECT request URI, client SNI, and SSL server certificate CN.
1228 # During each Ssl-Bump step, Squid may improve its understanding of a
1229 # "true server name". Unlike dstdomain, this ACL does not perform
1230 # DNS lookups.
1231
1232 acl aclname ssl::server_name_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
1233 # regex matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
cf1c09f6 1234ENDIF
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1235 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1236 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1237 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1238 #
1239 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1240 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1241 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1242 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1243 #
1244 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1245 # and slow otherwise.
1246
1247 acl aclname all-of acl1 acl2 ...
1248 # match all of the acls [fast or slow]
1249 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1250 #
1251 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1252 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1253 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1254 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1255 #
1256 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1257 # and slow otherwise.
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1259 Examples:
1260 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1261 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1262 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1263 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1264 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 1265
41bd17a4 1266NOCOMMENT_START
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1268# Recommended minimum configuration:
1269#
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ee776778 1271# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1272# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1273# should be allowed
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1274acl localnet src 0.0.0.1-0.255.255.255 # RFC 1122 "this" network (LAN)
1275acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1276acl localnet src 100.64.0.0/10 # RFC 6598 shared address space (CGN)
1277acl localhet src 169.254.0.0/16 # RFC 3927 link-local (directly plugged) machines
1278acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1279acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1280acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1281acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1283acl SSL_ports port 443
1284acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1285acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1286acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1287acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1288acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1289acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1290acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1291acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1292acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1293acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1294acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1295NOCOMMENT_END
1296DOC_END
cccac0a2 1297
d3d92daa 1298NAME: proxy_protocol_access
3d674977 1299TYPE: acl_access
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1300LOC: Config.accessList.proxyProtocol
1301DEFAULT: none
c390580b 1302DEFAULT_DOC: all TCP connections to ports with require-proxy-header will be denied
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1304 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1305 information regarding real client IP address using PROXY protocol.
1306
1307 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1308 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1309 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1310 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1311 * PROXY protocol connection header.
1312
1313 This directive is solely for validating new PROXY protocol
1314 connections received from a port flagged with require-proxy-header.
1315 It is checked only once after TCP connection setup.
1316
1317 A deny match results in TCP connection closure.
1318
1319 An allow match is required for Squid to permit the corresponding
1320 TCP connection, before Squid even looks for HTTP request headers.
1321 If there is an allow match, Squid starts using PROXY header information
1322 to determine the source address of the connection for all future ACL
1323 checks, logging, etc.
1324
1325 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1326
c390580b 1327 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
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1328 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
1329 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1330 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1331 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1332 based on the client's source addresses.
1333
1334 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1335 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1336DOC_END
1337
1338NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1339TYPE: acl_access
1340IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
3d674977 1341LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1342DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
9353df52 1343DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
3d674977 1344DOC_START
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1346 information regarding real client IP address.
1347
3d674977 1348 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
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1349 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1350 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1351 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1352 * PROXY protocol connection header.
3d674977 1353
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1354 PROXY protocol connections are controlled by the proxy_protocol_access
1355 directive which is checked before this.
1356
3d674977 1357 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
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1358 directive, then we trust the information it provides regarding
1359 the IP of the client it received from (if any).
1360
1361 For the purpose of ACLs used in this directive the src ACL type always
1362 matches the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
1363
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1364 On each HTTP request Squid checks for X-Forwarded-For header fields.
1365 If found the header values are iterated in reverse order and an allow
1366 match is required for Squid to continue on to the next value.
1367 The verification ends when a value receives a deny match, cannot be
1368 tested, or there are no more values to test.
1369 NOTE: Squid does not yet follow the Forwarded HTTP header.
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1371 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1372 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1373 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1374 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1375 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
1376 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1379 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1380
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1382
c390580b 1383 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
70a16fea 1384 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
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1385 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1386 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1387 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1388 based on the client's source addresses.
1389
1390 For example:
1391
1392 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1393 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1394 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1395 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1396DOC_END
1397
1398NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1399COMMENT: on|off
1400TYPE: onoff
1401IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1402DEFAULT: on
1403LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1404DOC_START
1405 Controls whether the indirect client address
1406 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1407 direct client address in acl matching.
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1409 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1410 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1412
1413NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1414COMMENT: on|off
1415TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1416IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1418LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1419DOC_START
1420 Controls whether the indirect client address
1421 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1422 direct client address in delay pools.
1423DOC_END
1424
1425NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1426COMMENT: on|off
1427TYPE: onoff
1428IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1429DEFAULT: on
1430LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1431DOC_START
1432 Controls whether the indirect client address
1433 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1434 direct client address in the access log.
1435DOC_END
1436
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1437NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1438COMMENT: on|off
1439TYPE: onoff
1440IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1441DEFAULT: off
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1442LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1443DOC_START
1444 Controls whether the indirect client address
1445 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1446 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1448 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1449 mode ports.
1450
1451 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1452 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
16ae256c 1453 of follow_x_forwarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1454 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1457NAME: spoof_client_ip
1458TYPE: acl_access
1459LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1460DEFAULT: none
1461DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1462DOC_START
1463 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1464 defined access lists.
1465
1466 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1467
1468 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1469 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1470
1471 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1472
1473 This clause supports fast acl types.
1474 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1475DOC_END
1476
41bd17a4 1477NAME: http_access
1478TYPE: acl_access
1479LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1480DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1481DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1482DOC_START
1483 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1484
8a2f40dd 1485 To allow or deny a message received on an HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP port:
41bd17a4 1486 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1487
41bd17a4 1488 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1490 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1491 the request.
cccac0a2 1492
41bd17a4 1493 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1494 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1495 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1496 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1497 good idea to have an "deny all" entry at the end of your access
1498 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1501 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1502
41bd17a4 1503NOCOMMENT_START
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1505#
1506# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1507#
e0855596 1508# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1509http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1511# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1512http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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1515http_access allow localhost manager
1516http_access deny manager
1517
41bd17a4 1518# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1519# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1520# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1521#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1523#
1524# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1525#
c8f4eac4 1526
ee776778 1527# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1528# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1529# from where browsing should be allowed
1530http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1531http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1532
41bd17a4 1533# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1534http_access deny all
1535NOCOMMENT_END
1536DOC_END
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1538NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1539TYPE: acl_access
1540LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1541DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1542DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1544 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1545
1546 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1547 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1548 output.
1549
1550 If not set then only http_access is used.
1551DOC_END
1552
41bd17a4 1553NAME: http_reply_access
1554TYPE: acl_access
1555LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1556DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1557DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1558DOC_START
1559 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1560
41bd17a4 1561 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1562
41bd17a4 1563 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1564 all replies.
1a224843 1565
41bd17a4 1566 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1567 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1568 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1570 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1571 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1572DOC_END
1573
41bd17a4 1574NAME: icp_access
1575TYPE: acl_access
1576LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1578DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1579DOC_START
41bd17a4 1580 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1581 access lists
5473c134 1582
41bd17a4 1583 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1584
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1586 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1587 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1588
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1590 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1592# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1593#icp_access allow localnet
1594#icp_access deny all
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1596
41bd17a4 1597NAME: htcp_access
1598IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1599TYPE: acl_access
1600LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1602DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1603DOC_START
41bd17a4 1604 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1605 access lists
5473c134 1606
41bd17a4 1607 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1608
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1610 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
5473c134 1611
0b48417e 1612 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1613 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1614 using the htcp option.
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1617 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1619# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1620#htcp_access allow localnet
1621#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1622DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1624NAME: htcp_clr_access
1625IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1626TYPE: acl_access
1627LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1629DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1630DOC_START
1631 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1633 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1634
41bd17a4 1635 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1638 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1640# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1641acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1642htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1643htcp_clr_access deny all
5473c134 1644DOC_END
1645
41bd17a4 1646NAME: miss_access
1647TYPE: acl_access
1648LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1649DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1650DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1651DOC_START
18d1eddf 1652 Determines whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
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1653
1654 For example;
1655 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1656 a parent.
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638402dd 1658 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1659 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1660 miss_access allow all
5473c134 1661
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1663 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1664 objects (HITs).
1665
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1667 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1669 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1670 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1671DOC_END
1672
1673NAME: ident_lookup_access
1674TYPE: acl_access
1675IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1677DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1678LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1679DOC_START
41bd17a4 1680 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1681 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1682 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1683 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1684 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1685 any requests.
5473c134 1686
41bd17a4 1687 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1688 can follow this example:
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4daaf3cb 1690 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1691 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1692 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1693
4daaf3cb 1694 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1695 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1696 the correct result.
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1698 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1699 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1700DOC_END
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5b0f5383 1702NAME: reply_body_max_size
1703COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1704TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1705DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1706DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1707LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1708DOC_START
1709 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1710 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1711 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1712 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1713 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1714 for this reply.
1715
1716 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1717 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1718 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1719 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1720 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1721 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1722 and they will receive a partial reply.
1723
1724 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1725 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1726 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1727 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1728
1729 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1730 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1731 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1732 the size of your largest error page.
1733
1734 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1735 no limit imposed.
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1737 Configuration Format is:
1738 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1739 ie.
1740 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1741
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1744NAME: on_unsupported_protocol
1745TYPE: on_unsupported_protocol
1746LOC: Config.accessList.on_unsupported_protocol
1747DEFAULT: none
1748DEFAULT_DOC: Respond with an error message to unidentifiable traffic
1749DOC_START
1750 Determines Squid behavior when encountering strange requests at the
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1752 CONNECT tunnel. Controlling Squid reaction to unexpected traffic is
1753 especially useful in interception environments where Squid is likely
1754 to see connections for unsupported protocols that Squid should either
1755 terminate or tunnel at TCP level.
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1757 on_unsupported_protocol <action> [!]acl ...
1758
56d089f3 1759 The first matching action wins. Only fast ACLs are supported.
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1761 Supported actions are:
1762
1763 tunnel: Establish a TCP connection with the intended server and
1764 blindly shovel TCP packets between the client and server.
1765
1766 respond: Respond with an error message, using the transfer protocol
1767 for the Squid port that received the request (e.g., HTTP
1768 for connections intercepted at the http_port). This is the
1769 default.
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1771 Squid expects the following traffic patterns:
1772
1773 http_port: a plain HTTP request
1774 https_port: SSL/TLS handshake followed by an [encrypted] HTTP request
1775 ftp_port: a plain FTP command (no on_unsupported_protocol support yet!)
1776 CONNECT tunnel on http_port: same as https_port
1777 CONNECT tunnel on https_port: same as https_port
1778
1779 Currently, this directive has effect on intercepted connections and
1780 bumped tunnels only. Other cases are not supported because Squid
1781 cannot know the intended destination of other traffic.
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1783 For example:
1784 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving non-HTTP traffic:
1785 acl foreignProtocol squid_error ERR_PROTOCOL_UNKNOWN ERR_TOO_BIG
1786 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving nothing:
1787 acl serverTalksFirstProtocol squid_error ERR_REQUEST_START_TIMEOUT
1788 # tunnel everything that does not look like HTTP:
1789 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel foreignProtocol
1790 # tunnel if we think the client waits for the server to talk first:
1791 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel serverTalksFirstProtocol
1792 # in all other error cases, just send an HTTP "error page" response:
1793 on_unsupported_protocol respond all
1794
1795 See also: squid_error ACL
1796DOC_END
1797
5b0f5383 1798COMMENT_START
1799 NETWORK OPTIONS
1800 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1801COMMENT_END
1802
1803NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1804TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1805DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 1806LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 1807DOC_START
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1809 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1810 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1811
1812 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1813 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1814 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1815 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1816 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1817 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1818 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1819
1820 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1821 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1822
1823 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1824 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1825 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1826
1827 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1828
c7b1dd5d 1829 Modes:
5b0f5383 1830
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1832 traffic to this Squid port.
1833 NP: disables authentication on the port.
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1836 of outgoing connections using the client IP address.
1837 NP: disables authentication on the port.
5b0f5383 1838
7f45065d 1839 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1840
caf3666d 1841 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1842 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1843 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1845 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1846
7a957a93 1847 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1848 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1850 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1851
1852
1853 Accelerator Mode Options:
1854
5b0f5383 1855 defaultsite=domainname
1856 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1857 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1858 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1859
cf673853 1860 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1861
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1863 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
1864 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
1865 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
1866 produce a FATAL error.
1867 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
5b0f5383 1868
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1870 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1871
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1873 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1874
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1876 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1877 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1878 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1879
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1881
7f45065d 1882 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1884
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1886 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1887 never_direct was used.
1888
1889 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1890 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1891 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1892 http_access rules when using this.
1893
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1895 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1897
1898 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1899 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1900 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1901 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1902 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1903 certificate will be selfsigned.
1904 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1905 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1906 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1907 years.
1908 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1909 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1910
1911 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1912 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1913 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1914 default value is 4MB.
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1916 TLS / SSL Options:
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1918 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1919
1920 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1921 if not specified, the certificate file is
1922 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1923 key file.
1924
c7b1dd5d 1925 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1927 additional settings. If those settings are
1928 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1929 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1930
943c5f16 1931 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1932 being:
7905e7be 1933
3d96b0e8 1934 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 1935
3d96b0e8 1936 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1f1f29e8 1937
3d96b0e8 1938 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1f1f29e8 1939
3d96b0e8 1940 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1f1f29e8 1941
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1943 Always create a new key when using
c7b1dd5d 1944 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1f1f29e8 1945
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1947 Enable ephemeral ECDH key exchange.
1948 The adopted curve should be specified
1949 using the tls-dh option.
1950
36092741 1951 NO_TICKET
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1953 Some servers may have problems
1954 understanding the TLS extension due
1955 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
1956
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1958 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1959 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1960 strength to some attacks.
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1962 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1963 more complete list.
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1965 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1966 requesting a client certificate.
1967
1968 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1969 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1970 clientca will be used.
1971
1972 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1973 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1974
1975 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1976 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1977 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1978
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1980 File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral DH key
1981 exchanges, optionally prefixed by a curve for ephemeral ECDH
1982 key exchanges.
1983 See OpenSSL documentation for details on how to create the
1984 DH parameter file. Supported curves for ECDH can be listed
1985 using the "openssl ecparam -list_curves" command.
1986 WARNING: EDH and EECDH ciphers will be silently disabled if
1987 this option is not set.
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1989 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1990 DELAYED_AUTH
1991 Don't request client certificates
1992 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1993 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1994 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1995 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1996 to OpenSSL.
1997 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1998 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1999 will result in a new SSL session.
2000 VERIFY_CRL
2001 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
2002 certificates.
2003 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
2004 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
2005 client certificate chain.
2006
2007 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
2008
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2010
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2012 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
2013 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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2015
5b0f5383 2016 disable-pmtu-discovery=
2017 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
2018 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
2019 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
2020 support is enabled.
2021 always disable always PMTU discovery.
2022
2023 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
2024 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
2025 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
2026 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
2027 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
2028 have such setup and experience that certain clients
2029 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
2030 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
2031
81b6e9a7 2032 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
2033 the port specification (port or addr:port)
2034
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2037 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
2038 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 2039 timeout the time before giving up.
2040
d3d92daa 2041 require-proxy-header
151ba0d4 2042 Require PROXY protocol version 1 or 2 connections.
d3d92daa 2043 The proxy_protocol_access is required to whitelist
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2045
5b0f5383 2046 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
2047 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
2048 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
2049 visible on the internal address.
2050
2051NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 2052
5b0f5383 2053# Squid normally listens to port 3128
2054http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
2055NOCOMMENT_END
2056DOC_END
2057
2058NAME: https_port
cb4f4424 2059IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
65d448bc 2060TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 2061DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 2062LOC: HttpsPortList
5b0f5383 2063DOC_START
7f45065d 2064 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 2065
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2067 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 2068
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2070 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 2071
2072 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
2073 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
2074
7f45065d 2075 Modes:
5b0f5383 2076
7f45065d 2077 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
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2080 outgoing requests without browser settings.
2081 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
2082
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2084 connections using the client IP address.
2085 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
2086
caf3666d 2087 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 2088 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 2089 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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2091 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
2092
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2094 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 2095
38450a50 2096 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 2097
7f45065d 2098 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 2099
5b0f5383 2100
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2102
2103
2104 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 2105
2106 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
2107
2108 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
2109 if not specified, the certificate file is
2110 assumed to be a combined certificate and
2111 key file.
2112
5b0f5383 2113 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
2114
2115 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
2116 being:
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2118 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2119
2120 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2121
2122 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2123
2124 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
2125
2126 SINGLE_DH_USE
2127 Always create a new key when using
5b0f5383 2128 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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2131 Enable ephemeral ECDH key exchange.
2132 The adopted curve should be specified
2133 using the tls-dh option.
2134
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2136 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2137 Some servers may have problems
2138 understanding the TLS extension due
2139 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2140
2141 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2142 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2143 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2144 strength to some attacks.
2145
2146 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2147 more complete list.
5b0f5383 2148
2149 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
2150 requesting a client certificate.
2151
2152 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
2153 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
2154 clientca will be used.
2155
2156 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
2157 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
2158
2159 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
2160 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
2161 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
2162
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2164 File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral DH key
2165 exchanges, optionally prefixed by a curve for ephemeral ECDH
2166 key exchanges.
5b0f5383 2167
2168 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
2169 DELAYED_AUTH
2170 Don't request client certificates
2171 immediately, but wait until acl processing
2172 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
2173 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2174 Don't use the default CA lists built in
2175 to OpenSSL.
2176 NO_SESSION_REUSE
2177 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
2178 will result in a new SSL session.
2179 VERIFY_CRL
2180 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
2181 certificates.
2182 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
2183 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
2184 client certificate chain.
2185
2186 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
2187
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2189 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
2190 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
2191 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
2192 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
2193 certificate will be selfsigned.
2194 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
2195 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
2196 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
2197 years.
2198 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
2199 See the sslBump option above for more information.
2200
2201 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
2202 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
2203 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 2204 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 2205
859741ed 2206 See http_port for a list of available options.
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2210TYPE: PortCfg
2211DEFAULT: none
8ea0d847 2212LOC: FtpPortList
434a79b0 2213DOC_START
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2215 listens for FTP client requests. See http_port directive for various
2216 ways to specify the listening address and mode.
2217
2218 Usage: ftp_port address [mode] [options]
2219
2220 WARNING: This is a new, experimental, complex feature that has seen
2221 limited production exposure. Some Squid modules (e.g., caching) do not
2222 currently work with native FTP proxying, and many features have not
2223 even been tested for compatibility. Test well before deploying!
2224
2225 Native FTP proxying differs substantially from proxying HTTP requests
2226 with ftp:// URIs because Squid works as an FTP server and receives
2227 actual FTP commands (rather than HTTP requests with FTP URLs).
2228
2229 Native FTP commands accepted at ftp_port are internally converted or
2230 wrapped into HTTP-like messages. The same happens to Native FTP
2231 responses received from FTP origin servers. Those HTTP-like messages
2232 are shoveled through regular access control and adaptation layers
2233 between the FTP client and the FTP origin server. This allows Squid to
2234 examine, adapt, block, and log FTP exchanges. Squid reuses most HTTP
2235 mechanisms when shoveling wrapped FTP messages. For example,
2236 http_access and adaptation_access directives are used.
2237
2238 Modes:
2239
3cc0f4e7 2240 intercept Same as http_port intercept. The FTP origin address is
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2242 intercepted connection.
2243
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2245 connections using the client IP address.
2246 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
2247
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2249 FTP origin address from the login@origin parameter of the FTP USER
2250 command. Many popular FTP clients support such native FTP proxying.
2251
2252 Options:
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2255 the port address. Usable with myportname ACL.
2256
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2259 PWD commands and adjusting Request-URI (in wrapping
2260 HTTP requests) to reflect the current FTP server
aea65fec 2261 directory. Tracking is disabled by default.
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2264 requests with. Defaults to FTP. No other accepted
2265 values have been tested with. An unsupported value
2266 results in a FATAL error. Accepted values are FTP,
2267 HTTP (or HTTP/1.1), and HTTPS (or HTTPS/1.1).
2268
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2270 HTTPS may also work.
2271DOC_END
434a79b0 2272
41bd17a4 2273NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2274TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 2275DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 2276LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
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2279 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 2280
41bd17a4 2281 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 2282
41bd17a4 2283 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 2284 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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2287 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 2288 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 2289 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 2290
41bd17a4 2291 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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2293 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 2294
41bd17a4 2295 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
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2297 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2298 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2299 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
cccac0a2 2300
41bd17a4 2301 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2302 matching line.
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2304 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2306
41bd17a4 2307NAME: clientside_tos
2308TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 2309DEFAULT: none
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2311DOC_START
5f53baab 2312 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value for packets being transmitted
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2314
2315 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2316
2317 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2318 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2319
2320 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2321 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2322 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
2323 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2324
2325 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
2326 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
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2328 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
2329 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2330 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2331 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2332 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
2333
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2335
2336NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
2337TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2338IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2340LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
2341DOC_START
2342 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
2343 on the server side, based on an ACL.
2344
2345 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2346
2347 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2348 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2349
2350 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2351 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2352 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2353 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
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2354
2355 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2356DOC_END
2357
2358NAME: clientside_mark
2359TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2360IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2361DEFAULT: none
2362LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 2363DOC_START
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2364 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
2365 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2366
2367 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2368
2369 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2370 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2371
2372 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2373 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2374 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2375 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
2376
2377 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
2378 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 2379DOC_END
cccac0a2 2380
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2381NAME: qos_flows
2382TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 2383IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 2384DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 2385LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 2386DOC_START
575cb927 2387 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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2388 connections to the client, based on where the reply was sourced.
2389 For platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
425de4c8 2390 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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2392 By default this functionality is disabled. To enable it with the default
2393 settings simply use "qos_flows mark" or "qos_flows tos". Default
2394 settings will result in the netfilter mark or TOS value being copied
2395 from the upstream connection to the client. Note that it is the connection
2396 CONNMARK value not the packet MARK value that is copied.
2397
2398 It is not currently possible to copy the mark or TOS value from the
2399 client to the upstream connection request.
2400
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2401 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
2402 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2403 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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2405 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255.
2406 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2407 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2408 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
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2409
2410 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 2411
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2412 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
2413
2414 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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2415
2416 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
2417
2418 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
2419
2420 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
2421
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2422 miss=0xFF[/mask] Value to mark cache misses. Takes precedence
2423 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2424 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2425 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 2426
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2427 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
2428 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2429 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2430 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2431 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 2432
575cb927 2433 disable-preserve-miss
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2434 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2435 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2436 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2437 and masked with miss-mark.
2438 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2439 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2440 (MARK target).
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2441
2442 miss-mask=0xFF
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2443 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2444 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2445 the TOS sent towards clients.
2446 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2447 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2448
2449 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2450 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2451 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2452 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2454DOC_END
2455
41bd17a4 2456NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2457TYPE: acl_address
2458DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2459DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2460LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2461DOC_START
2462 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2463 based on the username or source address of the user making
2464 the request.
7f7db318 2465
41bd17a4 2466 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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2468 For example;
2469 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2471 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2472 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2473
2474 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2475 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2476
2477 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2478 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2479
2480 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2481 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2482
41bd17a4 2483 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2484 matching line.
cccac0a2 2485
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2486 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
2487 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2488 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2489
2490
2491 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2492 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2493 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2494 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 2495
2dd51400 2496 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 2497 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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2498 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option and the
2499 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 2500
cccac0a2 2501DOC_END
6db78a1a 2502
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2503NAME: host_verify_strict
2504TYPE: onoff
2505DEFAULT: off
2506LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2507DOC_START
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2508 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2509 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2510 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2511
2512 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2513 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2514 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2515
2516 When set to ON:
2517 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2518 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2519
2520 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2521 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2522 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2523 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2524 and Request-URI components:
2525
2526 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2527 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2528 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2529 or FQDN.
2530
2531 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2532 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2533
2534
2535 When set to OFF (the default):
2536 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2537 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2538
2539 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2540
2541 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2542
2543 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2544 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2545
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2546 * Intercepted requests which fail verification are sent
2547 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2548 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2549
2550 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2551 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2552
bfe4e2fe 2553
7177edfb 2554 SECURITY NOTE:
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2555
2556 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2557 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2558 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2559 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2560
2561 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2562 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2563 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2564 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2565 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2566
2567DOC_END
6b185b50 2568
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2569NAME: client_dst_passthru
2570TYPE: onoff
2571DEFAULT: on
2572LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2573DOC_START
2574 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2575 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2576 source using the HTTP Host header.
2577
2578 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2579 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2580 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2581 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2582
2583 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2584 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2585 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2586
2587 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2588 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2589 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2590
2591 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2592DOC_END
2593
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2594COMMENT_START
2595 TLS OPTIONS
2596 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2597COMMENT_END
2598
2599NAME: tls_outgoing_options
2600IFDEF: USE_GNUTLS||USE_OPENSSL
2601TYPE: securePeerOptions
2fbb02b1 2602DEFAULT: min-version=1.0
7e62a74f 2603LOC: Security::ProxyOutgoingConfig
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2604DOC_START
2605 disable Do not support https:// URLs.
2606
2607 cert=/path/to/client/certificate
2608 A client TLS certificate to use when connecting.
2609
2610 key=/path/to/client/private_key
2611 The private TLS key corresponding to the cert= above.
2612 If key= is not specified cert= is assumed to reference
2613 a PEM file containing both the certificate and the key.
2614
195f8adb 2615 cipher=... The list of valid TLS ciphers to use.
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2616
2617 min-version=1.N
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2618 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit.
2619 To control SSLv3 use the options= parameter.
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2620 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
2621
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2622 options=... Specify various TLS/SSL implementation options:
2623
2624 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
7905e7be 2625
195f8adb 2626 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
7905e7be 2627
195f8adb 2628 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
7905e7be 2629
195f8adb 2630 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
7905e7be 2631
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2632 SINGLE_DH_USE
2633 Always create a new key when using
2634 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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2635
2636 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2637 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2638 Some servers may have problems
2639 understanding the TLS extension due
2640 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2641
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2642 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2643 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
7905e7be 2644 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
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2645 strength to some attacks.
2646
2647 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2648 more complete list.
2649
2650 cafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2651 when verifying the peer certificate.
2652
2653 capath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2654 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2655
2656 crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2657 verifying the peer certificate.
2658
2659 flags=... Specify various flags modifying the TLS implementation:
2660
2661 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2662 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2663 verify.
2664 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2665 Don't use the default CA list built in
2666 to OpenSSL.
2667 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2668 Don't verify the peer certificate
2669 matches the server name
2670
2671 domain= The peer name as advertised in its certificate.
2672 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2673 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2674 used.
2675DOC_END
2676
41bd17a4 2677COMMENT_START
2678 SSL OPTIONS
2679 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2680COMMENT_END
2681
2682NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
cb4f4424 2683IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2684TYPE: onoff
2685DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2686LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2687DOC_START
41bd17a4 2688 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2689 messages.
cccac0a2 2690DOC_END
2691
41bd17a4 2692NAME: ssl_engine
cb4f4424 2693IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2694TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2695LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2696DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2697DOC_START
41bd17a4 2698 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2699 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2700DOC_END
2701
10a69fc0 2702NAME: sslproxy_session_ttl
cb4f4424 2703IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2704DEFAULT: 300
2705LOC: Config.SSL.session_ttl
2706TYPE: int
2707DOC_START
2708 Sets the timeout value for SSL sessions
2709DOC_END
2710
2711NAME: sslproxy_session_cache_size
cb4f4424 2712IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2713DEFAULT: 2 MB
2714LOC: Config.SSL.sessionCacheSize
2715TYPE: b_size_t
2716DOC_START
2717 Sets the cache size to use for ssl session
2718DOC_END
2719
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2720NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign_hash
2721IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
2722DEFAULT: none
2723LOC: Config.SSL.certSignHash
2724TYPE: string
2725DOC_START
2726 Sets the hashing algorithm to use when signing generated certificates.
2727 Valid algorithm names depend on the OpenSSL library used. The following
2728 names are usually available: sha1, sha256, sha512, and md5. Please see
2729 your OpenSSL library manual for the available hashes. By default, Squids
2730 that support this option use sha256 hashes.
2731
2732 Squid does not forcefully purge cached certificates that were generated
2733 with an algorithm other than the currently configured one. They remain
2734 in the cache, subject to the regular cache eviction policy, and become
2735 useful if the algorithm changes again.
2736DOC_END
2737
4c9da963 2738NAME: ssl_bump
cb4f4424 2739IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
caf3666d 2740TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2741LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
8f165829 2742DEFAULT_DOC: Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
4c9da963 2743DEFAULT: none
2744DOC_START
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2745 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2746 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2747 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2748 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2749 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
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2750 depending on the first matching bumping "action".
2751
2752 ssl_bump <action> [!]acl ...
caf3666d 2753
8f165829 2754 The following bumping actions are currently supported:
caf3666d 2755
5d65362c 2756 splice
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2757 Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
2758 This is the default action.
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2759
2760 bump
2761 Establish a secure connection with the server and, using a
2762 mimicked server certificate, with the client.
caf3666d 2763
5d65362c 2764 peek
1110989a 2765 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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2766 certificate while preserving the possibility of splicing the
2767 connection. Peeking at the server certificate (during step 2)
2768 usually precludes bumping of the connection at step 3.
caf3666d 2769
5d65362c 2770 stare
1110989a 2771 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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2772 certificate while preserving the possibility of bumping the
2773 connection. Staring at the server certificate (during step 2)
2774 usually precludes splicing of the connection at step 3.
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2776 terminate
2777 Close client and server connections.
2778
1110989a 2779 Backward compatibility actions available at step SslBump1:
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2780
2781 client-first
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2782 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
2783 client first, then connect to the server. This old mode does
2784 not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does not
2785 work with intercepted SSL connections.
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2787 server-first
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2788 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
2789 server first, then establish a secure connection with the
2790 client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2791 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections, but does
2792 not allow to make decisions based on SSL handshake info.
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2794 peek-and-splice
2795 Decide whether to bump or splice the connection based on
d620ae0e 2796 client-to-squid and server-to-squid SSL hello messages.
8f165829 2797 XXX: Remove.
caf3666d 2798
caf3666d 2799 none
8f165829 2800 Same as the "splice" action.
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2802 All ssl_bump rules are evaluated at each of the supported bumping
2803 steps. Rules with actions that are impossible at the current step are
2804 ignored. The first matching ssl_bump action wins and is applied at the
2805 end of the current step. If no rules match, the splice action is used.
652fcffd 2806 See the at_step ACL for a list of the supported SslBump steps.
4c9da963 2807
e0c0d54c 2808 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2809 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
e0855596 2810
652fcffd 2811 See also: http_port ssl-bump, https_port ssl-bump, and acl at_step.
caf3666d 2812
e0855596 2813
caf3666d 2814 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from
638402dd 2815 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 2816
e0855596 2817 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2818 ssl_bump splice localhost
2819 ssl_bump splice broken_sites
2820 ssl_bump bump all
4c9da963 2821DOC_END
2822
4c9da963 2823NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
cb4f4424 2824IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
4c9da963 2825DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2826DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 2827LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2828TYPE: acl_access
2829DOC_START
2830 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2831
2832 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2833 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2834 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2835
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2836 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
2837 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2838 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2839
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2840 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2841 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2842 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2843
2844 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 2845 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
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2847 SQUID_X509_V_ERR_INFINITE_VALIDATION error cannot be bypassed
2848 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
2849
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2850 SECURITY WARNING:
2851 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
2852 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
2853 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 2854
638402dd 2855 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 2856DOC_END
2857
aebe6888 2858NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
cb4f4424 2859IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
aebe6888 2860DEFAULT: none
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2861POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2862POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2863POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2864TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2865LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2866DOC_START
2867
69742b76 2868 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 2869
69742b76 2870 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2871
aebe6888 2872 signTrusted
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2873 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
2874 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2875 default for trusted origin server certificates.
638402dd 2876
aebe6888 2877 signUntrusted
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2878 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2879 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2880 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 2881
aebe6888 2882 signSelf
69742b76 2883 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2884 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2885 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
2886 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
aebe6888 2887
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2888 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2889
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2890 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2891 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2892 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2893 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2894 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
cf1c09f6 2895
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2896 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2897 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2898 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2899 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2900 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2901 bump-server-first is used.
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2902DOC_END
2903
638402dd 2904NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
cb4f4424 2905IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2906DEFAULT: none
2907TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2908LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2909DOC_START
2910
2911 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2912
69742b76 2913 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2914
fb2178bb 2915 setValidAfter
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2916 Sets the "Not After" property to the "Not After" property of
2917 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 2918
fb2178bb 2919 setValidBefore
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2920 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
2921 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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2924 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2925 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2926 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2927 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2928 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2930 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2931
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2932 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
2933 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2934 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2935 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2936 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2937 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2940 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2941 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2942 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2943 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2944 bump-server-first is used.
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2946
41bd17a4 2947NAME: sslpassword_program
cb4f4424 2948IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2949DEFAULT: none
2950LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2951TYPE: string
5473c134 2952DOC_START
41bd17a4 2953 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2954 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2955 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2956 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2958 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2959 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2960 keys.
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2962
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2963COMMENT_START
2964 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2965 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2966COMMENT_END
2967
2968NAME: sslcrtd_program
2969TYPE: eol
2970IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2971DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2972LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2973DOC_START
2974 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2975 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2976 For more information use:
2977 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2978DOC_END
2979
2980NAME: sslcrtd_children
2981TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2982IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2983DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2984LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2985DOC_START
2986 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2987 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2988
2989 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2990 tuning.
2991
2992 startup=N
2993
2994 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2995 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2996 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2997
2998 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2999 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
3000
3001 idle=N
3002
3003 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3004 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3005 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3006 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3008 queue-size=N
3009
3010 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
3011 If the queued requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes
3012 squid aborts its operation.
3013 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3015 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
3016DOC_END
3017
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3019TYPE: eol
cb4f4424 3020IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3022LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
3023DOC_START
3024 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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3026
3027 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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3029 Options:
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3033
3034NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
3035TYPE: HelperChildConfig
cb4f4424 3036IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
413bb969 3037DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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3038LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
3039DOC_START
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3042
3043 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3044 tuning.
3045
3046 startup=N
3047
3048 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
3049 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3050 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3051
3052 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
3053 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
3054
3055 idle=N
3056
3057 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3058 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3059 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3060 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3062 concurrency=
3063
3064 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
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3066 support concurrency. Defaults to 1.
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3067
3068 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3069 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3070 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3071 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3072 to that request.
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3073
3074 queue-size=N
3075
3076 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
3077 If the queued requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes
3078 squid aborts its operation.
3079 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3081 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
3082DOC_END
3083
cccac0a2 3084COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3085 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 3086 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3087COMMENT_END
3088
41bd17a4 3089NAME: cache_peer
3090TYPE: peer
3091DEFAULT: none
3092LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 3093DOC_START
41bd17a4 3094 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 3096 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 3097
41bd17a4 3098 For example,
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41bd17a4 3100 # proxy icp
3101 # hostname type port port options
3102 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 3103 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 3104 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
3105 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 3106 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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3107 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
3108
3109 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
3110
3111 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
3112 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
3113 For web servers this is usually 80
3114
3115 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
3116 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
3117 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
3118
3119
3120 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
3121
3122 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
3123 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
3124
3125
3126 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
3127
3128 multicast-responder
3129 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
3130 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
3131 replies will be accepted from it.
3132
3133 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
3134 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
3135
3136 background-ping
3137 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
3138 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
3139 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
3140
3141
3142 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
3143
3144 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
3145 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
3146
3147
3148 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
3149 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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3151 list of options described below.
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18191440 3153 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 3154
18191440 3155 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 3156 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 3157 only-clr.
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3159 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
3160 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 3162 htcp=no-purge-clr
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3163 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
3164 they do not result from PURGE requests.
3165
18191440 3166 htcp=forward-clr
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3167 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
3168
3169
3170 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
3171
3172 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
3173 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
3174
3175
3176 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
3177 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
3178 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
3179
3180 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3181 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
3182 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3183
3184 weighted-round-robin
3185 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3186 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
3187 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
3188 Usually used for background-ping parents.
3189 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3190
3191 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
3192 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
3193 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
3194
3195 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
3196
3197 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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3199 multicast-siblings
3200 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
3201 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 3202 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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3204 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
3205 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
3206 members of the same multicast group.
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3207
3208
3209 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
3210
3211 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
3212 peer-selection mechanisms.
3213 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
3214 larger weights are favored more.
3215 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
3216 protocol is not in use.
3217
3218 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
3219 times of parents.
3220 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
3221 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
3222 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
3223
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3224 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
3225 to this address.
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3226 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
3227 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
3228 hosts, you must configure other group members as
3229 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
3230
3231 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
3232 delay pools.
3233
3234 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
3235 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
3236 than the Squid default location.
3237
3238
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3240
3241 carp-key=key-specification
3242 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
3243 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
3244 scheme, host, port, path, params
3245 Order is not important.
3246
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3248
3249 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
3250 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
3251 is a web server.
3252
3253 forceddomain=name
3254 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
3255 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
3256 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
3257 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
3258
3259 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
3260
3261 no-netdb-exchange
3262 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
3263
3264
3265 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
3266
3267 login=user:password
3268 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3269 requires proxy authentication.
3270
3271 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
3272 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
3273
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3274 login=PASSTHRU
3275 Send login details received from client to this peer.
3276 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
3277 without alteration to the peer.
3278 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
3279
3280 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
3281 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
3282 connection-auth options are also used.
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3284 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
3285 Authentication is not required by this option.
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3287 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
3288 to pass on, but username and password are available
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3290 they may be sent instead.
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3291
3292 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
3293 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
3294 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
3295 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
3296 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
3297
3298 login=*:password
3299 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
3300 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
3301 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
3302 needed to identify each user.
3303 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
3304 information which is added to the username. This can
3305 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
3306 the login=username:password option above.
3307
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3308 login=NEGOTIATE
3309 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3310 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3311 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
3312 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
3313
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3315 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3316 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3317
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3318 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
3319 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3320 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3321 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
3322 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
3323 used.
3324
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3325 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
3326 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3327 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3328
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3329 connection-auth=on|off
3330 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
3331 connection oriented authentication, and any such
3332 challenges received from there should be ignored.
3333 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
3334 of the peer.
3335
3336
3337 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
3338
3339 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
3340
3341 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
3342 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
3343 this peer.
3344
3345 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
3346 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
3347 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
3348 reference a combined file containing both the
3349 certificate and the key.
3350
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3351 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
3352 to this peer.
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3353
3354 tls-min-version=1.N
3355 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
3356 SSLv3 use the ssloptions= parameter.
3357 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
3358
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3359 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL implementation options:
3360
3d96b0e8 3361 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 3362
3d96b0e8 3363 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1f1f29e8 3364
3d96b0e8 3365 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1f1f29e8 3366
3d96b0e8 3367 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1f1f29e8 3368
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3369 SINGLE_DH_USE
3370 Always create a new key when using
3371 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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3372
3373 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
3374 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3375 Some servers may have problems
3376 understanding the TLS extension due
3377 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3378
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3379 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
3380 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
3381 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
3382 strength to some attacks.
3383
3384 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
3385 more complete list.
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3386
3387 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
3388 when verifying the peer certificate.
3389
3390 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
3391 use when verifying the peer certificate.
3392
3393 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
3394 verifying the peer certificate.
3395
3396 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
3397
41bd17a4 3398 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
3399 Accept certificates even if they fail to
3400 verify.
1f1f29e8 3401
41bd17a4 3402 NO_DEFAULT_CA
3403 Don't use the default CA list built in
3404 to OpenSSL.
1f1f29e8 3405
41bd17a4 3406 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
3407 Don't verify the peer certificate
3408 matches the server name
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3409
3410 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
3411 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
3412 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
3413 used.
3414
3415 front-end-https
3416 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
3417 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
3418 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
3419 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
3420 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
3421
3422
3423 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
3424
3425 connect-timeout=N
3426 A peer-specific connect timeout.
3427 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
3428
3429 connect-fail-limit=N
3430 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
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3432 count towards this limit. Default is 10.
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3433
3434 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
3435 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
3436 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
3437 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
3438 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
3439 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
3440 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
3441
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3442 max-conn=N Limit the number of concurrent connections the Squid
3443 may open to this peer, including already opened idle
3444 and standby connections. There is no peer-specific
3445 connection limit by default.
3446
3447 A peer exceeding the limit is not used for new
3448 requests unless a standby connection is available.
3449
3450 max-conn currently works poorly with idle persistent
3451 connections: When a peer reaches its max-conn limit,
3452 and there are idle persistent connections to the peer,
3453 the peer may not be selected because the limiting code
3454 does not know whether Squid can reuse those idle
3455 connections.
3456
3457 standby=N Maintain a pool of N "hot standby" connections to an
3458 UP peer, available for requests when no idle
3459 persistent connection is available (or safe) to use.
3460 By default and with zero N, no such pool is maintained.
3461 N must not exceed the max-conn limit (if any).
3462
3463 At start or after reconfiguration, Squid opens new TCP
3464 standby connections until there are N connections
3465 available and then replenishes the standby pool as
3466 opened connections are used up for requests. A used
3467 connection never goes back to the standby pool, but
3468 may go to the regular idle persistent connection pool
3469 shared by all peers and origin servers.
3470
3471 Squid never opens multiple new standby connections
3472 concurrently. This one-at-a-time approach minimizes
3473 flooding-like effect on peers. Furthermore, just a few
3474 standby connections should be sufficient in most cases
3475 to supply most new requests with a ready-to-use
3476 connection.
3477
3478 Standby connections obey server_idle_pconn_timeout.
3479 For the feature to work as intended, the peer must be
3480 configured to accept and keep them open longer than
3481 the idle timeout at the connecting Squid, to minimize
3482 race conditions typical to idle used persistent
3483 connections. Default request_timeout and
3484 server_idle_pconn_timeout values ensure such a
3485 configuration.
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3487 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
3488 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
3489 but different ports.
3490 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
3491 directives to dentify the peer.
3492 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3493 peername ACL type.
3494
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3495 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3496 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3497 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
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3499 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
3500
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41bd17a4 3503NAME: cache_peer_access
3504TYPE: peer_access
3505DEFAULT: none
3506LOC: none
3507DOC_START
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3508 Use to limit the requests for which a neighbor proxy will be
3509 queried. Peers with no restrictions are queried for all requests.
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3511 Usage:
3512 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 3514 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
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3515 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access', or the
3516 Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 3517DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3519NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3520TYPE: hostdomaintype
3521DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3522DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3523LOC: none
3524DOC_START
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3525 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3526 about specific domains to the peer.
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3528 Usage:
3529 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
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3531 For example:
3532 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3533 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
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3535 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3536 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3537DOC_END
6bf4f823 3538
41bd17a4 3539NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3540COMMENT: (seconds)
3541DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3542TYPE: time_t
3543LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3544DOC_START
3545 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3546 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3547 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3548 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3549 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3550 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3551
41bd17a4 3552 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3553 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3554 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3555 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3556 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3557 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3558 instead of to your parents.
3559DOC_END
cccac0a2 3560
437823b4 3561NAME: forward_max_tries
6c367206 3562DEFAULT: 25
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3563TYPE: int
3564LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3565DOC_START
3566 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3567 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3568
3569 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3570 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3571DOC_END
3572
41bd17a4 3573COMMENT_START
3574 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3575 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3576COMMENT_END
3577
3578NAME: cache_mem
3579COMMENT: (bytes)
3580TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3581DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3582LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3583DOC_START
41bd17a4 3584 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3585 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3586 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3587 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3588
3589 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3590 for:
3591 * In-Transit objects
3592 * Hot Objects
3593 * Negative-Cached objects
3594
3595 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3596 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3597 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3598 priority.
3599
3600 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3601 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3602 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3603 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3604 not needed for in-transit objects.
3605
3606 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3607 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3608 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3609 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3610 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3611 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3612 objects.
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3613
3614 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3615 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3616 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3617 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3618DOC_END
0976f8db 3619
41bd17a4 3620NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3621COMMENT: (bytes)
3622TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3623DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3624LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3625DOC_START
41bd17a4 3626 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3627 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3628 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3629 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3630DOC_END
0976f8db 3631
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3632NAME: memory_cache_shared
3633COMMENT: on|off
3634TYPE: YesNoNone
3635LOC: Config.memShared
3636DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3637DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3638DOC_START
3639 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3640
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3641 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3642 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3643 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3644 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3645 caching is enabled).
3646
65b81b27 3647 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3648 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3649 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3650 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3651 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3652
3653 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3654 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3655 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3656
3657 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3659
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3660NAME: memory_cache_mode
3661TYPE: memcachemode
3662LOC: Config
3663DEFAULT: always
638402dd 3664DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 3665DOC_START
ea21d497 3666 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3667
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3668 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3669
3670 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3671 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3672 a second time before cached in memory.
3673
3674 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3675DOC_END
3676
41bd17a4 3677NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3678TYPE: removalpolicy
3679LOC: Config.memPolicy
3680DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3681DOC_START
41bd17a4 3682 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3683 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3684
638402dd 3685 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 3686DOC_END
6b698a21 3687
41bd17a4 3688COMMENT_START
3689 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3690 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3691COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3692
41bd17a4 3693NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3694TYPE: removalpolicy
3695LOC: Config.replPolicy
3696DEFAULT: lru
3697DOC_START
3698 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3699 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3700
41bd17a4 3701 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3702 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3703 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3704 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3705
638402dd 3706 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 3707
41bd17a4 3708 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3709
41bd17a4 3710 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3711 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3712 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3713 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3714
41bd17a4 3715 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3716 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3717 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3718 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3719
41bd17a4 3720 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3721 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3722 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3723
41bd17a4 3724 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3725 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3726 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3727
41bd17a4 3728 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3729 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3730 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3731DOC_END
0976f8db 3732
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3733NAME: minimum_object_size
3734COMMENT: (bytes)
3735TYPE: b_int64_t
3736DEFAULT: 0 KB
3737DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
3738LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
3739DOC_START
3740 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3741 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3742 means all responses can be stored.
3743DOC_END
3744
3745NAME: maximum_object_size
3746COMMENT: (bytes)
3747TYPE: b_int64_t
3748DEFAULT: 4 MB
3749LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
3750DOC_START
499f852c 3751 Set the default value for max-size parameter on any cache_dir.
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3752 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3753
3754 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3755 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3756 hits).
3757
3758 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
3759 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
3760
3761 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3762 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3763 See cache_replacement_policy for a discussion of this policy.
3764DOC_END
3765
41bd17a4 3766NAME: cache_dir
3767TYPE: cachedir
3768DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3769DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 3770LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 3771DOC_START
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3772 Format:
3773 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3774
41bd17a4 3775 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3776 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3777
41bd17a4 3778 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3779 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3780 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3781
41bd17a4 3782 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3783 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3784 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3785 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3786 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 3787
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3788 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3789 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3790 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3791
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3792
3793 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 3794
41bd17a4 3795 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3796 been there.
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3798 Usage:
3799 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3800
41bd17a4 3801 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3802 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3803 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3804 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3805 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3806
56fba4d0 3807 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3808 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3809
56fba4d0 3810 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3811 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3812 is 256.
0976f8db 3813
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3814
3815 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 3816
41bd17a4 3817 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3818 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3819 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3820
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3821 Usage:
3822 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3823
41bd17a4 3824 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3825
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3826
3827 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 3828
41bd17a4 3829 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3830 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3831 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3832
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3833 Usage:
3834 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3835
41bd17a4 3836 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3837
41bd17a4 3838 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3839 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3840 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3841
41bd17a4 3842 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3843 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3844 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3845
41bd17a4 3846 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3847 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3848 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3849 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3850 time.
0976f8db 3851
e2851fe7 3852
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3853 ==== The rock store type ====
3854
3855 Usage:
e51ce7da 3856 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes [options]
e2851fe7 3857
2e55f083 3858 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3859 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots.
3860 A single entry occupies one or more slots.
e2851fe7 3861
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3862 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
3863 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
3864 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
3865 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
3866 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
3867
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3868 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3869 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3870 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3871 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3872 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3873 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3874 expected swap wait time.
3875
df881a0f 3876 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3877 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3878 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3879 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3880 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3881 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3882 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3883 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3884 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3885 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3886 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3887 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3888 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3889 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3890
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3891 slot-size=bytes: The size of a database "record" used for
3892 storing cached responses. A cached response occupies at least
3893 one slot and all database I/O is done using individual slots so
3894 increasing this parameter leads to more disk space waste while
3895 decreasing it leads to more disk I/O overheads. Should be a
3896 multiple of your operating system I/O page size. Defaults to
3897 16KBytes. A housekeeping header is stored with each slot and
3898 smaller slot-sizes will be rejected. The header is smaller than
3899 100 bytes.
3900
df881a0f 3901
638402dd 3902 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
0976f8db 3903
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3904 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
3905
3906 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3907 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
3908 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
3909 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
73656056 3910 (e.g. Rock).
638402dd 3911 Defaults to 0.
0976f8db 3912
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3913 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3914 supports.
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3915 The value in maximum_object_size directive sets
3916 the default unless more specific details are
3917 available (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 3918
41bd17a4 3919 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 3920 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 3921
bebc043b 3922NOCOMMENT_START
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3923
3924# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3925#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3926NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3927DOC_END
0976f8db 3928
41bd17a4 3929NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3930TYPE: string
3931LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3932DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3933DOC_START
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3934 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
3935 object will fit into more than one.
3936
3937 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
3938 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
3939 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
3940 cache_dir.
3941
3942 Algorithms:
3943
3944 least-load
3945
3946 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
3947 sizes and disk speeds.
3948
3949 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
3950 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
3951 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
3952
3953 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
3954 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
3955 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
3956 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
3957
3958
3959 round-robin
3960
3961 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
3962 disk sizes.
3963
3964 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
3965 cache_dir is used.
3966
3967 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
3968 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
3969 max-size parameters.
3970
3971 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
3972 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
3973 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
3974
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3976 limits to to reject certain responses, then do not group such
3977 cache_dir lines together, to avoid round-robin selection bias
3978 towards the first cache_dir after the group. Instead, interleave
3979 cache_dir lines from different groups. For example:
3980
3981 store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin
3982 cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000
3983 cache_dir rock /ssd1 ... max-size=99999
3984 cache_dir rock /hdd2 ... min-size=100000
3985 cache_dir rock /ssd2 ... max-size=99999
3986 cache_dir rock /hdd3 ... min-size=100000
3987 cache_dir rock /ssd3 ... max-size=99999
6b698a21 3988DOC_END
0976f8db 3989
41bd17a4 3990NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3991TYPE: int
3992LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3993DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 3994DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 3995DOC_START
41bd17a4 3996 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3997 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3998 descriptors are open.
3999
4000 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 4001DOC_END
0976f8db 4002
41bd17a4 4003NAME: cache_swap_low
4004COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 4005TYPE: int
41bd17a4 4006DEFAULT: 90
4007LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
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4009 The low-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4010 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4011
4012 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4013 above this low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization
4014 near the low-water mark.
4015
4016 As swap utilization increases towards the high-water mark set
4017 by cache_swap_high object eviction becomes more agressive.
4018
4019 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4020 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
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4021 the rate continues to scale in agressiveness by multiples of
4022 this above the high-water mark.
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4023
4024 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4025 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4026 numbers closer together.
4027
5f662601 4028 See also cache_swap_high and cache_replacement_policy
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41bd17a4 4030
4031NAME: cache_swap_high
4032COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4033TYPE: int
4034DEFAULT: 95
4035LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
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4037 The high-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4038 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4039
4040 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4041 above the low-water mark set by cache_swap_low and attempts to
4042 maintain utilization near the low-water mark.
4043
4044 As swap utilization increases towards this high-water mark object
4045 eviction becomes more agressive.
4046
4047 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4048 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
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4049 the rate continues to scale in agressiveness by multiples of
4050 this above the high-water mark.
41bd17a4 4051
4052 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4053 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4054 numbers closer together.
638402dd 4055
5f662601 4056 See also cache_swap_low and cache_replacement_policy
6b698a21 4057DOC_END
0976f8db 4058
5473c134 4059COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 4060 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 4061 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4062COMMENT_END
0976f8db 4063
41bd17a4 4064NAME: logformat
4065TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 4066LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 4067DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4068DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 4069DOC_START
41bd17a4 4070 Usage:
0976f8db 4071
41bd17a4 4072 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 4073
41bd17a4 4074 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 4075
41bd17a4 4076 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 4077
41bd17a4 4078 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
4079 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
4080 as required according to their context and the output format
4081 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
4082 output format is desired.
6b698a21 4083
41bd17a4 4084 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 4085
41bd17a4 4086 " output in quoted string format
4087 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
4088 # output in URL quoted format
4089 ' output as-is
5473c134 4090
41bd17a4 4091 - left aligned
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4093 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
4094 [width_min][.width_max]
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4096 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 4097
41bd17a4 4098 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 4099
41bd17a4 4100 Format codes:
5473c134 4101
3ff65596 4102 % a literal % character
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4103 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
4104 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
4105 a similar internal error identifier.
4106 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
c7bcf010 4107 note The annotation specified by the argument. Also
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4108 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
4109 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
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4110 If no argument given all annotations logged.
4111 The argument may include a separator to use with
4112 annotation values:
4113 name[:separator]
4114 By default, multiple note values are separated with ","
4115 and multiple notes are separated with "\r\n".
4116 When logging named notes with %{name}note, the
4117 explicitly configured separator is used between note
4118 values. When logging all notes with %note, the
4119 explicitly configured separator is used between
4120 individual notes. There is currently no way to
4121 specify both value and notes separators when logging
4122 all notes with %note.
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4123
4124 Connection related format codes:
4125
41bd17a4 4126 >a Client source IP address
4127 >A Client FQDN
4128 >p Client source port
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4129 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
4130 >la Local IP address the client connected to
4131 >lp Local port number the client connected to
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4132 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
4133 >nfmark Client connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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4135 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
4136 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
4137
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4138 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
4139 <A Server FQDN or peer name
4140 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 4141 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 4142 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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4143 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
4144 <nfmark Server connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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4145
4146 Time related format codes:
4147
41bd17a4 4148 ts Seconds since epoch
4149 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
4150 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4151 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4152 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4153 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4154 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 4155 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
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4156 tS Approximate master transaction start time in
4157 <full seconds since epoch>.<fractional seconds> format.
4158 Currently, Squid considers the master transaction
4159 started when a complete HTTP request header initiating
4160 the transaction is received from the client. This is
4161 the same value that Squid uses to calculate transaction
4162 response time when logging %tr to access.log. Currently,
4163 Squid uses millisecond resolution for %tS values,
4164 similar to the default access.log "current time" field
4165 (%ts.%03tu).
3ff65596 4166
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4167 Access Control related format codes:
4168
4169 et Tag returned by external acl
4170 ea Log string returned by external acl
4171 un User name (any available)
4172 ul User name from authentication
4173 ue User name from external acl helper
4174 ui User name from ident
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4175 un A user name. Expands to the first available name
4176 from the following list of information sources:
4177 - authenticated user name, like %ul
4178 - user name supplied by an external ACL, like %ue
4179 - SSL client name, like %us
4180 - ident user name, like %ui
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4181 credentials Client credentials. The exact meaning depends on
4182 the authentication scheme: For Basic authentication,
4183 it is the password; for Digest, the realm sent by the
4184 client; for NTLM and Negotiate, the client challenge
4185 or client credentials prefixed with "YR " or "KK ".
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4186
4187 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 4188
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4189 REQUEST
4190
4191 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
4192 [http::]>rm Request method from client
4193 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
4194 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
4195 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
4196 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
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4197 [http::]>rs Request URL scheme from client
4198 [http::]<rs Request URL scheme sent to server or peer
fa450988 4199 [http::]>rd Request URL domain from client
f42ac6e6 4200 [http::]<rd Request URL domain sent to server or peer
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4201 [http::]>rP Request URL port from client
4202 [http::]<rP Request URL port sent to server or peer
4203 [http::]rp Request URL path excluding hostname
4204 [http::]>rp Request URL path excluding hostname from client
4205 [http::]<rp Request URL path excluding hostname sent to server or peer
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4206 [http::]rv Request protocol version
4207 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
4208 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
4209
5aca9cf2 4210 [http::]>h Original received request header.
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4212 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
4213 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
4214 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
4215 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
4216 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
4217 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4218 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 4219 Optional header name argument as for >h
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4220
4221
4222 RESPONSE
4223
4224 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
4225 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
4226
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4227 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
4228 as for >h
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4229
4230 [http::]mt MIME content type
4231
4232
4233 SIZE COUNTERS
4234
4235 [http::]st Total size of request + reply traffic with client
4236 [http::]>st Total size of request received from client.
4237 Excluding chunked encoding bytes.
4238 [http::]<st Total size of reply sent to client (after adaptation)
4239
4240 [http::]>sh Size of request headers received from client
4241 [http::]<sh Size of reply headers sent to client (after adaptation)
4242
4243 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
4244 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
4245
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4246 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
4247 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
4248 transfer encoding and control messages.
4249 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
4250 received bodies.
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4251
4252
4253 TIMING
4254
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4255 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
4256 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
4257 and stops when the last response byte is received.
d5430dc8 4258 [http::]<tt Total time in milliseconds. The timer
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4259 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
4260 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
4261 with the last I/O with the last peer.
4262
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4263 Squid handling related format codes:
4264
4265 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
4266 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
4267
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4268 SSL-related format codes:
4269
4270 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
4271
4272 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
4273 a connection and for any request received on
4274 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
4275 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
4276 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
4277 more information about these modes.
4278
4279 A "none" token is logged for requests that
4280 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
4281 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
4282
4283 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
4284 logged.
4285
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4286 ssl::>sni SSL client SNI sent to Squid. Available only
4287 after the peek, stare, or splice SSL bumping
4288 actions.
4289
5038f9d8 4290 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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4291 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
4292
4293 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
4294 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
4295 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
4296 transaction is in progress.
4297
5038f9d8 4298 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 4299
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4300 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
4301 meta-information from the last eCAP
4302 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
4303 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
4304 argument.
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4306 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
4307 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
4308 the order of transaction start time. Each time
4309 value is recorded as an integer number,
4310 representing response time of one or more
4311 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
4312 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
4313 being retried or repeated, its time is not
4314 logged individually but added to the
4315 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
4316 adapt::all_trs.
4317
4318 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
4319 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
4320 individual transactions are never added
4321 together. Instead, all transaction response
4322 times are recorded individually.
4323
4324 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
4325 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
4326 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 4327
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4328 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
4329
4330 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
4331 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4332 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4333 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4334 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
4335
4336 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
4337 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4338 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4339 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4340 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
4341
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4342 %ssl::<cert_errors The list of certificate validation errors
4343 detected by Squid (including OpenSSL and
4344 certificate validation helper components). The
4345 errors are listed in the discovery order. By
4346 default, the error codes are separated by ':'.
4347 Accepts an optional separator argument.
4348
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4349 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
4350
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4351logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
4352logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
4353logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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4354logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
4355logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
4356
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4357 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
4358 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
4359 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
4360
4361 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
4362 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
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5473c134 4364DOC_END
4365
41bd17a4 4366NAME: access_log cache_access_log
4367TYPE: access_log
4368LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 4369DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 4370DOC_START
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4371 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
4372 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
4373 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
4374
4375 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
4376 access_log none [acl acl ...]
4377
4378 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 4379 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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4380
4381 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
4382 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
4383 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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4384
4385 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 4386 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
4387 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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4388 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
4389
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4390 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
4391
4392 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
4393 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
4394 to 'squid'.
4395
4396 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
4397 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
4398 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
4399 should flush records before the buffer becomes
4400 full to avoid overflows under normal
4401 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
4402 module-dependent though). The on-error option
4403 controls overflow handling.
4404
4405 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
4406 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
4407 affected log records. The default 'die' action
4408 kills the affected worker. The drop action
4409 support has not been tested for modules other
4410 than tcp.
4411
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4412 rotate=N Specifies the number of log file rotations to
4413 make when you run 'squid -k rotate'. The default
4414 is to obey the logfile_rotate directive. Setting
4415 rotate=0 will disable the file name rotation,
4416 but the log files are still closed and re-opened.
4417 This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4418 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
4419 Only supported by the stdio module.
4420
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4421 ===== Modules Currently available =====
4422
bb7a1781 4423 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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4424 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
4425
4426 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
4427 each request.
4428 Place: the filename and path to be written.
4429
4430 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
4431 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
4432 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
4433
4434 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
4435
4436 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
4437 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
4438 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 4439
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4440 where facility could be any of:
4441 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 4442
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4443 And priority could be any of:
4444 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
4445
4446 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
4447 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4448 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 4449
2bf4e8fa 4450 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 4451 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 4452 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4453 Place Format: //host:port
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4454
4455 Default:
82b7abe3 4456 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
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5473c134 4458
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4459NAME: icap_log
4460TYPE: access_log
4461IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4462LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
4463DEFAULT: none
4464DOC_START
4465 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
4466 transaction.
4467
4468 The icap_log option format is:
4469 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
4470 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
4471
4472 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
4473 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
4474 features.
4475
4476 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
4477 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
4478 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
4479 log line.
4480
4481 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
4482 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
4483 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
4484 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
4485 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
4486 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
4487 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
4488
4489 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
4490
4491 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
4492
4493 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
4494 option in Squid configuration file.
4495
4496 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
4497
4498 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
4499 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
4500
4501 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
4502 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
4503
4504 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
4505 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
4506 the socket).
4507
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4508 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
4509 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
4510 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
4511 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
4512 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
4513 computed.
4514
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4515 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
4516 milliseconds). The timer starts when
4517 the ICAP transaction is created and
4518 stops when the transaction is completed.
4519 Similar to tr.
4520
4521 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
4522 timer starts when the first ICAP request
4523 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
4524 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
4525 is received.
4526
4527 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
4528 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
4529 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
4530 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
4531 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
4532 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
4533
4534 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
4535
4536 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
4537
4538 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
4539
4540 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
4541 definition, is called icap_squid:
4542
4543logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
4544
5038f9d8 4545 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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4546DOC_END
4547
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4548NAME: logfile_daemon
4549TYPE: string
4550DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
4551LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
4552DOC_START
4553 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
4554 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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4555
4556 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
4557 L<data>\n - logfile data
4558 R\n - rotate file
4559 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 4560 O\n - reopen file
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4561 F\n - flush file
4562 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
4563 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
4564
4565 No responses is expected.
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4566DOC_END
4567
8ebad780 4568NAME: stats_collection
3ff65596 4569TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 4570LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
3ff65596 4571DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4572DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 4573COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
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4575 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
4576 in performance counters.
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4577
4578 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4579 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4581
41bd17a4 4582NAME: cache_store_log
4583TYPE: string
df2eec10 4584DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4585LOC: Config.Log.store
4586DOC_START
4587 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
4588 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 4589 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 4590 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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4591 disable it (the default).
4592
4593 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
4594 of modules supported.
4595
e0855596 4596 Example:
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4597 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
4598 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 4599DOC_END
4600
41bd17a4 4601NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
4602TYPE: string
4603LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 4604DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4605DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 4606DOC_START
41bd17a4 4607 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
4608 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
4609 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
4610 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
4611 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
4612 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
4613 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 4614
41bd17a4 4615 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
4616 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
4617 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
4618 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
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41bd17a4 4620 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
4621 these swap logs will have names such as:
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41bd17a4 4623 cache_swap_log.00
4624 cache_swap_log.01
4625 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 4626
41bd17a4 4627 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
4628 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
4629 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
4630 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
4631 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
4632 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
4633 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 4634DOC_END
4635
41bd17a4 4636NAME: logfile_rotate
4637TYPE: int
4638DEFAULT: 10
4639LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 4640DOC_START
efc23871 4641 Specifies the default number of logfile rotations to make when you
41bd17a4 4642 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
4643 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
4644 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
4645 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4646 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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4648 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
4649 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
4650
4651 Note, from Squid-3.6 this option is only a default for access.log
4652 recorded by stdio: module. Those logs can be rotated separately by
4653 using the rotate=N option on their access_log directive.
4654
41bd17a4 4655 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
4656 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
4657 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
4658 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
4659 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
4660 <pid>'.
62493678 4661
41bd17a4 4662DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4664NAME: mime_table
4665TYPE: string
4666DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
4667LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
4668DOC_START
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4669 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
4670
4671 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
4672 examples and formatting information if you do.
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4674
41bd17a4 4675NAME: log_mime_hdrs
4676COMMENT: on|off
4677TYPE: onoff
4678LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
4679DEFAULT: off
4680DOC_START
4681 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
4682 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
4683 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
4684 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
4685 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
4686DOC_END
5473c134 4687
41bd17a4 4688NAME: pid_filename
4689TYPE: string
4690DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4691LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4692DOC_START
41bd17a4 4693 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4694DOC_END
4695
41bd17a4 4696NAME: client_netmask
4697TYPE: address
4698LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4699DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 4700DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 4701DOC_START
41bd17a4 4702 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4703 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4704 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4705 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4706DOC_END
4707
41bd17a4 4708NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4709TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4710LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 4711DEFAULT: on
4712DOC_START
41bd17a4 4713 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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4714 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
4715
4716 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
4717 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 4718DOC_END
4719
41bd17a4 4720NAME: buffered_logs
4721COMMENT: on|off
4722TYPE: onoff
4723DEFAULT: off
4724LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 4725DOC_START
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4726 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
4727 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
4728 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
4729 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
4730 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
4731 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
4732
4733 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
4734 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
4735 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
4736
fb0c2f17 4737 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 4738DOC_END
0976f8db 4739
2b753521 4740NAME: netdb_filename
4741TYPE: string
221faecb 4742DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 4743LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 4744IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 4745DOC_START
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4746 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
4747 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
4748
2b753521 4749 To disable, enter "none".
4750DOC_END
4751
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4752COMMENT_START
4753 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
4754 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4755COMMENT_END
4756
4757NAME: cache_log
4758TYPE: string
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4759DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
4760LOC: Debug::cache_log
4761DOC_START
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4762 Squid administrative logging file.
4763
4764 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
4765 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
4766 rotated with "debug_options"
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4767DOC_END
4768
4769NAME: debug_options
4770TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 4771DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 4772DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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4773LOC: Debug::debugOptions
4774DOC_START
4775 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
4776 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
4777 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
4778 log file, so be careful.
4779
4780 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 4781 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
62493678 4782
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4783 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
4784 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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4785 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
4786 events affecting Squid.
4787DOC_END
4788
4789NAME: coredump_dir
4790TYPE: string
4791LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 4792DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 4793DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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4794DOC_START
4795 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4796 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4797 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4798 and coredump files will be left there.
4799
4800NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 4801
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4802# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
4803coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4804NOCOMMENT_END
4805DOC_END
4806
4807
41bd17a4 4808COMMENT_START
4809 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4810 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4811COMMENT_END
4812
4813NAME: ftp_user
4814TYPE: string
4815DEFAULT: Squid@
4816LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4817DOC_START
41bd17a4 4818 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 4819 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 4820 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4821
41bd17a4 4822 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4823 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4824 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 4825 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 4826 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4827DOC_END
0976f8db 4828
41bd17a4 4829NAME: ftp_passive
4830TYPE: onoff
4831DEFAULT: on
4832LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4833DOC_START
41bd17a4 4834 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4835 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 4836
4837 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4838DOC_END
4839
4840NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4841TYPE: onoff
4842DEFAULT: off
4843LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4844DOC_START
4845 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4846
4847 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4848 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4849 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4850
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4851 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
4852 useful.
a689bd4e 4853 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4854 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4855
4856 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4857 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4858
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4859 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4860DOC_END
4861
4862NAME: ftp_epsv
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4863TYPE: ftp_epsv
4864DEFAULT: none
4865LOC: Config.accessList.ftp_epsv
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4866DOC_START
4867 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4868
4869 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4870 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4871 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4872 will never be needed.
51ee534d 4873
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4874 EPSV is often required to interoperate with FTP servers on IPv6
4875 networks. On the other hand, it may break some IPv4 servers.
4876
4877 By default, EPSV may try EPSV with any FTP server. To fine tune
4878 that decision, you may restrict EPSV to certain clients or servers
4879 using ACLs:
4880
4881 ftp_epsv allow|deny al1 acl2 ...
4882
4883 WARNING: Disabling EPSV may cause problems with external NAT and IPv6.
51ee534d 4884
ddf5aa2b 4885 Only fast ACLs are supported.
51ee534d 4886 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4887DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4888
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4889NAME: ftp_eprt
4890TYPE: onoff
4891DEFAULT: on
4892LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4893DOC_START
4894 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4895
4896 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4897 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4898 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4899
4900 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4901 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4902
4903 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4904 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4905 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4906 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4907
4908 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4909 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4910DOC_END
4911
41bd17a4 4912NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4913TYPE: onoff
4914DEFAULT: on
4915LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4916DOC_START
4917 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4918 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4919 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4920 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4921 connection turn this off.
4922DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4923
41bd17a4 4924NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4925TYPE: onoff
4926DEFAULT: on
4927LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4928DOC_START
4929 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4930 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4931 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4932 the FTP protocol.
4933
4934 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4935 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4936 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4937 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4938 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4939DOC_END
4940
4941COMMENT_START
4942 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4943 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4944COMMENT_END
4945
4946NAME: diskd_program
4947TYPE: string
4948DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4949LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4950DOC_START
4951 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4952 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4953 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4954DOC_END
4955
4956NAME: unlinkd_program
4957IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4958TYPE: string
4959DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4960LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4961DOC_START
4962 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4963DOC_END
4964
4965NAME: pinger_program
41bd17a4 4966IFDEF: USE_ICMP
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4967TYPE: icmp
4968DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
4969LOC: IcmpCfg
41bd17a4 4970DOC_START
4971 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4972DOC_END
4973
cc192b50 4974NAME: pinger_enable
4975TYPE: onoff
4976DEFAULT: on
7a9d36e3 4977LOC: IcmpCfg.enable
cc192b50 4978IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4979DOC_START
4980 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4981 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4982 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4983DOC_END
4984
4985
41bd17a4 4986COMMENT_START
4987 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4988 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4989COMMENT_END
4990
4991NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4992TYPE: wordlist
4993LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4994DEFAULT: none
4995DOC_START
2c7aad89 4996 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4997 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4998
2c7aad89 4999 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 5000
b11724bb 5001 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
5269ec0e 5002
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5004 the helper.
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5005 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
5006
24eac830 5007 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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5008
5009 The result code can be:
5010
5011 OK status=30N url="..."
5012 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
5013 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
5014 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
5015 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
5016 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
c71adec1 5017
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5018 OK rewrite-url="..."
5019 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
5020 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
5021 the client as the response to its request.
5022
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5023 OK
5024 When neither of url= and rewrite-url= are sent Squid does
5025 not change the URL.
5026
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5027 ERR
5028 Do not change the URL.
5029
5030 BH
4ded749e 5031 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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5032 a result being identified. The 'message=' key name is
5033 reserved for delivering a log message.
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5034
5035
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5036 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5037 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5038 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5039 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5040 The TAG is treated as a regular annotation but persists across
5041 future requests on the client connection rather than just the
5042 current request. A helper may update the TAG during subsequent
5043 requests be returning a new kv-pair.
41bd17a4 5044
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5045 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5046 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5047 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5048 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5049 of the response relating to its request.
5050
5051 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
5052 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 5053
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5054 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
5055 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
5056 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
5057 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
5058 interface.
41bd17a4 5059
5060 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
5061DOC_END
5062
5063NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 5064TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 5065DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 5066LOC: Config.redirectChildren
5067DOC_START
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5068 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
5069 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
5070 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
5071 and other system resources noticably.
5072
5073 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5074 tuning.
5075
5076 startup=
5077
5078 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5079 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5080 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5081
5082 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5083 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5084
5085 idle=
5086
5087 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5088 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5089 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5090 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5091
5092 concurrency=
41bd17a4 5093
41bd17a4 5094 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
5095 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
5096 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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5097
5098 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5099 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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5100 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5101 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5102
5103 queue-size=N
5104
5105 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
5106 If the queued requests exceed queue size and redirector_bypass
5107 configuration option is set, then redirector is bypassed. Otherwise, if
5108 overloading persists squid may abort its operation.
5109 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
41bd17a4 5110DOC_END
5111
5112NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
5113TYPE: onoff
5114DEFAULT: on
5115LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
5116DOC_START
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5117 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
5118 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
5119 any Host: header in redirected requests.
5120
5121 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
5122 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
5123 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
5124
41bd17a4 5125 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
5126 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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5127
5128 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
5129 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
5130 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 5131DOC_END
5132
5133NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
5134TYPE: acl_access
5135DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5136DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 5137LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
5138DOC_START
5139 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 5140 sent to the redirector processes.
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5141
5142 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5143 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5144DOC_END
5145
5146NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
5147TYPE: onoff
5148LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
5149DEFAULT: off
5150DOC_START
5151 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
638402dd 5152 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
41bd17a4 5153 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
5154 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
5155 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
5156 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
5157 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
5158 users may have access to pages they should not
5159 be allowed to request.
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5160 This options sets default queue-size option of the url_rewrite_children
5161 to 0.
41bd17a4 5162DOC_END
5163
fe7966ec 5164NAME: url_rewrite_extras
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5165TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5166LOC: Config.redirector_extras
5167DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5168DOC_START
5169 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5170 rewriter helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5171 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5172 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5173 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5174DOC_END
5175
32fd6d8a 5176NAME: url_rewrite_timeout
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5177TYPE: UrlHelperTimeout
5178LOC: Config.onUrlRewriteTimeout
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5179DEFAULT: none
5180DEFAULT_DOC: Squid waits for the helper response forever
5181DOC_START
5182 Squid times active requests to redirector. The timeout value and Squid
5183 reaction to a timed out request are configurable using the following
5184 format:
5185
ced8def3 5186 url_rewrite_timeout timeout time-units on_timeout=<action> [response=<quoted-response>]
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5187
5188 supported timeout actions:
ced8def3 5189 fail Squid return a ERR_GATEWAY_FAILURE error page
32fd6d8a 5190
ced8def3 5191 bypass Do not re-write the URL
32fd6d8a 5192
ced8def3 5193 retry Send the lookup to the helper again
32fd6d8a 5194
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5195 use_configured_response
5196 Use the <quoted-response> as helper response
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5197DOC_END
5198
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5199COMMENT_START
5200 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
5201 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5202COMMENT_END
5203
5204NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
5205TYPE: wordlist
5206LOC: Config.Program.store_id
5207DEFAULT: none
5208DOC_START
5209 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
5210 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
5211
5212 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
5213
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5215
5216
5217 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
5218
5219 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
5220
5221 The result code can be:
5222
5223 OK store-id="..."
5224 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
5225
5226 ERR
5227 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
5228
5229 BH
5230 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
5231 a result being identified.
5232
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5233 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5234 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5235 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5236 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5237 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation for this
5238 kv-pair
a8a0b1c2 5239
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5240 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore
5241 additional whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
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5242
5243 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5244 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5245 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5246 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5247 of the response relating to its request.
5248
5249 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
5250 returned from the helper and not the URL.
5251
5252 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
5253 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
5254
5255 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
5256DOC_END
5257
fe7966ec 5258NAME: store_id_extras
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5259TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5260LOC: Config.storeId_extras
5261DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5262DOC_START
5263 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5264 StoreId helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5265 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5266 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5267 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5268DOC_END
5269
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5270NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
5271TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5272DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
5273LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
5274DOC_START
5275 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
5276 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
5277 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
5278 and other system resources noticably.
5279
5280 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5281 tuning.
5282
5283 startup=
5284
5285 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5286 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5287 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5288
5289 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5290 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5291
5292 idle=
5293
5294 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5295 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5296 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5297 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5298
5299 concurrency=
5300
5301 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
5302 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
5303 is a old-style single threaded program.
5304
5305 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5306 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
5307 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5308 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5310 queue-size=N
5311
5312 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
5313 If the queued requests exceed queue size and store_id_bypass
5314 configuration option is set, then storeID helper is bypassed. Otherwise,
5315 if overloading persists squid may abort its operation.
5316 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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5317DOC_END
5318
5319NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
5320TYPE: acl_access
5321DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5322DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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5323LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
5324DOC_START
5325 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
5326 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
5327 are sent.
5328
5329 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5330 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5331DOC_END
5332
5333NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
5334TYPE: onoff
5335LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
5336DEFAULT: on
5337DOC_START
5338 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
5339 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
5340 and the helper queue grows too large, Squid will exit
5341 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
5342 helpers. You should only enable this if the helperss
5343 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
5344 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
5345 option, users may not get objects from cache.
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5346 This options sets default queue-size option of the store_id_children
5347 to 0.
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5348DOC_END
5349
41bd17a4 5350COMMENT_START
5351 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
5352 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5353COMMENT_END
5354
f04b37d8 5355NAME: cache no_cache
5356TYPE: acl_access
5357DEFAULT: none
70706149 5358DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
f04b37d8 5359LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 5360DOC_START
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5361 Requests denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5362 and their responses will not be stored in the cache. This directive
5363 has no effect on other transactions and on already cached responses.
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5365 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5366 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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5367
5368 This and the two other similar caching directives listed below are
5369 checked at different transaction processing stages, have different
5370 access to response information, affect different cache operations,
5371 and differ in slow ACLs support:
5372
5373 * cache: Checked before Squid makes a hit/miss determination.
5374 No access to reply information!
5375 Denies both serving a hit and storing a miss.
5376 Supports both fast and slow ACLs.
5377 * send_hit: Checked after a hit was detected.
5378 Has access to reply (hit) information.
5379 Denies serving a hit only.
5380 Supports fast ACLs only.
5381 * store_miss: Checked before storing a cachable miss.
5382 Has access to reply (miss) information.
5383 Denies storing a miss only.
5384 Supports fast ACLs only.
5385
5386 If you are not sure which of the three directives to use, apply the
5387 following decision logic:
5388
5389 * If your ACL(s) are of slow type _and_ need response info, redesign.
5390 Squid does not support that particular combination at this time.
5391 Otherwise:
5392 * If your directive ACL(s) are of slow type, use "cache"; and/or
5393 * if your directive ACL(s) need no response info, use "cache".
5394 Otherwise:
5395 * If you do not want the response cached, use store_miss; and/or
5396 * if you do not want a hit on a cached response, use send_hit.
5397DOC_END
5398
5399NAME: send_hit
5400TYPE: acl_access
5401DEFAULT: none
5402DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5403LOC: Config.accessList.sendHit
5404DOC_START
5405 Responses denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5406 (but may still be cached, see store_miss). This directive has no
5407 effect on the responses it allows and on the cached objects.
5408
5409 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5410 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives.
5411
5412 Unlike the "cache" directive, send_hit only supports fast acl
5413 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5414
5415 For example:
5416
5417 # apply custom Store ID mapping to some URLs
5418 acl MapMe dstdomain .c.example.com
5419 store_id_program ...
5420 store_id_access allow MapMe
5421
5422 # but prevent caching of special responses
5423 # such as 302 redirects that cause StoreID loops
5424 acl Ordinary http_status 200-299
5425 store_miss deny MapMe !Ordinary
5426
5427 # and do not serve any previously stored special responses
5428 # from the cache (in case they were already cached before
5429 # the above store_miss rule was in effect).
5430 send_hit deny MapMe !Ordinary
5431DOC_END
5432
5433NAME: store_miss
5434TYPE: acl_access
5435DEFAULT: none
5436DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5437LOC: Config.accessList.storeMiss
5438DOC_START
5439 Responses denied by this directive will not be cached (but may still
5440 be served from the cache, see send_hit). This directive has no
5441 effect on the responses it allows and on the already cached responses.
5442
5443 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5444 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives. See the
5445 send_hit directive for a usage example.
5446
5447 Unlike the "cache" directive, store_miss only supports fast acl
5448 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5449DOC_END
5450
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5451NAME: max_stale
5452COMMENT: time-units
5453TYPE: time_t
5454LOC: Config.maxStale
5455DEFAULT: 1 week
5456DOC_START
5457 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
5458 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
5459 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
5460DOC_END
5461
41bd17a4 5462NAME: refresh_pattern
5463TYPE: refreshpattern
5464LOC: Config.Refresh
5465DEFAULT: none
5466DOC_START
5467 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 5468
6b698a21 5469 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
5470 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 5471
41bd17a4 5472 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
5473 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
5474 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
5475 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
5476 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 5477
41bd17a4 5478 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
5479 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
5480 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 5481
41bd17a4 5482 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
5483 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 5484
41bd17a4 5485 options: override-expire
5486 override-lastmod
5487 reload-into-ims
5488 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 5489 ignore-no-store
5490 ignore-private
570d3f75 5491 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 5492 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 5493 store-stale
a0ec9f68 5494
41bd17a4 5495 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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5496 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
5497 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
5498 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5499 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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5501 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
5502 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
5503 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
5504 the object fresh for that period of time.
5505
41bd17a4 5506 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
5507 that were modified recently.
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5509 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
5510 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
5511 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
5512 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
5513 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5514 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 5515
41bd17a4 5516 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
5517 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5518 this feature could make you liable for problems which
5519 it causes.
9bc73deb 5520
41bd17a4 5521 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
5522 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5523 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5524 liable for problems which it causes.
5525
5526 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
5527 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5528 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5529 liable for problems which it causes.
5530
41bd17a4 5531 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
5532 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
5533 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
5534 if one is available.
5535
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5536 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
5537 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
5538 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
5539 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
5540 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
5541
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5542 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
5543 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
5544 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
5545
41bd17a4 5546 Basically a cached object is:
5547
fb41bbb2 5548 FRESH if expire > now, else STALE
41bd17a4 5549 STALE if age > max
5550 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
5551 FRESH if age < min
5552 else STALE
5553
5554 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
5555 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
5556 match the default will be used.
5557
5558 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
5559 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
5560 used.
5561
41bd17a4 5562NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 5563
638402dd 5564#
e0855596 5565# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 5566#
41bd17a4 5567refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
5568refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 5569refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 5570refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
5571NOCOMMENT_END
5572DOC_END
5573
5574NAME: quick_abort_min
5575COMMENT: (KB)
5576TYPE: kb_int64_t
5577DEFAULT: 16 KB
5578LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
5579DOC_NONE
5580
5581NAME: quick_abort_max
5582COMMENT: (KB)
5583TYPE: kb_int64_t
5584DEFAULT: 16 KB
5585LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
5586DOC_NONE
5587
5588NAME: quick_abort_pct
5589COMMENT: (percent)
5590TYPE: int
5591DEFAULT: 95
5592LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
5593DOC_START
5594 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
5595 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
5596 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
5597 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
5598 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
5599 downloads.
5600
5601 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2d4eefd9 5602 quick_abort values to the amount of data transferred until
41bd17a4 5603 then.
5604
5605 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
5606 it will finish the retrieval.
5607
5608 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
5609 it will abort the retrieval.
5610
5611 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
5612 it will finish the retrieval.
5613
5614 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
5615 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
5616 to '0 KB'.
5617
5618 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
5619 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
5620DOC_END
60d096f4 5621
41bd17a4 5622NAME: read_ahead_gap
5623COMMENT: buffer-size
5624TYPE: b_int64_t
5625LOC: Config.readAheadGap
5626DEFAULT: 16 KB
5627DOC_START
5628 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
5629 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
5630DOC_END
53e738c6 5631
41bd17a4 5632NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 5633IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5634COMMENT: time-units
5635TYPE: time_t
5636LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 5637DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 5638DOC_START
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5639 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
5640 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
5641 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
5642 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
5643 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
5644 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
5645
5646 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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5647
5648 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5649 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5650 causes.
41bd17a4 5651DOC_END
53e738c6 5652
41bd17a4 5653NAME: positive_dns_ttl
5654COMMENT: time-units
5655TYPE: time_t
5656LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
5657DEFAULT: 6 hours
5658DOC_START
5659 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
5660 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
5661 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
5662DOC_END
c4ab8329 5663
41bd17a4 5664NAME: negative_dns_ttl
5665COMMENT: time-units
5666TYPE: time_t
5667LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
5668DEFAULT: 1 minutes
5669DOC_START
5670 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
5671 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
5672 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
5673 much below 10 seconds.
5674DOC_END
7df0bfd7 5675
41bd17a4 5676NAME: range_offset_limit
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5677COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
5678TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 5679LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 5680DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5681DOC_START
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5682 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
5683
5684 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
5685 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
5686 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
5687 the result is NOT cached.
5688
41bd17a4 5689 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
5690 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
5691 sending anything to the client.
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5692
5693 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
5694 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
5695 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
5696 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
5697
5698 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
5699
5700 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
5701 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
5702
5703 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 5704 client requested. (default)
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5705
5706 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 5707 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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5708
5709 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
5710
5711 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
5712 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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5713 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
5714 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 5715DOC_END
d95b862f 5716
41bd17a4 5717NAME: minimum_expiry_time
5718COMMENT: (seconds)
5719TYPE: time_t
5720LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
5721DEFAULT: 60 seconds
5722DOC_START
5723 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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5724 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
5725 The default is 60 seconds.
5726
5727 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
5728 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
5729 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
5730
5731 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
5732 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 5733DOC_END
c68e9c6b 5734
41bd17a4 5735NAME: store_avg_object_size
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5736COMMENT: (bytes)
5737TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 5738DEFAULT: 13 KB
5739LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
5740DOC_START
5741 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
5742 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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5743
5744 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
5745 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
5746 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
5747 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
5748
5749 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
5750 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 5751DOC_END
5752
41bd17a4 5753NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
5754TYPE: int
5755DEFAULT: 20
5756LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
5757DOC_START
5758 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
5759 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
5760 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
5761DOC_END
5762
5763COMMENT_START
5764 HTTP OPTIONS
5765 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5766COMMENT_END
5767
f04b37d8 5768NAME: request_header_max_size
5769COMMENT: (KB)
5770TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5771DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5772LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
5773DOC_START
5774 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
5775 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5776 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
5777 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5778 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5779DOC_END
5780
5781NAME: reply_header_max_size
5782COMMENT: (KB)
5783TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5784DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5785LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
5786DOC_START
5787 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
5788 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5789 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
5790 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5791 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5792DOC_END
5793
5794NAME: request_body_max_size
5795COMMENT: (bytes)
5796TYPE: b_int64_t
5797DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 5798DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 5799LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
5800DOC_START
5801 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
5802 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
5803 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
5804 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
5805 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
5806 be no limit imposed.
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5807
5808 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
5809 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 5810DOC_END
5811
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5812NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
5813COMMENT: (bytes)
5814TYPE: b_size_t
5815DEFAULT: 512 KB
5816LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
5817DOC_START
5818 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
5819 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
5820 a large file.
5821DOC_END
5822
41bd17a4 5823NAME: broken_posts
626096be 5824IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 5825TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 5826DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5827DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 5828LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 5829DOC_START
41bd17a4 5830 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
5831 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 5832
41bd17a4 5833 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
5834 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 5835
41bd17a4 5836 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 5837
41bd17a4 5838 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
5839 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
5840 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
5841 a request with an extra CRLF.
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b3567eb5
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5843 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5844 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5845
41bd17a4 5846Example:
5847 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
5848 broken_posts allow buggy_server
5849DOC_END
cccac0a2 5850
22fff3bf 5851NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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5852COMMENT: on|off
5853TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 5854IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 5855DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 5856LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 5857DOC_START
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5858 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
5859 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
5860
5861 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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5862DOC_END
5863
41bd17a4 5864NAME: via
626096be 5865IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5866COMMENT: on|off
5867TYPE: onoff
5868DEFAULT: on
5869LOC: Config.onoff.via
5870DOC_START
5871 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
5872 replies as required by RFC2616.
5873DOC_END
4cc6eb12 5874
41bd17a4 5875NAME: ie_refresh
5876COMMENT: on|off
5877TYPE: onoff
5878LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
5879DEFAULT: off
5880DOC_START
5881 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
5882 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
5883 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
5884 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
5885 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
5886 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
5887 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
5888 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
5889 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
5890 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
5891 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
5892 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
5893 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
5894 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
5895 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
5896 force fresh content.
5897DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 5898
41bd17a4 5899NAME: vary_ignore_expire
5900COMMENT: on|off
5901TYPE: onoff
5902LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
5903DEFAULT: off
5904DOC_START
5905 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
5906 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
5907 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
5908 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
5909 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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5910
5911 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
5912 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 5913DOC_END
c4ab8329 5914
41bd17a4 5915NAME: request_entities
5916TYPE: onoff
5917LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
5918DEFAULT: off
5919DOC_START
5920 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
5921 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
5922 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 5923
41bd17a4 5924 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
5925 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
5926 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
5927 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
5928 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 5929DOC_END
6b53c392 5930
41bd17a4 5931NAME: request_header_access
626096be 5932IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5933TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5934LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5935DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5936DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5937DOC_START
41bd17a4 5938 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 5939
41bd17a4 5940 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5941 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5942 causes.
0976f8db 5943
41bd17a4 5944 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
5945 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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5946 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
5947 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
5948
5949 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
5950 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
5951 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
5952 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
5953 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5954
5955 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
5956 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
5957 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
5958
5959 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
5960 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
5961 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
5962 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
5963
5964 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
5965 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
5966 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
5967 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
5968 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
5969 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 5970
41bd17a4 5971 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5972 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 5973
41bd17a4 5974 request_header_access From deny all
5975 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 5976 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 5977
41bd17a4 5978 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5979 you should use:
5401aa8d 5980
41bd17a4 5981 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5982 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5983 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 5984 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
5985 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
5986 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 5987 request_header_access Host allow all
5988 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 5989 request_header_access Pragma allow all
5990 request_header_access Accept allow all
5991 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5992 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5993 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5994 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5995 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 5996
638402dd 5997 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 5998
638402dd 5999 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 6000DOC_END
6001
41bd17a4 6002NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 6003IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6004TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 6005LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 6006DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6007DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 6008DOC_START
41bd17a4 6009 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 6010
41bd17a4 6011 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6012 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6013 causes.
934b03fc 6014
41bd17a4 6015 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
6016 server to the client.
934b03fc 6017
41bd17a4 6018 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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6019 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
6020 documentation.
cccac0a2 6021
41bd17a4 6022 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
6023 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 6024
41bd17a4 6025 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 6026 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
6027 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 6028
41bd17a4 6029 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
6030 you should use:
cccac0a2 6031
41bd17a4 6032 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 6033 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 6034 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
6035 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
6036 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
6037 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
6038 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
6039 reply_header_access Date allow all
6040 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 6041 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
6042 reply_header_access Location allow all
6043 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 6044 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 6045 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
6046 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 6047 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 6048 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 6049 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 6050
638402dd 6051 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 6052
41bd17a4 6053 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
6054 performed).
cccac0a2 6055DOC_END
6056
75e4f2ea 6057NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 6058IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6059TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 6060LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 6061DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 6062DOC_START
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6063 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
6064 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 6065
41bd17a4 6066 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 6067 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 6068 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 6069
41bd17a4 6070 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 6071
41bd17a4 6072 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6073DOC_END
cccac0a2 6074
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6075NAME: reply_header_replace
6076IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6077TYPE: http_header_replace
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6078LOC: Config.reply_header_access
6079DEFAULT: none
6080DOC_START
6081 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
6082 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
6083
6084 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
6085 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
6086 with some fixed string.
6087
6088 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
6089
6090 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6091DOC_END
6092
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6093NAME: request_header_add
6094TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
6095LOC: Config.request_header_add
6096DEFAULT: none
6097DOC_START
6098 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
6099 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
6100
6101 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
6102 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
6103 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
6104 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
6105 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
6106
6107 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
6108 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
6109 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
6110 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
6111 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
6112 header field values are not merged.
6113
6114 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
6115 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
6116 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
6117
6118 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
6119 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
6120 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
6121 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
6122 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
6123 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
6124 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
6125 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
6126
6127 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
6128 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
6129 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
6130 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
6131 only.
6132DOC_END
6133
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6134NAME: note
6135TYPE: note
6136LOC: Config.notes
6137DEFAULT: none
6138DOC_START
6139 This option used to log custom information about the master
6140 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
6141 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
6142 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
6143 authentication information.
6144 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
6145
6146 note key value acl ...
6147 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
6148DOC_END
6149
41bd17a4 6150NAME: relaxed_header_parser
6151COMMENT: on|off|warn
6152TYPE: tristate
6153LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
6154DEFAULT: on
6155DOC_START
6156 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
6157 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
6158 what the sending application intended even if the message
6159 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
6160 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 6161
41bd17a4 6162 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
6163 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 6164
41bd17a4 6165 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
6166 or response to be rejected.
6167DOC_END
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6169NAME: collapsed_forwarding
6170COMMENT: (on|off)
6171TYPE: onoff
6172LOC: Config.onoff.collapsed_forwarding
6173DEFAULT: off
6174DOC_START
6175 This option controls whether Squid is allowed to merge multiple
6176 potentially cachable requests for the same URI before Squid knows
6177 whether the response is going to be cachable.
6178
6179 This feature is disabled by default: Enabling collapsed forwarding
6180 needlessly delays forwarding requests that look cachable (when they are
6181 collapsed) but then need to be forwarded individually anyway because
6182 they end up being for uncachable content. However, in some cases, such
6183 as accelleration of highly cachable content with periodic or groupped
6184 expiration times, the gains from collapsing [large volumes of
6185 simultenous refresh requests] outweigh losses from such delays.
6186DOC_END
6187
41bd17a4 6188COMMENT_START
6189 TIMEOUTS
6190 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6191COMMENT_END
6192
6193NAME: forward_timeout
6194COMMENT: time-units
6195TYPE: time_t
6196LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
6197DEFAULT: 4 minutes
6198DOC_START
6199 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
6200 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 6201DOC_END
6202
41bd17a4 6203NAME: connect_timeout
6204COMMENT: time-units
6205TYPE: time_t
6206LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
6207DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 6208DOC_START
41bd17a4 6209 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6210 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
6211 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 6212DOC_END
6213
41bd17a4 6214NAME: peer_connect_timeout
6215COMMENT: time-units
6216TYPE: time_t
6217LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
6218DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 6219DOC_START
41bd17a4 6220 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
6221 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
6222 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
6223 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
6224DOC_END
7f7db318 6225
41bd17a4 6226NAME: read_timeout
6227COMMENT: time-units
6228TYPE: time_t
6229LOC: Config.Timeout.read
6230DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6231DOC_START
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6232 Applied on peer server connections.
6233
6234 After each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
41bd17a4 6235 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
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6236 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT.
6237
6238 The default is 15 minutes.
41bd17a4 6239DOC_END
cccac0a2 6240
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6241NAME: write_timeout
6242COMMENT: time-units
6243TYPE: time_t
6244LOC: Config.Timeout.write
6245DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6246DOC_START
6247 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
6248 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
6249 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
6250 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
6251 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
6252 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
6253 default is 15 minutes.
6254DOC_END
6255
41bd17a4 6256NAME: request_timeout
6257TYPE: time_t
6258LOC: Config.Timeout.request
6259DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6260DOC_START
6b2a2108 6261 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 6262 connection establishment.
6263DOC_END
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6265NAME: request_start_timeout
6266TYPE: time_t
6267LOC: Config.Timeout.request_start_timeout
6268DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6269DOC_START
6270 How long to wait for the first request byte after initial
6271 connection establishment.
6272DOC_END
6273
97b32442 6274NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 6275TYPE: time_t
97b32442 6276LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 6277DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6278DOC_START
6279 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 6280 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 6281DOC_END
cccac0a2 6282
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6283NAME: ftp_client_idle_timeout
6284TYPE: time_t
6285LOC: Config.Timeout.ftpClientIdle
6286DEFAULT: 30 minutes
6287DOC_START
6288 How long to wait for an FTP request on a connection to Squid ftp_port.
6289 Many FTP clients do not deal with idle connection closures well,
6290 necessitating a longer default timeout than client_idle_pconn_timeout
6291 used for incoming HTTP requests.
6292DOC_END
6293
41bd17a4 6294NAME: client_lifetime
6295COMMENT: time-units
6296TYPE: time_t
6297LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
6298DEFAULT: 1 day
6299DOC_START
6300 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6301 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
6302 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
6303 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
6304 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
6305 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
6306 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 6307
41bd17a4 6308 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
6309 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
6310 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
6311 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
6312 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
6313 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 6314DOC_END
6315
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6316NAME: pconn_lifetime
6317COMMENT: time-units
6318TYPE: time_t
6319LOC: Config.Timeout.pconnLifetime
6320DEFAULT: 0 seconds
6321DOC_START
6322 Desired maximum lifetime of a persistent connection.
6323 When set, Squid will close a now-idle persistent connection that
6324 exceeded configured lifetime instead of moving the connection into
6325 the idle connection pool (or equivalent). No effect on ongoing/active
6326 transactions. Connection lifetime is the time period from the
6327 connection acceptance or opening time until "now".
6328
6329 This limit is useful in environments with long-lived connections
6330 where Squid configuration or environmental factors change during a
6331 single connection lifetime. If unrestricted, some connections may
6332 last for hours and even days, ignoring those changes that should
6333 have affected their behavior or their existence.
6334
6335 Currently, a new lifetime value supplied via Squid reconfiguration
6336 has no effect on already idle connections unless they become busy.
6337
6338 When set to '0' this limit is not used.
6339DOC_END
6340
41bd17a4 6341NAME: half_closed_clients
6342TYPE: onoff
6343LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 6344DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 6345DOC_START
41bd17a4 6346 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
6347 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
6348 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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6349 fully-closed TCP connection.
6350
6351 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
6352 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
6353
abdf1651 6354 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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6355 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
6356 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
6357 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 6358DOC_END
6359
97b32442 6360NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 6361TYPE: time_t
97b32442 6362LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 6363DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 6364DOC_START
41bd17a4 6365 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
6366 proxies.
6367DOC_END
cccac0a2 6368
41bd17a4 6369NAME: ident_timeout
6370TYPE: time_t
6371IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 6372LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 6373DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6374DOC_START
6375 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 6376
41bd17a4 6377 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
6378 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6379 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 6380DOC_END
6381
41bd17a4 6382NAME: shutdown_lifetime
6383COMMENT: time-units
6384TYPE: time_t
6385LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
6386DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 6387DOC_START
41bd17a4 6388 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
6389 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
6390 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
6391 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
6392 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 6393DOC_END
0976f8db 6394
cccac0a2 6395COMMENT_START
6396 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
6397 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6398COMMENT_END
6399
6400NAME: cache_mgr
6401TYPE: string
6402DEFAULT: webmaster
6403LOC: Config.adminEmail
6404DOC_START
6405 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 6406 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 6407DOC_END
6408
abacf776 6409NAME: mail_from
6410TYPE: string
6411DEFAULT: none
6412LOC: Config.EmailFrom
6413DOC_START
6414 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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6415 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
6416
6417 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 6418DOC_END
6419
d084bf20 6420NAME: mail_program
6421TYPE: eol
6422DEFAULT: mail
6423LOC: Config.EmailProgram
6424DOC_START
6425 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 6426 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 6427 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 6428 mail-program recipient < mailfile
6429
d084bf20 6430 Optional command line options can be specified.
6431DOC_END
6432
cccac0a2 6433NAME: cache_effective_user
6434TYPE: string
5483d916 6435DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 6436LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 6437DOC_START
6438 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
6439 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 6440 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 6441 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 6442DOC_END
6443
cccac0a2 6444NAME: cache_effective_group
6445TYPE: string
6446DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6447DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 6448LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
6449DOC_START
64e288bd 6450 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
6451 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
6452 from the groups membership.
6453
e3d74828 6454 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
6455 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
6456 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 6457 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 6458 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 6459 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 6460 group.
64e288bd 6461
6462 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
6463 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
6464 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 6465DOC_END
6466
d3caee79 6467NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
6468COMMENT: on|off
6469TYPE: onoff
6470DEFAULT: off
6471LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
6472DOC_START
6473 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
6474DOC_END
6475
cccac0a2 6476NAME: visible_hostname
6477TYPE: string
6478LOC: Config.visibleHostname
6479DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6480DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 6481DOC_START
6482 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 6483 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 6484 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
6485 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
6486 names with this setting.
6487DOC_END
6488
cccac0a2 6489NAME: unique_hostname
6490TYPE: string
6491LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
6492DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6493DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 6494DOC_START
6495 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 6496 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
6497 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 6498DOC_END
6499
cccac0a2 6500NAME: hostname_aliases
6501TYPE: wordlist
6502LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
6503DEFAULT: none
6504DOC_START
7f7db318 6505 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 6506DOC_END
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6508NAME: umask
6509TYPE: int
6510LOC: Config.umask
6511DEFAULT: 027
6512DOC_START
6513 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
6514 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
6515
6516 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
6517 your value with 0.
6518DOC_END
6519
cccac0a2 6520COMMENT_START
6521 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
6522 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6523
6524 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
6525 announcement service. This service is provided to help
6526 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
6527 create cache hierarchies.
6528
6529 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
6530 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
6531 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
6532
6533 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
6534 following information from this configuration file:
6535
6536 http_port
6537 icp_port
6538 cache_mgr
6539
6540 All current information is processed regularly and made
6541 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
6542COMMENT_END
6543
6544NAME: announce_period
6545TYPE: time_t
6546LOC: Config.Announce.period
6547DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6548DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 6549DOC_START
638402dd 6550 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 6551
e0855596 6552 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 6553
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6554 Example:
6555 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 6556DOC_END
6557
cccac0a2 6558NAME: announce_host
6559TYPE: string
6560DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
6561LOC: Config.Announce.host
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6562DOC_START
6563 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
6564
6565 See also announce_port and announce_file
6566DOC_END
cccac0a2 6567
6568NAME: announce_file
6569TYPE: string
6570DEFAULT: none
6571LOC: Config.Announce.file
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6572DOC_START
6573 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
6574 registration messages.
6575DOC_END
cccac0a2 6576
6577NAME: announce_port
ae870270 6578TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 6579DEFAULT: 3131
6580LOC: Config.Announce.port
6581DOC_START
638402dd 6582 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 6583
638402dd 6584 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 6585DOC_END
6586
8d6275c0 6587COMMENT_START
6588 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
6589 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6590COMMENT_END
6591
cccac0a2 6592NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6593TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 6594DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6595DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 6596LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6597DOC_START
6598 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
6599 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
6600 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
6601 an identification token.
6602DOC_END
6603
6604NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 6605COMMENT: on|off
6606TYPE: onoff
6607DEFAULT: off
6608LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
6609DOC_START
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6610 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
6611 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
6612
cccac0a2 6613 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
6614DOC_END
6615
6616NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 6617IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 6618COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 6619TYPE: string
6620LOC: ESIParser::Type
6621DEFAULT: custom
6622DOC_START
6623 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
6624 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
6625 encodings.
6626DOC_END
0976f8db 6627
9edd9041 6628COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6629 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 6630 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6631COMMENT_END
6632
6633NAME: delay_pools
6634TYPE: delay_pool_count
6635DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6636IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6637LOC: Config.Delay
6638DOC_START
6639 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
6640 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
6641 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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6642
6643 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
6644 configuration details.
9edd9041 6645DOC_END
6646
6647NAME: delay_class
6648TYPE: delay_pool_class
6649DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6650IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6651LOC: Config.Delay
6652DOC_START
6653 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
6654 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
6655 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
6656 and here would be:
6657
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6658 Example:
6659 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
6660 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
6661 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
6662 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
6663 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 6664
6665 The delay pool classes are:
6666
6667 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6668 bucket.
6669
6670 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6671 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 6672 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6673
6674 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6675 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
6676 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
6677 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 6678 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6679
6680 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
6681 additional limit on a per user basis. This
6682 only takes effect if the username is established
6683 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
6684 http_access rules.
6685
6686 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
6687 external_acl's tag= reply).
6688
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6689
6690 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
6691 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
6692 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
6693
9edd9041 6694 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
6695 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
6696 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
6697 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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6698
6699 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
6700 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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6701
6702 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6703 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6704
6705 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 6706DOC_END
6707
6708NAME: delay_access
6709TYPE: delay_pool_access
6710DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6711DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6712IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6713LOC: Config.Delay
6714DOC_START
6715 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
6716
6717 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
6718 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
6719 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
6720 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
6721
6722 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
6723 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
6724
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6725 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
6726 delay_access 1 deny all
6727 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
6728 delay_access 2 deny all
6729 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
6730
6731 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
6732
9edd9041 6733DOC_END
6734
6735NAME: delay_parameters
6736TYPE: delay_pool_rates
6737DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6738IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6739LOC: Config.Delay
6740DOC_START
6741 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
6742 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 6743 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 6744
0b68481a 6745 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6e7502cc 6746 delay_class pool 1
0b68481a 6747 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 6748
6749 For a class 2 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6750 delay_class pool 2
0b68481a 6751 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 6752
6753 For a class 3 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6754 delay_class pool 3
0b68481a 6755 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 6756
6757 For a class 4 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6758 delay_class pool 4
0b68481a 6759 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 6760
6761 For a class 5 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6762 delay_class pool 5
0b68481a 6763 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 6764
0b68481a 6765 The option variables are:
9edd9041 6766
6767 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
6768 number specified in delay_pools as used in
6769 delay_class lines.
6770
fdb47ac6 6771 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 6772 (class 1, 2, 3).
6773
fdb47ac6 6774 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 6775 buckets (class 2, 3).
6776
fdb47ac6 6777 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 6778 (class 3).
6779
fdb47ac6 6780 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 6781 (class 4).
6782
fdb47ac6 6783 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 6784 (class 5).
6785
6786 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
6787 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
6788 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
6789 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
6790
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6791 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
6792
6793
9edd9041 6794 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 6795 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 6796 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
6797
6e7502cc 6798 delay_parameters 1 none 8000/8000
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6799
6800 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 6801
6e7502cc 6802 Note that the word 'none' is used to represent no limit.
9edd9041 6803
0b68481a 6804
9edd9041 6805 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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6806 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
6807 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
6808 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 6809 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
6810 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
6811 large downloads more significantly:
6812
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6813 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
6814
6815 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
6816 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
6817 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 6818
9edd9041 6819
6820 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 6821 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 6822
0b68481a 6823 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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6824
6825
6826 See also delay_class and delay_access.
6827
9edd9041 6828DOC_END
6829
6830NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
6831COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 6832TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 6833DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6834IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6835LOC: Config.Delay.initial
6836DOC_START
6837 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
6838 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
6839 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
6840 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
6841 "seen" by squid).
6842DOC_END
6843
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6844COMMENT_START
6845 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
6846 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6847COMMENT_END
6848
6849NAME: client_delay_pools
6850TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
6851DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6852IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6853LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6854DOC_START
6855 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
6856 preceed other client_delay_* options.
6857
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6858 Example:
6859 client_delay_pools 2
6860
6861 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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6862DOC_END
6863
6864NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
6865COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 6866TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 6867DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6868IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6869LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
6870DOC_START
6871 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
6872 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
6873 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
6874 buckets are periodically deleted up.
6875
6876 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
6877 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
6878 from client_delay_parameters.
6879
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6880 Example:
6881 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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6882DOC_END
6883
6884NAME: client_delay_parameters
6885TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
6886DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6887IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6888LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6889DOC_START
6890
6891 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
6892 following format:
6893
6894 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
6895
6896 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
6897
6898 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
6899
6900 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
6901 speed_limit additions.
6902
6903 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
6904 examples.
6905
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6906 Example:
6907 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
6908 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
6909
6910 See also client_delay_access.
6911
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6912DOC_END
6913
6914NAME: client_delay_access
6915TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
6916DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6917DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6918IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6919LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6920DOC_START
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6921 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
6922 request:
6923
6924 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
6925
6926 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
6927 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
6928 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
6929 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
6930 limited.
6931
6932 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
6933 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
6934 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
6935 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
6936
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6937 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6938 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6939 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
6940 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
6941
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6942 Please see delay_access for more examples.
6943
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6944 Example:
6945 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
6946 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
6947
6948
6949 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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6950DOC_END
6951
cccac0a2 6952COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6953 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 6954 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6955COMMENT_END
6956
8d6275c0 6957NAME: wccp_router
6958TYPE: address
6959LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 6960DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6961DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 6962IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6963DOC_START
6964 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6965 Squid.
6966
6967 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
6968
6969 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
6970
6971 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6972 which version of WCCP to use.
6973DOC_END
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8d6275c0 6975NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 6976TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 6977LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 6978DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6979DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 6980IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6981DOC_START
8d6275c0 6982 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6983 Squid.
cccac0a2 6984
8d6275c0 6985 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 6986
8d6275c0 6987 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 6988
8d6275c0 6989 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6990 which version of WCCP to use.
6991DOC_END
6992
6993NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 6994TYPE: int
8d6275c0 6995LOC: Config.Wccp.version
6996DEFAULT: 4
6997IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 6998DOC_START
8d6275c0 6999 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
7000 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
7001 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
7002 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
7003 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 7004
8d6275c0 7005 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
7006 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
7007 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
7008 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 7009DOC_END
7010
8d6275c0 7011NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
7012TYPE: onoff
7013LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
7014DEFAULT: on
7015IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7016DOC_START
7017 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
7018 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
7019DOC_END
cccac0a2 7020
8d6275c0 7021NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 7022TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 7023LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 7024DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7025IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7026DOC_START
699acd19 7027 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 7028 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7029
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7030 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7031 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7032
8d6275c0 7033 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7034 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 7035DOC_END
7036
8d6275c0 7037NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 7038TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 7039LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 7040DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7041IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7042DOC_START
699acd19 7043 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 7044 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
7045 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7046
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7047 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7048 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7049
8d6275c0 7050 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7051 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 7052
699acd19 7053 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 7054 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
7055 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
7056 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 7057DOC_END
7058
8d6275c0 7059NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 7060TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 7061LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 7062DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 7063IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7064DOC_START
8d6275c0 7065 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
7066 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7067
451c4786 7068 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 7069 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 7070
8d6275c0 7071 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
7072 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
7073DOC_END
cccac0a2 7074
8d6275c0 7075NAME: wccp2_service
7076TYPE: wccp2_service
7077LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 7078DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 7079DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 7080IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7081DOC_START
7082 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
7083 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
7084 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
7085 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
7086 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
7087 using the wccp2_service_info option.
7088
7089 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
7090 just specifying the service id will suffice.
7091
7092 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
7093 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
7094
7095 Examples:
7096
7097 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
7098 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
7099 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
7100 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 7101DOC_END
7102
7103NAME: wccp2_service_info
7104TYPE: wccp2_service_info
7105LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
7106DEFAULT: none
7107IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7108DOC_START
7109 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
7110 traffic you wish to have diverted.
7111
7112 The format is:
7113
7114 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
7115 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
7116
7117 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
7118 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 7119 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 7120 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
7121 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
7122 + ports_source
7123
7124 The port list can be one to eight entries.
7125
7126 Example:
7127
7128 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
7129 priority=240 ports=80
7130
7131 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
7132 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
7133DOC_END
7134
7135NAME: wccp2_weight
7136TYPE: int
7137LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
7138DEFAULT: 10000
7139IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7140DOC_START
7141 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
7142 hash proportional to their weight.
7143DOC_END
7144
7145NAME: wccp_address
7146TYPE: address
7147LOC: Config.Wccp.address
7148DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7149DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7150IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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7151DOC_START
7152 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
7153 interface address.
7154
7155 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7156DOC_END
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8d6275c0 7158NAME: wccp2_address
7159TYPE: address
7160LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
7161DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7162DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7163IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7164DOC_START
7165 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
7166 interface address.
7167
7168 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7169DOC_END
7170
7171COMMENT_START
7172 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
7173 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7174
7175 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
7176COMMENT_END
7177
7178NAME: client_persistent_connections
7179TYPE: onoff
7180LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
7181DEFAULT: on
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7182DOC_START
7183 Persistent connection support for clients.
7184 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7185 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
7186DOC_END
8d6275c0 7187
7188NAME: server_persistent_connections
7189TYPE: onoff
7190LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
7191DEFAULT: on
7192DOC_START
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7193 Persistent connection support for servers.
7194 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7195 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 7196DOC_END
7197
7198NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
7199TYPE: onoff
7200LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 7201DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 7202DOC_START
7203 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
7204 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
7205 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
7206DOC_END
7207
7208NAME: detect_broken_pconn
7209TYPE: onoff
7210LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
7211DEFAULT: off
7212DOC_START
7213 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
7214 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
7215 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
7216 has mostly been seen on redirects.
7217
7218 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
7219 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
7220 after 10 seconds timeout.
7221DOC_END
7222
7223COMMENT_START
7224 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
7225 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7226COMMENT_END
7227
7228NAME: digest_generation
7229IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7230TYPE: onoff
7231LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
7232DEFAULT: on
7233DOC_START
7234 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
7235 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 7236 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 7237DOC_END
7238
7239NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
7240IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7241TYPE: int
7242LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
7243DEFAULT: 5
7244DOC_START
7245 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
7246 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
7247 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
7248DOC_END
7249
7250NAME: digest_rebuild_period
7251IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7252COMMENT: (seconds)
7253TYPE: time_t
7254LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
7255DEFAULT: 1 hour
7256DOC_START
749ceff8 7257 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 7258DOC_END
7259
7260NAME: digest_rewrite_period
7261COMMENT: (seconds)
7262IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7263TYPE: time_t
7264LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
7265DEFAULT: 1 hour
7266DOC_START
749ceff8 7267 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 7268 disk.
7269DOC_END
7270
7271NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
7272COMMENT: (bytes)
7273TYPE: b_size_t
7274IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7275LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
7276DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
7277DOC_START
7278 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
7279 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
7280 default swap page.
7281DOC_END
7282
7283NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
7284COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
7285IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7286TYPE: int
7287LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
7288DEFAULT: 10
7289DOC_START
7290 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
7291 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
7292DOC_END
7293
1db9eacd 7294COMMENT_START
5473c134 7295 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 7296 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7297COMMENT_END
7298
5473c134 7299NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 7300TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7301LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 7302DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7303DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 7304IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 7305DOC_START
87630341 7306 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
7307 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
7308 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
7309 set to "0" (disabled)
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7310
7311 Example:
7312 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 7313DOC_END
7314
5473c134 7315NAME: snmp_access
7316TYPE: acl_access
7317LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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7318DEFAULT: none
7319DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 7320IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 7321DOC_START
5473c134 7322 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 7323
5473c134 7324 All access to the agent is denied by default.
7325 usage:
8d6275c0 7326
5473c134 7327 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 7328
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7329 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7330 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 7331
5473c134 7332Example:
7333 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
7334 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 7335DOC_END
7336
5473c134 7337NAME: snmp_incoming_address
7338TYPE: address
7339LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 7340DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7341DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 7342IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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7343DOC_START
7344 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
7345
7346 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
7347 messages from SNMP agents.
7348
7349 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
7350 available network interfaces.
7351DOC_END
df2eec10 7352
5473c134 7353NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
7354TYPE: address
7355LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 7356DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7357DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 7358IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 7359DOC_START
638402dd 7360 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 7361
5473c134 7362 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
7363 agents.
cccac0a2 7364
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7365 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
7366 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
7367 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
7368 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 7369
5473c134 7370 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 7371 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7372DOC_END
7373
5473c134 7374COMMENT_START
7375 ICP OPTIONS
7376 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7377COMMENT_END
7378
7379NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 7380TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7381DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7382DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 7383LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 7384DOC_START
5473c134 7385 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
7386 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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7387
7388 Example:
7389 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 7390DOC_END
7391
5473c134 7392NAME: htcp_port
7393IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 7394TYPE: u_short
87630341 7395DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7396DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 7397LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 7398DOC_START
5473c134 7399 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 7400 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 7401 4827.
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7402
7403 Example:
7404 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 7405DOC_END
7406
7407NAME: log_icp_queries
7408COMMENT: on|off
7409TYPE: onoff
7410DEFAULT: on
7411LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
7412DOC_START
7413 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
7414 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
7415 up or to simplify log analysis.
7416DOC_END
7417
5473c134 7418NAME: udp_incoming_address
7419TYPE: address
7420LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 7421DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7422DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 7423DOC_START
7424 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
7425 caches.
7426
7427 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7428
7429 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
7430 a specific interface/address.
7431
7432 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7433 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7434
7435 see also; udp_outgoing_address
7436
7437 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
7438 have the same value since they both use the same port.
7439DOC_END
cccac0a2 7440
5473c134 7441NAME: udp_outgoing_address
7442TYPE: address
7443LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 7444DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7445DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 7446DOC_START
8524d4b2 7447 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 7448 caches.
cccac0a2 7449
5473c134 7450 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 7451
8524d4b2 7452 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
7453 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
7454 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 7455 caches.
7456
8524d4b2 7457 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7458 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7459
7460 see also; udp_incoming_address
7461
5473c134 7462 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 7463 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7464DOC_END
7465
3d1e3e43 7466NAME: icp_hit_stale
7467COMMENT: on|off
7468TYPE: onoff
7469DEFAULT: off
7470LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
7471DOC_START
7472 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
7473 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
7474 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7475 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
7476 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7477 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
7478 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
7479DOC_END
7480
5473c134 7481NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 7482TYPE: int
5473c134 7483DEFAULT: 4
7484LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 7485DOC_START
5473c134 7486 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7487 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 7488DOC_END
7489
5473c134 7490NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 7491COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 7492TYPE: int
7493DEFAULT: 400
7494LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 7495DOC_START
5473c134 7496 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7497 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 7498DOC_END
7499
cccac0a2 7500NAME: netdb_low
7501TYPE: int
7502DEFAULT: 900
7503LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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7504DOC_START
7505 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7506
7507 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
7508
7509 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7510 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7511 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7512 mark is reached.
7513DOC_END
cccac0a2 7514
7515NAME: netdb_high
7516TYPE: int
7517DEFAULT: 1000
7518LOC: Config.Netdb.high
7519DOC_START
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7520 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7521
7522 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
7523
7524 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7525 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7526 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7527 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 7528DOC_END
7529
cccac0a2 7530NAME: netdb_ping_period
7531TYPE: time_t
7532LOC: Config.Netdb.period
7533DEFAULT: 5 minutes
7534DOC_START
7535 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
7536 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
7537 network. The default is five minutes.
7538DOC_END
7539
cccac0a2 7540NAME: query_icmp
7541COMMENT: on|off
7542TYPE: onoff
7543DEFAULT: off
7544LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
7545DOC_START
7546 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
7547 replies, enable this option.
7548
7549 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 7550 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
7551 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 7552 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
7553 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
7554 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
7555 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
7556 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
7557DOC_END
7558
7559NAME: test_reachability
7560COMMENT: on|off
7561TYPE: onoff
7562DEFAULT: off
7563LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
7564DOC_START
7565 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
7566 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
7567 database, or has a zero RTT.
7568DOC_END
7569
5473c134 7570NAME: icp_query_timeout
7571COMMENT: (msec)
7572DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7573DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 7574TYPE: int
7575LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 7576DOC_START
5473c134 7577 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
7578 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
7579 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
7580 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
7581 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
7582 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 7583
5473c134 7584 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 7585DOC_END
7586
5473c134 7587NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
7588COMMENT: (msec)
7589DEFAULT: 2000
7590TYPE: int
7591LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 7592DOC_START
5473c134 7593 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7594 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
7595 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
7596 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7597 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7598 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7599DOC_END
7600
5473c134 7601NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
7602COMMENT: (msec)
7603DEFAULT: 5
7604TYPE: int
7605LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 7606DOC_START
5473c134 7607 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7608 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
7609 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
7610 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
7611 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7612 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7613 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7614DOC_END
7615
5473c134 7616NAME: background_ping_rate
7617COMMENT: time-units
7618TYPE: time_t
7619DEFAULT: 10 seconds
7620LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 7621DOC_START
5473c134 7622 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
7623 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 7624DOC_END
7625
5473c134 7626COMMENT_START
7627 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
7628 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7629COMMENT_END
7630
7631NAME: mcast_groups
7632TYPE: wordlist
7633LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 7634DEFAULT: none
7635DOC_START
5473c134 7636 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
7637 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 7638
5473c134 7639 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
7640 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
7641 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
7642 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
7643 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
7644 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
7645 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 7646
5473c134 7647 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
7648 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 7649
5473c134 7650 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
7651 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 7652
5473c134 7653 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 7654
5473c134 7655 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
7656DOC_END
8c01ada0 7657
5473c134 7658NAME: mcast_miss_addr
7659IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7660TYPE: address
7661LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 7662DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7663DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 7664DOC_START
7665 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
7666 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 7667
5473c134 7668 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
7669 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 7670DOC_END
7671
5473c134 7672NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
7673IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7674TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7675LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
7676DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 7677DOC_START
5473c134 7678 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
7679 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
7680 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
7681DOC_END
cccac0a2 7682
5473c134 7683NAME: mcast_miss_port
7684IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7685TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7686LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
7687DEFAULT: 3135
7688DOC_START
7689 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
7690 'mcast_miss_addr'.
7691DOC_END
cccac0a2 7692
5473c134 7693NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
7694IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7695TYPE: string
7696LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
7697DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
7698DOC_START
7699 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
7700 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
7701DOC_END
8c01ada0 7702
5473c134 7703NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
7704COMMENT: (msec)
7705DEFAULT: 2000
7706TYPE: int
7707LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
7708DOC_START
7709 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
7710 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
7711 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
7712 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
7713 seconds.
cccac0a2 7714DOC_END
7715
5473c134 7716COMMENT_START
7717 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
7718 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7719COMMENT_END
7720
cccac0a2 7721NAME: icon_directory
7722TYPE: string
7723LOC: Config.icons.directory
7724DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7725DOC_START
7726 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
7727 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7728DOC_END
7729
f024c970 7730NAME: global_internal_static
7731TYPE: onoff
7732LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
7733DEFAULT: on
7734DOC_START
7735 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
7736 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
7737 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
7738 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
7739 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
7740 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
7741 the server generating a directory listing.
7742DOC_END
7743
5473c134 7744NAME: short_icon_urls
7745TYPE: onoff
7746LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
7747DEFAULT: on
7748DOC_START
7749 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
7750 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
7751 it's own name and port in the URL.
7752
7753 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7754 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
7755DOC_END
7756
7757COMMENT_START
7758 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
7759 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7760COMMENT_END
7761
7762NAME: error_directory
7763TYPE: string
7764LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 7765DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7766DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 7767DOC_START
7768 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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7769 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
7770 the error/template files to another directory and point
7771 this tag at them.
7772
7773 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
7774 on error pages if used.
5473c134 7775
7776 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7777 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 7778 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 7779 contributing your translation back to the project.
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7780 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
7781
7782 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
7783 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
7784DOC_END
7785
7786NAME: error_default_language
7787IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7788TYPE: string
7789LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
7790DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7791DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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7792DOC_START
7793 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
7794 if no existing translation matches the clients language
7795 preferences.
7796
7797 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
7798
7799 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7800 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
7801 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
7802 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 7803DOC_END
7804
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7805NAME: error_log_languages
7806IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7807TYPE: onoff
7808LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
7809DEFAULT: on
7810DOC_START
7811 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
7812 auto-negotiate for translations.
7813
7814 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
7815 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 7816 of its error page translations.
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7817DOC_END
7818
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7819NAME: err_page_stylesheet
7820TYPE: string
7821LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
7822DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
7823DOC_START
7824 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
7825
7826 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
7827DOC_END
7828
5473c134 7829NAME: err_html_text
7830TYPE: eol
7831LOC: Config.errHtmlText
7832DEFAULT: none
7833DOC_START
7834 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
7835 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
7836 organizations Web page.
7837
7838 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
7839 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
7840 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
7841 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
7842DOC_END
7843
7844NAME: email_err_data
7845COMMENT: on|off
7846TYPE: onoff
7847LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
7848DEFAULT: on
7849DOC_START
7850 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
7851 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7852 so that the email body contains the data.
7853 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
7854DOC_END
7855
7856NAME: deny_info
7857TYPE: denyinfo
7858LOC: Config.denyInfoList
7859DEFAULT: none
7860DOC_START
7861 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
7862 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 7863 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 7864
7865 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
7866 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
7867 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
7868 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
7869
7870 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
7871 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
7872 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
7873 the first authentication related acl encountered
7874 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
7875 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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7876 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
7877 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 7878
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7879 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
7880 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
7881 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 7882
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7883 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
7884 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
7885 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
7886
5473c134 7887 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
7888 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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7889
7890 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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7891 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
7892 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
7893 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
7894 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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7895
7896 URL FORMAT TAGS:
7897 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
7898 %B - FTP path URL
7899 %e - Error number
7900 %E - Error description
7901 %h - Squid hostname
7902 %H - Request domain name
7903 %i - Client IP Address
7904 %M - Request Method
7905 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
7906 %p - Request Port number
7907 %P - Request Protocol name
7908 %R - Request URL path
7909 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
7910 %U - Full canonical URL from client
7911 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
7912 %u - Full canonical URL from client
7913 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 7914 %x - Error name
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7915 %% - Literal percent (%) code
7916
5473c134 7917DOC_END
7918
7919COMMENT_START
7920 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
7921 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7922COMMENT_END
7923
7924NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7925TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7926LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7927DEFAULT: on
7928DOC_START
5473c134 7929 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
9967aef6 7930 (not cacheable request type) direct to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 7931
638402dd 7932 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 7933 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 7934
5473c134 7935 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
7936 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
7937 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 7938
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7939 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
7940 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
7941 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 7942DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 7943
5473c134 7944NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7945TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7946LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7947DEFAULT: off
7948DOC_START
5473c134 7949 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
7950 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7951 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 7952
5473c134 7953 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
7954 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
7955 fails.
7956
7957 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
7958 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
7959 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 7960DOC_END
7961
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7962NAME: cache_miss_revalidate
7963COMMENT: on|off
7964TYPE: onoff
7965DEFAULT: on
7966LOC: Config.onoff.cache_miss_revalidate
7967DOC_START
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7968 RFC 7232 defines a conditional request mechanism to prevent
7969 response objects being unnecessarily transferred over the network.
7970 If that mechanism is used by the client and a cache MISS occurs
7971 it can prevent new cache entries being created.
7972
7973 This option determines whether Squid on cache MISS will pass the
7974 client revalidation request to the server or tries to fetch new
7975 content for caching. It can be useful while the cache is mostly
7976 empty to more quickly have the cache populated by generating
7977 non-conditional GETs.
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7978
7979 When set to 'on' (default), Squid will pass all client If-* headers
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7980 to the server. This permits server responses without a cacheable
7981 payload to be delivered and on MISS no new cache entry is created.
96598f93
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7982
7983 When set to 'off' and if the request is cacheable, Squid will
7984 remove the clients If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers from
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7985 the request sent to the server. This requests a 200 status response
7986 from the server to create a new cache entry with.
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7987DOC_END
7988
5473c134 7989NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 7990TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 7991LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 7992DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7993DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 7994DOC_START
5473c134 7995 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 7996
5473c134 7997 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
7998 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
7999 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
8000 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
8001 something like:
0b0cfcf2 8002
5473c134 8003 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
8004 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 8005
5473c134 8006 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 8007
5473c134 8008 acl FTP proto FTP
8009 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 8010
5473c134 8011 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
8012 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
8013 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
8014 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
8015 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 8016
5473c134 8017 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
8018 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
8019 always_direct deny local-external
8020 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 8021
5473c134 8022 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
8023 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
8024 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
8025 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 8026
5473c134 8027 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
8028 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 8029 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 8030
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8031 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8032 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 8033DOC_END
0976f8db 8034
5473c134 8035NAME: never_direct
8036TYPE: acl_access
8037LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
8038DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8039DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 8040DOC_START
5473c134 8041 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8042
8043 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
8044 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
8045
8046 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
8047 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
8048 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
8049 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
8050
8051 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 8052 never_direct deny local-servers
8053 never_direct allow all
8054
8055 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
8056 servers inside the firewall use something like:
8057
8058 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
8059 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
8060 always_direct deny local-external
8061 always_direct allow local-intranet
8062 never_direct allow all
8063
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8064 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8065 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 8066DOC_END
0976f8db 8067
5473c134 8068COMMENT_START
8069 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
8070 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8071COMMENT_END
8072
65d448bc 8073NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 8074TYPE: int
8075DEFAULT: 6
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8076LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
8077DOC_START
8078 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8079 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8080 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8081DOC_END
cccac0a2 8082
65d448bc 8083NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 8084TYPE: int
8085DEFAULT: 4
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8086LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
8087DOC_START
8088 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8089 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8090 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8091DOC_END
cccac0a2 8092
8093NAME: incoming_dns_average
8094TYPE: int
8095DEFAULT: 4
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8096LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
8097DOC_START
8098 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8099 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8100 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8101DOC_END
cccac0a2 8102
65d448bc 8103NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8104TYPE: int
8105DEFAULT: 8
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8106LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
8107DOC_START
8108 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8109 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8110 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8111DOC_END
cccac0a2 8112
8113NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
8114TYPE: int
8115DEFAULT: 8
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8116LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
8117DOC_START
8118 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8119 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8120 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8121DOC_END
cccac0a2 8122
65d448bc 8123NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8124TYPE: int
8125DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 8126LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 8127DOC_START
5473c134 8128 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8129 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8130 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8131DOC_END
8132
8133NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 8134TYPE: string
8135DEFAULT: none
8136LOC: Config.accept_filter
8137DOC_START
0b4d4be5 8138 FreeBSD:
8139
5473c134 8140 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
8141 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
8142 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
8143
8144 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 8145 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 8146 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
8147
8148 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
8149 to Squid until there is some data to process.
8150 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
8151
8152 Linux:
8153
8154 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
8155 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
8156 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
8157 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
8158 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 8159EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 8160# FreeBSD
5473c134 8161accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 8162# Linux
8163accept_filter data
5473c134 8164DOC_END
8165
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8166NAME: client_ip_max_connections
8167TYPE: int
8168LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
8169DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 8170DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
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8171DOC_START
8172 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
8173 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
8174 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
8175
8176 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
8177 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
8178
8179 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
8180
8181 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
8182 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
8183DOC_END
8184
5473c134 8185NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
8186COMMENT: (bytes)
8187TYPE: b_size_t
8188DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 8189DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 8190LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
8191DOC_START
8192 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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8193 as easy to change your kernel's default.
8194 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 8195DOC_END
8196
8197COMMENT_START
8198 ICAP OPTIONS
8199 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8200COMMENT_END
8201
8202NAME: icap_enable
8203TYPE: onoff
8204IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8205COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8206LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 8207DEFAULT: off
8208DOC_START
53e738c6 8209 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 8210DOC_END
8211
8212NAME: icap_connect_timeout
8213TYPE: time_t
8214DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 8215LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 8216IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8217DOC_START
8218 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
8219 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
8220 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
8221
8222 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
8223 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
8224 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
8225DOC_END
8226
8227NAME: icap_io_timeout
8228COMMENT: time-units
8229TYPE: time_t
8230DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8231DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 8232LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 8233IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8234DOC_START
8235 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
8236 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
8237 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
8238 failure.
5473c134 8239DOC_END
8240
8241NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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8242COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
8243TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 8244IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 8245LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 8246DEFAULT: 10
8247DOC_START
8248 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
8249 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
8250 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
8251 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 8252 OPTIONS.
5473c134 8253
8254 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
8255 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
8256 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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8257
8258 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
8259 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
8260 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
8261 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
8262 value into ten time slots of equal length.
8263
8264 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
8265 effect on service failure expiration.
8266
8267 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
8268 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
8269 setting.
8270
8271 For example,
8272 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
8273 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 8274DOC_END
8275
5473c134 8276NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 8277TYPE: int
5473c134 8278IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8279LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 8280DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 8281DOC_START
5473c134 8282 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
8283 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
8284 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
8285 fetched.
cccac0a2 8286
5473c134 8287 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
8288 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 8289DOC_END
8290
5473c134 8291NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 8292TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8293IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8294COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8295LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 8296DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 8297DOC_START
ac7a62f9 8298 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
8299 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
8300 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
8301 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
8302
8303 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
8304 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
8305 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
8306
8307 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
8308 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
8309Example:
8310icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 8311DOC_END
8312
5473c134 8313NAME: icap_preview_size
8314TYPE: int
8315IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8316LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 8317DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 8318DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 8319DOC_START
53e738c6 8320 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 8321 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 8322DOC_END
8323
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8324NAME: icap_206_enable
8325TYPE: onoff
8326IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8327COMMENT: on|off
8328LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
8329DEFAULT: on
8330DOC_START
8331 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
8332 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
8333 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
8334 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
8335
8336 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
8337 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
8338 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
8339 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
8340 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
8341
8342 Example:
8343 icap_206_enable off
8344DOC_END
8345
5473c134 8346NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
8347TYPE: int
8348IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8349LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 8350DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 8351DOC_START
53e738c6 8352 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 8353 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 8354DOC_END
8355
5473c134 8356NAME: icap_persistent_connections
8357TYPE: onoff
8358IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8359COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8360LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 8361DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 8362DOC_START
5473c134 8363 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
8364 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 8365DOC_END
8366
22fff3bf 8367NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 8368TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 8369IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 8370COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 8371LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 8372DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8373DOC_START
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8374 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
8375 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
8376 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
8377
8378 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 8379DOC_END
8380
22fff3bf 8381NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 8382TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 8383IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 8384COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 8385LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 8386DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8387DOC_START
5473c134 8388 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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8389 the adaptation service.
8390
8391 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 8392 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
8393 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 8394DOC_END
8395
5473c134 8396NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 8397TYPE: string
5473c134 8398IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8399LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 8400DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 8401DOC_START
db49f682 8402 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 8403DOC_END
8404
5473c134 8405NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 8406TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8407IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8408COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8409LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 8410DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8411DOC_START
5473c134 8412 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 8413DOC_END
8414
5473c134 8415NAME: icap_service
8416TYPE: icap_service_type
8417IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8418LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 8419DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8420DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8421 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 8422
c25c2836 8423 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 8424
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8425 id: ID
8426 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8427 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8428 services in squid.conf.
a22e6cd3
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8429
8430 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 8431 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8432 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8433 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 8434
c25c2836 8435 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
a22e6cd3 8436 ICAP server and service location.
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8437 icaps://servername:port/servicepath
8438 The "icap:" URI scheme is used for traditional ICAP server and
8439 service location (default port is 1344, connections are not
8440 encrypted). The "icaps:" URI scheme is for Secure ICAP
8441 services that use SSL/TLS-encrypted ICAP connections (by
8442 default, on port 11344).
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8443
8444 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
8445 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
8446 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
8447 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
8448 service_names differ.
8449
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8450 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
8451 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8452
8453 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
8454 the following name=value options:
8455
8456 bypass=on|off|1|0
8457 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
8458 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
8459 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
8460 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
8461 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
8462 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
8463 returned to the HTTP client.
8464
8465 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8466
8467 routing=on|off|1|0
8468 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
8469 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8470 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
8471 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
8472 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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8473 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
8474 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
8475 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
8476
8477 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8478 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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8479
8480 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
8481 response header is ignored.
8482
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8483 ipv6=on|off
8484 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
8485 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
8486 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
8487
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8488 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
8489 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
8490 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
8491 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
8492 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
8493 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
8494 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
8495
8496 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
8497 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
8498 workers may use a given service.
8499
8500 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
8501 otherwise it is set to "wait".
8502
8503
8504 max-conn=number
8505 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
8506 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
8507
4dd2c9d6 8508 ==== ICAPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
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8509
8510 These options are used for Secure ICAP (icaps://....) services only.
8511
4dd2c9d6 8512 tls-cert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
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8513 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
8514 this icap server.
8515
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8516 tls-key=/path/to/ssl/key
8517 The private TLS/SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
8518 If 'tls-key' is not specified 'tls-cert' is assumed to
8519 reference a combined PEM format file containing both the
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8520 certificate and the key.
8521
4dd2c9d6 8522 tls-cipher=... The list of valid TLS/SSL ciphers to use when connecting
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8523 to this icap server.
8524
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8525 tls-min-version=1.N
8526 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
8527 SSLv3 use the ssloptions= parameter.
8528 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
8529
4dd2c9d6 8530 tls-options=... Specify various OpenSSL library options:
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8531
8532 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
4dd2c9d6 8533
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8534 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
8535 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
8536 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
4dd2c9d6 8537
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8538 SINGLE_DH_USE
8539 Always create a new key when using
8540 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
4dd2c9d6 8541
1b091aec 8542 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
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8543 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
8544 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
8545 strength to some attacks.
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8546
8547 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
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8548 more complete list. Options relevant only to SSLv2 are
8549 not supported.
1b091aec 8550
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8551 tls-cafile=... A PEM file containing additional CA certificates to use
8552 when verifying the icap server certificate. Used
8553 to specify intermediate CA certificate(s) if not sent
8554 by the server. Or the full CA chain for the server
8555 when using the NO_DEFAULT_CA flag.
1b091aec 8556
4dd2c9d6 8557 tls-capath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
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8558 use when verifying the icap server certificate.
8559
4dd2c9d6 8560 tls-crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
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8561 verifying the icap server certificate.
8562
4dd2c9d6 8563 tls-flags=... Specify various flags modifying the Squid TLS implementation:
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8564
8565 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
8566 Accept certificates even if they fail to
8567 verify.
8568 NO_DEFAULT_CA
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8569 Don't use the default CA list built into
8570 OpenSSL.
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8571 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
8572 Don't verify the icap server certificate
8573 matches the server name
8574
4dd2c9d6 8575 tls-domain= The icap server name as advertised in it's certificate.
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8576 Used for verifying the correctness of the received icap
8577 server certificate. If not specified the icap server
8578 hostname extracted from ICAP URI will be used.
8579
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8580 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
8581 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 8582
5473c134 8583Example:
c25c2836 8584icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
1b091aec 8585icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icaps://icap2.mydomain.net:11344/reqmod routing=on
cccac0a2 8586DOC_END
8587
5473c134 8588NAME: icap_class
8589TYPE: icap_class_type
8590IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8591LOC: none
5473c134 8592DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8593DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8594 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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8595 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
8596 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 8597
62c7f90e 8598 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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8599 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
8600 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 8601DOC_END
8602
5473c134 8603NAME: icap_access
8604TYPE: icap_access_type
8605IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8606LOC: none
cccac0a2 8607DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8608DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8609 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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8610 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
8611 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 8612DOC_END
8613
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8614COMMENT_START
8615 eCAP OPTIONS
8616 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8617COMMENT_END
8618
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8619NAME: ecap_enable
8620TYPE: onoff
8621IFDEF: USE_ECAP
8622COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 8623LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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8624DEFAULT: off
8625DOC_START
8626 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
8627DOC_END
8628
8629NAME: ecap_service
8630TYPE: ecap_service_type
8631IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 8632LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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8633DEFAULT: none
8634DOC_START
8635 Defines a single eCAP service
8636
c25c2836 8637 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 8638
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8639 id: ID
8640 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8641 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8642 services in squid.conf.
8643
8644 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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8645 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8646 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8647 are not yet supported.
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8648
8649 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
8650 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
8651 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
8652 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
8653 the service provider.
8654
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8655 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
8656 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8657
8658 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
8659 the following name=value options:
8660
8661 bypass=on|off|1|0
8662 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
8663 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
8664 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 8665 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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8666 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
8667 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 8668 HTTP client.
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8669
8670 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8671
8672 routing=on|off|1|0
8673 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
8674 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8675 returning a chain of services to be used next.
8676
8677 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8678 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
8679
8680 Routing is not allowed by default.
8681
8682 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
8683 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
8684
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8685
8686Example:
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8687ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
8688ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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8689DOC_END
8690
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8691NAME: loadable_modules
8692TYPE: wordlist
8693IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
8694LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
8695DEFAULT: none
8696DOC_START
8697 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
8698 preloaded module(s).
8699Example:
8700loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
8701DOC_END
8702
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8703COMMENT_START
8704 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
8705 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8706COMMENT_END
8707
8708NAME: adaptation_service_set
8709TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
8710IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8711LOC: none
8712DEFAULT: none
8713DOC_START
8714
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8715 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
8716 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
8717
8718 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
8719
8720 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
8721 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
8722 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
8723 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
8724 intact.
62c7f90e 8725
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8726 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8727 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 8728
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8729 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
8730 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8731
8732 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
8733 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
8734 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
8735 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
8736 transaction fails as well.
8737
8738 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
8739 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
8740 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
8741 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
8742 matters.
8743
8744 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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8745
8746Example:
8747adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
8748adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
8749DOC_END
8750
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8751NAME: adaptation_service_chain
8752TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
8753IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8754LOC: none
8755DEFAULT: none
8756DOC_START
8757
8758 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
8759 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
8760 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
8761
8762 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
8763
8764 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
8765 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
8766 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
8767 the previous service in the chain.
8768
8769 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8770 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
8771
8772 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
8773 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
8774 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
8775
8776 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
8777 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8778
8779 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
8780 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
8781 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
8782 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
8783
8784 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
8785
8786Example:
8787adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
8788DOC_END
8789
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8790NAME: adaptation_access
8791TYPE: adaptation_access_type
8792IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8793LOC: none
8794DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8795DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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8796DOC_START
8797 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
8798
8799 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8800 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8801
8802 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
8803 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
8804 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
8805 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
8806
8807 - services serving different vectoring points
8808 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
8809 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
8810 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
8811
8812 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
8813 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
8814 adaptation_service_set for details.
8815
8816 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
8817 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
8818 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
8819 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
8820
8821 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
8822 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
8823
8824 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
8825
8826Example:
8827adaptation_access service_1 allow all
8828DOC_END
8829
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8830NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
8831TYPE: int
8832IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8833LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
8834DEFAULT: 16
8835DOC_START
8836 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
8837 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
8838 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
8839 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
8840 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
8841 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
8842
8843 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
8844
8845 See also: icap_service routing=1
8846DOC_END
8847
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8848NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
8849TYPE: string
8850IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8851LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
8852DEFAULT: none
8853DOC_START
8854 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
8855 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
8856 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
8857 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
8858 with the master transaction.
8859
8860 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
8861 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
8862
8863 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8864 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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8865 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
8866
8867 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8868 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
8869 to provide an option with a name specified in
8870 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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8872 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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8873 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
8874
8875 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
8876
8877Example:
8878# share authentication information among ICAP services
8879adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
8880DOC_END
8881
71be37e0 8882NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 8883TYPE: note
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8884IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8885LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
8886DEFAULT: none
8887DOC_START
8888 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
8889 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
8890 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
8891 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
8892
8893 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
8894 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
8895
8896 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
8897 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
8898 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
8899 example:
8900
8901 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
8902 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
8903
8904 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
8905 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
8906
8907 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
8908 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
8909
8910 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
8911 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
8912 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
8913 and double quotes. For example,
8914 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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8915
8916 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
8917 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
8918 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
8919 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
8920 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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8921DOC_END
8922
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8923NAME: icap_retry
8924TYPE: acl_access
8925IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8926LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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8927DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
8928DOC_START
8929 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
8930 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
8931 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
8932 that response are usually retriable.
8933
8934 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8935
8936 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
8937 due to persistent connection race conditions.
8938
8939 See also: icap_retry_limit
8940DOC_END
8941
8942NAME: icap_retry_limit
8943TYPE: int
8944IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8945LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
8946DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8947DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 8948DOC_START
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8950
8951 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
8952 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
8953 count against this limit.
8954
8955 See also: icap_retry
8956DOC_END
8957
8958
5473c134 8959COMMENT_START
8960 DNS OPTIONS
8961 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8962COMMENT_END
8963
8964NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8965TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8966DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8967LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8968DOC_START
5473c134 8969 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
8970 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
8971 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 8972DOC_END
8973
5473c134 8974NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8975TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8976DEFAULT: on
5473c134 8977LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8978DOC_START
5473c134 8979 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
8980 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
8981 Squid to be strict about the standard.
8982 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 8983DOC_END
8984
5473c134 8985NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 8986TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 8987DEFAULT: 5 seconds
8988LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
cccac0a2 8989DOC_START
5473c134 8990 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
8991 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 8992DOC_END
8993
5473c134 8994NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 8995TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 8996DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 8997LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
cccac0a2 8998DOC_START
5473c134 8999 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
9000 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
9001 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 9002DOC_END
9003
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9004NAME: dns_packet_max
9005TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 9006DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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9007DEFAULT: none
9008LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
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9009DOC_START
9010 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
9011 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
9012
9013 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
9014 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
9015 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
9016 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
9017 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
9018
9019 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
9020 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
9021 necessary.
9022
9023 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
9024 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
9025 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
9026 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
9027 sizes being advertised by Squid.
9028 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
9029 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
9030DOC_END
9031
5473c134 9032NAME: dns_defnames
9033COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 9034TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 9035DEFAULT: off
638402dd 9036DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 9037LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 9038DOC_START
5473c134 9039 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
9040 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
9041 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
9042 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 9043DOC_END
9044
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9045NAME: dns_multicast_local
9046COMMENT: on|off
9047TYPE: onoff
9048DEFAULT: off
9049DEFAULT_DOC: Search for .local and .arpa names is disabled.
9050LOC: Config.onoff.dns_mdns
9051DOC_START
9052 When set to on, Squid sends multicast DNS lookups on the local
9053 network for domains ending in .local and .arpa.
9054 This enables local servers and devices to be contacted in an
9055 ad-hoc or zero-configuration network environment.
9056DOC_END
9057
5473c134 9058NAME: dns_nameservers
9059TYPE: wordlist
9060DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9061DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5473c134 9062LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 9063DOC_START
5473c134 9064 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
9065 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
9066 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 9067
5473c134 9068 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
9069 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
9070 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
9071 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 9072
5473c134 9073 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 9074DOC_END
9075
5473c134 9076NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 9077TYPE: string
5473c134 9078DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
9079LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 9080DOC_START
5473c134 9081 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
9082 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
9083 default locations:
9084 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
9085 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9086 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
9087 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9088 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
9089 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
9090 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
9091 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 9092
5473c134 9093 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
9094 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
9095 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
9096 character are comments.
cccac0a2 9097
5473c134 9098 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
9099 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
9100 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
9101 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
9102 definitions.
cccac0a2 9103DOC_END
9104
5473c134 9105NAME: append_domain
9106TYPE: string
9107LOC: Config.appendDomain
9108DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9109DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 9110DOC_START
5473c134 9111 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
9112 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
9113
9114 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
9115 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
9116 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
9117
9118Example:
9119 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 9120DOC_END
9121
5473c134 9122NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
9123TYPE: onoff
9124LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 9125DEFAULT: on
9126DOC_START
5473c134 9127 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
9128 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
9129 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
9130 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
9131 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 9132DOC_END
9133
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9134NAME: dns_v4_first
9135TYPE: onoff
9136DEFAULT: off
9137LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
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9138DOC_START
9139 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
9140 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
9141
9142 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
9143 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
9144 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
9145
9146 WARNING:
9147 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
9148 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
9149 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
9150DOC_END
9151
6bc15a4f 9152NAME: ipcache_size
9153COMMENT: (number of entries)
9154TYPE: int
9155DEFAULT: 1024
9156LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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9157DOC_START
9158 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
9159DOC_END
6bc15a4f 9160
9161NAME: ipcache_low
9162COMMENT: (percent)
9163TYPE: int
9164DEFAULT: 90
9165LOC: Config.ipcache.low
9166DOC_NONE
9167
9168NAME: ipcache_high
9169COMMENT: (percent)
9170TYPE: int
9171DEFAULT: 95
9172LOC: Config.ipcache.high
9173DOC_START
9174 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
9175DOC_END
9176
9177NAME: fqdncache_size
9178COMMENT: (number of entries)
9179TYPE: int
9180DEFAULT: 1024
9181LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
9182DOC_START
9183 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
9184DOC_END
9185
a58ff010 9186COMMENT_START
5473c134 9187 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 9188 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9189COMMENT_END
9190
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9191NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9192COMMENT: on|off
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9193TYPE: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9194DEFAULT: off
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9195LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
9196DOC_START
9197 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
9198 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
9199 parameter value is interpreted or used.
9200 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
9201 section for more details.
9202DOC_END
9203
5473c134 9204NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 9205COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9206TYPE: onoff
9207DEFAULT: on
9208LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 9209DOC_START
5473c134 9210 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
9211 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
9212 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
9213 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 9214DOC_END
9215
5473c134 9216NAME: memory_pools_limit
9217COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 9218TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 9219DEFAULT: 5 MB
9220LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 9221DOC_START
5473c134 9222 Used only with memory_pools on:
9223 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 9224
5473c134 9225 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
9226 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
9227 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
9228 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
9229 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
9230 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
9231 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 9232
89646bd7 9233 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 9234 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 9235
5473c134 9236 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 9237 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 9238
9239 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
9240 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
9241 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
9242 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 9243DOC_END
9244
5473c134 9245NAME: forwarded_for
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9246COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
9247TYPE: string
5473c134 9248DEFAULT: on
9249LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 9250DOC_START
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9251 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
9252 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 9253
5473c134 9254 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
9255
67c06f0d 9256 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 9257
9258 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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AJ
9259
9260 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
9261 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
9262
9263 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
9264 X-Forwarded-For header.
9265
9266 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 9267 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 9268DOC_END
9269
5473c134 9270NAME: cachemgr_passwd
9271TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
9272DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9273DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 9274LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 9275DOC_START
5473c134 9276 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 9277
5473c134 9278 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
9279
9280 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
9281 5min
9282 60min
9283 asndb
9284 authenticator
9285 cbdata
9286 client_list
9287 comm_incoming
9288 config *
9289 counters
9290 delay
9291 digest_stats
9292 dns
9293 events
9294 filedescriptors
9295 fqdncache
9296 histograms
9297 http_headers
9298 info
9299 io
9300 ipcache
9301 mem
9302 menu
9303 netdb
9304 non_peers
9305 objects
9306 offline_toggle *
9307 pconn
9308 peer_select
b360c477 9309 reconfigure *
5473c134 9310 redirector
9311 refresh
9312 server_list
9313 shutdown *
9314 store_digest
9315 storedir
9316 utilization
9317 via_headers
9318 vm_objects
9319
9320 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
9321 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
9322
9323 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
9324 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
9325 password to "none".
9326
9327 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
9328
9329Example:
9330 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
9331 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
9332 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 9333DOC_END
9334
5473c134 9335NAME: client_db
a58ff010 9336COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9337TYPE: onoff
9338DEFAULT: on
9339LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 9340DOC_START
5473c134 9341 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
9342 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 9343DOC_END
9344
5473c134 9345NAME: refresh_all_ims
9346COMMENT: on|off
9347TYPE: onoff
9348DEFAULT: off
9349LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 9350DOC_START
5473c134 9351 When you enable this option, squid will always check
9352 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
9353 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
9354 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
9355 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 9356
5473c134 9357 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
9358 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 9359DOC_END
9360
5473c134 9361NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 9362IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 9363COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9364TYPE: onoff
9365DEFAULT: off
9366LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 9367DOC_START
5473c134 9368 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
9369 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
9370 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
9371 feature could make you liable for problems which it
9372 causes.
9373
9374 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 9375DOC_END
9376
31ef19cd 9377NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 9378TYPE: int
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AJ
9379LOC: Config.connect_retries
9380DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9381DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 9382DOC_START
aed188fd
AJ
9383 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
9384 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
9385 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
9386
9387 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
9388 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 9389
31ef19cd
AJ
9390 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
9391 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 9392
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AJ
9393 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
9394 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
9395 a useful server.
a58ff010 9396DOC_END
9397
5473c134 9398NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 9399TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9400LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 9401DEFAULT: off
9402DOC_START
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9403 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
9404 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
9405 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
9406 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
9407
9408 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
9409 work around access control errors.
9410
9411 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
9412 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 9413DOC_END
9414
5473c134 9415NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 9416TYPE: string
5473c134 9417LOC: Config.as_whois_server
9418DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 9419DOC_START
5473c134 9420 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
9421 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 9422DOC_END
9423
5473c134 9424NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 9425TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9426LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 9427DEFAULT: off
9428DOC_START
5473c134 9429 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
9430 objects.
a58ff010 9431DOC_END
9432
5473c134 9433NAME: uri_whitespace
9434TYPE: uri_whitespace
9435LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
9436DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 9437DOC_START
5473c134 9438 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
9439 URI. Options:
a58ff010 9440
5473c134 9441 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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9442 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
9443 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
9444 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
9445
5473c134 9446 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
9447 Request" message.
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AJ
9448 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
9449 handling of HTTP request URL.
9450
5473c134 9451 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
9452 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
9453 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
9454 are in use.
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AJ
9455 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
9456 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
9457 URL field.
9458
5473c134 9459 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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AJ
9460 encoded according to RFC1738.
9461
5473c134 9462 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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AJ
9463 first whitespace.
9464
9465
9466 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
9467 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 9468DOC_END
a58ff010 9469
5473c134 9470NAME: chroot
9471TYPE: string
9472LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 9473DEFAULT: none
9474DOC_START
9f37c18a 9475 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
2d89f399
HN
9476 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
9477 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
9478 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
9479 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 9480DOC_END
a58ff010 9481
5473c134 9482NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
9483TYPE: onoff
9484LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 9485DEFAULT: off
5473c134 9486DOC_START
cc192b50 9487 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
9488 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
9489 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
9490
5473c134 9491 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
9492 found not to preserve user session state across requests
9493 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 9494
cc192b50 9495 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 9496DOC_END
9497
5473c134 9498NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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9499TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
9500LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
9501DEFAULT: 0
9502DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 9503DOC_START
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AJ
9504 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
9505 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
9506 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
9507 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
9508 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
9509 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 9510
079a8480 9511 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 9512 reasons.
a0e23afd 9513
079a8480
AJ
9514 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
9515
a0e23afd 9516 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 9517DOC_END
a58ff010 9518
5473c134 9519NAME: high_response_time_warning
9520TYPE: int
9521COMMENT: (msec)
9522LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
9523DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9524DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9525DOC_START
9526 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
9527 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
9528 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 9529DOC_END
9530
5473c134 9531NAME: high_page_fault_warning
9532TYPE: int
9533LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
9534DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9535DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 9536DOC_START
5473c134 9537 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
9538 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
9539 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
9540 per second.
9541DOC_END
cc9f92d4 9542
5473c134 9543NAME: high_memory_warning
9544TYPE: b_size_t
9545LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
f2228f3b 9546IFDEF: HAVE_MSTATS&&HAVE_GNUMALLOC_H
904971da 9547DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 9548DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9549DOC_START
4bf2a476
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9550 If the memory usage (as determined by gnumalloc, if available and used)
9551 exceeds this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 9552 the administrators attention.
9553DOC_END
4bf2a476 9554# TODO: link high_memory_warning to mempools?
cc9f92d4 9555
5473c134 9556NAME: sleep_after_fork
9557COMMENT: (microseconds)
9558TYPE: int
9559LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
9560DEFAULT: 0
9561DOC_START
9562 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
9563 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
9564 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
9565 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
9566 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
9567 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
9568 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
9569 until all the child processes have been started.
9570 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
9571 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 9572DOC_END
9573
b6696974 9574NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 9575IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
b6696974
GS
9576COMMENT: on|off
9577TYPE: onoff
9578DEFAULT: on
9579LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
9580DOC_START
9581 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
9582 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
9583 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
9584 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
9585 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
9586 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
9587DOC_END
9588
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9589NAME: eui_lookup
9590TYPE: onoff
9591IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
9592DEFAULT: on
9593LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
9594DOC_START
9595 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
9596DOC_END
9597
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9598NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
9599TYPE: int
9600DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9601DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
f3f0f563
AJ
9602LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
9603DOC_START
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AJ
9604 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
9605 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 9606
638402dd 9607 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
f3f0f563
AJ
9608
9609 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 9610 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
f3f0f563
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9611DOC_END
9612
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9613NAME: force_request_body_continuation
9614TYPE: acl_access
9615LOC: Config.accessList.forceRequestBodyContinuation
9616DEFAULT: none
9617DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
9618DOC_START
9619 This option controls how Squid handles data upload requests from HTTP
9620 and FTP agents that require a "Please Continue" control message response
9621 to actually send the request body to Squid. It is mostly useful in
9622 adaptation environments.
9623
9624 When Squid receives an HTTP request with an "Expect: 100-continue"
9625 header or an FTP upload command (e.g., STOR), Squid normally sends the
9626 request headers or FTP command information to an adaptation service (or
9627 peer) and waits for a response. Most adaptation services (and some
9628 broken peers) may not respond to Squid at that stage because they may
9629 decide to wait for the HTTP request body or FTP data transfer. However,
9630 that request body or data transfer may never come because Squid has not
9631 responded with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150 (Please Continue) control message
9632 to the request sender yet!
9633
9634 An allow match tells Squid to respond with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150
9635 (Please Continue) control message on its own, before forwarding the
9636 request to an adaptation service or peer. Such a response usually forces
9637 the request sender to proceed with sending the body. A deny match tells
9638 Squid to delay that control response until the origin server confirms
9639 that the request body is needed. Delaying is the default behavior.
9640DOC_END
9641
cccac0a2 9642EOF