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32
0f74202c 33COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 34 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
35 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
38 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
39 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 40
cccac0a2 41 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
42 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
43 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
44 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
45 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
46 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
47 case.
debd9a31 48
cccac0a2 49COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_START
52 NETWORK OPTIONS
53 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
54COMMENT_END
55
56NAME: http_port ascii_port
57TYPE: http_port_list
58DEFAULT: none
59LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
60DOC_START
61 Usage: port [options]
62 hostname:port [options]
63 1.2.3.4:port [options]
64
65 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
66 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
67 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
68 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
7f7db318 69 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
cccac0a2 70 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
71 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
72 address, so you can use the port number alone.
73
7f7db318 74 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
cccac0a2 75 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
76
77 The -a command line option will override the *first* port
78 number listed here. That option will NOT override an IP
79 address, however.
80
81 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
82
116c6cca 83 Options:
84
85 transparent Support for transparent proxies
86
87 accel Accelerator mode. Also set implicit by the other
88 accelerator directives
89
90 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
91 domain support
92
93 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support
94
95 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
96 than the http_port number
97
98 defaultsite= Main web site name for accelerators
99
100 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
101 Defaults to http
cccac0a2 102
5529ca8a 103 disable-pmtu-discovery=
6845f129 104 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
105 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
106 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
107 support is enabled.
108 always disable always PMTU discovery.
5529ca8a 109
110 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies Path-MTU
111 discovery can not work on traffic towards the clients. This is
112 the case when the intercepting device does not fully track
113 connections and fails to forward ICMP must fragment messages
114 to the cache server. If you have such setup and experience that
115 certain clients sporadically hang or never complete requests set
116 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
117
cccac0a2 118 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
7f7db318 119 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
cccac0a2 120 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
121 visible on the internal address.
122NOCOMMENT_START
123# Squid normally listens to port 3128
58c1507a 124http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
cccac0a2 125NOCOMMENT_END
126DOC_END
127
128NAME: https_port
129IFDEF: USE_SSL
130TYPE: https_port_list
131DEFAULT: none
132LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
133DOC_START
6845f129 134 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
cccac0a2 135
6845f129 136 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
137 requests.
cccac0a2 138
6845f129 139 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
140 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
141 accelerator level.
cccac0a2 142
143 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
144 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
b8c0c06d 145
cccac0a2 146 Options:
147
148 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
116c6cca 149 this port
cccac0a2 150
151 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests
116c6cca 152 with. Defaults to https
cccac0a2 153
154 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format)
7f7db318 155
cccac0a2 156 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
157 if not specified, the certificate file is
158 assumed to be a combined certificate and
159 key file
160
161 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
162 1 automatic (default)
163 2 SSLv2 only
164 3 SSLv3 only
165 4 TLSv1 only
166
167 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers
168
5ac1a5b3 169 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
cccac0a2 170 being:
171 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
172 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
173 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
174 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
175 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
176 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
116c6cca 177 documentation for a complete list of options
cccac0a2 178
179 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
180 requesting a client certificate
181
182 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
183 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
116c6cca 184 clientca will be used
cccac0a2 185
186 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
a82a4fe4 187 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates
188
189 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
190 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
191 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
cccac0a2 192
193 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
194 DH key exchanges
195
196 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
197 DELAYED_AUTH
198 Don't request client certificates
199 immediately, but wait until acl processing
a82a4fe4 200 requires a certificate (not yet implemented)
7f7db318 201 NO_DEFAULT_CA
a82a4fe4 202 Don't use the default CA lists built in
116c6cca 203 to OpenSSL
b13877cc 204 NO_SESSION_REUSE
205 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
206 will result in a new SSL session.
a82a4fe4 207 VERIFY_CRL
208 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
209 certificates
210 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
211 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
212 client certificate chain
116c6cca 213
6b2936d5 214 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
215
116c6cca 216 accel Accelerator mode. Also set implicit by the other
217 accelerator directives
218
219 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
220 domain support
221
222 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support
223
224 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
225 than the https_port number
cccac0a2 226
227DOC_END
228
229NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
230IFDEF: USE_SSL
231TYPE: onoff
232DEFAULT: off
233LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
234DOC_START
235 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
236 messages.
237DOC_END
238
239NAME: ssl_engine
240IFDEF: USE_SSL
241TYPE: string
242LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
243DEFAULT: none
244DOC_START
245 The openssl engine to use. You will need to set this if you
246 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
247DOC_END
248
249NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
250IFDEF: USE_SSL
251DEFAULT: none
252LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
253TYPE: string
254DOC_START
255 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
256DOC_END
257
258NAME: sslproxy_client_key
259IFDEF: USE_SSL
260DEFAULT: none
261LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
262TYPE: string
263DOC_START
264 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
265DOC_END
266
267NAME: sslproxy_version
268IFDEF: USE_SSL
269DEFAULT: 1
270LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
271TYPE: int
272DOC_START
273 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
274DOC_END
275
276NAME: sslproxy_options
277IFDEF: USE_SSL
278DEFAULT: none
279LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
280TYPE: string
281DOC_START
282 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
283DOC_END
284
285NAME: sslproxy_cipher
286IFDEF: USE_SSL
287DEFAULT: none
288LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
289TYPE: string
290DOC_START
291 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
292DOC_END
293
294NAME: sslproxy_cafile
295IFDEF: USE_SSL
296DEFAULT: none
297LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
298TYPE: string
299DOC_START
300 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
301 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
302DOC_END
303
304NAME: sslproxy_capath
305IFDEF: USE_SSL
306DEFAULT: none
307LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
308TYPE: string
309DOC_START
310 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
311 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
312DOC_END
313
314NAME: sslproxy_flags
315IFDEF: USE_SSL
316DEFAULT: none
317LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
318TYPE: string
319DOC_START
320 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
321 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates even if they fail to
322 verify.
323 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
324 to OpenSSL.
325DOC_END
326
307b83b7 327NAME: sslpassword_program
328IFDEF: USE_SSL
329DEFAULT: none
330LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
331TYPE: string
332DOC_START
333 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
334 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
335 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
336 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
337DOC_END
338
cccac0a2 339NAME: icp_port udp_port
340TYPE: ushort
341DEFAULT: 0
342LOC: Config.Port.icp
343DOC_START
344 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
345 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
346 Default is disabled (0).
347NOCOMMENT_START
58c1507a 348icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 349NOCOMMENT_END
350DOC_END
351
352NAME: htcp_port
353IFDEF: USE_HTCP
354TYPE: ushort
355DEFAULT: 4827
356LOC: Config.Port.htcp
357DOC_START
358 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
359 and from neighbor caches. Default is 4827. To disable use
360 "0".
361DOC_END
362
363
364NAME: mcast_groups
365TYPE: wordlist
366LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
367DEFAULT: none
368DOC_START
369 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
370 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
371
372 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
373 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
374 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
375 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
376 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
377 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
378 receive replies from multicast group members.
379
380 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
381 is already in use by another group of caches.
382
383 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
384 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
385
386 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
387
388 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
389DOC_END
390
391
392NAME: udp_incoming_address
393TYPE: address
394LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
395DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
396DOC_NONE
397
398NAME: udp_outgoing_address
399TYPE: address
400LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
401DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
402DOC_START
403 udp_incoming_address is used for the ICP socket receiving packets
404 from other caches.
405 udp_outgoing_address is used for ICP packets sent out to other
406 caches.
407
408 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
409
f939c0ca 410 A udp_incoming_address value of 0.0.0.0 indicates Squid
411 should listen for UDP messages on all available interfaces.
cccac0a2 412
413 If udp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 414 it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 415 change this if you want to have ICP queries sent using another
416 address than where this Squid listens for ICP queries from other
417 caches.
418
419 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
420 have the same value since they both use port 3130.
421DOC_END
9e7dbc51 422
cccac0a2 423COMMENT_START
424 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
425 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
426COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 427
cccac0a2 428NAME: cache_peer
429TYPE: peer
430DEFAULT: none
431LOC: Config.peers
432DOC_START
433 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
9e7dbc51 434
cccac0a2 435 cache_peer hostname type http_port icp_port [options]
0fdafae7 436
cccac0a2 437 For example,
d1b63fc8 438
cccac0a2 439 # proxy icp
440 # hostname type port port options
441 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
442 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
443 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
444 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
445
446 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
447
448 proxy_port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
449 requests.
450
451 icp_port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
452 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
453 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
454 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
455 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
456
457 options: proxy-only
458 weight=n
459 basetime=n
460 ttl=n
461 no-query
462 background-ping
463 default
464 round-robin
465 weighted-round-robin
466 carp
467 multicast-responder
468 closest-only
469 no-digest
470 no-netdb-exchange
471 no-delay
472 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
473 connect-timeout=nn
474 digest-url=url
475 allow-miss
476 max-conn
477 htcp
527ee50d 478 htcp-oldsquid
cccac0a2 479 originserver
480 name=xxx
481 forceddomain=name
482 ssl
483 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
484 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
485 sslversion=1|2|3|4
486 sslcipher=...
487 ssloptions=...
488 front-end-https[=on|auto]
b8c0c06d 489
7f7db318 490 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
cccac0a2 491 from this cache should not be saved locally.
492
493 use 'weight=n' to specify a weighted parent.
494 The weight must be an integer. The default weight
495 is 1, larger weights are favored more.
496
497 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
498 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
499 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
500 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
7f7db318 501 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 502
503 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
504 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
505 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
506 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
507 hosts, you must configure other group members as
508 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
509
510 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
511 neighbor.
512
513 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
7f7db318 514 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
515 round trip time updated and is usually used in
cccac0a2 516 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
517
518 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
519 be used as a "last-resort." You should probably
520 only use 'default' in situations where you cannot
521 use ICP with your parent cache(s).
522
523 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
524 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
525 absence of any ICP queries.
526
7f7db318 527 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
528 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
529 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
530 time. Closer parents are used more often.
cccac0a2 531 Usually used for background-ping parents.
532
533 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
7f7db318 534 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
cccac0a2 535 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
536 balancing hash function based on their weigth.
537
7f7db318 538 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
cccac0a2 539 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
540 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
541 will be accepted from it.
542
543 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
544 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
545 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
546
547 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
548 this neighbor.
549
550 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
551 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
552
553 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
554 from influencing the delay pools.
555
556 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
557 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
558 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
7f7db318 559 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
cccac0a2 560
561 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
65fca573 562 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
563 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
564 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
565 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
566 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
567 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
568 one proxy login.
7f7db318 569 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
cccac0a2 570 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
571
572 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
573 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
574 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
575 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
576 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
577 information which is added to the username. This can
578 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
579 the login=username:password option above.
580
581 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
582 specific connect timeout (also see the
583 peer_connect_timeout directive)
584
585 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
586 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
587 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
588 location.
589
590 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
591 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
592 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
593 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
594 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
595 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
596 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
597 source is a peer)
598
599 use 'max-conn' to limit the amount of connections Squid
600 may open to this peer.
601
602 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
603 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
604 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
d3803853 605
527ee50d 606 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
607
cccac0a2 608 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
609 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
610
611 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
7f7db318 612 host but different ports. This name can be used to
cccac0a2 613 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
614 directives.
615
616 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
617 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
618 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
619 name and using redirectors to feed this domainname
620 is not feasible.
621
7f7db318 622 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
cccac0a2 623 bs SSL/TLS encrypted.
624
625 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
626 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
627
628 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
629 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
7f7db318 630 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
cccac0a2 631 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
632
633 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
634 when connecting to this peer
635 1 = automatic (default)
636 2 = SSL v2 only
637 3 = SSL v3 only
638 4 = TLS v1 only
639
640 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL chipers
641 to use when connecting to this peer
642
643 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
644 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
645 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
646 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
647 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
648 a more complete list.
649
650 use cafile=... to specify a file containing additional
651 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
652
653 use capath=... to specify a directory containing additional
654 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
655
656 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
657 SSL implementation:
658 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
659 Accept certificates even if they fail to
660 verify.
7f7db318 661 NO_DEFAULT_CA
cccac0a2 662 Don't use the default CA list built in
663 to OpenSSL.
664 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
7f7db318 665 Don't verify the peer certificate
cccac0a2 666 matches the server name
667
668 use sslname= to specify the peer name as advertised
669 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
670 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
671 peer hostname will be used.
672
673 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
674 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend infront
675 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
7f7db318 676 on this header. If set to auto the header will
cccac0a2 677 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
678 URL.
679
680 NOTE: non-ICP neighbors must be specified as 'parent'.
681DOC_END
682
683NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
684TYPE: hostdomain
685DEFAULT: none
686LOC: none
687DOC_START
688 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
689 queried. Usage:
690
691 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
692 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
693
694 For example, specifying
695
696 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
697
698 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
699 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
700 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
7f7db318 701 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
cccac0a2 702 NOT in that domain.
703
704 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
705 either on the same or separate lines.
706 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
707 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
708 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
709 for all requests.
710 * There are no defaults.
711 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
712 section.
713DOC_END
714
715
716NAME: neighbor_type_domain
717TYPE: hostdomaintype
718DEFAULT: none
719LOC: none
720DOC_START
721 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
722
723 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
724 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
725 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
726 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
727 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
728 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
729
730EXAMPLE:
731 cache_peer parent cache.foo.org 3128 3130
732 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
733 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
734DOC_END
735
736NAME: icp_query_timeout
737COMMENT: (msec)
738DEFAULT: 0
739TYPE: int
740LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
741DOC_START
742 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
743 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
744 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
745 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
746 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
747 timeout (the old default), you would write:
748
749 icp_query_timeout 2000
750DOC_END
751
752NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
753COMMENT: (msec)
754DEFAULT: 2000
755TYPE: int
756LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
757DOC_START
758 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
759 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
760 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
761 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
762 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
763 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
764DOC_END
765
766NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
767COMMENT: (msec)
768DEFAULT: 5
769TYPE: int
770LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
771DOC_START
772 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
773 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
774 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
775 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
776 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
777 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
778 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
779DOC_END
780
781NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
782COMMENT: (msec)
783DEFAULT: 2000
784TYPE: int
785LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
786DOC_START
787 For Multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
788 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
789 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
790 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
791 seconds.
792DOC_END
793
794NAME: dead_peer_timeout
795COMMENT: (seconds)
796DEFAULT: 10 seconds
797TYPE: time_t
798LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
799DOC_START
800 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
801 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
802 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
803 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
804 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
805 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
806
807 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
808 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
809 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
810 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
811 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
812 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
813 instead of to your parents.
814DOC_END
815
816
817NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
818TYPE: wordlist
819DEFAULT: none
820LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
821DOC_START
822 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
823 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
824 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
825 list this option multiple times.
826NOCOMMENT_START
827#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
828hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
829NOCOMMENT_END
830DOC_END
934b03fc 831
6a566b9c 832
6192e873 833NAME: cache no_cache
cccac0a2 834TYPE: acl_access
835DEFAULT: none
836LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
837DOC_START
838 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause the request to
839 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
840 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
6a566b9c 841
cccac0a2 842 You must use the word 'DENY' to indicate the ACL names which should
843 NOT be cached.
1e5562e3 844
6192e873 845 Default is to allow all to be cached
cccac0a2 846NOCOMMENT_START
847#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
848acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
6192e873 849cache deny QUERY
cccac0a2 850NOCOMMENT_END
851DOC_END
852
853NAME: background_ping_rate
854COMMENT: time-units
855TYPE: time_t
856DEFAULT: 10 seconds
857LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
858DOC_START
859 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
860 have background-ping set.
861DOC_END
1e5562e3 862
934b03fc 863
cccac0a2 864COMMENT_START
865 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE CACHE SIZE
866 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
867COMMENT_END
868
869NAME: cache_mem
870COMMENT: (bytes)
871TYPE: b_size_t
872DEFAULT: 8 MB
873LOC: Config.memMaxSize
874DOC_START
875 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
876 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
877 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
878 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
879
880 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
881 for:
882 * In-Transit objects
883 * Hot Objects
884 * Negative-Cached objects
885
886 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
887 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
888 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
889 priority.
890
891 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
892 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
893 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
894 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
895 not needed for in-transit objects.
896
897 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
898 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
899 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
900 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
901 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
902 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
903 objects.
904DOC_END
905
906
907NAME: cache_swap_low
908COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
909TYPE: int
910DEFAULT: 90
911LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
912DOC_NONE
913
914NAME: cache_swap_high
915COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
916TYPE: int
917DEFAULT: 95
918LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
919DOC_START
920
921 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
922 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
923 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
924 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
925 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
926 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
7f7db318 927
cccac0a2 928 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
929 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
930 numbers closer together.
931DOC_END
932
933NAME: maximum_object_size
934COMMENT: (bytes)
935TYPE: b_size_t
936DEFAULT: 4096 KB
937LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
938DOC_START
939 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
940 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
941 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
942 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
943 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
944 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
945
946 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
947 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
948 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
949DOC_END
950
951NAME: minimum_object_size
952COMMENT: (bytes)
953TYPE: b_size_t
954DEFAULT: 0 KB
955LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
956DOC_START
957 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
958 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
959 means there is no minimum.
960DOC_END
961
962NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
963COMMENT: (bytes)
964TYPE: b_size_t
965DEFAULT: 8 KB
966LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
967DOC_START
6845f129 968 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
969 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
970 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
971 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem .
cccac0a2 972DOC_END
973
974NAME: ipcache_size
975COMMENT: (number of entries)
976TYPE: int
977DEFAULT: 1024
978LOC: Config.ipcache.size
979DOC_NONE
980
981NAME: ipcache_low
982COMMENT: (percent)
983TYPE: int
984DEFAULT: 90
985LOC: Config.ipcache.low
986DOC_NONE
987
988NAME: ipcache_high
989COMMENT: (percent)
990TYPE: int
991DEFAULT: 95
992LOC: Config.ipcache.high
993DOC_START
994 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
995DOC_END
996
997NAME: fqdncache_size
998COMMENT: (number of entries)
999TYPE: int
1000DEFAULT: 1024
1001LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
1002DOC_START
1003 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
1004DOC_END
1005
1006NAME: cache_replacement_policy
1007TYPE: removalpolicy
1008LOC: Config.replPolicy
1009DEFAULT: lru
1010DOC_START
1011 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
1012 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
1013
1014 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
1015 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
1016 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
1017 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
1018
1019 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
1020
1021 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
1022
1023 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
1024 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
1025 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
1026 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
1027
1028 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
1029 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
1030 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
1031 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
1032
1033 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
1034 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
1035 replacement policies.
1036
1037 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1038 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
1039 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
1040
1041 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
1042 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
1043 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
1044DOC_END
1045
1046NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1047TYPE: removalpolicy
1048LOC: Config.memPolicy
1049DEFAULT: lru
1050DOC_START
1051 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1052 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
1053
1054 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1055DOC_END
934b03fc 1056
1f7c9178 1057
cccac0a2 1058COMMENT_START
1059 LOGFILE PATHNAMES AND CACHE DIRECTORIES
1060 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1061COMMENT_END
9bc73deb 1062
cccac0a2 1063NAME: cache_dir
1064TYPE: cachedir
1065DEFAULT: none
1066DEFAULT_IF_NONE: ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
1067LOC: Config.cacheSwap
1068DOC_START
1069 Usage:
7f7db318 1070
cccac0a2 1071 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
cf5cc17e 1072
cccac0a2 1073 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
1074 cache among different disk partitions.
8e8d4f30 1075
cccac0a2 1076 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
5ac1a5b3 1077 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
cccac0a2 1078 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
934b03fc 1079
cccac0a2 1080 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
1081 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
7f7db318 1082 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
cccac0a2 1083 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
1084 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
1e5562e3 1085
cccac0a2 1086 The ufs store type:
1087
1088 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
1089 been there.
1090
1091 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1092
1093 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
1094 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
1095 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
1096 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
1097 subtract 20% and use that value.
1098
1099 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
1100 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
1101
1102 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
1103 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
1104 is 256.
1105
1106 The aufs store type:
1107
1108 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
1109 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1110 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
1111
1112 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1113
1114 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1115
1116 The diskd store type:
1117
1118 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
1119 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1120 disk-I/O.
1121
1122 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
1123
1124 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1125
1126 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
1127 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
1128 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
1129
1130 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
1131 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
44f991b5 1132 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
cccac0a2 1133
af9ad249 1134 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
1135 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
1136 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
1137 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
1138 time.
1139
1a224843 1140 The coss store type:
1141
1142 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
1143 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
1144 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
1145 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
1146 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
7f7db318 1147 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
1a224843 1148 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
1149
b8c0c06d 1150 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
c8f4eac4 1151 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
1152 this will be created by squid -z.
1153
cccac0a2 1154 Common options:
1155
1156 read-only, this cache_dir is read only.
1157
1158 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
1159 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
1160 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
1161 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
1162 ones with no max-size specification last.
1a224843 1163
7f7db318 1164 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
1a224843 1165 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
1166 option.
c8f4eac4 1167
1168 The null store type:
1169
1170 no options are allowed or required
cccac0a2 1171DOC_END
1172
1173
1174NAME: logformat
1175TYPE: logformat
1176LOC: Config.Log.logformats
1177DEFAULT: none
1178DOC_START
1179 Usage:
1180
1181 logformat <name> <format specification>
1182
1183 Defines an access log format.
1184
1185 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
7f7db318 1186
cccac0a2 1187 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
fa38076e 1188 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
cccac0a2 1189 as required according to their context and the output format
fa38076e 1190 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
1191 output format is desired.
cccac0a2 1192
1193 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
7f7db318 1194
fa38076e 1195 " output in quoted string format
1196 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
1197 # output in URL quoted format
1198 ' output as-is
1199
cccac0a2 1200 - left aligned
7f7db318 1201 width field width. If starting with 0 the
cccac0a2 1202 output is zero padded
1203 {arg} argument such as header name etc
1204
1205 Format codes:
1206
1207 >a Client source IP address
1208 >A Client FQDN
44eb213b 1209 >p Client source port
cccac0a2 1210 <A Server IP address or peer name
1211 la Local IP address (http_port)
1212 lp Local port number (http_port)
1213 ts Seconds since epoch
1214 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
1215 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
1216 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1217 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
1218 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1219 tr Response time (milliseconds)
1220 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
1221 on the format header[:[separator]element]
1222 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
1223 as for >h
1224 un User name
1225 ul User login
1226 ui User ident
1227 ue User from external acl
1228 Hs HTTP status code
1229 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
1230 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
1231 mt MIME content type
1232 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
1233 ru Request URL
1234 rv Request protocol version
1235 et Tag returned by external acl
1236 ea Log string returned by external acl
1237 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
6845f129 1238 <sH Reply high offset sent
03b29b6c 1239 <sS Upstream object size
cccac0a2 1240 % a literal % character
1241
1242logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
1243logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
1244logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
1245logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
1246DOC_END
1247
1248NAME: access_log cache_access_log
1249TYPE: access_log
1250LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
1251DEFAULT: none
1252DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@
1253DOC_START
1254 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
1255 ICP request. The format is:
1256 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
1257 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
1258
1259 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
1260 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
1261 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
1262 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
7f7db318 1263
c33aa074 1264 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
1265 a logformat name should not be specified.
1266
9197cd13 1267 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
1268
1269 access_log syslog[:facility|priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
1270 where facility could be any of:
1271 LOG_AUTHPRIV, LOG_DAEMON, LOG_LOCAL0 .. LOG_LOCAL7 or LOG_USER.
1272
1273 And priority could be any of:
1274 LOG_ERR, LOG_WARNING, LOG_NOTICE, LOG_INFO, LOG_DEBUG.
cccac0a2 1275DOC_END
1276
1277
1278NAME: cache_log
1279TYPE: string
1280DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
1281LOC: Config.Log.log
1282DOC_START
1283 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
1284 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
1285 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
1286DOC_END
1287
1288
1289NAME: cache_store_log
1290TYPE: string
1291DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
1292LOC: Config.Log.store
1293DOC_START
1294 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
1295 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
1296 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
1297 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
1298 disable it.
1299DOC_END
1300
1301
e2529a2c 1302NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
cccac0a2 1303TYPE: string
1304LOC: Config.Log.swap
1305DEFAULT: none
1306DOC_START
e2529a2c 1307 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
1308 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
1309 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
cccac0a2 1310 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
1311 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
1312 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
1313 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
1314
7f7db318 1315 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
cccac0a2 1316 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
1317 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
1318 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
7f7db318 1319
cccac0a2 1320 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
7f7db318 1321 these swap logs will have names such as:
cccac0a2 1322
1323 cache_swap_log.00
1324 cache_swap_log.01
1325 cache_swap_log.02
1326
1327 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
1328 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
1329 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
7f7db318 1330 lines in this file, these log files will NOT correspond to
cccac0a2 1331 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
7f7db318 1332 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
cccac0a2 1333 better to keep these log files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
1334DOC_END
1335
1336
1337NAME: emulate_httpd_log
1338COMMENT: on|off
1339TYPE: onoff
1340DEFAULT: off
1341LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
1342DOC_START
1343 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
1344 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
1345 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
1346 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
7f7db318 1347 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
cccac0a2 1348DOC_END
1349
1350NAME: log_ip_on_direct
1351COMMENT: on|off
1352TYPE: onoff
1353DEFAULT: on
1354LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
1355DOC_START
1356 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
1357 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
1358 prefer the old way set this to off.
1359DOC_END
1360
1361NAME: mime_table
1362TYPE: string
1363DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
1364LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
1365DOC_START
1366 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
1367 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
1368 information if you do.
1369DOC_END
1370
1371
1372NAME: log_mime_hdrs
1373COMMENT: on|off
1374TYPE: onoff
1375LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
1376DEFAULT: off
1377DOC_START
1378 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
1379 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
1380 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
1381 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
1382 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
1383DOC_END
1384
1385
1386NAME: useragent_log
1387TYPE: string
1388LOC: Config.Log.useragent
1389DEFAULT: none
1390IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
1391DOC_START
1392 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
1393 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
1394 is disabled.
1395DOC_END
1396
1397
1398NAME: referer_log
1399TYPE: string
1400LOC: Config.Log.referer
1401DEFAULT: none
1402IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
1403DOC_START
1404 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
1405 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
1406DOC_END
1407
1408
1409NAME: pid_filename
1410TYPE: string
1411DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
1412LOC: Config.pidFilename
1413DOC_START
1414 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
1415DOC_END
1416
1417
1418NAME: debug_options
d9e04dc7 1419TYPE: debug
cccac0a2 1420DEFAULT: ALL,1
1421LOC: Config.debugOptions
1422DOC_START
1423 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
1424 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
1425 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
1426 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
1427 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
1428 "ALL,1".
1429DOC_END
1430
1431
1432NAME: log_fqdn
1433COMMENT: on|off
1434TYPE: onoff
1435DEFAULT: off
1436LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
1437DOC_START
1438 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
1439 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
1440 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
1441 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
1442 browsing.
1443DOC_END
1444
1445
1446NAME: client_netmask
1447TYPE: address
1448LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
1449DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
1450DOC_START
1451 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
1452 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
1453 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
1454 the last digit set to '0'.
1455DOC_END
0976f8db 1456
0976f8db 1457
cccac0a2 1458COMMENT_START
1459 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
1460 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1461COMMENT_END
1462
1463NAME: ftp_user
1464TYPE: string
1465DEFAULT: Squid@
1466LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
1467DOC_START
1468 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
1469 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
1470 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
1471
7f7db318 1472 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
cccac0a2 1473 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
1474 depending on how the cache is used.
7f7db318 1475 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
cccac0a2 1476 (for example perl.com).
1477DOC_END
1478
1479NAME: ftp_list_width
1480TYPE: size_t
1481DEFAULT: 32
1482LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
1483DOC_START
1484 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
1485 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
1486 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
1487DOC_END
1488
1489NAME: ftp_passive
1490TYPE: onoff
1491DEFAULT: on
1492LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
1493DOC_START
1494 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
7f7db318 1495 connections, turn off this option.
cccac0a2 1496DOC_END
1497
1498NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
1499TYPE: onoff
1500DEFAULT: on
1501LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
1502DOC_START
1503 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
1504 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
1505 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
1506 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
7f7db318 1507 connection turn this off.
cccac0a2 1508DOC_END
1509
1510NAME: check_hostnames
1511TYPE: onoff
1512DEFAULT: on
1513LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
1514DOC_START
1515 For security and stability reasons Squid by default checks
1516 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you do not want
7f7db318 1517 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive off.
cccac0a2 1518DOC_END
1519
dad0fe12 1520NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
1521TYPE: onoff
1522DEFAULT: on
1523LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
1524DOC_START
1525The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
1526as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
5ac1a5b3 1527implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
dad0fe12 1528the FTP protocol.
1529
1530If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
7f7db318 1531path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
1532try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
dad0fe12 1533operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
1534is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
1535DOC_END
1536
cccac0a2 1537NAME: cache_dns_program
1538TYPE: string
1539IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1540DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
1541LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
1542DOC_START
1543 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
1544DOC_END
1545
1546NAME: dns_children
1547TYPE: int
1548IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1549DEFAULT: 5
1550LOC: Config.dnsChildren
1551DOC_START
1552 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
1553 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
1554 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
1555 is 32. The default is 5.
1556
1557 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
1558DOC_END
1559
1560NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
1561TYPE: time_t
1562DEFAULT: 5 seconds
1563LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
1564IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1565DOC_START
1566 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
1567 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
1568
1569DOC_END
1570
1571NAME: dns_timeout
1572TYPE: time_t
1573DEFAULT: 5 minutes
1574LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
1575IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1576DOC_START
1577 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7f7db318 1578 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
1579 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 1580DOC_END
1581
1582NAME: dns_defnames
1583COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 1584TYPE: onoff
1585DEFAULT: off
1586LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 1587DOC_START
68836b58 1588 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
1589 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
cccac0a2 1590 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
68836b58 1591 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 1592DOC_END
1593
1594NAME: dns_nameservers
1595TYPE: wordlist
1596DEFAULT: none
1597LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
1598DOC_START
1599 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
1600 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
1601 /etc/resolv.conf file.
1602 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
1603 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
1604 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
1605 configurations are supported.
1606
1607 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
1608DOC_END
1609
1610NAME: hosts_file
1611TYPE: string
1612DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
1613LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
1614DOC_START
1615 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
1616 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7f7db318 1617 default locations:
cccac0a2 1618 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
1619 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6845f129 1620 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
fc4d8ed8 1621 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6845f129 1622 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
cccac0a2 1623 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
6845f129 1624 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
1625 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 1626
1627 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
1628 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
5ac1a5b3 1629 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
cccac0a2 1630 character are comments.
1631
7f7db318 1632 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
cccac0a2 1633 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7f7db318 1634 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
cccac0a2 1635 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
1636 definitions.
1637DOC_END
1638
1639NAME: diskd_program
1640TYPE: string
1641DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
1642LOC: Config.Program.diskd
1643DOC_START
1644 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
7f7db318 1645 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
cccac0a2 1646 diskd as one of the store io modules.
1647DOC_END
1648
1649NAME: unlinkd_program
1650IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
1651TYPE: string
1652DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
1653LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
1654DOC_START
1655 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
1656DOC_END
1657
1658NAME: pinger_program
1659TYPE: string
1660DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
1661LOC: Config.Program.pinger
1662IFDEF: USE_ICMP
1663DOC_START
1664 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
1665DOC_END
1666
1667
346be6ad 1668NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
cccac0a2 1669TYPE: wordlist
1670LOC: Config.Program.redirect
1671DEFAULT: none
1672DOC_START
1673 Specify the location of the executable for the URL redirector.
1674 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
1675 See the FAQ (section 15) for information on how to write one.
1676 By default, a redirector is not used.
1677DOC_END
1678
1679
dc62e7f7 1680NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
cccac0a2 1681TYPE: int
1682DEFAULT: 5
1683LOC: Config.redirectChildren
1684DOC_START
1685 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
1686 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
1687 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
1688 and other system resources.
1689DOC_END
1690
dc62e7f7 1691NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
cccac0a2 1692TYPE: int
1693DEFAULT: 0
1694LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
1695DOC_START
1696 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
7f7db318 1697 parallell. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
cccac0a2 1698 is a old-style singlethreaded redirector.
1699DOC_END
1700
dc62e7f7 1701NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
cccac0a2 1702TYPE: onoff
1703DEFAULT: on
1704LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
1705DOC_START
1706 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
7f7db318 1707 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
cccac0a2 1708 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
1709
1710 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
1711 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
1712DOC_END
1713
1714NAME: redirector_access
1715TYPE: acl_access
1716DEFAULT: none
1717LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
1718DOC_START
1719 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
1720 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
1721 are sent.
1722DOC_END
1723
1724NAME: auth_param
1725TYPE: authparam
1726LOC: Config.authConfiguration
1727DEFAULT: none
1728DOC_START
1729 This is used to pass parameters to the various authentication
1730 schemes.
1731 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
7f7db318 1732
1733 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
cccac0a2 1734 would tell the basic authentication scheme it's program parameter.
1735
7f7db318 1736 The order authentication prompts are presented to the client_agent
5ac1a5b3 1737 is dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file.
cccac0a2 1738 IE has a bug (it's not rfc 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
1739 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure schemes
1740 are presented. For now use the order in the file below. If other browsers
5ac1a5b3 1741 have difficulties (don't recognize the schemes offered even if you are using
7f7db318 1742 basic) either put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting
cccac0a2 1743 out their program entry).
1744
1745 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be shutdown
1746 by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on the fly and
1747 activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a different helper,
1748 but not unconfigure the helper completely.
1749
1750 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
7f7db318 1751
cccac0a2 1752 "program" cmdline
1753 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a
1754 program reads a line containing "username password" and replies
0a0c70cd 1755 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
1756 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
1757 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth.
1758 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a program
1759 is specified.
cccac0a2 1760
1761 If you want to use the traditional proxy authentication,
6845f129 1762 jump over to the ../helpers/basic_auth/NCSA directory and
cccac0a2 1763 type:
1764 % make
1765 % make install
1766
1767 Then, set this line to something like
1768
6845f129 1769 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
cccac0a2 1770
1771 "children" numberofchildren
1772 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1773 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1774 process a backlog of usercode/password verifications, slowing
1775 it down. When password verifications are done via a (slow)
1776 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1777 processes.
1778 auth_param basic children 5
1779
1780 "concurrency" concurrency
1781 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
1782 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
1783 one request at a time.
1784 auth_param basic concurrency 0
1785
1786 "realm" realmstring
1787 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1788 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
1789 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1790 password). There is no default.
1791 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1792
1793 "credentialsttl" timetolive
1794 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
1795 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
1796 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
1797 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
5ac1a5b3 1798 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
cccac0a2 1799 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
1800 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
1801 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
1802 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
1803
6845f129 1804 "casesensitive" on|off
1805 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
1806 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
1807 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
1808 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
1809 auth_param basic casesensitive off
64658378 1810
cccac0a2 1811 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
1812
1813 "program" cmdline
1814 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
1815 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
4c9fa5d5 1816 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value base64 encoded or
1817 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
1818 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
0a0c70cd 1819 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
1820 available as %m in the returned error page.
4c9fa5d5 1821
1822 By default, the digest authentication is not used unless a
1823 program is specified.
1824
1825 If you want to use a digest authenticator, jump over to the
6845f129 1826 helpers/digest_auth/ directory and choose the authenticator
4c9fa5d5 1827 to use. In it's directory type
6845f129 1828 % make
1829 % make install
cccac0a2 1830
1831 Then, set this line to something like
1832
1833 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
1834
1835
1836 "children" numberofchildren
1837 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1838 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1839 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
1840 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
1841 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
1842 auth_param digest children 5
1843
1844 "realm" realmstring
1845 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1846 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
1847 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1848 password). There is no default.
1849 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1850
1851 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
1852 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
1853 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
1854
1855 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
1856 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
1857 valid for.
1858
1859 "nonce_max_count" number
1860 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
1861 used.
1862
1863 "nonce_strictness" on|off
5ac1a5b3 1864 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
cccac0a2 1865 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
1866 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
1867 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
1868
1869 "check_nonce_count" on|off
1870 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
1871 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
1872 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
1873 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
1874
1875 "post_workaround" on|off
1876 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
1877 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
5ac1a5b3 1878 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 1879
cccac0a2 1880 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
1881
1882 "program" cmdline
5ac1a5b3 1883 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
bdf7e1b4 1884 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
1885 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
5ac1a5b3 1886 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
1887 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
cccac0a2 1888 is not used.
1889
1890 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
1891
1892 "children" numberofchildren
1893 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1894 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1895 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
5ac1a5b3 1896 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
cccac0a2 1897 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1898 processes.
dd9b1776 1899
cccac0a2 1900 auth_param ntlm children 5
1901
dd9b1776 1902 "keep_alive" on|off
1903 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
1904 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
1905 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
1906 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
1907 supported by the proxy.
1908
1909 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
1910
6bf4f823 1911 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 1912
6bf4f823 1913 "program" cmdline
1914 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
1915 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
1916 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
1917 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
1918 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
1919 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least one acl
1920 of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate authenticator_program
1921 is not used.
1922 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
26819f1e 1923 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
6bf4f823 1924
1925 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
1926
1927 "children" numberofchildren
1928 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1929 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1930 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
1931 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
1932 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1933 processes.
1934 auth_param negotiate children 5
1935
1936 "keep_alive" on|off
1937 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
1938 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
1939 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
1940 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
1941 supported by the proxy.
1942
1943 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 1944
1945NOCOMMENT_START
6845f129 1946#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
6bf4f823 1947#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
1948#auth_param negotiate children 5
1949#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
26819f1e 1950#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
1951#auth_param ntlm children 5
1952#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
2d70df72 1953#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
1954#auth_param digest children 5
1955#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1956#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
1957#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
1958#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
94439e4e 1959#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6845f129 1960#auth_param basic children 5
1961#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1962#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
6b698a21 1963NOCOMMENT_END
1964DOC_END
0976f8db 1965
6b698a21 1966NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
1967TYPE: time_t
1968DEFAULT: 1 hour
1969LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
1970DOC_START
1971 The time period between garbage collection across the
5ac1a5b3 1972 username cache. This is a tradeoff between memory utilization
6b698a21 1973 (long intervals - say 2 days) and CPU (short intervals -
1974 say 1 minute). Only change if you have good reason to.
1975DOC_END
0976f8db 1976
6b698a21 1977NAME: authenticate_ttl
1978TYPE: time_t
1979DEFAULT: 1 hour
1980LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
1981DOC_START
1982 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
1983 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
1984 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
1985 TTL are removed from memory.
1986DOC_END
0976f8db 1987
6b698a21 1988NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
1989TYPE: time_t
1990LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
1991DEFAULT: 0 seconds
1992DOC_START
1993 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
1994 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
1995 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
1996 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
1997 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
1998 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
1999 environment with relatively static address assignments.
2000DOC_END
0976f8db 2001
6b698a21 2002NAME: external_acl_type
2003TYPE: externalAclHelper
2004LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
2005DEFAULT: none
2006DOC_START
2007 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
2008 to look up the status
7f7db318 2009
6b698a21 2010 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
7f7db318 2011
6b698a21 2012 Options:
0976f8db 2013
6b698a21 2014 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
2015 for 1 hour)
2016 negative_ttl=n
2017 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
2018 as ttl)
2019 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
2020 external acl lookups of this type.
2021 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Use 0 for old style
2022 helpers who can only process a single request at a
2023 time.
2024 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
2025 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
2026 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
2027 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
dc1af3cf 2028 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
7f7db318 2029
6b698a21 2030 FORMAT specifications
2031
2032 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
66b4345b 2033 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
6b698a21 2034 %IDENT Ident user name
2035 %SRC Client IP
2036 %SRCPORT Client source port
2037 %DST Requested host
2038 %PROTO Requested protocol
2039 %PORT Requested port
2040 %PATH Requested URL path
2041 %METHOD Request method
2042 %MYADDR Squid interface address
2043 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
4ac9968f 2044 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
3d61c476 2045 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
4ac9968f 2046 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
2047 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
6b698a21 2048 %{Header} HTTP request header
2049 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
2050 %{Hdr:;member}
2051 HTTP request header list member using ; as
2052 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
2053 character.
2054
2055 In addition, any string specified in the referencing acl will
2056 also be included in the helper request line, after the specified
2057 formats (see the "acl external" directive)
2058
2059 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
2060 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
2061 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
dc1af3cf 2062 more details. To protect from odd characters the data is URL
2063 escaped.
6b698a21 2064
2065 General result syntax:
7f7db318 2066
6b698a21 2067 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
0976f8db 2068
6b698a21 2069 Defined keywords:
0976f8db 2070
6b698a21 2071 user= The users name (login)
2072 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
2073 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
2074 in error pages
2075 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
2076 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
2077 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
2078 %ea in logformat specifications
0976f8db 2079
dc1af3cf 2080 Keyword values need to be URL escaped if they may contain
2081 contain whitespace or quotes.
2082
2083 In Squid-2.5 compatibility mode quoting using " and \ is used
2084 instead of URL escaping.
6b698a21 2085DOC_END
0976f8db 2086
6b698a21 2087COMMENT_START
2088 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2089 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2090COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2091
6b698a21 2092NAME: wais_relay_host
2093TYPE: string
2094DEFAULT: none
2095LOC: Config.Wais.relayHost
2096DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2097
6b698a21 2098NAME: wais_relay_port
2099TYPE: ushort
2100DEFAULT: 0
2101LOC: Config.Wais.relayPort
2102DOC_START
2103 Relay WAIS request to host (1st arg) at port (2 arg).
2104DOC_END
0976f8db 2105
0976f8db 2106
6b698a21 2107NAME: request_header_max_size
2108COMMENT: (KB)
2109TYPE: b_size_t
5b648f60 2110DEFAULT: 20 KB
6b698a21 2111LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
2112DOC_START
2113 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
2114 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2115 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
2116 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2117 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2118DOC_END
0976f8db 2119
6b698a21 2120NAME: request_body_max_size
2121COMMENT: (KB)
2122TYPE: b_size_t
2123DEFAULT: 0 KB
2124LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
2125DOC_START
2126 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
2127 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
2128 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
2129 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
2130 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
2131 be no limit imposed.
2132DOC_END
0976f8db 2133
6b698a21 2134NAME: refresh_pattern
2135TYPE: refreshpattern
2136LOC: Config.Refresh
2137DEFAULT: none
2138DOC_START
2139 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
0976f8db 2140
6b698a21 2141 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2142 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
0976f8db 2143
6b698a21 2144 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2145 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2146 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2147 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2148 has taken the appropriate actions.
0976f8db 2149
6b698a21 2150 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2151 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2152 will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2153
6b698a21 2154 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2155 expiry time will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2156
6b698a21 2157 options: override-expire
2158 override-lastmod
2159 reload-into-ims
2160 ignore-reload
38f9c547 2161 ignore-no-cache
2162 ignore-no-store
2163 ignore-private
2164 ignore-auth
6845f129 2165 refresh-ims
0976f8db 2166
6b698a21 2167 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
2168 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
2169 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
2170 for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2171
6b698a21 2172 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
7f7db318 2173 that were modified recently.
0976f8db 2174
6b698a21 2175 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2176 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2177 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2178 liable for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2179
6b698a21 2180 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2181 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2182 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2183 it causes.
7f7db318 2184
6845f129 2185 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2186 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2187 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2188 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2189 send it anyway.
38f9c547 2190
6845f129 2191 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2192 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2193 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2194 liable for problems which it causes.
38f9c547 2195
6845f129 2196 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2197 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2198 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2199 liable for problems which it causes.
38f9c547 2200
6845f129 2201 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2202 irrespective of ``Cache-control'' headers received from
2203 a server. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2204 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2205 it causes.
38f9c547 2206
4c3ef9b2 2207 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2208 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2209 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2210 if one is available.
2211
6b698a21 2212 Basically a cached object is:
0976f8db 2213
6b698a21 2214 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2215 STALE if age > max
2216 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2217 FRESH if age < min
2218 else STALE
0976f8db 2219
6b698a21 2220 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2221 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
7f7db318 2222 match the default will be used.
0976f8db 2223
6b698a21 2224 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2225 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2226 used.
0976f8db 2227
6b698a21 2228Suggested default:
2229NOCOMMENT_START
2230refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2231refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
2232refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2233NOCOMMENT_END
2234DOC_END
0976f8db 2235
6b698a21 2236NAME: quick_abort_min
2237COMMENT: (KB)
2238TYPE: kb_size_t
2239DEFAULT: 16 KB
2240LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2241DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2242
6b698a21 2243NAME: quick_abort_max
2244COMMENT: (KB)
2245TYPE: kb_size_t
2246DEFAULT: 16 KB
2247LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2248DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2249
6b698a21 2250NAME: quick_abort_pct
2251COMMENT: (percent)
2252TYPE: int
2253DEFAULT: 95
2254LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2255DOC_START
2256 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2257 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2258 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2259 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2260 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2261 downloads.
0976f8db 2262
6b698a21 2263 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2264 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2265 then.
0976f8db 2266
6b698a21 2267 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2268 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2269
6b698a21 2270 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2271 it will abort the retrieval.
0976f8db 2272
6b698a21 2273 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2274 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2275
6b698a21 2276 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2277 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2278 to '0 KB'.
0976f8db 2279
6b698a21 2280 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
7f7db318 2281 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
6b698a21 2282DOC_END
0976f8db 2283
6b698a21 2284NAME: read_ahead_gap
2285COMMENT: buffer-size
2286TYPE: kb_size_t
2287LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2288DEFAULT: 16 KB
2289DOC_START
2290 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2291 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2292DOC_END
0976f8db 2293
6b698a21 2294NAME: negative_ttl
2295COMMENT: time-units
2296TYPE: time_t
2297LOC: Config.negativeTtl
2298DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2299DOC_START
2300 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
2301 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
2302 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
2303 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
2304 negative caching of DNS lookups.
2305DOC_END
0976f8db 2306
0976f8db 2307
6b698a21 2308NAME: positive_dns_ttl
2309COMMENT: time-units
2310TYPE: time_t
2311LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
2312DEFAULT: 6 hours
2313DOC_START
2314 Time-to-Live (TTL) for positive caching of successful DNS lookups.
2315 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). If you want to minimize the
2316 use of Squid's ipcache, set this to 1, not 0.
2317DOC_END
0976f8db 2318
0976f8db 2319
6b698a21 2320NAME: negative_dns_ttl
2321COMMENT: time-units
2322TYPE: time_t
2323LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
2324DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2325DOC_START
2326 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
2327DOC_END
0976f8db 2328
6b698a21 2329NAME: range_offset_limit
2330COMMENT: (bytes)
2331TYPE: b_size_t
2332LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
2333DEFAULT: 0 KB
2334DOC_START
2335 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
2336 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
7f7db318 2337 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
6b698a21 2338 is NOT cached.
0976f8db 2339
6b698a21 2340 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
2341 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
2342 sending anything to the client.
0976f8db 2343
6b698a21 2344 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
7f7db318 2345 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
0976f8db 2346
6b698a21 2347 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
2348 client requested. (default)
2349DOC_END
0976f8db 2350
0976f8db 2351
6b698a21 2352COMMENT_START
2353 TIMEOUTS
2354 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2355COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2356
777831e0 2357NAME: forward_timeout
2358COMMENT: time-units
2359TYPE: time_t
2360LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
2361DEFAULT: 4 minutes
2362DOC_START
6845f129 2363 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
2364 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
777831e0 2365DOC_END
2366
6b698a21 2367NAME: connect_timeout
2368COMMENT: time-units
2369TYPE: time_t
2370LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
777831e0 2371DEFAULT: 1 minute
6b698a21 2372DOC_START
6845f129 2373 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
2374 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
2375 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
6b698a21 2376DOC_END
0976f8db 2377
6b698a21 2378NAME: peer_connect_timeout
2379COMMENT: time-units
2380TYPE: time_t
2381LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
2382DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2383DOC_START
2384 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
2385 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
2386 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
2387 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
2388DOC_END
0976f8db 2389
6b698a21 2390NAME: read_timeout
2391COMMENT: time-units
2392TYPE: time_t
2393LOC: Config.Timeout.read
2394DEFAULT: 15 minutes
2395DOC_START
2396 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
2397 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
2398 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
2399 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
2400 default is 15 minutes.
2401DOC_END
0976f8db 2402
0976f8db 2403
6b698a21 2404NAME: request_timeout
2405TYPE: time_t
2406LOC: Config.Timeout.request
2407DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2408DOC_START
2409 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
2410 connection establishment.
2411DOC_END
0976f8db 2412
0976f8db 2413
6b698a21 2414NAME: persistent_request_timeout
2415TYPE: time_t
2416LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
2417DEFAULT: 1 minute
2418DOC_START
2419 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
2420 connection after the previous request completes.
2421DOC_END
0976f8db 2422
0976f8db 2423
6b698a21 2424NAME: client_lifetime
2425COMMENT: time-units
2426TYPE: time_t
2427LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
2428DEFAULT: 1 day
2429DOC_START
7f7db318 2430 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6b698a21 2431 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
2432 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
2433 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
2434 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
2435 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
2436 day, 1440 minutes.
2437
2438 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
2439 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
2440 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
2441 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
2442 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
2443 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
2444DOC_END
2445
2446NAME: half_closed_clients
2447TYPE: onoff
2448LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
2449DEFAULT: on
2450DOC_START
2451 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
2452 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
2453 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
2454 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
2455 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
2456 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
2457 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
2458 "no more data to read."
2459DOC_END
0976f8db 2460
6b698a21 2461NAME: pconn_timeout
2462TYPE: time_t
2463LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
2464DEFAULT: 120 seconds
2465DOC_START
2466 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
2467 proxies.
2468DOC_END
0976f8db 2469
6b698a21 2470NAME: ident_timeout
2471TYPE: time_t
2472IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2473LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
2474DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2475DOC_START
2476 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
7f7db318 2477
6b698a21 2478 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
7f7db318 2479 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6b698a21 2480 many ident requests going at once.
2481DOC_END
0976f8db 2482
0976f8db 2483
6b698a21 2484NAME: shutdown_lifetime
2485COMMENT: time-units
2486TYPE: time_t
2487LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
2488DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2489DOC_START
2490 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
2491 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
2492 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
2493 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
2494 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
2495DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2496
6b698a21 2497COMMENT_START
2498 ACCESS CONTROLS
2499 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2500COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 2501
6b698a21 2502NAME: acl
2503TYPE: acl
2504LOC: Config.aclList
2505DEFAULT: none
2506DOC_START
2507 Defining an Access List
9e7dbc51 2508
6b698a21 2509 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
2510 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
9e7dbc51 2511
6b698a21 2512 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
9e7dbc51 2513
6b698a21 2514 acltype is one of the types described below
9e7dbc51 2515
6b698a21 2516 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2517 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2518
6b698a21 2519 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
2520 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
2521 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
2522 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
9e7dbc51 2523
5b807763 2524 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
2525 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
2526 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
5cb988c7 2527 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
5b807763 2528 #
2529 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
2530 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
2531 # find out its MAC address.
2532
6b698a21 2533 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
2534 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
2535 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
2536 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
7660b45d 2537 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
2538 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
2539 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9e7dbc51 2540
a0ec9f68 2541 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
2542
6b698a21 2543 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
2544 day-abbrevs:
2545 S - Sunday
2546 M - Monday
2547 T - Tuesday
2548 W - Wednesday
2549 H - Thursday
2550 F - Friday
2551 A - Saturday
2552 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
2553 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
2554 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
2555 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
2556 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
2557 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
2558 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
2559 acl aclname method GET POST ...
2560 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
00634927 2561 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
6845f129 2562 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
2563 # pattern match on Referer header
2564 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
6b698a21 2565 acl aclname ident username ...
2566 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
2567 # string match on ident output.
9e7dbc51 2568 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
6b698a21 2569 acl aclname src_as number ...
2570 acl aclname dst_as number ...
2571 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
9e7dbc51 2572 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
2573 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
6468fe10 2574 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
2575 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
d87ebd78 2576 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
2577 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
6468fe10 2578
6b698a21 2579 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
2580 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
2581 # list of valid usernames
c68e9c6b 2582 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
73e67ee0 2583 #
2584 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
2585 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
2586 # in access.log.
c68e9c6b 2587 #
2588 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
2589 # to check username/password combinations (see
f7d2a450 2590 # auth_param directive).
c68e9c6b 2591 #
d048c262 2592 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy as
2593 # the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
2594 # to respond to proxy authentication.
934b03fc 2595
6b698a21 2596 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
2597 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
dba79ac5 2598 # Example:
96d88dcb 2599 #
dba79ac5 2600 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
2601
6b698a21 2602 acl aclname maxconn number
2603 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
9bc73deb 2604 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
2605
6b698a21 2606 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
2607 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
c23e89cd 2608 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
60d096f4 2609 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
7f7db318 2610 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
be5caa55 2611 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
c23e89cd 2612 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
7f7db318 2613 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
be5caa55 2614 # request is denied)
2615 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
c23e89cd 2616 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
be5caa55 2617 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
60d096f4 2618
cccac0a2 2619 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
5ac1a5b3 2620 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
c4ab8329 2621 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
5ac1a5b3 2622 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
c4ab8329 2623 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
2624 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
2625 # http_reply_access.
2626
7df0bfd7 2627 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
2628 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
2629 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
2630 # ACLs.
2631
2632 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
2633 # regex match agains the mime type of the request generated
2634 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
2635 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
2636 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
2637 # to match the returned file type.
2638
00634927 2639 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
2640 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
2641 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
2642 # ACLs.
2643
cccac0a2 2644 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
2645 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
d9572179 2646 # external_acl_type directive.
c4ab8329 2647
cccac0a2 2648 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
2649 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2650 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2651
cccac0a2 2652 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
2653 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2654 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2655
cccac0a2 2656 acl aclname ext_user username ...
2657 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
2658 # string match on username returned by external acl processing
d95b862f 2659 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
2660
cccac0a2 2661Examples:
5b807763 2662acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
cccac0a2 2663acl myexample dst_as 1241
2664acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
2665acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
2666acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
c68e9c6b 2667
cccac0a2 2668NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2669#Recommended minimum configuration:
cccac0a2 2670acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
2671acl manager proto cache_object
2672acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
2673acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ec19153f 2674acl SSL_ports port 443
cccac0a2 2675acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
2676acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
ec19153f 2677acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
cccac0a2 2678acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
2679acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
2680acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
2681acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
2682acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
2683acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
2684acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
2685acl CONNECT method CONNECT
2686NOCOMMENT_END
2687DOC_END
2688
2689NAME: http_access
2690TYPE: acl_access
2691LOC: Config.accessList.http
2692DEFAULT: none
2693DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2694DOC_START
2695 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
2696
2697 Access to the HTTP port:
2698 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2699
2700 NOTE on default values:
2701
2702 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
2703 the request.
2704
2705 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
2706 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
7f7db318 2707 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
cccac0a2 2708 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
2709 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
2710 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
2711
2712NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2713#Recommended minimum configuration:
2714#
2715# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
cccac0a2 2716http_access allow manager localhost
2717http_access deny manager
6b53c392 2718# Deny requests to unknown ports
cccac0a2 2719http_access deny !Safe_ports
6b53c392 2720# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
cccac0a2 2721http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
c68e9c6b 2722#
7f7db318 2723# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
2724# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
4cc6eb12 2725# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
2726#http_access deny to_localhost
c68e9c6b 2727#
4cc6eb12 2728# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
2729
59f4a63e 2730# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt
b9d7fe3e 2731# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should
2732# be allowed
2733#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
2734#http_access allow our_networks
2735
6b53c392 2736# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
cccac0a2 2737http_access deny all
2738NOCOMMENT_END
2739DOC_END
c4ab8329 2740
cccac0a2 2741NAME: http_reply_access
2742TYPE: acl_access
2743LOC: Config.accessList.reply
2744DEFAULT: none
2745DEFAULT_IF_NONE: allow all
2746DOC_START
6845f129 2747 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
c4ab8329 2748
6845f129 2749 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
0976f8db 2750
6845f129 2751 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
cccac0a2 2752 all replies
0976f8db 2753
6845f129 2754 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
2755 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
2756 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
0976f8db 2757
cccac0a2 2758NOCOMMENT_START
c4ab8329 2759#Recommended minimum configuration:
2760#
2761# Insert your own rules here.
2762#
2763#
2764# and finally allow by default
cccac0a2 2765http_reply_access allow all
2766NOCOMMENT_END
2767DOC_END
6b53c392 2768
6b53c392 2769
cccac0a2 2770NAME: icp_access
2771TYPE: acl_access
2772LOC: Config.accessList.icp
2773DEFAULT: none
2774DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2775DOC_START
2776 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
2777 access lists
934b03fc 2778
cccac0a2 2779 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 2780
cccac0a2 2781 See http_access for details
0976f8db 2782
cccac0a2 2783NOCOMMENT_START
403b5e7b 2784#Allow ICP queries from everyone
cccac0a2 2785icp_access allow all
2786NOCOMMENT_END
2787DOC_END
934b03fc 2788
2789
5401aa8d 2790NAME: htcp_access
2791IFDEF: USE_HTCP
2792TYPE: acl_access
2793LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
2794DEFAULT: none
2795DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2796DOC_START
2797 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
2798 access lists
2799
2800 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2801
2802 See http_access for details
2803
2804#Allow HTCP queries from everyone
2805htcp_access allow all
2806DOC_END
2807
2808NAME: htcp_clr_access
2809IFDEF: USE_HTCP
2810TYPE: acl_access
2811LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
2812DEFAULT: none
2813DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2814DOC_START
2815 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
2816 on defined access lists
2817
2818 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2819
2820 See http_access for details
2821
2822#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
2823acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
2824htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
2825DOC_END
2826
2827
cccac0a2 2828NAME: miss_access
2829TYPE: acl_access
2830LOC: Config.accessList.miss
2831DEFAULT: none
2832DOC_START
2833 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
2834 a parent. For example:
934b03fc 2835
cccac0a2 2836 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
2837 miss_access allow localclients
2838 miss_access deny !localclients
934b03fc 2839
7f7db318 2840 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
cccac0a2 2841 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
934b03fc 2842
cccac0a2 2843 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
2844 to fetch MISSES from us.
6b53c392 2845
cccac0a2 2846NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2847#Default setting:
2848# miss_access allow all
cccac0a2 2849NOCOMMENT_END
2850DOC_END
2851
2852
2853NAME: cache_peer_access
2854TYPE: peer_access
2855DEFAULT: none
2856LOC: none
2857DOC_START
2858 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2859 using ACL elements.
2860
2861 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2862
2863 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2864 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2865 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
2866DOC_END
2867
2868NAME: ident_lookup_access
2869TYPE: acl_access
2870IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2871DEFAULT: none
2872DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2873LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
2874DOC_START
2875 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
2876 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
2877 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
2878 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
2879 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
2880 any requests.
2881
2882 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
2883 can follow this example:
2884
2885 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
2886 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
2887 ident_lookup_access deny all
2888
2889 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
2890 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
2891 the correct result.
2892DOC_END
2893
2894NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2895TYPE: acl_tos
2896DEFAULT: none
2897LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
2898DOC_START
2899 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
2900 connections with, based on the username or source address
2901 making the request.
2902
2903 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2904
2905 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2906 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
2907
2908 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2909 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2910 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net 0x00
2911 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2912
2913 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
2914 know what you're specifying. For more, see RFC 2474
2915
2916 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a byte, value 0 - 255, or
2917 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2918
2919 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2920 matching line.
2921DOC_END
2922
2923NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2924TYPE: acl_address
2925DEFAULT: none
2926LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2927DOC_START
2928 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2929 based on the username or sourceaddress of the user making
2930 the request.
7f7db318 2931
cccac0a2 2932 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
2933
5ac1a5b3 2934 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
7f7db318 2935 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
cccac0a2 2936 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
2937 source address 10.1.0.3.
2938
2939 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2940 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2941 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net
2942 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net
2943 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3
2944
2945 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2946 matching line.
2947DOC_END
2948
4eb368f9 2949NAME: reply_header_max_size
2950COMMENT: (KB)
2951TYPE: b_size_t
2952DEFAULT: 20 KB
2953LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
2954DOC_START
2955 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
2956 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2957 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
2958 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2959 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2960DOC_END
2961
cccac0a2 2962NAME: reply_body_max_size
2963COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
2964TYPE: acl_b_size_t
2965DEFAULT: none
2966LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
2967DOC_START
6845f129 2968 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
cccac0a2 2969 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
5ac1a5b3 2970 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
cccac0a2 2971 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
5ac1a5b3 2972 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
cccac0a2 2973 for this reply.
2974
7f7db318 2975 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
cccac0a2 2976 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
2977 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
2978 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
2979 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
2980 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
2981 and they will receive a partial reply.
2982
2983 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
2984 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
2985 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
2986 use this option if you have downstream caches.
2987
2988 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
2989 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
2990 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
2991 the size of your largest error page.
2992
2993 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
2994 no limit imposed.
2995DOC_END
2996
2997NAME: log_access
2998TYPE: acl_access
2999LOC: Config.accessList.log
3000DEFAULT: none
3001COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3002DOC_START
6845f129 3003 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
cccac0a2 3004 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3005 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
3006DOC_END
0976f8db 3007
cccac0a2 3008COMMENT_START
3009 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3010 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3011COMMENT_END
3012
3013NAME: cache_mgr
3014TYPE: string
3015DEFAULT: webmaster
3016LOC: Config.adminEmail
3017DOC_START
3018 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3019 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3020DOC_END
3021
3022
abacf776 3023NAME: mail_from
3024TYPE: string
3025DEFAULT: none
3026LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3027DOC_START
3028 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3029 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3030 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3031 src/globals.h before building squid.
3032DOC_END
3033
3034
d084bf20 3035NAME: mail_program
3036TYPE: eol
3037DEFAULT: mail
3038LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3039DOC_START
3040 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
3041 The default is "mail". The specified program must complain
3042 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
3043 mail_program recipient < mailfile
3044 Optional command line options can be specified.
3045DOC_END
3046
3047
cccac0a2 3048NAME: cache_effective_user
3049TYPE: string
3050DEFAULT: nobody
3051LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3052DOC_START
3053 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3054 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
3055 to UID to nobody. If you define cache_effective_user, but not
3056 cache_effective_group, Squid sets the GID to the effective
3057 user's default group ID (taken from the password file) and
3058 supplementary group list from the from groups membership of
3059 cache_effective_user.
3060DOC_END
3061
cccac0a2 3062
3063NAME: cache_effective_group
3064TYPE: string
3065DEFAULT: none
3066LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3067DOC_START
e3d74828 3068 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3069 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3070 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
3071 all other group privileges of the effective user is ignored
3072 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
3073 root the user starting Squid must be member of the specified
3074 group.
cccac0a2 3075DOC_END
3076
3077
d3caee79 3078NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3079COMMENT: on|off
3080TYPE: onoff
3081DEFAULT: off
3082LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3083DOC_START
3084 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3085DOC_END
3086
3087
cccac0a2 3088NAME: visible_hostname
3089TYPE: string
3090LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3091DEFAULT: none
3092DOC_START
3093 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3094 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3095 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3096 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3097 names with this setting.
3098DOC_END
3099
3100
3101NAME: unique_hostname
3102TYPE: string
3103LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3104DEFAULT: none
3105DOC_START
3106 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3107 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3108 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3109DOC_END
3110
3111
3112NAME: hostname_aliases
3113TYPE: wordlist
3114LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3115DEFAULT: none
3116DOC_START
7f7db318 3117 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3118DOC_END
0976f8db 3119
cccac0a2 3120COMMENT_START
3121 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3122 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3123
3124 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3125 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3126 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3127 create cache hierarchies.
3128
3129 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3130 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3131 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3132
3133 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3134 following information from this configuration file:
3135
3136 http_port
3137 icp_port
3138 cache_mgr
3139
3140 All current information is processed regularly and made
3141 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3142COMMENT_END
3143
3144NAME: announce_period
3145TYPE: time_t
3146LOC: Config.Announce.period
3147DEFAULT: 0
3148DOC_START
3149 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3150 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3151 messages.
3152
3153 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3154 below.
3155
3156NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3157#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3158#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3159NOCOMMENT_END
3160DOC_END
3161
3162
3163NAME: announce_host
3164TYPE: string
3165DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3166LOC: Config.Announce.host
3167DOC_NONE
3168
3169NAME: announce_file
3170TYPE: string
3171DEFAULT: none
3172LOC: Config.Announce.file
3173DOC_NONE
3174
3175NAME: announce_port
3176TYPE: ushort
3177DEFAULT: 3131
3178LOC: Config.Announce.port
3179DOC_START
3180 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3181 number where the registration message will be sent.
3182
3183 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3184 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3185 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3186 message.
3187DOC_END
3188
3189NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
3190IFDEF: ESI
3191TYPE: string
3192LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3193DEFAULT: unset-id
3194DOC_START
3195 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3196 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3197 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3198 an identification token.
3199DOC_END
3200
3201NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
3202IFDEF: ESI
3203COMMENT: on|off
3204TYPE: onoff
3205DEFAULT: off
3206LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3207DOC_START
3208 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3209 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3210DOC_END
3211
3212NAME: esi_parser
3213IFDEF: ESI
964b44c3 3214COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3215TYPE: string
3216LOC: ESIParser::Type
3217DEFAULT: custom
3218DOC_START
3219 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3220 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3221 encodings.
3222DOC_END
0976f8db 3223
cccac0a2 3224COMMENT_START
3225 MISCELLANEOUS
3226 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3227COMMENT_END
3228
3229NAME: dns_testnames
3230TYPE: wordlist
3231LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
3232DEFAULT: none
3233DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
3234DOC_START
3235 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
3236
3237 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
3238DOC_END
3239
3240
3241NAME: logfile_rotate
3242TYPE: int
3243DEFAULT: 10
3244LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
3245DOC_START
3246 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
87d69285 3247 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3248 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3249 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3250 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
cccac0a2 3251 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
3252
3253 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3254 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3255 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3256 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3257 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3258 <pid>'.
3259DOC_END
3260
3261
3262NAME: append_domain
3263TYPE: string
3264LOC: Config.appendDomain
3265DEFAULT: none
3266DOC_START
3267 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
3268 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
3269
7f7db318 3270 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
cccac0a2 3271 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
3272 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
3273
3274Example:
3275 append_domain .yourdomain.com
3276DOC_END
3277
3278
3279NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
3280COMMENT: (bytes)
3281TYPE: b_size_t
3282DEFAULT: 0 bytes
3283LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
3284DOC_START
3285 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
3286 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
3287 the default buffer size.
3288DOC_END
3289
3290NAME: err_html_text
3291TYPE: eol
3292LOC: Config.errHtmlText
3293DEFAULT: none
3294DOC_START
3295 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
3296 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
3297 organizations Web page.
3298
3299 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
3300 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
3301 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
3302 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
3303DOC_END
3304
3305NAME: email_err_data
3306COMMENT: on|off
3307TYPE: onoff
3308LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
3309DEFAULT: on
3310DOC_START
3311 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
3312 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7f7db318 3313 so that the email body contains the data.
cccac0a2 3314 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
3315DOC_END
3316
3317
3318NAME: deny_info
3319TYPE: denyinfo
3320LOC: Config.denyInfoList
3321DEFAULT: none
3322DOC_START
3323 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
3324 or deny_info http://... acl
3325 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
3326
3327 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
3328 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. A single ACL will cause
3329 the http_access check to fail. If a 'deny_info' line exists
7f7db318 3330 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
cccac0a2 3331
3332 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
3333 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
3334
7f7db318 3335 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
cccac0a2 3336 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
3337 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
3338
3339 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
3340 by specifying TCP_RESET.
3341DOC_END
3342
3343NAME: memory_pools
3344COMMENT: on|off
3345TYPE: onoff
3346DEFAULT: on
3347LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
3348DOC_START
3349 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
3350 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
3351 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
3352 routines, disable this.
3353DOC_END
3354
3355NAME: memory_pools_limit
3356COMMENT: (bytes)
3357TYPE: b_size_t
e838cf2f 3358DEFAULT: 5 MB
cccac0a2 3359LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
3360DOC_START
3361 Used only with memory_pools on:
3362 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
3363
3364 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
3365 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
3366 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
3367 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
3368 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
3369 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
3370 configuration will use less memory.
3371
7e7e02e1 3372 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
3373 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
cccac0a2 3374
3375 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
3376 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
3377
3378 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
3379 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
3380 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
3381 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
3382DOC_END
3383
3384NAME: via
3385IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3386COMMENT: on|off
3387TYPE: onoff
3388DEFAULT: on
3389LOC: Config.onoff.via
3390DOC_START
3391 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3392 replies as required by RFC2616.
3393DOC_END
3394
3395NAME: forwarded_for
3396COMMENT: on|off
3397TYPE: onoff
3398DEFAULT: on
3399LOC: opt_forwarded_for
3400DOC_START
3401 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
3402 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
3403 this:
3404
3405 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
3406
3407 If you disable this, it will appear as
3408
3409 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
3410DOC_END
3411
3412NAME: log_icp_queries
3413COMMENT: on|off
3414TYPE: onoff
3415DEFAULT: on
3416LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
3417DOC_START
3418 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
3419 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
3420 up or to simplify log analysis.
3421DOC_END
3422
3423NAME: icp_hit_stale
3424COMMENT: on|off
3425TYPE: onoff
3426DEFAULT: off
3427LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
3428DOC_START
3429 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
3430 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
3431 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7f7db318 3432 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
cccac0a2 3433 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7f7db318 3434 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
cccac0a2 3435 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
3436DOC_END
3437
3438
3439NAME: minimum_direct_hops
3440TYPE: int
3441DEFAULT: 4
3442LOC: Config.minDirectHops
3443DOC_START
3444 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3445 which are no more than this many hops away.
3446DOC_END
3447
3448NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
3449TYPE: int
3450DEFAULT: 400
3451LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
3452DOC_START
3453 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3454 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
3455DOC_END
3456
3457NAME: cachemgr_passwd
3458TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
3459DEFAULT: none
3460LOC: Config.passwd_list
3461DOC_START
3462 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
3463
3464 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
3465
3466 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
3467 5min
3468 60min
3469 asndb
3470 authenticator
3471 cbdata
3472 client_list
3473 comm_incoming
3474 config *
3475 counters
3476 delay
3477 digest_stats
3478 dns
3479 events
3480 filedescriptors
3481 fqdncache
3482 histograms
3483 http_headers
3484 info
3485 io
3486 ipcache
3487 mem
3488 menu
3489 netdb
3490 non_peers
3491 objects
3492 offline_toggle *
3493 pconn
3494 peer_select
3495 redirector
3496 refresh
3497 server_list
3498 shutdown *
3499 store_digest
3500 storedir
3501 utilization
3502 via_headers
3503 vm_objects
3504
3505 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
3506 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
3507
3508 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
3509 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
3510 password to "none".
3511
3512 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
3513
3514Example:
3515 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
3516 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
3517 cachemgr_passwd disable all
3518DOC_END
3519
3520NAME: store_avg_object_size
3521COMMENT: (kbytes)
3522TYPE: kb_size_t
3523DEFAULT: 13 KB
3524LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3525DOC_START
3526 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3527 cache can hold. See doc/Release-Notes-1.1.txt. The default is
3528 13 KB.
3529DOC_END
3530
3531NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3532TYPE: int
3533DEFAULT: 20
3534LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3535DOC_START
3536 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3537 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
c8f4eac4 3538 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
cccac0a2 3539DOC_END
3540
3541NAME: client_db
3542COMMENT: on|off
3543TYPE: onoff
3544DEFAULT: on
3545LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
3546DOC_START
7f7db318 3547 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
cccac0a2 3548 turn off client_db here.
3549DOC_END
3550
3551
3552NAME: netdb_low
3553TYPE: int
3554DEFAULT: 900
3555LOC: Config.Netdb.low
3556DOC_NONE
3557
3558NAME: netdb_high
3559TYPE: int
3560DEFAULT: 1000
3561LOC: Config.Netdb.high
3562DOC_START
3563 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
3564 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
3565 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
3566 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
3567DOC_END
3568
3569
3570NAME: netdb_ping_period
3571TYPE: time_t
3572LOC: Config.Netdb.period
3573DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3574DOC_START
3575 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
3576 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
3577 network. The default is five minutes.
3578DOC_END
3579
3580
3581NAME: query_icmp
3582COMMENT: on|off
3583TYPE: onoff
3584DEFAULT: off
3585LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
3586DOC_START
3587 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
3588 replies, enable this option.
3589
3590 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 3591 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
3592 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 3593 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
3594 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
3595 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
3596 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
3597 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
3598DOC_END
3599
3600NAME: test_reachability
3601COMMENT: on|off
3602TYPE: onoff
3603DEFAULT: off
3604LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
3605DOC_START
3606 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
3607 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
3608 database, or has a zero RTT.
3609DOC_END
3610
3611NAME: buffered_logs
3612COMMENT: on|off
3613TYPE: onoff
3614DEFAULT: off
3615LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3616DOC_START
3617 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3618 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3619 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3620 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3621 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3622DOC_END
3623
4c3ef9b2 3624NAME: refresh_all_ims
3625COMMENT: on|off
3626TYPE: onoff
3627DEFAULT: off
3628LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
3629DOC_START
3630 When you enable this option, squid will always check
3631 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
3632 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
3633 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
3634 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
3635
3636 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
3637 based on the age of the cached version.
3638DOC_END
3639
cccac0a2 3640NAME: reload_into_ims
3641IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3642COMMENT: on|off
3643TYPE: onoff
3644DEFAULT: off
3645LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
3646DOC_START
3647 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
3648 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
3649 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
3650 feature could make you liable for problems which it
3651 causes.
7f7db318 3652
cccac0a2 3653 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
3654DOC_END
3655
3656NAME: always_direct
3657TYPE: acl_access
3658LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
3659DEFAULT: none
3660DOC_START
3661 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3662
3663 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
3664 ALWAYS be forwarded directly to origin servers. For example,
3665 to always directly forward requests for local servers use
3666 something like:
3667
3668 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
3669 always_direct allow local-servers
3670
3671 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
3672
3673 acl FTP proto FTP
3674 always_direct allow FTP
3675
3676 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
3677 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
3678 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
3679 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
3680 some other rule. Example:
3681
3682 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3683 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3684 always_direct deny local-external
3685 always_direct allow local-servers
3686
3687 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
3688 and local_ip.
3689DOC_END
3690
3691NAME: never_direct
3692TYPE: acl_access
3693LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
3694DEFAULT: none
3695DOC_START
3696 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3697
3698 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
3699 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
3700
3701 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
3702 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
3703 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
3704 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
3705
3706 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3707 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
3708 never_direct deny local-servers
3709 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3710
3711 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
f939c0ca 3712 servers inside the firewall use something like:
cccac0a2 3713
3714 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
3715 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3716 always_direct deny local-external
3717 always_direct allow local-intranet
3718 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3719
cccac0a2 3720 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
3721 and firewall_ip.
3722DOC_END
3723
8c01ada0 3724NAME: request_header_access
cccac0a2 3725IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3726TYPE: http_header_access[]
8c01ada0 3727LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3728DEFAULT: none
3729DOC_START
8c01ada0 3730 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 3731
3732 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3733 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3734 causes.
3735
3736 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3737 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3738 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3739 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3740 mangling.
3741
8c01ada0 3742 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3743 client to the server.
3744
cccac0a2 3745 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3746 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3747 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3748
5ac1a5b3 3749 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
cccac0a2 3750 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3751
8c01ada0 3752 request_header_access From deny all
3753 request_header_access Referer deny all
3754 request_header_access Server deny all
3755 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3756 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3757 request_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3758
3759 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3760 you should use:
3761
8c01ada0 3762 request_header_access Allow allow all
3763 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3764 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
141ab88c 3765 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3766 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
8c01ada0 3767 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3768 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3769 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3770 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3771 request_header_access Date allow all
3772 request_header_access Expires allow all
3773 request_header_access Host allow all
3774 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3775 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3776 request_header_access Location allow all
3777 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3778 request_header_access Accept allow all
3779 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3780 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3781 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3782 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3783 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3784 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3785 request_header_access Title allow all
3786 request_header_access Connection allow all
3787 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3788 request_header_access All deny all
3789
3790 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3791 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
3792
3793 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3794 performed).
3795DOC_END
3796
3797NAME: reply_header_access
3798IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3799TYPE: http_header_access[]
3800LOC: Config.reply_header_access
3801DEFAULT: none
3802DOC_START
3803 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3804
3805 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3806 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3807 causes.
3808
3809 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3810 server to the client.
3811
3812 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3813 direction.
3814
3815 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3816 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3817 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3818 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3819 mangling.
3820
3821 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3822 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3823 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3824
5ac1a5b3 3825 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
8c01ada0 3826 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3827
3828 reply_header_access From deny all
3829 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3830 reply_header_access Server deny all
3831 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3832 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3833 reply_header_access Link deny all
3834
3835 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3836 you should use:
3837
3838 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3839 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3840 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
141ab88c 3841 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3842 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
8c01ada0 3843 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3844 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3845 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3846 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3847 reply_header_access Date allow all
3848 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3849 reply_header_access Host allow all
3850 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3851 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3852 reply_header_access Location allow all
3853 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3854 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3855 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3856 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3857 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3858 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3859 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3860 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3861 reply_header_access Title allow all
3862 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3863 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3864 reply_header_access All deny all
3865
3866 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3867 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3868
3869 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3870 performed).
3871DOC_END
3872
3873NAME: header_replace
3874IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3875TYPE: http_header_replace[]
8c01ada0 3876LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3877DEFAULT: none
3878DOC_START
3879 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3880 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
3881
3882 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3883 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3884 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3885 option.
3886
8c01ada0 3887 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
3888
cccac0a2 3889 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3890DOC_END
3891
3892NAME: icon_directory
3893TYPE: string
3894LOC: Config.icons.directory
3895DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3896DOC_START
3897 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
3898 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3899DOC_END
3900
f024c970 3901NAME: global_internal_static
3902TYPE: onoff
3903LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
3904DEFAULT: on
3905DOC_START
3906 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
3907 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
3908 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
3909 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
3910 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
3911 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
3912 the server generating a directory listing.
3913DOC_END
3914
e72a0ec0 3915NAME: short_icon_urls
3916TYPE: onoff
3917LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
3918DEFAULT: on
3919DOC_START
7f7db318 3920 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5ac1a5b3 3921 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
e72a0ec0 3922 it's own name and port in the URL.
3923
3924 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7f7db318 3925 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
e72a0ec0 3926DOC_END
3927
cccac0a2 3928NAME: error_directory
3929TYPE: string
3930LOC: Config.errorDirectory
3931DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
3932DOC_START
3933 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
3934 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
3935 language or company copy the template English files to another
3936 directory and point this tag at them.
3937DOC_END
3938
3939NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
3940TYPE: int
3941LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
4ed0e075 3942DEFAULT: 1
cccac0a2 3943DOC_START
3944 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
3945 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
3946 each address is tried once).
3947
4ed0e075 3948 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
cccac0a2 3949 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
3950 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
4ed0e075 3951
5ac1a5b3 3952 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
4ed0e075 3953 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
cccac0a2 3954DOC_END
3955
5894ad28 3956NAME: retry_on_error
3957TYPE: onoff
3958LOC: Config.retry.onerror
3959DEFAULT: off
3960DOC_START
3961 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
3962 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
3963 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
3964 control errors.
3965DOC_END
3966
cccac0a2 3967NAME: snmp_port
3968TYPE: ushort
3969LOC: Config.Port.snmp
3970DEFAULT: 3401
3971IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3972DOC_START
3973 Squid can now serve statistics and status information via SNMP.
3974 By default it listens to port 3401 on the machine. If you don't
3975 wish to use SNMP, set this to "0".
4ed0e075 3976
7f7db318 3977 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4ed0e075 3978 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
3979 acts on cachable requests.
cccac0a2 3980DOC_END
3981
3982NAME: snmp_access
3983TYPE: acl_access
3984LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
3985DEFAULT: none
3986DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
3987IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3988DOC_START
3989 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
3990
3991 All access to the agent is denied by default.
3992 usage:
3993
3994 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3995
3996Example:
3997 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
3998 snmp_access deny all
3999DOC_END
4000
4001NAME: snmp_incoming_address
4002TYPE: address
4003LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4004DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4005IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4006DOC_NONE
4007NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4008TYPE: address
4009LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4010DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4011IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4012DOC_START
4013 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
4014
4015 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4016 messages from SNMP agents.
4017 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4018 agents.
4019
4020 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4021 available network interfaces.
4022
4023 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 4024 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 4025 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4026 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
4027
4028 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4029 the same value since they both use port 3401.
4030DOC_END
4031
4032NAME: as_whois_server
4033TYPE: string
4034LOC: Config.as_whois_server
4035DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
4036DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
4037DOC_START
4038 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
4039 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
4040DOC_END
4041
4042NAME: wccp_router
4043TYPE: address
4044LOC: Config.Wccp.router
4045DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4046IFDEF: USE_WCCP
0b0cfcf2 4047DOC_NONE
4048NAME: wccp2_router
4049TYPE: sockaddr_in_list
4050LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
4051DEFAULT: none
4052IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4053DOC_START
4054 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
0b0cfcf2 4055 Squid.
4056
4057 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4058
4059 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4060
4061 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4062 which version of WCCP to use.
cccac0a2 4063DOC_END
4064
4065NAME: wccp_version
4066TYPE: int
4067LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4068DEFAULT: 4
4069IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4070DOC_START
0b0cfcf2 4071 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4072 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4073 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4074 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4075 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
4076
4077 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4078 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4079 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4080 do not specify this parameter.
4081DOC_END
4082
f67332d3 4083NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4084TYPE: onoff
4085LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4086DEFAULT: on
4087IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4088DOC_START
4089 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4090 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4091DOC_END
4092
0b0cfcf2 4093NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
4094TYPE: int
4095LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
4096DEFAULT: 1
4097IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4098DOC_START
4099 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
4100 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
4101
4102 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4103 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
4104
4105 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4106 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
4107DOC_END
4108
4109NAME: wccp2_return_method
4110TYPE: int
4111LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
4112DEFAULT: 1
4113IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4114DOC_START
4115 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
4116 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4117 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
4118
4119 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4120 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
4121
4122 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4123 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
4124
4125 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
4126 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4127 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4128 option is set to GRE.
4129DOC_END
4130
b7d249f9 4131NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
4132TYPE: int
4133LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
4134DEFAULT: 1
4135IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4136DOC_START
4137 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4138 Valid values are as follows:
4139
4140 1 - Hash assignment
4141 2 - Mask assignment
4142
4143 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4144 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4145DOC_END
4146
0b0cfcf2 4147NAME: wccp2_service
4148TYPE: wccp2_service
4149LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4150DEFAULT: none
4151DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4152IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4153DOC_START
4154 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4155 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4156 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4157 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4158 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4159 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4160
4161 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4162 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4163
4164 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4165 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4166
4167 Examples:
4168
4169 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4170 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4171 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4172 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
4173
cccac0a2 4174DOC_END
4175
0b0cfcf2 4176NAME: wccp2_service_info
4177TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4178LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4179DEFAULT: none
4180IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4181DOC_START
4182 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4183 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4184
4185 The format is:
4186
4187 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4188 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4189
4190 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4191 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
4192 + source_port_hash, dest_port_hash
4193 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4194 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4195 + ports_source
4196
4197 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4198
4199 Example:
4200
4201 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4202 priority=240 ports=80
4203
4204 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4205 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4206DOC_END
4207
f16fbc82 4208NAME: wccp2_weight
4209TYPE: int
4210LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4211DEFAULT: 10000
4212IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4213DOC_START
4214 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4215 hash proportional to their weight.
4216DOC_END
4217
0b0cfcf2 4218NAME: wccp_address
cccac0a2 4219TYPE: address
0b0cfcf2 4220LOC: Config.Wccp.address
cccac0a2 4221DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4222IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4223DOC_NONE
0b0cfcf2 4224NAME: wccp2_address
cccac0a2 4225TYPE: address
0b0cfcf2 4226LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4227DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4228IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4229DOC_START
0b0cfcf2 4230 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4231 interface address.
cccac0a2 4232
6845f129 4233 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4234DOC_END
0976f8db 4235
0976f8db 4236
cccac0a2 4237COMMENT_START
4238 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS (all require DELAY_POOLS compilation option)
4239 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4240COMMENT_END
4241
4242NAME: delay_pools
4243TYPE: delay_pool_count
4244DEFAULT: 0
4245IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4246LOC: Config.Delay
4247DOC_START
4248 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4249 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4250 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4251DOC_END
4252
4253NAME: delay_class
4254TYPE: delay_pool_class
4255DEFAULT: none
4256IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4257LOC: Config.Delay
4258DOC_START
4259 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4260 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4261 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4262 and here would be:
4263
4264Example:
4265 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4266 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4267 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4268 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4269 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
4270
4271 The delay pool classes are:
4272
4273 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4274 bucket.
4275
4276 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4277 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
4278 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
4279
4280 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4281 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4282 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4283 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
4284 32 of the IP address.
7f7db318 4285
4286 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
cccac0a2 4287 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4288 only takes effect if the username is established
4289 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4290 http_access rules.
4291
7f7db318 4292 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
cccac0a2 4293 external_acl's tag= reply).
4294
4295 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4296 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4297 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4298 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
4299DOC_END
4300
4301NAME: delay_access
4302TYPE: delay_pool_access
4303DEFAULT: none
4304IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4305LOC: Config.Delay
4306DOC_START
4307 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
8ed8fda3 4308
4309 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4310 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4311 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4312 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4313
4314 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
cccac0a2 4315 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4316
4317Example:
4318 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4319 delay_access 1 deny all
4320 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4321 delay_access 2 deny all
4322 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4323DOC_END
4324
4325NAME: delay_parameters
4326TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4327DEFAULT: none
4328IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4329LOC: Config.Delay
4330DOC_START
4331 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4332 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4333 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4334
4335delay_parameters pool aggregate
4336
4337 For a class 2 delay pool:
4338
4339delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4340
4341 For a class 3 delay pool:
4342
4343delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4344
4345 For a class 4 delay pool:
4346
4347delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4348
4349 For a class 5 delay pool:
4350
4351delay_parameters pool tag
4352
4353 The variables here are:
4354
4355 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4356 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4357 delay_class lines.
4358
4359 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
4360 (class 1, 2, 3).
4361
4362 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
4363 buckets (class 2, 3).
4364
4365 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
4366 (class 3).
4367
4368 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
4369 (class 4).
4370
4371 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
4372 (class 5).
4373
4374 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4375 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4376 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4377 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4378
4379 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4380 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4381 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4382
4383delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4384
4385 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4386
4387 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4388 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4389 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4390 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4391 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4392 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4393 large downloads more significantly:
4394
4395delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4396
4397 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4398
4399 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4400 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
7f7db318 4401
cccac0a2 4402delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4403DOC_END
4404
4405NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4406COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4407TYPE: ushort
4408DEFAULT: 50
4409IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4410LOC: Config.Delay.initial
4411DOC_START
4412 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
4413 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
4414 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
4415 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
4416 "seen" by squid).
4417DOC_END
4418
4419NAME: incoming_icp_average
4420TYPE: int
4421DEFAULT: 6
4422LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4423DOC_NONE
4424
4425NAME: incoming_http_average
4426TYPE: int
4427DEFAULT: 4
4428LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
4429DOC_NONE
4430
4431NAME: incoming_dns_average
4432TYPE: int
4433DEFAULT: 4
4434LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
4435DOC_NONE
4436
4437NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
4438TYPE: int
4439DEFAULT: 8
4440LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
4441DOC_NONE
4442
4443NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
4444TYPE: int
4445DEFAULT: 8
4446LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
4447DOC_NONE
4448
4449NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
4450TYPE: int
4451DEFAULT: 8
4452LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
4453DOC_START
4454 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
4455 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
4456 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
4457DOC_END
4458
4459NAME: max_open_disk_fds
4460TYPE: int
4461LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
4462DEFAULT: 0
4463DOC_START
4464 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
4465 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
4466 descriptors are open.
4467
4468 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
4469DOC_END
4470
4471NAME: offline_mode
4472TYPE: onoff
4473LOC: Config.onoff.offline
4474DEFAULT: off
4475DOC_START
4476 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
4477 objects.
4478DOC_END
4479
4480NAME: uri_whitespace
4481TYPE: uri_whitespace
4482LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
4483DEFAULT: strip
4484DOC_START
4485 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
4486 URI. Options:
4487
4488 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
4489 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
4490 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
4491 Request" message.
4492 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
4493 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
4494 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
4495 are in use.
4496 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
4497 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
4498 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
4499 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
4500 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
4501 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
4502 violation.
4503DOC_END
4504
4505NAME: broken_posts
4506TYPE: acl_access
4507DEFAULT: none
4508LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
4509DOC_START
4510 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4511 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
4512
4513 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4514 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
4515
4516 Quote from RFC 2068 section 4.1 on this matter:
4517
4518 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4519 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4520 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4521 a request with an extra CRLF.
4522
4523Example:
4524 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4525 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4526DOC_END
4527
4528NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4529IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4530TYPE: address
4531LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4532DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4533DOC_START
4534 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4535 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
4536
4537 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4538 certain you understand what you are doing.
4539DOC_END
4540
4541NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
964b44c3 4542IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
cccac0a2 4543TYPE: ushort
4544LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4545DEFAULT: 16
4546DOC_START
4547 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4548 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4549 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4550DOC_END
4551
4552NAME: mcast_miss_port
4553IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4554TYPE: ushort
4555LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4556DEFAULT: 3135
4557DOC_START
4558 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4559 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4560DOC_END
4561
4562NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4563IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4564TYPE: string
4565LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4566DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4567DOC_START
4568 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4569 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4570DOC_END
4571
4572NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
4573TYPE: onoff
4574LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
4575DEFAULT: on
4576DOC_START
4577 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4578 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cachable request type) direct
4579 to origin servers.
4580
7f7db318 4581 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
cccac0a2 4582 requests to parents.
4583
4584 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4585 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4586 ratio.
4587
7f7db318 4588 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
cccac0a2 4589 this directive.
4590DOC_END
4591
4592NAME: prefer_direct
4593TYPE: onoff
4594LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
4595DEFAULT: off
4596DOC_START
7f7db318 4597 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
cccac0a2 4598 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7f7db318 4599 going direct fails set this to on.
cccac0a2 4600
4601 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4602 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4603 fails.
4604DOC_END
4605
4606NAME: strip_query_terms
4607TYPE: onoff
4608LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
4609DEFAULT: on
4610DOC_START
4611 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
4612 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
4613DOC_END
4614
4615NAME: coredump_dir
4616TYPE: string
4617LOC: Config.coredump_dir
4618DEFAULT: none
4619DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
4620DOC_START
4621 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4622 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4623 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4624 and coredump files will be left there.
4625
4626NOCOMMENT_START
5ff76111 4627# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
cccac0a2 4628coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4629NOCOMMENT_END
4630DOC_END
4631
4632NAME: redirector_bypass
4633TYPE: onoff
4634LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4635DEFAULT: off
4636DOC_START
4637 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4638 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4639 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4640 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4641 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4642 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4643 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
7f7db318 4644 users may have access to pages they should not
cccac0a2 4645 be allowed to request.
4646DOC_END
4647
4648NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
4649TYPE: onoff
4650LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
4651DEFAULT: on
4652DOC_START
4653 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7f7db318 4654 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
cccac0a2 4655 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
4656 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
4657 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
4658DOC_END
4659
4660NAME: digest_generation
4661IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4662TYPE: onoff
4663LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4664DEFAULT: on
4665DOC_START
4666 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4667 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
4668 enabled if Squid is compiled with USE_CACHE_DIGESTS defined.
4669DOC_END
4670
4671NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4672IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4673TYPE: int
4674LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4675DEFAULT: 5
4676DOC_START
4677 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4678 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4679 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4680DOC_END
4681
4682NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4683IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4684COMMENT: (seconds)
4685TYPE: time_t
4686LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4687DEFAULT: 1 hour
4688DOC_START
4689 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest rebuilds.
4690DOC_END
4691
4692NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4693COMMENT: (seconds)
4694IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4695TYPE: time_t
4696LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4697DEFAULT: 1 hour
4698DOC_START
4699 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest writes to
4700 disk.
4701DOC_END
4702
4703NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4704COMMENT: (bytes)
4705TYPE: b_size_t
4706IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4707LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4708DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4709DOC_START
4710 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4711 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4712 default swap page.
4713DOC_END
4714
4715NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4716COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4717IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4718TYPE: int
4719LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4720DEFAULT: 10
4721DOC_START
4722 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4723 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4724DOC_END
4725
4726NAME: chroot
4727TYPE: string
4728LOC: Config.chroot_dir
4729DEFAULT: none
4730DOC_START
4731 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
4732 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
7f7db318 4733 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
cccac0a2 4734 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will get an
4735 error.
4736DOC_END
4737
4738NAME: client_persistent_connections
4739TYPE: onoff
4740LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4741DEFAULT: on
4742DOC_NONE
4743
4744NAME: server_persistent_connections
4745TYPE: onoff
4746LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4747DEFAULT: on
4748DOC_START
4749 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4750 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4751 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4752 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4753DOC_END
4754
58850d15 4755NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
a12a049a 4756TYPE: onoff
58850d15 4757LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4758DEFAULT: off
a12a049a 4759DOC_START
58850d15 4760 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4761 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4762 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
a12a049a 4763DOC_END
4764
21b92762 4765NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4766TYPE: onoff
4767LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4768DEFAULT: off
4769DOC_START
4770 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4771 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4772 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4773 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4774
4775 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4776 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4777 after 10 seconds timeout.
4778DOC_END
4779
58850d15 4780NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
4781TYPE: onoff
4782LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
4783DEFAULT: on
4784DOC_START
4785 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
4786 found not to preserve user session state across requests
4787 to different IP addresses.
4788
4789 By default Squid rotates IP's per request. By disabling
4790 this directive only connection failure triggers rotation.
4791DOC_END
4792
cccac0a2 4793NAME: pipeline_prefetch
4794TYPE: onoff
4795LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
4796DEFAULT: off
4797DOC_START
4798 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
4799 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5ac1a5b3 4800 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
cccac0a2 4801
4802 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
4803 reasons.
4804DOC_END
4805
4806NAME: extension_methods
4807TYPE: wordlist
4808LOC: Config.ext_methods
4809DEFAULT: none
4810DOC_START
4811 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
4812 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
4813DOC_END
4814
4815NAME: request_entities
4816TYPE: onoff
4817LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4818DEFAULT: off
4819DOC_START
4820 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4821 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4822 even if not explicitly forbidden.
4823
4824 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4825 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests.
4826DOC_END
4827
4828NAME: high_response_time_warning
4829TYPE: int
4830COMMENT: (msec)
4831LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
4832DEFAULT: 0
4833DOC_START
4834 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
4835 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
4836 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
4837DOC_END
4838
4839NAME: high_page_fault_warning
4840TYPE: int
4841LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
4842DEFAULT: 0
4843DOC_START
4844 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
4845 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4846 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
4847 per second.
4848DOC_END
4849
4850NAME: high_memory_warning
4851TYPE: b_size_t
4852LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
4853DEFAULT: 0
4854DOC_START
4855 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
4856 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4857 the administrators attention.
4858DOC_END
4859
4860NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
4861TYPE: string
4862LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
4863DEFAULT: least-load
4864DOC_START
4865 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
4866DOC_END
4867
4868NAME: forward_log
4869IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
4870TYPE: string
4871DEFAULT: none
4872LOC: Config.Log.forward
4873DOC_START
4874 Logs the server-side requests.
4875
4876 This is currently work in progress.
4877DOC_END
4878
4879NAME: ie_refresh
4880COMMENT: on|off
4881TYPE: onoff
4882LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4883DEFAULT: off
4884DOC_START
4885 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4886 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4887 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4888 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4889 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4890 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4891 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
7f7db318 4892 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
cccac0a2 4893 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4894 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4895 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4896 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4897 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4898 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4899 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4900 force fresh content.
4901DOC_END
4902
4903NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4904COMMENT: on|off
4905TYPE: onoff
4906LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4907DEFAULT: off
4908DOC_START
4909 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4910 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4911 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4912 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4913 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
4914 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
4915 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
4916DOC_END
4917
4918NAME: sleep_after_fork
4919COMMENT: (microseconds)
4920TYPE: int
4921LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
4922DEFAULT: 0
4923DOC_START
4924 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
4925 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
4926 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
4927 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7f7db318 4928 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
4929 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
cccac0a2 4930 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
4931 until all the child processes have been started.
b5d712b5 4932 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 millisencond) are
4933 rounded to 1000.
cccac0a2 4934DOC_END
4935
6a2f3fcf 4936NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4937COMMENT: (seconds)
4938TYPE: time_t
4939LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4940DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4941DOC_START
6845f129 4942 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4943 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
4944 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy enorinments it
4945 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4946 is most likely better to make your server return a
4947 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4c43e44e 4948 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4949 often be best set to 0.
6a2f3fcf 4950DOC_END
4951
df6fd596 4952NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4953COMMENT: on|off|warn
4954TYPE: tristate
4955LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4956DEFAULT: on
4957DOC_START
4958 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4959 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4960 what the sending application intended even if the message
4961 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4962 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
4963
4964 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4965 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
4966
4967 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4968 or response to be rejected.
4969DOC_END
4970
a58ff010 4971COMMENT_START
4972 ICAP OPTIONS
4973 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4974COMMENT_END
4975
4976NAME: icap_enable
4977TYPE: onoff
4978IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4979COMMENT: on|off
4980LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
4981DEFAULT: off
4982DOC_START
4983 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
4984DOC_END
4985
4986NAME: icap_preview_enable
4987TYPE: onoff
4988IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4989COMMENT: on|off
4990LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
4991DEFAULT: off
4992DOC_START
4993 Set this to 'on' if you want to enable the ICAP preview
4994 feature in Squid.
4995DOC_END
4996
4997NAME: icap_preview_size
4998TYPE: int
4999IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5000LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
5001DEFAULT: -1
5002DOC_START
5003 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
5004 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
5005 basis by OPTIONS requests.
5006DOC_END
5007
78e8cfc4 5008NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
5009TYPE: int
5010IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5011LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
5012DEFAULT: 60
5013DOC_START
5014 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5015 an Options-TTL header.
5016DOC_END
5017
12b91c99 5018NAME: icap_persistent_connections
5019TYPE: onoff
5020IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5021COMMENT: on|off
5022LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
5023DEFAULT: on
5024DOC_START
5025 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
5026 an ICAP server.
5027DOC_END
5028
a58ff010 5029NAME: icap_send_client_ip
5030TYPE: onoff
5031IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5032COMMENT: on|off
5033LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
5034DEFAULT: off
5035DOC_START
5036 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
5037DOC_END
5038
12b91c99 5039NAME: icap_send_client_username
a58ff010 5040TYPE: onoff
5041IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5042COMMENT: on|off
12b91c99 5043LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
a58ff010 5044DEFAULT: off
5045DOC_START
12b91c99 5046 This adds the header "X-Client-Username" to ICAP requests
a58ff010 5047 if proxy access is authentified.
5048DOC_END
5049
a58ff010 5050NAME: icap_service
5051TYPE: icap_service_type
5052IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5053LOC: TheICAPConfig
5054DEFAULT: none
5055DOC_START
5056 Defines a single ICAP service
5057
5058 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
5059
5060 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
5061 This specifies at which point of request processing the ICAP
5062 service should be plugged in.
5063 bypass = 1|0
5064 If set to 1 and the ICAP server cannot be reached, the request will go
5065 through without being processed by an ICAP server
5066 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5067
5068 Note: reqmod_precache and respmod_postcache is not yet implemented
5069
5070Example:
5071icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
5072icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
5073DOC_END
5074
5075NAME: icap_class
5076TYPE: icap_class_type
5077IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5078LOC: TheICAPConfig
5079DEFAULT: none
5080DOC_START
5081 Defines an ICAP service chain. If there are multiple services per
5082 vectoring point, they are processed in the specified order.
5083
5084 icap_class classname servicename...
5085
5086Example:
5087icap_class class_1 service_1 service_2
5088icap class class_2 service_1 service_3
5089DOC_END
5090
5091NAME: icap_access
5092TYPE: icap_access_type
5093IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5094LOC: TheICAPConfig
5095DEFAULT: none
5096DOC_START
5097 Redirects a request through an ICAP service class, depending
5098 on given acls
5099
5100 icap_access classname allow|deny [!]aclname...
5101
5102 The icap_access statements are processed in the order they appear in
5103 this configuration file. If an access list matches, the processing stops.
5104 For an "allow" rule, the specified class is used for the request. A "deny"
5105 rule simply stops processing without using the class. You can also use the
5106 special classname "None".
5107
5108 For backward compatibility, it is also possible to use services
5109 directly here.
5110Example:
5111icap_access class_1 allow all
5112DOC_END
5113
cccac0a2 5114EOF