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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 105COMMENT_END
106
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107# Options Removed in 3.2
108NAME: ignore_expect_100
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
112DOC_END
113
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114NAME: dns_v4_fallback
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 Remove this line.
118DOC_END
119
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120NAME: ftp_list_width
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
124DOC_END
125
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126NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
130DOC_END
131
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132NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_START
135 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
136DOC_END
137
138# Options Removed in 3.1
139NAME: dns_testnames
140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
143DOC_END
144
145NAME: extension_methods
146TYPE: obsolete
147DOC_START
148 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
149DOC_END
150
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151# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
152NAME: zero_buffers
153TYPE: obsolete
154DOC_NONE
155
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156# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
157NAME: incoming_rate
158TYPE: obsolete
159DOC_NONE
160
161NAME: server_http11
162TYPE: obsolete
163DOC_START
164 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
165DOC_END
166
167NAME: upgrade_http0.9
168TYPE: obsolete
169DOC_START
170 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
171DOC_END
172
173NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
174TYPE: obsolete
175DOC_START
176 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
177DOC_END
178
179# Options Removed in 3.0
180NAME: header_access
181TYPE: obsolete
182DOC_START
183 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
184 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
185DOC_END
186
187NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
188TYPE: obsolete
189DOC_START
190 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
191DOC_END
192
5473c134 193COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 194 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
196COMMENT_END
197
41bd17a4 198NAME: auth_param
199TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 200IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 201LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 202DEFAULT: none
203DOC_START
41bd17a4 204 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
205 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 206
41bd17a4 207 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
210 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
211 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
212 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
213 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
214 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
215 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
216 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
217 program entry).
cccac0a2 218
41bd17a4 219 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
220 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
221 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
222 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 223
41bd17a4 224 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
225 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
226 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
227 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
228 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
229 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
230 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
231 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
232 type acl.
cccac0a2 233
41bd17a4 234 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
235 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
236 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
237 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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238 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
239 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 240
41bd17a4 241 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 242
41bd17a4 243 "program" cmdline
244 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
245 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
246 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
247 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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248 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
249 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 250
41bd17a4 251 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
252 program is specified.
cccac0a2 253
41bd17a4 254 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
255 this line to something like
307b83b7 256
41bd17a4 257 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 258
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259 "utf8" on|off
260 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
261 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
262 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
263 username & password to the helper.
264
7353861b 265 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 266 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 267 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
268 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
269 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
270 authenticator processes.
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271
272 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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273 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
274 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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275 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
276 the maximum.
277
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278 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
279 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
280 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
281 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
282 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
283 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 284 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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285
286 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 287
41bd17a4 288 "realm" realmstring
289 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
290 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
291 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
292 password). There is no default.
293 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 294
41bd17a4 295 "credentialsttl" timetolive
296 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
297 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
298 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
299 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
300 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
301 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
302 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
303 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
304 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 305
41bd17a4 306 "casesensitive" on|off
307 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
308 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
309 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
310 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
311 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 312
41bd17a4 313 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 314
41bd17a4 315 "program" cmdline
316 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
317 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
318 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
319 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
320 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
321 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
322 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 323
41bd17a4 324 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
325 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 326
41bd17a4 327 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
328 something like
cccac0a2 329
7ce93108 330 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 331
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332 "utf8" on|off
333 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
334 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
335 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
336 username & password to the helper.
337
7353861b 338 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 339 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 340 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
341 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
342 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
343 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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344
345 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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346 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
347 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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348 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
349 the maximum.
350
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351 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
352 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
353 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
354 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
355 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
356 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
357 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
358
48d54e4d 359 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "realm" realmstring
362 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
363 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
364 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
365 password). There is no default.
366 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 367
41bd17a4 368 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
369 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
370 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
373 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
374 valid for.
cccac0a2 375
41bd17a4 376 "nonce_max_count" number
377 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
378 used.
cccac0a2 379
41bd17a4 380 "nonce_strictness" on|off
381 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
382 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
383 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
384 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 385
41bd17a4 386 "check_nonce_count" on|off
387 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
388 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
389 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
390 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 391
41bd17a4 392 "post_workaround" on|off
393 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
394 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
395 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 396
41bd17a4 397 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 398
41bd17a4 399 "program" cmdline
400 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
401 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
402 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
403 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
404 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
405 is not used.
cccac0a2 406
41bd17a4 407 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 408
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409 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
410 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 411 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
412 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
413 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
414 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
415 processes.
cccac0a2 416
48d54e4d 417 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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418 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
419 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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420 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
421 the maximum.
422
423 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 424
41bd17a4 425 "keep_alive" on|off
426 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
427 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
428 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
429 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
430 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 432 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 433
41bd17a4 434 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 435
41bd17a4 436 "program" cmdline
437 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
438 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
439 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
440 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
441 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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442 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
443 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
444 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 445 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
446 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 447
41bd17a4 448 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 449
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450 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
451 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 452 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
453 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
454 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
455 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
456 processes.
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457
458 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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459 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
460 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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461 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
462 the maximum.
463
464 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 465
41bd17a4 466 "keep_alive" on|off
467 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
468 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
469 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
470 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
471 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 473 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 474
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476 Examples:
477
41bd17a4 478#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
479#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 480#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 481#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 482#
41bd17a4 483#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 484#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 485#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 486#
41bd17a4 487#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 488#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 489#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
490#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
491#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
492#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 493#
41bd17a4 494#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 495#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 496#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
497#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 498DOC_END
cccac0a2 499
41bd17a4 500NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
501TYPE: time_t
502DEFAULT: 1 hour
503LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
504DOC_START
505 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
506 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
507 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
508 have good reason to.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
41bd17a4 511NAME: authenticate_ttl
512TYPE: time_t
513DEFAULT: 1 hour
514LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
515DOC_START
516 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
517 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
518 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
519 TTL are removed from memory.
520DOC_END
cccac0a2 521
41bd17a4 522NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
523TYPE: time_t
524LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
525DEFAULT: 0 seconds
526DOC_START
527 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
528 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
529 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
530 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
531 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
532 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
533 environment with relatively static address assignments.
534DOC_END
cccac0a2 535
3d1e3e43 536COMMENT_START
537 ACCESS CONTROLS
538 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
539COMMENT_END
540
41bd17a4 541NAME: external_acl_type
542TYPE: externalAclHelper
543LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 544DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 545DOC_START
41bd17a4 546 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
547 to look up the status
cccac0a2 548
41bd17a4 549 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 550
41bd17a4 551 Options:
cccac0a2 552
41bd17a4 553 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
554 for 1 hour)
555 negative_ttl=n
556 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
557 as ttl)
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558 children-max=n
559 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
560 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
561 children-startup=n
562 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
563 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
564 of this type. (default 0)
565 children-idle=n
566 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
567 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
568 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
569 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 570 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
571 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 572 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 573 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
574 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 575 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 576 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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577 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
578 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 579
41bd17a4 580 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 581
41bd17a4 582 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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583 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
584 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
585 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 586 %IDENT Ident user name
587 %SRC Client IP
588 %SRCPORT Client source port
589 %URI Requested URI
590 %DST Requested host
591 %PROTO Requested protocol
592 %PORT Requested port
593 %PATH Requested URL path
594 %METHOD Request method
595 %MYADDR Squid interface address
596 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
597 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
598 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
599 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
600 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
601 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 602
c68c9682 603 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 604 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 605 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 606 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 607 HTTP request header list member using ; as
608 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
609 character.
cccac0a2 610
c68c9682 611 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 612 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 613 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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614 %<{Hdr:;member}
615 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
616 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
617 character.
618
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620 an unchanging input format.
621
41bd17a4 622 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
623 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
624 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 625
41bd17a4 626 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
627 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
628 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
629 more details.
cccac0a2 630
41bd17a4 631 General result syntax:
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41bd17a4 633 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
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41bd17a4 635 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 637 user= The users name (login)
638 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
639 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
640 in error pages
641 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
642 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
643 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
644 %ea in logformat specifications
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41bd17a4 646 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
647 each value in both requests and responses.
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41bd17a4 649 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
650 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
651 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 652
41bd17a4 653 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
654 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
655 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
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657
41bd17a4 658NAME: acl
659TYPE: acl
660LOC: Config.aclList
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662DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
663DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
664DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
665DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
666DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
667ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 668DEFAULT: all src all
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669DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
670DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
671DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
672DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 673DOC_START
41bd17a4 674 Defining an Access List
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676 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
677 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
678 they are read from.
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680 acl aclname acltype argument ...
681 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 683 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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685 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
686 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
687 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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690 to access some external data source.
691 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
692 don't are marked as [fast].
693 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
694 for further information
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696 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
697
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698 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
699 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
700 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
701 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 702
41bd17a4 703 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
704 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
705 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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707 # other *BSD variants.
708 # [fast]
41bd17a4 709 #
710 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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711 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
712 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
713
714 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
715 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
716 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 717 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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719 # regex matching client name [slow]
720 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 721 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 722 #
41bd17a4 723 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
724 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
725 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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727 acl aclname src_as number ...
728 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 729 # [fast]
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730 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
731 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
732 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
733 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
734 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
735 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
736 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 737
6db78a1a 738 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 739 # [fast]
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740 # match against a named cache_peer entry
741 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
742
375eeb3b 743 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 744 # [fast]
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746 # S - Sunday
747 # M - Monday
748 # T - Tuesday
749 # W - Wednesday
750 # H - Thursday
751 # F - Friday
752 # A - Saturday
753 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
754
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755 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
756 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
757 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
758 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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760 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
761 # ranges are alloed
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762 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
763 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
764
b3567eb5 765 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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767 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
768
769 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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771 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
772 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 774 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 775 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 776
375eeb3b 777 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 778 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 779 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 780
375eeb3b 781 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 782 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 783 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 784 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 785
41bd17a4 786 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
787 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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789 # supplied credentials [slow]
790 #
791 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 792 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
793 #
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795 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
796 #
41bd17a4 797 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
798 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
799 # in access.log.
800 #
801 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
802 # to check username/password combinations (see
803 # auth_param directive).
804 #
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806 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 807 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 808
41bd17a4 809 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 810 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 811 # Example:
812 #
813 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 815 acl aclname maxconn number
816 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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817 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
818 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
819 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 820
41bd17a4 821 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
822 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
823 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 824 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 825 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
826 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
827 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
828 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
829 # request is denied)
830 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
831 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
832 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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834 acl aclname random probability
835 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
836 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
837 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
838
375eeb3b 839 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 840 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
841 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 842 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 843 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
844 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 845
41bd17a4 846 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
847 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
848 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 849 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 850
375eeb3b 851 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 852 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
853 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 854 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 855 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
856 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
857 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 858
41bd17a4 859 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
860 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
861 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 862 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 863
375eeb3b 864 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 865 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 866 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 868 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
869 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 870 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 871
41bd17a4 872 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
873 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 874 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 875
41bd17a4 876 acl aclname ext_user username ...
877 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 878 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 879 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 880
0ab50441 881 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 882 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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885 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
886 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
887 #
888 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
889 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
890 # http_reply_access.
891
38450a50 892IF USE_SSL
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894 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 895 #
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896 # For valid error names see in @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@/templates/error-details.txt
897 # template file.
cf1c09f6 898 #
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900 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
901 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
902 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
903 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
904 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
905 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
906 #
907 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
908 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
909 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
910 #
911 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
912 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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915 Examples:
916 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
917 acl myexample dst_as 1241
918 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
919 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
920 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 921
41bd17a4 922NOCOMMENT_START
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924# Recommended minimum configuration:
925#
e0855596 926
ee776778 927# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
928# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
929# should be allowed
930acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
931acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
932acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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933acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
934acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 936acl SSL_ports port 443
937acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
938acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
939acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
940acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
941acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
942acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
943acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
944acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
945acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
946acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
947acl CONNECT method CONNECT
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949DOC_END
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951NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
952TYPE: acl_access
953IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
954LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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955DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
956DOC_START
957 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
958 find the original source of a request.
959
960 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
961 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
962 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
963 rightmost address being the most recent.
964
965 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
966 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
967 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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969 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
970 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
971 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
972 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
973 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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975 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
976 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 977 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 978 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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979 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
980 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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983 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
984
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986
987 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
988 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
989 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
990 source address of the request. This may enable remote
991 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
992 based on the client's source addresses.
993
994 For example:
995
996 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
997 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
998 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
999 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1000DOC_END
1001
1002NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1003COMMENT: on|off
1004TYPE: onoff
1005IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1006DEFAULT: on
1007LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1008DOC_START
1009 Controls whether the indirect client address
1010 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1011 direct client address in acl matching.
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1013 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1014 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1016
1017NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1018COMMENT: on|off
1019TYPE: onoff
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1022LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1023DOC_START
1024 Controls whether the indirect client address
1025 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1026 direct client address in delay pools.
1027DOC_END
1028
1029NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1030COMMENT: on|off
1031TYPE: onoff
1032IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1033DEFAULT: on
1034LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1035DOC_START
1036 Controls whether the indirect client address
1037 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1038 direct client address in the access log.
1039DOC_END
1040
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1041NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1042COMMENT: on|off
1043TYPE: onoff
1044IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1045DEFAULT: off
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1046LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1047DOC_START
1048 Controls whether the indirect client address
1049 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1050 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1052 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1053 mode ports.
1054
1055 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1056 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1057 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1058 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1060
41bd17a4 1061NAME: http_access
1062TYPE: acl_access
1063LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1064DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1065DOC_START
1066 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
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41bd17a4 1068 Access to the HTTP port:
1069 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1071 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1073 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1074 the request.
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41bd17a4 1076 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1077 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1078 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1079 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1081 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1084 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1085
41bd17a4 1086NOCOMMENT_START
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1088#
1089# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1090#
1091# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1092http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1093http_access deny manager
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1095# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1096http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1098# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1099http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1101# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1102# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1103# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1104#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1106#
1107# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1108#
c8f4eac4 1109
ee776778 1110# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1111# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1112# from where browsing should be allowed
1113http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1114http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1115
41bd17a4 1116# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1117http_access deny all
1118NOCOMMENT_END
1119DOC_END
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1121NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1122TYPE: acl_access
1123LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1124DEFAULT: none
1125DOC_START
1126 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1127
1128 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1129 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1130 output.
1131
1132 If not set then only http_access is used.
1133DOC_END
1134
41bd17a4 1135NAME: http_reply_access
1136TYPE: acl_access
1137LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1138DEFAULT: none
1139DOC_START
1140 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1141
41bd17a4 1142 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1143
41bd17a4 1144 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1145 all replies
1a224843 1146
41bd17a4 1147 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1148 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1149 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1151 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1152 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1153DOC_END
1154
41bd17a4 1155NAME: icp_access
1156TYPE: acl_access
1157LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1158DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1159DOC_START
41bd17a4 1160 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1161 access lists
5473c134 1162
41bd17a4 1163 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1164
41bd17a4 1165 See http_access for details
1166
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1168 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1170# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1172#icp_access deny all
5473c134 1173DOC_END
1174
41bd17a4 1175NAME: htcp_access
1176IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1177TYPE: acl_access
1178LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1179DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1180DOC_START
41bd17a4 1181 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1182 access lists
5473c134 1183
41bd17a4 1184 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1185
41bd17a4 1186 See http_access for details
5473c134 1187
0b48417e 1188 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1189 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1190 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1191
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1193 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1195# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1196#htcp_access allow localnet
1197#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1198DOC_END
5473c134 1199
41bd17a4 1200NAME: htcp_clr_access
1201IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1202TYPE: acl_access
1203LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1204DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1205DOC_START
1206 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1207 on defined access lists
5473c134 1208
41bd17a4 1209 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1210
41bd17a4 1211 See http_access for details
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1214 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1216# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1217acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1218htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1219DOC_END
1220
41bd17a4 1221NAME: miss_access
1222TYPE: acl_access
1223LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1224DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1225DOC_START
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1226 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1227
1228 For example;
1229 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1230 a parent.
5473c134 1231
41bd17a4 1232 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1233 miss_access allow localclients
1234 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1235
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1236 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1237 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1238 objects (HITs).
1239
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1242 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1244 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1245 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1246DOC_END
1247
1248NAME: ident_lookup_access
1249TYPE: acl_access
1250IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1251DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1252LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1253DOC_START
41bd17a4 1254 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1255 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1256 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1257 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1258 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1259 any requests.
5473c134 1260
41bd17a4 1261 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1262 can follow this example:
5473c134 1263
4daaf3cb 1264 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1265 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1266 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1267
4daaf3cb 1268 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1269 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1270 the correct result.
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1272 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1273 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1274DOC_END
5473c134 1275
5b0f5383 1276NAME: reply_body_max_size
1277COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1278TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1279DEFAULT: none
1280LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1281DOC_START
1282 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1283 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1284 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1285 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1286 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1287 for this reply.
1288
1289 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1290 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1291 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1292 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1293 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1294 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1295 and they will receive a partial reply.
1296
1297 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1298 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1299 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1300 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1301
1302 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1303 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1304 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1305 the size of your largest error page.
1306
1307 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1308 no limit imposed.
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1310 Configuration Format is:
1311 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1312 ie.
1313 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1314
5b0f5383 1315DOC_END
1316
1317COMMENT_START
1318 NETWORK OPTIONS
1319 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1320COMMENT_END
1321
1322NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1323TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1324DEFAULT: none
1325LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1326DOC_START
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1327 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1328 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1329 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1330
1331 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1332 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1333 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1334 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1335 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1336 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1337 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1338
1339 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1340 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1341
1342 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1343 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1344 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1345
1346 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1347
c7b1dd5d 1348 Modes:
5b0f5383 1349
e77bdb4e 1350 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1351 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1352 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1353
1354 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1355 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1356 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1357
7f45065d 1358 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1359
caf3666d 1360 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1361 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1362 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1363 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1364 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1365
7a957a93 1366 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1367 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1368
1369 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1370
1371
1372 Accelerator Mode Options:
1373
5b0f5383 1374 defaultsite=domainname
1375 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1376 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1377 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1378
cf673853 1379 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1380
1381 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1383 https_port
5b0f5383 1384
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1385 vport Virtual host port support. Using the http_port number
1386 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1387
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1388 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1389 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1390
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1391 act-as-origin
1392 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1393 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1394 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1395
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1397
7f45065d 1398 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1400
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1401 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1402 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1403 never_direct was used.
1404
1405 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1406 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1407 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1408 http_access rules when using this.
1409
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1410
1411 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1412 In addition to these options ssl-bump requires TLS/SSL options.
1413
1414 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1415 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1416 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1417 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1418 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1419 certificate will be selfsigned.
1420 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1421 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1422 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1423 years.
1424 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1425 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1426
1427 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1428 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1429 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1430 default value is 4MB.
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1432 TLS / SSL Options:
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1434 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1435
1436 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1437 if not specified, the certificate file is
1438 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1439 key file.
1440
1441 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1442 1 automatic (default)
1443 2 SSLv2 only
1444 3 SSLv3 only
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1445 4 TLSv1.0 only
1446 5 TLSv1.1 only
1447 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1448
1449 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1450 NOTE: some ciphers such as EDH ciphers depend on
1451 additional settings. If those settings are
1452 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1453 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1454
943c5f16 1455 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1456 being:
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1457 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1458 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1459 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1460 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1461 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1462 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1463 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1465 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1466 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1467 strength to some attacks.
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1468 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1469 complete list of options.
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1471 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1472 requesting a client certificate.
1473
1474 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1475 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1476 clientca will be used.
1477
1478 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1479 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1480
1481 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1482 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1483 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1484
1485 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1486 DH key exchanges. See OpenSSL documentation for details
1487 on how to create this file.
1488 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1489 option is not set.
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1490
1491 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1492 DELAYED_AUTH
1493 Don't request client certificates
1494 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1495 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1496 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1497 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1498 to OpenSSL.
1499 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1500 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1501 will result in a new SSL session.
1502 VERIFY_CRL
1503 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1504 certificates.
1505 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1506 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1507 client certificate chain.
1508
1509 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1510
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1512
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1513 connection-auth[=on|off]
1514 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1515 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1516 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1517
5b0f5383 1518 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1519 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1520 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1521 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1522 support is enabled.
1523 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1524
1525 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1526 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1527 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1528 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1529 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1530 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1531 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1532 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1533
81b6e9a7 1534 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1535 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1536
68924b6d 1537 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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1539 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1540 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1541 timeout the time before giving up.
1542
5b0f5383 1543 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1544 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1545 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1546 visible on the internal address.
1547
1548NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1550# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1551http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1552NOCOMMENT_END
1553DOC_END
1554
1555NAME: https_port
1556IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1557TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1558DEFAULT: none
1559LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1560DOC_START
7f45065d 1561 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1562
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1564 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1565
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1567 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1568
1569 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1570 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1571
7f45065d 1572 Modes:
5b0f5383 1573
7f45065d 1574 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1575
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1577 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1578 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1579
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1581 connections using the client IP address.
1582 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1583
caf3666d 1584 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1585 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1586 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1588 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1589
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1591 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 1592
38450a50 1593 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1594
7f45065d 1595 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1596
5b0f5383 1597
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1599
1600
1601 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1602
1603 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1604
1605 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1606 if not specified, the certificate file is
1607 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1608 key file.
1609
1610 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1611 1 automatic (default)
1612 2 SSLv2 only
1613 3 SSLv3 only
1614 4 TLSv1 only
1615
1616 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1617
1618 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1619 being:
1620 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1621 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1622 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1623 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1624 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1625 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1626 documentation for a complete list of options.
1627
1628 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1629 requesting a client certificate.
1630
1631 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1632 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1633 clientca will be used.
1634
1635 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1636 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1637
1638 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1639 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1640 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1641
1642 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1643 DH key exchanges.
1644
1645 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1646 DELAYED_AUTH
1647 Don't request client certificates
1648 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1649 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1650 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1651 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1652 to OpenSSL.
1653 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1654 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1655 will result in a new SSL session.
1656 VERIFY_CRL
1657 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1658 certificates.
1659 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1660 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1661 client certificate chain.
1662
1663 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1664
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1666 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1667 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1668 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1669 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1670 certificate will be selfsigned.
1671 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1672 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1673 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1674 years.
1675 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1676 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1677
1678 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1679 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1680 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1681 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 1682
859741ed 1683 See http_port for a list of available options.
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1685
41bd17a4 1686NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1687TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1688DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1689LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
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1692 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1693
41bd17a4 1694 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1695
41bd17a4 1696 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1697 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1698
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1700 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1701 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1702 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
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41bd17a4 1704 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1706 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1707
41bd17a4 1708 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1709 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1711 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1712
41bd17a4 1713 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1714 matching line.
cccac0a2 1715DOC_END
1716
41bd17a4 1717NAME: clientside_tos
1718TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1719DEFAULT: none
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1721DOC_START
1722 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1723 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1724
1725 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1726
1727 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1728 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1729
1730 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1731 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1732 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1733 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1734
1735 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1736 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1737DOC_END
1738
1739NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1740TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1741IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1743LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1744DOC_START
1745 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1746 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1747
1748 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1749
1750 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1751 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1752
1753 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1754 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1755 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1756 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1757DOC_END
1758
1759NAME: clientside_mark
1760TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1761IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1763LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
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1766 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1767
1768 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1769
1770 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1771 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1772
1773 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1774 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1775 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1776 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1777
1778 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1779 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1780DOC_END
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1783TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1784IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1785DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1786LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1787DOC_START
575cb927 1788 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1790 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1791 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1794 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1795 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1798 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1799 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1800
1801 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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1804
1805 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1807 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1808
1809 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1810
1811 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1812
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1814 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1815 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1816 specified in the mask are written.
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1818 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
1819 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1820 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1821 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1822 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1823
575cb927 1824 disable-preserve-miss
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1826 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1827 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1828 and masked with miss-mark.
1829 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1830 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1831 (MARK target).
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1833 miss-mask=0xFF
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1835 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1836 the TOS sent towards clients.
1837 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1838 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1839
1840 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1841 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1842 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1843 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1846
41bd17a4 1847NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1848TYPE: acl_address
1849DEFAULT: none
1850LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1851DOC_START
1852 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1853 based on the username or source address of the user making
1854 the request.
7f7db318 1855
41bd17a4 1856 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1859 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1862 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1863
1864 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1865 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1866
1867 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1868 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1869
1870 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1871 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
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41bd17a4 1873 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1874 matching line.
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1877 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1878 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1879
1880
1881 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1882 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1883 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1884 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1885
2dd51400 1886 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1887 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1889 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1890
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1893NAME: host_verify_strict
1894TYPE: onoff
1895DEFAULT: off
1896LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1897DOC_START
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1899 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 1900 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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1902 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1903 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1904 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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1906 When set to ON:
1907 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
1908 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
1909
1910 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
1911 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
1912 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
1913 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
1914 and Request-URI components:
1915
1916 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
1917 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
1918 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
1919 or FQDN.
1920
1921 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
1922 the scheme-default port is assumed.
1923
1924
1925 When set to OFF (the default):
1926 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
1927 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
1928
1929 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1930
1931 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1932
1933 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 1934 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 1935
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1937 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
1938 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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1940 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
1941 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 1942
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7177edfb 1944 SECURITY NOTE:
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1946 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1947 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1948 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1949 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1950
1951 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1952 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1953 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1954 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1955 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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1957DOC_END
6b185b50 1958
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1959NAME: client_dst_passthru
1960TYPE: onoff
1961DEFAULT: on
1962LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1963DOC_START
1964 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1965 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1966 source using the HTTP Host header.
1967
1968 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
1969 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
1970 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
1971 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
1972
1973 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
1974 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
1975 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
1976
1977 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
1978 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
1979 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
1980
1981 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 1982DOC_END
1983
41bd17a4 1984COMMENT_START
1985 SSL OPTIONS
1986 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1987COMMENT_END
1988
1989NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1990IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1991TYPE: onoff
1992DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1993LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1994DOC_START
41bd17a4 1995 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1996 messages.
cccac0a2 1997DOC_END
1998
41bd17a4 1999NAME: ssl_engine
2000IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2001TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2002LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2003DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2004DOC_START
41bd17a4 2005 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2006 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2007DOC_END
2008
41bd17a4 2009NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
2010IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2011DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2012LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2013TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2014DOC_START
41bd17a4 2015 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2016DOC_END
2017
41bd17a4 2018NAME: sslproxy_client_key
2019IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2020DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2021LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2022TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2023DOC_START
41bd17a4 2024 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2025DOC_END
2026
41bd17a4 2027NAME: sslproxy_version
2028IFDEF: USE_SSL
2029DEFAULT: 1
2030LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2031TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2032DOC_START
41bd17a4 2033 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2035 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2036
2037 1 automatic (default)
2038 2 SSLv2 only
2039 3 SSLv3 only
2040 4 TLSv1.0 only
2041 5 TLSv1.1 only
2042 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2043DOC_END
2044
41bd17a4 2045NAME: sslproxy_options
2046IFDEF: USE_SSL
2047DEFAULT: none
2048LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2049TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2050DOC_START
943c5f16 2051 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2052
2053 The most important being:
2054
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2055 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2056 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2057 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2058 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2059 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2060 SINGLE_DH_USE
2061 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2062 DH key exchanges
2063 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2064 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2065 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2066 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2067 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2068 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2069 strength to some attacks.
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2071 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2072 complete list of possible options.
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2074
41bd17a4 2075NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2076IFDEF: USE_SSL
2077DEFAULT: none
2078LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2079TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2080DOC_START
41bd17a4 2081 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2082
2083 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2084DOC_END
2085
41bd17a4 2086NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2087IFDEF: USE_SSL
2088DEFAULT: none
2089LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2090TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2091DOC_START
41bd17a4 2092 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2093 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2094DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2096NAME: sslproxy_capath
2097IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 2098DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2099LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2100TYPE: string
5473c134 2101DOC_START
41bd17a4 2102 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2103 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2104DOC_END
2105
4c9da963 2106NAME: ssl_bump
2107IFDEF: USE_SSL
caf3666d 2108TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2109LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
2110DEFAULT: none
2111DOC_START
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2112 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2113 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2114 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2115 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2116 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2117 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2118
2119 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2120
2121 The following bumping modes are supported:
2122
2123 client-first
2124 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2125 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2126 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2127 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2128
2129 server-first
2130 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2131 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2132 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2133 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2134
2135 none
2136 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2137 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2138 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2139 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2140
2141 By default, no connections are bumped.
2142
2143 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2144 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2145 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2146 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2147 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2148
e0c0d54c 2149 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2150 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2153
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2156 # localhost and those going to example.com.
e0855596 2157
e0855596 2158 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2159 ssl_bump none localhost
2160 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2161 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2162DOC_END
2163
41bd17a4 2164NAME: sslproxy_flags
2165IFDEF: USE_SSL
2166DEFAULT: none
2167LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2168TYPE: string
5473c134 2169DOC_START
41bd17a4 2170 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2171 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2172 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2173 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2174 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2175DOC_END
2176
4c9da963 2177NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2178IFDEF: USE_SSL
2179DEFAULT: none
2180LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2181TYPE: acl_access
2182DOC_START
2183 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2184
2185 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2186 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2187 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2188
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2190 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2191 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2192
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2194 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2195 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2196
2197 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2198 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2199 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2200 the connection may be insecure.
2201
2202 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2203
e0855596 2204 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 2205DOC_END
2206
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2207NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2208IFDEF: USE_SSL
2209DEFAULT: none
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2210POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2211POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2212POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2213TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2214LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2215DOC_START
2216
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69742b76 2219 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
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2222 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2223 default for trusted origin server certificates.
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2226 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2227 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
aebe6888 2228 signSelf
69742b76 2229 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
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2232 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2235
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2237 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2238 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2239 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2240 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2243 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2244 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2245 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2246 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2247 bump-server-first is used.
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2249
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2250NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2251IFDEF: USE_SSL
2252DEFAULT: none
2253TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2254LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2255DOC_START
2256
2257 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2258
69742b76 2259 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
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2262 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
fb2178bb 2263 setValidBefore
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2265 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
2266 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2267 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2268 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2269 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2270 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2271 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2274
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2276 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2277 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2278 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2279 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2280 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2282 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2283 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2284 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2285 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2286 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2287 bump-server-first is used.
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2289
41bd17a4 2290NAME: sslpassword_program
2291IFDEF: USE_SSL
2292DEFAULT: none
2293LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2294TYPE: string
5473c134 2295DOC_START
41bd17a4 2296 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2297 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2298 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2299 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2301 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2302 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2303 keys.
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2307 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2308 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2309COMMENT_END
2310
2311NAME: sslcrtd_program
2312TYPE: eol
2313IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2314DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2315LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2316DOC_START
2317 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2318 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2319 For more information use:
2320 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2321DOC_END
2322
2323NAME: sslcrtd_children
2324TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2325IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2326DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2327LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2328DOC_START
2329 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2330 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2331
2332 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2333 tuning.
2334
2335 startup=N
2336
2337 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2338 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2339 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2340
2341 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2342 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2343
2344 idle=N
2345
2346 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2347 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2348 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2349 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2350
2351 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2352DOC_END
2353
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41bd17a4 2355 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
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2357COMMENT_END
2358
41bd17a4 2359NAME: cache_peer
2360TYPE: peer
2361DEFAULT: none
2362LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2363DOC_START
41bd17a4 2364 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2366 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2367
41bd17a4 2368 For example,
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41bd17a4 2370 # proxy icp
2371 # hostname type port port options
2372 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2373 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2374 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2375 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2376 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2377 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2378
2379 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2380
2381 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2382 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2383 For web servers this is usually 80
2384
2385 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2386 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2387 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2388
2389
2390 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2391
2392 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2393 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2394
2395
2396 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2397
2398 multicast-responder
2399 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2400 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2401 replies will be accepted from it.
2402
2403 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2404 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2405
2406 background-ping
2407 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2408 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2409 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2410
2411
2412 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2413
2414 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2415 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2416
2417
2418 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2419 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2420 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2421 list of options described below.
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18191440 2423 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2424
18191440 2425 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2426 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2427 only-clr.
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2429 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2430 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2432 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2433 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2434 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2435
18191440 2436 htcp=forward-clr
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2437 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2438
2439
2440 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2441
2442 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2443 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2444
2445
2446 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2447 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2448 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2449
2450 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2451 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2452 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2453
2454 weighted-round-robin
2455 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2456 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2457 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2458 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2459 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2460
2461 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2462 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2463 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2464
2465 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2466
2467 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2469 multicast-siblings
2470 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2471 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2472 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2474 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2475 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2476 members of the same multicast group.
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2478
2479 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2480
2481 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2482 peer-selection mechanisms.
2483 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2484 larger weights are favored more.
2485 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2486 protocol is not in use.
2487
2488 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2489 times of parents.
2490 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2491 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2492 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2493
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2494 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2495 to this address.
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2496 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2497 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2498 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2499 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2500
2501 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2502 delay pools.
2503
2504 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2505 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2506 than the Squid default location.
2507
2508
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2510
2511 carp-key=key-specification
2512 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2513 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2514 scheme, host, port, path, params
2515 Order is not important.
2516
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2518
2519 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2520 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2521 is a web server.
2522
2523 forceddomain=name
2524 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2525 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2526 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2527 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2528
2529 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2530
2531 no-netdb-exchange
2532 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2533
2534
2535 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2536
2537 login=user:password
2538 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2539 requires proxy authentication.
2540
2541 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2542 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2543
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2544 login=PASSTHRU
2545 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2546 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2547 without alteration to the peer.
2548 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2549
2550 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2551 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2552 connection-auth options are also used.
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2554 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2555 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 2556
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2557 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2558 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2560 they may be sent instead.
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2561
2562 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2563 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2564 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2565 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2566 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2567
2568 login=*:password
2569 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2570 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2571 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2572 needed to identify each user.
2573 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2574 information which is added to the username. This can
2575 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2576 the login=username:password option above.
2577
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2578 login=NEGOTIATE
2579 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2580 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2581 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2582 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2583
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2585 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2586 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2587
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2588 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2589 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2590 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2591 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2592 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2593 used.
2594
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2596 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2597 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2598
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2599 connection-auth=on|off
2600 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2601 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2602 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2603 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2604 of the peer.
2605
2606
2607 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2608
2609 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2610
2611 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2612 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2613 this peer.
2614
2615 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2616 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2617 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2618 reference a combined file containing both the
2619 certificate and the key.
2620
3d96b0e8 2621 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2622 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2623 1 = automatic (default)
2624 2 = SSL v2 only
2625 3 = SSL v3 only
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2626 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2627 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2628 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2629
2630 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2631 to this peer.
2632
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2634
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2635 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2636 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2637 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2638 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2639 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2640 SINGLE_DH_USE
2641 Always create a new key when using
2642 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2643 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2644 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2645 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2646 strength to some attacks.
2647
2648 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2649 more complete list.
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2650
2651 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2652 when verifying the peer certificate.
2653
2654 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2655 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2656
2657 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2658 verifying the peer certificate.
2659
2660 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2661
41bd17a4 2662 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2663 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2664 verify.
2665 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2666 Don't use the default CA list built in
2667 to OpenSSL.
2668 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2669 Don't verify the peer certificate
2670 matches the server name
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2671
2672 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2673 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2674 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2675 used.
2676
2677 front-end-https
2678 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2679 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2680 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2681 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2682 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2683
2684
2685 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2686
2687 connect-timeout=N
2688 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2689 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2690
2691 connect-fail-limit=N
2692 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2693 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2694
2695 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2696 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2697 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2698 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2699 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2700 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2701 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2702
2703 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2704 peer. see also
2705
2706 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2707 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2708 but different ports.
2709 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2710 directives to dentify the peer.
2711 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2712 peername ACL type.
2713
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2714 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2715 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2716
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2717 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2718
41bd17a4 2719DOC_END
cccac0a2 2720
41bd17a4 2721NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2722TYPE: hostdomain
2723DEFAULT: none
2724LOC: none
2725DOC_START
2726 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2727 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2728
41bd17a4 2729 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2730 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2731
41bd17a4 2732 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2733
41bd17a4 2734 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2735
41bd17a4 2736 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2737 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2738 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2739 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2740 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2741
41bd17a4 2742 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2743 either on the same or separate lines.
2744 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2745 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2746 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2747 for all requests.
2748 * There are no defaults.
2749 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2750 section.
2751DOC_END
dd9b1776 2752
41bd17a4 2753NAME: cache_peer_access
2754TYPE: peer_access
2755DEFAULT: none
2756LOC: none
2757DOC_START
2758 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2759 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2760
41bd17a4 2761 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2762
41bd17a4 2763 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2764 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2765 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2766DOC_END
dd9b1776 2767
41bd17a4 2768NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2769TYPE: hostdomaintype
2770DEFAULT: none
2771LOC: none
2772DOC_START
2773 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2774
41bd17a4 2775 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2776 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2777 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2778 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2779 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2780 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2781
41bd17a4 2782EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2783 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2784 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2785 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2786DOC_END
6bf4f823 2787
41bd17a4 2788NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2789COMMENT: (seconds)
2790DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2791TYPE: time_t
2792LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2793DOC_START
2794 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2795 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2796 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2797 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2798 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2799 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2800
41bd17a4 2801 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2802 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2803 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2804 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2805 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2806 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2807 instead of to your parents.
2808DOC_END
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2810NAME: forward_max_tries
2811DEFAULT: 10
2812TYPE: int
2813LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2814DOC_START
2815 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2816 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2817
2818 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2819 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2820DOC_END
2821
41bd17a4 2822NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2823TYPE: wordlist
2824DEFAULT: none
2825LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2826DOC_START
2827 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2828 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2829 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2830 list this option multiple times.
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2832 Example:
2833 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2834
2835 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2836DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2838COMMENT_START
2839 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2840 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2841COMMENT_END
2842
2843NAME: cache_mem
2844COMMENT: (bytes)
2845TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2846DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2847LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2848DOC_START
41bd17a4 2849 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2850 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2851 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2852 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2853
2854 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2855 for:
2856 * In-Transit objects
2857 * Hot Objects
2858 * Negative-Cached objects
2859
2860 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2861 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2862 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2863 priority.
2864
2865 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2866 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2867 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2868 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2869 not needed for in-transit objects.
2870
2871 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2872 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2873 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2874 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2875 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2876 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2877 objects.
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2879 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
2880 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
2881 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
2882 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 2883DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2885NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2886COMMENT: (bytes)
2887TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2888DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2889LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2890DOC_START
41bd17a4 2891 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2892 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2893 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2894 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
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2898COMMENT: on|off
2899TYPE: YesNoNone
2900LOC: Config.memShared
2901DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 2902DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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2904 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
2905
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2906 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
2907 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
2908 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
2909 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
2910 caching is enabled).
2911
65b81b27 2912 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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2914 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
2915 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
2916 and GCC-style atomic operations).
2917
2918 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
2919 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
2920 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
2921
2922 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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2924
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2925NAME: memory_cache_mode
2926TYPE: memcachemode
2927LOC: Config
2928DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2929DOC_START
ea21d497 2930 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2931
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2932 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2933
2934 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2935 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2936 a second time before cached in memory.
2937
2938 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2940
41bd17a4 2941NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2942TYPE: removalpolicy
2943LOC: Config.memPolicy
2944DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2945DOC_START
41bd17a4 2946 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2947 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
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41bd17a4 2949 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2950DOC_END
6b698a21 2951
41bd17a4 2952COMMENT_START
2953 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2954 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2955COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2956
41bd17a4 2957NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2958TYPE: removalpolicy
2959LOC: Config.replPolicy
2960DEFAULT: lru
2961DOC_START
2962 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2963 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2964
41bd17a4 2965 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2966 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2967 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2968 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2969
41bd17a4 2970 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2971
41bd17a4 2972 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2973
41bd17a4 2974 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2975 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2976 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2977 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2978
41bd17a4 2979 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2980 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2981 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2982 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2983
41bd17a4 2984 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2985 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2986 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2987
41bd17a4 2988 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2989 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2990 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2991
41bd17a4 2992 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2993 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2994 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2995DOC_END
0976f8db 2996
41bd17a4 2997NAME: cache_dir
2998TYPE: cachedir
2999DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3000LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 3001DOC_START
41bd17a4 3002 Usage:
0976f8db 3003
41bd17a4 3004 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3005
41bd17a4 3006 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3007 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3008
41bd17a4 3009 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3010 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3011 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3012
41bd17a4 3013 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3014 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3015 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3016 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3017 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 3018
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3019 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3020 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3021 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3022
41bd17a4 3023 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 3024
41bd17a4 3025 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3026 been there.
0976f8db 3027
41bd17a4 3028 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3029
41bd17a4 3030 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3031 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3032 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3033 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3034 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3035
56fba4d0 3036 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3037 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3038
56fba4d0 3039 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3040 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3041 is 256.
0976f8db 3042
41bd17a4 3043 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 3044
41bd17a4 3045 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3046 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3047 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3048
41bd17a4 3049 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3050
41bd17a4 3051 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3052
41bd17a4 3053 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 3054
41bd17a4 3055 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3056 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3057 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3058
41bd17a4 3059 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3060
41bd17a4 3061 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3062
41bd17a4 3063 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3064 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3065 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3066
41bd17a4 3067 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3068 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3069 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3070
41bd17a4 3071 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3072 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3073 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3074 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3075 time.
0976f8db 3076
2e55f083 3077 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 3078
df881a0f 3079 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 3080
2e55f083 3081 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3082 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
3083 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3084 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3085 below for more info on the max-size option.
3086
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3087 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3088 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3089 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3090 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3091 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3092 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3093 expected swap wait time.
3094
df881a0f 3095 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3096 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3097 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3098 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3099 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3100 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3101 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3102 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3103 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3104 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3105 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3106 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3107 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3108 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3109
3110
41bd17a4 3111 The coss store type:
0976f8db 3112
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3113 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3114 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3115 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3116
41bd17a4 3117 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3118 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3119 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3120 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3121 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3122 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3123 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 3124
41bd17a4 3125 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3126 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3127 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 3128
41bd17a4 3129 Common options:
0976f8db 3130
41bd17a4 3131 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 3132
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3133 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
3134 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
3135 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
3136 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
3137
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3138 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
3139 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 3140 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
3141 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
3142 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 3143
41bd17a4 3144 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3145 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3146 option.
bebc043b 3147NOCOMMENT_START
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3148
3149# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3150#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3151NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3152DOC_END
0976f8db 3153
41bd17a4 3154NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3155TYPE: string
3156LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3157DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3158DOC_START
41bd17a4 3159 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 3160DOC_END
0976f8db 3161
41bd17a4 3162NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3163TYPE: int
3164LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3165DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 3166DOC_START
41bd17a4 3167 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3168 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3169 descriptors are open.
3170
3171 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3172DOC_END
0976f8db 3173
41bd17a4 3174NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 3175COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 3176TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 3177DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 3178LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 3179DOC_START
41bd17a4 3180 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3181 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3182 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 3183DOC_END
0976f8db 3184
41bd17a4 3185NAME: maximum_object_size
3186COMMENT: (bytes)
3187TYPE: b_int64_t
3188DEFAULT: 4096 KB
3189LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 3190DOC_START
41bd17a4 3191 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3192 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
3193 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3194 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3195 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
3196 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 3197
41bd17a4 3198 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3199 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3200 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 3201DOC_END
0976f8db 3202
41bd17a4 3203NAME: cache_swap_low
3204COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3205TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3206DEFAULT: 90
3207LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
3208DOC_NONE
3209
3210NAME: cache_swap_high
3211COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3212TYPE: int
3213DEFAULT: 95
3214LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3215DOC_START
41bd17a4 3216
3217 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
3218 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3219 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3220 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3221 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3222 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3223
3224 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3225 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3226 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 3227DOC_END
0976f8db 3228
5473c134 3229COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3230 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3231 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3232COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3233
41bd17a4 3234NAME: logformat
3235TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3236LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3237DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 3238DOC_START
41bd17a4 3239 Usage:
0976f8db 3240
41bd17a4 3241 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3242
41bd17a4 3243 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3244
41bd17a4 3245 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3246
41bd17a4 3247 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3248 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3249 as required according to their context and the output format
3250 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3251 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3252
41bd17a4 3253 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3254
41bd17a4 3255 " output in quoted string format
3256 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3257 # output in URL quoted format
3258 ' output as-is
5473c134 3259
41bd17a4 3260 - left aligned
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3261
3262 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3263 [width_min][.width_max]
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3264 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3265 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3266
41bd17a4 3267 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3268
41bd17a4 3269 Format codes:
5473c134 3270
3ff65596 3271 % a literal % character
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3272 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3273 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3274 a similar internal error identifier.
3275 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
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3276 note The meta header specified by the argument. Also
3277 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3278 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
3279 If no argument given all meta headers logged.
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3280
3281 Connection related format codes:
3282
41bd17a4 3283 >a Client source IP address
3284 >A Client FQDN
3285 >p Client source port
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3286 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3287 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3288 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3289
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3290 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3291 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3292
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3293 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3294 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3295 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3296 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3297 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3298
3299 Time related format codes:
3300
41bd17a4 3301 ts Seconds since epoch
3302 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3303 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3304 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3305 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3306 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3307 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3308 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
3309
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3310 Access Control related format codes:
3311
3312 et Tag returned by external acl
3313 ea Log string returned by external acl
3314 un User name (any available)
3315 ul User name from authentication
3316 ue User name from external acl helper
3317 ui User name from ident
3318 us User name from SSL
3319
3320 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3321
ca2e92d8 3322 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3323 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3324 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3325 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3326 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3327 as for >h
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3328 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3329 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3330 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3331 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3332 transfer encoding and control messages.
3333 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3334 received bodies.
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3335 [http::]mt MIME content type
3336 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3337 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3338 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3339 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3340 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3341 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3342 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3343 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3344 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3345 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3346 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3347 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3348 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3349 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3350 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3351 are not included
3352 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3353 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3354 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3355 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3356 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3357 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3358 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3359 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3360 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3361 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3362 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3363 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3364
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3365 Squid handling related format codes:
3366
3367 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3368 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3369
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3370 SSL-related format codes:
3371
3372 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3373
3374 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3375 a connection and for any request received on
3376 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3377 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3378 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3379 more information about these modes.
3380
3381 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3382 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3383 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3384
3385 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3386 logged.
3387
5038f9d8 3388 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3389 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3390
3391 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3392 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3393 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3394 transaction is in progress.
3395
5038f9d8 3396 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3397
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3398 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3399 meta-information from the last eCAP
3400 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3401 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3402 argument.
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3403
3404 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3405 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3406 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3407 value is recorded as an integer number,
3408 representing response time of one or more
3409 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3410 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3411 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3412 logged individually but added to the
3413 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3414 adapt::all_trs.
3415
3416 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3417 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3418 individual transactions are never added
3419 together. Instead, all transaction response
3420 times are recorded individually.
3421
3422 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3423 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3424 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3425
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3426 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3427
3428 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3429 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3430 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3431 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3432 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3433
3434 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3435 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3436 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3437 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3438 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3439
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3440 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3441
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3442logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3443logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3444logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3445logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3446logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3447
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3448 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3449 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3450 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3451
3452 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3453 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3454
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3456
41bd17a4 3457NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3458TYPE: access_log
3459LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3460DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3461DOC_START
41bd17a4 3462 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3463 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3464 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3465 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3466
3467 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3468 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3469 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3470 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3471
3472 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3473
bb7a1781 3474 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3475 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3476
3477 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3478 each request.
3479 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3480
3481 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3482 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3483 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3484
3485 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3486
3487 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3488 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3489 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3490
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3491 where facility could be any of:
3492 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3493
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3494 And priority could be any of:
3495 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3496
3497 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3498 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3499 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3500
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3501 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3502 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3503 Place Format: //host:port
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3505 Default:
82b7abe3 3506 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3507DOC_END
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3510TYPE: access_log
3511IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3512LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3513DEFAULT: none
3514DOC_START
3515 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3516 transaction.
3517
3518 The icap_log option format is:
3519 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3520 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3521
3522 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3523 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3524 features.
3525
3526 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3527 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3528 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3529 log line.
3530
3531 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3532 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3533 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3534 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3535 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3536 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3537 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3538
3539 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3540
3541 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3542
3543 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3544 option in Squid configuration file.
3545
3546 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3547
3548 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3549 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3550
3551 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3552 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3553
3554 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3555 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3556 the socket).
3557
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3558 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3559 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3560 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3561 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3562 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3563 computed.
3564
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3566 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3567 the ICAP transaction is created and
3568 stops when the transaction is completed.
3569 Similar to tr.
3570
3571 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3572 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3573 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3574 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3575 is received.
3576
3577 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3578 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3579 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3580 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3581 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3582 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3583
3584 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3585
3586 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3587
3588 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3589
3590 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3591 definition, is called icap_squid:
3592
3593logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3594
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3597
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3598NAME: logfile_daemon
3599TYPE: string
3600DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3601LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3602DOC_START
3603 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3604 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3605
3606 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3607 L<data>\n - logfile data
3608 R\n - rotate file
3609 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3610 O\n - reopen file
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3611 F\n - flush file
3612 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3613 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3614
3615 No responses is expected.
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3617
5b0f5383 3618NAME: log_access
3619TYPE: acl_access
3620LOC: Config.accessList.log
3621DEFAULT: none
3622COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3623DOC_START
3624 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3625 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3626 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3627
3628 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3629 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3630DOC_END
3631
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3632NAME: log_icap
3633TYPE: acl_access
3634IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3635LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3636DEFAULT: none
3637DOC_START
3638 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3639 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3640DOC_END
3641
41bd17a4 3642NAME: cache_store_log
3643TYPE: string
df2eec10 3644DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3645LOC: Config.Log.store
3646DOC_START
3647 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3648 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 3649 saved and for how long.
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3651 disable it (the default).
3652
3653 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
3654 of modules supported.
3655
e0855596 3656 Example:
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3657 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
3658 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3659DOC_END
3660
41bd17a4 3661NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3662TYPE: string
3663LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3664DEFAULT: none
3665DOC_START
41bd17a4 3666 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3667 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3668 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3669 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3670 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3671 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3672 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3673
41bd17a4 3674 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3675 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3676 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3677 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3678
41bd17a4 3679 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3680 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3681
41bd17a4 3682 cache_swap_log.00
3683 cache_swap_log.01
3684 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3685
41bd17a4 3686 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3687 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3688 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3689 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3690 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3691 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3692 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3693DOC_END
3694
41bd17a4 3695NAME: logfile_rotate
3696TYPE: int
3697DEFAULT: 10
3698LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3699DOC_START
41bd17a4 3700 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3701 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3702 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3703 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3704 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3705 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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41bd17a4 3707 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3708 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3709 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3710 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3711 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3712 <pid>'.
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3714 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3715 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3716DOC_END
5473c134 3717
41bd17a4 3718NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3719TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3720DOC_START
20efa1c2 3721 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3722DOC_END
3723
41bd17a4 3724NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3725TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3726DOC_START
8652f8e7 3727 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3728DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3730NAME: mime_table
3731TYPE: string
3732DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3733LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3734DOC_START
3735 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3736 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3737 information if you do.
5473c134 3738DOC_END
3739
41bd17a4 3740NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3741COMMENT: on|off
3742TYPE: onoff
3743LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3744DEFAULT: off
3745DOC_START
3746 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3747 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3748 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3749 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3750 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3751DOC_END
5473c134 3752
41bd17a4 3753NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3754TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3755DOC_START
20efa1c2 3756 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3757DOC_END
3758
41bd17a4 3759NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3760TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3761DOC_START
20efa1c2 3762 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3763DOC_END
3764
41bd17a4 3765NAME: pid_filename
3766TYPE: string
3767DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3768LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3769DOC_START
41bd17a4 3770 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3771DOC_END
3772
41bd17a4 3773NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3774TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3775DOC_START
c581e96b 3776 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3777DOC_END
3778
41bd17a4 3779NAME: client_netmask
3780TYPE: address
3781LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3782DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3783DOC_START
41bd17a4 3784 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3785 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3786 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3787 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3788DOC_END
3789
41bd17a4 3790NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3791TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3792DOC_START
20efa1c2 3793 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3794DOC_END
3795
41bd17a4 3796NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3797TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3798LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3799DEFAULT: on
3800DOC_START
41bd17a4 3801 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3802 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3803DOC_END
3804
41bd17a4 3805NAME: buffered_logs
3806COMMENT: on|off
3807TYPE: onoff
3808DEFAULT: off
3809LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3810DOC_START
41bd17a4 3811 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3812 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3813 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3814 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3815 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
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2b753521 3818NAME: netdb_filename
3819TYPE: string
221faecb 3820DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3821LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3822IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3823DOC_START
3824 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3825 To disable, enter "none".
3826DOC_END
3827
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3828COMMENT_START
3829 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3830 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3831COMMENT_END
3832
3833NAME: cache_log
3834TYPE: string
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3835DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3836LOC: Debug::cache_log
3837DOC_START
3838 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3839 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3840 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3841DOC_END
3842
3843NAME: debug_options
3844TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3845DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3846LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3847DOC_START
3848 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3849 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3850 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3851 log file, so be careful.
3852
3853 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3854 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3855
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3857 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3858 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3859 events affecting Squid.
3860DOC_END
3861
3862NAME: coredump_dir
3863TYPE: string
3864LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3865DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3866DOC_START
3867 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3868 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3869 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3870 and coredump files will be left there.
3871
3872NOCOMMENT_START
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3874# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3875coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3876NOCOMMENT_END
3877DOC_END
3878
3879
41bd17a4 3880COMMENT_START
3881 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3882 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3883COMMENT_END
3884
3885NAME: ftp_user
3886TYPE: string
3887DEFAULT: Squid@
3888LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3889DOC_START
41bd17a4 3890 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3891 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3892 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3893
41bd17a4 3894 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3895 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3896 depending on how the cache is used.
3897 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3898 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3899DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3901NAME: ftp_passive
3902TYPE: onoff
3903DEFAULT: on
3904LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3905DOC_START
41bd17a4 3906 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3907 connections, turn off this option.
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3909 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3910DOC_END
3911
3912NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3913TYPE: onoff
3914DEFAULT: off
3915LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3916DOC_START
3917 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3918
3919 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3920 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3921 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3922
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3924 useful.
a689bd4e 3925 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3926 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3927
3928 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3929 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3930
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3932DOC_END
3933
3934NAME: ftp_epsv
3935TYPE: onoff
3936DEFAULT: on
3937LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3938DOC_START
3939 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3940
3941 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3942 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3943 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3944 will never be needed.
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3946 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3947 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3948 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3949
3950 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3951DOC_END
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3953NAME: ftp_eprt
3954TYPE: onoff
3955DEFAULT: on
3956LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3957DOC_START
3958 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3959
3960 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3961 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3962 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3963
3964 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3965 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3966
3967 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3968 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3969 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3970 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3971
3972 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3973 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3974DOC_END
3975
41bd17a4 3976NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3977TYPE: onoff
3978DEFAULT: on
3979LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3980DOC_START
3981 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3982 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3983 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3984 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3985 connection turn this off.
3986DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3987
41bd17a4 3988NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3989TYPE: onoff
3990DEFAULT: on
3991LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3992DOC_START
3993 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3994 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3995 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3996 the FTP protocol.
3997
3998 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3999 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4000 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4001 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4002 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4003DOC_END
4004
4005COMMENT_START
4006 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4007 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4008COMMENT_END
4009
4010NAME: diskd_program
4011TYPE: string
4012DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4013LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4014DOC_START
4015 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4016 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4017 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4018DOC_END
4019
4020NAME: unlinkd_program
4021IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4022TYPE: string
4023DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4024LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4025DOC_START
4026 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4027DOC_END
4028
4029NAME: pinger_program
4030TYPE: string
4031DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4032LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4033IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4034DOC_START
4035 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4036DOC_END
4037
cc192b50 4038NAME: pinger_enable
4039TYPE: onoff
4040DEFAULT: on
4041LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4042IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4043DOC_START
4044 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4046 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4047DOC_END
4048
4049
41bd17a4 4050COMMENT_START
4051 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4052 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4053COMMENT_END
4054
4055NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4056TYPE: wordlist
4057LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4058DEFAULT: none
4059DOC_START
2c7aad89 4060 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4061 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4062
2c7aad89 4063 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4064
c71adec1 4065 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
4066
4067 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
4068 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
4069 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4070 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4071
4072 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
4073 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
4074
4075 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
4076 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 4077 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 4078
4079 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4080DOC_END
4081
4082NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4083TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4084DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4085LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4086DOC_START
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4087 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4088 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4089 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4090 and other system resources noticably.
4091
4092 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4093 tuning.
4094
4095 startup=
4096
4097 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4098 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4099 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4100
4101 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4102 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4103
4104 idle=
4105
4106 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4107 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4108 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4109 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4110
4111 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4112
41bd17a4 4113 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4114 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4115 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4116
4117 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4118 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4119 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
4120 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
4121 to that request.
41bd17a4 4122DOC_END
4123
4124NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4125TYPE: onoff
4126DEFAULT: on
4127LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4128DOC_START
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4129 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4130 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4131 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4132
4133 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4134 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4135 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4136
41bd17a4 4137 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4138 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4139
4140 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4141 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4142 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4143DOC_END
4144
4145NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4146TYPE: acl_access
4147DEFAULT: none
4148LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4149DOC_START
4150 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4151 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
4152 are sent.
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4153
4154 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4155 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4156DOC_END
4157
4158NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4159TYPE: onoff
4160LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4161DEFAULT: off
4162DOC_START
4163 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4164 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4165 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4166 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4167 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4168 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4169 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4170 users may have access to pages they should not
4171 be allowed to request.
4172DOC_END
4173
4174COMMENT_START
4175 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4176 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4177COMMENT_END
4178
f04b37d8 4179NAME: cache no_cache
4180TYPE: acl_access
4181DEFAULT: none
4182LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4183DOC_START
240887f0 4184 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 4185 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4186 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 4187
240887f0 4188 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4189 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 4190
240887f0 4191 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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4192
4193 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4194 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4195DOC_END
4196
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4197NAME: max_stale
4198COMMENT: time-units
4199TYPE: time_t
4200LOC: Config.maxStale
4201DEFAULT: 1 week
4202DOC_START
4203 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4204 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4205 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4206DOC_END
4207
41bd17a4 4208NAME: refresh_pattern
4209TYPE: refreshpattern
4210LOC: Config.Refresh
4211DEFAULT: none
4212DOC_START
4213 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 4214
6b698a21 4215 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4216 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 4217
41bd17a4 4218 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4219 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4220 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4221 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4222 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 4223
41bd17a4 4224 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4225 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4226 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 4227
41bd17a4 4228 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4229 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 4230
41bd17a4 4231 options: override-expire
4232 override-lastmod
4233 reload-into-ims
4234 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 4235 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 4236 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 4237 ignore-private
4238 ignore-auth
570d3f75 4239 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 4240 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 4241 store-stale
a0ec9f68 4242
41bd17a4 4243 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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4244 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4245 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4246 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4247 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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4249 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4250 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4251 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4252 the object fresh for that period of time.
4253
41bd17a4 4254 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4255 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 4256
41bd17a4 4257 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
4258 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
4259 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4260 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 4261
41bd17a4 4262 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4263 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4264 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4265 it causes.
9bc73deb 4266
41bd17a4 4267 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4268 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4269 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4270 liable for problems which it causes.
4271
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4272 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4273 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4274 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4275 liable for problems which it causes.
4276
41bd17a4 4277 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4278 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4279 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4280 liable for problems which it causes.
4281
4282 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4283 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4284 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4285 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4286 it causes.
4287
4288 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4289 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4290 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4291 if one is available.
4292
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4293 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4294 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4295 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4296 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4297 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4298
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4299 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4300 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4301 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4302
41bd17a4 4303 Basically a cached object is:
4304
4305 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4306 STALE if age > max
4307 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4308 FRESH if age < min
4309 else STALE
4310
4311 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4312 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4313 match the default will be used.
4314
4315 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4316 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4317 used.
4318
41bd17a4 4319NOCOMMENT_START
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4321# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 4322refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4323refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4324refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4325refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4326NOCOMMENT_END
4327DOC_END
4328
4329NAME: quick_abort_min
4330COMMENT: (KB)
4331TYPE: kb_int64_t
4332DEFAULT: 16 KB
4333LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4334DOC_NONE
4335
4336NAME: quick_abort_max
4337COMMENT: (KB)
4338TYPE: kb_int64_t
4339DEFAULT: 16 KB
4340LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4341DOC_NONE
4342
4343NAME: quick_abort_pct
4344COMMENT: (percent)
4345TYPE: int
4346DEFAULT: 95
4347LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4348DOC_START
4349 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4350 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4351 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4352 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4353 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4354 downloads.
4355
4356 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4357 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4358 then.
4359
4360 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4361 it will finish the retrieval.
4362
4363 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4364 it will abort the retrieval.
4365
4366 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4367 it will finish the retrieval.
4368
4369 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4370 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4371 to '0 KB'.
4372
4373 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4374 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4375DOC_END
60d096f4 4376
41bd17a4 4377NAME: read_ahead_gap
4378COMMENT: buffer-size
4379TYPE: b_int64_t
4380LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4381DEFAULT: 16 KB
4382DOC_START
4383 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4384 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4385DOC_END
53e738c6 4386
41bd17a4 4387NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4388IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4389COMMENT: time-units
4390TYPE: time_t
4391LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4392DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4393DOC_START
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4394 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4395 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4396 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4397 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4398 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4399 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4400
4401 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4402
4403 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4404 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4405 causes.
41bd17a4 4406DOC_END
53e738c6 4407
41bd17a4 4408NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4409COMMENT: time-units
4410TYPE: time_t
4411LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4412DEFAULT: 6 hours
4413DOC_START
4414 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4415 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4416 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4417DOC_END
c4ab8329 4418
41bd17a4 4419NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4420COMMENT: time-units
4421TYPE: time_t
4422LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4423DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4424DOC_START
4425 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4426 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4427 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4428 much below 10 seconds.
4429DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4431NAME: range_offset_limit
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4432COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4433TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4434LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4435DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4436DOC_START
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4437 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4438
4439 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4440 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4441 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4442 the result is NOT cached.
4443
41bd17a4 4444 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4445 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4446 sending anything to the client.
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4447
4448 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4449 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4450 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4451 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4452
4453 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4454
4455 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4456 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4457
4458 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4459 client requested. (default)
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4460
4461 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4462 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4463
4464 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4465
4466 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4467 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4468 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4469 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4470DOC_END
d95b862f 4471
41bd17a4 4472NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4473COMMENT: (seconds)
4474TYPE: time_t
4475LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4476DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4477DOC_START
4478 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4479 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4480 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4481 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4482 is most likely better to make your server return a
4483 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4484 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4485 often be best set to 0.
4486DOC_END
c68e9c6b 4487
41bd17a4 4488NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4489COMMENT: (bytes)
4490TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4491DEFAULT: 13 KB
4492LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4493DOC_START
4494 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4495 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4496DOC_END
4497
41bd17a4 4498NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4499TYPE: int
4500DEFAULT: 20
4501LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4502DOC_START
4503 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4504 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4505 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4506DOC_END
4507
4508COMMENT_START
4509 HTTP OPTIONS
4510 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4511COMMENT_END
4512
f04b37d8 4513NAME: request_header_max_size
4514COMMENT: (KB)
4515TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4516DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4517LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4518DOC_START
4519 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4520 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4521 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4522 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4523 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4524DOC_END
4525
4526NAME: reply_header_max_size
4527COMMENT: (KB)
4528TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4529DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4530LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4531DOC_START
4532 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4533 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4534 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4535 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4536 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4537DOC_END
4538
4539NAME: request_body_max_size
4540COMMENT: (bytes)
4541TYPE: b_int64_t
4542DEFAULT: 0 KB
4543LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4544DOC_START
4545 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4546 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4547 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4548 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4549 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4550 be no limit imposed.
4551DOC_END
4552
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4553NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4554COMMENT: (bytes)
4555TYPE: b_size_t
4556DEFAULT: 512 KB
4557LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4558DOC_START
4559 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4560 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4561 a large file.
4562DOC_END
4563
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4564NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4565COMMENT: (bytes)
4566TYPE: b_int64_t
4567DEFAULT: 64 KB
4568LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4569DOC_START
4570 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4571 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4572 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4573 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4574 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4575 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4576
4577 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4578 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4579 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4580 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4581 as if dechunking was disabled.
4582
4583 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4584 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4585
4586 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4587 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4588 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4589DOC_END
4590
41bd17a4 4591NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4592IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4593TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4594DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4595LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4596DOC_START
41bd17a4 4597 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4598 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4599
41bd17a4 4600 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4601 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4602
41bd17a4 4603 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4604
41bd17a4 4605 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4606 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4607 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4608 a request with an extra CRLF.
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4610 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4611 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4612
41bd17a4 4613Example:
4614 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4615 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4616DOC_END
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22fff3bf 4618NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4619COMMENT: on|off
4620TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4621IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4622DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4623LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4624DOC_START
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4625 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4626 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4627
4628 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4629DOC_END
4630
41bd17a4 4631NAME: via
626096be 4632IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4633COMMENT: on|off
4634TYPE: onoff
4635DEFAULT: on
4636LOC: Config.onoff.via
4637DOC_START
4638 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4639 replies as required by RFC2616.
4640DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4641
41bd17a4 4642NAME: ie_refresh
4643COMMENT: on|off
4644TYPE: onoff
4645LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4646DEFAULT: off
4647DOC_START
4648 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4649 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4650 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4651 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4652 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4653 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4654 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4655 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4656 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4657 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4658 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4659 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4660 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4661 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4662 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4663 force fresh content.
4664DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4666NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4667COMMENT: on|off
4668TYPE: onoff
4669LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4670DEFAULT: off
4671DOC_START
4672 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4673 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4674 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4675 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4676 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4678 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4679 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4680DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4682NAME: request_entities
4683TYPE: onoff
4684LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4685DEFAULT: off
4686DOC_START
4687 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4688 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4689 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4690
41bd17a4 4691 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4692 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4693 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4694 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4695 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4696DOC_END
6b53c392 4697
41bd17a4 4698NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4699IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4700TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4701LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4702DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4703DOC_START
41bd17a4 4704 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4705
41bd17a4 4706 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4707 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4708 causes.
0976f8db 4709
41bd17a4 4710 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4711 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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4712 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
4713 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
4714
4715 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
4716 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
4717 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
4718 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
4719 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4720
4721 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
4722 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
4723 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
4724
4725 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
4726 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
4727 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
4728 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
4729
4730 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
4731 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
4732 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
4733 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
4734 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
4735 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 4736
41bd17a4 4737 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4738 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4739
41bd17a4 4740 request_header_access From deny all
4741 request_header_access Referer deny all
4742 request_header_access Server deny all
4743 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4744 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4745 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4746
41bd17a4 4747 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4748 you should use:
5401aa8d 4749
41bd17a4 4750 request_header_access Allow allow all
4751 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4752 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4753 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4754 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4755 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4756 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4757 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4758 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4759 request_header_access Date allow all
4760 request_header_access Expires allow all
4761 request_header_access Host allow all
4762 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4763 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4764 request_header_access Location allow all
4765 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4766 request_header_access Accept allow all
4767 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4768 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4769 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4770 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4771 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4772 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4773 request_header_access Title allow all
4774 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4775 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4776
41bd17a4 4777 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4778 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4779
41bd17a4 4780 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4781 performed).
5401aa8d 4782DOC_END
4783
41bd17a4 4784NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4785IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4786TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4787LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4788DEFAULT: none
4789DOC_START
41bd17a4 4790 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4791
41bd17a4 4792 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4793 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4794 causes.
934b03fc 4795
41bd17a4 4796 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4797 server to the client.
934b03fc 4798
41bd17a4 4799 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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4800 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
4801 documentation.
cccac0a2 4802
41bd17a4 4803 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4804 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4805
41bd17a4 4806 reply_header_access From deny all
4807 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4808 reply_header_access Server deny all
4809 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4810 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4811 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4812
41bd17a4 4813 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4814 you should use:
cccac0a2 4815
41bd17a4 4816 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4817 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4818 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4819 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4820 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4821 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4822 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4823 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4824 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4825 reply_header_access Date allow all
4826 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4827 reply_header_access Host allow all
4828 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4829 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4830 reply_header_access Location allow all
4831 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4832 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4833 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4834 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4835 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4836 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4837 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4838 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4839 reply_header_access Title allow all
4840 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4841 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4842
41bd17a4 4843 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4844 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4845
41bd17a4 4846 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4847 performed).
cccac0a2 4848DOC_END
4849
75e4f2ea 4850NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4851IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4852TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 4853LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4854DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4855DOC_START
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4856 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4857 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4858
41bd17a4 4859 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4860 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4861 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4862 option.
cccac0a2 4863
41bd17a4 4864 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4865
41bd17a4 4866 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4867DOC_END
cccac0a2 4868
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4869NAME: reply_header_replace
4870IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4871TYPE: http_header_replace
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4872LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4873DEFAULT: none
4874DOC_START
4875 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4876 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4877
4878 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4879 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4880 with some fixed string.
4881
4882 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4883
4884 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4885DOC_END
4886
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4887NAME: request_header_add
4888TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
4889LOC: Config.request_header_add
4890DEFAULT: none
4891DOC_START
4892 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
4893 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
4894
4895 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
4896 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
4897 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
4898 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
4899 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4900
4901 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
4902 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
4903 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
4904 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
4905 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
4906 header field values are not merged.
4907
4908 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
4909 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
4910 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
4911
4912 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
4913 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
4914 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
4915 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
4916 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
4917 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
4918 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
4919 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
4920
4921 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
4922 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
4923 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
4924 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
4925 only.
4926DOC_END
4927
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4928NAME: note
4929TYPE: note
4930LOC: Config.notes
4931DEFAULT: none
4932DOC_START
4933 This option used to log custom information about the master
4934 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
4935 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
4936 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
4937 authentication information.
4938 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
4939
4940 note key value acl ...
4941 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
4942DOC_END
4943
41bd17a4 4944NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4945COMMENT: on|off|warn
4946TYPE: tristate
4947LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4948DEFAULT: on
4949DOC_START
4950 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4951 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4952 what the sending application intended even if the message
4953 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4954 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4955
41bd17a4 4956 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4957 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4958
41bd17a4 4959 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4960 or response to be rejected.
4961DOC_END
7d90757b 4962
41bd17a4 4963COMMENT_START
4964 TIMEOUTS
4965 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4966COMMENT_END
4967
4968NAME: forward_timeout
4969COMMENT: time-units
4970TYPE: time_t
4971LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4972DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4973DOC_START
4974 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4975 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4976DOC_END
4977
41bd17a4 4978NAME: connect_timeout
4979COMMENT: time-units
4980TYPE: time_t
4981LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4982DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4983DOC_START
41bd17a4 4984 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4985 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4986 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4987DOC_END
4988
41bd17a4 4989NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4990COMMENT: time-units
4991TYPE: time_t
4992LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4993DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4994DOC_START
41bd17a4 4995 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4996 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4997 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4998 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4999DOC_END
7f7db318 5000
41bd17a4 5001NAME: read_timeout
5002COMMENT: time-units
5003TYPE: time_t
5004LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5005DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5006DOC_START
5007 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5008 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5009 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5010 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5011 default is 15 minutes.
5012DOC_END
cccac0a2 5013
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5014NAME: write_timeout
5015COMMENT: time-units
5016TYPE: time_t
5017LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5018DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5019DOC_START
5020 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5021 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5022 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5023 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5024 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5025 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5026 default is 15 minutes.
5027DOC_END
5028
41bd17a4 5029NAME: request_timeout
5030TYPE: time_t
5031LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5032DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5033DOC_START
6b2a2108 5034 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5035 connection establishment.
5036DOC_END
cccac0a2 5037
97b32442 5038NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5039TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5040LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5041DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5042DOC_START
5043 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5044 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5045DOC_END
cccac0a2 5046
41bd17a4 5047NAME: client_lifetime
5048COMMENT: time-units
5049TYPE: time_t
5050LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5051DEFAULT: 1 day
5052DOC_START
5053 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5054 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5055 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5056 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5057 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5058 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5059 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 5060
41bd17a4 5061 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5062 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5063 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5064 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5065 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5066 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5067DOC_END
5068
41bd17a4 5069NAME: half_closed_clients
5070TYPE: onoff
5071LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5072DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5073DOC_START
41bd17a4 5074 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5075 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5076 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5077 fully-closed TCP connection.
5078
5079 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5080 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5081
abdf1651 5082 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5083 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5084 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5085 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5086DOC_END
5087
97b32442 5088NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5089TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5090LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5091DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5092DOC_START
41bd17a4 5093 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5094 proxies.
5095DOC_END
cccac0a2 5096
41bd17a4 5097NAME: ident_timeout
5098TYPE: time_t
5099IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5100LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5101DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5102DOC_START
5103 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5104
41bd17a4 5105 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5106 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5107 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5108DOC_END
5109
41bd17a4 5110NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5111COMMENT: time-units
5112TYPE: time_t
5113LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5114DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5115DOC_START
41bd17a4 5116 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5117 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5118 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5119 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5120 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5121DOC_END
0976f8db 5122
cccac0a2 5123COMMENT_START
5124 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5125 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5126COMMENT_END
5127
5128NAME: cache_mgr
5129TYPE: string
5130DEFAULT: webmaster
5131LOC: Config.adminEmail
5132DOC_START
5133 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
5134 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
5135DOC_END
5136
abacf776 5137NAME: mail_from
5138TYPE: string
5139DEFAULT: none
5140LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5141DOC_START
5142 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
5143 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 5144 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 5145 src/globals.h before building squid.
5146DOC_END
5147
d084bf20 5148NAME: mail_program
5149TYPE: eol
5150DEFAULT: mail
5151LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5152DOC_START
5153 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5154 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5155 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5156 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5157
d084bf20 5158 Optional command line options can be specified.
5159DOC_END
5160
cccac0a2 5161NAME: cache_effective_user
5162TYPE: string
5483d916 5163DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5164LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5165DOC_START
5166 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5167 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5168 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5169 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5170DOC_END
5171
cccac0a2 5172NAME: cache_effective_group
5173TYPE: string
5174DEFAULT: none
5175LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5176DOC_START
64e288bd 5177 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5178 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5179 from the groups membership.
5180
e3d74828 5181 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5182 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5183 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5184 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5185 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5186 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5187 group.
64e288bd 5188
5189 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5190 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5191 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5192DOC_END
5193
d3caee79 5194NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5195COMMENT: on|off
5196TYPE: onoff
5197DEFAULT: off
5198LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5199DOC_START
5200 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5201DOC_END
5202
cccac0a2 5203NAME: visible_hostname
5204TYPE: string
5205LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5206DEFAULT: none
5207DOC_START
5208 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 5209 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 5210 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5211 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5212 names with this setting.
5213DOC_END
5214
cccac0a2 5215NAME: unique_hostname
5216TYPE: string
5217LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5218DEFAULT: none
5219DOC_START
5220 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 5221 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5222 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 5223DOC_END
5224
cccac0a2 5225NAME: hostname_aliases
5226TYPE: wordlist
5227LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5228DEFAULT: none
5229DOC_START
7f7db318 5230 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 5231DOC_END
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5233NAME: umask
5234TYPE: int
5235LOC: Config.umask
5236DEFAULT: 027
5237DOC_START
5238 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5239 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5240
5241 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5242 your value with 0.
5243DOC_END
5244
cccac0a2 5245COMMENT_START
5246 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5247 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5248
5249 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5250 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5251 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5252 create cache hierarchies.
5253
5254 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5255 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5256 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5257
5258 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5259 following information from this configuration file:
5260
5261 http_port
5262 icp_port
5263 cache_mgr
5264
5265 All current information is processed regularly and made
5266 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5267COMMENT_END
5268
5269NAME: announce_period
5270TYPE: time_t
5271LOC: Config.Announce.period
5272DEFAULT: 0
5273DOC_START
5274 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
5275 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
5276 messages.
5277
e0855596 5278 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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5280 Example:
5281 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 5282DOC_END
5283
cccac0a2 5284NAME: announce_host
5285TYPE: string
5286DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5287LOC: Config.Announce.host
5288DOC_NONE
5289
5290NAME: announce_file
5291TYPE: string
5292DEFAULT: none
5293LOC: Config.Announce.file
5294DOC_NONE
5295
5296NAME: announce_port
ae870270 5297TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 5298DEFAULT: 3131
5299LOC: Config.Announce.port
5300DOC_START
5301 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
5302 number where the registration message will be sent.
5303
5304 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
5305 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
5306 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
5307 message.
5308DOC_END
5309
8d6275c0 5310COMMENT_START
5311 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5312 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5313COMMENT_END
5314
cccac0a2 5315NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5316TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5317DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5318LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5319DOC_START
5320 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5321 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5322 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5323 an identification token.
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5325 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5326DOC_END
5327
5328NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5329COMMENT: on|off
5330TYPE: onoff
5331DEFAULT: off
5332LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5333DOC_START
5334 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
5335 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5336DOC_END
5337
5338NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5339IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5340COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5341TYPE: string
5342LOC: ESIParser::Type
5343DEFAULT: custom
5344DOC_START
5345 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5346 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5347 encodings.
5348DOC_END
0976f8db 5349
9edd9041 5350COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5351 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5352 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5353COMMENT_END
5354
5355NAME: delay_pools
5356TYPE: delay_pool_count
5357DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5358IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5359LOC: Config.Delay
5360DOC_START
5361 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5362 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5363 have a total of 2 delay pools.
5364DOC_END
5365
5366NAME: delay_class
5367TYPE: delay_pool_class
5368DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5369IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5370LOC: Config.Delay
5371DOC_START
5372 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5373 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5374 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5375 and here would be:
5376
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5377 Example:
5378 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5379 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5380 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5381 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5382 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5383
5384 The delay pool classes are:
5385
5386 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5387 bucket.
5388
5389 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5390 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5391 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5392
5393 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5394 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5395 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5396 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5397 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5398
5399 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5400 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5401 only takes effect if the username is established
5402 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5403 http_access rules.
5404
5405 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5406 external_acl's tag= reply).
5407
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5408
5409 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5410 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5411 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5412
9edd9041 5413 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5414 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5415 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5416 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5417
5418 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5419 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5420DOC_END
5421
5422NAME: delay_access
5423TYPE: delay_pool_access
5424DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5425IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5426LOC: Config.Delay
5427DOC_START
5428 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5429
5430 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5431 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5432 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5433 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5434
5435 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5436 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5437
5438Example:
5439 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5440 delay_access 1 deny all
5441 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5442 delay_access 2 deny all
5443 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5444DOC_END
5445
5446NAME: delay_parameters
5447TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5448DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5449IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5450LOC: Config.Delay
5451DOC_START
5452 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5453 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5454 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5455
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5456 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5457 delay_pools pool 1
5458 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5459
5460 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5461 delay_pools pool 2
5462 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5463
5464 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5465 delay_pools pool 3
5466 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5467
5468 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5469 delay_pools pool 4
5470 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5471
5472 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5473 delay_pools pool 5
5474 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5475
0b68481a 5476 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5477
5478 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5479 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5480 delay_class lines.
5481
fdb47ac6 5482 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5483 (class 1, 2, 3).
5484
fdb47ac6 5485 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5486 buckets (class 2, 3).
5487
fdb47ac6 5488 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5489 (class 3).
5490
fdb47ac6 5491 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5492 (class 4).
5493
fdb47ac6 5494 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5495 (class 5).
5496
5497 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5498 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5499 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5500 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5501
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5502 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5503
5504
9edd9041 5505 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5506 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5507 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5508
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5509 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5510
5511 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5512
5513 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5514
0b68481a 5515
9edd9041 5516 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5517 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5518 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5519 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5520 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5521 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5522 large downloads more significantly:
5523
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5524 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5525
5526 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5527 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5528 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5529
9edd9041 5530
5531 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5532 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5533
0b68481a 5534 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5535DOC_END
5536
5537NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5538COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5539TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5540DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5541IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5542LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5543DOC_START
5544 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5545 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5546 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5547 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5548 "seen" by squid).
5549DOC_END
5550
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5551COMMENT_START
5552 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5553 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5554COMMENT_END
5555
5556NAME: client_delay_pools
5557TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5558DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5559IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5560LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5561DOC_START
5562 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5563 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5564
5565Example:
5566 client_delay_pools 2
5567DOC_END
5568
5569NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5570COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5571TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5572DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5573IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5574LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5575DOC_START
5576 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5577 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5578 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5579 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5580
5581 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5582 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5583 from client_delay_parameters.
5584
5585Example:
5586 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5587DOC_END
5588
5589NAME: client_delay_parameters
5590TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5591DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5592IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5593LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5594DOC_START
5595
5596 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5597 following format:
5598
5599 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5600
5601 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5602
5603 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5604
5605 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5606 speed_limit additions.
5607
5608 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5609 examples.
5610
5611Example:
5612 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5613 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5614DOC_END
5615
5616NAME: client_delay_access
5617TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5618DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5619IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5620LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5621DOC_START
5622
5623 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5624 request:
5625
5626 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5627
5628 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5629 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5630 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5631 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5632 limited.
5633
5634 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5635 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5636 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5637 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5638
5639 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5640
5641Example:
5642 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5643 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5644DOC_END
5645
cccac0a2 5646COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5647 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5648 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5649COMMENT_END
5650
8d6275c0 5651NAME: wccp_router
5652TYPE: address
5653LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5654DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5655IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5656DOC_START
5657 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5658 Squid.
5659
5660 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5661
5662 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5663
5664 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5665 which version of WCCP to use.
5666DOC_END
df2eec10 5667
8d6275c0 5668NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5669TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5670LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5671DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5672IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5673DOC_START
8d6275c0 5674 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5675 Squid.
cccac0a2 5676
8d6275c0 5677 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5678
8d6275c0 5679 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5680
8d6275c0 5681 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5682 which version of WCCP to use.
5683DOC_END
5684
5685NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5686TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5687LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5688DEFAULT: 4
5689IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5690DOC_START
8d6275c0 5691 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5692 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5693 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5694 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5695 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5696
8d6275c0 5697 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5698 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5699 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5700 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5701DOC_END
5702
8d6275c0 5703NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5704TYPE: onoff
5705LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5706DEFAULT: on
5707IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5708DOC_START
5709 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5710 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5711DOC_END
cccac0a2 5712
8d6275c0 5713NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5714TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5715LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5716DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5717IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5718DOC_START
699acd19 5719 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5720 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5721
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5722 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5723 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5724
8d6275c0 5725 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5726 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5727DOC_END
5728
8d6275c0 5729NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5730TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5731LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5732DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5733IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5734DOC_START
699acd19 5735 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5736 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5737 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5738
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5739 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5740 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5741
8d6275c0 5742 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5743 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5744
699acd19 5745 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5746 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5747 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5748 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5749DOC_END
5750
8d6275c0 5751NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5752TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5753LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5754DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5755IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5756DOC_START
8d6275c0 5757 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5758 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5759
451c4786 5760 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5761 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5762
8d6275c0 5763 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5764 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5765DOC_END
cccac0a2 5766
8d6275c0 5767NAME: wccp2_service
5768TYPE: wccp2_service
5769LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5770DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5771IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5772DOC_START
5773 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5774 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5775 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5776 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5777 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5778 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5779
5780 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5781 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5782
5783 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5784 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5785
5786 Examples:
5787
5788 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5789 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5790 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5791 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5792DOC_END
5793
5794NAME: wccp2_service_info
5795TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5796LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5797DEFAULT: none
5798IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5799DOC_START
5800 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5801 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5802
5803 The format is:
5804
5805 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5806 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5807
5808 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5809 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5810 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5811 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5812 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5813 + ports_source
5814
5815 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5816
5817 Example:
5818
5819 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5820 priority=240 ports=80
5821
5822 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5823 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5824DOC_END
5825
5826NAME: wccp2_weight
5827TYPE: int
5828LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5829DEFAULT: 10000
5830IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5831DOC_START
5832 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5833 hash proportional to their weight.
5834DOC_END
5835
5836NAME: wccp_address
5837TYPE: address
5838LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5839DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5840IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5841DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5842
8d6275c0 5843NAME: wccp2_address
5844TYPE: address
5845LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5846DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5847IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5848DOC_START
5849 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5850 interface address.
5851
5852 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5853DOC_END
5854
5855COMMENT_START
5856 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5857 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5858
5859 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5860COMMENT_END
5861
5862NAME: client_persistent_connections
5863TYPE: onoff
5864LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5865DEFAULT: on
5866DOC_NONE
5867
5868NAME: server_persistent_connections
5869TYPE: onoff
5870LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5871DEFAULT: on
5872DOC_START
5873 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5874 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5875 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5876 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5877DOC_END
5878
5879NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5880TYPE: onoff
5881LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5882DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5883DOC_START
5884 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5885 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5886 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5887DOC_END
5888
5889NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5890TYPE: onoff
5891LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5892DEFAULT: off
5893DOC_START
5894 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5895 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5896 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5897 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5898
5899 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5900 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5901 after 10 seconds timeout.
5902DOC_END
5903
5904COMMENT_START
5905 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5906 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5907COMMENT_END
5908
5909NAME: digest_generation
5910IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5911TYPE: onoff
5912LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5913DEFAULT: on
5914DOC_START
5915 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5916 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5917 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5918DOC_END
5919
5920NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5921IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5922TYPE: int
5923LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5924DEFAULT: 5
5925DOC_START
5926 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5927 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5928 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5929DOC_END
5930
5931NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5932IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5933COMMENT: (seconds)
5934TYPE: time_t
5935LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5936DEFAULT: 1 hour
5937DOC_START
749ceff8 5938 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5939DOC_END
5940
5941NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5942COMMENT: (seconds)
5943IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5944TYPE: time_t
5945LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5946DEFAULT: 1 hour
5947DOC_START
749ceff8 5948 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5949 disk.
5950DOC_END
5951
5952NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5953COMMENT: (bytes)
5954TYPE: b_size_t
5955IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5956LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5957DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5958DOC_START
5959 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5960 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5961 default swap page.
5962DOC_END
5963
5964NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5965COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5966IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5967TYPE: int
5968LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5969DEFAULT: 10
5970DOC_START
5971 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5972 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5973DOC_END
5974
1db9eacd 5975COMMENT_START
5473c134 5976 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5977 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5978COMMENT_END
5979
5473c134 5980NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5981TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5982LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5983DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5984IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5985DOC_START
87630341 5986 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5987 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5988 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5989 set to "0" (disabled)
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5990
5991 Example:
5992 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5993DOC_END
5994
5473c134 5995NAME: snmp_access
5996TYPE: acl_access
5997LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5998DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5999IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6000DOC_START
5473c134 6001 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 6002
5473c134 6003 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6004 usage:
8d6275c0 6005
5473c134 6006 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 6007
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6008 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6009 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 6010Example:
6011 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6012 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 6013DOC_END
6014
5473c134 6015NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6016TYPE: address
6017LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6018DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 6019IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
6020DOC_NONE
df2eec10 6021
5473c134 6022NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6023TYPE: address
6024LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6025DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6026IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6027DOC_START
df2eec10 6028 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6029
5473c134 6030 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6031 messages from SNMP agents.
6032 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6033 agents.
cccac0a2 6034
0eb08770 6035 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 6036 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 6037
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6038 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6039 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6040 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6041 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6042
5473c134 6043 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
6044 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 6045DOC_END
6046
5473c134 6047COMMENT_START
6048 ICP OPTIONS
6049 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6050COMMENT_END
6051
6052NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6053TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6054DEFAULT: 0
6055LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6056DOC_START
5473c134 6057 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6058 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
6059 Default is disabled (0).
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6060
6061 Example:
6062 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6063DOC_END
6064
5473c134 6065NAME: htcp_port
6066IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6067TYPE: u_short
87630341 6068DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 6069LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6070DOC_START
5473c134 6071 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6072 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
6073 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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6074
6075 Example:
6076 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6077DOC_END
6078
6079NAME: log_icp_queries
6080COMMENT: on|off
6081TYPE: onoff
6082DEFAULT: on
6083LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6084DOC_START
6085 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6086 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6087 up or to simplify log analysis.
6088DOC_END
6089
5473c134 6090NAME: udp_incoming_address
6091TYPE: address
6092LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6093DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 6094DOC_START
6095 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6096 caches.
6097
6098 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6099
6100 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6101 a specific interface/address.
6102
6103 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6104 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6105
6106 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6107
6108 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6109 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6110DOC_END
cccac0a2 6111
5473c134 6112NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6113TYPE: address
6114LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6115DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 6116DOC_START
8524d4b2 6117 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6118 caches.
cccac0a2 6119
5473c134 6120 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6121
8524d4b2 6122 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6123 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6124 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6125 caches.
6126
8524d4b2 6127 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6128 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6129
6130 see also; udp_incoming_address
6131
5473c134 6132 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6133 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6134DOC_END
6135
3d1e3e43 6136NAME: icp_hit_stale
6137COMMENT: on|off
6138TYPE: onoff
6139DEFAULT: off
6140LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6141DOC_START
6142 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6143 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6144 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6145 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6146 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6147 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6148 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6149DOC_END
6150
5473c134 6151NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 6152TYPE: int
5473c134 6153DEFAULT: 4
6154LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 6155DOC_START
5473c134 6156 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6157 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 6158DOC_END
6159
5473c134 6160NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
6161TYPE: int
6162DEFAULT: 400
6163LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 6164DOC_START
5473c134 6165 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6166 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 6167DOC_END
6168
cccac0a2 6169NAME: netdb_low
6170TYPE: int
6171DEFAULT: 900
6172LOC: Config.Netdb.low
6173DOC_NONE
6174
6175NAME: netdb_high
6176TYPE: int
6177DEFAULT: 1000
6178LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6179DOC_START
6180 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
6181 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6182 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
6183 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
6184DOC_END
6185
cccac0a2 6186NAME: netdb_ping_period
6187TYPE: time_t
6188LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6189DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6190DOC_START
6191 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6192 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6193 network. The default is five minutes.
6194DOC_END
6195
cccac0a2 6196NAME: query_icmp
6197COMMENT: on|off
6198TYPE: onoff
6199DEFAULT: off
6200LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6201DOC_START
6202 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6203 replies, enable this option.
6204
6205 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 6206 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6207 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 6208 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6209 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6210 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6211 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6212 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6213DOC_END
6214
6215NAME: test_reachability
6216COMMENT: on|off
6217TYPE: onoff
6218DEFAULT: off
6219LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6220DOC_START
6221 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6222 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6223 database, or has a zero RTT.
6224DOC_END
6225
5473c134 6226NAME: icp_query_timeout
6227COMMENT: (msec)
6228DEFAULT: 0
6229TYPE: int
6230LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 6231DOC_START
5473c134 6232 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6233 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6234 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6235 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6236 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6237 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 6238
5473c134 6239 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 6240DOC_END
6241
5473c134 6242NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6243COMMENT: (msec)
6244DEFAULT: 2000
6245TYPE: int
6246LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 6247DOC_START
5473c134 6248 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6249 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6250 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6251 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6252 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6253 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6254DOC_END
6255
5473c134 6256NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6257COMMENT: (msec)
6258DEFAULT: 5
6259TYPE: int
6260LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 6261DOC_START
5473c134 6262 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6263 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6264 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6265 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6266 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6267 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6268 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6269DOC_END
6270
5473c134 6271NAME: background_ping_rate
6272COMMENT: time-units
6273TYPE: time_t
6274DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6275LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 6276DOC_START
5473c134 6277 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6278 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 6279DOC_END
6280
5473c134 6281COMMENT_START
6282 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6283 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6284COMMENT_END
6285
6286NAME: mcast_groups
6287TYPE: wordlist
6288LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 6289DEFAULT: none
6290DOC_START
5473c134 6291 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6292 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 6293
5473c134 6294 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6295 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6296 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6297 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6298 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6299 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6300 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 6301
5473c134 6302 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6303 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 6304
5473c134 6305 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
6306 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 6307
5473c134 6308 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 6309
5473c134 6310 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6311DOC_END
8c01ada0 6312
5473c134 6313NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6314IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6315TYPE: address
6316LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 6317DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6318DOC_START
6319 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6320 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 6321
5473c134 6322 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6323 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 6324DOC_END
6325
5473c134 6326NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6327IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6328TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6329LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6330DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 6331DOC_START
5473c134 6332 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6333 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6334 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6335DOC_END
cccac0a2 6336
5473c134 6337NAME: mcast_miss_port
6338IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6339TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6340LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6341DEFAULT: 3135
6342DOC_START
6343 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6344 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6345DOC_END
cccac0a2 6346
5473c134 6347NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6348IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6349TYPE: string
6350LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6351DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6352DOC_START
6353 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6354 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6355DOC_END
8c01ada0 6356
5473c134 6357NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6358COMMENT: (msec)
6359DEFAULT: 2000
6360TYPE: int
6361LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6362DOC_START
6363 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6364 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6365 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6366 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6367 seconds.
cccac0a2 6368DOC_END
6369
5473c134 6370COMMENT_START
6371 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6372 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6373COMMENT_END
6374
cccac0a2 6375NAME: icon_directory
6376TYPE: string
6377LOC: Config.icons.directory
6378DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6379DOC_START
6380 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6381 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6382DOC_END
6383
f024c970 6384NAME: global_internal_static
6385TYPE: onoff
6386LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6387DEFAULT: on
6388DOC_START
6389 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6390 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6391 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6392 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6393 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6394 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6395 the server generating a directory listing.
6396DOC_END
6397
5473c134 6398NAME: short_icon_urls
6399TYPE: onoff
6400LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6401DEFAULT: on
6402DOC_START
6403 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6404 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6405 it's own name and port in the URL.
6406
6407 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6408 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6409DOC_END
6410
6411COMMENT_START
6412 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6413 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6414COMMENT_END
6415
6416NAME: error_directory
6417TYPE: string
6418LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6419DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6420DOC_START
6421 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6422 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6423 the error/template files to another directory and point
6424 this tag at them.
6425
6426 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6427 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6428
6429 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6430 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6431 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6432 contributing your translation back to the project.
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6433 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6434
6435 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6436 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6437DOC_END
6438
6439NAME: error_default_language
6440IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6441TYPE: string
6442LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6443DEFAULT: none
6444DOC_START
6445 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6446 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6447 preferences.
6448
6449 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6450
6451 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6452 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6453 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6454 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6455DOC_END
6456
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6457NAME: error_log_languages
6458IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6459TYPE: onoff
6460LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6461DEFAULT: on
6462DOC_START
6463 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6464 auto-negotiate for translations.
6465
6466 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6467 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6468 of its error page translations.
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6469DOC_END
6470
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6471NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6472TYPE: string
6473LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6474DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6475DOC_START
6476 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6477
6478 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6479DOC_END
6480
5473c134 6481NAME: err_html_text
6482TYPE: eol
6483LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6484DEFAULT: none
6485DOC_START
6486 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6487 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6488 organizations Web page.
6489
6490 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6491 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6492 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6493 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6494DOC_END
6495
6496NAME: email_err_data
6497COMMENT: on|off
6498TYPE: onoff
6499LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6500DEFAULT: on
6501DOC_START
6502 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6503 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6504 so that the email body contains the data.
6505 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6506DOC_END
6507
6508NAME: deny_info
6509TYPE: denyinfo
6510LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6511DEFAULT: none
6512DOC_START
6513 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6514 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6515 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6516
6517 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6518 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6519 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6520 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6521
6522 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6523 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6524 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6525 the first authentication related acl encountered
6526 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6527 acl processed on the last http_access line.
3af10ac0
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6528 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6529 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6530
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6531 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6532 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6533 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6534
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6535 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6536 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6537 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6538
5473c134 6539 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6540 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6541
6542 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6543 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6544 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6545 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6546 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6547
6548 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6549 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6550 %B - FTP path URL
6551 %e - Error number
6552 %E - Error description
6553 %h - Squid hostname
6554 %H - Request domain name
6555 %i - Client IP Address
6556 %M - Request Method
6557 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6558 %p - Request Port number
6559 %P - Request Protocol name
6560 %R - Request URL path
6561 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6562 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6563 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6564 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6565 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6566 %x - Error name
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6567 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6568
5473c134 6569DOC_END
6570
6571COMMENT_START
6572 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6573 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6574COMMENT_END
6575
6576NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6577TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6578LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6579DEFAULT: on
6580DOC_START
5473c134 6581 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6582 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6583 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6584
5473c134 6585 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6586 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6587
5473c134 6588 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6589 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6590 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6591
5473c134 6592 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6593 this directive.
8d6275c0 6594DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6595
5473c134 6596NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6597TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6598LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6599DEFAULT: off
6600DOC_START
5473c134 6601 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6602 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6603 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6604
5473c134 6605 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6606 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6607 fails.
6608
6609 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6610 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6611 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6612DOC_END
6613
5473c134 6614NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6615TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6616LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6617DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6618DOC_START
5473c134 6619 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6620
5473c134 6621 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6622 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6623 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6624 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6625 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6626
5473c134 6627 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6628 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6629
5473c134 6630 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6631
5473c134 6632 acl FTP proto FTP
6633 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6634
5473c134 6635 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6636 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6637 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6638 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6639 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6640
5473c134 6641 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6642 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6643 always_direct deny local-external
6644 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6645
5473c134 6646 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6647 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6648 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6649 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6650
5473c134 6651 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6652 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6653 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6654
b3567eb5
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6655 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6656 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6657DOC_END
0976f8db 6658
5473c134 6659NAME: never_direct
6660TYPE: acl_access
6661LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6662DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6663DOC_START
5473c134 6664 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6665
6666 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6667 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6668
6669 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6670 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6671 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6672 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6673
6674 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6675 never_direct deny local-servers
6676 never_direct allow all
6677
6678 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6679 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6680
6681 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6682 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6683 always_direct deny local-external
6684 always_direct allow local-intranet
6685 never_direct allow all
6686
b3567eb5
FC
6687 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6688 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6689DOC_END
0976f8db 6690
5473c134 6691COMMENT_START
6692 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6693 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6694COMMENT_END
6695
65d448bc 6696NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 6697TYPE: int
6698DEFAULT: 6
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6699LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
6700DOC_START
6701 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6702 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6703 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6704DOC_END
cccac0a2 6705
65d448bc 6706NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 6707TYPE: int
6708DEFAULT: 4
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6709LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
6710DOC_START
6711 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6712 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6713 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6714DOC_END
cccac0a2 6715
6716NAME: incoming_dns_average
6717TYPE: int
6718DEFAULT: 4
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6719LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
6720DOC_START
6721 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6722 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6723 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6724DOC_END
cccac0a2 6725
65d448bc 6726NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6727TYPE: int
6728DEFAULT: 8
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6729LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
6730DOC_START
6731 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6732 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6733 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6734DOC_END
cccac0a2 6735
6736NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6737TYPE: int
6738DEFAULT: 8
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6739LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
6740DOC_START
6741 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6742 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6743 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6744DOC_END
cccac0a2 6745
65d448bc 6746NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6747TYPE: int
6748DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 6749LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 6750DOC_START
5473c134 6751 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6752 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6753 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6754DOC_END
6755
6756NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6757TYPE: string
6758DEFAULT: none
6759LOC: Config.accept_filter
6760DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6761 FreeBSD:
6762
5473c134 6763 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6764 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6765 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6766
6767 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6768 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6769 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6770
6771 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6772 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6773 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6774
6775 Linux:
6776
6777 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6778 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6779 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6780 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6781 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6782EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6783# FreeBSD
5473c134 6784accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6785# Linux
6786accept_filter data
5473c134 6787DOC_END
6788
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6789NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6790TYPE: int
6791LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6792DEFAULT: -1
6793DOC_START
6794 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6795 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6796 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6797
6798 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6799 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6800
6801 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6802
6803 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6804 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6805DOC_END
6806
5473c134 6807NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6808COMMENT: (bytes)
6809TYPE: b_size_t
6810DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6811LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6812DOC_START
6813 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6814 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6815 the default buffer size.
6816DOC_END
6817
6818COMMENT_START
6819 ICAP OPTIONS
6820 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6821COMMENT_END
6822
6823NAME: icap_enable
6824TYPE: onoff
6825IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6826COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6827LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6828DEFAULT: off
6829DOC_START
53e738c6 6830 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6831DOC_END
6832
6833NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6834TYPE: time_t
6835DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6836LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6837IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6838DOC_START
6839 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6840 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6841 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6842
6843 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6844 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6845 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6846DOC_END
6847
6848NAME: icap_io_timeout
6849COMMENT: time-units
6850TYPE: time_t
6851DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6852LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6853IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6854DOC_START
6855 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6856 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6857 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6858 failure.
6859
6860 The default is read_timeout.
6861DOC_END
6862
6863NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6864COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6865TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6866IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6867LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6868DEFAULT: 10
6869DOC_START
6870 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6871 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6872 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6873 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6874 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6875
6876 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6877 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6878 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6879
6880 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6881 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6882 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6883 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6884 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6885
6886 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6887 effect on service failure expiration.
6888
6889 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6890 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6891 setting.
6892
6893 For example,
6894 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6895 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6896DOC_END
6897
5473c134 6898NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6899TYPE: int
5473c134 6900IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6901LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6902DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6903DOC_START
5473c134 6904 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6905 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6906 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6907 fetched.
cccac0a2 6908
5473c134 6909 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6910 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6911DOC_END
6912
5473c134 6913NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6914TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6915IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6916COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6917LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6918DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6919DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6920 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6921 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6922 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6923 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6924
6925 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6926 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6927 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6928
6929 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6930 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6931Example:
6932icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6933DOC_END
6934
5473c134 6935NAME: icap_preview_size
6936TYPE: int
6937IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6938LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6939DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6940DOC_START
53e738c6 6941 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6942 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6943 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6944DOC_END
6945
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6946NAME: icap_206_enable
6947TYPE: onoff
6948IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6949COMMENT: on|off
6950LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6951DEFAULT: on
6952DOC_START
6953 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6954 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6955 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6956 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6957
6958 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6959 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6960 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6961 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6962 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6963
6964 Example:
6965 icap_206_enable off
6966DOC_END
6967
5473c134 6968NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6969TYPE: int
6970IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6971LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6972DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6973DOC_START
53e738c6 6974 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6975 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6976DOC_END
6977
5473c134 6978NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6979TYPE: onoff
6980IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6981COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6982LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6983DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6984DOC_START
5473c134 6985 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6986 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6987DOC_END
6988
22fff3bf 6989NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6990TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6991IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6992COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6993LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6994DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6995DOC_START
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6996 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6997 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6998 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6999
7000 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 7001DOC_END
7002
22fff3bf 7003NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 7004TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7005IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7006COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7007LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 7008DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7009DOC_START
5473c134 7010 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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7011 the adaptation service.
7012
7013 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 7014 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7015 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 7016DOC_END
7017
5473c134 7018NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7019TYPE: string
5473c134 7020IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7021LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7022DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7023DOC_START
db49f682 7024 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7025DOC_END
7026
5473c134 7027NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7028TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7029IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7030COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7031LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7032DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7033DOC_START
5473c134 7034 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7035DOC_END
7036
5473c134 7037NAME: icap_service
7038TYPE: icap_service_type
7039IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7040LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7041DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7042DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7043 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7044
c25c2836 7045 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
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7047 id: ID
7048 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7049 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7050 services in squid.conf.
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7051
7052 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7053 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7054 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7055 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7056
c25c2836 7057 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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7058 ICAP server and service location.
7059
7060 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7061 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7062 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7063 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7064 service_names differ.
7065
7066
7067 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7068 the following name=value options:
7069
7070 bypass=on|off|1|0
7071 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7072 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7073 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7074 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7075 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7076 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7077 returned to the HTTP client.
7078
7079 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7080
7081 routing=on|off|1|0
7082 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7083 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7084 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7085 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7086 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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7087 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7088 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7089 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7090
7091 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7092 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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7093
7094 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7095 response header is ignored.
7096
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7097 ipv6=on|off
7098 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
7099 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
7100 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
7101
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7102 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
7103 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
7104 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
7105 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
7106 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
7107 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
7108 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
7109
7110 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
7111 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
7112 workers may use a given service.
7113
7114 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
7115 otherwise it is set to "wait".
7116
7117
7118 max-conn=number
7119 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7120 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7121
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7122 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7123 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 7124
5473c134 7125Example:
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7126icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7127icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 7128DOC_END
7129
5473c134 7130NAME: icap_class
7131TYPE: icap_class_type
7132IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7133LOC: none
5473c134 7134DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7135DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7136 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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7137 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7138 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 7139
62c7f90e 7140 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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7141 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7142 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 7143DOC_END
7144
5473c134 7145NAME: icap_access
7146TYPE: icap_access_type
7147IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7148LOC: none
cccac0a2 7149DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7150DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7151 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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7152 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7153 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 7154DOC_END
7155
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7156COMMENT_START
7157 eCAP OPTIONS
7158 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7159COMMENT_END
7160
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7161NAME: ecap_enable
7162TYPE: onoff
7163IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7164COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 7165LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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7166DEFAULT: off
7167DOC_START
7168 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7169DOC_END
7170
7171NAME: ecap_service
7172TYPE: ecap_service_type
7173IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 7174LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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7175DEFAULT: none
7176DOC_START
7177 Defines a single eCAP service
7178
c25c2836 7179 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 7180
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7181 id: ID
7182 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7183 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7184 services in squid.conf.
7185
7186 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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7187 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7188 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7189 are not yet supported.
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7190
7191 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7192 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7193 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7194 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7195 the service provider.
7196
7197
7198 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7199 the following name=value options:
7200
7201 bypass=on|off|1|0
7202 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7203 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7204 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 7205 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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7206 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7207 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 7208 HTTP client.
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7209
7210 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7211
7212 routing=on|off|1|0
7213 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7214 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7215 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7216
7217 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7218 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7219
7220 Routing is not allowed by default.
7221
7222 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7223 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7224
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7225
7226Example:
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7227ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7228ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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7229DOC_END
7230
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7231NAME: loadable_modules
7232TYPE: wordlist
7233IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7234LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7235DEFAULT: none
7236DOC_START
7237 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7238 preloaded module(s).
7239Example:
7240loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7241DOC_END
7242
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7243COMMENT_START
7244 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7245 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7246COMMENT_END
7247
7248NAME: adaptation_service_set
7249TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7250IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7251LOC: none
7252DEFAULT: none
7253DOC_START
7254
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7255 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
7256 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7257
7258 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7259
7260 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7261 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7262 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7263 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7264 intact.
62c7f90e 7265
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7266 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7267 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 7268
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7269 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7270 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7271
7272 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7273 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7274 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7275 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7276 transaction fails as well.
7277
7278 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7279 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7280 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7281 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7282 matters.
7283
7284 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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7285
7286Example:
7287adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7288adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7289DOC_END
7290
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7291NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7292TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7293IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7294LOC: none
7295DEFAULT: none
7296DOC_START
7297
7298 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
7299 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
7300 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
7301
7302 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
7303
7304 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
7305 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
7306 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7307 the previous service in the chain.
7308
7309 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7310 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7311
7312 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7313 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7314 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7315
7316 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7317 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7318
7319 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7320 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7321 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7322 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7323
7324 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7325
7326Example:
7327adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7328DOC_END
7329
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7330NAME: adaptation_access
7331TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7332IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7333LOC: none
7334DEFAULT: none
7335DOC_START
7336 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7337
7338 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7339 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7340
7341 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7342 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7343 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7344 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7345
7346 - services serving different vectoring points
7347 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7348 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7349 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7350
7351 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7352 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7353 adaptation_service_set for details.
7354
7355 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7356 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7357 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7358 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7359
7360 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7361 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7362
7363 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7364
7365Example:
7366adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7367DOC_END
7368
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7369NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7370TYPE: int
7371IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7372LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7373DEFAULT: 16
7374DOC_START
7375 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7376 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7377 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7378 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7379 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7380 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7381
7382 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
7383
7384 See also: icap_service routing=1
7385DOC_END
7386
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7387NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
7388TYPE: string
7389IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7390LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
7391DEFAULT: none
7392DOC_START
7393 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
7394 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
7395 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
7396 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7397 with the master transaction.
7398
7399 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7400 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7401
7402 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7403 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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7404 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7405
7406 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7407 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7408 to provide an option with a name specified in
7409 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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7410
7411 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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7412 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7413
7414 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7415
7416Example:
7417# share authentication information among ICAP services
7418adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7419DOC_END
7420
71be37e0 7421NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 7422TYPE: note
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7423IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7424LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7425DEFAULT: none
7426DOC_START
7427 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7428 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7429 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7430 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7431
7432 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7433 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7434
7435 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7436 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7437 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7438 example:
7439
7440 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7441 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7442
7443 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7444 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7445
7446 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7447 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7448
7449 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7450 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7451 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7452 and double quotes. For example,
7453 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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7454
7455 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
7456 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
7457 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
7458 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
7459 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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7460DOC_END
7461
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7462NAME: icap_retry
7463TYPE: acl_access
7464IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7465LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7466DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7467DOC_START
7468 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7469 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7470 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7471 that response are usually retriable.
7472
7473 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7474
7475 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7476 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7477
7478 See also: icap_retry_limit
7479DOC_END
7480
7481NAME: icap_retry_limit
7482TYPE: int
7483IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7484LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7485DEFAULT: 0
7486DOC_START
7487 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7488 no retries are allowed.
7489
7490 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7491 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7492 count against this limit.
7493
7494 See also: icap_retry
7495DOC_END
7496
7497
5473c134 7498COMMENT_START
7499 DNS OPTIONS
7500 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7501COMMENT_END
7502
7503NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7504TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7505DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7506LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7507DOC_START
5473c134 7508 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7509 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7510 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7511DOC_END
7512
5473c134 7513NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7514TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7515DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7516LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7517DOC_START
5473c134 7518 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7519 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7520 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7521 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7522DOC_END
7523
5473c134 7524NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7525TYPE: string
f64091a7 7526IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 7527DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7528LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7529DOC_START
5473c134 7530 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7531DOC_END
7532
5473c134 7533NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7534TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 7535IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 7536DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7537LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7538DOC_START
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7539 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7540 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7541 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7542 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7543 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7544
7545 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7546 tuning.
7547
7548 startup=
7549
7550 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7551 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7552 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7553
7554 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7555 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7556
7557 idle=
7558
7559 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7560 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7561 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7562 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7563DOC_END
7564
5473c134 7565NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7566TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7567DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7568LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 7569IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7570DOC_START
5473c134 7571 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7572 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7573DOC_END
7574
5473c134 7575NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7576TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7577DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7578LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 7579IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7580DOC_START
5473c134 7581 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7582 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7583 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7584DOC_END
7585
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7586NAME: dns_packet_max
7587TYPE: b_ssize_t
7588DEFAULT: none
7589LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 7590IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7591DOC_START
7592 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7593 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7594
7595 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7596 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7597 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7598 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7599 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7600
7601 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7602 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7603 necessary.
7604
7605 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7606 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7607 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7608 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7609 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7610 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7611 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7612DOC_END
7613
5473c134 7614NAME: dns_defnames
7615COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7616TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7617DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7618LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7619DOC_START
5473c134 7620 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7621 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7622 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7623 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7624DOC_END
7625
5473c134 7626NAME: dns_nameservers
7627TYPE: wordlist
7628DEFAULT: none
7629LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7630DOC_START
5473c134 7631 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7632 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7633 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7634 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7635 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7636 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7637 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7638
5473c134 7639 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7640DOC_END
7641
5473c134 7642NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7643TYPE: string
5473c134 7644DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7645LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7646DOC_START
5473c134 7647 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7648 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7649 default locations:
7650 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7651 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7652 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7653 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7654 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7655 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7656 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7657 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7658
5473c134 7659 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7660 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7661 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7662 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7663
5473c134 7664 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7665 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7666 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7667 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7668 definitions.
cccac0a2 7669DOC_END
7670
5473c134 7671NAME: append_domain
7672TYPE: string
7673LOC: Config.appendDomain
7674DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7675DOC_START
5473c134 7676 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7677 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7678
7679 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7680 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7681 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7682
7683Example:
7684 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7685DOC_END
7686
5473c134 7687NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7688TYPE: onoff
7689LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7690DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 7691IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 7692DOC_START
5473c134 7693 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7694 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7695 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7696 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7697 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7698DOC_END
7699
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7700NAME: dns_v4_first
7701TYPE: onoff
7702DEFAULT: off
7703LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 7704IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7705DOC_START
7706 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7707 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7708
7709 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7710 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7711 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7712
7713 WARNING:
7714 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7715 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7716 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7717DOC_END
7718
6bc15a4f 7719NAME: ipcache_size
7720COMMENT: (number of entries)
7721TYPE: int
7722DEFAULT: 1024
7723LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7724DOC_NONE
7725
7726NAME: ipcache_low
7727COMMENT: (percent)
7728TYPE: int
7729DEFAULT: 90
7730LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7731DOC_NONE
7732
7733NAME: ipcache_high
7734COMMENT: (percent)
7735TYPE: int
7736DEFAULT: 95
7737LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7738DOC_START
7739 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7740DOC_END
7741
7742NAME: fqdncache_size
7743COMMENT: (number of entries)
7744TYPE: int
7745DEFAULT: 1024
7746LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7747DOC_START
7748 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7749DOC_END
7750
a58ff010 7751COMMENT_START
5473c134 7752 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7753 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7754COMMENT_END
7755
5473c134 7756NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7757COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7758TYPE: onoff
7759DEFAULT: on
7760LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7761DOC_START
5473c134 7762 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7763 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7764 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7765 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7766DOC_END
7767
5473c134 7768NAME: memory_pools_limit
7769COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7770TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7771DEFAULT: 5 MB
7772LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7773DOC_START
5473c134 7774 Used only with memory_pools on:
7775 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7776
5473c134 7777 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7778 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7779 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7780 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7781 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7782 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7783 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7784
89646bd7 7785 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7786 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7787
5473c134 7788 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7789 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7790
7791 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7792 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7793 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7794 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7795DOC_END
7796
5473c134 7797NAME: forwarded_for
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7798COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7799TYPE: string
5473c134 7800DEFAULT: on
7801LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7802DOC_START
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7803 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7804 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7805
5473c134 7806 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7807
67c06f0d 7808 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7809
7810 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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AJ
7811
7812 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7813 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7814
7815 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7816 X-Forwarded-For header.
7817
7818 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7819 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7820DOC_END
7821
5473c134 7822NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7823TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7824DEFAULT: none
7825LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7826DOC_START
5473c134 7827 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7828
5473c134 7829 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7830
7831 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7832 5min
7833 60min
7834 asndb
7835 authenticator
7836 cbdata
7837 client_list
7838 comm_incoming
7839 config *
7840 counters
7841 delay
7842 digest_stats
7843 dns
7844 events
7845 filedescriptors
7846 fqdncache
7847 histograms
7848 http_headers
7849 info
7850 io
7851 ipcache
7852 mem
7853 menu
7854 netdb
7855 non_peers
7856 objects
7857 offline_toggle *
7858 pconn
7859 peer_select
b360c477 7860 reconfigure *
5473c134 7861 redirector
7862 refresh
7863 server_list
7864 shutdown *
7865 store_digest
7866 storedir
7867 utilization
7868 via_headers
7869 vm_objects
7870
7871 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7872 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7873
7874 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7875 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7876 password to "none".
7877
7878 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7879
7880Example:
7881 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7882 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7883 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7884DOC_END
7885
5473c134 7886NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7887COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7888TYPE: onoff
7889DEFAULT: on
7890LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7891DOC_START
5473c134 7892 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7893 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7894DOC_END
7895
5473c134 7896NAME: refresh_all_ims
7897COMMENT: on|off
7898TYPE: onoff
7899DEFAULT: off
7900LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7901DOC_START
5473c134 7902 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7903 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7904 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7905 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7906 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7907
5473c134 7908 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7909 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7910DOC_END
7911
5473c134 7912NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7913IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7914COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7915TYPE: onoff
7916DEFAULT: off
7917LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7918DOC_START
5473c134 7919 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7920 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7921 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7922 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7923 causes.
7924
7925 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7926DOC_END
7927
31ef19cd 7928NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7929TYPE: int
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AJ
7930LOC: Config.connect_retries
7931DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7932DOC_START
aed188fd
AJ
7933 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7934 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7935 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
7936
7937 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7938 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 7939
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7940 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7941 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7942
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7943 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7944 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7945 a useful server.
a58ff010 7946DOC_END
7947
5473c134 7948NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7949TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7950LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7951DEFAULT: off
7952DOC_START
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7953 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
7954 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
7955 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
7956 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
7957
7958 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
7959 work around access control errors.
7960
7961 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
7962 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 7963DOC_END
7964
5473c134 7965NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7966TYPE: string
5473c134 7967LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7968DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7969DOC_START
5473c134 7970 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7971 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7972DOC_END
7973
5473c134 7974NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7975TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7976LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7977DEFAULT: off
7978DOC_START
5473c134 7979 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7980 objects.
a58ff010 7981DOC_END
7982
5473c134 7983NAME: uri_whitespace
7984TYPE: uri_whitespace
7985LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7986DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7987DOC_START
5473c134 7988 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7989 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7990
5473c134 7991 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7992 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7993 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7994 Request" message.
7995 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7996 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7997 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7998 are in use.
7999 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
8000 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
8001 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
8002 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
8003 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
8004 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
8005 violation.
8006DOC_END
a58ff010 8007
5473c134 8008NAME: chroot
8009TYPE: string
8010LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 8011DEFAULT: none
8012DOC_START
9f37c18a 8013 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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8014 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8015 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8016 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8017 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 8018DOC_END
a58ff010 8019
5473c134 8020NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8021TYPE: onoff
8022LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8023DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8024DOC_START
cc192b50 8025 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8026 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8027 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8028
5473c134 8029 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8030 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8031 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8032
cc192b50 8033 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8034DOC_END
8035
5473c134 8036NAME: pipeline_prefetch
8037TYPE: onoff
8038LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
8039DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 8040DOC_START
5473c134 8041 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
8042 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
8043 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 8044
5473c134 8045 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
8046 reasons.
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8048 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8049DOC_END
a58ff010 8050
5473c134 8051NAME: high_response_time_warning
8052TYPE: int
8053COMMENT: (msec)
8054LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8055DEFAULT: 0
8056DOC_START
8057 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8058 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8059 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 8060DOC_END
8061
5473c134 8062NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8063TYPE: int
8064LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8065DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 8066DOC_START
5473c134 8067 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8068 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8069 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8070 per second.
8071DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8072
5473c134 8073NAME: high_memory_warning
8074TYPE: b_size_t
8075LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 8076DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 8077DOC_START
8078 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 8079 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 8080 the administrators attention.
8081DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8082
5473c134 8083NAME: sleep_after_fork
8084COMMENT: (microseconds)
8085TYPE: int
8086LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
8087DEFAULT: 0
8088DOC_START
8089 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
8090 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
8091 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
8092 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
8093 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
8094 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
8095 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
8096 until all the child processes have been started.
8097 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
8098 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 8099DOC_END
8100
b6696974 8101NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 8102IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
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8103COMMENT: on|off
8104TYPE: onoff
8105DEFAULT: on
8106LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
8107DOC_START
8108 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
8109 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
8110 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
8111 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
8112 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
8113 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
8114DOC_END
8115
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8116NAME: eui_lookup
8117TYPE: onoff
8118IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
8119DEFAULT: on
8120LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
8121DOC_START
8122 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8123DOC_END
8124
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8125NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8126TYPE: int
8127DEFAULT: 0
8128LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8129DOC_START
8130 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
8131
8132 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
8133
8134 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
8135 not all comm loops supports large values.
8136DOC_END
8137
13aeac35 8138NAME: workers
007d775d 8139TYPE: int
13aeac35 8140LOC: Config.workers
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8141DEFAULT: 1
8142DOC_START
13aeac35 8143 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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8144 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8145 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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8146 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8147
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8148 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8149 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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8151
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8152NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8153TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8154LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8155DEFAULT: none
8156DOC_START
8157 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8158
8159 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8160
8161 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8162
8163 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8164 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8165
8166 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8167 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8168
8169 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8170
8171 See also: workers
8172DOC_END
8173
cccac0a2 8174EOF