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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 32
cccac0a2 33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
debd9a31 44
cccac0a2 45COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 46
592a09dc 47COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
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60
61
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62 Conditional configuration
63
64 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
65 depend on conditions:
66
67 if <CONDITION>
68 ... regular configuration directives ...
69 [else
70 ... regular configuration directives ...]
71 endif
72
73 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
74 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
75 configuration directives.
76
77 These individual conditions types are supported:
78
79 true
80 Always evaluates to true.
81 false
82 Always evaluates to false.
83 <integer> = <integer>
84 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
85
86
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87 SMP-Related Macros
88
89 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
90
91 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
92 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
93
94 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
95 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
96 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 97COMMENT_END
98
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99# Options Removed in 3.2
100NAME: ignore_expect_100
101TYPE: obsolete
102DOC_START
103 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
104DOC_END
105
106NAME: ftp_list_width
107TYPE: obsolete
108DOC_START
109 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
110DOC_END
111
112NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
113TYPE: obsolete
114DOC_START
115 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
116DOC_END
117
118# Options Removed in 3.1
119NAME: dns_testnames
120TYPE: obsolete
121DOC_START
122 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
123DOC_END
124
125NAME: extension_methods
126TYPE: obsolete
127DOC_START
128 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
129DOC_END
130
131# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
132NAME: incoming_rate
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_NONE
135
136NAME: server_http11
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
140DOC_END
141
142NAME: upgrade_http0.9
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
146DOC_END
147
148NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
152DOC_END
153
154# Options Removed in 3.0
155NAME: header_access
156TYPE: obsolete
157DOC_START
158 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
159 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
160DOC_END
161
162NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
163TYPE: obsolete
164DOC_START
165 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
166DOC_END
167
5473c134 168COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 169 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
171COMMENT_END
172
41bd17a4 173NAME: auth_param
174TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 175IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 176LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 177DEFAULT: none
178DOC_START
41bd17a4 179 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
180 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 181
41bd17a4 182 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 183
41bd17a4 184 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
185 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
186 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
187 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
188 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
189 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
190 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
191 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
192 program entry).
cccac0a2 193
41bd17a4 194 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
195 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
196 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
197 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 198
41bd17a4 199 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
200 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
201 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
202 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
203 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
204 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
205 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
206 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
207 type acl.
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
210 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
211 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
212 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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213 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
214 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 215
41bd17a4 216 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 "program" cmdline
219 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
220 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
221 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
222 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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223 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
224 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 225
41bd17a4 226 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
227 program is specified.
cccac0a2 228
41bd17a4 229 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
230 this line to something like
307b83b7 231
41bd17a4 232 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 233
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234 "utf8" on|off
235 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
236 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
237 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
238 username & password to the helper.
239
7353861b 240 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 241 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 242 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
243 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
244 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
245 authenticator processes.
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246
247 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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248 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
249 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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250 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
251 the maximum.
252
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253 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
254 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
255 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
256 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
257 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
258 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 259 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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260
261 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 262
41bd17a4 263 "realm" realmstring
264 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
265 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
266 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
267 password). There is no default.
268 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 269
41bd17a4 270 "credentialsttl" timetolive
271 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
272 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
273 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
274 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
275 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
276 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
277 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
278 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
279 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 280
41bd17a4 281 "casesensitive" on|off
282 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
283 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
284 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
285 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
286 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 287
41bd17a4 288 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 289
41bd17a4 290 "program" cmdline
291 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
292 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
293 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
294 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
295 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
296 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
297 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 298
41bd17a4 299 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
300 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 301
41bd17a4 302 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
303 something like
cccac0a2 304
7ce93108 305 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 306
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307 "utf8" on|off
308 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
309 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
310 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
311 username & password to the helper.
312
7353861b 313 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 314 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 315 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
316 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
317 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
318 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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319
320 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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321 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
322 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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323 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
324 the maximum.
325
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326 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
327 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
328 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
329 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
330 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
331 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
332 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
333
48d54e4d 334 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 335
41bd17a4 336 "realm" realmstring
337 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
338 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
339 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
340 password). There is no default.
341 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 342
41bd17a4 343 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
344 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
345 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 346
41bd17a4 347 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
348 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
349 valid for.
cccac0a2 350
41bd17a4 351 "nonce_max_count" number
352 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
353 used.
cccac0a2 354
41bd17a4 355 "nonce_strictness" on|off
356 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
357 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
358 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
359 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "check_nonce_count" on|off
362 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
363 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
364 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
365 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 366
41bd17a4 367 "post_workaround" on|off
368 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
369 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
370 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 "program" cmdline
375 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
376 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
377 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
378 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
379 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
380 is not used.
cccac0a2 381
41bd17a4 382 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 383
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384 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
385 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 386 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
387 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
388 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
389 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
390 processes.
cccac0a2 391
48d54e4d 392 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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393 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
394 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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395 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
396 the maximum.
397
398 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 399
41bd17a4 400 "keep_alive" on|off
401 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
402 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
403 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
404 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
405 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 406
41bd17a4 407 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 408
41bd17a4 409 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 410
41bd17a4 411 "program" cmdline
412 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
413 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
414 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
415 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
416 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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417 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
418 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
419 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 420 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
421 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 424
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425 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
426 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 427 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
428 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
429 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
430 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
431 processes.
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432
433 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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434 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
435 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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436 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
437 the maximum.
438
439 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 440
41bd17a4 441 "keep_alive" on|off
442 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
443 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
444 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
445 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
446 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 447
41bd17a4 448 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 449
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451 Examples:
452
41bd17a4 453#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
454#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 455#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 456#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 457#
41bd17a4 458#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 459#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 460#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 461#
41bd17a4 462#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 463#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 464#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
465#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
466#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
467#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 468#
41bd17a4 469#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 470#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 471#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
472#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 473DOC_END
cccac0a2 474
41bd17a4 475NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
476TYPE: time_t
477DEFAULT: 1 hour
478LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
479DOC_START
480 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
481 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
482 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
483 have good reason to.
484DOC_END
cccac0a2 485
41bd17a4 486NAME: authenticate_ttl
487TYPE: time_t
488DEFAULT: 1 hour
489LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
490DOC_START
491 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
492 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
493 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
494 TTL are removed from memory.
495DOC_END
cccac0a2 496
41bd17a4 497NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
498TYPE: time_t
499LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
500DEFAULT: 0 seconds
501DOC_START
502 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
503 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
504 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
505 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
506 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
507 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
508 environment with relatively static address assignments.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
3d1e3e43 511COMMENT_START
512 ACCESS CONTROLS
513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
514COMMENT_END
515
41bd17a4 516NAME: external_acl_type
517TYPE: externalAclHelper
518LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 519DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 520DOC_START
41bd17a4 521 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
522 to look up the status
cccac0a2 523
41bd17a4 524 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 525
41bd17a4 526 Options:
cccac0a2 527
41bd17a4 528 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
529 for 1 hour)
530 negative_ttl=n
531 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
532 as ttl)
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533 children-max=n
534 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
535 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
536 children-startup=n
537 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
538 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
539 of this type. (default 0)
540 children-idle=n
541 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
542 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
543 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
544 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 545 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
546 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 547 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 548 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
549 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 550 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 551 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 552 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
553 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
055421ee 554 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 555
41bd17a4 556 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 557
41bd17a4 558 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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559 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
560 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
561 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 562 %IDENT Ident user name
563 %SRC Client IP
564 %SRCPORT Client source port
565 %URI Requested URI
566 %DST Requested host
567 %PROTO Requested protocol
568 %PORT Requested port
569 %PATH Requested URL path
570 %METHOD Request method
571 %MYADDR Squid interface address
572 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
573 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
574 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
575 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
576 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
577 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 578
c68c9682 579 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 580 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 581 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 582 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 583 HTTP request header list member using ; as
584 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
585 character.
cccac0a2 586
c68c9682 587 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 588 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 589 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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590 %<{Hdr:;member}
591 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
592 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
593 character.
594
41bd17a4 595 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
596 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
597 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 598
41bd17a4 599 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
600 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
601 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
602 more details.
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41bd17a4 604 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 605
41bd17a4 606 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 607
41bd17a4 608 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 609
41bd17a4 610 user= The users name (login)
611 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
612 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
613 in error pages
614 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
615 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
616 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
617 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 618
41bd17a4 619 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
620 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 621
41bd17a4 622 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
623 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
624 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 625
41bd17a4 626 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
627 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
628 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 629DOC_END
630
41bd17a4 631NAME: acl
632TYPE: acl
633LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 634DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 635DOC_START
41bd17a4 636 Defining an Access List
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638 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
639 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
640 they are read from.
cccac0a2 641
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642 acl aclname acltype argument ...
643 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 644
375eeb3b 645 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 646
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647 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
648 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
649 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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652 to access some external data source.
653 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
654 don't are marked as [fast].
655 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
656 for further information
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658 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
659
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660 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address [fast]
661 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses [fast]
662 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
663 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address [fast]
cccac0a2 664
41bd17a4 665 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
666 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
667 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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668 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
669 # other *BSD variants.
670 # [fast]
41bd17a4 671 #
672 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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674 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
675
676 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
677 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
678 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 679 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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680 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
681 # regex matching client name [slow]
682 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 683 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 684 #
41bd17a4 685 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
686 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
687 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 688
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689 acl aclname src_as number ...
690 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 691 # [fast]
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692 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
693 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
694 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
695 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
696 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
697 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
698 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 699
6db78a1a 700 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 701 # [fast]
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702 # match against a named cache_peer entry
703 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
704
375eeb3b 705 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 706 # [fast]
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707 # day-abbrevs:
708 # S - Sunday
709 # M - Monday
710 # T - Tuesday
711 # W - Wednesday
712 # H - Thursday
713 # F - Friday
714 # A - Saturday
715 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
716
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717 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
718 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
719 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
720 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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722 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
723 # ranges are alloed
724 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # local socket TCP port [fast]
725 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
e988aa40 726
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727 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
728
729 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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731 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
732 # status code in reply [fast]
e988aa40 733
375eeb3b 734 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 735 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 736
375eeb3b 737 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 738 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 739 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 741 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 742 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 743 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 744 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 745
41bd17a4 746 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
747 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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749 # supplied credentials [slow]
750 #
751 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 752 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
753 #
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755 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
756 #
41bd17a4 757 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
758 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
759 # in access.log.
760 #
761 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
762 # to check username/password combinations (see
763 # auth_param directive).
764 #
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766 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 767 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 768
41bd17a4 769 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 770 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 771 # Example:
772 #
773 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 774
41bd17a4 775 acl aclname maxconn number
776 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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777 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
778 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
779 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 780
41bd17a4 781 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
782 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
783 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 784 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 785 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
786 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
787 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
788 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
789 # request is denied)
790 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
791 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
792 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 793
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794 acl aclname random probability
795 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
796 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
797 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
798
375eeb3b 799 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 800 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
801 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 802 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 803 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
804 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 805
41bd17a4 806 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
807 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
808 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 809 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 810
375eeb3b 811 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 812 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
813 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 814 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 815 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
816 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
817 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 818
41bd17a4 819 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
820 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
821 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 822 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 823
375eeb3b 824 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 825 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 826 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 827
41bd17a4 828 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
829 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 830 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 831
41bd17a4 832 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
833 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 834 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 835
41bd17a4 836 acl aclname ext_user username ...
837 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 838 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 839 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 840
0ab50441 841 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 842 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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844 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
845 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
846 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
847 #
848 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
849 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
850 # http_reply_access.
851
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853 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
854 acl myexample dst_as 1241
855 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
856 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
857 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 858
41bd17a4 859NOCOMMENT_START
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860#
861# Recommended minimum configuration:
862#
41bd17a4 863acl manager proto cache_object
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864acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
865acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
e0855596 866
ee776778 867# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
868# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
869# should be allowed
870acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
871acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
872acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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873acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
874acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 876acl SSL_ports port 443
877acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
878acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
879acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
880acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
881acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
882acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
883acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
884acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
885acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
886acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
887acl CONNECT method CONNECT
888NOCOMMENT_END
889DOC_END
cccac0a2 890
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891NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
892TYPE: acl_access
893IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
894LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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895DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
896DOC_START
897 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
898 find the original source of a request.
899
900 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
901 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
902 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
903 rightmost address being the most recent.
904
905 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
906 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
907 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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908 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
909 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
910 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
911 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
912 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
913 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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915 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
916 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 917 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 918 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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919 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
920 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 921
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923 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
924
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925 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
926
927 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
928 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
929 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
930 source address of the request. This may enable remote
931 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
932 based on the client's source addresses.
933
934 For example:
935
936 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
937 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
938 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
939 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
940DOC_END
941
942NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
943COMMENT: on|off
944TYPE: onoff
945IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
946DEFAULT: on
947LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
948DOC_START
949 Controls whether the indirect client address
950 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
951 direct client address in acl matching.
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953 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
954 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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956
957NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
958COMMENT: on|off
959TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 960IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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962LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
963DOC_START
964 Controls whether the indirect client address
965 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
966 direct client address in delay pools.
967DOC_END
968
969NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
970COMMENT: on|off
971TYPE: onoff
972IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
973DEFAULT: on
974LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
975DOC_START
976 Controls whether the indirect client address
977 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
978 direct client address in the access log.
979DOC_END
980
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981NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
982COMMENT: on|off
983TYPE: onoff
984IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 985DEFAULT: off
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986LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
987DOC_START
988 Controls whether the indirect client address
989 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
990 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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992 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
993 mode ports.
994
995 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
996 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
997 of folow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
998 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1000
41bd17a4 1001NAME: http_access
1002TYPE: acl_access
1003LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1004DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1005DOC_START
1006 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1007
41bd17a4 1008 Access to the HTTP port:
1009 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1010
41bd17a4 1011 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1012
41bd17a4 1013 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1014 the request.
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41bd17a4 1016 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1017 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1018 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1019 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1020 good idea to have an "deny all" entry at the end of your access
1021 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1024 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1025
41bd17a4 1026NOCOMMENT_START
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1028#
1029# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1030#
1031# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
1032http_access allow manager localhost
1033http_access deny manager
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1035# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1036http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1038# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1039http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1041# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1042# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1043# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1044#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1046#
1047# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1048#
c8f4eac4 1049
ee776778 1050# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1051# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1052# from where browsing should be allowed
1053http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1054http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1055
41bd17a4 1056# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1057http_access deny all
1058NOCOMMENT_END
1059DOC_END
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1062TYPE: acl_access
1063LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1064DEFAULT: none
1065DOC_START
1066 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1067
1068 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1069 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1070 output.
1071
1072 If not set then only http_access is used.
1073DOC_END
1074
41bd17a4 1075NAME: http_reply_access
1076TYPE: acl_access
1077LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1078DEFAULT: none
1079DOC_START
1080 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1081
41bd17a4 1082 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1083
41bd17a4 1084 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1085 all replies
1a224843 1086
41bd17a4 1087 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1088 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1089 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1091 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1092 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1093DOC_END
1094
41bd17a4 1095NAME: icp_access
1096TYPE: acl_access
1097LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1098DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
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41bd17a4 1100 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1101 access lists
5473c134 1102
41bd17a4 1103 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1105 See http_access for details
1106
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1108 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1110# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1112#icp_access deny all
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1114
41bd17a4 1115NAME: htcp_access
1116IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1117TYPE: acl_access
1118LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1119DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1120DOC_START
41bd17a4 1121 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1122 access lists
5473c134 1123
41bd17a4 1124 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1126 See http_access for details
5473c134 1127
0b48417e 1128 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1129 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1130 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1131
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1133 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1135# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1137#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1138DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1140NAME: htcp_clr_access
1141IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1142TYPE: acl_access
1143LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1144DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1145DOC_START
1146 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1147 on defined access lists
5473c134 1148
41bd17a4 1149 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1151 See http_access for details
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1154 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1156# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1157acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1158htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1159DOC_END
1160
41bd17a4 1161NAME: miss_access
1162TYPE: acl_access
1163LOC: Config.accessList.miss
df2eec10 1164DEFAULT: allow all
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41bd17a4 1166 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1167 a parent. For example:
5473c134 1168
41bd17a4 1169 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1170 miss_access allow localclients
1171 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1172
41bd17a4 1173 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
1174 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 1175
41bd17a4 1176 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
1177 to fetch MISSES from us.
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1179 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1180 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1181DOC_END
1182
1183NAME: ident_lookup_access
1184TYPE: acl_access
1185IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1186DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1187LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1188DOC_START
41bd17a4 1189 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1190 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1191 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1192 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1193 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1194 any requests.
5473c134 1195
41bd17a4 1196 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1197 can follow this example:
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4daaf3cb 1199 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1200 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1201 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1202
4daaf3cb 1203 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1204 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1205 the correct result.
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1207 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1208 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1209DOC_END
5473c134 1210
5b0f5383 1211NAME: reply_body_max_size
1212COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1213TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1214DEFAULT: none
1215LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1216DOC_START
1217 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1218 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1219 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1220 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1221 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1222 for this reply.
1223
1224 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1225 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1226 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1227 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1228 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1229 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1230 and they will receive a partial reply.
1231
1232 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1233 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1234 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1235 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1236
1237 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1238 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1239 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1240 the size of your largest error page.
1241
1242 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1243 no limit imposed.
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1245 Configuration Format is:
1246 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1247 ie.
1248 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1249
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1251
1252COMMENT_START
1253 NETWORK OPTIONS
1254 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1255COMMENT_END
1256
1257NAME: http_port ascii_port
1258TYPE: http_port_list
1259DEFAULT: none
1260LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1261DOC_START
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1262 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1263 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1264 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1265
1266 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1267 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1268 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1269 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1270 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1271 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1272 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1273
1274 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1275 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1276
1277 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1278 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1279 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1280
1281 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1282
c7b1dd5d 1283 Modes:
5b0f5383 1284
e77bdb4e 1285 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1286 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1287 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1288
1289 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1290 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1291 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1292
1293 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1294 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1295
3a0c8eb5 1296 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
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1298 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1299 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1300 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1301
1302 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1303 the SslBump feature.
1304
1305 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1306
1307
1308 Accelerator Mode Options:
1309
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1310 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1311 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1312 never_direct was used.
1313
5b0f5383 1314 defaultsite=domainname
1315 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1316 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1317 accelerators should consider the default.
1318 Implies accel.
1319
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1320 vhost Using the Host header for virtual domain support.
1321 Also uses the port as specified in Host: header.
5b0f5383 1322
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1323 vport IP based virtual host support. Using the http_port number
1324 in passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1325
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1326 vport=NN Uses the specified port number rather than the
1327 http_port number.
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1329 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
c7b1dd5d 1330 Defaults to http://.
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1333
1334 Warning: This option violates HTTP specifications if
1335 used in non-accelerator setups.
1336
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1338 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1339
1340 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1341
1342 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1343 if not specified, the certificate file is
1344 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1345 key file.
1346
1347 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1348 1 automatic (default)
1349 2 SSLv2 only
1350 3 SSLv3 only
1351 4 TLSv1 only
1352
1353 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1354
1355 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1356 being:
1357 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1358 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1359 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1360 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1361 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1362 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1363 documentation for a complete list of options.
1364
1365 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1366 requesting a client certificate.
1367
1368 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1369 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1370 clientca will be used.
1371
1372 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1373 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1374
1375 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1376 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1377 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1378
1379 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1380 DH key exchanges.
1381
1382 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1383 DELAYED_AUTH
1384 Don't request client certificates
1385 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1386 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1387 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1388 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1389 to OpenSSL.
1390 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1391 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1392 will result in a new SSL session.
1393 VERIFY_CRL
1394 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1395 certificates.
1396 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1397 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1398 client certificate chain.
1399
1400 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1401
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1403 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1404 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1405 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1406 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1407 certificate will be selfsigned.
1408 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1409 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1410 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1411 years.
1412 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1413 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1414
1415 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1416 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1417 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1418 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1419 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
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1421 Other Options:
1422
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1424 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1425 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1426 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1427
5b0f5383 1428 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1429 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1430 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1431 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1432 support is enabled.
1433 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1434
1435 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1436 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1437 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1438 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1439 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1440 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1441 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1442 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1443
81b6e9a7 1444 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1445 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1446
68924b6d 1447 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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1449 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1450 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1451 timeout the time before giving up.
1452
5b0f5383 1453 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1454 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1455 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1456 visible on the internal address.
1457
1458NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 1459
5b0f5383 1460# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1461http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1462NOCOMMENT_END
1463DOC_END
1464
1465NAME: https_port
1466IFDEF: USE_SSL
1467TYPE: https_port_list
1468DEFAULT: none
1469LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1470DOC_START
1471 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1472
1473 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1474 requests.
1475
1476 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1477 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1478 accelerator level.
1479
1480 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1481 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1482
1483 Options:
1484
1485 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1486 defaultsite or vhost.
1487
1488 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1489 this port. Implies accel.
1490
1491 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1492 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1493 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1494 Implies accel.
1495
1496 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1497 Defaults to https.
1498
1499 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1500
1501 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1502 if not specified, the certificate file is
1503 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1504 key file.
1505
1506 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1507 1 automatic (default)
1508 2 SSLv2 only
1509 3 SSLv3 only
1510 4 TLSv1 only
1511
1512 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1513
1514 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1515 being:
1516 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1517 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1518 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1519 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1520 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1521 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1522 documentation for a complete list of options.
1523
1524 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1525 requesting a client certificate.
1526
1527 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1528 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1529 clientca will be used.
1530
1531 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1532 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1533
1534 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1535 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1536 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1537
1538 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1539 DH key exchanges.
1540
1541 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1542 DELAYED_AUTH
1543 Don't request client certificates
1544 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1545 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1546 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1547 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1548 to OpenSSL.
1549 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1550 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1551 will result in a new SSL session.
1552 VERIFY_CRL
1553 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1554 certificates.
1555 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1556 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1557 client certificate chain.
1558
1559 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1560
1561 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1562
1563 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1564 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1565
81b6e9a7 1566 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1567 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1568
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1570
41bd17a4 1571NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1572TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1573DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1574LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
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1577 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1578
41bd17a4 1579 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1580
41bd17a4 1581 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1582 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1585 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1586 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1587 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1588
41bd17a4 1589 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1590 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1591 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1592
41bd17a4 1593 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1594 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1596 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1597
41bd17a4 1598 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1599 matching line.
cccac0a2 1600DOC_END
1601
41bd17a4 1602NAME: clientside_tos
1603TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1604DEFAULT: none
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1605LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
1606DOC_START
1607 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1608 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1609
1610 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1611
1612 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1613 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1614
1615 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1616 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1617 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1618 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1619
1620 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1621 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1622DOC_END
1623
1624NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1625TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1626IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1628LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1629DOC_START
1630 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1631 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1632
1633 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1634
1635 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1636 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1637
1638 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1639 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1640 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1641 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1642DOC_END
1643
1644NAME: clientside_mark
1645TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1646IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1648LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
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1650 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
1651 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1652
1653 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1654
1655 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1656 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1657
1658 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1659 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1660 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1661 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1662
1663 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1664 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1665DOC_END
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1668TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1669IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1670DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1671LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
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1674 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced. For
1675 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1676 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1679 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1680 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1683 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1684 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1685
1686 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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1689
1690 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1692 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1693
1694 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1695
1696 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1697
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1699 over the preserve-miss feature (see below).
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1702 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1703 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1704 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1705 with all variants of netfilter.
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575cb927 1707 disable-preserve-miss
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1709 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1710 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1711 and masked with miss-mark.
1712 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1713 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1714 (MARK target).
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1716 miss-mask=0xFF
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1718 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1719 the TOS sent towards clients.
1720 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1721 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1722
1723 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1724 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1725 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1726 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1729
41bd17a4 1730NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1731TYPE: acl_address
1732DEFAULT: none
1733LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1734DOC_START
1735 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1736 based on the username or source address of the user making
1737 the request.
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41bd17a4 1739 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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41bd17a4 1741 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1742 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1743 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1744 source address 10.1.0.3.
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1747 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1748 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1749 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1750 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1751
41bd17a4 1752 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1753 matching line.
cccac0a2 1754
41bd17a4 1755 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1756 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1757 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1758 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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1761 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
1762 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option to
1763 re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1764
1765 IPv6 Magic:
1766
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1768 internets.
cc192b50 1769 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1770 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1771 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1772
1773 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1774 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1775 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1776
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1778 # This MUST be place before any ALLOW rules.
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1781
1782 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1783 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1784
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17148b2f 1786 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1787
55458070 1788 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1789 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
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1791 WARNING:
1792 'dst ipv6' bases its selection assuming DIRECT access.
1793 If peers are used the peername ACL are needed to select outgoing
1794 address which can link to the peer.
1795
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1797 previously in the http_access rules to locate the destination IP.
1798 Some more magic may be needed for that:
1799 http_access allow to_ipv6 !all
1800 (meaning, allow if to IPv6 but not from anywhere ;)
1801
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1803
41bd17a4 1804COMMENT_START
1805 SSL OPTIONS
1806 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1807COMMENT_END
1808
1809NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1810IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1811TYPE: onoff
1812DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1813LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1814DOC_START
41bd17a4 1815 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1816 messages.
cccac0a2 1817DOC_END
1818
41bd17a4 1819NAME: ssl_engine
1820IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1821TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1822LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1823DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1824DOC_START
41bd17a4 1825 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1826 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1827DOC_END
1828
41bd17a4 1829NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1830IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1831DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1832LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1833TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1834DOC_START
41bd17a4 1835 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1836DOC_END
1837
41bd17a4 1838NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1839IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1840DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1841LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1842TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1843DOC_START
41bd17a4 1844 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1845DOC_END
1846
41bd17a4 1847NAME: sslproxy_version
1848IFDEF: USE_SSL
1849DEFAULT: 1
1850LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1851TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1852DOC_START
41bd17a4 1853 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1854DOC_END
1855
41bd17a4 1856NAME: sslproxy_options
1857IFDEF: USE_SSL
1858DEFAULT: none
1859LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1860TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1861DOC_START
41bd17a4 1862 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1864 The most important being:
1865
1866 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1867 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1868 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1869 SINGLE_DH_USE
1870 Always create a new key when using
1871 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1872
1873 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1874 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1875 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 1876DOC_END
1877
41bd17a4 1878NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1879IFDEF: USE_SSL
1880DEFAULT: none
1881LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1882TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1883DOC_START
41bd17a4 1884 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1886 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1887DOC_END
1888
41bd17a4 1889NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1890IFDEF: USE_SSL
1891DEFAULT: none
1892LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1893TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1894DOC_START
41bd17a4 1895 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1896 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1897DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1899NAME: sslproxy_capath
1900IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1901DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1902LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1903TYPE: string
5473c134 1904DOC_START
41bd17a4 1905 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1906 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1907DOC_END
1908
4c9da963 1909NAME: ssl_bump
1910IFDEF: USE_SSL
1911TYPE: acl_access
1912LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1913DEFAULT: none
1914DOC_START
1915 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1916 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1917 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1918 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1919
1920 By default, no requests are bumped.
1921
e0c0d54c 1922 See also: http_port ssl-bump
4c9da963 1923
e0c0d54c 1924 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 1925 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1927
1928 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1929 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1930
1931 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1932 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1933 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1934 ssl_bump deny localhost
1935 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1936 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1937DOC_END
1938
41bd17a4 1939NAME: sslproxy_flags
1940IFDEF: USE_SSL
1941DEFAULT: none
1942LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1943TYPE: string
5473c134 1944DOC_START
41bd17a4 1945 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1946 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1947 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1948 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1949 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1950DOC_END
1951
4c9da963 1952NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1953IFDEF: USE_SSL
1954DEFAULT: none
1955LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1956TYPE: acl_access
1957DOC_START
1958 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1959
1960 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1961 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1962 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1963
1964 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1965 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1966 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1967
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1969 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1970 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 1971
1972 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1973 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1974 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1975 the connection may be insecure.
1976
1977 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1978
e0855596 1979 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 1980DOC_END
1981
41bd17a4 1982NAME: sslpassword_program
1983IFDEF: USE_SSL
1984DEFAULT: none
1985LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1986TYPE: string
5473c134 1987DOC_START
41bd17a4 1988 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1989 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1990 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1991 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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1993 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
1994 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
1995 keys.
5473c134 1996DOC_END
1997
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1999 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2000 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2001COMMENT_END
2002
2003NAME: sslcrtd_program
2004TYPE: eol
2005IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2006DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2007LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2008DOC_START
2009 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2010 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2011 For more information use:
2012 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2013DOC_END
2014
2015NAME: sslcrtd_children
2016TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2017IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2018DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2019LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2020DOC_START
2021 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2022 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2023
2024 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2025 tuning.
2026
2027 startup=N
2028
2029 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2030 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2031 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2032
2033 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2034 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2035
2036 idle=N
2037
2038 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2039 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2040 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2041 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2042
2043 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2044DOC_END
2045
cccac0a2 2046COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2047 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2048 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2049COMMENT_END
2050
41bd17a4 2051NAME: cache_peer
2052TYPE: peer
2053DEFAULT: none
2054LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2055DOC_START
41bd17a4 2056 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2058 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2059
41bd17a4 2060 For example,
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41bd17a4 2062 # proxy icp
2063 # hostname type port port options
2064 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2065 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2066 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2067 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
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2069 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2070
2071 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2072
2073 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2074 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2075 For web servers this is usually 80
2076
2077 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2078 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2079 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2080
2081
2082 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2083
2084 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2085 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2086
2087
2088 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2089
2090 multicast-responder
2091 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2092 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2093 replies will be accepted from it.
2094
2095 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2096 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2097
2098 background-ping
2099 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2100 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2101 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2102
2103
2104 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2105
2106 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2107 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2108
2109
2110 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2111 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2113 list of options described below.
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18191440 2115 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2116
18191440 2117 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2118 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2119 only-clr.
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2122 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2b94f655 2123
18191440 2124 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2125 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2126 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2127
18191440 2128 htcp=forward-clr
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2129 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2130
2131
2132 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2133
2134 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2135 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2136
2137
2138 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2139 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2140 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2141
2142 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2143 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2144 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2145
2146 weighted-round-robin
2147 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2148 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2149 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2150 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2151 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2152
2153 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2154 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2155 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2156
2157 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2158
2159 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2161 multicast-siblings
2162 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2163 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2164 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
2165 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2166 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2167 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2168 members of the same multicast group.
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2170
2171 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2172
2173 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2174 peer-selection mechanisms.
2175 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2176 larger weights are favored more.
2177 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2178 protocol is not in use.
2179
2180 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2181 times of parents.
2182 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2183 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2184 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2185
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2187 to this address.
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2189 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2190 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2191 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2192
2193 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2194 delay pools.
2195
2196 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2197 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2198 than the Squid default location.
2199
2200
2201 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2202
2203 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2204 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2205 is a web server.
2206
2207 forceddomain=name
2208 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2209 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2210 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2211 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2212
2213 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2214
2215 no-netdb-exchange
2216 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2217
2218
2219 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2220
2221 login=user:password
2222 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2223 requires proxy authentication.
2224
2225 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2226 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2227
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2229 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2230 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2231 without alteration to the peer.
2232 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2233
2234 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2235 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2236 connection-auth options are also used.
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2239 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2242 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2244 they may be sent instead.
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2246 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2247 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2248 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2249 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2250 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2251
2252 login=*:password
2253 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2254 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2255 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2256 needed to identify each user.
2257 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2258 information which is added to the username. This can
2259 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2260 the login=username:password option above.
2261
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2263 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2264 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2265 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2266 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2267
2268 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2269 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2270 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2271 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2272 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2273 used.
2274
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2276 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2277 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2278 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2279 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2280 of the peer.
2281
2282
2283 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2284
2285 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2286
2287 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2288 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2289 this peer.
2290
2291 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2292 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2293 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2294 reference a combined file containing both the
2295 certificate and the key.
2296
2297 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2298 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2299 1 = automatic (default)
2300 2 = SSL v2 only
2301 3 = SSL v3 only
2302 4 = TLS v1 only
2303
2304 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2305 to this peer.
2306
2307 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2308 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2309 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2310 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2311 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2312 a more complete list.
2313
2314 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2315 when verifying the peer certificate.
2316
2317 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2318 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2319
2320 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2321 verifying the peer certificate.
2322
2323 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2324
41bd17a4 2325 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2326 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2327 verify.
2328 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2329 Don't use the default CA list built in
2330 to OpenSSL.
2331 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2332 Don't verify the peer certificate
2333 matches the server name
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2335 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2336 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2337 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2338 used.
2339
2340 front-end-https
2341 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2342 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2343 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2344 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2345 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2346
2347
2348 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2349
2350 connect-timeout=N
2351 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2352 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2353
2354 connect-fail-limit=N
2355 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2356 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2357
2358 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2359 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2360 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2361 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2362 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2363 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2364 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2365
2366 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2367 peer. see also
2368
2369 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2370 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2371 but different ports.
2372 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2373 directives to dentify the peer.
2374 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2375 peername ACL type.
2376
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2378 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2379
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2381
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41bd17a4 2384NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2385TYPE: hostdomain
2386DEFAULT: none
2387LOC: none
2388DOC_START
2389 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2390 queried. Usage:
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41bd17a4 2392 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2393 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2394
41bd17a4 2395 For example, specifying
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41bd17a4 2397 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
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41bd17a4 2399 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2400 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2401 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2402 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2403 NOT in that domain.
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41bd17a4 2405 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2406 either on the same or separate lines.
2407 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2408 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2409 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2410 for all requests.
2411 * There are no defaults.
2412 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2413 section.
2414DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2416NAME: cache_peer_access
2417TYPE: peer_access
2418DEFAULT: none
2419LOC: none
2420DOC_START
2421 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2422 using ACL elements.
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41bd17a4 2424 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2425
41bd17a4 2426 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2427 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2428 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2429DOC_END
dd9b1776 2430
41bd17a4 2431NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2432TYPE: hostdomaintype
2433DEFAULT: none
2434LOC: none
2435DOC_START
2436 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2437
41bd17a4 2438 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2439 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2440 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2441 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2442 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2443 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2444
41bd17a4 2445EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2446 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2447 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2448 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2449DOC_END
6bf4f823 2450
41bd17a4 2451NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2452COMMENT: (seconds)
2453DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2454TYPE: time_t
2455LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2456DOC_START
2457 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2458 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2459 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2460 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2461 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2462 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2463
41bd17a4 2464 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2465 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2466 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2467 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2468 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2469 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2470 instead of to your parents.
2471DOC_END
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2473NAME: forward_max_tries
2474DEFAULT: 10
2475TYPE: int
2476LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2477DOC_START
2478 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2479 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
2480DOC_END
2481
41bd17a4 2482NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2483TYPE: wordlist
2484DEFAULT: none
2485LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2486DOC_START
2487 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2488 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2489 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2490 list this option multiple times.
2491 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
cccac0a2 2492NOCOMMENT_START
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2494# We recommend you to use at least the following line.
41bd17a4 2495hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 2496NOCOMMENT_END
2497DOC_END
0976f8db 2498
41bd17a4 2499COMMENT_START
2500 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2501 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2502COMMENT_END
2503
2504NAME: cache_mem
2505COMMENT: (bytes)
2506TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2507DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2508LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2509DOC_START
41bd17a4 2510 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2511 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2512 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2513 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2514
2515 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2516 for:
2517 * In-Transit objects
2518 * Hot Objects
2519 * Negative-Cached objects
2520
2521 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2522 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2523 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2524 priority.
2525
2526 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2527 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2528 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2529 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2530 not needed for in-transit objects.
2531
2532 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2533 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2534 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2535 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2536 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2537 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2538 objects.
6b698a21 2539DOC_END
0976f8db 2540
41bd17a4 2541NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2542COMMENT: (bytes)
2543TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2544DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2545LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2546DOC_START
41bd17a4 2547 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2548 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2549 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2550 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2551DOC_END
0976f8db 2552
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2553NAME: memory_cache_mode
2554TYPE: memcachemode
2555LOC: Config
2556DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2557DOC_START
ea21d497 2558 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2559
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2560 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2561
2562 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2563 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2564 a second time before cached in memory.
2565
2566 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2567DOC_END
2568
41bd17a4 2569NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2570TYPE: removalpolicy
2571LOC: Config.memPolicy
2572DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2573DOC_START
41bd17a4 2574 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2575 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2576
41bd17a4 2577 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2578DOC_END
6b698a21 2579
41bd17a4 2580COMMENT_START
2581 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2582 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2583COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2584
41bd17a4 2585NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2586TYPE: removalpolicy
2587LOC: Config.replPolicy
2588DEFAULT: lru
2589DOC_START
2590 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2591 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2592
41bd17a4 2593 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2594 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2595 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2596 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2597
41bd17a4 2598 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2599
41bd17a4 2600 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2601
41bd17a4 2602 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2603 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2604 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2605 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2606
41bd17a4 2607 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2608 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2609 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2610 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2611
41bd17a4 2612 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2613 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2614 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2615
41bd17a4 2616 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2617 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2618 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2619
41bd17a4 2620 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2621 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2622 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2623DOC_END
0976f8db 2624
41bd17a4 2625NAME: cache_dir
2626TYPE: cachedir
2627DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2628LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2629DOC_START
41bd17a4 2630 Usage:
0976f8db 2631
41bd17a4 2632 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2633
41bd17a4 2634 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2635 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2636
41bd17a4 2637 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2638 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2639 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2640
41bd17a4 2641 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2642 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2643 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2644 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2645 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2646
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2647 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2648 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2649 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2650
41bd17a4 2651 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2652
41bd17a4 2653 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2654 been there.
0976f8db 2655
41bd17a4 2656 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2657
41bd17a4 2658 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2659 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2660 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2661 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2662 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2663
56fba4d0 2664 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2665 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2666
56fba4d0 2667 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2668 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2669 is 256.
0976f8db 2670
41bd17a4 2671 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2672
41bd17a4 2673 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2674 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2675 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2676
41bd17a4 2677 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2678
41bd17a4 2679 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2680
41bd17a4 2681 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2682
41bd17a4 2683 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2684 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2685 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2686
41bd17a4 2687 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2688
41bd17a4 2689 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2690
41bd17a4 2691 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2692 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2693 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2694
41bd17a4 2695 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2696 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2697 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2698
41bd17a4 2699 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2700 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2701 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2702 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2703 time.
0976f8db 2704
41bd17a4 2705 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2706
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2707 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2708 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2709 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2710
41bd17a4 2711 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2712 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2713 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2714 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2715 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2716 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2717 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2718
41bd17a4 2719 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2720 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2721 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2722
41bd17a4 2723 Common options:
0976f8db 2724
41bd17a4 2725 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2726
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2727 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
2728 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
2729 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
2730 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
2731
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2732 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
2733 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 2734 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2735 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2736 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2737
41bd17a4 2738 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2739 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2740 option.
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2742
2743# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2744#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2745NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2746DOC_END
0976f8db 2747
41bd17a4 2748NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2749TYPE: string
2750LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2751DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2752DOC_START
41bd17a4 2753 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2754DOC_END
0976f8db 2755
41bd17a4 2756NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2757TYPE: int
2758LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2759DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2760DOC_START
41bd17a4 2761 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2762 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2763 descriptors are open.
2764
2765 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2766DOC_END
0976f8db 2767
41bd17a4 2768NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2769COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2770TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2771DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2772LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2773DOC_START
41bd17a4 2774 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2775 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2776 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2777DOC_END
0976f8db 2778
41bd17a4 2779NAME: maximum_object_size
2780COMMENT: (bytes)
2781TYPE: b_int64_t
2782DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2783LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2784DOC_START
41bd17a4 2785 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2786 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2787 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2788 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2789 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2790 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2791
41bd17a4 2792 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2793 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2794 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2795DOC_END
0976f8db 2796
41bd17a4 2797NAME: cache_swap_low
2798COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2799TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2800DEFAULT: 90
2801LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2802DOC_NONE
2803
2804NAME: cache_swap_high
2805COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2806TYPE: int
2807DEFAULT: 95
2808LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2809DOC_START
41bd17a4 2810
2811 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2812 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2813 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2814 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2815 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2816 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2817
2818 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2819 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2820 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2821DOC_END
0976f8db 2822
5473c134 2823COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2824 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2825 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2826COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2827
41bd17a4 2828NAME: logformat
2829TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 2830LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 2831DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2832DOC_START
41bd17a4 2833 Usage:
0976f8db 2834
41bd17a4 2835 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2836
41bd17a4 2837 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2838
41bd17a4 2839 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2840
41bd17a4 2841 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2842 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2843 as required according to their context and the output format
2844 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2845 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2846
41bd17a4 2847 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2848
41bd17a4 2849 " output in quoted string format
2850 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2851 # output in URL quoted format
2852 ' output as-is
5473c134 2853
41bd17a4 2854 - left aligned
2855 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2856 output is zero padded
2857 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2858
41bd17a4 2859 Format codes:
5473c134 2860
3ff65596 2861 % a literal % character
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2862 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
2863 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
2864 a similar internal error identifier.
2865 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
2866
2867 Connection related format codes:
2868
41bd17a4 2869 >a Client source IP address
2870 >A Client FQDN
2871 >p Client source port
928a0115 2872 >eui Client EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
41bd17a4 2873 <A Server IP address or peer name
2874 la Local IP address (http_port)
2875 lp Local port number (http_port)
c3a082ae 2876 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 2877 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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2878
2879 Time related format codes:
2880
41bd17a4 2881 ts Seconds since epoch
2882 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2883 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2884 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2885 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2886 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2887 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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2889
2890 HTTP cache related format codes:
2891
ca2e92d8 2892 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 2893 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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2894 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
2895 Optional header name argument as for >h
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2896 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2897 as for >h
2898 [http::]un User name
2899 [http::]ul User name from authentication
2900 [http::]ui User name from ident
2901 [http::]us User name from SSL
2902 [http::]ue User name from external acl helper
2903 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2904 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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2905 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
2906 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
2907 transfer encoding and control messages.
2908 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
2909 received bodies.
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2910 [http::]Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2911 [http::]Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2912 [http::]mt MIME content type
2913 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2914 [http::]ru Request URL
2915 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2916 [http::]rv Request protocol version
2917 [http::]et Tag returned by external acl
2918 [http::]ea Log string returned by external acl
2919 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2920 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2921 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
2922 are not included
2923 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
2924 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
2925 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
2926 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
2927 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
2928 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
2929 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
2930 and stops when the last response byte is received.
2931 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
2932 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
2933 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
2934 with the last I/O with the last peer.
2935
5038f9d8 2936 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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2937 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
2938
2939 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
2940 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
2941 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
2942 transaction is in progress.
2943
5038f9d8 2944 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 2945
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2946 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
2947 meta-information from the last eCAP
2948 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
2949 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
2950 argument.
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2951
2952 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
2953 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
2954 the order of transaction start time. Each time
2955 value is recorded as an integer number,
2956 representing response time of one or more
2957 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
2958 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
2959 being retried or repeated, its time is not
2960 logged individually but added to the
2961 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
2962 adapt::all_trs.
2963
2964 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
2965 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
2966 individual transactions are never added
2967 together. Instead, all transaction response
2968 times are recorded individually.
2969
2970 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
2971 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
2972 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 2973
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2974 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
2975
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2976logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2977logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2978logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
2979logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
2980logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
2981
2982 When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON. The squid, common and combined
2983 formats have a safely encoded copy of the mime headers appended to each line
2984 within a pair of brackets.
2985
2986 The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
2987 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
5473c134 2988DOC_END
2989
41bd17a4 2990NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2991TYPE: access_log
2992LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 2993DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 2994DOC_START
41bd17a4 2995 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2996 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 2997 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 2998 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3000 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3001 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3002 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3003 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3004
3005 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3006
bb7a1781 3007 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3008 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3009
3010 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3011 each request.
3012 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3013
3014 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3015 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3016 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3017
3018 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3019
3020 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3021 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3022 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3023
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3024 where facility could be any of:
3025 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3026
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3027 And priority could be any of:
3028 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3029
3030 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3031 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3032 Place Format: \\host:port
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3034 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3035 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3036 Place Format: \\host:port
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3038 Default:
82b7abe3 3039 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3040DOC_END
5473c134 3041
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3042NAME: icap_log
3043TYPE: access_log
3044IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3045LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3046DEFAULT: none
3047DOC_START
3048 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3049 transaction.
3050
3051 The icap_log option format is:
3052 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3053 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3054
3055 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3056 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3057 features.
3058
3059 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3060 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3061 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3062 log line.
3063
3064 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3065 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3066 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3067 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3068 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3069 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3070 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3071
3072 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3073
3074 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3075
3076 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3077 option in Squid configuration file.
3078
3079 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3080
3081 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3082 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3083
3084 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3085 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3086
3087 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3088 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3089 the socket).
3090
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3091 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3092 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3093 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3094 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3095 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3096 computed.
3097
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3099 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3100 the ICAP transaction is created and
3101 stops when the transaction is completed.
3102 Similar to tr.
3103
3104 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3105 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3106 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3107 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3108 is received.
3109
3110 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3111 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3112 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3113 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3114 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3115 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3116
3117 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3118
3119 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3120
3121 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3122
3123 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3124 definition, is called icap_squid:
3125
3126logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3127
5038f9d8 3128 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3130
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3131NAME: logfile_daemon
3132TYPE: string
3133DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3134LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3135DOC_START
3136 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3137 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3138
3139 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3140 L<data>\n - logfile data
3141 R\n - rotate file
3142 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3143 O\n - reopen file
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3144 F\n - flush file
3145 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3146 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3147
3148 No responses is expected.
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3149DOC_END
3150
5b0f5383 3151NAME: log_access
3152TYPE: acl_access
3153LOC: Config.accessList.log
3154DEFAULT: none
3155COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3156DOC_START
3157 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3158 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3159 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3160
3161 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3162 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3163DOC_END
3164
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3165NAME: log_icap
3166TYPE: acl_access
3167IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3168LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3169DEFAULT: none
3170DOC_START
3171 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3172 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3173DOC_END
3174
41bd17a4 3175NAME: cache_store_log
3176TYPE: string
df2eec10 3177DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3178LOC: Config.Log.store
3179DOC_START
3180 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3181 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3182 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
3183 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3184 disable it.
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3185
3186 Example:
3187 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3188DOC_END
3189
41bd17a4 3190NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3191TYPE: string
3192LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3193DEFAULT: none
3194DOC_START
41bd17a4 3195 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3196 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3197 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3198 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3199 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3200 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3201 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3202
41bd17a4 3203 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3204 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3205 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3206 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3207
41bd17a4 3208 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3209 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3210
41bd17a4 3211 cache_swap_log.00
3212 cache_swap_log.01
3213 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3214
41bd17a4 3215 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3216 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3217 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3218 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3219 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3220 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3221 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3222DOC_END
3223
41bd17a4 3224NAME: logfile_rotate
3225TYPE: int
3226DEFAULT: 10
3227LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3228DOC_START
41bd17a4 3229 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3230 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3231 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3232 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3233 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3234 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 3235
41bd17a4 3236 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3237 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3238 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3239 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3240 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3241 <pid>'.
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3242
3243 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3244 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3245DOC_END
5473c134 3246
41bd17a4 3247NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3248TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3249DOC_START
20efa1c2 3250 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3251DOC_END
3252
41bd17a4 3253NAME: log_ip_on_direct
3254COMMENT: on|off
3255TYPE: onoff
5473c134 3256DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 3257LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 3258DOC_START
41bd17a4 3259 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
3260 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
3261 prefer the old way set this to off.
3262DOC_END
5473c134 3263
41bd17a4 3264NAME: mime_table
3265TYPE: string
3266DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3267LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3268DOC_START
3269 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3270 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3271 information if you do.
5473c134 3272DOC_END
3273
41bd17a4 3274NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3275COMMENT: on|off
3276TYPE: onoff
3277LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3278DEFAULT: off
3279DOC_START
3280 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3281 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3282 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3283 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3284 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3285DOC_END
5473c134 3286
41bd17a4 3287NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3288TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3289DOC_START
20efa1c2 3290 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3291DOC_END
3292
41bd17a4 3293NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3294TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3295DOC_START
20efa1c2 3296 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3297DOC_END
3298
41bd17a4 3299NAME: pid_filename
3300TYPE: string
3301DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3302LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3303DOC_START
41bd17a4 3304 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3305DOC_END
3306
41bd17a4 3307NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3308TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3309DOC_START
c581e96b 3310 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3311DOC_END
3312
41bd17a4 3313NAME: client_netmask
3314TYPE: address
3315LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3316DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3317DOC_START
41bd17a4 3318 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3319 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3320 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3321 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3322DOC_END
3323
41bd17a4 3324NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3325TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3326DOC_START
20efa1c2 3327 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3328DOC_END
3329
41bd17a4 3330NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3331TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3332LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3333DEFAULT: on
3334DOC_START
41bd17a4 3335 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3336 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3337DOC_END
3338
41bd17a4 3339NAME: buffered_logs
3340COMMENT: on|off
3341TYPE: onoff
3342DEFAULT: off
3343LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3344DOC_START
41bd17a4 3345 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3346 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3347 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3348 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3349 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 3350DOC_END
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2b753521 3352NAME: netdb_filename
3353TYPE: string
3354DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3355LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3356IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3357DOC_START
3358 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3359 To disable, enter "none".
3360DOC_END
3361
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3362COMMENT_START
3363 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3364 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3365COMMENT_END
3366
3367NAME: cache_log
3368TYPE: string
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3369DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3370LOC: Debug::cache_log
3371DOC_START
3372 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3373 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3374 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3375DOC_END
3376
3377NAME: debug_options
3378TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3379DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3380LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3381DOC_START
3382 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3383 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3384 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3385 log file, so be careful.
3386
3387 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3388 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3389
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3390 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3391 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3392 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3393 events affecting Squid.
3394DOC_END
3395
3396NAME: coredump_dir
3397TYPE: string
3398LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3399DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3400DOC_START
3401 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3402 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3403 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3404 and coredump files will be left there.
3405
3406NOCOMMENT_START
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3408# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3409coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3410NOCOMMENT_END
3411DOC_END
3412
3413
41bd17a4 3414COMMENT_START
3415 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3416 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3417COMMENT_END
3418
3419NAME: ftp_user
3420TYPE: string
3421DEFAULT: Squid@
3422LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3423DOC_START
41bd17a4 3424 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3425 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3426 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3427
41bd17a4 3428 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3429 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3430 depending on how the cache is used.
3431 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3432 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3433DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3435NAME: ftp_passive
3436TYPE: onoff
3437DEFAULT: on
3438LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3439DOC_START
41bd17a4 3440 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3441 connections, turn off this option.
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3443 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3444DOC_END
3445
3446NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3447TYPE: onoff
3448DEFAULT: off
3449LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3450DOC_START
3451 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3452
3453 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3454 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3455 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3456
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3458 useful.
a689bd4e 3459 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3460 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3461
3462 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3463 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3464
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3466DOC_END
3467
3468NAME: ftp_epsv
3469TYPE: onoff
3470DEFAULT: on
3471LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3472DOC_START
3473 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3474
3475 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3476 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3477 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3478 will never be needed.
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3480 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3481 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3482 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3483
3484 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3485DOC_END
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3487NAME: ftp_eprt
3488TYPE: onoff
3489DEFAULT: on
3490LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3491DOC_START
3492 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3493
3494 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3495 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3496 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3497
3498 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3499 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3500
3501 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3502 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3503 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3504 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3505
3506 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3507 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3508DOC_END
3509
41bd17a4 3510NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3511TYPE: onoff
3512DEFAULT: on
3513LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3514DOC_START
3515 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3516 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3517 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3518 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3519 connection turn this off.
3520DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3521
41bd17a4 3522NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3523TYPE: onoff
3524DEFAULT: on
3525LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3526DOC_START
3527 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3528 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3529 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3530 the FTP protocol.
3531
3532 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3533 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3534 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3535 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3536 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3537DOC_END
3538
3539COMMENT_START
3540 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3541 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3542COMMENT_END
3543
3544NAME: diskd_program
3545TYPE: string
3546DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3547LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3548DOC_START
3549 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3550 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3551 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3552DOC_END
3553
3554NAME: unlinkd_program
3555IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3556TYPE: string
3557DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3558LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3559DOC_START
3560 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3561DOC_END
3562
3563NAME: pinger_program
3564TYPE: string
3565DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3566LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3567IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3568DOC_START
3569 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3570DOC_END
3571
cc192b50 3572NAME: pinger_enable
3573TYPE: onoff
3574DEFAULT: on
3575LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3576IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3577DOC_START
3578 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3580 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3581DOC_END
3582
3583
41bd17a4 3584COMMENT_START
3585 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3586 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3587COMMENT_END
3588
3589NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3590TYPE: wordlist
3591LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3592DEFAULT: none
3593DOC_START
2c7aad89 3594 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 3595 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3596
2c7aad89 3597 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 3598
c71adec1 3599 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3600
3601 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3602 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3603 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3604 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3605
3606 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3607 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3608
3609 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3610 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 3611 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 3612
3613 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3614DOC_END
3615
3616NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3617TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3618DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3619LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3620DOC_START
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3621 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3622 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3623 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3624 and other system resources noticably.
3625
3626 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3627 tuning.
3628
3629 startup=
3630
3631 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3632 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3633 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3634
3635 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3636 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3637
3638 idle=
3639
3640 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3641 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3642 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3643 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3644
3645 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3646
41bd17a4 3647 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3648 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3649 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3650
3651 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3652 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3653 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3654 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3655 to that request.
41bd17a4 3656DOC_END
3657
3658NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3659TYPE: onoff
3660DEFAULT: on
3661LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3662DOC_START
3663 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
3664 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
3665 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
3666
3667 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3668 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
3669DOC_END
3670
3671NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3672TYPE: acl_access
3673DEFAULT: none
3674LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3675DOC_START
3676 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3677 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3678 are sent.
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3679
3680 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3681 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3682DOC_END
3683
3684NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3685TYPE: onoff
3686LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3687DEFAULT: off
3688DOC_START
3689 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3690 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3691 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3692 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3693 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3694 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3695 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3696 users may have access to pages they should not
3697 be allowed to request.
3698DOC_END
3699
3700COMMENT_START
3701 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3702 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3703COMMENT_END
3704
f04b37d8 3705NAME: cache no_cache
3706TYPE: acl_access
3707DEFAULT: none
3708LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3709DOC_START
240887f0 3710 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3711 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3712 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3713
240887f0 3714 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3715 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3716
240887f0 3717 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3718
3719 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3720 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3721DOC_END
3722
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3723NAME: max_stale
3724COMMENT: time-units
3725TYPE: time_t
3726LOC: Config.maxStale
3727DEFAULT: 1 week
3728DOC_START
3729 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
3730 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
3731 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
3732DOC_END
3733
41bd17a4 3734NAME: refresh_pattern
3735TYPE: refreshpattern
3736LOC: Config.Refresh
3737DEFAULT: none
3738DOC_START
3739 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3740
6b698a21 3741 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3742 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3743
41bd17a4 3744 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3745 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3746 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3747 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3748 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3749
41bd17a4 3750 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3751 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3752 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3753
41bd17a4 3754 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3755 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3756
41bd17a4 3757 options: override-expire
3758 override-lastmod
3759 reload-into-ims
3760 ignore-reload
3761 ignore-no-cache
3762 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3763 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3764 ignore-private
3765 ignore-auth
570d3f75 3766 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 3767 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 3768 store-stale
a0ec9f68 3769
41bd17a4 3770 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3771 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3772 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3773 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3774 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
6468fe10 3775
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3776 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3777 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3778 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3779 the object fresh for that period of time.
3780
41bd17a4 3781 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3782 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3783
41bd17a4 3784 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3785 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3786 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3787 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3788
41bd17a4 3789 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3790 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3791 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3792 it causes.
9bc73deb 3793
41bd17a4 3794 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3795 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3796 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3797 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3798 send it anyway.
3799
3800 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3801 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3802 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3803 liable for problems which it causes.
3804
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3805 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3806 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3807 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3808 liable for problems which it causes.
3809
41bd17a4 3810 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3811 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3812 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3813 liable for problems which it causes.
3814
3815 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3816 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3817 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3818 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3819 it causes.
3820
3821 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3822 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3823 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3824 if one is available.
3825
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3826 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3827 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3828 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3829 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3830 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3831
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3832 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
3833 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
3834 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
3835
41bd17a4 3836 Basically a cached object is:
3837
3838 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3839 STALE if age > max
3840 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3841 FRESH if age < min
3842 else STALE
3843
3844 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3845 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3846 match the default will be used.
3847
3848 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3849 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3850 used.
3851
41bd17a4 3852NOCOMMENT_START
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3853
3854# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 3855refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3856refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 3857refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 3858refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3859NOCOMMENT_END
3860DOC_END
3861
3862NAME: quick_abort_min
3863COMMENT: (KB)
3864TYPE: kb_int64_t
3865DEFAULT: 16 KB
3866LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3867DOC_NONE
3868
3869NAME: quick_abort_max
3870COMMENT: (KB)
3871TYPE: kb_int64_t
3872DEFAULT: 16 KB
3873LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3874DOC_NONE
3875
3876NAME: quick_abort_pct
3877COMMENT: (percent)
3878TYPE: int
3879DEFAULT: 95
3880LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3881DOC_START
3882 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3883 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3884 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3885 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3886 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3887 downloads.
3888
3889 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3890 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3891 then.
3892
3893 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3894 it will finish the retrieval.
3895
3896 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3897 it will abort the retrieval.
3898
3899 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3900 it will finish the retrieval.
3901
3902 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3903 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3904 to '0 KB'.
3905
3906 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3907 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3908DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3910NAME: read_ahead_gap
3911COMMENT: buffer-size
3912TYPE: b_int64_t
3913LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3914DEFAULT: 16 KB
3915DOC_START
3916 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3917 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3918DOC_END
53e738c6 3919
41bd17a4 3920NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 3921IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 3922COMMENT: time-units
3923TYPE: time_t
3924LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 3925DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 3926DOC_START
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3927 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3928 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3929 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3930 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3931 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3932 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3933
3934 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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3935
3936 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3937 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3938 causes.
41bd17a4 3939DOC_END
53e738c6 3940
41bd17a4 3941NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3942COMMENT: time-units
3943TYPE: time_t
3944LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3945DEFAULT: 6 hours
3946DOC_START
3947 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3948 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3949 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3950DOC_END
c4ab8329 3951
41bd17a4 3952NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3953COMMENT: time-units
3954TYPE: time_t
3955LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3956DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3957DOC_START
3958 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3959 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3960 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3961 much below 10 seconds.
3962DOC_END
7df0bfd7 3963
41bd17a4 3964NAME: range_offset_limit
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3965COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
3966TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 3967LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 3968DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3969DOC_START
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3970 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
3971
3972 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
3973 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
3974 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
3975 the result is NOT cached.
3976
41bd17a4 3977 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3978 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3979 sending anything to the client.
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3980
3981 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
3982 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
3983 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
3984 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
3985
3986 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
3987
3988 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
3989 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
3990
3991 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 3992 client requested. (default)
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3993
3994 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 3995 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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3996
3997 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
3998
3999 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4000 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4001 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4002 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4003DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4005NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4006COMMENT: (seconds)
4007TYPE: time_t
4008LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4009DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4010DOC_START
4011 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4012 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4013 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4014 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4015 is most likely better to make your server return a
4016 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4017 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4018 often be best set to 0.
4019DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4021NAME: store_avg_object_size
4022COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 4023TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 4024DEFAULT: 13 KB
4025LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4026DOC_START
4027 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4028 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4029DOC_END
4030
41bd17a4 4031NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4032TYPE: int
4033DEFAULT: 20
4034LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4035DOC_START
4036 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4037 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4038 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4039DOC_END
4040
4041COMMENT_START
4042 HTTP OPTIONS
4043 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4044COMMENT_END
4045
f04b37d8 4046NAME: request_header_max_size
4047COMMENT: (KB)
4048TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4049DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4050LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4051DOC_START
4052 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4053 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4054 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4055 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4056 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4057DOC_END
4058
4059NAME: reply_header_max_size
4060COMMENT: (KB)
4061TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4062DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4063LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4064DOC_START
4065 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4066 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4067 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4068 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4069 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4070DOC_END
4071
4072NAME: request_body_max_size
4073COMMENT: (bytes)
4074TYPE: b_int64_t
4075DEFAULT: 0 KB
4076LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4077DOC_START
4078 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4079 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4080 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4081 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4082 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4083 be no limit imposed.
4084DOC_END
4085
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4086NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4087COMMENT: (bytes)
4088TYPE: b_size_t
4089DEFAULT: 512 KB
4090LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4091DOC_START
4092 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4093 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4094 a large file.
4095DOC_END
4096
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4097NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4098COMMENT: (bytes)
4099TYPE: b_int64_t
4100DEFAULT: 64 KB
4101LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4102DOC_START
4103 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4104 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4105 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4106 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4107 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4108 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4109
4110 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4111 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4112 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4113 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4114 as if dechunking was disabled.
4115
4116 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4117 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4118
4119 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4120 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4121 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4122DOC_END
4123
41bd17a4 4124NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4125IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4126TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4127DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4128LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4129DOC_START
41bd17a4 4130 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4131 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4132
41bd17a4 4133 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4134 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4135
41bd17a4 4136 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4137
41bd17a4 4138 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4139 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4140 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4141 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 4142
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4143 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4144 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4145
41bd17a4 4146Example:
4147 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4148 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4149DOC_END
cccac0a2 4150
22fff3bf 4151NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4152COMMENT: on|off
4153TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4154IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4155DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4156LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4157DOC_START
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4158 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4159 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4160
4161 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4162DOC_END
4163
41bd17a4 4164NAME: via
626096be 4165IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4166COMMENT: on|off
4167TYPE: onoff
4168DEFAULT: on
4169LOC: Config.onoff.via
4170DOC_START
4171 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4172 replies as required by RFC2616.
4173DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4174
41bd17a4 4175NAME: ie_refresh
4176COMMENT: on|off
4177TYPE: onoff
4178LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4179DEFAULT: off
4180DOC_START
4181 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4182 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4183 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4184 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4185 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4186 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4187 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4188 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4189 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4190 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4191 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4192 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4193 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4194 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4195 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4196 force fresh content.
4197DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4199NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4200COMMENT: on|off
4201TYPE: onoff
4202LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4203DEFAULT: off
4204DOC_START
4205 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4206 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4207 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4208 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4209 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4210
4211 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4212 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4213DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4215NAME: request_entities
4216TYPE: onoff
4217LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4218DEFAULT: off
4219DOC_START
4220 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4221 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4222 even if not explicitly forbidden.
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41bd17a4 4224 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4225 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4226 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4227 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4228 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4229DOC_END
6b53c392 4230
41bd17a4 4231NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4232IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4233TYPE: http_header_access[]
4234LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4235DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4236DOC_START
41bd17a4 4237 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4238
41bd17a4 4239 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4240 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4241 causes.
0976f8db 4242
41bd17a4 4243 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4244 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4245 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4246 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4247 mangling.
934b03fc 4248
41bd17a4 4249 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4250 client to the server.
5401aa8d 4251
41bd17a4 4252 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4253 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4254 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 4255
41bd17a4 4256 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4257 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4258
41bd17a4 4259 request_header_access From deny all
4260 request_header_access Referer deny all
4261 request_header_access Server deny all
4262 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4263 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4264 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4265
41bd17a4 4266 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4267 you should use:
5401aa8d 4268
41bd17a4 4269 request_header_access Allow allow all
4270 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4271 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4272 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4273 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4274 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4275 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4276 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4277 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4278 request_header_access Date allow all
4279 request_header_access Expires allow all
4280 request_header_access Host allow all
4281 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4282 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4283 request_header_access Location allow all
4284 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4285 request_header_access Accept allow all
4286 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4287 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4288 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4289 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4290 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4291 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4292 request_header_access Title allow all
4293 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4294 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4295
41bd17a4 4296 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4297 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4298
41bd17a4 4299 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4300 performed).
5401aa8d 4301DOC_END
4302
41bd17a4 4303NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4304IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4305TYPE: http_header_access[]
4306LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4307DEFAULT: none
4308DOC_START
41bd17a4 4309 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4310
41bd17a4 4311 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4312 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4313 causes.
934b03fc 4314
41bd17a4 4315 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4316 server to the client.
934b03fc 4317
41bd17a4 4318 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4319 direction.
6b53c392 4320
41bd17a4 4321 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4322 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4323 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4324 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4325 mangling.
cccac0a2 4326
41bd17a4 4327 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4328 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4329 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 4330
41bd17a4 4331 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4332 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4333
41bd17a4 4334 reply_header_access From deny all
4335 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4336 reply_header_access Server deny all
4337 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4338 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4339 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4340
41bd17a4 4341 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4342 you should use:
cccac0a2 4343
41bd17a4 4344 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4345 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4346 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4347 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4348 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4349 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4350 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4351 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4352 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4353 reply_header_access Date allow all
4354 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4355 reply_header_access Host allow all
4356 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4357 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4358 reply_header_access Location allow all
4359 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4360 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4361 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4362 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4363 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4364 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4365 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4366 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4367 reply_header_access Title allow all
4368 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4369 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4370
41bd17a4 4371 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4372 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4373
41bd17a4 4374 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4375 performed).
cccac0a2 4376DOC_END
4377
75e4f2ea 4378NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4379IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4380TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4381LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4382DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4383DOC_START
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4384 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4385 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4386
41bd17a4 4387 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4388 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4389 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4390 option.
cccac0a2 4391
41bd17a4 4392 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4393
41bd17a4 4394 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4395DOC_END
cccac0a2 4396
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4397NAME: reply_header_replace
4398IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4399TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4400LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4401DEFAULT: none
4402DOC_START
4403 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4404 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4405
4406 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4407 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4408 with some fixed string.
4409
4410 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4411
4412 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4413DOC_END
4414
41bd17a4 4415NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4416COMMENT: on|off|warn
4417TYPE: tristate
4418LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4419DEFAULT: on
4420DOC_START
4421 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4422 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4423 what the sending application intended even if the message
4424 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4425 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4426
41bd17a4 4427 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4428 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4429
41bd17a4 4430 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4431 or response to be rejected.
4432DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4434COMMENT_START
4435 TIMEOUTS
4436 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4437COMMENT_END
4438
4439NAME: forward_timeout
4440COMMENT: time-units
4441TYPE: time_t
4442LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4443DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4444DOC_START
4445 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4446 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4447DOC_END
4448
41bd17a4 4449NAME: connect_timeout
4450COMMENT: time-units
4451TYPE: time_t
4452LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4453DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4454DOC_START
41bd17a4 4455 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4456 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4457 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4458DOC_END
4459
41bd17a4 4460NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4461COMMENT: time-units
4462TYPE: time_t
4463LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4464DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4465DOC_START
41bd17a4 4466 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4467 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4468 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4469 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4470DOC_END
7f7db318 4471
41bd17a4 4472NAME: read_timeout
4473COMMENT: time-units
4474TYPE: time_t
4475LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4476DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4477DOC_START
4478 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4479 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4480 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4481 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4482 default is 15 minutes.
4483DOC_END
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4485NAME: write_timeout
4486COMMENT: time-units
4487TYPE: time_t
4488LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4489DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4490DOC_START
4491 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4492 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4493 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4494 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4495 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4496 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4497 default is 15 minutes.
4498DOC_END
4499
41bd17a4 4500NAME: request_timeout
4501TYPE: time_t
4502LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4503DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4504DOC_START
4505 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4506 connection establishment.
4507DOC_END
cccac0a2 4508
41bd17a4 4509NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4510TYPE: time_t
4511LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4512DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4513DOC_START
4514 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4515 connection after the previous request completes.
4516DOC_END
cccac0a2 4517
41bd17a4 4518NAME: client_lifetime
4519COMMENT: time-units
4520TYPE: time_t
4521LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4522DEFAULT: 1 day
4523DOC_START
4524 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4525 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4526 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4527 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4528 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4529 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4530 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4531
41bd17a4 4532 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4533 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4534 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4535 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4536 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4537 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4538DOC_END
4539
41bd17a4 4540NAME: half_closed_clients
4541TYPE: onoff
4542LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4543DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4544DOC_START
41bd17a4 4545 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4546 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4547 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4548 fully-closed TCP connection.
4549
4550 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4551 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4552
abdf1651 4553 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4554 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4555 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4556 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4557DOC_END
4558
41bd17a4 4559NAME: pconn_timeout
4560TYPE: time_t
4561LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4562DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4563DOC_START
41bd17a4 4564 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4565 proxies.
4566DOC_END
cccac0a2 4567
41bd17a4 4568NAME: ident_timeout
4569TYPE: time_t
4570IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4571LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4572DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4573DOC_START
4574 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4575
41bd17a4 4576 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4577 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4578 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4579DOC_END
4580
41bd17a4 4581NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4582COMMENT: time-units
4583TYPE: time_t
4584LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4585DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4586DOC_START
41bd17a4 4587 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4588 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4589 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4590 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4591 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4592DOC_END
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cccac0a2 4594COMMENT_START
4595 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4596 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4597COMMENT_END
4598
4599NAME: cache_mgr
4600TYPE: string
4601DEFAULT: webmaster
4602LOC: Config.adminEmail
4603DOC_START
4604 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4605 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4606DOC_END
4607
abacf776 4608NAME: mail_from
4609TYPE: string
4610DEFAULT: none
4611LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4612DOC_START
4613 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4614 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4615 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4616 src/globals.h before building squid.
4617DOC_END
4618
d084bf20 4619NAME: mail_program
4620TYPE: eol
4621DEFAULT: mail
4622LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4623DOC_START
4624 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4625 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4626 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4627 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4628
d084bf20 4629 Optional command line options can be specified.
4630DOC_END
4631
cccac0a2 4632NAME: cache_effective_user
4633TYPE: string
5483d916 4634DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4635LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4636DOC_START
4637 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4638 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4639 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4640 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4641DOC_END
4642
cccac0a2 4643NAME: cache_effective_group
4644TYPE: string
4645DEFAULT: none
4646LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4647DOC_START
64e288bd 4648 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4649 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4650 from the groups membership.
4651
e3d74828 4652 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4653 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4654 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4655 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4656 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4657 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4658 group.
64e288bd 4659
4660 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4661 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4662 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4663DOC_END
4664
d3caee79 4665NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4666COMMENT: on|off
4667TYPE: onoff
4668DEFAULT: off
4669LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4670DOC_START
4671 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4672DOC_END
4673
cccac0a2 4674NAME: visible_hostname
4675TYPE: string
4676LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4677DEFAULT: none
4678DOC_START
4679 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4680 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4681 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4682 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4683 names with this setting.
4684DOC_END
4685
cccac0a2 4686NAME: unique_hostname
4687TYPE: string
4688LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4689DEFAULT: none
4690DOC_START
4691 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4692 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4693 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4694DOC_END
4695
cccac0a2 4696NAME: hostname_aliases
4697TYPE: wordlist
4698LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4699DEFAULT: none
4700DOC_START
7f7db318 4701 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4702DOC_END
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4704NAME: umask
4705TYPE: int
4706LOC: Config.umask
4707DEFAULT: 027
4708DOC_START
4709 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4710 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4711
4712 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4713 your value with 0.
4714DOC_END
4715
cccac0a2 4716COMMENT_START
4717 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4718 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4719
4720 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4721 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4722 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4723 create cache hierarchies.
4724
4725 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4726 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4727 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4728
4729 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4730 following information from this configuration file:
4731
4732 http_port
4733 icp_port
4734 cache_mgr
4735
4736 All current information is processed regularly and made
4737 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4738COMMENT_END
4739
4740NAME: announce_period
4741TYPE: time_t
4742LOC: Config.Announce.period
4743DEFAULT: 0
4744DOC_START
4745 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4746 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4747 messages.
4748
e0855596 4749 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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4751 Example:
4752 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4753DOC_END
4754
cccac0a2 4755NAME: announce_host
4756TYPE: string
4757DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4758LOC: Config.Announce.host
4759DOC_NONE
4760
4761NAME: announce_file
4762TYPE: string
4763DEFAULT: none
4764LOC: Config.Announce.file
4765DOC_NONE
4766
4767NAME: announce_port
4768TYPE: ushort
4769DEFAULT: 3131
4770LOC: Config.Announce.port
4771DOC_START
4772 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4773 number where the registration message will be sent.
4774
4775 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4776 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4777 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4778 message.
4779DOC_END
4780
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4782 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4783 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4784COMMENT_END
4785
cccac0a2 4786NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4787TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 4788DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4789LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4790DOC_START
4791 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4792 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4793 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4794 an identification token.
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4795
4796 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 4797DOC_END
4798
4799NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 4800COMMENT: on|off
4801TYPE: onoff
4802DEFAULT: off
4803LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4804DOC_START
4805 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4806 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4807DOC_END
4808
4809NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4810IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4811COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4812TYPE: string
4813LOC: ESIParser::Type
4814DEFAULT: custom
4815DOC_START
4816 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4817 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4818 encodings.
4819DOC_END
0976f8db 4820
9edd9041 4821COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4822 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4823 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4824COMMENT_END
4825
4826NAME: delay_pools
4827TYPE: delay_pool_count
4828DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 4829IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4830LOC: Config.Delay
4831DOC_START
4832 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4833 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4834 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4835DOC_END
4836
4837NAME: delay_class
4838TYPE: delay_pool_class
4839DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4840IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4841LOC: Config.Delay
4842DOC_START
4843 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4844 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4845 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4846 and here would be:
4847
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4848 Example:
4849 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4850 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4851 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4852 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4853 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 4854
4855 The delay pool classes are:
4856
4857 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4858 bucket.
4859
4860 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4861 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 4862 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4863
4864 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4865 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4866 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4867 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 4868 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4869
4870 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4871 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4872 only takes effect if the username is established
4873 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4874 http_access rules.
4875
4876 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4877 external_acl's tag= reply).
4878
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4879
4880 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
4881 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
4882 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
4883
9edd9041 4884 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4885 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4886 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4887 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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4888
4889 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4890 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 4891DOC_END
4892
4893NAME: delay_access
4894TYPE: delay_pool_access
4895DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4896IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4897LOC: Config.Delay
4898DOC_START
4899 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4900
4901 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4902 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4903 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4904 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4905
4906 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
4907 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4908
4909Example:
4910 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4911 delay_access 1 deny all
4912 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4913 delay_access 2 deny all
4914 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4915DOC_END
4916
4917NAME: delay_parameters
4918TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4919DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4920IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4921LOC: Config.Delay
4922DOC_START
4923 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4924 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 4925 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 4926
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4927 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4928 delay_pools pool 1
4929 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 4930
4931 For a class 2 delay pool:
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4932 delay_pools pool 2
4933 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 4934
4935 For a class 3 delay pool:
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4936 delay_pools pool 3
4937 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 4938
4939 For a class 4 delay pool:
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4940 delay_pools pool 4
4941 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 4942
4943 For a class 5 delay pool:
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4944 delay_pools pool 5
4945 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 4946
0b68481a 4947 The option variables are:
9edd9041 4948
4949 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4950 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4951 delay_class lines.
4952
fdb47ac6 4953 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 4954 (class 1, 2, 3).
4955
fdb47ac6 4956 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 4957 buckets (class 2, 3).
4958
fdb47ac6 4959 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 4960 (class 3).
4961
fdb47ac6 4962 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 4963 (class 4).
4964
fdb47ac6 4965 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 4966 (class 5).
4967
4968 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4969 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4970 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4971 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4972
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4973 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4974
4975
9edd9041 4976 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 4977 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 4978 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4979
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4980 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4981
4982 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 4983
4984 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4985
0b68481a 4986
9edd9041 4987 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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4988 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
4989 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
4990 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 4991 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4992 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4993 large downloads more significantly:
4994
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4995 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4996
4997 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
4998 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
4999 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5000
9edd9041 5001
5002 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5003 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5004
0b68481a 5005 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5006DOC_END
5007
5008NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5009COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5010TYPE: ushort
5011DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5012IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5013LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5014DOC_START
5015 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5016 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5017 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5018 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5019 "seen" by squid).
5020DOC_END
5021
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5022COMMENT_START
5023 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5024 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5025COMMENT_END
5026
5027NAME: client_delay_pools
5028TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5029DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5030IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5031LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5032DOC_START
5033 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5034 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5035
5036Example:
5037 client_delay_pools 2
5038DOC_END
5039
5040NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5041COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
5042TYPE: ushort
5043DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5044IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5045LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5046DOC_START
5047 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5048 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5049 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5050 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5051
5052 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5053 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5054 from client_delay_parameters.
5055
5056Example:
5057 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5058DOC_END
5059
5060NAME: client_delay_parameters
5061TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5062DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5063IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5064LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5065DOC_START
5066
5067 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5068 following format:
5069
5070 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5071
5072 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5073
5074 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5075
5076 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5077 speed_limit additions.
5078
5079 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5080 examples.
5081
5082Example:
5083 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5084 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5085DOC_END
5086
5087NAME: client_delay_access
5088TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5089DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5090IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5091LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5092DOC_START
5093
5094 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5095 request:
5096
5097 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5098
5099 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5100 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5101 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5102 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5103 limited.
5104
5105 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5106 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5107 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5108 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5109
5110 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5111
5112Example:
5113 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5114 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5115DOC_END
5116
cccac0a2 5117COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5118 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5119 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5120COMMENT_END
5121
8d6275c0 5122NAME: wccp_router
5123TYPE: address
5124LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5125DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5126IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5127DOC_START
5128 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5129 Squid.
5130
5131 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5132
5133 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5134
5135 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5136 which version of WCCP to use.
5137DOC_END
df2eec10 5138
8d6275c0 5139NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5140TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5141LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5142DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5143IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5144DOC_START
8d6275c0 5145 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5146 Squid.
cccac0a2 5147
8d6275c0 5148 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5149
8d6275c0 5150 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5151
8d6275c0 5152 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5153 which version of WCCP to use.
5154DOC_END
5155
5156NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5157TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5158LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5159DEFAULT: 4
5160IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5161DOC_START
8d6275c0 5162 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5163 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5164 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5165 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5166 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5167
8d6275c0 5168 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5169 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5170 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5171 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5172DOC_END
5173
8d6275c0 5174NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5175TYPE: onoff
5176LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5177DEFAULT: on
5178IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5179DOC_START
5180 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5181 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5182DOC_END
cccac0a2 5183
8d6275c0 5184NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5185TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5186LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5187DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5188IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5189DOC_START
699acd19 5190 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5191 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5192
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5193 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5194 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5195
8d6275c0 5196 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5197 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5198DOC_END
5199
8d6275c0 5200NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5201TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5202LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5203DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5204IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5205DOC_START
699acd19 5206 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5207 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5208 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5209
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5210 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5211 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5212
8d6275c0 5213 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5214 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5215
699acd19 5216 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5217 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5218 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5219 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5220DOC_END
5221
8d6275c0 5222NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5223TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5224LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5225DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5226IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5227DOC_START
8d6275c0 5228 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5229 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5230
451c4786 5231 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5232 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5233
8d6275c0 5234 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5235 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5236DOC_END
cccac0a2 5237
8d6275c0 5238NAME: wccp2_service
5239TYPE: wccp2_service
5240LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5241DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5242IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5243DOC_START
5244 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5245 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5246 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5247 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5248 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5249 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5250
5251 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5252 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5253
5254 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5255 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5256
5257 Examples:
5258
5259 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5260 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5261 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5262 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5263DOC_END
5264
5265NAME: wccp2_service_info
5266TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5267LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5268DEFAULT: none
5269IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5270DOC_START
5271 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5272 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5273
5274 The format is:
5275
5276 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5277 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5278
5279 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5280 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5281 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5282 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5283 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5284 + ports_source
5285
5286 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5287
5288 Example:
5289
5290 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5291 priority=240 ports=80
5292
5293 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5294 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5295DOC_END
5296
5297NAME: wccp2_weight
5298TYPE: int
5299LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5300DEFAULT: 10000
5301IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5302DOC_START
5303 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5304 hash proportional to their weight.
5305DOC_END
5306
5307NAME: wccp_address
5308TYPE: address
5309LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5310DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5311IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5312DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5313
8d6275c0 5314NAME: wccp2_address
5315TYPE: address
5316LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5317DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5318IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5319DOC_START
5320 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5321 interface address.
5322
5323 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5324DOC_END
5325
5326COMMENT_START
5327 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5328 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5329
5330 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5331COMMENT_END
5332
5333NAME: client_persistent_connections
5334TYPE: onoff
5335LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5336DEFAULT: on
5337DOC_NONE
5338
5339NAME: server_persistent_connections
5340TYPE: onoff
5341LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5342DEFAULT: on
5343DOC_START
5344 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5345 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5346 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5347 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5348DOC_END
5349
5350NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5351TYPE: onoff
5352LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5353DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5354DOC_START
5355 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5356 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5357 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5358DOC_END
5359
5360NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5361TYPE: onoff
5362LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5363DEFAULT: off
5364DOC_START
5365 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5366 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5367 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5368 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5369
5370 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5371 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5372 after 10 seconds timeout.
5373DOC_END
5374
5375COMMENT_START
5376 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5377 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5378COMMENT_END
5379
5380NAME: digest_generation
5381IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5382TYPE: onoff
5383LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5384DEFAULT: on
5385DOC_START
5386 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5387 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5388 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5389DOC_END
5390
5391NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5392IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5393TYPE: int
5394LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5395DEFAULT: 5
5396DOC_START
5397 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5398 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5399 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5400DOC_END
5401
5402NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5403IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5404COMMENT: (seconds)
5405TYPE: time_t
5406LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5407DEFAULT: 1 hour
5408DOC_START
749ceff8 5409 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5410DOC_END
5411
5412NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5413COMMENT: (seconds)
5414IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5415TYPE: time_t
5416LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5417DEFAULT: 1 hour
5418DOC_START
749ceff8 5419 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5420 disk.
5421DOC_END
5422
5423NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5424COMMENT: (bytes)
5425TYPE: b_size_t
5426IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5427LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5428DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5429DOC_START
5430 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5431 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5432 default swap page.
5433DOC_END
5434
5435NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5436COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5437IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5438TYPE: int
5439LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5440DEFAULT: 10
5441DOC_START
5442 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5443 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5444DOC_END
5445
1db9eacd 5446COMMENT_START
5473c134 5447 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5448 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5449COMMENT_END
5450
5473c134 5451NAME: snmp_port
5452TYPE: ushort
5453LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5454DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5455IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5456DOC_START
87630341 5457 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5458 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5459 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5460 set to "0" (disabled)
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5461
5462 Example:
5463 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5464DOC_END
5465
5473c134 5466NAME: snmp_access
5467TYPE: acl_access
5468LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5469DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5470IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5471DOC_START
5473c134 5472 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5473
5473c134 5474 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5475 usage:
8d6275c0 5476
5473c134 5477 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5478
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5479 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5480 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5481Example:
5482 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5483 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5484DOC_END
5485
5473c134 5486NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5487TYPE: address
5488LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5489DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5490IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5491DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5492
5473c134 5493NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5494TYPE: address
5495LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5496DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5497IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5498DOC_START
df2eec10 5499 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5500
5473c134 5501 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5502 messages from SNMP agents.
5503 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5504 agents.
cccac0a2 5505
0eb08770 5506 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5507 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5508
0eb08770
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5509 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5510 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5511 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5512 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5513
5473c134 5514 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5515 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5516DOC_END
5517
5473c134 5518COMMENT_START
5519 ICP OPTIONS
5520 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5521COMMENT_END
5522
5523NAME: icp_port udp_port
5524TYPE: ushort
5525DEFAULT: 0
5526LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5527DOC_START
5473c134 5528 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5529 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5530 Default is disabled (0).
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5531
5532 Example:
5533 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5534DOC_END
5535
5473c134 5536NAME: htcp_port
5537IFDEF: USE_HTCP
5538TYPE: ushort
87630341 5539DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5540LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5541DOC_START
5473c134 5542 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5543 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5544 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5545
5546 Example:
5547 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5548DOC_END
5549
5550NAME: log_icp_queries
5551COMMENT: on|off
5552TYPE: onoff
5553DEFAULT: on
5554LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5555DOC_START
5556 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5557 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5558 up or to simplify log analysis.
5559DOC_END
5560
5473c134 5561NAME: udp_incoming_address
5562TYPE: address
5563LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5564DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5565DOC_START
5566 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5567 caches.
5568
5569 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5570
5571 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5572 a specific interface/address.
5573
5574 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5575 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5576
5577 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5578
5579 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5580 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5581DOC_END
cccac0a2 5582
5473c134 5583NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5584TYPE: address
5585LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5586DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5587DOC_START
8524d4b2 5588 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5589 caches.
cccac0a2 5590
5473c134 5591 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5592
8524d4b2 5593 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5594 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5595 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5596 caches.
5597
8524d4b2 5598 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5599 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5600
5601 see also; udp_incoming_address
5602
5473c134 5603 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5604 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5605DOC_END
5606
3d1e3e43 5607NAME: icp_hit_stale
5608COMMENT: on|off
5609TYPE: onoff
5610DEFAULT: off
5611LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5612DOC_START
5613 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5614 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5615 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5616 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5617 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5618 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5619 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5620DOC_END
5621
5473c134 5622NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5623TYPE: int
5473c134 5624DEFAULT: 4
5625LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5626DOC_START
5473c134 5627 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5628 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5629DOC_END
5630
5473c134 5631NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5632TYPE: int
5633DEFAULT: 400
5634LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5635DOC_START
5473c134 5636 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5637 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5638DOC_END
5639
cccac0a2 5640NAME: netdb_low
5641TYPE: int
5642DEFAULT: 900
5643LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5644DOC_NONE
5645
5646NAME: netdb_high
5647TYPE: int
5648DEFAULT: 1000
5649LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5650DOC_START
5651 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5652 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5653 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5654 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5655DOC_END
5656
cccac0a2 5657NAME: netdb_ping_period
5658TYPE: time_t
5659LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5660DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5661DOC_START
5662 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5663 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5664 network. The default is five minutes.
5665DOC_END
5666
cccac0a2 5667NAME: query_icmp
5668COMMENT: on|off
5669TYPE: onoff
5670DEFAULT: off
5671LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5672DOC_START
5673 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5674 replies, enable this option.
5675
5676 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5677 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5678 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5679 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5680 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5681 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5682 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5683 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5684DOC_END
5685
5686NAME: test_reachability
5687COMMENT: on|off
5688TYPE: onoff
5689DEFAULT: off
5690LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5691DOC_START
5692 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5693 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5694 database, or has a zero RTT.
5695DOC_END
5696
5473c134 5697NAME: icp_query_timeout
5698COMMENT: (msec)
5699DEFAULT: 0
5700TYPE: int
5701LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5702DOC_START
5473c134 5703 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5704 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5705 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5706 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5707 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5708 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5709
5473c134 5710 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5711DOC_END
5712
5473c134 5713NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5714COMMENT: (msec)
5715DEFAULT: 2000
5716TYPE: int
5717LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5718DOC_START
5473c134 5719 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5720 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5721 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5722 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5723 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5724 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5725DOC_END
5726
5473c134 5727NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5728COMMENT: (msec)
5729DEFAULT: 5
5730TYPE: int
5731LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5732DOC_START
5473c134 5733 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5734 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5735 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5736 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5737 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5738 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5739 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5740DOC_END
5741
5473c134 5742NAME: background_ping_rate
5743COMMENT: time-units
5744TYPE: time_t
5745DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5746LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5747DOC_START
5473c134 5748 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5749 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5750DOC_END
5751
5473c134 5752COMMENT_START
5753 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5754 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5755COMMENT_END
5756
5757NAME: mcast_groups
5758TYPE: wordlist
5759LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5760DEFAULT: none
5761DOC_START
5473c134 5762 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5763 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5764
5473c134 5765 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5766 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5767 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5768 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5769 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5770 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5771 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5772
5473c134 5773 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5774 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5775
5473c134 5776 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5777 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5778
5473c134 5779 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5780
5473c134 5781 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5782DOC_END
8c01ada0 5783
5473c134 5784NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5785IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5786TYPE: address
5787LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 5788DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5789DOC_START
5790 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5791 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5792
5473c134 5793 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5794 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5795DOC_END
5796
5473c134 5797NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5798IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5799TYPE: ushort
5800LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5801DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5802DOC_START
5473c134 5803 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5804 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5805 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5806DOC_END
cccac0a2 5807
5473c134 5808NAME: mcast_miss_port
5809IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5810TYPE: ushort
5811LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5812DEFAULT: 3135
5813DOC_START
5814 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5815 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5816DOC_END
cccac0a2 5817
5473c134 5818NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5819IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5820TYPE: string
5821LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5822DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5823DOC_START
5824 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5825 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5826DOC_END
8c01ada0 5827
5473c134 5828NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5829COMMENT: (msec)
5830DEFAULT: 2000
5831TYPE: int
5832LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5833DOC_START
5834 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5835 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5836 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5837 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5838 seconds.
cccac0a2 5839DOC_END
5840
5473c134 5841COMMENT_START
5842 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5843 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5844COMMENT_END
5845
cccac0a2 5846NAME: icon_directory
5847TYPE: string
5848LOC: Config.icons.directory
5849DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5850DOC_START
5851 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5852 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5853DOC_END
5854
f024c970 5855NAME: global_internal_static
5856TYPE: onoff
5857LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5858DEFAULT: on
5859DOC_START
5860 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5861 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5862 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5863 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5864 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5865 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5866 the server generating a directory listing.
5867DOC_END
5868
5473c134 5869NAME: short_icon_urls
5870TYPE: onoff
5871LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5872DEFAULT: on
5873DOC_START
5874 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5875 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5876 it's own name and port in the URL.
5877
5878 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5879 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5880DOC_END
5881
5882COMMENT_START
5883 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5884 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5885COMMENT_END
5886
5887NAME: error_directory
5888TYPE: string
5889LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 5890DEFAULT: none
5473c134 5891DOC_START
5892 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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5893 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5894 the error/template files to another directory and point
5895 this tag at them.
5896
5897 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5898 on error pages if used.
5473c134 5899
5900 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5901 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 5902 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 5903 contributing your translation back to the project.
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5904 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5905
5906 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
5907 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
5908DOC_END
5909
5910NAME: error_default_language
5911IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5912TYPE: string
5913LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
5914DEFAULT: none
5915DOC_START
5916 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
5917 if no existing translation matches the clients language
5918 preferences.
5919
5920 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
5921
5922 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5923 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
5924 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
5925 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 5926DOC_END
5927
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5928NAME: error_log_languages
5929IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5930TYPE: onoff
5931LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
5932DEFAULT: on
5933DOC_START
5934 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
5935 auto-negotiate for translations.
5936
5937 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
5938 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 5939 of its error page translations.
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5940DOC_END
5941
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5942NAME: err_page_stylesheet
5943TYPE: string
5944LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
5945DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
5946DOC_START
5947 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
5948
5949 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
5950DOC_END
5951
5473c134 5952NAME: err_html_text
5953TYPE: eol
5954LOC: Config.errHtmlText
5955DEFAULT: none
5956DOC_START
5957 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
5958 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
5959 organizations Web page.
5960
5961 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
5962 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
5963 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
5964 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
5965DOC_END
5966
5967NAME: email_err_data
5968COMMENT: on|off
5969TYPE: onoff
5970LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
5971DEFAULT: on
5972DOC_START
5973 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
5974 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
5975 so that the email body contains the data.
5976 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
5977DOC_END
5978
5979NAME: deny_info
5980TYPE: denyinfo
5981LOC: Config.denyInfoList
5982DEFAULT: none
5983DOC_START
5984 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
5985 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 5986 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 5987
5988 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
5989 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
5990 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
5991 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
5992
5993 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
5994 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
5995 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
5996 the first authentication related acl encountered
5997 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
5998 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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5999 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6000 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6001
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6002 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6003 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6004 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6005
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6006 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6007 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6008 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6009
5473c134 6010 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6011 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6012
6013 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6014 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6015 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6016 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6017 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6018
6019 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6020 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6021 %B - FTP path URL
6022 %e - Error number
6023 %E - Error description
6024 %h - Squid hostname
6025 %H - Request domain name
6026 %i - Client IP Address
6027 %M - Request Method
6028 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6029 %p - Request Port number
6030 %P - Request Protocol name
6031 %R - Request URL path
6032 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6033 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6034 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6035 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6036 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6037 %x - Error name
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6038 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6039
5473c134 6040DOC_END
6041
6042COMMENT_START
6043 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6044 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6045COMMENT_END
6046
6047NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6048TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6049LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6050DEFAULT: on
6051DOC_START
5473c134 6052 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6053 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6054 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6055
5473c134 6056 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6057 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6058
5473c134 6059 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6060 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6061 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6062
5473c134 6063 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6064 this directive.
8d6275c0 6065DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6066
5473c134 6067NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6068TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6069LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6070DEFAULT: off
6071DOC_START
5473c134 6072 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6073 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6074 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6075
5473c134 6076 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6077 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6078 fails.
6079
6080 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6081 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6082 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6083DOC_END
6084
5473c134 6085NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6086TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6087LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6088DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6089DOC_START
5473c134 6090 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6091
5473c134 6092 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6093 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6094 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6095 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6096 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6097
5473c134 6098 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6099 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6100
5473c134 6101 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6102
5473c134 6103 acl FTP proto FTP
6104 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6105
5473c134 6106 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6107 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6108 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6109 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6110 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6111
5473c134 6112 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6113 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6114 always_direct deny local-external
6115 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6116
5473c134 6117 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6118 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6119 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6120 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6121
5473c134 6122 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6123 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6124 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6125
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6126 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6127 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6128DOC_END
0976f8db 6129
5473c134 6130NAME: never_direct
6131TYPE: acl_access
6132LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6133DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6134DOC_START
5473c134 6135 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6136
6137 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6138 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6139
6140 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6141 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6142 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6143 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6144
6145 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6146 never_direct deny local-servers
6147 never_direct allow all
6148
6149 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6150 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6151
6152 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6153 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6154 always_direct deny local-external
6155 always_direct allow local-intranet
6156 never_direct allow all
6157
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6158 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6159 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6160DOC_END
0976f8db 6161
5473c134 6162COMMENT_START
6163 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6164 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6165COMMENT_END
6166
cccac0a2 6167NAME: incoming_icp_average
6168TYPE: int
6169DEFAULT: 6
6170LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
6171DOC_NONE
6172
6173NAME: incoming_http_average
6174TYPE: int
6175DEFAULT: 4
6176LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
6177DOC_NONE
6178
6179NAME: incoming_dns_average
6180TYPE: int
6181DEFAULT: 4
6182LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
6183DOC_NONE
6184
6185NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6186TYPE: int
6187DEFAULT: 8
6188LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
6189DOC_NONE
6190
6191NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6192TYPE: int
6193DEFAULT: 8
6194LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
6195DOC_NONE
6196
6197NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6198TYPE: int
6199DEFAULT: 8
6200LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
6201DOC_START
5473c134 6202 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6203 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6204 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6205DOC_END
6206
6207NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6208TYPE: string
6209DEFAULT: none
6210LOC: Config.accept_filter
6211DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6212 FreeBSD:
6213
5473c134 6214 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6215 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6216 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6217
6218 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6219 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6220 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6221
6222 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6223 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6224 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6225
6226 Linux:
6227
6228 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6229 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6230 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6231 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6232 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6233EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6234# FreeBSD
5473c134 6235accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6236# Linux
6237accept_filter data
5473c134 6238DOC_END
6239
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6240NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6241TYPE: int
6242LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6243DEFAULT: -1
6244DOC_START
6245 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6246 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6247 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6248
6249 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6250 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6251
6252 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6253
6254 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6255 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6256DOC_END
6257
5473c134 6258NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6259COMMENT: (bytes)
6260TYPE: b_size_t
6261DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6262LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6263DOC_START
6264 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6265 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6266 the default buffer size.
6267DOC_END
6268
6269COMMENT_START
6270 ICAP OPTIONS
6271 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6272COMMENT_END
6273
6274NAME: icap_enable
6275TYPE: onoff
6276IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6277COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6278LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6279DEFAULT: off
6280DOC_START
53e738c6 6281 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6282DOC_END
6283
6284NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6285TYPE: time_t
6286DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6287LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6288IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6289DOC_START
6290 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6291 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6292 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6293
6294 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6295 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6296 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6297DOC_END
6298
6299NAME: icap_io_timeout
6300COMMENT: time-units
6301TYPE: time_t
6302DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6303LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6304IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6305DOC_START
6306 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6307 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6308 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6309 failure.
6310
6311 The default is read_timeout.
6312DOC_END
6313
6314NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6316TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6317IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6318LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6319DEFAULT: 10
6320DOC_START
6321 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6322 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6323 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6324 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6325 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6326
6327 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6328 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6329 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6330
6331 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6332 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6333 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6334 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6335 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6336
6337 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6338 effect on service failure expiration.
6339
6340 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6341 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6342 setting.
6343
6344 For example,
6345 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6346 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6347DOC_END
6348
5473c134 6349NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6350TYPE: int
5473c134 6351IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6352LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6353DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6354DOC_START
5473c134 6355 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6356 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6357 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6358 fetched.
cccac0a2 6359
5473c134 6360 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6361 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6362DOC_END
6363
5473c134 6364NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6365TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6366IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6367COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6368LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6369DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6370DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6371 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6372 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6373 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6374 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6375
6376 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6377 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6378 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6379
6380 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6381 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6382Example:
6383icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6384DOC_END
6385
5473c134 6386NAME: icap_preview_size
6387TYPE: int
6388IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6389LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6390DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6391DOC_START
53e738c6 6392 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6393 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6394 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6395DOC_END
6396
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6397NAME: icap_206_enable
6398TYPE: onoff
6399IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6400COMMENT: on|off
6401LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6402DEFAULT: on
6403DOC_START
6404 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6405 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6406 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6407 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6408
6409 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6410 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6411 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6412 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6413 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6414
6415 Example:
6416 icap_206_enable off
6417DOC_END
6418
5473c134 6419NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6420TYPE: int
6421IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6422LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6423DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6424DOC_START
53e738c6 6425 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6426 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6427DOC_END
6428
5473c134 6429NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6430TYPE: onoff
6431IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6432COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6433LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6434DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6435DOC_START
5473c134 6436 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6437 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6438DOC_END
6439
22fff3bf 6440NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6441TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6442IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6443COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6444LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6445DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6446DOC_START
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6447 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6448 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6449 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6450
6451 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6452DOC_END
6453
22fff3bf 6454NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6455TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6456IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6457COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6458LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6459DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6460DOC_START
5473c134 6461 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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6462 the adaptation service.
6463
6464 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6465 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6466 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6467DOC_END
6468
5473c134 6469NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6470TYPE: string
5473c134 6471IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6472LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6473DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6474DOC_START
db49f682 6475 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 6476DOC_END
6477
5473c134 6478NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6479TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6480IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6481COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6482LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6483DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6484DOC_START
5473c134 6485 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6486DOC_END
6487
5473c134 6488NAME: icap_service
6489TYPE: icap_service_type
6490IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6491LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6492DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6493DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6494 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6495
a22e6cd3 6496 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
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6498 service_name: ID
6499 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
6500
6501 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6502 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6503 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6504 are not yet supported.
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6505
6506 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
6507 ICAP server and service location.
6508
6509 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6510 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6511 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6512 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6513 service_names differ.
6514
6515
6516 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6517 the following name=value options:
6518
6519 bypass=on|off|1|0
6520 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6521 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6522 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6523 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6524 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6525 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6526 returned to the HTTP client.
6527
6528 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6529
6530 routing=on|off|1|0
6531 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6532 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6533 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6534 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6535 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
6536 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf and
6537 should have the same method and vectoring point as the current
6538 ICAP transaction. Services violating these rules are ignored.
6539 An empty X-Next-Services value results in an empty plan which
6540 ends the current adaptation.
6541
6542 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6543 response header is ignored.
6544
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6545 ipv6=on|off
6546 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6547 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6548 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6549
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6550 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
6551 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
6552 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
6553 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
6554 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
6555 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
6556 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
6557
6558 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
6559 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
6560 workers may use a given service.
6561
6562 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
6563 otherwise it is set to "wait".
6564
6565
6566 max-conn=number
6567 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
6568 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
6569
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6570 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6571 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 6572
5473c134 6573Example:
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6574icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
6575icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 6576DOC_END
6577
5473c134 6578NAME: icap_class
6579TYPE: icap_class_type
6580IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6581LOC: none
5473c134 6582DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6583DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6584 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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6585 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6586 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6587
62c7f90e 6588 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6589 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6590 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6591DOC_END
6592
5473c134 6593NAME: icap_access
6594TYPE: icap_access_type
6595IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6596LOC: none
cccac0a2 6597DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6598DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6599 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6600 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6601 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6602DOC_END
6603
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6604COMMENT_START
6605 eCAP OPTIONS
6606 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6607COMMENT_END
6608
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6609NAME: ecap_enable
6610TYPE: onoff
6611IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6612COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6613LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6614DEFAULT: off
6615DOC_START
6616 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6617DOC_END
6618
6619NAME: ecap_service
6620TYPE: ecap_service_type
6621IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6622LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6623DEFAULT: none
6624DOC_START
6625 Defines a single eCAP service
6626
6627 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
6628
6629 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6630 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6631 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6632 are not yet supported.
6633 bypass = 1|0
6634 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
6635 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
6636 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
6637 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
6638 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
6639 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
6640 HTTP client.
6641 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6642
6643Example:
6644ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
6645ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
6646DOC_END
6647
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6648NAME: loadable_modules
6649TYPE: wordlist
6650IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6651LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6652DEFAULT: none
6653DOC_START
6654 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6655 preloaded module(s).
6656Example:
6657loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6658DOC_END
6659
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6660COMMENT_START
6661 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6662 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6663COMMENT_END
6664
6665NAME: adaptation_service_set
6666TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6667IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6668LOC: none
6669DEFAULT: none
6670DOC_START
6671
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6672 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6673 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6674
6675 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6676
6677 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6678 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6679 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6680 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6681 intact.
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6683 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6684 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6685
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6686 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6687 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6688
6689 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6690 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6691 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6692 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6693 transaction fails as well.
6694
6695 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6696 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6697 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6698 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6699 matters.
6700
6701 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6702
6703Example:
6704adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6705adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6706DOC_END
6707
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6708NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6709TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6710IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6711LOC: none
6712DEFAULT: none
6713DOC_START
6714
6715 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6716 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6717 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6718
6719 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6720
6721 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6722 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6723 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6724 the previous service in the chain.
6725
6726 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6727 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6728
6729 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6730 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6731 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6732
6733 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6734 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6735
6736 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6737 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6738 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6739 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6740
6741 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6742
6743Example:
6744adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6745DOC_END
6746
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6747NAME: adaptation_access
6748TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6749IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6750LOC: none
6751DEFAULT: none
6752DOC_START
6753 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6754
6755 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6756 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6757
6758 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6759 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6760 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6761 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6762
6763 - services serving different vectoring points
6764 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6765 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6766 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6767
6768 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6769 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6770 adaptation_service_set for details.
6771
6772 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6773 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6774 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6775 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6776
6777 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6778 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6779
6780 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6781
6782Example:
6783adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6784DOC_END
6785
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6786NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6787TYPE: int
6788IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6789LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6790DEFAULT: 16
6791DOC_START
6792 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6793 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6794 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6795 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6796 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6797 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6798
6799 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6800
6801 See also: icap_service routing=1
6802DOC_END
6803
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6804NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6805TYPE: string
6806IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6807LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6808DEFAULT: none
6809DOC_START
6810 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6811 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6812 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6813 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6814 with the master transaction.
6815
6816 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6817 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6818
6819 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6820 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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6821 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
6822
6823 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6824 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
6825 to provide an option with a name specified in
6826 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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6827
6828 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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6829 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6830
6831 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6832
6833Example:
6834# share authentication information among ICAP services
6835adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6836DOC_END
6837
6838NAME: icap_retry
6839TYPE: acl_access
6840IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6841LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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6842DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6843DOC_START
6844 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
6845 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
6846 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
6847 that response are usually retriable.
6848
6849 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6850
6851 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
6852 due to persistent connection race conditions.
6853
6854 See also: icap_retry_limit
6855DOC_END
6856
6857NAME: icap_retry_limit
6858TYPE: int
6859IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6860LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
6861DEFAULT: 0
6862DOC_START
6863 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
6864 no retries are allowed.
6865
6866 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
6867 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6868 count against this limit.
6869
6870 See also: icap_retry
6871DOC_END
6872
6873
5473c134 6874COMMENT_START
6875 DNS OPTIONS
6876 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6877COMMENT_END
6878
6879NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6880TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6881DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6882LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6883DOC_START
5473c134 6884 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6885 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6886 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 6887DOC_END
6888
5473c134 6889NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6890TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6891DEFAULT: on
5473c134 6892LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6893DOC_START
5473c134 6894 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6895 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6896 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6897 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 6898DOC_END
6899
5473c134 6900NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 6901TYPE: string
5473c134 6902IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6903DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6904LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 6905DOC_START
5473c134 6906 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 6907DOC_END
6908
5473c134 6909NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 6910TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5473c134 6911IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
48d54e4d 6912DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 6913LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 6914DOC_START
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6915 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
6916 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
6917 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
6918 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
6919 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
6920
6921 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6922 tuning.
6923
6924 startup=
6925
6926 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6927 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6928 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
6929
6930 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6931 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
6932
6933 idle=
6934
6935 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6936 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6937 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6938 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 6939DOC_END
6940
5473c134 6941NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 6942TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 6943DEFAULT: 5 seconds
6944LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
6945IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6946DOC_START
5473c134 6947 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
6948 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 6949DOC_END
6950
5473c134 6951NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 6952TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 6953DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 6954LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
6955IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6956DOC_START
5473c134 6957 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
6958 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
6959 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 6960DOC_END
6961
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6962NAME: dns_packet_max
6963TYPE: b_ssize_t
6964DEFAULT: none
6965LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
6966IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6967DOC_START
6968 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
6969 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
6970
6971 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
6972 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
6973 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
6974 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
6975 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
6976
6977 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
6978 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
6979 necessary.
6980
6981 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
6982 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
6983 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
6984 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
6985 sizes being advertised by Squid.
6986 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
6987 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
6988DOC_END
6989
5473c134 6990NAME: dns_defnames
6991COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 6992TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6993DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6994LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 6995DOC_START
5473c134 6996 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
6997 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
6998 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
6999 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7000DOC_END
7001
5473c134 7002NAME: dns_nameservers
7003TYPE: wordlist
7004DEFAULT: none
7005LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7006DOC_START
5473c134 7007 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7008 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7009 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7010 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7011 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7012 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7013 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7014
5473c134 7015 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7016DOC_END
7017
5473c134 7018NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7019TYPE: string
5473c134 7020DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7021LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7022DOC_START
5473c134 7023 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7024 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7025 default locations:
7026 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7027 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7028 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7029 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7030 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7031 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7032 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7033 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7034
5473c134 7035 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7036 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7037 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7038 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7039
5473c134 7040 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7041 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7042 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7043 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7044 definitions.
cccac0a2 7045DOC_END
7046
5473c134 7047NAME: append_domain
7048TYPE: string
7049LOC: Config.appendDomain
7050DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7051DOC_START
5473c134 7052 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7053 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7054
7055 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7056 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7057 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7058
7059Example:
7060 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7061DOC_END
7062
5473c134 7063NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7064TYPE: onoff
7065LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7066DEFAULT: on
7067DOC_START
5473c134 7068 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7069 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7070 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7071 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7072 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7073DOC_END
7074
cc192b50 7075NAME: dns_v4_fallback
7076TYPE: onoff
7077DEFAULT: on
7078LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
7079DOC_START
7080 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
7081 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
7082 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
7083
7084 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
7085 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
7086
7087 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
7088 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
7089
7090 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
7091 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
7092 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
7093DOC_END
7094
6bc15a4f 7095NAME: ipcache_size
7096COMMENT: (number of entries)
7097TYPE: int
7098DEFAULT: 1024
7099LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7100DOC_NONE
7101
7102NAME: ipcache_low
7103COMMENT: (percent)
7104TYPE: int
7105DEFAULT: 90
7106LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7107DOC_NONE
7108
7109NAME: ipcache_high
7110COMMENT: (percent)
7111TYPE: int
7112DEFAULT: 95
7113LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7114DOC_START
7115 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7116DOC_END
7117
7118NAME: fqdncache_size
7119COMMENT: (number of entries)
7120TYPE: int
7121DEFAULT: 1024
7122LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7123DOC_START
7124 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7125DOC_END
7126
a58ff010 7127COMMENT_START
5473c134 7128 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7129 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7130COMMENT_END
7131
5473c134 7132NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7133COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7134TYPE: onoff
7135DEFAULT: on
7136LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7137DOC_START
5473c134 7138 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7139 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7140 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7141 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7142DOC_END
7143
5473c134 7144NAME: memory_pools_limit
7145COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7146TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7147DEFAULT: 5 MB
7148LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7149DOC_START
5473c134 7150 Used only with memory_pools on:
7151 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7152
5473c134 7153 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7154 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7155 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7156 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7157 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7158 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7159 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7160
89646bd7 7161 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7162 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7163
5473c134 7164 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7165 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7166
7167 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7168 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7169 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7170 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7171DOC_END
7172
5473c134 7173NAME: forwarded_for
67c06f0d
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7174COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7175TYPE: string
5473c134 7176DEFAULT: on
7177LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7178DOC_START
67c06f0d
AJ
7179 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7180 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7181
5473c134 7182 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7183
67c06f0d 7184 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7185
7186 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
67c06f0d
AJ
7187
7188 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7189 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7190
7191 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7192 X-Forwarded-For header.
7193
7194 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7195 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7196DOC_END
7197
5473c134 7198NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7199TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7200DEFAULT: none
7201LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7202DOC_START
5473c134 7203 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7204
5473c134 7205 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7206
7207 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7208 5min
7209 60min
7210 asndb
7211 authenticator
7212 cbdata
7213 client_list
7214 comm_incoming
7215 config *
7216 counters
7217 delay
7218 digest_stats
7219 dns
7220 events
7221 filedescriptors
7222 fqdncache
7223 histograms
7224 http_headers
7225 info
7226 io
7227 ipcache
7228 mem
7229 menu
7230 netdb
7231 non_peers
7232 objects
7233 offline_toggle *
7234 pconn
7235 peer_select
b360c477 7236 reconfigure *
5473c134 7237 redirector
7238 refresh
7239 server_list
7240 shutdown *
7241 store_digest
7242 storedir
7243 utilization
7244 via_headers
7245 vm_objects
7246
7247 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7248 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7249
7250 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7251 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7252 password to "none".
7253
7254 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7255
7256Example:
7257 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7258 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7259 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7260DOC_END
7261
5473c134 7262NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7263COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7264TYPE: onoff
7265DEFAULT: on
7266LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7267DOC_START
5473c134 7268 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7269 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7270DOC_END
7271
5473c134 7272NAME: refresh_all_ims
7273COMMENT: on|off
7274TYPE: onoff
7275DEFAULT: off
7276LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7277DOC_START
5473c134 7278 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7279 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7280 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7281 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7282 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7283
5473c134 7284 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7285 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7286DOC_END
7287
5473c134 7288NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7289IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7290COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7291TYPE: onoff
7292DEFAULT: off
7293LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7294DOC_START
5473c134 7295 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7296 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7297 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7298 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7299 causes.
7300
7301 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7302DOC_END
7303
5473c134 7304NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
7305TYPE: int
7306LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
7307DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 7308DOC_START
5473c134 7309 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
7310 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
7311 each address is tried once).
7312
7313 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
7314 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
7315 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
7316
7317 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
7318 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 7319DOC_END
7320
5473c134 7321NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7322TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7323LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7324DEFAULT: off
7325DOC_START
5473c134 7326 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
7327 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
7328 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
7329 control errors.
5f8252d2 7330DOC_END
7331
5473c134 7332NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7333TYPE: string
5473c134 7334LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7335DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7336DOC_START
5473c134 7337 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7338 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7339DOC_END
7340
5473c134 7341NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7342TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7343LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7344DEFAULT: off
7345DOC_START
5473c134 7346 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7347 objects.
a58ff010 7348DOC_END
7349
5473c134 7350NAME: uri_whitespace
7351TYPE: uri_whitespace
7352LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7353DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7354DOC_START
5473c134 7355 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7356 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7357
5473c134 7358 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7359 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7360 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7361 Request" message.
7362 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7363 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7364 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7365 are in use.
7366 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7367 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7368 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7369 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7370 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7371 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7372 violation.
7373DOC_END
a58ff010 7374
5473c134 7375NAME: chroot
7376TYPE: string
7377LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7378DEFAULT: none
7379DOC_START
9f37c18a 7380 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
2d89f399
HN
7381 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7382 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7383 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7384 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7385DOC_END
a58ff010 7386
5473c134 7387NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7388TYPE: onoff
7389LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7390DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7391DOC_START
cc192b50 7392 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7393 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7394 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7395
5473c134 7396 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7397 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7398 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 7399
cc192b50 7400 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 7401DOC_END
7402
5473c134 7403NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7404TYPE: onoff
7405LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7406DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 7407DOC_START
5473c134 7408 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7409 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7410 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 7411
5473c134 7412 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7413 reasons.
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7414
7415 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 7416DOC_END
a58ff010 7417
5473c134 7418NAME: high_response_time_warning
7419TYPE: int
7420COMMENT: (msec)
7421LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7422DEFAULT: 0
7423DOC_START
7424 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7425 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7426 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 7427DOC_END
7428
5473c134 7429NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7430TYPE: int
7431LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7432DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 7433DOC_START
5473c134 7434 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7435 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7436 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7437 per second.
7438DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7439
5473c134 7440NAME: high_memory_warning
7441TYPE: b_size_t
7442LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 7443DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 7444DOC_START
7445 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7446 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7447 the administrators attention.
7448DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7449
5473c134 7450NAME: sleep_after_fork
7451COMMENT: (microseconds)
7452TYPE: int
7453LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7454DEFAULT: 0
7455DOC_START
7456 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7457 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7458 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7459 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7460 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7461 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7462 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7463 until all the child processes have been started.
7464 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7465 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7466DOC_END
7467
b6696974 7468NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7469IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
b6696974
GS
7470COMMENT: on|off
7471TYPE: onoff
7472DEFAULT: on
7473LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7474DOC_START
7475 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7476 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7477 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7478 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7479 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7480 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7481DOC_END
7482
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7483NAME: eui_lookup
7484TYPE: onoff
7485IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7486DEFAULT: on
7487LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7488DOC_START
7489 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7490DOC_END
7491
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7492NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7493TYPE: int
7494DEFAULT: 0
7495LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7496DOC_START
7497 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7498
7499 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7500
7501 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7502 not all comm loops supports large values.
7503DOC_END
7504
13aeac35 7505NAME: workers
007d775d 7506TYPE: int
13aeac35 7507LOC: Config.workers
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7508DEFAULT: 1
7509DOC_START
13aeac35 7510 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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7511 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7512 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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7513 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7514
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7515 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7516 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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7517DOC_END
7518
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7519NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7520TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7521LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7522DEFAULT: none
7523DOC_START
7524 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7525
7526 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7527
7528 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7529
7530 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7531 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7532
7533 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7534 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7535
7536 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7537
7538 See also: workers
7539DOC_END
7540
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