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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 105COMMENT_END
106
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107# Options Removed in 3.2
108NAME: ignore_expect_100
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
112DOC_END
113
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114NAME: dns_v4_fallback
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 Remove this line.
118DOC_END
119
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120NAME: ftp_list_width
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
124DOC_END
125
126NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
130DOC_END
131
132# Options Removed in 3.1
133NAME: dns_testnames
134TYPE: obsolete
135DOC_START
136 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
137DOC_END
138
139NAME: extension_methods
140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
143DOC_END
144
145# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
146NAME: incoming_rate
147TYPE: obsolete
148DOC_NONE
149
150NAME: server_http11
151TYPE: obsolete
152DOC_START
153 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
154DOC_END
155
156NAME: upgrade_http0.9
157TYPE: obsolete
158DOC_START
159 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
160DOC_END
161
162NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
163TYPE: obsolete
164DOC_START
165 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
166DOC_END
167
168# Options Removed in 3.0
169NAME: header_access
170TYPE: obsolete
171DOC_START
172 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
173 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
174DOC_END
175
176NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
177TYPE: obsolete
178DOC_START
179 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
180DOC_END
181
5473c134 182COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 183 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 184 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
185COMMENT_END
186
41bd17a4 187NAME: auth_param
188TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 189IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 190LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 191DEFAULT: none
192DOC_START
41bd17a4 193 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
194 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 195
41bd17a4 196 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 197
41bd17a4 198 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
199 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
200 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
201 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
202 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
203 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
204 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
205 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
206 program entry).
cccac0a2 207
41bd17a4 208 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
209 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
210 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
211 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 212
41bd17a4 213 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
214 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
215 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
216 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
217 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
218 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
219 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
220 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
221 type acl.
cccac0a2 222
41bd17a4 223 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
224 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
225 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
226 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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227 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
228 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 229
41bd17a4 230 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 231
41bd17a4 232 "program" cmdline
233 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
234 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
235 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
236 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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237 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
238 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 239
41bd17a4 240 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
241 program is specified.
cccac0a2 242
41bd17a4 243 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
244 this line to something like
307b83b7 245
41bd17a4 246 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 247
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248 "utf8" on|off
249 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
250 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
251 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
252 username & password to the helper.
253
7353861b 254 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 255 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 256 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
257 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
258 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
259 authenticator processes.
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260
261 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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262 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
263 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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264 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
265 the maximum.
266
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267 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
268 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
269 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
270 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
271 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
272 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 273 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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274
275 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 276
41bd17a4 277 "realm" realmstring
278 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
279 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
280 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
281 password). There is no default.
282 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 283
41bd17a4 284 "credentialsttl" timetolive
285 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
286 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
287 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
288 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
289 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
290 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
291 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
292 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
293 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 294
41bd17a4 295 "casesensitive" on|off
296 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
297 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
298 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
299 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
300 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 301
41bd17a4 302 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 303
41bd17a4 304 "program" cmdline
305 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
306 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
307 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
308 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
309 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
310 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
311 available as %m in the returned error page.
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41bd17a4 313 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
314 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 315
41bd17a4 316 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
317 something like
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7ce93108 319 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 320
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321 "utf8" on|off
322 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
323 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
324 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
325 username & password to the helper.
326
7353861b 327 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 328 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 329 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
330 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
331 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
332 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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333
334 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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335 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
336 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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337 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
338 the maximum.
339
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340 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
341 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
342 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
343 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
344 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
345 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
346 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
347
48d54e4d 348 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 349
41bd17a4 350 "realm" realmstring
351 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
352 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
353 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
354 password). There is no default.
355 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 356
41bd17a4 357 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
358 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
359 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
362 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
363 valid for.
cccac0a2 364
41bd17a4 365 "nonce_max_count" number
366 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
367 used.
cccac0a2 368
41bd17a4 369 "nonce_strictness" on|off
370 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
371 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
372 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
373 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 374
41bd17a4 375 "check_nonce_count" on|off
376 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
377 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
378 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
379 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 380
41bd17a4 381 "post_workaround" on|off
382 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
383 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
384 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 385
41bd17a4 386 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 387
41bd17a4 388 "program" cmdline
389 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
390 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
391 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
392 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
393 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
394 is not used.
cccac0a2 395
41bd17a4 396 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 397
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398 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
399 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 400 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
401 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
402 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
403 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
404 processes.
cccac0a2 405
48d54e4d 406 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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407 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
408 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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409 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
410 the maximum.
411
412 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 413
41bd17a4 414 "keep_alive" on|off
415 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
416 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
417 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
418 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
419 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 420
41bd17a4 421 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 424
41bd17a4 425 "program" cmdline
426 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
427 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
428 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
429 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
430 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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431 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
432 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
433 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 434 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
435 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 436
41bd17a4 437 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 438
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439 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
440 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 441 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
442 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
443 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
444 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
445 processes.
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446
447 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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448 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
449 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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450 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
451 the maximum.
452
453 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 454
41bd17a4 455 "keep_alive" on|off
456 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
457 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
458 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
459 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
460 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 462 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 463
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465 Examples:
466
41bd17a4 467#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
468#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 469#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 470#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 471#
41bd17a4 472#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 473#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 474#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 475#
41bd17a4 476#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 477#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 478#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
479#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
480#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
481#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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41bd17a4 483#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 484#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 485#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
486#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 487DOC_END
cccac0a2 488
41bd17a4 489NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
490TYPE: time_t
491DEFAULT: 1 hour
492LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
493DOC_START
494 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
495 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
496 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
497 have good reason to.
498DOC_END
cccac0a2 499
41bd17a4 500NAME: authenticate_ttl
501TYPE: time_t
502DEFAULT: 1 hour
503LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
504DOC_START
505 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
506 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
507 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
508 TTL are removed from memory.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
41bd17a4 511NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
512TYPE: time_t
513LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
514DEFAULT: 0 seconds
515DOC_START
516 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
517 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
518 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
519 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
520 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
521 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
522 environment with relatively static address assignments.
523DOC_END
cccac0a2 524
3d1e3e43 525COMMENT_START
526 ACCESS CONTROLS
527 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
528COMMENT_END
529
41bd17a4 530NAME: external_acl_type
531TYPE: externalAclHelper
532LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 533DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 534DOC_START
41bd17a4 535 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
536 to look up the status
cccac0a2 537
41bd17a4 538 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 539
41bd17a4 540 Options:
cccac0a2 541
41bd17a4 542 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
543 for 1 hour)
544 negative_ttl=n
545 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
546 as ttl)
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547 children-max=n
548 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
549 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
550 children-startup=n
551 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
552 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
553 of this type. (default 0)
554 children-idle=n
555 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
556 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
557 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
558 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 559 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
560 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 561 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 562 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
563 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 564 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 565 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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566 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
567 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 568
41bd17a4 569 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 570
41bd17a4 571 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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572 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
573 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
574 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 575 %IDENT Ident user name
576 %SRC Client IP
577 %SRCPORT Client source port
578 %URI Requested URI
579 %DST Requested host
580 %PROTO Requested protocol
581 %PORT Requested port
582 %PATH Requested URL path
583 %METHOD Request method
584 %MYADDR Squid interface address
585 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
586 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
587 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
588 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
589 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
590 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 591
c68c9682 592 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 593 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 594 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 595 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 596 HTTP request header list member using ; as
597 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
598 character.
cccac0a2 599
c68c9682 600 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 601 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 602 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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603 %<{Hdr:;member}
604 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
605 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
606 character.
607
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608 %% The percent sign. Useful for helpers which need
609 an unchanging input format.
610
41bd17a4 611 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
612 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
613 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 614
41bd17a4 615 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
616 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
617 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
618 more details.
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41bd17a4 620 General result syntax:
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41bd17a4 622 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
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41bd17a4 624 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 626 user= The users name (login)
627 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
628 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
629 in error pages
630 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
631 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
632 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
633 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 634
41bd17a4 635 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
636 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 637
41bd17a4 638 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
639 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
640 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 641
41bd17a4 642 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
643 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
644 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 645DOC_END
646
41bd17a4 647NAME: acl
648TYPE: acl
649LOC: Config.aclList
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650IFDEF USE_SSL
651DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
652DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
653DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
654DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
655DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
656ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 657DEFAULT: all src all
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658DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
659DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
660DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
661DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
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41bd17a4 663 Defining an Access List
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665 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
666 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
667 they are read from.
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669 acl aclname acltype argument ...
670 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 672 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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674 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
675 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
676 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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679 to access some external data source.
680 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
681 don't are marked as [fast].
682 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
683 for further information
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685 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
686
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687 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
688 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
689 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
690 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 691
41bd17a4 692 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
693 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
694 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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696 # other *BSD variants.
697 # [fast]
41bd17a4 698 #
699 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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700 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
701 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
702
703 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
704 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
705 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 706 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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707 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
708 # regex matching client name [slow]
709 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 710 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 711 #
41bd17a4 712 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
713 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
714 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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716 acl aclname src_as number ...
717 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 718 # [fast]
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720 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
721 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
722 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
723 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
724 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
725 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
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6db78a1a 727 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 728 # [fast]
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729 # match against a named cache_peer entry
730 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
731
375eeb3b 732 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 733 # [fast]
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735 # S - Sunday
736 # M - Monday
737 # T - Tuesday
738 # W - Wednesday
739 # H - Thursday
740 # F - Friday
741 # A - Saturday
742 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
743
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744 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
745 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
746 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
747 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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749 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
750 # ranges are alloed
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751 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
752 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
753
b3567eb5 754 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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756 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
757
758 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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760 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
761 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 763 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 764 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 766 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 767 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 768 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 769
375eeb3b 770 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 771 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 772 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 773 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 774
41bd17a4 775 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
776 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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778 # supplied credentials [slow]
779 #
780 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 781 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
782 #
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784 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
785 #
41bd17a4 786 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
787 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
788 # in access.log.
789 #
790 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
791 # to check username/password combinations (see
792 # auth_param directive).
793 #
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795 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 796 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 797
41bd17a4 798 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 799 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 800 # Example:
801 #
802 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 804 acl aclname maxconn number
805 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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806 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
807 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
808 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 809
41bd17a4 810 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
811 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
812 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 813 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 814 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
815 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
816 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
817 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
818 # request is denied)
819 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
820 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
821 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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823 acl aclname random probability
824 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
825 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
826 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
827
375eeb3b 828 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 829 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
830 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 831 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 832 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
833 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 834
41bd17a4 835 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
836 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
837 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 838 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 839
375eeb3b 840 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 841 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
842 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 843 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 844 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
845 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
846 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 847
41bd17a4 848 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
849 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
850 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 851 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 852
375eeb3b 853 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 854 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 855 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 856
41bd17a4 857 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
858 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 859 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 860
41bd17a4 861 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
862 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 863 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
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41bd17a4 865 acl aclname ext_user username ...
866 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 867 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 868 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 869
0ab50441 870 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 871 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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873 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
874 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
875 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
876 #
877 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
878 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
879 # http_reply_access.
880
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882 acl aclname ssl_error errorname
883 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
884 # For valid error names see in @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@/templates/error-details.txt template file
885 # The user aditionaly can use as error name the following error name
886 # shortcuts:
887 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: certificate "not after" field is in the past
888 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: certificate "not before" field is in the
889 # future
890 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not match
891 # connecting host name
892 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate is untrusted because of an
893 # error says that the certificate issuer is not trusted.
894 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed
895 #
896 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid ssl::certDomainMismatch,
897 # ssl::certUntrusted and ssl::certSelfSigned also exists as predefined
898 # acl lists.
899 #
900 # NOTE: The ssl_error acl has effect only when used with
901 # sslproxy_cert_error, sslproxy_cert_sign and sslproxy_cert_adapt
902 # access lists.
903ENDIF
904
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906 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
907 acl myexample dst_as 1241
908 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
909 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
910 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 911
41bd17a4 912NOCOMMENT_START
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914# Recommended minimum configuration:
915#
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ee776778 917# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
918# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
919# should be allowed
920acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
921acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
922acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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923acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
924acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 926acl SSL_ports port 443
927acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
928acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
929acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
930acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
931acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
932acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
933acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
934acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
935acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
936acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
937acl CONNECT method CONNECT
938NOCOMMENT_END
939DOC_END
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941NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
942TYPE: acl_access
943IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
944LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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945DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
946DOC_START
947 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
948 find the original source of a request.
949
950 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
951 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
952 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
953 rightmost address being the most recent.
954
955 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
956 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
957 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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959 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
960 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
961 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
962 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
963 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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965 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
966 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 967 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 968 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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969 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
970 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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973 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
974
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976
977 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
978 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
979 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
980 source address of the request. This may enable remote
981 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
982 based on the client's source addresses.
983
984 For example:
985
986 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
987 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
988 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
989 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
990DOC_END
991
992NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
993COMMENT: on|off
994TYPE: onoff
995IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
996DEFAULT: on
997LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
998DOC_START
999 Controls whether the indirect client address
1000 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1001 direct client address in acl matching.
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1003 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1004 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1006
1007NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1008COMMENT: on|off
1009TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1010IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1012LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1013DOC_START
1014 Controls whether the indirect client address
1015 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1016 direct client address in delay pools.
1017DOC_END
1018
1019NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1020COMMENT: on|off
1021TYPE: onoff
1022IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1023DEFAULT: on
1024LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1025DOC_START
1026 Controls whether the indirect client address
1027 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1028 direct client address in the access log.
1029DOC_END
1030
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1031NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1032COMMENT: on|off
1033TYPE: onoff
1034IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1035DEFAULT: off
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1036LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1037DOC_START
1038 Controls whether the indirect client address
1039 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1040 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1042 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1043 mode ports.
1044
1045 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1046 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1047 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1048 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1050
41bd17a4 1051NAME: http_access
1052TYPE: acl_access
1053LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1054DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1055DOC_START
1056 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
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41bd17a4 1058 Access to the HTTP port:
1059 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1061 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1063 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1064 the request.
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41bd17a4 1066 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1067 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1068 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1069 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1071 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1074 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1075
41bd17a4 1076NOCOMMENT_START
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1078#
1079# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1080#
1081# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1082http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1083http_access deny manager
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1085# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1086http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1088# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1089http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1091# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1092# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1093# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1094#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1096#
1097# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1098#
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ee776778 1100# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1101# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1102# from where browsing should be allowed
1103http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1104http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1105
41bd17a4 1106# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1107http_access deny all
1108NOCOMMENT_END
1109DOC_END
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1111NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1112TYPE: acl_access
1113LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1114DEFAULT: none
1115DOC_START
1116 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1117
1118 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1119 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1120 output.
1121
1122 If not set then only http_access is used.
1123DOC_END
1124
41bd17a4 1125NAME: http_reply_access
1126TYPE: acl_access
1127LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1128DEFAULT: none
1129DOC_START
1130 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1131
41bd17a4 1132 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1133
41bd17a4 1134 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1135 all replies
1a224843 1136
41bd17a4 1137 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1138 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1139 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1141 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1142 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1143DOC_END
1144
41bd17a4 1145NAME: icp_access
1146TYPE: acl_access
1147LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1148DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1149DOC_START
41bd17a4 1150 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1151 access lists
5473c134 1152
41bd17a4 1153 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1154
41bd17a4 1155 See http_access for details
1156
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1158 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1160# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1161#icp_access allow localnet
1162#icp_access deny all
5473c134 1163DOC_END
1164
41bd17a4 1165NAME: htcp_access
1166IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1167TYPE: acl_access
1168LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1169DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1170DOC_START
41bd17a4 1171 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1172 access lists
5473c134 1173
41bd17a4 1174 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1175
41bd17a4 1176 See http_access for details
5473c134 1177
0b48417e 1178 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1179 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1180 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1181
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1183 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1185# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1186#htcp_access allow localnet
1187#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1188DOC_END
5473c134 1189
41bd17a4 1190NAME: htcp_clr_access
1191IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1192TYPE: acl_access
1193LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1194DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1195DOC_START
1196 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1197 on defined access lists
5473c134 1198
41bd17a4 1199 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1200
41bd17a4 1201 See http_access for details
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1204 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1206# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1207acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1208htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1209DOC_END
1210
41bd17a4 1211NAME: miss_access
1212TYPE: acl_access
1213LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1214DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1215DOC_START
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1216 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1217
1218 For example;
1219 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1220 a parent.
5473c134 1221
41bd17a4 1222 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1223 miss_access allow localclients
1224 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1225
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1226 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1227 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1228 objects (HITs).
1229
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1232 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1234 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1235 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1236DOC_END
1237
1238NAME: ident_lookup_access
1239TYPE: acl_access
1240IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1241DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1242LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1243DOC_START
41bd17a4 1244 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1245 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1246 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1247 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1248 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1249 any requests.
5473c134 1250
41bd17a4 1251 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1252 can follow this example:
5473c134 1253
4daaf3cb 1254 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1255 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1256 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1257
4daaf3cb 1258 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1259 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1260 the correct result.
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1262 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1263 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1264DOC_END
5473c134 1265
5b0f5383 1266NAME: reply_body_max_size
1267COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1268TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1269DEFAULT: none
1270LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1271DOC_START
1272 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1273 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1274 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1275 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1276 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1277 for this reply.
1278
1279 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1280 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1281 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1282 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1283 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1284 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1285 and they will receive a partial reply.
1286
1287 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1288 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1289 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1290 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1291
1292 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1293 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1294 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1295 the size of your largest error page.
1296
1297 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1298 no limit imposed.
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1300 Configuration Format is:
1301 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1302 ie.
1303 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1304
5b0f5383 1305DOC_END
1306
1307COMMENT_START
1308 NETWORK OPTIONS
1309 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1310COMMENT_END
1311
1312NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1313TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1314DEFAULT: none
1315LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1316DOC_START
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1317 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1318 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1319 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1320
1321 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1322 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1323 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1324 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1325 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1326 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1327 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1328
1329 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1330 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1331
1332 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1333 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1334 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1335
1336 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1337
c7b1dd5d 1338 Modes:
5b0f5383 1339
e77bdb4e 1340 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1341 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1342 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1343
1344 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1345 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1346 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1347
7f45065d 1348 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1349
caf3666d 1350 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1351 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1352 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1354 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1355
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1357 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1359 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1360
1361
1362 Accelerator Mode Options:
1363
5b0f5383 1364 defaultsite=domainname
1365 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1366 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1367 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1368
cf673853 1369 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1370
1371 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1373 https_port
5b0f5383 1374
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1376 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1377
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1378 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1379 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1380
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1381 act-as-origin
1382 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1383 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1384 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1385
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1387
7f45065d 1388 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1390
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1392 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1393 never_direct was used.
1394
1395 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1396 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1397 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1398 http_access rules when using this.
1399
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1401 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1403
1404 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1405 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1406 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1407 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1408 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1409 certificate will be selfsigned.
1410 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1411 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1412 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1413 years.
1414 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1415 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1416
1417 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1418 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1419 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1420 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1421 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
1422
1423 TLS / SSL Options:
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1425 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1426
1427 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1428 if not specified, the certificate file is
1429 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1430 key file.
1431
1432 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1433 1 automatic (default)
1434 2 SSLv2 only
1435 3 SSLv3 only
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1436 4 TLSv1.0 only
1437 5 TLSv1.1 only
1438 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1440 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1442 additional settings. If those settings are
1443 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1444 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1445
943c5f16 1446 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1447 being:
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1448 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1449 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1450 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1451 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1452 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1453 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1454 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1456 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1457 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1458 strength to some attacks.
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1459 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1460 complete list of options.
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1462 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1463 requesting a client certificate.
1464
1465 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1466 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1467 clientca will be used.
1468
1469 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1470 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1471
1472 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1473 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1474 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1475
1476 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1478 on how to create this file.
1479 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1480 option is not set.
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1481
1482 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1483 DELAYED_AUTH
1484 Don't request client certificates
1485 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1486 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1487 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1488 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1489 to OpenSSL.
1490 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1491 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1492 will result in a new SSL session.
1493 VERIFY_CRL
1494 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1495 certificates.
1496 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1497 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1498 client certificate chain.
1499
1500 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1501
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1503
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1504 connection-auth[=on|off]
1505 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1506 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1507 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1508
5b0f5383 1509 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1510 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1511 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1512 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1513 support is enabled.
1514 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1515
1516 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1517 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1518 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1519 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1520 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1521 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1522 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1523 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1524
81b6e9a7 1525 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1526 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1527
68924b6d 1528 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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1530 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1531 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1532 timeout the time before giving up.
1533
5b0f5383 1534 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1535 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1536 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1537 visible on the internal address.
1538
1539NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1541# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1542http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1543NOCOMMENT_END
1544DOC_END
1545
1546NAME: https_port
1547IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1548TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1549DEFAULT: none
1550LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1551DOC_START
7f45065d 1552 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1553
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1555 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1556
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1558 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1559
1560 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1561 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1562
7f45065d 1563 Modes:
5b0f5383 1564
7f45065d 1565 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1566
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1568 connections using the client IP address.
1569 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1570
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1572 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
1573 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1575 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1576
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1580 Requires tproxy.
1581
7f45065d 1582 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1583
5b0f5383 1584
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1586
1587
1588 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1589
1590 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1591
1592 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1593 if not specified, the certificate file is
1594 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1595 key file.
1596
1597 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1598 1 automatic (default)
1599 2 SSLv2 only
1600 3 SSLv3 only
1601 4 TLSv1 only
1602
1603 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1604
1605 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1606 being:
1607 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1608 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1609 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1610 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1611 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1612 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1613 documentation for a complete list of options.
1614
1615 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1616 requesting a client certificate.
1617
1618 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1619 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1620 clientca will be used.
1621
1622 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1623 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1624
1625 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1626 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1627 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1628
1629 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1630 DH key exchanges.
1631
1632 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1633 DELAYED_AUTH
1634 Don't request client certificates
1635 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1636 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1637 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1638 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1639 to OpenSSL.
1640 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1641 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1642 will result in a new SSL session.
1643 VERIFY_CRL
1644 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1645 certificates.
1646 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1647 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1648 client certificate chain.
1649
1650 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1651
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1653 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1654 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1655 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1656 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1657 certificate will be selfsigned.
1658 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1659 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1660 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1661 years.
1662 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1663 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1664
1665 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1666 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1667 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1668 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1669 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
1670
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1673
41bd17a4 1674NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1675TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1676DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1677LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
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1680 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1681
41bd17a4 1682 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1683
41bd17a4 1684 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1685 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1686
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1688 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1689 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1690 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
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41bd17a4 1692 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1693 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1694 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1695
41bd17a4 1696 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1697 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1699 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1700
41bd17a4 1701 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1702 matching line.
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1704
41bd17a4 1705NAME: clientside_tos
1706TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1707DEFAULT: none
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1709DOC_START
1710 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1711 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1712
1713 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1714
1715 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1716 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1717
1718 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1719 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1720 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1721 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1722
1723 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1724 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1725DOC_END
1726
1727NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1728TYPE: acl_nfmark
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1731LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1732DOC_START
1733 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1734 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1735
1736 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1737
1738 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1739 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1740
1741 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1742 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1743 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1744 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1745DOC_END
1746
1747NAME: clientside_mark
1748TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1749IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1751LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1752DOC_START
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1753 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
1754 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1755
1756 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1757
1758 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1759 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1760
1761 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1762 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1763 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1764 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1765
1766 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1767 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1768DOC_END
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1770NAME: qos_flows
1771TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1772IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1773DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1774LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1775DOC_START
575cb927 1776 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1777 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced. For
1778 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1779 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
7172612f 1780
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1782 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1783 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1785 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255. Note that
1786 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1787 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1788
1789 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1790
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1792
1793 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1795 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1796
1797 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1798
1799 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1800
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1802 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1803 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1804 specified in the mask are written.
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1807 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1808 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1809 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1810 with all variants of netfilter.
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575cb927 1812 disable-preserve-miss
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1814 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1815 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1816 and masked with miss-mark.
1817 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1818 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1819 (MARK target).
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1821 miss-mask=0xFF
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1823 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1824 the TOS sent towards clients.
1825 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1826 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1827
1828 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1829 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1830 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1831 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1834
41bd17a4 1835NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1836TYPE: acl_address
1837DEFAULT: none
1838LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1839DOC_START
1840 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1841 based on the username or source address of the user making
1842 the request.
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41bd17a4 1844 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1847 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1849 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1850 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1851
1852 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1853 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1854
1855 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1856 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1857
1858 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1859 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1860
41bd17a4 1861 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1862 matching line.
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1865 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1866 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1867
1868
1869 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1870 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1871 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1872 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 1874 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1875 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1877 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1878
cccac0a2 1879DOC_END
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1881NAME: host_verify_strict
1882TYPE: onoff
1883DEFAULT: off
1884LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1885DOC_START
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1887 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 1888 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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1890 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1891 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1892 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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1894 When set to ON:
1895 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
1896 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
1897
1898 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
1899 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
1900 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
1901 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
1902 and Request-URI components:
1903
1904 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
1905 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
1906 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
1907 or FQDN.
1908
1909 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
1910 the scheme-default port is assumed.
1911
1912
1913 When set to OFF (the default):
1914 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
1915 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
1916
1917 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1918
1919 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1920
1921 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
1922 normally.
1923
1924 For now it also forces suspicious requests to go DIRECT to the
1925 original destination, overriding client_dst_passthru for
1926 intercepted requests which fail Host: verification.
1927
1928 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
1929 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
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1931
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1932NAME: client_dst_passthru
1933TYPE: onoff
1934DEFAULT: on
1935LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1936DOC_START
1937 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1938 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1939 source.
1940
1941 This option (on by default) prevents cache_peer and alternative DNS
1942 entries being used on intercepted traffic. Both of which lead to
1943 the security vulnerability outlined below.
1944
1945 SECURITY WARNING:
1946
1947 This directive should only be disabled if cache_peer are required.
1948
1949 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1950 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1951 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1952 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1953
1954 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1955 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1956 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1957 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1958 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
6b185b50 1959
cccac0a2 1960DOC_END
1961
41bd17a4 1962COMMENT_START
1963 SSL OPTIONS
1964 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1965COMMENT_END
1966
1967NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1968IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1969TYPE: onoff
1970DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1971LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1972DOC_START
41bd17a4 1973 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1974 messages.
cccac0a2 1975DOC_END
1976
41bd17a4 1977NAME: ssl_engine
1978IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1979TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1980LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1981DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1982DOC_START
41bd17a4 1983 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1984 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1985DOC_END
1986
41bd17a4 1987NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1988IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1989DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1990LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1991TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1992DOC_START
41bd17a4 1993 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1994DOC_END
1995
41bd17a4 1996NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1997IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1998DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1999LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2000TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2001DOC_START
41bd17a4 2002 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2003DOC_END
2004
41bd17a4 2005NAME: sslproxy_version
2006IFDEF: USE_SSL
2007DEFAULT: 1
2008LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2009TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2010DOC_START
41bd17a4 2011 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2013 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2014
2015 1 automatic (default)
2016 2 SSLv2 only
2017 3 SSLv3 only
2018 4 TLSv1.0 only
2019 5 TLSv1.1 only
2020 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2021DOC_END
2022
41bd17a4 2023NAME: sslproxy_options
2024IFDEF: USE_SSL
2025DEFAULT: none
2026LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2027TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2028DOC_START
943c5f16 2029 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2030
2031 The most important being:
2032
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2033 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2034 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2035 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2036 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2037 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2038 SINGLE_DH_USE
2039 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2040 DH key exchanges
2041 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2042 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2043 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2044 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2045 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2046 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2047 strength to some attacks.
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2049 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2050 complete list of possible options.
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2052
41bd17a4 2053NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2054IFDEF: USE_SSL
2055DEFAULT: none
2056LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2057TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2058DOC_START
41bd17a4 2059 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2060
2061 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2062DOC_END
2063
41bd17a4 2064NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2065IFDEF: USE_SSL
2066DEFAULT: none
2067LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2068TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2069DOC_START
41bd17a4 2070 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2071 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2072DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2074NAME: sslproxy_capath
2075IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 2076DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2077LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2078TYPE: string
5473c134 2079DOC_START
41bd17a4 2080 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2081 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2082DOC_END
2083
4c9da963 2084NAME: ssl_bump
2085IFDEF: USE_SSL
caf3666d 2086TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2087LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
2088DEFAULT: none
2089DOC_START
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2090 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2091 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2092 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2093 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2094 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2095 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2096
2097 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2098
2099 The following bumping modes are supported:
2100
2101 client-first
2102 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2103 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2104 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2105 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2106
2107 server-first
2108 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2109 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2110 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2111 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2112
2113 none
2114 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2115 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2116 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2117 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2118
2119 By default, no connections are bumped.
2120
2121 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2122 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2123 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2124 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2125 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2126
e0c0d54c 2127 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2128 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2131
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2134 # localhost and those going to example.com.
e0855596 2135
e0855596 2136 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2137 ssl_bump none localhost
2138 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2139 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2140DOC_END
2141
41bd17a4 2142NAME: sslproxy_flags
2143IFDEF: USE_SSL
2144DEFAULT: none
2145LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2146TYPE: string
5473c134 2147DOC_START
41bd17a4 2148 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2149 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2150 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2151 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2152 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2153DOC_END
2154
4c9da963 2155NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2156IFDEF: USE_SSL
2157DEFAULT: none
2158LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2159TYPE: acl_access
2160DOC_START
2161 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2162
2163 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2164 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2165 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2166
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2168 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2169 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2170
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2172 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2173 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2174
2175 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2176 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2177 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2178 the connection may be insecure.
2179
2180 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2181
e0855596 2182 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 2183DOC_END
2184
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2185NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2186IFDEF: USE_SSL
2187DEFAULT: none
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2188POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2189POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2190POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2191TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2192LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2193DOC_START
2194
69742b76 2195 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
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69742b76 2197 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
aebe6888 2198 signTrusted
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2199 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
2200 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2201 default for trusted origin server certificates.
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2204 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2205 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
aebe6888 2206 signSelf
69742b76 2207 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2208 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2210 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2213
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2215 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2216 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2217 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2218 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2220 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2221 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2222 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2223 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2224 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2225 bump-server-first is used.
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2228NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2229IFDEF: USE_SSL
2230DEFAULT: none
2231TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2232LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2233DOC_START
2234
2235 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2236
69742b76 2237 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
fb2178bb 2238 setValidAfter
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2240 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
fb2178bb 2241 setValidBefore
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2243 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
2244 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2245 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2246 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2247 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2248 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2249 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2252
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2254 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2255 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2256 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2257 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2258 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2260 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2261 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2262 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2263 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2264 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2265 bump-server-first is used.
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2267
41bd17a4 2268NAME: sslpassword_program
2269IFDEF: USE_SSL
2270DEFAULT: none
2271LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2272TYPE: string
5473c134 2273DOC_START
41bd17a4 2274 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2275 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2276 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2277 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2279 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2280 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2281 keys.
5473c134 2282DOC_END
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2284COMMENT_START
2285 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2286 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2287COMMENT_END
2288
2289NAME: sslcrtd_program
2290TYPE: eol
2291IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2292DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2293LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2294DOC_START
2295 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2296 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2297 For more information use:
2298 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2299DOC_END
2300
2301NAME: sslcrtd_children
2302TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2303IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2304DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2305LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2306DOC_START
2307 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2308 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2309
2310 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2311 tuning.
2312
2313 startup=N
2314
2315 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2316 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2317 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2318
2319 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2320 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2321
2322 idle=N
2323
2324 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2325 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2326 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2327 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2328
2329 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2330DOC_END
2331
cccac0a2 2332COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2333 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2334 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2335COMMENT_END
2336
41bd17a4 2337NAME: cache_peer
2338TYPE: peer
2339DEFAULT: none
2340LOC: Config.peers
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41bd17a4 2342 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2344 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
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41bd17a4 2346 For example,
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41bd17a4 2348 # proxy icp
2349 # hostname type port port options
2350 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2351 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2352 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2353 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2354 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2355 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2356
2357 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2358
2359 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2360 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2361 For web servers this is usually 80
2362
2363 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2364 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2365 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2366
2367
2368 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2369
2370 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2371 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2372
2373
2374 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2375
2376 multicast-responder
2377 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2378 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2379 replies will be accepted from it.
2380
2381 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2382 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2383
2384 background-ping
2385 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2386 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2387 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2388
2389
2390 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2391
2392 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2393 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2394
2395
2396 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2397 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2398 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2399 list of options described below.
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18191440 2401 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2402
18191440 2403 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2404 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2405 only-clr.
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2407 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2408 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2410 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2411 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2412 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2413
18191440 2414 htcp=forward-clr
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2415 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2416
2417
2418 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2419
2420 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2421 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2422
2423
2424 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2425 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2426 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2427
2428 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2429 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2430 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2431
2432 weighted-round-robin
2433 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2434 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2435 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2436 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2437 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2438
2439 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2440 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2441 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2442
2443 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2444
2445 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2446
2447 multicast-siblings
2448 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2449 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2450 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2451 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2452 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2453 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2454 members of the same multicast group.
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2455
2456
2457 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2458
2459 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2460 peer-selection mechanisms.
2461 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2462 larger weights are favored more.
2463 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2464 protocol is not in use.
2465
2466 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2467 times of parents.
2468 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2469 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2470 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2471
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2472 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2473 to this address.
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2474 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2475 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2476 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2477 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2478
2479 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2480 delay pools.
2481
2482 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2483 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2484 than the Squid default location.
2485
2486
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2487 ==== CARP OPTIONS ====
2488
2489 carp-key=key-specification
2490 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2491 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2492 scheme, host, port, path, params
2493 Order is not important.
2494
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2495 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2496
2497 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2498 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2499 is a web server.
2500
2501 forceddomain=name
2502 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2503 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2504 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2505 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2506
2507 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2508
2509 no-netdb-exchange
2510 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2511
2512
2513 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2514
2515 login=user:password
2516 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2517 requires proxy authentication.
2518
2519 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2520 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2521
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2522 login=PASSTHRU
2523 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2524 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2525 without alteration to the peer.
2526 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2527
2528 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2529 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2530 connection-auth options are also used.
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2532 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2533 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 2534
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2535 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2536 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2537 from an external ACL user= and password= result tags
2538 they may be sent instead.
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2539
2540 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2541 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2542 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2543 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2544 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2545
2546 login=*:password
2547 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2548 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2549 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2550 needed to identify each user.
2551 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2552 information which is added to the username. This can
2553 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2554 the login=username:password option above.
2555
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2556 login=NEGOTIATE
2557 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2558 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2559 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2560 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2561
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2562 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
2563 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2564 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2565
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2566 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2567 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2568 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2569 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2570 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2571 used.
2572
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2573 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
2574 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2575 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2576
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2577 connection-auth=on|off
2578 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2579 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2580 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2581 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2582 of the peer.
2583
2584
2585 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2586
2587 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2588
2589 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2590 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2591 this peer.
2592
2593 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2594 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2595 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2596 reference a combined file containing both the
2597 certificate and the key.
2598
3d96b0e8 2599 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2600 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2601 1 = automatic (default)
2602 2 = SSL v2 only
2603 3 = SSL v3 only
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2604 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2605 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2606 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2607
2608 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2609 to this peer.
2610
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2611 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL implementation options:
2612
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2613 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2614 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2615 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2616 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2617 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2618 SINGLE_DH_USE
2619 Always create a new key when using
2620 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2621 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2622 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2623 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2624 strength to some attacks.
2625
2626 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2627 more complete list.
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2628
2629 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2630 when verifying the peer certificate.
2631
2632 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2633 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2634
2635 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2636 verifying the peer certificate.
2637
2638 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2639
41bd17a4 2640 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2641 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2642 verify.
2643 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2644 Don't use the default CA list built in
2645 to OpenSSL.
2646 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2647 Don't verify the peer certificate
2648 matches the server name
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2649
2650 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2651 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2652 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2653 used.
2654
2655 front-end-https
2656 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2657 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2658 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2659 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2660 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2661
2662
2663 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2664
2665 connect-timeout=N
2666 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2667 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2668
2669 connect-fail-limit=N
2670 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2671 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2672
2673 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2674 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2675 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2676 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2677 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2678 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2679 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2680
2681 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2682 peer. see also
2683
2684 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2685 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2686 but different ports.
2687 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2688 directives to dentify the peer.
2689 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2690 peername ACL type.
2691
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2692 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2693 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2694
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2695 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2696
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41bd17a4 2699NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2700TYPE: hostdomain
2701DEFAULT: none
2702LOC: none
2703DOC_START
2704 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2705 queried. Usage:
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41bd17a4 2707 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2708 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
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41bd17a4 2710 For example, specifying
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41bd17a4 2712 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
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41bd17a4 2714 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2715 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2716 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2717 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2718 NOT in that domain.
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41bd17a4 2720 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2721 either on the same or separate lines.
2722 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2723 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2724 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2725 for all requests.
2726 * There are no defaults.
2727 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2728 section.
2729DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2731NAME: cache_peer_access
2732TYPE: peer_access
2733DEFAULT: none
2734LOC: none
2735DOC_START
2736 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2737 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2738
41bd17a4 2739 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2740
41bd17a4 2741 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2742 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2743 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2744DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2746NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2747TYPE: hostdomaintype
2748DEFAULT: none
2749LOC: none
2750DOC_START
2751 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
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41bd17a4 2753 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2754 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2755 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2756 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2757 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2758 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2759
41bd17a4 2760EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2761 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2762 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2763 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2764DOC_END
6bf4f823 2765
41bd17a4 2766NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2767COMMENT: (seconds)
2768DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2769TYPE: time_t
2770LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2771DOC_START
2772 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2773 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2774 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2775 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2776 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2777 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2778
41bd17a4 2779 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2780 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2781 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2782 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2783 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2784 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2785 instead of to your parents.
2786DOC_END
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2788NAME: forward_max_tries
2789DEFAULT: 10
2790TYPE: int
2791LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2792DOC_START
2793 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2794 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2795
2796 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2797 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2798DOC_END
2799
41bd17a4 2800NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2801TYPE: wordlist
2802DEFAULT: none
2803LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2804DOC_START
2805 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2806 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2807 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2808 list this option multiple times.
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2810 Example:
2811 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2812
2813 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2814DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2816COMMENT_START
2817 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2818 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2819COMMENT_END
2820
2821NAME: cache_mem
2822COMMENT: (bytes)
2823TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2824DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2825LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2826DOC_START
41bd17a4 2827 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2828 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2829 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2830 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2831
2832 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2833 for:
2834 * In-Transit objects
2835 * Hot Objects
2836 * Negative-Cached objects
2837
2838 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2839 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2840 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2841 priority.
2842
2843 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2844 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2845 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2846 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2847 not needed for in-transit objects.
2848
2849 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2850 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2851 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2852 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2853 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2854 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2855 objects.
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2857 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
2858 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
2859 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
2860 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 2861DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2863NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2864COMMENT: (bytes)
2865TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2866DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2867LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2868DOC_START
41bd17a4 2869 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2870 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2871 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2872 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2873DOC_END
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2875NAME: memory_cache_shared
2876COMMENT: on|off
2877TYPE: YesNoNone
2878LOC: Config.memShared
2879DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 2880DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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2881DOC_START
2882 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
2883
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2884 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
2885 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
2886 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
2887 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
2888 caching is enabled).
2889
65b81b27 2890 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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2891 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
2892 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
2893 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
2894 and GCC-style atomic operations).
2895
2896 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
2897 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
2898 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
2899
2900 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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2902
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2903NAME: memory_cache_mode
2904TYPE: memcachemode
2905LOC: Config
2906DEFAULT: always
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ea21d497 2908 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2909
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2910 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2911
2912 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2913 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2914 a second time before cached in memory.
2915
2916 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2917DOC_END
2918
41bd17a4 2919NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2920TYPE: removalpolicy
2921LOC: Config.memPolicy
2922DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2923DOC_START
41bd17a4 2924 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2925 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
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41bd17a4 2927 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2928DOC_END
6b698a21 2929
41bd17a4 2930COMMENT_START
2931 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2932 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2933COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2934
41bd17a4 2935NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2936TYPE: removalpolicy
2937LOC: Config.replPolicy
2938DEFAULT: lru
2939DOC_START
2940 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2941 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2942
41bd17a4 2943 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2944 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2945 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2946 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2947
41bd17a4 2948 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2949
41bd17a4 2950 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2951
41bd17a4 2952 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2953 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2954 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2955 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2956
41bd17a4 2957 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2958 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2959 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2960 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2961
41bd17a4 2962 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2963 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2964 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2965
41bd17a4 2966 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2967 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2968 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2969
41bd17a4 2970 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2971 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2972 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2973DOC_END
0976f8db 2974
41bd17a4 2975NAME: cache_dir
2976TYPE: cachedir
2977DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2978LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2979DOC_START
41bd17a4 2980 Usage:
0976f8db 2981
41bd17a4 2982 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2983
41bd17a4 2984 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2985 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2986
41bd17a4 2987 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2988 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2989 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2990
41bd17a4 2991 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2992 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2993 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2994 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2995 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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2997 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2998 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2999 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3000
41bd17a4 3001 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 3002
41bd17a4 3003 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3004 been there.
0976f8db 3005
41bd17a4 3006 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3007
41bd17a4 3008 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3009 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3010 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3011 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3012 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3013
56fba4d0 3014 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3015 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3016
56fba4d0 3017 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3018 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3019 is 256.
0976f8db 3020
41bd17a4 3021 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 3022
41bd17a4 3023 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3024 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3025 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3026
41bd17a4 3027 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3028
41bd17a4 3029 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3030
41bd17a4 3031 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 3032
41bd17a4 3033 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3034 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3035 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3036
41bd17a4 3037 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3038
41bd17a4 3039 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3040
41bd17a4 3041 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3042 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3043 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3044
41bd17a4 3045 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3046 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3047 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3048
41bd17a4 3049 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3050 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3051 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3052 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3053 time.
0976f8db 3054
2e55f083 3055 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 3056
df881a0f 3057 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 3058
2e55f083 3059 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3060 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
3061 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3062 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3063 below for more info on the max-size option.
3064
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3065 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3066 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3067 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3068 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3069 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3070 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3071 expected swap wait time.
3072
df881a0f 3073 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3074 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3075 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3076 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3077 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3078 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3079 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3080 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3081 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3082 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3083 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3084 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3085 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3086 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3087
3088
41bd17a4 3089 The coss store type:
0976f8db 3090
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3091 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3092 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3093 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3094
41bd17a4 3095 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3096 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3097 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3098 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3099 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3100 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3101 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 3102
41bd17a4 3103 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3104 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3105 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 3106
41bd17a4 3107 Common options:
0976f8db 3108
41bd17a4 3109 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 3110
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3111 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
3112 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
3113 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
3114 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
3115
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3116 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
3117 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 3118 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
3119 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
3120 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 3121
41bd17a4 3122 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3123 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3124 option.
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3126
3127# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3128#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3129NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3130DOC_END
0976f8db 3131
41bd17a4 3132NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3133TYPE: string
3134LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3135DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3136DOC_START
41bd17a4 3137 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 3138DOC_END
0976f8db 3139
41bd17a4 3140NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3141TYPE: int
3142LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3143DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 3144DOC_START
41bd17a4 3145 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3146 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3147 descriptors are open.
3148
3149 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3150DOC_END
0976f8db 3151
41bd17a4 3152NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 3153COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 3154TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 3155DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 3156LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 3157DOC_START
41bd17a4 3158 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3159 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3160 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 3161DOC_END
0976f8db 3162
41bd17a4 3163NAME: maximum_object_size
3164COMMENT: (bytes)
3165TYPE: b_int64_t
3166DEFAULT: 4096 KB
3167LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 3168DOC_START
41bd17a4 3169 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3170 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
3171 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3172 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3173 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
3174 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 3175
41bd17a4 3176 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3177 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3178 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 3179DOC_END
0976f8db 3180
41bd17a4 3181NAME: cache_swap_low
3182COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3183TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3184DEFAULT: 90
3185LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
3186DOC_NONE
3187
3188NAME: cache_swap_high
3189COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3190TYPE: int
3191DEFAULT: 95
3192LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3193DOC_START
41bd17a4 3194
3195 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
3196 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3197 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3198 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3199 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3200 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3201
3202 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3203 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3204 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 3205DOC_END
0976f8db 3206
5473c134 3207COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3208 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3209 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3210COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3211
41bd17a4 3212NAME: logformat
3213TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3214LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3215DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 3216DOC_START
41bd17a4 3217 Usage:
0976f8db 3218
41bd17a4 3219 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3220
41bd17a4 3221 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3222
41bd17a4 3223 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3224
41bd17a4 3225 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3226 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3227 as required according to their context and the output format
3228 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3229 output format is desired.
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41bd17a4 3231 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3232
41bd17a4 3233 " output in quoted string format
3234 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3235 # output in URL quoted format
3236 ' output as-is
5473c134 3237
41bd17a4 3238 - left aligned
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3240 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3241 [width_min][.width_max]
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3242 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3243 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3244
41bd17a4 3245 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3246
41bd17a4 3247 Format codes:
5473c134 3248
3ff65596 3249 % a literal % character
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3250 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3251 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3252 a similar internal error identifier.
3253 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
3254
3255 Connection related format codes:
3256
41bd17a4 3257 >a Client source IP address
3258 >A Client FQDN
3259 >p Client source port
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3260 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3261 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3262 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3263
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3264 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3265 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3266
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3267 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3268 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3269 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3270 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3271 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3272
3273 Time related format codes:
3274
41bd17a4 3275 ts Seconds since epoch
3276 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3277 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3278 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3279 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3280 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3281 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3282 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
3283
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3284 Access Control related format codes:
3285
3286 et Tag returned by external acl
3287 ea Log string returned by external acl
3288 un User name (any available)
3289 ul User name from authentication
3290 ue User name from external acl helper
3291 ui User name from ident
3292 us User name from SSL
3293
3294 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3295
ca2e92d8 3296 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3297 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3298 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3299 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3300 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3301 as for >h
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3302 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3303 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3304 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3305 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3306 transfer encoding and control messages.
3307 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3308 received bodies.
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3309 [http::]mt MIME content type
3310 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3311 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3312 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3313 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3314 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3315 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3316 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3317 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3318 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3319 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3320 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3321 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3322 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3323 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3324 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3325 are not included
3326 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3327 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3328 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3329 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3330 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3331 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3332 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3333 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3334 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3335 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3336 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3337 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3338
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3339 Squid handling related format codes:
3340
3341 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3342 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3343
5038f9d8 3344 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3345 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3346
3347 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3348 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3349 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3350 transaction is in progress.
3351
5038f9d8 3352 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3353
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3354 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3355 meta-information from the last eCAP
3356 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3357 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3358 argument.
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3360 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3361 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3362 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3363 value is recorded as an integer number,
3364 representing response time of one or more
3365 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3366 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3367 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3368 logged individually but added to the
3369 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3370 adapt::all_trs.
3371
3372 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3373 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3374 individual transactions are never added
3375 together. Instead, all transaction response
3376 times are recorded individually.
3377
3378 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3379 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3380 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3381
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3383
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3384logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3385logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3386logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3387logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3388logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3389
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3390 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3391 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3392 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3393
3394 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3395 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3396
5473c134 3397DOC_END
3398
41bd17a4 3399NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3400TYPE: access_log
3401LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3402DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3403DOC_START
41bd17a4 3404 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3405 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3406 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3407 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3408
3409 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3410 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3411 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3412 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3413
3414 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3415
bb7a1781 3416 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3417 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3418
3419 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3420 each request.
3421 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3422
3423 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3424 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3425 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3426
3427 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3428
3429 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3430 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3431 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3432
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3433 where facility could be any of:
3434 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3435
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3436 And priority could be any of:
3437 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3438
3439 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3440 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3441 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3442
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3443 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3444 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3445 Place Format: //host:port
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3446
3447 Default:
82b7abe3 3448 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3449DOC_END
5473c134 3450
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3451NAME: icap_log
3452TYPE: access_log
3453IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3454LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3455DEFAULT: none
3456DOC_START
3457 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3458 transaction.
3459
3460 The icap_log option format is:
3461 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3462 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3463
3464 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3465 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3466 features.
3467
3468 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3469 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3470 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3471 log line.
3472
3473 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3474 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3475 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3476 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3477 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3478 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3479 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3480
3481 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3482
3483 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3484
3485 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3486 option in Squid configuration file.
3487
3488 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3489
3490 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3491 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3492
3493 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3494 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3495
3496 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3497 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3498 the socket).
3499
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3500 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3501 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3502 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3503 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3504 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3505 computed.
3506
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3508 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3509 the ICAP transaction is created and
3510 stops when the transaction is completed.
3511 Similar to tr.
3512
3513 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3514 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3515 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3516 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3517 is received.
3518
3519 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3520 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3521 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3522 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3523 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3524 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3525
3526 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3527
3528 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3529
3530 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3531
3532 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3533 definition, is called icap_squid:
3534
3535logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3536
5038f9d8 3537 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3539
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3540NAME: logfile_daemon
3541TYPE: string
3542DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3543LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3544DOC_START
3545 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3546 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3547
3548 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3549 L<data>\n - logfile data
3550 R\n - rotate file
3551 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3552 O\n - reopen file
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3553 F\n - flush file
3554 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3555 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3556
3557 No responses is expected.
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3559
5b0f5383 3560NAME: log_access
3561TYPE: acl_access
3562LOC: Config.accessList.log
3563DEFAULT: none
3564COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3565DOC_START
3566 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3567 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3568 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3569
3570 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3571 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3572DOC_END
3573
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3574NAME: log_icap
3575TYPE: acl_access
3576IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3577LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3578DEFAULT: none
3579DOC_START
3580 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3581 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3582DOC_END
3583
41bd17a4 3584NAME: cache_store_log
3585TYPE: string
df2eec10 3586DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3587LOC: Config.Log.store
3588DOC_START
3589 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3590 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3592 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3593 disable it.
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3595 Example:
3596 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3597DOC_END
3598
41bd17a4 3599NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3600TYPE: string
3601LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3602DEFAULT: none
3603DOC_START
41bd17a4 3604 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3605 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3606 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3607 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3608 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3609 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3610 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3611
41bd17a4 3612 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3613 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3614 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3615 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3616
41bd17a4 3617 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3618 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3619
41bd17a4 3620 cache_swap_log.00
3621 cache_swap_log.01
3622 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3623
41bd17a4 3624 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3625 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3626 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3627 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3628 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3629 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3630 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3631DOC_END
3632
41bd17a4 3633NAME: logfile_rotate
3634TYPE: int
3635DEFAULT: 10
3636LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3637DOC_START
41bd17a4 3638 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3639 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3640 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3641 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3642 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3643 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 3644
41bd17a4 3645 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3646 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3647 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3648 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3649 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3650 <pid>'.
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3652 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3653 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3654DOC_END
5473c134 3655
41bd17a4 3656NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3657TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3658DOC_START
20efa1c2 3659 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3660DOC_END
3661
41bd17a4 3662NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3663TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3664DOC_START
8652f8e7 3665 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3666DOC_END
5473c134 3667
41bd17a4 3668NAME: mime_table
3669TYPE: string
3670DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3671LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3672DOC_START
3673 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3674 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3675 information if you do.
5473c134 3676DOC_END
3677
41bd17a4 3678NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3679COMMENT: on|off
3680TYPE: onoff
3681LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3682DEFAULT: off
3683DOC_START
3684 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3685 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3686 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3687 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3688 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3689DOC_END
5473c134 3690
41bd17a4 3691NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3692TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3693DOC_START
20efa1c2 3694 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3695DOC_END
3696
41bd17a4 3697NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3698TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3699DOC_START
20efa1c2 3700 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3701DOC_END
3702
41bd17a4 3703NAME: pid_filename
3704TYPE: string
3705DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3706LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3707DOC_START
41bd17a4 3708 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3709DOC_END
3710
41bd17a4 3711NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3712TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3713DOC_START
c581e96b 3714 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3715DOC_END
3716
41bd17a4 3717NAME: client_netmask
3718TYPE: address
3719LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3720DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3721DOC_START
41bd17a4 3722 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3723 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3724 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3725 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3726DOC_END
3727
41bd17a4 3728NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3729TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3730DOC_START
20efa1c2 3731 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3732DOC_END
3733
41bd17a4 3734NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3735TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3736LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3737DEFAULT: on
3738DOC_START
41bd17a4 3739 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3740 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3741DOC_END
3742
41bd17a4 3743NAME: buffered_logs
3744COMMENT: on|off
3745TYPE: onoff
3746DEFAULT: off
3747LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3748DOC_START
41bd17a4 3749 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3750 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3751 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3752 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3753 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
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2b753521 3756NAME: netdb_filename
3757TYPE: string
221faecb 3758DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3759LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3760IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3761DOC_START
3762 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3763 To disable, enter "none".
3764DOC_END
3765
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3766COMMENT_START
3767 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3768 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3769COMMENT_END
3770
3771NAME: cache_log
3772TYPE: string
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3773DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3774LOC: Debug::cache_log
3775DOC_START
3776 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3777 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3778 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3779DOC_END
3780
3781NAME: debug_options
3782TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3783DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3784LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3785DOC_START
3786 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3787 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3788 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3789 log file, so be careful.
3790
3791 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3792 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3793
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3795 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3796 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3797 events affecting Squid.
3798DOC_END
3799
3800NAME: coredump_dir
3801TYPE: string
3802LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3803DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3804DOC_START
3805 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3806 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3807 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3808 and coredump files will be left there.
3809
3810NOCOMMENT_START
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3812# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3813coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3814NOCOMMENT_END
3815DOC_END
3816
3817
41bd17a4 3818COMMENT_START
3819 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3820 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3821COMMENT_END
3822
3823NAME: ftp_user
3824TYPE: string
3825DEFAULT: Squid@
3826LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3827DOC_START
41bd17a4 3828 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3829 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3830 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3831
41bd17a4 3832 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3833 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3834 depending on how the cache is used.
3835 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3836 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3837DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3839NAME: ftp_passive
3840TYPE: onoff
3841DEFAULT: on
3842LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3843DOC_START
41bd17a4 3844 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3845 connections, turn off this option.
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3847 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3848DOC_END
3849
3850NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3851TYPE: onoff
3852DEFAULT: off
3853LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3854DOC_START
3855 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3856
3857 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3858 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3859 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3860
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3862 useful.
a689bd4e 3863 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3864 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3865
3866 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3867 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3868
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3870DOC_END
3871
3872NAME: ftp_epsv
3873TYPE: onoff
3874DEFAULT: on
3875LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3876DOC_START
3877 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3878
3879 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3880 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3881 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3882 will never be needed.
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3884 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3885 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3886 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3887
3888 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3889DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3890
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3891NAME: ftp_eprt
3892TYPE: onoff
3893DEFAULT: on
3894LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3895DOC_START
3896 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3897
3898 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3899 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3900 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3901
3902 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3903 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3904
3905 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3906 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3907 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3908 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3909
3910 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3911 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3912DOC_END
3913
41bd17a4 3914NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3915TYPE: onoff
3916DEFAULT: on
3917LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3918DOC_START
3919 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3920 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3921 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3922 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3923 connection turn this off.
3924DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3925
41bd17a4 3926NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3927TYPE: onoff
3928DEFAULT: on
3929LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3930DOC_START
3931 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3932 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3933 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3934 the FTP protocol.
3935
3936 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3937 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3938 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3939 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3940 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3941DOC_END
3942
3943COMMENT_START
3944 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3945 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3946COMMENT_END
3947
3948NAME: diskd_program
3949TYPE: string
3950DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3951LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3952DOC_START
3953 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3954 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3955 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3956DOC_END
3957
3958NAME: unlinkd_program
3959IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3960TYPE: string
3961DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3962LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3963DOC_START
3964 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3965DOC_END
3966
3967NAME: pinger_program
3968TYPE: string
3969DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3970LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3971IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3972DOC_START
3973 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3974DOC_END
3975
cc192b50 3976NAME: pinger_enable
3977TYPE: onoff
3978DEFAULT: on
3979LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3980IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3981DOC_START
3982 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3984 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3985DOC_END
3986
3987
41bd17a4 3988COMMENT_START
3989 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3990 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3991COMMENT_END
3992
3993NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3994TYPE: wordlist
3995LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3996DEFAULT: none
3997DOC_START
2c7aad89 3998 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 3999 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4000
2c7aad89 4001 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4002
c71adec1 4003 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
4004
4005 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
4006 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
4007 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4008 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4009
4010 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
4011 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
4012
4013 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
4014 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 4015 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 4016
4017 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4018DOC_END
4019
4020NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4021TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4022DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4023LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4024DOC_START
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4025 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4026 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4027 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4028 and other system resources noticably.
4029
4030 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4031 tuning.
4032
4033 startup=
4034
4035 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4036 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4037 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4038
4039 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4040 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4041
4042 idle=
4043
4044 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4045 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4046 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4047 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4048
4049 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4050
41bd17a4 4051 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4052 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4053 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4055 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4056 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4057 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
4058 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
4059 to that request.
41bd17a4 4060DOC_END
4061
4062NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4063TYPE: onoff
4064DEFAULT: on
4065LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4066DOC_START
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4067 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4068 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4069 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4070
4071 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4072 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4073 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4074
41bd17a4 4075 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4076 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4078 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4079 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4080 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4081DOC_END
4082
4083NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4084TYPE: acl_access
4085DEFAULT: none
4086LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4087DOC_START
4088 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4089 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
4090 are sent.
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4092 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4093 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4094DOC_END
4095
4096NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4097TYPE: onoff
4098LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4099DEFAULT: off
4100DOC_START
4101 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4102 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4103 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4104 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4105 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4106 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4107 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4108 users may have access to pages they should not
4109 be allowed to request.
4110DOC_END
4111
4112COMMENT_START
4113 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4114 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4115COMMENT_END
4116
f04b37d8 4117NAME: cache no_cache
4118TYPE: acl_access
4119DEFAULT: none
4120LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4121DOC_START
240887f0 4122 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 4123 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4124 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 4125
240887f0 4126 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4127 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 4128
240887f0 4129 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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4130
4131 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4132 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4133DOC_END
4134
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4135NAME: max_stale
4136COMMENT: time-units
4137TYPE: time_t
4138LOC: Config.maxStale
4139DEFAULT: 1 week
4140DOC_START
4141 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4142 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4143 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4144DOC_END
4145
41bd17a4 4146NAME: refresh_pattern
4147TYPE: refreshpattern
4148LOC: Config.Refresh
4149DEFAULT: none
4150DOC_START
4151 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 4152
6b698a21 4153 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4154 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 4155
41bd17a4 4156 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4157 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4158 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4159 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4160 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 4161
41bd17a4 4162 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4163 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4164 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 4165
41bd17a4 4166 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4167 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 4168
41bd17a4 4169 options: override-expire
4170 override-lastmod
4171 reload-into-ims
4172 ignore-reload
4173 ignore-no-cache
4174 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 4175 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 4176 ignore-private
4177 ignore-auth
570d3f75 4178 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 4179 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 4180 store-stale
a0ec9f68 4181
41bd17a4 4182 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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4183 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4184 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4185 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4186 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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4188 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4189 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4190 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4191 the object fresh for that period of time.
4192
41bd17a4 4193 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4194 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 4195
41bd17a4 4196 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
4197 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
4198 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4199 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 4200
41bd17a4 4201 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4202 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4203 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4204 it causes.
9bc73deb 4205
41bd17a4 4206 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
4207 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
4208 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
4209 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
4210 send it anyway.
4211
4212 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4213 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4214 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4215 liable for problems which it causes.
4216
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4217 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4218 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4219 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4220 liable for problems which it causes.
4221
41bd17a4 4222 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4223 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4224 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4225 liable for problems which it causes.
4226
4227 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4228 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4229 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4230 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4231 it causes.
4232
4233 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4234 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4235 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4236 if one is available.
4237
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4238 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4239 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4240 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4241 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4242 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4243
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4244 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4245 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4246 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4247
41bd17a4 4248 Basically a cached object is:
4249
4250 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4251 STALE if age > max
4252 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4253 FRESH if age < min
4254 else STALE
4255
4256 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4257 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4258 match the default will be used.
4259
4260 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4261 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4262 used.
4263
41bd17a4 4264NOCOMMENT_START
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4265
4266# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 4267refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4268refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4269refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4270refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4271NOCOMMENT_END
4272DOC_END
4273
4274NAME: quick_abort_min
4275COMMENT: (KB)
4276TYPE: kb_int64_t
4277DEFAULT: 16 KB
4278LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4279DOC_NONE
4280
4281NAME: quick_abort_max
4282COMMENT: (KB)
4283TYPE: kb_int64_t
4284DEFAULT: 16 KB
4285LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4286DOC_NONE
4287
4288NAME: quick_abort_pct
4289COMMENT: (percent)
4290TYPE: int
4291DEFAULT: 95
4292LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4293DOC_START
4294 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4295 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4296 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4297 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4298 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4299 downloads.
4300
4301 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4302 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4303 then.
4304
4305 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4306 it will finish the retrieval.
4307
4308 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4309 it will abort the retrieval.
4310
4311 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4312 it will finish the retrieval.
4313
4314 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4315 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4316 to '0 KB'.
4317
4318 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4319 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4320DOC_END
60d096f4 4321
41bd17a4 4322NAME: read_ahead_gap
4323COMMENT: buffer-size
4324TYPE: b_int64_t
4325LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4326DEFAULT: 16 KB
4327DOC_START
4328 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4329 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4330DOC_END
53e738c6 4331
41bd17a4 4332NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4333IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4334COMMENT: time-units
4335TYPE: time_t
4336LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4337DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4338DOC_START
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4339 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4340 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4341 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4342 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4343 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4344 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4345
4346 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4347
4348 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4349 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4350 causes.
41bd17a4 4351DOC_END
53e738c6 4352
41bd17a4 4353NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4354COMMENT: time-units
4355TYPE: time_t
4356LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4357DEFAULT: 6 hours
4358DOC_START
4359 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4360 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4361 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4362DOC_END
c4ab8329 4363
41bd17a4 4364NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4365COMMENT: time-units
4366TYPE: time_t
4367LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4368DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4369DOC_START
4370 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4371 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4372 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4373 much below 10 seconds.
4374DOC_END
7df0bfd7 4375
41bd17a4 4376NAME: range_offset_limit
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4377COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4378TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4379LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4380DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4381DOC_START
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4382 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4383
4384 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4385 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4386 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4387 the result is NOT cached.
4388
41bd17a4 4389 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4390 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4391 sending anything to the client.
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4392
4393 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4394 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4395 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4396 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4397
4398 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4399
4400 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4401 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4402
4403 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4404 client requested. (default)
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4405
4406 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4407 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4408
4409 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4410
4411 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4412 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4413 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4414 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4415DOC_END
d95b862f 4416
41bd17a4 4417NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4418COMMENT: (seconds)
4419TYPE: time_t
4420LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4421DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4422DOC_START
4423 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4424 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4425 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4426 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4427 is most likely better to make your server return a
4428 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4429 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4430 often be best set to 0.
4431DOC_END
c68e9c6b 4432
41bd17a4 4433NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4434COMMENT: (bytes)
4435TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4436DEFAULT: 13 KB
4437LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4438DOC_START
4439 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4440 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4441DOC_END
4442
41bd17a4 4443NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4444TYPE: int
4445DEFAULT: 20
4446LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4447DOC_START
4448 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4449 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4450 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4451DOC_END
4452
4453COMMENT_START
4454 HTTP OPTIONS
4455 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4456COMMENT_END
4457
f04b37d8 4458NAME: request_header_max_size
4459COMMENT: (KB)
4460TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4461DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4462LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4463DOC_START
4464 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4465 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4466 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4467 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4468 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4469DOC_END
4470
4471NAME: reply_header_max_size
4472COMMENT: (KB)
4473TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4474DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4475LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4476DOC_START
4477 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4478 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4479 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4480 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4481 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4482DOC_END
4483
4484NAME: request_body_max_size
4485COMMENT: (bytes)
4486TYPE: b_int64_t
4487DEFAULT: 0 KB
4488LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4489DOC_START
4490 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4491 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4492 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4493 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4494 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4495 be no limit imposed.
4496DOC_END
4497
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4498NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4499COMMENT: (bytes)
4500TYPE: b_size_t
4501DEFAULT: 512 KB
4502LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4503DOC_START
4504 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4505 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4506 a large file.
4507DOC_END
4508
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4509NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4510COMMENT: (bytes)
4511TYPE: b_int64_t
4512DEFAULT: 64 KB
4513LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4514DOC_START
4515 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4516 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4517 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4518 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4519 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4520 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4521
4522 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4523 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4524 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4525 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4526 as if dechunking was disabled.
4527
4528 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4529 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4530
4531 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4532 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4533 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4534DOC_END
4535
41bd17a4 4536NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4537IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4538TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4539DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4540LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4541DOC_START
41bd17a4 4542 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4543 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4544
41bd17a4 4545 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4546 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4547
41bd17a4 4548 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4549
41bd17a4 4550 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4551 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4552 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4553 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 4554
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4555 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4556 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4557
41bd17a4 4558Example:
4559 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4560 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4561DOC_END
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22fff3bf 4563NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4564COMMENT: on|off
4565TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4566IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4567DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4568LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4569DOC_START
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4570 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4571 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4572
4573 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4574DOC_END
4575
41bd17a4 4576NAME: via
626096be 4577IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4578COMMENT: on|off
4579TYPE: onoff
4580DEFAULT: on
4581LOC: Config.onoff.via
4582DOC_START
4583 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4584 replies as required by RFC2616.
4585DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4586
41bd17a4 4587NAME: ie_refresh
4588COMMENT: on|off
4589TYPE: onoff
4590LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4591DEFAULT: off
4592DOC_START
4593 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4594 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4595 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4596 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4597 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4598 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4599 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4600 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4601 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4602 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4603 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4604 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4605 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4606 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4607 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4608 force fresh content.
4609DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4611NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4612COMMENT: on|off
4613TYPE: onoff
4614LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4615DEFAULT: off
4616DOC_START
4617 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4618 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4619 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4620 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4621 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4622
4623 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4624 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4625DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4627NAME: request_entities
4628TYPE: onoff
4629LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4630DEFAULT: off
4631DOC_START
4632 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4633 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4634 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4635
41bd17a4 4636 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4637 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4638 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4639 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4640 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4641DOC_END
6b53c392 4642
41bd17a4 4643NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4644IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4645TYPE: http_header_access[]
4646LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4647DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4648DOC_START
41bd17a4 4649 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4650
41bd17a4 4651 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4652 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4653 causes.
0976f8db 4654
41bd17a4 4655 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4656 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4657 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4658 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4659 mangling.
934b03fc 4660
41bd17a4 4661 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4662 client to the server.
5401aa8d 4663
41bd17a4 4664 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4665 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4666 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 4667
41bd17a4 4668 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4669 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4670
41bd17a4 4671 request_header_access From deny all
4672 request_header_access Referer deny all
4673 request_header_access Server deny all
4674 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4675 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4676 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4677
41bd17a4 4678 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4679 you should use:
5401aa8d 4680
41bd17a4 4681 request_header_access Allow allow all
4682 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4683 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4684 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4685 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4686 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4687 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4688 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4689 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4690 request_header_access Date allow all
4691 request_header_access Expires allow all
4692 request_header_access Host allow all
4693 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4694 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4695 request_header_access Location allow all
4696 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4697 request_header_access Accept allow all
4698 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4699 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4700 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4701 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4702 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4703 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4704 request_header_access Title allow all
4705 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4706 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4707
41bd17a4 4708 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4709 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4710
41bd17a4 4711 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4712 performed).
5401aa8d 4713DOC_END
4714
41bd17a4 4715NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4716IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4717TYPE: http_header_access[]
4718LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4719DEFAULT: none
4720DOC_START
41bd17a4 4721 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4722
41bd17a4 4723 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4724 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4725 causes.
934b03fc 4726
41bd17a4 4727 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4728 server to the client.
934b03fc 4729
41bd17a4 4730 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4731 direction.
6b53c392 4732
41bd17a4 4733 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4734 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4735 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4736 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4737 mangling.
cccac0a2 4738
41bd17a4 4739 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4740 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4741 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 4742
41bd17a4 4743 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4744 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4745
41bd17a4 4746 reply_header_access From deny all
4747 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4748 reply_header_access Server deny all
4749 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4750 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4751 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4752
41bd17a4 4753 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4754 you should use:
cccac0a2 4755
41bd17a4 4756 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4757 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4758 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4759 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4760 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4761 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4762 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4763 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4764 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4765 reply_header_access Date allow all
4766 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4767 reply_header_access Host allow all
4768 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4769 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4770 reply_header_access Location allow all
4771 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4772 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4773 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4774 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4775 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4776 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4777 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4778 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4779 reply_header_access Title allow all
4780 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4781 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4782
41bd17a4 4783 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4784 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4785
41bd17a4 4786 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4787 performed).
cccac0a2 4788DOC_END
4789
75e4f2ea 4790NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4791IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4792TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4793LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4794DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4795DOC_START
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4796 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4797 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4798
41bd17a4 4799 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4800 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4801 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4802 option.
cccac0a2 4803
41bd17a4 4804 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4805
41bd17a4 4806 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4807DOC_END
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4809NAME: reply_header_replace
4810IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4811TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4812LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4813DEFAULT: none
4814DOC_START
4815 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4816 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4817
4818 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4819 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4820 with some fixed string.
4821
4822 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4823
4824 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4825DOC_END
4826
41bd17a4 4827NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4828COMMENT: on|off|warn
4829TYPE: tristate
4830LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4831DEFAULT: on
4832DOC_START
4833 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4834 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4835 what the sending application intended even if the message
4836 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4837 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4838
41bd17a4 4839 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4840 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4841
41bd17a4 4842 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4843 or response to be rejected.
4844DOC_END
7d90757b 4845
41bd17a4 4846COMMENT_START
4847 TIMEOUTS
4848 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4849COMMENT_END
4850
4851NAME: forward_timeout
4852COMMENT: time-units
4853TYPE: time_t
4854LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4855DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4856DOC_START
4857 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4858 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4859DOC_END
4860
41bd17a4 4861NAME: connect_timeout
4862COMMENT: time-units
4863TYPE: time_t
4864LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4865DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4866DOC_START
41bd17a4 4867 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4868 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4869 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4870DOC_END
4871
41bd17a4 4872NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4873COMMENT: time-units
4874TYPE: time_t
4875LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4876DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4877DOC_START
41bd17a4 4878 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4879 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4880 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4881 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4882DOC_END
7f7db318 4883
41bd17a4 4884NAME: read_timeout
4885COMMENT: time-units
4886TYPE: time_t
4887LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4888DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4889DOC_START
4890 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4891 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4892 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4893 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4894 default is 15 minutes.
4895DOC_END
cccac0a2 4896
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4897NAME: write_timeout
4898COMMENT: time-units
4899TYPE: time_t
4900LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4901DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4902DOC_START
4903 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4904 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4905 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4906 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4907 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4908 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4909 default is 15 minutes.
4910DOC_END
4911
41bd17a4 4912NAME: request_timeout
4913TYPE: time_t
4914LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4915DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4916DOC_START
6b2a2108 4917 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 4918 connection establishment.
4919DOC_END
cccac0a2 4920
97b32442 4921NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 4922TYPE: time_t
97b32442 4923LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 4924DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4925DOC_START
4926 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 4927 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 4928DOC_END
cccac0a2 4929
41bd17a4 4930NAME: client_lifetime
4931COMMENT: time-units
4932TYPE: time_t
4933LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4934DEFAULT: 1 day
4935DOC_START
4936 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4937 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4938 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4939 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4940 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4941 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4942 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4943
41bd17a4 4944 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4945 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4946 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4947 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4948 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4949 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4950DOC_END
4951
41bd17a4 4952NAME: half_closed_clients
4953TYPE: onoff
4954LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4955DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4956DOC_START
41bd17a4 4957 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4958 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4959 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4960 fully-closed TCP connection.
4961
4962 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4963 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4964
abdf1651 4965 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4966 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4967 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4968 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4969DOC_END
4970
97b32442 4971NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 4972TYPE: time_t
97b32442 4973LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 4974DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4975DOC_START
41bd17a4 4976 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4977 proxies.
4978DOC_END
cccac0a2 4979
41bd17a4 4980NAME: ident_timeout
4981TYPE: time_t
4982IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4983LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4984DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4985DOC_START
4986 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4987
41bd17a4 4988 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4989 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4990 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4991DOC_END
4992
41bd17a4 4993NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4994COMMENT: time-units
4995TYPE: time_t
4996LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4997DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4998DOC_START
41bd17a4 4999 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5000 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5001 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5002 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5003 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5004DOC_END
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cccac0a2 5006COMMENT_START
5007 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5008 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5009COMMENT_END
5010
5011NAME: cache_mgr
5012TYPE: string
5013DEFAULT: webmaster
5014LOC: Config.adminEmail
5015DOC_START
5016 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
5017 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
5018DOC_END
5019
abacf776 5020NAME: mail_from
5021TYPE: string
5022DEFAULT: none
5023LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5024DOC_START
5025 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
5026 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 5027 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 5028 src/globals.h before building squid.
5029DOC_END
5030
d084bf20 5031NAME: mail_program
5032TYPE: eol
5033DEFAULT: mail
5034LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5035DOC_START
5036 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5037 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5038 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5039 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5040
d084bf20 5041 Optional command line options can be specified.
5042DOC_END
5043
cccac0a2 5044NAME: cache_effective_user
5045TYPE: string
5483d916 5046DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5047LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5048DOC_START
5049 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5050 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5051 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5052 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5053DOC_END
5054
cccac0a2 5055NAME: cache_effective_group
5056TYPE: string
5057DEFAULT: none
5058LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5059DOC_START
64e288bd 5060 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5061 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5062 from the groups membership.
5063
e3d74828 5064 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5065 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5066 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5067 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5068 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5069 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5070 group.
64e288bd 5071
5072 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5073 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5074 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5075DOC_END
5076
d3caee79 5077NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5078COMMENT: on|off
5079TYPE: onoff
5080DEFAULT: off
5081LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5082DOC_START
5083 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5084DOC_END
5085
cccac0a2 5086NAME: visible_hostname
5087TYPE: string
5088LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5089DEFAULT: none
5090DOC_START
5091 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 5092 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 5093 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5094 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5095 names with this setting.
5096DOC_END
5097
cccac0a2 5098NAME: unique_hostname
5099TYPE: string
5100LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5101DEFAULT: none
5102DOC_START
5103 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 5104 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5105 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 5106DOC_END
5107
cccac0a2 5108NAME: hostname_aliases
5109TYPE: wordlist
5110LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5111DEFAULT: none
5112DOC_START
7f7db318 5113 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 5114DOC_END
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5116NAME: umask
5117TYPE: int
5118LOC: Config.umask
5119DEFAULT: 027
5120DOC_START
5121 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5122 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5123
5124 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5125 your value with 0.
5126DOC_END
5127
cccac0a2 5128COMMENT_START
5129 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5130 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5131
5132 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5133 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5134 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5135 create cache hierarchies.
5136
5137 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5138 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5139 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5140
5141 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5142 following information from this configuration file:
5143
5144 http_port
5145 icp_port
5146 cache_mgr
5147
5148 All current information is processed regularly and made
5149 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5150COMMENT_END
5151
5152NAME: announce_period
5153TYPE: time_t
5154LOC: Config.Announce.period
5155DEFAULT: 0
5156DOC_START
5157 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
5158 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
5159 messages.
5160
e0855596 5161 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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5163 Example:
5164 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 5165DOC_END
5166
cccac0a2 5167NAME: announce_host
5168TYPE: string
5169DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5170LOC: Config.Announce.host
5171DOC_NONE
5172
5173NAME: announce_file
5174TYPE: string
5175DEFAULT: none
5176LOC: Config.Announce.file
5177DOC_NONE
5178
5179NAME: announce_port
ae870270 5180TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 5181DEFAULT: 3131
5182LOC: Config.Announce.port
5183DOC_START
5184 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
5185 number where the registration message will be sent.
5186
5187 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
5188 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
5189 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
5190 message.
5191DOC_END
5192
8d6275c0 5193COMMENT_START
5194 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5196COMMENT_END
5197
cccac0a2 5198NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5199TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5200DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5201LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5202DOC_START
5203 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5204 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5205 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5206 an identification token.
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5207
5208 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5209DOC_END
5210
5211NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5212COMMENT: on|off
5213TYPE: onoff
5214DEFAULT: off
5215LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5216DOC_START
5217 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
5218 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5219DOC_END
5220
5221NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5222IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5223COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5224TYPE: string
5225LOC: ESIParser::Type
5226DEFAULT: custom
5227DOC_START
5228 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5229 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5230 encodings.
5231DOC_END
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9edd9041 5233COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5234 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5235 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5236COMMENT_END
5237
5238NAME: delay_pools
5239TYPE: delay_pool_count
5240DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5241IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5242LOC: Config.Delay
5243DOC_START
5244 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5245 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5246 have a total of 2 delay pools.
5247DOC_END
5248
5249NAME: delay_class
5250TYPE: delay_pool_class
5251DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5252IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5253LOC: Config.Delay
5254DOC_START
5255 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5256 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5257 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5258 and here would be:
5259
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5260 Example:
5261 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5262 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5263 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5264 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5265 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5266
5267 The delay pool classes are:
5268
5269 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5270 bucket.
5271
5272 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5273 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5274 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5275
5276 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5277 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5278 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5279 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5280 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5281
5282 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5283 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5284 only takes effect if the username is established
5285 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5286 http_access rules.
5287
5288 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5289 external_acl's tag= reply).
5290
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5292 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5293 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5294 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5295
9edd9041 5296 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5297 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5298 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5299 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5300
5301 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5302 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5303DOC_END
5304
5305NAME: delay_access
5306TYPE: delay_pool_access
5307DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5308IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5309LOC: Config.Delay
5310DOC_START
5311 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5312
5313 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5314 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5315 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5316 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5317
5318 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5319 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5320
5321Example:
5322 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5323 delay_access 1 deny all
5324 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5325 delay_access 2 deny all
5326 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5327DOC_END
5328
5329NAME: delay_parameters
5330TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5331DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5332IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5333LOC: Config.Delay
5334DOC_START
5335 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5336 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5337 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5338
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5339 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5340 delay_pools pool 1
5341 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5342
5343 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5344 delay_pools pool 2
5345 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5346
5347 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5348 delay_pools pool 3
5349 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5350
5351 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5352 delay_pools pool 4
5353 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5354
5355 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5356 delay_pools pool 5
5357 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5358
0b68481a 5359 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5360
5361 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5362 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5363 delay_class lines.
5364
fdb47ac6 5365 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5366 (class 1, 2, 3).
5367
fdb47ac6 5368 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5369 buckets (class 2, 3).
5370
fdb47ac6 5371 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5372 (class 3).
5373
fdb47ac6 5374 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5375 (class 4).
5376
fdb47ac6 5377 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5378 (class 5).
5379
5380 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5381 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5382 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5383 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5384
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5385 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5386
5387
9edd9041 5388 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5389 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5390 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5391
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5392 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5393
5394 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5395
5396 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5397
0b68481a 5398
9edd9041 5399 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5400 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5401 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5402 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5403 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5404 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5405 large downloads more significantly:
5406
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5407 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5408
5409 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5410 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5411 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5412
9edd9041 5413
5414 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5415 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5416
0b68481a 5417 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5418DOC_END
5419
5420NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5421COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5422TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5423DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5424IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5425LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5426DOC_START
5427 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5428 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5429 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5430 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5431 "seen" by squid).
5432DOC_END
5433
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5434COMMENT_START
5435 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5436 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5437COMMENT_END
5438
5439NAME: client_delay_pools
5440TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5441DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5442IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5443LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5444DOC_START
5445 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5446 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5447
5448Example:
5449 client_delay_pools 2
5450DOC_END
5451
5452NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5453COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5454TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5455DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5456IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5457LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5458DOC_START
5459 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5460 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5461 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5462 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5463
5464 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5465 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5466 from client_delay_parameters.
5467
5468Example:
5469 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5470DOC_END
5471
5472NAME: client_delay_parameters
5473TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5474DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5475IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5476LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5477DOC_START
5478
5479 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5480 following format:
5481
5482 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5483
5484 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5485
5486 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5487
5488 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5489 speed_limit additions.
5490
5491 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5492 examples.
5493
5494Example:
5495 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5496 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5497DOC_END
5498
5499NAME: client_delay_access
5500TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5501DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5502IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5503LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5504DOC_START
5505
5506 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5507 request:
5508
5509 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5510
5511 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5512 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5513 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5514 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5515 limited.
5516
5517 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5518 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5519 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5520 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5521
5522 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5523
5524Example:
5525 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5526 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5527DOC_END
5528
cccac0a2 5529COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5530 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5531 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5532COMMENT_END
5533
8d6275c0 5534NAME: wccp_router
5535TYPE: address
5536LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5537DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5538IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5539DOC_START
5540 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5541 Squid.
5542
5543 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5544
5545 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5546
5547 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5548 which version of WCCP to use.
5549DOC_END
df2eec10 5550
8d6275c0 5551NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5552TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5553LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5554DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5555IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5556DOC_START
8d6275c0 5557 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5558 Squid.
cccac0a2 5559
8d6275c0 5560 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5561
8d6275c0 5562 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5563
8d6275c0 5564 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5565 which version of WCCP to use.
5566DOC_END
5567
5568NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5569TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5570LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5571DEFAULT: 4
5572IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5573DOC_START
8d6275c0 5574 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5575 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5576 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5577 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5578 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5579
8d6275c0 5580 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5581 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5582 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5583 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5584DOC_END
5585
8d6275c0 5586NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5587TYPE: onoff
5588LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5589DEFAULT: on
5590IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5591DOC_START
5592 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5593 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5594DOC_END
cccac0a2 5595
8d6275c0 5596NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5597TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5598LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5599DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5600IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5601DOC_START
699acd19 5602 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5603 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5604
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5605 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5606 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5607
8d6275c0 5608 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5609 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5610DOC_END
5611
8d6275c0 5612NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5613TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5614LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5615DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5616IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5617DOC_START
699acd19 5618 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5619 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5620 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5621
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5622 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5623 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5624
8d6275c0 5625 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5626 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5627
699acd19 5628 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5629 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5630 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5631 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5632DOC_END
5633
8d6275c0 5634NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5635TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5636LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5637DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5638IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5639DOC_START
8d6275c0 5640 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5641 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5642
451c4786 5643 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5644 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5645
8d6275c0 5646 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5647 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5648DOC_END
cccac0a2 5649
8d6275c0 5650NAME: wccp2_service
5651TYPE: wccp2_service
5652LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5653DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5654IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5655DOC_START
5656 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5657 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5658 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5659 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5660 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5661 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5662
5663 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5664 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5665
5666 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5667 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5668
5669 Examples:
5670
5671 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5672 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5673 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5674 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5675DOC_END
5676
5677NAME: wccp2_service_info
5678TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5679LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5680DEFAULT: none
5681IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5682DOC_START
5683 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5684 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5685
5686 The format is:
5687
5688 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5689 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5690
5691 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5692 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5693 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5694 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5695 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5696 + ports_source
5697
5698 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5699
5700 Example:
5701
5702 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5703 priority=240 ports=80
5704
5705 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5706 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5707DOC_END
5708
5709NAME: wccp2_weight
5710TYPE: int
5711LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5712DEFAULT: 10000
5713IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5714DOC_START
5715 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5716 hash proportional to their weight.
5717DOC_END
5718
5719NAME: wccp_address
5720TYPE: address
5721LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5722DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5723IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5724DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5725
8d6275c0 5726NAME: wccp2_address
5727TYPE: address
5728LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5729DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5730IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5731DOC_START
5732 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5733 interface address.
5734
5735 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5736DOC_END
5737
5738COMMENT_START
5739 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5740 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5741
5742 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5743COMMENT_END
5744
5745NAME: client_persistent_connections
5746TYPE: onoff
5747LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5748DEFAULT: on
5749DOC_NONE
5750
5751NAME: server_persistent_connections
5752TYPE: onoff
5753LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5754DEFAULT: on
5755DOC_START
5756 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5757 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5758 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5759 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5760DOC_END
5761
5762NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5763TYPE: onoff
5764LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5765DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5766DOC_START
5767 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5768 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5769 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5770DOC_END
5771
5772NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5773TYPE: onoff
5774LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5775DEFAULT: off
5776DOC_START
5777 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5778 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5779 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5780 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5781
5782 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5783 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5784 after 10 seconds timeout.
5785DOC_END
5786
5787COMMENT_START
5788 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5789 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5790COMMENT_END
5791
5792NAME: digest_generation
5793IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5794TYPE: onoff
5795LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5796DEFAULT: on
5797DOC_START
5798 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5799 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5800 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5801DOC_END
5802
5803NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5804IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5805TYPE: int
5806LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5807DEFAULT: 5
5808DOC_START
5809 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5810 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5811 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5812DOC_END
5813
5814NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5815IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5816COMMENT: (seconds)
5817TYPE: time_t
5818LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5819DEFAULT: 1 hour
5820DOC_START
749ceff8 5821 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5822DOC_END
5823
5824NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5825COMMENT: (seconds)
5826IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5827TYPE: time_t
5828LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5829DEFAULT: 1 hour
5830DOC_START
749ceff8 5831 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5832 disk.
5833DOC_END
5834
5835NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5836COMMENT: (bytes)
5837TYPE: b_size_t
5838IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5839LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5840DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5841DOC_START
5842 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5843 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5844 default swap page.
5845DOC_END
5846
5847NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5848COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5849IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5850TYPE: int
5851LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5852DEFAULT: 10
5853DOC_START
5854 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5855 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5856DOC_END
5857
1db9eacd 5858COMMENT_START
5473c134 5859 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5860 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5861COMMENT_END
5862
5473c134 5863NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5864TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5865LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5866DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5867IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5868DOC_START
87630341 5869 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5870 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5871 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5872 set to "0" (disabled)
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5873
5874 Example:
5875 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5876DOC_END
5877
5473c134 5878NAME: snmp_access
5879TYPE: acl_access
5880LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5881DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5882IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5883DOC_START
5473c134 5884 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5885
5473c134 5886 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5887 usage:
8d6275c0 5888
5473c134 5889 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5890
b3567eb5
FC
5891 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5892 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5893Example:
5894 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5895 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5896DOC_END
5897
5473c134 5898NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5899TYPE: address
5900LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5901DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5902IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5903DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5904
5473c134 5905NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5906TYPE: address
5907LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5908DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5909IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5910DOC_START
df2eec10 5911 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5912
5473c134 5913 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5914 messages from SNMP agents.
5915 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5916 agents.
cccac0a2 5917
0eb08770 5918 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5919 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5920
0eb08770
HN
5921 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5922 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5923 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5924 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5925
5473c134 5926 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5927 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5928DOC_END
5929
5473c134 5930COMMENT_START
5931 ICP OPTIONS
5932 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5933COMMENT_END
5934
5935NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 5936TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5937DEFAULT: 0
5938LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5939DOC_START
5473c134 5940 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5941 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5942 Default is disabled (0).
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5943
5944 Example:
5945 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5946DOC_END
5947
5473c134 5948NAME: htcp_port
5949IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 5950TYPE: u_short
87630341 5951DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5952LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5953DOC_START
5473c134 5954 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5955 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5956 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5957
5958 Example:
5959 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5960DOC_END
5961
5962NAME: log_icp_queries
5963COMMENT: on|off
5964TYPE: onoff
5965DEFAULT: on
5966LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5967DOC_START
5968 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5969 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5970 up or to simplify log analysis.
5971DOC_END
5972
5473c134 5973NAME: udp_incoming_address
5974TYPE: address
5975LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5976DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5977DOC_START
5978 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5979 caches.
5980
5981 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5982
5983 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5984 a specific interface/address.
5985
5986 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5987 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5988
5989 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5990
5991 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5992 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5993DOC_END
cccac0a2 5994
5473c134 5995NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5996TYPE: address
5997LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5998DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5999DOC_START
8524d4b2 6000 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6001 caches.
cccac0a2 6002
5473c134 6003 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6004
8524d4b2 6005 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6006 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6007 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6008 caches.
6009
8524d4b2 6010 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6011 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6012
6013 see also; udp_incoming_address
6014
5473c134 6015 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6016 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6017DOC_END
6018
3d1e3e43 6019NAME: icp_hit_stale
6020COMMENT: on|off
6021TYPE: onoff
6022DEFAULT: off
6023LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6024DOC_START
6025 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6026 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6027 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6028 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6029 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6030 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6031 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6032DOC_END
6033
5473c134 6034NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 6035TYPE: int
5473c134 6036DEFAULT: 4
6037LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 6038DOC_START
5473c134 6039 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6040 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 6041DOC_END
6042
5473c134 6043NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
6044TYPE: int
6045DEFAULT: 400
6046LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 6047DOC_START
5473c134 6048 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6049 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 6050DOC_END
6051
cccac0a2 6052NAME: netdb_low
6053TYPE: int
6054DEFAULT: 900
6055LOC: Config.Netdb.low
6056DOC_NONE
6057
6058NAME: netdb_high
6059TYPE: int
6060DEFAULT: 1000
6061LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6062DOC_START
6063 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
6064 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6065 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
6066 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
6067DOC_END
6068
cccac0a2 6069NAME: netdb_ping_period
6070TYPE: time_t
6071LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6072DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6073DOC_START
6074 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6075 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6076 network. The default is five minutes.
6077DOC_END
6078
cccac0a2 6079NAME: query_icmp
6080COMMENT: on|off
6081TYPE: onoff
6082DEFAULT: off
6083LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6084DOC_START
6085 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6086 replies, enable this option.
6087
6088 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 6089 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6090 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 6091 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6092 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6093 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6094 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6095 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6096DOC_END
6097
6098NAME: test_reachability
6099COMMENT: on|off
6100TYPE: onoff
6101DEFAULT: off
6102LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6103DOC_START
6104 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6105 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6106 database, or has a zero RTT.
6107DOC_END
6108
5473c134 6109NAME: icp_query_timeout
6110COMMENT: (msec)
6111DEFAULT: 0
6112TYPE: int
6113LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 6114DOC_START
5473c134 6115 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6116 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6117 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6118 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6119 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6120 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 6121
5473c134 6122 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 6123DOC_END
6124
5473c134 6125NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6126COMMENT: (msec)
6127DEFAULT: 2000
6128TYPE: int
6129LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 6130DOC_START
5473c134 6131 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6132 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6133 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6134 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6135 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6136 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6137DOC_END
6138
5473c134 6139NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6140COMMENT: (msec)
6141DEFAULT: 5
6142TYPE: int
6143LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 6144DOC_START
5473c134 6145 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6146 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6147 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6148 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6149 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6150 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6151 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6152DOC_END
6153
5473c134 6154NAME: background_ping_rate
6155COMMENT: time-units
6156TYPE: time_t
6157DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6158LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 6159DOC_START
5473c134 6160 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6161 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 6162DOC_END
6163
5473c134 6164COMMENT_START
6165 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6166 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6167COMMENT_END
6168
6169NAME: mcast_groups
6170TYPE: wordlist
6171LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 6172DEFAULT: none
6173DOC_START
5473c134 6174 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6175 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 6176
5473c134 6177 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6178 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6179 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6180 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6181 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6182 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6183 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 6184
5473c134 6185 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6186 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 6187
5473c134 6188 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
6189 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 6190
5473c134 6191 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 6192
5473c134 6193 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6194DOC_END
8c01ada0 6195
5473c134 6196NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6197IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6198TYPE: address
6199LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 6200DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6201DOC_START
6202 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6203 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 6204
5473c134 6205 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6206 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 6207DOC_END
6208
5473c134 6209NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6210IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6211TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6212LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6213DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 6214DOC_START
5473c134 6215 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6216 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6217 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6218DOC_END
cccac0a2 6219
5473c134 6220NAME: mcast_miss_port
6221IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6222TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6223LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6224DEFAULT: 3135
6225DOC_START
6226 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6227 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6228DOC_END
cccac0a2 6229
5473c134 6230NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6231IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6232TYPE: string
6233LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6234DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6235DOC_START
6236 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6237 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6238DOC_END
8c01ada0 6239
5473c134 6240NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6241COMMENT: (msec)
6242DEFAULT: 2000
6243TYPE: int
6244LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6245DOC_START
6246 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6247 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6248 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6249 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6250 seconds.
cccac0a2 6251DOC_END
6252
5473c134 6253COMMENT_START
6254 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6255 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6256COMMENT_END
6257
cccac0a2 6258NAME: icon_directory
6259TYPE: string
6260LOC: Config.icons.directory
6261DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6262DOC_START
6263 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6264 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6265DOC_END
6266
f024c970 6267NAME: global_internal_static
6268TYPE: onoff
6269LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6270DEFAULT: on
6271DOC_START
6272 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6273 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6274 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6275 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6276 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6277 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6278 the server generating a directory listing.
6279DOC_END
6280
5473c134 6281NAME: short_icon_urls
6282TYPE: onoff
6283LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6284DEFAULT: on
6285DOC_START
6286 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6287 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6288 it's own name and port in the URL.
6289
6290 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6291 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6292DOC_END
6293
6294COMMENT_START
6295 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6296 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6297COMMENT_END
6298
6299NAME: error_directory
6300TYPE: string
6301LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6302DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6303DOC_START
6304 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6305 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6306 the error/template files to another directory and point
6307 this tag at them.
6308
6309 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6310 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6311
6312 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6313 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6314 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6315 contributing your translation back to the project.
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AJ
6316 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6317
6318 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6319 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6320DOC_END
6321
6322NAME: error_default_language
6323IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6324TYPE: string
6325LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6326DEFAULT: none
6327DOC_START
6328 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6329 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6330 preferences.
6331
6332 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6333
6334 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6335 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6336 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6337 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6338DOC_END
6339
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6340NAME: error_log_languages
6341IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6342TYPE: onoff
6343LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6344DEFAULT: on
6345DOC_START
6346 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6347 auto-negotiate for translations.
6348
6349 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6350 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6351 of its error page translations.
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6352DOC_END
6353
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6354NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6355TYPE: string
6356LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6357DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6358DOC_START
6359 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6360
6361 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6362DOC_END
6363
5473c134 6364NAME: err_html_text
6365TYPE: eol
6366LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6367DEFAULT: none
6368DOC_START
6369 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6370 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6371 organizations Web page.
6372
6373 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6374 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6375 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6376 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6377DOC_END
6378
6379NAME: email_err_data
6380COMMENT: on|off
6381TYPE: onoff
6382LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6383DEFAULT: on
6384DOC_START
6385 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6386 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6387 so that the email body contains the data.
6388 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6389DOC_END
6390
6391NAME: deny_info
6392TYPE: denyinfo
6393LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6394DEFAULT: none
6395DOC_START
6396 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6397 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6398 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6399
6400 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6401 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6402 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6403 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6404
6405 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6406 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6407 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6408 the first authentication related acl encountered
6409 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6410 acl processed on the last http_access line.
3af10ac0
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6411 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6412 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6413
43000484
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6414 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6415 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6416 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6417
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6418 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6419 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6420 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6421
5473c134 6422 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6423 by specifying TCP_RESET.
15b02e9a
AJ
6424
6425 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6426 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6427 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6428 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6429 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6430
6431 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6432 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6433 %B - FTP path URL
6434 %e - Error number
6435 %E - Error description
6436 %h - Squid hostname
6437 %H - Request domain name
6438 %i - Client IP Address
6439 %M - Request Method
6440 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6441 %p - Request Port number
6442 %P - Request Protocol name
6443 %R - Request URL path
6444 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6445 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6446 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6447 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6448 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6449 %x - Error name
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6450 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6451
5473c134 6452DOC_END
6453
6454COMMENT_START
6455 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6456 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6457COMMENT_END
6458
6459NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6460TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6461LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6462DEFAULT: on
6463DOC_START
5473c134 6464 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6465 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6466 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6467
5473c134 6468 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6469 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6470
5473c134 6471 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6472 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6473 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6474
5473c134 6475 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6476 this directive.
8d6275c0 6477DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6478
5473c134 6479NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6480TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6481LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6482DEFAULT: off
6483DOC_START
5473c134 6484 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6485 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6486 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6487
5473c134 6488 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6489 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6490 fails.
6491
6492 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6493 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6494 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6495DOC_END
6496
5473c134 6497NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6498TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6499LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6500DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6501DOC_START
5473c134 6502 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6503
5473c134 6504 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6505 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6506 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6507 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6508 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6509
5473c134 6510 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6511 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6512
5473c134 6513 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6514
5473c134 6515 acl FTP proto FTP
6516 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6517
5473c134 6518 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6519 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6520 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6521 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6522 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6523
5473c134 6524 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6525 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6526 always_direct deny local-external
6527 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6528
5473c134 6529 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6530 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6531 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6532 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6533
5473c134 6534 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6535 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6536 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6537
b3567eb5
FC
6538 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6539 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6540DOC_END
0976f8db 6541
5473c134 6542NAME: never_direct
6543TYPE: acl_access
6544LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6545DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6546DOC_START
5473c134 6547 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6548
6549 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6550 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6551
6552 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6553 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6554 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6555 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6556
6557 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6558 never_direct deny local-servers
6559 never_direct allow all
6560
6561 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6562 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6563
6564 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6565 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6566 always_direct deny local-external
6567 always_direct allow local-intranet
6568 never_direct allow all
6569
b3567eb5
FC
6570 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6571 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6572DOC_END
0976f8db 6573
5473c134 6574COMMENT_START
6575 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6576 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6577COMMENT_END
6578
65d448bc 6579NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 6580TYPE: int
6581DEFAULT: 6
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6582LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
6583DOC_START
6584 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6585 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6586 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6587DOC_END
cccac0a2 6588
65d448bc 6589NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 6590TYPE: int
6591DEFAULT: 4
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AJ
6592LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
6593DOC_START
6594 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6595 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6596 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6597DOC_END
cccac0a2 6598
6599NAME: incoming_dns_average
6600TYPE: int
6601DEFAULT: 4
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AJ
6602LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
6603DOC_START
6604 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6605 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6606 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6607DOC_END
cccac0a2 6608
65d448bc 6609NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6610TYPE: int
6611DEFAULT: 8
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AJ
6612LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
6613DOC_START
6614 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6615 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6616 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6617DOC_END
cccac0a2 6618
6619NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6620TYPE: int
6621DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
6622LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
6623DOC_START
6624 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6625 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6626 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6627DOC_END
cccac0a2 6628
65d448bc 6629NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6630TYPE: int
6631DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 6632LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 6633DOC_START
5473c134 6634 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6635 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6636 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6637DOC_END
6638
6639NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6640TYPE: string
6641DEFAULT: none
6642LOC: Config.accept_filter
6643DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6644 FreeBSD:
6645
5473c134 6646 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6647 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6648 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6649
6650 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6651 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6652 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6653
6654 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6655 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6656 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6657
6658 Linux:
6659
6660 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6661 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6662 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6663 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6664 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6665EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6666# FreeBSD
5473c134 6667accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6668# Linux
6669accept_filter data
5473c134 6670DOC_END
6671
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6672NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6673TYPE: int
6674LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6675DEFAULT: -1
6676DOC_START
6677 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6678 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6679 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6680
6681 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6682 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6683
6684 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6685
6686 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6687 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6688DOC_END
6689
5473c134 6690NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6691COMMENT: (bytes)
6692TYPE: b_size_t
6693DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6694LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6695DOC_START
6696 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6697 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6698 the default buffer size.
6699DOC_END
6700
6701COMMENT_START
6702 ICAP OPTIONS
6703 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6704COMMENT_END
6705
6706NAME: icap_enable
6707TYPE: onoff
6708IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6709COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6710LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6711DEFAULT: off
6712DOC_START
53e738c6 6713 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6714DOC_END
6715
6716NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6717TYPE: time_t
6718DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6719LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6720IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6721DOC_START
6722 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6723 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6724 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6725
6726 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6727 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6728 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6729DOC_END
6730
6731NAME: icap_io_timeout
6732COMMENT: time-units
6733TYPE: time_t
6734DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6735LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6736IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6737DOC_START
6738 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6739 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6740 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6741 failure.
6742
6743 The default is read_timeout.
6744DOC_END
6745
6746NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6747COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6748TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6749IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6750LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6751DEFAULT: 10
6752DOC_START
6753 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6754 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6755 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6756 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6757 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6758
6759 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6760 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6761 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6762
6763 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6764 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6765 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6766 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6767 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6768
6769 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6770 effect on service failure expiration.
6771
6772 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6773 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6774 setting.
6775
6776 For example,
6777 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6778 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6779DOC_END
6780
5473c134 6781NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6782TYPE: int
5473c134 6783IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6784LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6785DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6786DOC_START
5473c134 6787 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6788 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6789 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6790 fetched.
cccac0a2 6791
5473c134 6792 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6793 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6794DOC_END
6795
5473c134 6796NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6797TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6798IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6799COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6800LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6801DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6802DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6803 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6804 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6805 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6806 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6807
6808 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6809 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6810 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6811
6812 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6813 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6814Example:
6815icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6816DOC_END
6817
5473c134 6818NAME: icap_preview_size
6819TYPE: int
6820IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6821LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6822DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6823DOC_START
53e738c6 6824 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6825 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6826 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6827DOC_END
6828
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6829NAME: icap_206_enable
6830TYPE: onoff
6831IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6832COMMENT: on|off
6833LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6834DEFAULT: on
6835DOC_START
6836 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6837 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6838 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6839 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6840
6841 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6842 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6843 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6844 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6845 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6846
6847 Example:
6848 icap_206_enable off
6849DOC_END
6850
5473c134 6851NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6852TYPE: int
6853IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6854LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6855DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6856DOC_START
53e738c6 6857 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6858 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6859DOC_END
6860
5473c134 6861NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6862TYPE: onoff
6863IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6864COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6865LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6866DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6867DOC_START
5473c134 6868 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6869 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6870DOC_END
6871
22fff3bf 6872NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6873TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6874IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6875COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6876LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6877DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6878DOC_START
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6879 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6880 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6881 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6882
6883 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6884DOC_END
6885
22fff3bf 6886NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6887TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6888IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6889COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6890LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6891DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6892DOC_START
5473c134 6893 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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6894 the adaptation service.
6895
6896 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6897 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6898 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6899DOC_END
6900
5473c134 6901NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6902TYPE: string
5473c134 6903IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6904LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6905DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6906DOC_START
db49f682 6907 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 6908DOC_END
6909
5473c134 6910NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6911TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6912IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6913COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6914LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6915DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6916DOC_START
5473c134 6917 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6918DOC_END
6919
5473c134 6920NAME: icap_service
6921TYPE: icap_service_type
6922IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6923LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6924DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6925DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6926 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6927
c25c2836 6928 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
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6930 id: ID
6931 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
6932 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
6933 services in squid.conf.
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6934
6935 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6936 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6937 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6938 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 6939
c25c2836 6940 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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6941 ICAP server and service location.
6942
6943 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6944 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6945 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6946 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6947 service_names differ.
6948
6949
6950 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6951 the following name=value options:
6952
6953 bypass=on|off|1|0
6954 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6955 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6956 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6957 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6958 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6959 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6960 returned to the HTTP client.
6961
6962 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6963
6964 routing=on|off|1|0
6965 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6966 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6967 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6968 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6969 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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6970 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
6971 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
6972 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
6973
6974 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6975 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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6976
6977 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6978 response header is ignored.
6979
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6980 ipv6=on|off
6981 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6982 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6983 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6984
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6985 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
6986 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
6987 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
6988 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
6989 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
6990 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
6991 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
6992
6993 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
6994 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
6995 workers may use a given service.
6996
6997 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
6998 otherwise it is set to "wait".
6999
7000
7001 max-conn=number
7002 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7003 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7004
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7005 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7006 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 7007
5473c134 7008Example:
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7009icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7010icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 7011DOC_END
7012
5473c134 7013NAME: icap_class
7014TYPE: icap_class_type
7015IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7016LOC: none
5473c134 7017DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7018DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7019 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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7020 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7021 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 7022
62c7f90e 7023 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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7024 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7025 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 7026DOC_END
7027
5473c134 7028NAME: icap_access
7029TYPE: icap_access_type
7030IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7031LOC: none
cccac0a2 7032DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7033DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7034 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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7035 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7036 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 7037DOC_END
7038
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7039COMMENT_START
7040 eCAP OPTIONS
7041 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7042COMMENT_END
7043
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7044NAME: ecap_enable
7045TYPE: onoff
7046IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7047COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 7048LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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7049DEFAULT: off
7050DOC_START
7051 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7052DOC_END
7053
7054NAME: ecap_service
7055TYPE: ecap_service_type
7056IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 7057LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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7058DEFAULT: none
7059DOC_START
7060 Defines a single eCAP service
7061
c25c2836 7062 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 7063
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7064 id: ID
7065 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7066 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7067 services in squid.conf.
7068
7069 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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7070 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7071 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7072 are not yet supported.
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7073
7074 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7075 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7076 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7077 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7078 the service provider.
7079
7080
7081 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7082 the following name=value options:
7083
7084 bypass=on|off|1|0
7085 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7086 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7087 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 7088 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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7089 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7090 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 7091 HTTP client.
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7092
7093 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7094
7095 routing=on|off|1|0
7096 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7097 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7098 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7099
7100 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7101 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7102
7103 Routing is not allowed by default.
7104
7105 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7106 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7107
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7108
7109Example:
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7110ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7111ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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7112DOC_END
7113
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7114NAME: loadable_modules
7115TYPE: wordlist
7116IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7117LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7118DEFAULT: none
7119DOC_START
7120 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7121 preloaded module(s).
7122Example:
7123loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7124DOC_END
7125
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7126COMMENT_START
7127 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7128 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7129COMMENT_END
7130
7131NAME: adaptation_service_set
7132TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7133IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7134LOC: none
7135DEFAULT: none
7136DOC_START
7137
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7138 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
7139 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7140
7141 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7142
7143 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7144 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7145 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7146 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7147 intact.
62c7f90e 7148
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7149 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7150 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 7151
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7152 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7153 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7154
7155 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7156 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7157 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7158 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7159 transaction fails as well.
7160
7161 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7162 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7163 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7164 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7165 matters.
7166
7167 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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7168
7169Example:
7170adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7171adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7172DOC_END
7173
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7174NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7175TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7176IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7177LOC: none
7178DEFAULT: none
7179DOC_START
7180
7181 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
7182 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
7183 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
7184
7185 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
7186
7187 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
7188 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
7189 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7190 the previous service in the chain.
7191
7192 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7193 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7194
7195 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7196 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7197 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7198
7199 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7200 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7201
7202 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7203 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7204 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7205 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7206
7207 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7208
7209Example:
7210adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7211DOC_END
7212
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7213NAME: adaptation_access
7214TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7215IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7216LOC: none
7217DEFAULT: none
7218DOC_START
7219 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7220
7221 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7222 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7223
7224 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7225 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7226 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7227 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7228
7229 - services serving different vectoring points
7230 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7231 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7232 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7233
7234 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7235 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7236 adaptation_service_set for details.
7237
7238 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7239 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7240 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7241 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7242
7243 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7244 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7245
7246 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7247
7248Example:
7249adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7250DOC_END
7251
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7252NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7253TYPE: int
7254IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7255LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7256DEFAULT: 16
7257DOC_START
7258 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7259 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7260 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7261 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7262 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7263 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7264
7265 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
7266
7267 See also: icap_service routing=1
7268DOC_END
7269
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7270NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
7271TYPE: string
7272IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7273LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
7274DEFAULT: none
7275DOC_START
7276 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
7277 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
7278 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
7279 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7280 with the master transaction.
7281
7282 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7283 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7284
7285 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7286 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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7287 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7288
7289 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7290 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7291 to provide an option with a name specified in
7292 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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7294 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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7295 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7296
7297 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7298
7299Example:
7300# share authentication information among ICAP services
7301adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7302DOC_END
7303
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7304NAME: adaptation_meta
7305TYPE: adaptation_meta_type
7306IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7307LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7308DEFAULT: none
7309DOC_START
7310 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7311 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7312 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7313 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7314
7315 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7316 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7317
7318 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7319 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7320 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7321 example:
7322
7323 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7324 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7325
7326 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7327 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7328
7329 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7330 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7331
7332 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7333 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7334 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7335 and double quotes. For example,
7336 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
7337DOC_END
7338
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7339NAME: icap_retry
7340TYPE: acl_access
7341IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7342LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7343DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7344DOC_START
7345 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7346 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7347 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7348 that response are usually retriable.
7349
7350 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7351
7352 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7353 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7354
7355 See also: icap_retry_limit
7356DOC_END
7357
7358NAME: icap_retry_limit
7359TYPE: int
7360IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7361LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7362DEFAULT: 0
7363DOC_START
7364 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7365 no retries are allowed.
7366
7367 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7368 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7369 count against this limit.
7370
7371 See also: icap_retry
7372DOC_END
7373
7374
5473c134 7375COMMENT_START
7376 DNS OPTIONS
7377 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7378COMMENT_END
7379
7380NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7381TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7382DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7383LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7384DOC_START
5473c134 7385 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7386 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7387 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7388DOC_END
7389
5473c134 7390NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7391TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7392DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7393LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7394DOC_START
5473c134 7395 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7396 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7397 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7398 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7399DOC_END
7400
5473c134 7401NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7402TYPE: string
f64091a7 7403IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 7404DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7405LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7406DOC_START
5473c134 7407 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7408DOC_END
7409
5473c134 7410NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7411TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 7412IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 7413DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7414LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7415DOC_START
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7416 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7417 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7418 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7419 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7420 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7421
7422 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7423 tuning.
7424
7425 startup=
7426
7427 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7428 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7429 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7430
7431 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7432 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7433
7434 idle=
7435
7436 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7437 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7438 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7439 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7440DOC_END
7441
5473c134 7442NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7443TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7444DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7445LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 7446IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7447DOC_START
5473c134 7448 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7449 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7450DOC_END
7451
5473c134 7452NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7453TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7454DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7455LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 7456IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7457DOC_START
5473c134 7458 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7459 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7460 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7461DOC_END
7462
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7463NAME: dns_packet_max
7464TYPE: b_ssize_t
7465DEFAULT: none
7466LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 7467IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7468DOC_START
7469 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7470 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7471
7472 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7473 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7474 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7475 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7476 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7477
7478 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7479 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7480 necessary.
7481
7482 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7483 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7484 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7485 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7486 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7487 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7488 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7489DOC_END
7490
5473c134 7491NAME: dns_defnames
7492COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7493TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7494DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7495LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7496DOC_START
5473c134 7497 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7498 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7499 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7500 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7501DOC_END
7502
5473c134 7503NAME: dns_nameservers
7504TYPE: wordlist
7505DEFAULT: none
7506LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7507DOC_START
5473c134 7508 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7509 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7510 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7511 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7512 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7513 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7514 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7515
5473c134 7516 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7517DOC_END
7518
5473c134 7519NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7520TYPE: string
5473c134 7521DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7522LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7523DOC_START
5473c134 7524 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7525 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7526 default locations:
7527 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7528 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7529 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7530 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7531 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7532 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7533 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7534 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7535
5473c134 7536 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7537 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7538 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7539 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7540
5473c134 7541 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7542 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7543 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7544 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7545 definitions.
cccac0a2 7546DOC_END
7547
5473c134 7548NAME: append_domain
7549TYPE: string
7550LOC: Config.appendDomain
7551DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7552DOC_START
5473c134 7553 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7554 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7555
7556 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7557 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7558 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7559
7560Example:
7561 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7562DOC_END
7563
5473c134 7564NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7565TYPE: onoff
7566LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7567DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 7568IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 7569DOC_START
5473c134 7570 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7571 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7572 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7573 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7574 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7575DOC_END
7576
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7577NAME: dns_v4_first
7578TYPE: onoff
7579DEFAULT: off
7580LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 7581IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7582DOC_START
7583 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7584 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7585
7586 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7587 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7588 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7589
7590 WARNING:
7591 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7592 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7593 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7594DOC_END
7595
6bc15a4f 7596NAME: ipcache_size
7597COMMENT: (number of entries)
7598TYPE: int
7599DEFAULT: 1024
7600LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7601DOC_NONE
7602
7603NAME: ipcache_low
7604COMMENT: (percent)
7605TYPE: int
7606DEFAULT: 90
7607LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7608DOC_NONE
7609
7610NAME: ipcache_high
7611COMMENT: (percent)
7612TYPE: int
7613DEFAULT: 95
7614LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7615DOC_START
7616 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7617DOC_END
7618
7619NAME: fqdncache_size
7620COMMENT: (number of entries)
7621TYPE: int
7622DEFAULT: 1024
7623LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7624DOC_START
7625 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7626DOC_END
7627
a58ff010 7628COMMENT_START
5473c134 7629 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7630 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7631COMMENT_END
7632
5473c134 7633NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7634COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7635TYPE: onoff
7636DEFAULT: on
7637LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7638DOC_START
5473c134 7639 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7640 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7641 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7642 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7643DOC_END
7644
5473c134 7645NAME: memory_pools_limit
7646COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7647TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7648DEFAULT: 5 MB
7649LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7650DOC_START
5473c134 7651 Used only with memory_pools on:
7652 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7653
5473c134 7654 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7655 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7656 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7657 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7658 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7659 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7660 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7661
89646bd7 7662 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7663 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7664
5473c134 7665 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7666 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7667
7668 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7669 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7670 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7671 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7672DOC_END
7673
5473c134 7674NAME: forwarded_for
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AJ
7675COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7676TYPE: string
5473c134 7677DEFAULT: on
7678LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7679DOC_START
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AJ
7680 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7681 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7682
5473c134 7683 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7684
67c06f0d 7685 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7686
7687 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
67c06f0d
AJ
7688
7689 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7690 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7691
7692 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7693 X-Forwarded-For header.
7694
7695 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7696 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7697DOC_END
7698
5473c134 7699NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7700TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7701DEFAULT: none
7702LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7703DOC_START
5473c134 7704 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7705
5473c134 7706 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7707
7708 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7709 5min
7710 60min
7711 asndb
7712 authenticator
7713 cbdata
7714 client_list
7715 comm_incoming
7716 config *
7717 counters
7718 delay
7719 digest_stats
7720 dns
7721 events
7722 filedescriptors
7723 fqdncache
7724 histograms
7725 http_headers
7726 info
7727 io
7728 ipcache
7729 mem
7730 menu
7731 netdb
7732 non_peers
7733 objects
7734 offline_toggle *
7735 pconn
7736 peer_select
b360c477 7737 reconfigure *
5473c134 7738 redirector
7739 refresh
7740 server_list
7741 shutdown *
7742 store_digest
7743 storedir
7744 utilization
7745 via_headers
7746 vm_objects
7747
7748 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7749 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7750
7751 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7752 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7753 password to "none".
7754
7755 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7756
7757Example:
7758 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7759 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7760 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7761DOC_END
7762
5473c134 7763NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7764COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7765TYPE: onoff
7766DEFAULT: on
7767LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7768DOC_START
5473c134 7769 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7770 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7771DOC_END
7772
5473c134 7773NAME: refresh_all_ims
7774COMMENT: on|off
7775TYPE: onoff
7776DEFAULT: off
7777LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7778DOC_START
5473c134 7779 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7780 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7781 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7782 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7783 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7784
5473c134 7785 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7786 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7787DOC_END
7788
5473c134 7789NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7790IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7791COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7792TYPE: onoff
7793DEFAULT: off
7794LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7795DOC_START
5473c134 7796 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7797 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7798 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7799 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7800 causes.
7801
7802 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7803DOC_END
7804
31ef19cd 7805NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7806TYPE: int
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AJ
7807LOC: Config.connect_retries
7808DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7809DOC_START
aed188fd
AJ
7810 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7811 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7812 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
7813
7814 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7815 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 7816
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AJ
7817 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7818 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7819
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AJ
7820 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7821 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7822 a useful server.
a58ff010 7823DOC_END
7824
5473c134 7825NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7826TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7827LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7828DEFAULT: off
7829DOC_START
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AJ
7830 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
7831 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
7832 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
7833 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
7834
7835 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
7836 work around access control errors.
7837
7838 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
7839 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 7840DOC_END
7841
5473c134 7842NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7843TYPE: string
5473c134 7844LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7845DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7846DOC_START
5473c134 7847 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7848 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7849DOC_END
7850
5473c134 7851NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7852TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7853LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7854DEFAULT: off
7855DOC_START
5473c134 7856 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7857 objects.
a58ff010 7858DOC_END
7859
5473c134 7860NAME: uri_whitespace
7861TYPE: uri_whitespace
7862LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7863DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7864DOC_START
5473c134 7865 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7866 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7867
5473c134 7868 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7869 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7870 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7871 Request" message.
7872 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7873 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7874 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7875 are in use.
7876 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7877 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7878 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7879 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7880 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7881 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7882 violation.
7883DOC_END
a58ff010 7884
5473c134 7885NAME: chroot
7886TYPE: string
7887LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7888DEFAULT: none
7889DOC_START
9f37c18a 7890 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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HN
7891 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7892 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7893 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7894 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7895DOC_END
a58ff010 7896
5473c134 7897NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7898TYPE: onoff
7899LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7900DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7901DOC_START
cc192b50 7902 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7903 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7904 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7905
5473c134 7906 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7907 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7908 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 7909
cc192b50 7910 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 7911DOC_END
7912
5473c134 7913NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7914TYPE: onoff
7915LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7916DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 7917DOC_START
5473c134 7918 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7919 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7920 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 7921
5473c134 7922 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7923 reasons.
a0e23afd
AJ
7924
7925 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 7926DOC_END
a58ff010 7927
5473c134 7928NAME: high_response_time_warning
7929TYPE: int
7930COMMENT: (msec)
7931LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7932DEFAULT: 0
7933DOC_START
7934 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7935 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7936 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 7937DOC_END
7938
5473c134 7939NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7940TYPE: int
7941LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7942DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 7943DOC_START
5473c134 7944 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7945 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7946 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7947 per second.
7948DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7949
5473c134 7950NAME: high_memory_warning
7951TYPE: b_size_t
7952LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 7953DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 7954DOC_START
7955 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7956 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7957 the administrators attention.
7958DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7959
5473c134 7960NAME: sleep_after_fork
7961COMMENT: (microseconds)
7962TYPE: int
7963LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7964DEFAULT: 0
7965DOC_START
7966 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7967 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7968 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7969 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7970 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7971 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7972 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7973 until all the child processes have been started.
7974 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7975 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7976DOC_END
7977
b6696974 7978NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7979IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
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7980COMMENT: on|off
7981TYPE: onoff
7982DEFAULT: on
7983LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7984DOC_START
7985 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7986 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7987 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7988 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7989 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7990 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7991DOC_END
7992
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7993NAME: eui_lookup
7994TYPE: onoff
7995IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7996DEFAULT: on
7997LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7998DOC_START
7999 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8000DOC_END
8001
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8002NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8003TYPE: int
8004DEFAULT: 0
8005LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8006DOC_START
8007 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
8008
8009 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
8010
8011 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
8012 not all comm loops supports large values.
8013DOC_END
8014
13aeac35 8015NAME: workers
007d775d 8016TYPE: int
13aeac35 8017LOC: Config.workers
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8018DEFAULT: 1
8019DOC_START
13aeac35 8020 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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8021 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8022 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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8023 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8024
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8025 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8026 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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8027DOC_END
8028
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8029NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8030TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8031LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8032DEFAULT: none
8033DOC_START
8034 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8035
8036 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8037
8038 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8039
8040 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8041 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8042
8043 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8044 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8045
8046 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8047
8048 See also: workers
8049DOC_END
8050
cccac0a2 8051EOF