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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 32
cccac0a2 33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
debd9a31 44
cccac0a2 45COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 46
592a09dc 47COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
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60
61
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62 Conditional configuration
63
64 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
65 depend on conditions:
66
67 if <CONDITION>
68 ... regular configuration directives ...
69 [else
70 ... regular configuration directives ...]
71 endif
72
73 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
74 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
75 configuration directives.
76
77 These individual conditions types are supported:
78
79 true
80 Always evaluates to true.
81 false
82 Always evaluates to false.
83 <integer> = <integer>
84 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
85
86
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87 SMP-Related Macros
88
89 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
90
91 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
92 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
93
94 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
95 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
96 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 97COMMENT_END
98
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99# Options Removed in 3.2
100NAME: ignore_expect_100
101TYPE: obsolete
102DOC_START
103 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
104DOC_END
105
106NAME: ftp_list_width
107TYPE: obsolete
108DOC_START
109 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
110DOC_END
111
112NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
113TYPE: obsolete
114DOC_START
115 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
116DOC_END
117
118# Options Removed in 3.1
119NAME: dns_testnames
120TYPE: obsolete
121DOC_START
122 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
123DOC_END
124
125NAME: extension_methods
126TYPE: obsolete
127DOC_START
128 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
129DOC_END
130
131# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
132NAME: incoming_rate
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_NONE
135
136NAME: server_http11
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
140DOC_END
141
142NAME: upgrade_http0.9
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
146DOC_END
147
148NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
152DOC_END
153
154# Options Removed in 3.0
155NAME: header_access
156TYPE: obsolete
157DOC_START
158 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
159 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
160DOC_END
161
162NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
163TYPE: obsolete
164DOC_START
165 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
166DOC_END
167
5473c134 168COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 169 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
171COMMENT_END
172
41bd17a4 173NAME: auth_param
174TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 175IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 176LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 177DEFAULT: none
178DOC_START
41bd17a4 179 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
180 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 181
41bd17a4 182 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 183
41bd17a4 184 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
185 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
186 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
187 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
188 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
189 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
190 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
191 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
192 program entry).
cccac0a2 193
41bd17a4 194 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
195 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
196 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
197 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 198
41bd17a4 199 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
200 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
201 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
202 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
203 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
204 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
205 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
206 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
207 type acl.
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
210 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
211 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
212 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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213 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
214 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 215
41bd17a4 216 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 "program" cmdline
219 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
220 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
221 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
222 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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223 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
224 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 225
41bd17a4 226 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
227 program is specified.
cccac0a2 228
41bd17a4 229 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
230 this line to something like
307b83b7 231
41bd17a4 232 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 233
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234 "utf8" on|off
235 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
236 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
237 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
238 username & password to the helper.
239
7353861b 240 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 241 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 242 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
243 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
244 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
245 authenticator processes.
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246
247 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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248 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
249 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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250 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
251 the maximum.
252
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253 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
254 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
255 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
256 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
257 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
258 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 259 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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260
261 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 262
41bd17a4 263 "realm" realmstring
264 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
265 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
266 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
267 password). There is no default.
268 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 269
41bd17a4 270 "credentialsttl" timetolive
271 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
272 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
273 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
274 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
275 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
276 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
277 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
278 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
279 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 280
41bd17a4 281 "casesensitive" on|off
282 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
283 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
284 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
285 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
286 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 287
41bd17a4 288 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 289
41bd17a4 290 "program" cmdline
291 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
292 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
293 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
294 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
295 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
296 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
297 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 298
41bd17a4 299 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
300 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 301
41bd17a4 302 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
303 something like
cccac0a2 304
7ce93108 305 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 306
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307 "utf8" on|off
308 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
309 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
310 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
311 username & password to the helper.
312
7353861b 313 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 314 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 315 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
316 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
317 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
318 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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319
320 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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321 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
322 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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323 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
324 the maximum.
325
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326 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
327 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
328 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
329 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
330 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
331 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
332 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
333
48d54e4d 334 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 335
41bd17a4 336 "realm" realmstring
337 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
338 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
339 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
340 password). There is no default.
341 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 342
41bd17a4 343 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
344 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
345 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 346
41bd17a4 347 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
348 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
349 valid for.
cccac0a2 350
41bd17a4 351 "nonce_max_count" number
352 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
353 used.
cccac0a2 354
41bd17a4 355 "nonce_strictness" on|off
356 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
357 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
358 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
359 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "check_nonce_count" on|off
362 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
363 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
364 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
365 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 366
41bd17a4 367 "post_workaround" on|off
368 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
369 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
370 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 "program" cmdline
375 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
376 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
377 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
378 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
379 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
380 is not used.
cccac0a2 381
41bd17a4 382 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 383
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384 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
385 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 386 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
387 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
388 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
389 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
390 processes.
cccac0a2 391
48d54e4d 392 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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393 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
394 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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395 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
396 the maximum.
397
398 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 399
41bd17a4 400 "keep_alive" on|off
401 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
402 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
403 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
404 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
405 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 406
41bd17a4 407 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 408
41bd17a4 409 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 410
41bd17a4 411 "program" cmdline
412 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
413 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
414 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
415 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
416 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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417 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
418 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
419 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 420 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
421 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 424
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425 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
426 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 427 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
428 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
429 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
430 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
431 processes.
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432
433 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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434 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
435 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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436 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
437 the maximum.
438
439 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 440
41bd17a4 441 "keep_alive" on|off
442 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
443 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
444 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
445 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
446 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 447
41bd17a4 448 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 449
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451 Examples:
452
41bd17a4 453#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
454#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 455#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 456#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 457#
41bd17a4 458#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 459#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 460#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 461#
41bd17a4 462#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 463#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 464#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
465#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
466#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
467#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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41bd17a4 469#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 470#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 471#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
472#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 473DOC_END
cccac0a2 474
41bd17a4 475NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
476TYPE: time_t
477DEFAULT: 1 hour
478LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
479DOC_START
480 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
481 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
482 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
483 have good reason to.
484DOC_END
cccac0a2 485
41bd17a4 486NAME: authenticate_ttl
487TYPE: time_t
488DEFAULT: 1 hour
489LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
490DOC_START
491 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
492 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
493 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
494 TTL are removed from memory.
495DOC_END
cccac0a2 496
41bd17a4 497NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
498TYPE: time_t
499LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
500DEFAULT: 0 seconds
501DOC_START
502 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
503 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
504 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
505 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
506 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
507 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
508 environment with relatively static address assignments.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
3d1e3e43 511COMMENT_START
512 ACCESS CONTROLS
513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
514COMMENT_END
515
41bd17a4 516NAME: external_acl_type
517TYPE: externalAclHelper
518LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 519DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 520DOC_START
41bd17a4 521 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
522 to look up the status
cccac0a2 523
41bd17a4 524 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 525
41bd17a4 526 Options:
cccac0a2 527
41bd17a4 528 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
529 for 1 hour)
530 negative_ttl=n
531 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
532 as ttl)
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533 children-max=n
534 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
535 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
536 children-startup=n
537 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
538 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
539 of this type. (default 0)
540 children-idle=n
541 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
542 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
543 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
544 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 545 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
546 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 547 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 548 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
549 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 550 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 551 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 552 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
553 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
055421ee 554 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 555
41bd17a4 556 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 557
41bd17a4 558 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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559 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
560 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
561 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 562 %IDENT Ident user name
563 %SRC Client IP
564 %SRCPORT Client source port
565 %URI Requested URI
566 %DST Requested host
567 %PROTO Requested protocol
568 %PORT Requested port
569 %PATH Requested URL path
570 %METHOD Request method
571 %MYADDR Squid interface address
572 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
573 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
574 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
575 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
576 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
577 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 578
c68c9682 579 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 580 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 581 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 582 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 583 HTTP request header list member using ; as
584 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
585 character.
cccac0a2 586
c68c9682 587 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 588 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 589 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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590 %<{Hdr:;member}
591 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
592 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
593 character.
594
41bd17a4 595 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
596 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
597 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 598
41bd17a4 599 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
600 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
601 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
602 more details.
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41bd17a4 604 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 605
41bd17a4 606 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 607
41bd17a4 608 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 609
41bd17a4 610 user= The users name (login)
611 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
612 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
613 in error pages
614 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
615 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
616 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
617 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 618
41bd17a4 619 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
620 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 621
41bd17a4 622 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
623 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
624 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 625
41bd17a4 626 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
627 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
628 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 629DOC_END
630
41bd17a4 631NAME: acl
632TYPE: acl
633LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 634DEFAULT: all src all
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635DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
636DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
637DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
638DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 639DOC_START
41bd17a4 640 Defining an Access List
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642 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
643 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
644 they are read from.
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646 acl aclname acltype argument ...
647 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 648
375eeb3b 649 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 650
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652 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
653 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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656 to access some external data source.
657 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
658 don't are marked as [fast].
659 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
660 for further information
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662 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
663
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664 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
665 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
666 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
667 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 668
41bd17a4 669 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
670 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
671 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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673 # other *BSD variants.
674 # [fast]
41bd17a4 675 #
676 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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677 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
678 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
679
680 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
681 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
682 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 683 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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684 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
685 # regex matching client name [slow]
686 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 687 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 688 #
41bd17a4 689 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
690 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
691 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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693 acl aclname src_as number ...
694 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 695 # [fast]
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696 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
697 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
698 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
699 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
700 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
701 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
702 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
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6db78a1a 704 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 705 # [fast]
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706 # match against a named cache_peer entry
707 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
708
375eeb3b 709 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 710 # [fast]
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712 # S - Sunday
713 # M - Monday
714 # T - Tuesday
715 # W - Wednesday
716 # H - Thursday
717 # F - Friday
718 # A - Saturday
719 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
720
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722 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
723 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
724 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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726 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
727 # ranges are alloed
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728 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
729 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
730
b3567eb5 731 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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733 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
734
735 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 736
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738 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 740 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 741 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 742
375eeb3b 743 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 744 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 745 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 746
375eeb3b 747 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 748 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 749 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 750 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 751
41bd17a4 752 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
753 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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755 # supplied credentials [slow]
756 #
757 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 758 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
759 #
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761 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
762 #
41bd17a4 763 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
764 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
765 # in access.log.
766 #
767 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
768 # to check username/password combinations (see
769 # auth_param directive).
770 #
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772 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 773 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 774
41bd17a4 775 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 776 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 777 # Example:
778 #
779 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 780
41bd17a4 781 acl aclname maxconn number
782 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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783 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
784 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
785 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 786
41bd17a4 787 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
788 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
789 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 790 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 791 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
792 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
793 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
794 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
795 # request is denied)
796 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
797 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
798 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 799
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800 acl aclname random probability
801 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
802 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
803 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
804
375eeb3b 805 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 806 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
807 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 808 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 809 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
810 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 811
41bd17a4 812 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
813 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
814 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 815 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 816
375eeb3b 817 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 818 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
819 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 820 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 821 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
822 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
823 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 824
41bd17a4 825 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
826 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
827 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 828 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 829
375eeb3b 830 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 831 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 832 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 833
41bd17a4 834 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
835 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 836 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 837
41bd17a4 838 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
839 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 840 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 841
41bd17a4 842 acl aclname ext_user username ...
843 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 844 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 845 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 846
0ab50441 847 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 848 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
cccac0a2 849
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850 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
851 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
852 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
853 #
854 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
855 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
856 # http_reply_access.
857
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859 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
860 acl myexample dst_as 1241
861 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
862 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
863 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 864
41bd17a4 865NOCOMMENT_START
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867# Recommended minimum configuration:
868#
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ee776778 870# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
871# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
872# should be allowed
873acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
874acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
875acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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876acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
877acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 879acl SSL_ports port 443
880acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
881acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
882acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
883acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
884acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
885acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
886acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
887acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
888acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
889acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
890acl CONNECT method CONNECT
891NOCOMMENT_END
892DOC_END
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894NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
895TYPE: acl_access
896IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
897LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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898DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
899DOC_START
900 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
901 find the original source of a request.
902
903 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
904 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
905 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
906 rightmost address being the most recent.
907
908 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
909 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
910 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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911 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
912 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
913 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
914 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
915 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
916 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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918 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
919 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 920 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 921 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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922 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
923 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 924
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926 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
927
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928 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
929
930 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
931 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
932 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
933 source address of the request. This may enable remote
934 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
935 based on the client's source addresses.
936
937 For example:
938
939 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
940 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
941 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
942 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
943DOC_END
944
945NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
946COMMENT: on|off
947TYPE: onoff
948IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
949DEFAULT: on
950LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
951DOC_START
952 Controls whether the indirect client address
953 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
954 direct client address in acl matching.
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956 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
957 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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959
960NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
961COMMENT: on|off
962TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 963IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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965LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
966DOC_START
967 Controls whether the indirect client address
968 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
969 direct client address in delay pools.
970DOC_END
971
972NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
973COMMENT: on|off
974TYPE: onoff
975IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
976DEFAULT: on
977LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
978DOC_START
979 Controls whether the indirect client address
980 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
981 direct client address in the access log.
982DOC_END
983
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984NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
985COMMENT: on|off
986TYPE: onoff
987IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 988DEFAULT: off
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989LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
990DOC_START
991 Controls whether the indirect client address
992 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
993 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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995 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
996 mode ports.
997
998 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
999 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
1000 of folow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
1001 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1003
41bd17a4 1004NAME: http_access
1005TYPE: acl_access
1006LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1007DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1008DOC_START
1009 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1010
41bd17a4 1011 Access to the HTTP port:
1012 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1013
41bd17a4 1014 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1016 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1017 the request.
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41bd17a4 1019 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1020 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1021 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1022 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1024 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1027 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1028
41bd17a4 1029NOCOMMENT_START
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1031#
1032# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1033#
1034# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1035http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1036http_access deny manager
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1038# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1039http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1041# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1042http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1044# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1045# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1046# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1047#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1049#
1050# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1051#
c8f4eac4 1052
ee776778 1053# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1054# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1055# from where browsing should be allowed
1056http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1057http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1058
41bd17a4 1059# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1060http_access deny all
1061NOCOMMENT_END
1062DOC_END
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1064NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1065TYPE: acl_access
1066LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1067DEFAULT: none
1068DOC_START
1069 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1070
1071 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1072 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1073 output.
1074
1075 If not set then only http_access is used.
1076DOC_END
1077
41bd17a4 1078NAME: http_reply_access
1079TYPE: acl_access
1080LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1081DEFAULT: none
1082DOC_START
1083 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1084
41bd17a4 1085 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1086
41bd17a4 1087 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1088 all replies
1a224843 1089
41bd17a4 1090 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1091 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1092 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1094 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1095 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1096DOC_END
1097
41bd17a4 1098NAME: icp_access
1099TYPE: acl_access
1100LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1101DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1102DOC_START
41bd17a4 1103 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1104 access lists
5473c134 1105
41bd17a4 1106 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1107
41bd17a4 1108 See http_access for details
1109
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1111 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1113# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1115#icp_access deny all
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1117
41bd17a4 1118NAME: htcp_access
1119IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1120TYPE: acl_access
1121LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1122DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1123DOC_START
41bd17a4 1124 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1125 access lists
5473c134 1126
41bd17a4 1127 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1129 See http_access for details
5473c134 1130
0b48417e 1131 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1132 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1133 using the htcp option.
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1136 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1138# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1140#htcp_access deny all
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41bd17a4 1143NAME: htcp_clr_access
1144IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1145TYPE: acl_access
1146LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1147DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1148DOC_START
1149 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1150 on defined access lists
5473c134 1151
41bd17a4 1152 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1153
41bd17a4 1154 See http_access for details
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1157 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1159# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1160acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1161htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1162DOC_END
1163
41bd17a4 1164NAME: miss_access
1165TYPE: acl_access
1166LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1167DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1168DOC_START
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1170
1171 For example;
1172 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1173 a parent.
5473c134 1174
41bd17a4 1175 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1176 miss_access allow localclients
1177 miss_access deny !localclients
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1179 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1180 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1181 objects (HITs).
1182
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1185 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1187 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1188 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1189DOC_END
1190
1191NAME: ident_lookup_access
1192TYPE: acl_access
1193IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1194DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1195LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1196DOC_START
41bd17a4 1197 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1198 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1199 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1200 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1201 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1202 any requests.
5473c134 1203
41bd17a4 1204 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1205 can follow this example:
5473c134 1206
4daaf3cb 1207 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1208 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1209 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1210
4daaf3cb 1211 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1212 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1213 the correct result.
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1215 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1216 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1217DOC_END
5473c134 1218
5b0f5383 1219NAME: reply_body_max_size
1220COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1221TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1222DEFAULT: none
1223LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1224DOC_START
1225 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1226 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1227 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1228 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1229 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1230 for this reply.
1231
1232 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1233 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1234 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1235 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1236 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1237 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1238 and they will receive a partial reply.
1239
1240 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1241 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1242 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1243 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1244
1245 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1246 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1247 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1248 the size of your largest error page.
1249
1250 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1251 no limit imposed.
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1253 Configuration Format is:
1254 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1255 ie.
1256 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1257
5b0f5383 1258DOC_END
1259
1260COMMENT_START
1261 NETWORK OPTIONS
1262 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1263COMMENT_END
1264
1265NAME: http_port ascii_port
1266TYPE: http_port_list
1267DEFAULT: none
1268LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1269DOC_START
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1270 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1271 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1272 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1273
1274 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1275 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1276 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1277 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1278 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1279 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1280 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1281
1282 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1283 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1284
1285 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1286 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1287 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1288
1289 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1290
c7b1dd5d 1291 Modes:
5b0f5383 1292
e77bdb4e 1293 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1294 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1295 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1296
1297 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1298 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1299 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1300
7f45065d 1301 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1302
3a0c8eb5 1303 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
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1305 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1306 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1307 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1308
1309 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1310 the SslBump feature.
1311
1312 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1313
1314
1315 Accelerator Mode Options:
1316
5b0f5383 1317 defaultsite=domainname
1318 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1319 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1320 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1321
cf673853 1322 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1323
1324 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1326 https_port
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1329 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
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1332 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
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1335 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1336 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1337 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
1338
1339 ignore-cc Ignore request Cache-Control headers.
1340
1341 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
1342 used in non-accelerator setups.
1343
1344 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1345 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1346 never_direct was used.
1347
1348 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1349 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1350 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1351 http_access rules when using this.
1352
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1354 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1355
1356 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1357
1358 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1359 if not specified, the certificate file is
1360 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1361 key file.
1362
1363 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1364 1 automatic (default)
1365 2 SSLv2 only
1366 3 SSLv3 only
1367 4 TLSv1 only
1368
1369 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1370
1371 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1372 being:
1373 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1374 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1375 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1376 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1377 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1378 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1379 documentation for a complete list of options.
1380
1381 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1382 requesting a client certificate.
1383
1384 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1385 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1386 clientca will be used.
1387
1388 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1389 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1390
1391 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1392 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1393 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1394
1395 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1396 DH key exchanges.
1397
1398 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1399 DELAYED_AUTH
1400 Don't request client certificates
1401 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1402 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1403 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1404 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1405 to OpenSSL.
1406 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1407 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1408 will result in a new SSL session.
1409 VERIFY_CRL
1410 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1411 certificates.
1412 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1413 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1414 client certificate chain.
1415
1416 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1417
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1419 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1420 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1421 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1422 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1423 certificate will be selfsigned.
1424 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1425 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1426 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1427 years.
1428 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1429 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1430
1431 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1432 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1433 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1434 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1435 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
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1437 Other Options:
1438
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1440 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1441 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1443
5b0f5383 1444 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1445 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1446 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1447 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1448 support is enabled.
1449 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1450
1451 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1452 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1453 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1454 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1455 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1456 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1457 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1458 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1459
81b6e9a7 1460 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1461 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1462
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1465 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1466 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1467 timeout the time before giving up.
1468
5b0f5383 1469 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1470 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1471 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1472 visible on the internal address.
1473
1474NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1476# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1477http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1478NOCOMMENT_END
1479DOC_END
1480
1481NAME: https_port
1482IFDEF: USE_SSL
1483TYPE: https_port_list
1484DEFAULT: none
1485LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1486DOC_START
7f45065d 1487 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1488
1489 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1490 requests.
1491
1492 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1493 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1494 accelerator level.
1495
1496 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1497 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1498
7f45065d 1499 Modes:
5b0f5383 1500
7f45065d 1501 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1502
7f45065d 1503 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1504
5b0f5383 1505
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1507
1508
1509 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1510
1511 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1512
1513 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1514 if not specified, the certificate file is
1515 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1516 key file.
1517
1518 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1519 1 automatic (default)
1520 2 SSLv2 only
1521 3 SSLv3 only
1522 4 TLSv1 only
1523
1524 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1525
1526 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1527 being:
1528 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1529 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1530 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1531 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1532 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1533 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1534 documentation for a complete list of options.
1535
1536 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1537 requesting a client certificate.
1538
1539 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1540 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1541 clientca will be used.
1542
1543 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1544 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1545
1546 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1547 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1548 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1549
1550 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1551 DH key exchanges.
1552
1553 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1554 DELAYED_AUTH
1555 Don't request client certificates
1556 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1557 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1558 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1559 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1560 to OpenSSL.
1561 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1562 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1563 will result in a new SSL session.
1564 VERIFY_CRL
1565 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1566 certificates.
1567 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1568 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1569 client certificate chain.
1570
1571 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1572
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1574
41bd17a4 1575NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1576TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1577DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1578LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1579DOC_START
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1581 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1582
41bd17a4 1583 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1584
41bd17a4 1585 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1586 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1589 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1590 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1591 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1592
41bd17a4 1593 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1595 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1596
41bd17a4 1597 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1598 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1600 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1601
41bd17a4 1602 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1603 matching line.
cccac0a2 1604DOC_END
1605
41bd17a4 1606NAME: clientside_tos
1607TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1608DEFAULT: none
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1610DOC_START
1611 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1612 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1613
1614 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1615
1616 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1617 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1618
1619 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1620 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1621 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1622 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1623
1624 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1625 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1626DOC_END
1627
1628NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1629TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1630IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1632LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1633DOC_START
1634 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1635 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1636
1637 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1638
1639 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1640 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1641
1642 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1643 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1644 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1645 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1646DOC_END
1647
1648NAME: clientside_mark
1649TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1650IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1652LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1653DOC_START
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1655 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1656
1657 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1658
1659 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1660 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1661
1662 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1663 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1664 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1665 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1666
1667 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1668 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1669DOC_END
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1672TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1673IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1674DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1675LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
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575cb927 1677 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1679 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1680 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1683 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1684 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1687 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1688 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1689
1690 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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1693
1694 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1696 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1697
1698 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1699
1700 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1701
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1703 over the preserve-miss feature (see below).
575cb927 1704
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1706 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1707 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1708 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1709 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1710
575cb927 1711 disable-preserve-miss
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1713 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1714 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1715 and masked with miss-mark.
1716 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1717 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1718 (MARK target).
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1720 miss-mask=0xFF
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1722 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1723 the TOS sent towards clients.
1724 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1725 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1726
1727 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1728 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1729 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1730 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1733
41bd17a4 1734NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1735TYPE: acl_address
1736DEFAULT: none
1737LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1738DOC_START
1739 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1740 based on the username or source address of the user making
1741 the request.
7f7db318 1742
41bd17a4 1743 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1746 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1749 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1750
1751 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1752 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1753
1754 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1755 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1756
1757 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1758 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1759
41bd17a4 1760 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1761 matching line.
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1764 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1765 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1766
1767
1768 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1769 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1770 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1771 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 1773 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1774 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1776 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
6b185b50 1777
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1779
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1780NAME: client_dst_passthru
1781TYPE: onoff
1782DEFAULT: on
1783LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1784DOC_START
1785 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1786 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1787 source.
1788
1789 This option (on by default) prevents cache_peer and alternative DNS
1790 entries being used on intercepted traffic. Both of which lead to
1791 the security vulnerability outlined below.
1792
1793 SECURITY WARNING:
1794
1795 This directive should only be disabled if cache_peer are required.
1796
1797 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1798 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1799 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1800 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1801
1802 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1803 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1804 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1805 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1806 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
1807
1808DOC_END
1809
41bd17a4 1810COMMENT_START
1811 SSL OPTIONS
1812 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1813COMMENT_END
1814
1815NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1816IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1817TYPE: onoff
1818DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1819LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1820DOC_START
41bd17a4 1821 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1822 messages.
cccac0a2 1823DOC_END
1824
41bd17a4 1825NAME: ssl_engine
1826IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1827TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1828LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1829DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1830DOC_START
41bd17a4 1831 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1832 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1833DOC_END
1834
41bd17a4 1835NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1836IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1837DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1838LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1839TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1840DOC_START
41bd17a4 1841 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1842DOC_END
1843
41bd17a4 1844NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1845IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1846DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1847LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1848TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1849DOC_START
41bd17a4 1850 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1851DOC_END
1852
41bd17a4 1853NAME: sslproxy_version
1854IFDEF: USE_SSL
1855DEFAULT: 1
1856LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1857TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1858DOC_START
41bd17a4 1859 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1860DOC_END
1861
41bd17a4 1862NAME: sslproxy_options
1863IFDEF: USE_SSL
1864DEFAULT: none
1865LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1866TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1867DOC_START
41bd17a4 1868 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1870 The most important being:
1871
1872 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1873 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1874 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1875 SINGLE_DH_USE
1876 Always create a new key when using
1877 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1878
1879 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1880 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1881 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 1882DOC_END
1883
41bd17a4 1884NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1885IFDEF: USE_SSL
1886DEFAULT: none
1887LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1888TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1889DOC_START
41bd17a4 1890 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1892 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1893DOC_END
1894
41bd17a4 1895NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1896IFDEF: USE_SSL
1897DEFAULT: none
1898LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1899TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1900DOC_START
41bd17a4 1901 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1902 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1903DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1905NAME: sslproxy_capath
1906IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1907DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1908LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1909TYPE: string
5473c134 1910DOC_START
41bd17a4 1911 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1912 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1913DOC_END
1914
4c9da963 1915NAME: ssl_bump
1916IFDEF: USE_SSL
1917TYPE: acl_access
1918LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1919DEFAULT: none
1920DOC_START
1921 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1922 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1923 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1924 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1925
1926 By default, no requests are bumped.
1927
e0c0d54c 1928 See also: http_port ssl-bump
4c9da963 1929
e0c0d54c 1930 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 1931 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1933
1934 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1935 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1936
1937 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1938 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1939 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1940 ssl_bump deny localhost
1941 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1942 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1943DOC_END
1944
41bd17a4 1945NAME: sslproxy_flags
1946IFDEF: USE_SSL
1947DEFAULT: none
1948LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1949TYPE: string
5473c134 1950DOC_START
41bd17a4 1951 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1952 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1953 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1954 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1955 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1956DOC_END
1957
4c9da963 1958NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1959IFDEF: USE_SSL
1960DEFAULT: none
1961LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1962TYPE: acl_access
1963DOC_START
1964 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1965
1966 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1967 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1968 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1969
1970 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1971 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1972 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1973
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1975 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1976 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 1977
1978 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1979 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1980 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1981 the connection may be insecure.
1982
1983 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1984
e0855596 1985 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 1986DOC_END
1987
41bd17a4 1988NAME: sslpassword_program
1989IFDEF: USE_SSL
1990DEFAULT: none
1991LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1992TYPE: string
5473c134 1993DOC_START
41bd17a4 1994 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1995 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1996 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1997 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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1999 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2000 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2001 keys.
5473c134 2002DOC_END
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2005 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2006 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2007COMMENT_END
2008
2009NAME: sslcrtd_program
2010TYPE: eol
2011IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2012DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2013LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2014DOC_START
2015 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2016 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2017 For more information use:
2018 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2019DOC_END
2020
2021NAME: sslcrtd_children
2022TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2023IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2024DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2025LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2026DOC_START
2027 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2028 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2029
2030 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2031 tuning.
2032
2033 startup=N
2034
2035 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2036 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2037 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2038
2039 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2040 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2041
2042 idle=N
2043
2044 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2045 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2046 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2047 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2048
2049 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2050DOC_END
2051
cccac0a2 2052COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2053 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2054 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2055COMMENT_END
2056
41bd17a4 2057NAME: cache_peer
2058TYPE: peer
2059DEFAULT: none
2060LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2061DOC_START
41bd17a4 2062 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2064 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2065
41bd17a4 2066 For example,
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41bd17a4 2068 # proxy icp
2069 # hostname type port port options
2070 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2071 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2072 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2073 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
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2075 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2076
2077 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2078
2079 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2080 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2081 For web servers this is usually 80
2082
2083 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2084 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2085 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2086
2087
2088 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2089
2090 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2091 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2092
2093
2094 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2095
2096 multicast-responder
2097 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2098 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2099 replies will be accepted from it.
2100
2101 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2102 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2103
2104 background-ping
2105 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2106 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2107 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2108
2109
2110 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2111
2112 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2113 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2114
2115
2116 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2117 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2119 list of options described below.
2b94f655 2120
18191440 2121 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2122
18191440 2123 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2124 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2125 only-clr.
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2127 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2128 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2b94f655 2129
18191440 2130 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2131 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2132 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2133
18191440 2134 htcp=forward-clr
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2135 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2136
2137
2138 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2139
2140 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2141 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2142
2143
2144 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2145 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2146 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2147
2148 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2149 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2150 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2151
2152 weighted-round-robin
2153 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2154 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2155 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2156 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2157 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2158
2159 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2160 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2161 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2162
2163 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2164
2165 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2167 multicast-siblings
2168 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2169 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2170 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
2171 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2172 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2173 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2174 members of the same multicast group.
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2176
2177 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2178
2179 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2180 peer-selection mechanisms.
2181 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2182 larger weights are favored more.
2183 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2184 protocol is not in use.
2185
2186 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2187 times of parents.
2188 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2189 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2190 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2191
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2193 to this address.
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2194 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2195 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2196 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2197 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2198
2199 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2200 delay pools.
2201
2202 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2203 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2204 than the Squid default location.
2205
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2208
2209 carp-key=key-specification
2210 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2211 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2212 scheme, host, port, path, params
2213 Order is not important.
2214
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2216
2217 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2218 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2219 is a web server.
2220
2221 forceddomain=name
2222 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2223 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2224 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2225 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2226
2227 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2228
2229 no-netdb-exchange
2230 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2231
2232
2233 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2234
2235 login=user:password
2236 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2237 requires proxy authentication.
2238
2239 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2240 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2241
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2243 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2244 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2245 without alteration to the peer.
2246 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2247
2248 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2249 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2250 connection-auth options are also used.
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2252 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2253 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2256 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2258 they may be sent instead.
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2260 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2261 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2262 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2263 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2264 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2265
2266 login=*:password
2267 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2268 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2269 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2270 needed to identify each user.
2271 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2272 information which is added to the username. This can
2273 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2274 the login=username:password option above.
2275
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2277 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2278 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2279 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2280 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2281
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2283 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2284 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2285
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2287 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2288 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2289 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2290 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2291 used.
2292
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2294 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2295 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2296
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2297 connection-auth=on|off
2298 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2299 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2300 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2301 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2302 of the peer.
2303
2304
2305 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2306
2307 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2308
2309 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2310 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2311 this peer.
2312
2313 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2314 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2315 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2316 reference a combined file containing both the
2317 certificate and the key.
2318
2319 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2320 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2321 1 = automatic (default)
2322 2 = SSL v2 only
2323 3 = SSL v3 only
2324 4 = TLS v1 only
2325
2326 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2327 to this peer.
2328
2329 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2330 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2331 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2332 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2333 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2334 a more complete list.
2335
2336 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2337 when verifying the peer certificate.
2338
2339 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2340 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2341
2342 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2343 verifying the peer certificate.
2344
2345 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2346
41bd17a4 2347 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2348 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2349 verify.
2350 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2351 Don't use the default CA list built in
2352 to OpenSSL.
2353 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2354 Don't verify the peer certificate
2355 matches the server name
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2357 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2358 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2359 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2360 used.
2361
2362 front-end-https
2363 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2364 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2365 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2366 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2367 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2368
2369
2370 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2371
2372 connect-timeout=N
2373 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2374 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2375
2376 connect-fail-limit=N
2377 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2378 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2379
2380 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2381 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2382 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2383 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2384 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2385 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2386 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2387
2388 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2389 peer. see also
2390
2391 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2392 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2393 but different ports.
2394 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2395 directives to dentify the peer.
2396 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2397 peername ACL type.
2398
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2400 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2401
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2403
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41bd17a4 2406NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2407TYPE: hostdomain
2408DEFAULT: none
2409LOC: none
2410DOC_START
2411 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2412 queried. Usage:
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41bd17a4 2414 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2415 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2416
41bd17a4 2417 For example, specifying
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41bd17a4 2419 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
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41bd17a4 2421 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2422 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2423 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2424 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2425 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2426
41bd17a4 2427 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2428 either on the same or separate lines.
2429 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2430 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2431 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2432 for all requests.
2433 * There are no defaults.
2434 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2435 section.
2436DOC_END
dd9b1776 2437
41bd17a4 2438NAME: cache_peer_access
2439TYPE: peer_access
2440DEFAULT: none
2441LOC: none
2442DOC_START
2443 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2444 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2445
41bd17a4 2446 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2447
41bd17a4 2448 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2449 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2450 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2451DOC_END
dd9b1776 2452
41bd17a4 2453NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2454TYPE: hostdomaintype
2455DEFAULT: none
2456LOC: none
2457DOC_START
2458 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2459
41bd17a4 2460 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2461 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2462 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2463 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2464 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2465 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2466
41bd17a4 2467EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2468 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2469 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2470 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2471DOC_END
6bf4f823 2472
41bd17a4 2473NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2474COMMENT: (seconds)
2475DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2476TYPE: time_t
2477LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2478DOC_START
2479 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2480 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2481 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2482 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2483 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2484 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2485
41bd17a4 2486 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2487 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2488 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2489 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2490 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2491 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2492 instead of to your parents.
2493DOC_END
cccac0a2 2494
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2495NAME: forward_max_tries
2496DEFAULT: 10
2497TYPE: int
2498LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2499DOC_START
2500 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2501 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2502
2503 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2504 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2505DOC_END
2506
41bd17a4 2507NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2508TYPE: wordlist
2509DEFAULT: none
2510LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2511DOC_START
2512 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2513 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2514 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2515 list this option multiple times.
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2517 Example:
2518 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2519
2520 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2521DOC_END
0976f8db 2522
41bd17a4 2523COMMENT_START
2524 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2525 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2526COMMENT_END
2527
2528NAME: cache_mem
2529COMMENT: (bytes)
2530TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2531DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2532LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2533DOC_START
41bd17a4 2534 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2535 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2536 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2537 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2538
2539 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2540 for:
2541 * In-Transit objects
2542 * Hot Objects
2543 * Negative-Cached objects
2544
2545 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2546 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2547 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2548 priority.
2549
2550 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2551 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2552 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2553 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2554 not needed for in-transit objects.
2555
2556 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2557 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2558 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2559 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2560 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2561 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2562 objects.
6b698a21 2563DOC_END
0976f8db 2564
41bd17a4 2565NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2566COMMENT: (bytes)
2567TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2568DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2569LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2570DOC_START
41bd17a4 2571 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2572 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2573 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2574 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2575DOC_END
0976f8db 2576
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2577NAME: memory_cache_mode
2578TYPE: memcachemode
2579LOC: Config
2580DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2581DOC_START
ea21d497 2582 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2583
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2584 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2585
2586 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2587 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2588 a second time before cached in memory.
2589
2590 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2591DOC_END
2592
41bd17a4 2593NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2594TYPE: removalpolicy
2595LOC: Config.memPolicy
2596DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2597DOC_START
41bd17a4 2598 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2599 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2600
41bd17a4 2601 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2602DOC_END
6b698a21 2603
41bd17a4 2604COMMENT_START
2605 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2606 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2607COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2608
41bd17a4 2609NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2610TYPE: removalpolicy
2611LOC: Config.replPolicy
2612DEFAULT: lru
2613DOC_START
2614 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2615 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2616
41bd17a4 2617 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2618 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2619 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2620 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2621
41bd17a4 2622 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2623
41bd17a4 2624 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2625
41bd17a4 2626 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2627 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2628 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2629 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2630
41bd17a4 2631 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2632 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2633 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2634 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2635
41bd17a4 2636 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2637 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2638 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2639
41bd17a4 2640 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2641 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2642 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2643
41bd17a4 2644 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2645 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2646 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2647DOC_END
0976f8db 2648
41bd17a4 2649NAME: cache_dir
2650TYPE: cachedir
2651DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2652LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2653DOC_START
41bd17a4 2654 Usage:
0976f8db 2655
41bd17a4 2656 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2657
41bd17a4 2658 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2659 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2660
41bd17a4 2661 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2662 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2663 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2664
41bd17a4 2665 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2666 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2667 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2668 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2669 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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2671 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2672 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2673 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2674
41bd17a4 2675 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2676
41bd17a4 2677 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2678 been there.
0976f8db 2679
41bd17a4 2680 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2681
41bd17a4 2682 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2683 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2684 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2685 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2686 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2687
56fba4d0 2688 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2689 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2690
56fba4d0 2691 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2692 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2693 is 256.
0976f8db 2694
41bd17a4 2695 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2696
41bd17a4 2697 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2698 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2699 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2700
41bd17a4 2701 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2702
41bd17a4 2703 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2704
41bd17a4 2705 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2706
41bd17a4 2707 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2708 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2709 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2710
41bd17a4 2711 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2712
41bd17a4 2713 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2714
41bd17a4 2715 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2716 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2717 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2718
41bd17a4 2719 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2720 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2721 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2722
41bd17a4 2723 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2724 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2725 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2726 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2727 time.
0976f8db 2728
41bd17a4 2729 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2730
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2731 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2732 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2733 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2734
41bd17a4 2735 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2736 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2737 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2738 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2739 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2740 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2741 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2742
41bd17a4 2743 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2744 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2745 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2746
41bd17a4 2747 Common options:
0976f8db 2748
41bd17a4 2749 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2750
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2751 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
2752 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
2753 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
2754 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
2755
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2756 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
2757 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 2758 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2759 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2760 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2761
41bd17a4 2762 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2763 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2764 option.
bebc043b 2765NOCOMMENT_START
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2767# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2768#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2769NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2770DOC_END
0976f8db 2771
41bd17a4 2772NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2773TYPE: string
2774LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2775DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2776DOC_START
41bd17a4 2777 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2778DOC_END
0976f8db 2779
41bd17a4 2780NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2781TYPE: int
2782LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2783DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2784DOC_START
41bd17a4 2785 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2786 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2787 descriptors are open.
2788
2789 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2790DOC_END
0976f8db 2791
41bd17a4 2792NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2793COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2794TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2795DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2796LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2797DOC_START
41bd17a4 2798 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2799 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2800 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2801DOC_END
0976f8db 2802
41bd17a4 2803NAME: maximum_object_size
2804COMMENT: (bytes)
2805TYPE: b_int64_t
2806DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2807LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2808DOC_START
41bd17a4 2809 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2810 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2811 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2812 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2813 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2814 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2815
41bd17a4 2816 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2817 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2818 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2819DOC_END
0976f8db 2820
41bd17a4 2821NAME: cache_swap_low
2822COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2823TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2824DEFAULT: 90
2825LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2826DOC_NONE
2827
2828NAME: cache_swap_high
2829COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2830TYPE: int
2831DEFAULT: 95
2832LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2833DOC_START
41bd17a4 2834
2835 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2836 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2837 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2838 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2839 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2840 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2841
2842 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2843 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2844 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2845DOC_END
0976f8db 2846
5473c134 2847COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2848 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2849 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2850COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2851
41bd17a4 2852NAME: logformat
2853TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 2854LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 2855DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2856DOC_START
41bd17a4 2857 Usage:
0976f8db 2858
41bd17a4 2859 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2860
41bd17a4 2861 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2862
41bd17a4 2863 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2864
41bd17a4 2865 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2866 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2867 as required according to their context and the output format
2868 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2869 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2870
41bd17a4 2871 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2872
41bd17a4 2873 " output in quoted string format
2874 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2875 # output in URL quoted format
2876 ' output as-is
5473c134 2877
41bd17a4 2878 - left aligned
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2880 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
2881 [width_min][.width_max]
2882 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
2883 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
2884
41bd17a4 2885 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2886
41bd17a4 2887 Format codes:
5473c134 2888
3ff65596 2889 % a literal % character
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2890 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
2891 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
2892 a similar internal error identifier.
2893 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
2894
2895 Connection related format codes:
2896
41bd17a4 2897 >a Client source IP address
2898 >A Client FQDN
2899 >p Client source port
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2900 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
2901 >la Local IP address the client connected to
2902 >lp Local port number the client connected to
2903
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2904 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
2905 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
2906
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2907 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
2908 <A Server FQDN or peer name
2909 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 2910 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 2911 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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2912
2913 Time related format codes:
2914
41bd17a4 2915 ts Seconds since epoch
2916 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2917 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2918 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2919 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2920 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2921 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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2923
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2924 Access Control related format codes:
2925
2926 et Tag returned by external acl
2927 ea Log string returned by external acl
2928 un User name (any available)
2929 ul User name from authentication
2930 ue User name from external acl helper
2931 ui User name from ident
2932 us User name from SSL
2933
2934 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 2935
ca2e92d8 2936 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 2937 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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2938 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
2939 Optional header name argument as for >h
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2940 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2941 as for >h
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2942 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2943 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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2944 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
2945 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
2946 transfer encoding and control messages.
2947 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
2948 received bodies.
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2949 [http::]mt MIME content type
2950 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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2951 [http::]>rm Request method from client
2952 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
2953 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
2954 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
2955 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 2956 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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2957 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
2958 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 2959 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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2960 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
2961 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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2962 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2963 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2964 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
2965 are not included
2966 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
2967 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
2968 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
2969 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
2970 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
2971 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
2972 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
2973 and stops when the last response byte is received.
2974 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
2975 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
2976 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
2977 with the last I/O with the last peer.
2978
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2979 Squid handling related format codes:
2980
2981 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2982 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2983
5038f9d8 2984 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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2985 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
2986
2987 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
2988 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
2989 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
2990 transaction is in progress.
2991
5038f9d8 2992 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 2993
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2995 meta-information from the last eCAP
2996 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
2997 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
2998 argument.
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3000 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3001 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3002 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3003 value is recorded as an integer number,
3004 representing response time of one or more
3005 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3006 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3007 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3008 logged individually but added to the
3009 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3010 adapt::all_trs.
3011
3012 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3013 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3014 individual transactions are never added
3015 together. Instead, all transaction response
3016 times are recorded individually.
3017
3018 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3019 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3020 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3021
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3023
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3024logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3025logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3026logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3027logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3028logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3029
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3030 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3031 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3032 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3033
3034 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3035 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3036
5473c134 3037DOC_END
3038
41bd17a4 3039NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3040TYPE: access_log
3041LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3042DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3043DOC_START
41bd17a4 3044 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3045 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3046 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3047 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3049 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3050 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3051 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3052 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3053
3054 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3055
bb7a1781 3056 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3057 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3058
3059 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3060 each request.
3061 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3062
3063 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3064 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3065 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3066
3067 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3068
3069 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3070 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3071 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3072
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3074 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3075
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3076 And priority could be any of:
3077 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3078
3079 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3080 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3081 Place Format: \\host:port
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3083 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3084 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3085 Place Format: \\host:port
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3087 Default:
82b7abe3 3088 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3089DOC_END
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3092TYPE: access_log
3093IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3094LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3095DEFAULT: none
3096DOC_START
3097 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3098 transaction.
3099
3100 The icap_log option format is:
3101 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3102 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3103
3104 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3105 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3106 features.
3107
3108 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3109 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3110 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3111 log line.
3112
3113 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3114 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3115 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3116 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3117 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3118 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3119 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3120
3121 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3122
3123 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3124
3125 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3126 option in Squid configuration file.
3127
3128 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3129
3130 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3131 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3132
3133 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3134 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3135
3136 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3137 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3138 the socket).
3139
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3140 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3141 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3142 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3143 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3144 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3145 computed.
3146
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3148 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3149 the ICAP transaction is created and
3150 stops when the transaction is completed.
3151 Similar to tr.
3152
3153 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3154 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3155 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3156 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3157 is received.
3158
3159 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3160 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3161 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3162 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3163 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3164 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3165
3166 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3167
3168 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3169
3170 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3171
3172 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3173 definition, is called icap_squid:
3174
3175logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3176
5038f9d8 3177 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3179
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3180NAME: logfile_daemon
3181TYPE: string
3182DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3183LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3184DOC_START
3185 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3186 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3187
3188 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3189 L<data>\n - logfile data
3190 R\n - rotate file
3191 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3192 O\n - reopen file
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3193 F\n - flush file
3194 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3195 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3196
3197 No responses is expected.
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3198DOC_END
3199
5b0f5383 3200NAME: log_access
3201TYPE: acl_access
3202LOC: Config.accessList.log
3203DEFAULT: none
3204COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3205DOC_START
3206 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3207 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3208 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3209
3210 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3211 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3212DOC_END
3213
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3214NAME: log_icap
3215TYPE: acl_access
3216IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3217LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3218DEFAULT: none
3219DOC_START
3220 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3221 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3222DOC_END
3223
41bd17a4 3224NAME: cache_store_log
3225TYPE: string
df2eec10 3226DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3227LOC: Config.Log.store
3228DOC_START
3229 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3230 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3232 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3233 disable it.
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3235 Example:
3236 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3237DOC_END
3238
41bd17a4 3239NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3240TYPE: string
3241LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3242DEFAULT: none
3243DOC_START
41bd17a4 3244 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3245 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3246 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3247 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3248 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3249 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3250 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3251
41bd17a4 3252 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3253 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3254 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3255 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3256
41bd17a4 3257 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3258 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3259
41bd17a4 3260 cache_swap_log.00
3261 cache_swap_log.01
3262 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3263
41bd17a4 3264 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3265 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3266 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3267 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3268 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3269 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3270 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3271DOC_END
3272
41bd17a4 3273NAME: logfile_rotate
3274TYPE: int
3275DEFAULT: 10
3276LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3277DOC_START
41bd17a4 3278 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3279 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3280 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3281 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3282 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3283 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 3284
41bd17a4 3285 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3286 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3287 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3288 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3289 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3290 <pid>'.
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3292 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3293 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3294DOC_END
5473c134 3295
41bd17a4 3296NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3297TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3298DOC_START
20efa1c2 3299 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3300DOC_END
3301
41bd17a4 3302NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3303TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3304DOC_START
8652f8e7 3305 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3306DOC_END
5473c134 3307
41bd17a4 3308NAME: mime_table
3309TYPE: string
3310DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3311LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3312DOC_START
3313 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3314 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3315 information if you do.
5473c134 3316DOC_END
3317
41bd17a4 3318NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3319COMMENT: on|off
3320TYPE: onoff
3321LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3322DEFAULT: off
3323DOC_START
3324 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3325 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3326 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3327 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3328 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3329DOC_END
5473c134 3330
41bd17a4 3331NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3332TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3333DOC_START
20efa1c2 3334 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3335DOC_END
3336
41bd17a4 3337NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3338TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3339DOC_START
20efa1c2 3340 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3341DOC_END
3342
41bd17a4 3343NAME: pid_filename
3344TYPE: string
3345DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3346LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3347DOC_START
41bd17a4 3348 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3349DOC_END
3350
41bd17a4 3351NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3352TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3353DOC_START
c581e96b 3354 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3355DOC_END
3356
41bd17a4 3357NAME: client_netmask
3358TYPE: address
3359LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3360DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3361DOC_START
41bd17a4 3362 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3363 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3364 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3365 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3366DOC_END
3367
41bd17a4 3368NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3369TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3370DOC_START
20efa1c2 3371 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3372DOC_END
3373
41bd17a4 3374NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3375TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3376LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3377DEFAULT: on
3378DOC_START
41bd17a4 3379 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3380 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3381DOC_END
3382
41bd17a4 3383NAME: buffered_logs
3384COMMENT: on|off
3385TYPE: onoff
3386DEFAULT: off
3387LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3388DOC_START
41bd17a4 3389 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3390 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3391 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3392 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3393 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 3394DOC_END
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2b753521 3396NAME: netdb_filename
3397TYPE: string
3398DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3399LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3400IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3401DOC_START
3402 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3403 To disable, enter "none".
3404DOC_END
3405
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3407 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3408 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3409COMMENT_END
3410
3411NAME: cache_log
3412TYPE: string
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3413DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3414LOC: Debug::cache_log
3415DOC_START
3416 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3417 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3418 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3419DOC_END
3420
3421NAME: debug_options
3422TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3423DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3424LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3425DOC_START
3426 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3427 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3428 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3429 log file, so be careful.
3430
3431 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3432 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3433
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3435 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3436 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3437 events affecting Squid.
3438DOC_END
3439
3440NAME: coredump_dir
3441TYPE: string
3442LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3443DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3444DOC_START
3445 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3446 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3447 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3448 and coredump files will be left there.
3449
3450NOCOMMENT_START
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3452# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3453coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3454NOCOMMENT_END
3455DOC_END
3456
3457
41bd17a4 3458COMMENT_START
3459 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3460 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3461COMMENT_END
3462
3463NAME: ftp_user
3464TYPE: string
3465DEFAULT: Squid@
3466LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3467DOC_START
41bd17a4 3468 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3469 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3470 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3471
41bd17a4 3472 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3473 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3474 depending on how the cache is used.
3475 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3476 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3477DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3479NAME: ftp_passive
3480TYPE: onoff
3481DEFAULT: on
3482LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3483DOC_START
41bd17a4 3484 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3485 connections, turn off this option.
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3487 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3488DOC_END
3489
3490NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3491TYPE: onoff
3492DEFAULT: off
3493LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3494DOC_START
3495 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3496
3497 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3498 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3499 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3500
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3502 useful.
a689bd4e 3503 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3504 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3505
3506 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3507 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3508
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3510DOC_END
3511
3512NAME: ftp_epsv
3513TYPE: onoff
3514DEFAULT: on
3515LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3516DOC_START
3517 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3518
3519 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3520 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3521 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3522 will never be needed.
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3524 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3525 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3526 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3527
3528 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3529DOC_END
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3531NAME: ftp_eprt
3532TYPE: onoff
3533DEFAULT: on
3534LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3535DOC_START
3536 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3537
3538 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3539 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3540 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3541
3542 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3543 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3544
3545 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3546 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3547 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3548 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3549
3550 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3551 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3552DOC_END
3553
41bd17a4 3554NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3555TYPE: onoff
3556DEFAULT: on
3557LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3558DOC_START
3559 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3560 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3561 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3562 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3563 connection turn this off.
3564DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3565
41bd17a4 3566NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3567TYPE: onoff
3568DEFAULT: on
3569LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3570DOC_START
3571 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3572 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3573 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3574 the FTP protocol.
3575
3576 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3577 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3578 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3579 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3580 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3581DOC_END
3582
3583COMMENT_START
3584 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3585 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3586COMMENT_END
3587
3588NAME: diskd_program
3589TYPE: string
3590DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3591LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3592DOC_START
3593 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3594 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3595 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3596DOC_END
3597
3598NAME: unlinkd_program
3599IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3600TYPE: string
3601DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3602LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3603DOC_START
3604 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3605DOC_END
3606
3607NAME: pinger_program
3608TYPE: string
3609DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3610LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3611IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3612DOC_START
3613 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3614DOC_END
3615
cc192b50 3616NAME: pinger_enable
3617TYPE: onoff
3618DEFAULT: on
3619LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3620IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3621DOC_START
3622 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3623 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3624 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3625DOC_END
3626
3627
41bd17a4 3628COMMENT_START
3629 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3630 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3631COMMENT_END
3632
3633NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3634TYPE: wordlist
3635LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3636DEFAULT: none
3637DOC_START
2c7aad89 3638 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 3639 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3640
2c7aad89 3641 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 3642
c71adec1 3643 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3644
3645 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3646 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3647 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3648 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3649
3650 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3651 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3652
3653 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3654 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 3655 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 3656
3657 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3658DOC_END
3659
3660NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3661TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3662DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3663LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3664DOC_START
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3665 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3666 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3667 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3668 and other system resources noticably.
3669
3670 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3671 tuning.
3672
3673 startup=
3674
3675 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3676 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3677 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3678
3679 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3680 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3681
3682 idle=
3683
3684 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3685 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3686 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3687 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3688
3689 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3690
41bd17a4 3691 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3692 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3693 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3694
3695 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3696 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3697 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3698 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3699 to that request.
41bd17a4 3700DOC_END
3701
3702NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3703TYPE: onoff
3704DEFAULT: on
3705LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3706DOC_START
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3707 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
3708 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
3709 any Host: header in redirected requests.
3710
3711 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
3712 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
3713 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
3714
41bd17a4 3715 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3716 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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3717
3718 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
3719 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
3720 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 3721DOC_END
3722
3723NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3724TYPE: acl_access
3725DEFAULT: none
3726LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3727DOC_START
3728 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3729 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3730 are sent.
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3731
3732 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3733 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3734DOC_END
3735
3736NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3737TYPE: onoff
3738LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3739DEFAULT: off
3740DOC_START
3741 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3742 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3743 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3744 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3745 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3746 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3747 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3748 users may have access to pages they should not
3749 be allowed to request.
3750DOC_END
3751
3752COMMENT_START
3753 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3754 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3755COMMENT_END
3756
f04b37d8 3757NAME: cache no_cache
3758TYPE: acl_access
3759DEFAULT: none
3760LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3761DOC_START
240887f0 3762 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3763 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3764 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3765
240887f0 3766 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3767 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3768
240887f0 3769 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3770
3771 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3772 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3773DOC_END
3774
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3775NAME: max_stale
3776COMMENT: time-units
3777TYPE: time_t
3778LOC: Config.maxStale
3779DEFAULT: 1 week
3780DOC_START
3781 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
3782 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
3783 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
3784DOC_END
3785
41bd17a4 3786NAME: refresh_pattern
3787TYPE: refreshpattern
3788LOC: Config.Refresh
3789DEFAULT: none
3790DOC_START
3791 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3792
6b698a21 3793 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3794 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3795
41bd17a4 3796 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3797 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3798 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3799 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3800 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3801
41bd17a4 3802 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3803 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3804 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3805
41bd17a4 3806 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3807 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3808
41bd17a4 3809 options: override-expire
3810 override-lastmod
3811 reload-into-ims
3812 ignore-reload
3813 ignore-no-cache
3814 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3815 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3816 ignore-private
3817 ignore-auth
570d3f75 3818 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 3819 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 3820 store-stale
a0ec9f68 3821
41bd17a4 3822 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3823 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3824 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3825 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3826 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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3828 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3829 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3830 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3831 the object fresh for that period of time.
3832
41bd17a4 3833 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3834 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3835
41bd17a4 3836 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3837 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3838 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3839 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3840
41bd17a4 3841 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3842 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3843 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3844 it causes.
9bc73deb 3845
41bd17a4 3846 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3847 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3848 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3849 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3850 send it anyway.
3851
3852 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3853 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3854 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3855 liable for problems which it causes.
3856
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3857 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3858 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3859 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3860 liable for problems which it causes.
3861
41bd17a4 3862 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3863 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3864 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3865 liable for problems which it causes.
3866
3867 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3868 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3869 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3870 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3871 it causes.
3872
3873 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3874 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3875 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3876 if one is available.
3877
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3878 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3879 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3880 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3881 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3882 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3883
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3884 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
3885 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
3886 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
3887
41bd17a4 3888 Basically a cached object is:
3889
3890 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3891 STALE if age > max
3892 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3893 FRESH if age < min
3894 else STALE
3895
3896 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3897 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3898 match the default will be used.
3899
3900 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3901 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3902 used.
3903
41bd17a4 3904NOCOMMENT_START
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3905
3906# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 3907refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3908refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 3909refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 3910refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3911NOCOMMENT_END
3912DOC_END
3913
3914NAME: quick_abort_min
3915COMMENT: (KB)
3916TYPE: kb_int64_t
3917DEFAULT: 16 KB
3918LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3919DOC_NONE
3920
3921NAME: quick_abort_max
3922COMMENT: (KB)
3923TYPE: kb_int64_t
3924DEFAULT: 16 KB
3925LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3926DOC_NONE
3927
3928NAME: quick_abort_pct
3929COMMENT: (percent)
3930TYPE: int
3931DEFAULT: 95
3932LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3933DOC_START
3934 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3935 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3936 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3937 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3938 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3939 downloads.
3940
3941 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3942 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3943 then.
3944
3945 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3946 it will finish the retrieval.
3947
3948 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3949 it will abort the retrieval.
3950
3951 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3952 it will finish the retrieval.
3953
3954 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3955 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3956 to '0 KB'.
3957
3958 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3959 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3960DOC_END
60d096f4 3961
41bd17a4 3962NAME: read_ahead_gap
3963COMMENT: buffer-size
3964TYPE: b_int64_t
3965LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3966DEFAULT: 16 KB
3967DOC_START
3968 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3969 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3970DOC_END
53e738c6 3971
41bd17a4 3972NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 3973IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 3974COMMENT: time-units
3975TYPE: time_t
3976LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 3977DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 3978DOC_START
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3979 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3980 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3981 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3982 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3983 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3984 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3985
3986 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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3987
3988 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3989 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3990 causes.
41bd17a4 3991DOC_END
53e738c6 3992
41bd17a4 3993NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3994COMMENT: time-units
3995TYPE: time_t
3996LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3997DEFAULT: 6 hours
3998DOC_START
3999 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4000 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4001 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4002DOC_END
c4ab8329 4003
41bd17a4 4004NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4005COMMENT: time-units
4006TYPE: time_t
4007LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4008DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4009DOC_START
4010 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4011 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4012 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4013 much below 10 seconds.
4014DOC_END
7df0bfd7 4015
41bd17a4 4016NAME: range_offset_limit
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4017COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4018TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4019LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4020DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4021DOC_START
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4022 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4023
4024 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4025 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4026 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4027 the result is NOT cached.
4028
41bd17a4 4029 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4030 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4031 sending anything to the client.
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4032
4033 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4034 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4035 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4036 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4037
4038 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4039
4040 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4041 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4042
4043 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4044 client requested. (default)
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4045
4046 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4047 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4048
4049 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4050
4051 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4052 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4053 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4054 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4055DOC_END
d95b862f 4056
41bd17a4 4057NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4058COMMENT: (seconds)
4059TYPE: time_t
4060LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4061DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4062DOC_START
4063 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4064 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4065 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4066 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4067 is most likely better to make your server return a
4068 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4069 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4070 often be best set to 0.
4071DOC_END
c68e9c6b 4072
41bd17a4 4073NAME: store_avg_object_size
4074COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 4075TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 4076DEFAULT: 13 KB
4077LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4078DOC_START
4079 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4080 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4081DOC_END
4082
41bd17a4 4083NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4084TYPE: int
4085DEFAULT: 20
4086LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4087DOC_START
4088 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4089 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4090 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4091DOC_END
4092
4093COMMENT_START
4094 HTTP OPTIONS
4095 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4096COMMENT_END
4097
f04b37d8 4098NAME: request_header_max_size
4099COMMENT: (KB)
4100TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4101DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4102LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4103DOC_START
4104 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4105 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4106 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4107 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4108 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4109DOC_END
4110
4111NAME: reply_header_max_size
4112COMMENT: (KB)
4113TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4114DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4115LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4116DOC_START
4117 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4118 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4119 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4120 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4121 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4122DOC_END
4123
4124NAME: request_body_max_size
4125COMMENT: (bytes)
4126TYPE: b_int64_t
4127DEFAULT: 0 KB
4128LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4129DOC_START
4130 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4131 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4132 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4133 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4134 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4135 be no limit imposed.
4136DOC_END
4137
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4138NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4139COMMENT: (bytes)
4140TYPE: b_size_t
4141DEFAULT: 512 KB
4142LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4143DOC_START
4144 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4145 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4146 a large file.
4147DOC_END
4148
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4149NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4150COMMENT: (bytes)
4151TYPE: b_int64_t
4152DEFAULT: 64 KB
4153LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4154DOC_START
4155 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4156 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4157 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4158 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4159 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4160 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4161
4162 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4163 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4164 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4165 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4166 as if dechunking was disabled.
4167
4168 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4169 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4170
4171 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4172 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4173 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4174DOC_END
4175
41bd17a4 4176NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4177IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4178TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4179DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4180LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4181DOC_START
41bd17a4 4182 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4183 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4184
41bd17a4 4185 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4186 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4187
41bd17a4 4188 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4189
41bd17a4 4190 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4191 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4192 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4193 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 4194
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4195 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4196 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4197
41bd17a4 4198Example:
4199 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4200 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4201DOC_END
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22fff3bf 4203NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4204COMMENT: on|off
4205TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4206IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4207DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4208LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4209DOC_START
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4210 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4211 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4212
4213 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4214DOC_END
4215
41bd17a4 4216NAME: via
626096be 4217IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4218COMMENT: on|off
4219TYPE: onoff
4220DEFAULT: on
4221LOC: Config.onoff.via
4222DOC_START
4223 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4224 replies as required by RFC2616.
4225DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4226
41bd17a4 4227NAME: ie_refresh
4228COMMENT: on|off
4229TYPE: onoff
4230LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4231DEFAULT: off
4232DOC_START
4233 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4234 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4235 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4236 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4237 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4238 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4239 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4240 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4241 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4242 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4243 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4244 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4245 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4246 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4247 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4248 force fresh content.
4249DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 4250
41bd17a4 4251NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4252COMMENT: on|off
4253TYPE: onoff
4254LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4255DEFAULT: off
4256DOC_START
4257 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4258 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4259 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4260 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4261 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4262
4263 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4264 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4265DOC_END
c4ab8329 4266
41bd17a4 4267NAME: request_entities
4268TYPE: onoff
4269LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4270DEFAULT: off
4271DOC_START
4272 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4273 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4274 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4275
41bd17a4 4276 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4277 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4278 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4279 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4280 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4281DOC_END
6b53c392 4282
41bd17a4 4283NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4284IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4285TYPE: http_header_access[]
4286LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4287DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4288DOC_START
41bd17a4 4289 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4290
41bd17a4 4291 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4292 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4293 causes.
0976f8db 4294
41bd17a4 4295 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4296 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4297 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4298 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4299 mangling.
934b03fc 4300
41bd17a4 4301 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4302 client to the server.
5401aa8d 4303
41bd17a4 4304 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4305 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4306 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 4307
41bd17a4 4308 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4309 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4310
41bd17a4 4311 request_header_access From deny all
4312 request_header_access Referer deny all
4313 request_header_access Server deny all
4314 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4315 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4316 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4317
41bd17a4 4318 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4319 you should use:
5401aa8d 4320
41bd17a4 4321 request_header_access Allow allow all
4322 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4323 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4324 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4325 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4326 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4327 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4328 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4329 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4330 request_header_access Date allow all
4331 request_header_access Expires allow all
4332 request_header_access Host allow all
4333 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4334 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4335 request_header_access Location allow all
4336 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4337 request_header_access Accept allow all
4338 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4339 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4340 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4341 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4342 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4343 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4344 request_header_access Title allow all
4345 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4346 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4347
41bd17a4 4348 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4349 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4350
41bd17a4 4351 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4352 performed).
5401aa8d 4353DOC_END
4354
41bd17a4 4355NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4356IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4357TYPE: http_header_access[]
4358LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4359DEFAULT: none
4360DOC_START
41bd17a4 4361 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4362
41bd17a4 4363 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4364 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4365 causes.
934b03fc 4366
41bd17a4 4367 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4368 server to the client.
934b03fc 4369
41bd17a4 4370 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4371 direction.
6b53c392 4372
41bd17a4 4373 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4374 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4375 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4376 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4377 mangling.
cccac0a2 4378
41bd17a4 4379 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4380 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4381 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 4382
41bd17a4 4383 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4384 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4385
41bd17a4 4386 reply_header_access From deny all
4387 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4388 reply_header_access Server deny all
4389 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4390 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4391 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4392
41bd17a4 4393 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4394 you should use:
cccac0a2 4395
41bd17a4 4396 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4397 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4398 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4399 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4400 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4401 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4402 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4403 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4404 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4405 reply_header_access Date allow all
4406 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4407 reply_header_access Host allow all
4408 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4409 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4410 reply_header_access Location allow all
4411 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4412 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4413 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4414 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4415 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4416 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4417 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4418 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4419 reply_header_access Title allow all
4420 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4421 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4422
41bd17a4 4423 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4424 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4425
41bd17a4 4426 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4427 performed).
cccac0a2 4428DOC_END
4429
75e4f2ea 4430NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4431IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4432TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4433LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4434DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4435DOC_START
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4436 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4437 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4438
41bd17a4 4439 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4440 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4441 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4442 option.
cccac0a2 4443
41bd17a4 4444 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4445
41bd17a4 4446 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4447DOC_END
cccac0a2 4448
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4449NAME: reply_header_replace
4450IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4451TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4452LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4453DEFAULT: none
4454DOC_START
4455 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4456 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4457
4458 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4459 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4460 with some fixed string.
4461
4462 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4463
4464 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4465DOC_END
4466
41bd17a4 4467NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4468COMMENT: on|off|warn
4469TYPE: tristate
4470LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4471DEFAULT: on
4472DOC_START
4473 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4474 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4475 what the sending application intended even if the message
4476 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4477 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4478
41bd17a4 4479 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4480 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4481
41bd17a4 4482 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4483 or response to be rejected.
4484DOC_END
7d90757b 4485
41bd17a4 4486COMMENT_START
4487 TIMEOUTS
4488 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4489COMMENT_END
4490
4491NAME: forward_timeout
4492COMMENT: time-units
4493TYPE: time_t
4494LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4495DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4496DOC_START
4497 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4498 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4499DOC_END
4500
41bd17a4 4501NAME: connect_timeout
4502COMMENT: time-units
4503TYPE: time_t
4504LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4505DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4506DOC_START
41bd17a4 4507 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4508 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4509 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4510DOC_END
4511
41bd17a4 4512NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4513COMMENT: time-units
4514TYPE: time_t
4515LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4516DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4517DOC_START
41bd17a4 4518 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4519 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4520 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4521 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4522DOC_END
7f7db318 4523
41bd17a4 4524NAME: read_timeout
4525COMMENT: time-units
4526TYPE: time_t
4527LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4528DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4529DOC_START
4530 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4531 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4532 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4533 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4534 default is 15 minutes.
4535DOC_END
cccac0a2 4536
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4537NAME: write_timeout
4538COMMENT: time-units
4539TYPE: time_t
4540LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4541DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4542DOC_START
4543 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4544 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4545 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4546 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4547 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4548 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4549 default is 15 minutes.
4550DOC_END
4551
41bd17a4 4552NAME: request_timeout
4553TYPE: time_t
4554LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4555DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4556DOC_START
4557 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4558 connection establishment.
4559DOC_END
cccac0a2 4560
41bd17a4 4561NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4562TYPE: time_t
4563LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4564DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4565DOC_START
4566 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4567 connection after the previous request completes.
4568DOC_END
cccac0a2 4569
41bd17a4 4570NAME: client_lifetime
4571COMMENT: time-units
4572TYPE: time_t
4573LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4574DEFAULT: 1 day
4575DOC_START
4576 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4577 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4578 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4579 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4580 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4581 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4582 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4583
41bd17a4 4584 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4585 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4586 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4587 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4588 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4589 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4590DOC_END
4591
41bd17a4 4592NAME: half_closed_clients
4593TYPE: onoff
4594LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4595DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4596DOC_START
41bd17a4 4597 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4598 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4599 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4600 fully-closed TCP connection.
4601
4602 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4603 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4604
abdf1651 4605 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4606 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4607 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4608 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4609DOC_END
4610
41bd17a4 4611NAME: pconn_timeout
4612TYPE: time_t
4613LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4614DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4615DOC_START
41bd17a4 4616 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4617 proxies.
4618DOC_END
cccac0a2 4619
41bd17a4 4620NAME: ident_timeout
4621TYPE: time_t
4622IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4623LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4624DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4625DOC_START
4626 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4627
41bd17a4 4628 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4629 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4630 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4631DOC_END
4632
41bd17a4 4633NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4634COMMENT: time-units
4635TYPE: time_t
4636LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4637DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4638DOC_START
41bd17a4 4639 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4640 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4641 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4642 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4643 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4644DOC_END
0976f8db 4645
cccac0a2 4646COMMENT_START
4647 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4648 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4649COMMENT_END
4650
4651NAME: cache_mgr
4652TYPE: string
4653DEFAULT: webmaster
4654LOC: Config.adminEmail
4655DOC_START
4656 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4657 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4658DOC_END
4659
abacf776 4660NAME: mail_from
4661TYPE: string
4662DEFAULT: none
4663LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4664DOC_START
4665 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4666 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4667 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4668 src/globals.h before building squid.
4669DOC_END
4670
d084bf20 4671NAME: mail_program
4672TYPE: eol
4673DEFAULT: mail
4674LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4675DOC_START
4676 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4677 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4678 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4679 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4680
d084bf20 4681 Optional command line options can be specified.
4682DOC_END
4683
cccac0a2 4684NAME: cache_effective_user
4685TYPE: string
5483d916 4686DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4687LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4688DOC_START
4689 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4690 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4691 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4692 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4693DOC_END
4694
cccac0a2 4695NAME: cache_effective_group
4696TYPE: string
4697DEFAULT: none
4698LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4699DOC_START
64e288bd 4700 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4701 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4702 from the groups membership.
4703
e3d74828 4704 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4705 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4706 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4707 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4708 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4709 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4710 group.
64e288bd 4711
4712 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4713 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4714 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4715DOC_END
4716
d3caee79 4717NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4718COMMENT: on|off
4719TYPE: onoff
4720DEFAULT: off
4721LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4722DOC_START
4723 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4724DOC_END
4725
cccac0a2 4726NAME: visible_hostname
4727TYPE: string
4728LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4729DEFAULT: none
4730DOC_START
4731 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4732 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4733 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4734 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4735 names with this setting.
4736DOC_END
4737
cccac0a2 4738NAME: unique_hostname
4739TYPE: string
4740LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4741DEFAULT: none
4742DOC_START
4743 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4744 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4745 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4746DOC_END
4747
cccac0a2 4748NAME: hostname_aliases
4749TYPE: wordlist
4750LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4751DEFAULT: none
4752DOC_START
7f7db318 4753 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4754DOC_END
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4756NAME: umask
4757TYPE: int
4758LOC: Config.umask
4759DEFAULT: 027
4760DOC_START
4761 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4762 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4763
4764 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4765 your value with 0.
4766DOC_END
4767
cccac0a2 4768COMMENT_START
4769 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4770 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4771
4772 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4773 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4774 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4775 create cache hierarchies.
4776
4777 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4778 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4779 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4780
4781 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4782 following information from this configuration file:
4783
4784 http_port
4785 icp_port
4786 cache_mgr
4787
4788 All current information is processed regularly and made
4789 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4790COMMENT_END
4791
4792NAME: announce_period
4793TYPE: time_t
4794LOC: Config.Announce.period
4795DEFAULT: 0
4796DOC_START
4797 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4798 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4799 messages.
4800
e0855596 4801 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 4802
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4803 Example:
4804 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4805DOC_END
4806
cccac0a2 4807NAME: announce_host
4808TYPE: string
4809DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4810LOC: Config.Announce.host
4811DOC_NONE
4812
4813NAME: announce_file
4814TYPE: string
4815DEFAULT: none
4816LOC: Config.Announce.file
4817DOC_NONE
4818
4819NAME: announce_port
ae870270 4820TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 4821DEFAULT: 3131
4822LOC: Config.Announce.port
4823DOC_START
4824 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4825 number where the registration message will be sent.
4826
4827 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4828 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4829 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4830 message.
4831DOC_END
4832
8d6275c0 4833COMMENT_START
4834 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4835 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4836COMMENT_END
4837
cccac0a2 4838NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4839TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 4840DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4841LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4842DOC_START
4843 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4844 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4845 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4846 an identification token.
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4847
4848 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 4849DOC_END
4850
4851NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 4852COMMENT: on|off
4853TYPE: onoff
4854DEFAULT: off
4855LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4856DOC_START
4857 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4858 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4859DOC_END
4860
4861NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4862IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4863COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4864TYPE: string
4865LOC: ESIParser::Type
4866DEFAULT: custom
4867DOC_START
4868 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4869 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4870 encodings.
4871DOC_END
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9edd9041 4873COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4874 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4875 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4876COMMENT_END
4877
4878NAME: delay_pools
4879TYPE: delay_pool_count
4880DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 4881IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4882LOC: Config.Delay
4883DOC_START
4884 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4885 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4886 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4887DOC_END
4888
4889NAME: delay_class
4890TYPE: delay_pool_class
4891DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4892IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4893LOC: Config.Delay
4894DOC_START
4895 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4896 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4897 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4898 and here would be:
4899
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4900 Example:
4901 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4902 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4903 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4904 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4905 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 4906
4907 The delay pool classes are:
4908
4909 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4910 bucket.
4911
4912 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4913 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 4914 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4915
4916 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4917 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4918 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4919 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 4920 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4921
4922 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4923 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4924 only takes effect if the username is established
4925 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4926 http_access rules.
4927
4928 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4929 external_acl's tag= reply).
4930
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4931
4932 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
4933 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
4934 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
4935
9edd9041 4936 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4937 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4938 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4939 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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4940
4941 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4942 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 4943DOC_END
4944
4945NAME: delay_access
4946TYPE: delay_pool_access
4947DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4948IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4949LOC: Config.Delay
4950DOC_START
4951 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4952
4953 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4954 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4955 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4956 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4957
4958 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
4959 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4960
4961Example:
4962 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4963 delay_access 1 deny all
4964 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4965 delay_access 2 deny all
4966 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4967DOC_END
4968
4969NAME: delay_parameters
4970TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4971DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4972IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4973LOC: Config.Delay
4974DOC_START
4975 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4976 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 4977 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 4978
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4979 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4980 delay_pools pool 1
4981 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 4982
4983 For a class 2 delay pool:
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4984 delay_pools pool 2
4985 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 4986
4987 For a class 3 delay pool:
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4988 delay_pools pool 3
4989 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 4990
4991 For a class 4 delay pool:
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4992 delay_pools pool 4
4993 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 4994
4995 For a class 5 delay pool:
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4996 delay_pools pool 5
4997 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 4998
0b68481a 4999 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5000
5001 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5002 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5003 delay_class lines.
5004
fdb47ac6 5005 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5006 (class 1, 2, 3).
5007
fdb47ac6 5008 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5009 buckets (class 2, 3).
5010
fdb47ac6 5011 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5012 (class 3).
5013
fdb47ac6 5014 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5015 (class 4).
5016
fdb47ac6 5017 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5018 (class 5).
5019
5020 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5021 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5022 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5023 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5024
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5025 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5026
5027
9edd9041 5028 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5029 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5030 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5031
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5032 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5033
5034 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5035
5036 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5037
0b68481a 5038
9edd9041 5039 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5040 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5041 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5042 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5043 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5044 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5045 large downloads more significantly:
5046
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5047 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5048
5049 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5050 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5051 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5052
9edd9041 5053
5054 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5055 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5056
0b68481a 5057 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5058DOC_END
5059
5060NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5061COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5062TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5063DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5064IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5065LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5066DOC_START
5067 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5068 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5069 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5070 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5071 "seen" by squid).
5072DOC_END
5073
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5074COMMENT_START
5075 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5076 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5077COMMENT_END
5078
5079NAME: client_delay_pools
5080TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5081DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5082IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5083LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5084DOC_START
5085 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5086 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5087
5088Example:
5089 client_delay_pools 2
5090DOC_END
5091
5092NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5093COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5094TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5095DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5096IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5097LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5098DOC_START
5099 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5100 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5101 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5102 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5103
5104 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5105 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5106 from client_delay_parameters.
5107
5108Example:
5109 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5110DOC_END
5111
5112NAME: client_delay_parameters
5113TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5114DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5115IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5116LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5117DOC_START
5118
5119 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5120 following format:
5121
5122 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5123
5124 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5125
5126 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5127
5128 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5129 speed_limit additions.
5130
5131 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5132 examples.
5133
5134Example:
5135 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5136 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5137DOC_END
5138
5139NAME: client_delay_access
5140TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5141DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5142IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5143LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5144DOC_START
5145
5146 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5147 request:
5148
5149 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5150
5151 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5152 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5153 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5154 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5155 limited.
5156
5157 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5158 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5159 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5160 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5161
5162 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5163
5164Example:
5165 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5166 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5167DOC_END
5168
cccac0a2 5169COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5170 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5171 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5172COMMENT_END
5173
8d6275c0 5174NAME: wccp_router
5175TYPE: address
5176LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5177DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5178IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5179DOC_START
5180 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5181 Squid.
5182
5183 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5184
5185 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5186
5187 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5188 which version of WCCP to use.
5189DOC_END
df2eec10 5190
8d6275c0 5191NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5192TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5193LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5194DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5195IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5196DOC_START
8d6275c0 5197 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5198 Squid.
cccac0a2 5199
8d6275c0 5200 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5201
8d6275c0 5202 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5203
8d6275c0 5204 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5205 which version of WCCP to use.
5206DOC_END
5207
5208NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5209TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5210LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5211DEFAULT: 4
5212IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5213DOC_START
8d6275c0 5214 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5215 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5216 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5217 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5218 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5219
8d6275c0 5220 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5221 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5222 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5223 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5224DOC_END
5225
8d6275c0 5226NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5227TYPE: onoff
5228LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5229DEFAULT: on
5230IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5231DOC_START
5232 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5233 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5234DOC_END
cccac0a2 5235
8d6275c0 5236NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5237TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5238LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5239DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5240IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5241DOC_START
699acd19 5242 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5243 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5244
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5245 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5246 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5247
8d6275c0 5248 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5249 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5250DOC_END
5251
8d6275c0 5252NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5253TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5254LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5255DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5256IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5257DOC_START
699acd19 5258 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5259 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5260 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5261
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5262 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5263 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5264
8d6275c0 5265 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5266 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5267
699acd19 5268 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5269 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5270 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5271 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5272DOC_END
5273
8d6275c0 5274NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5275TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5276LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5277DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5278IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5279DOC_START
8d6275c0 5280 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5281 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5282
451c4786 5283 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5284 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5285
8d6275c0 5286 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5287 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5288DOC_END
cccac0a2 5289
8d6275c0 5290NAME: wccp2_service
5291TYPE: wccp2_service
5292LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5293DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5294IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5295DOC_START
5296 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5297 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5298 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5299 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5300 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5301 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5302
5303 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5304 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5305
5306 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5307 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5308
5309 Examples:
5310
5311 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5312 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5313 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5314 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5315DOC_END
5316
5317NAME: wccp2_service_info
5318TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5319LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5320DEFAULT: none
5321IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5322DOC_START
5323 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5324 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5325
5326 The format is:
5327
5328 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5329 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5330
5331 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5332 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5333 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5334 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5335 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5336 + ports_source
5337
5338 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5339
5340 Example:
5341
5342 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5343 priority=240 ports=80
5344
5345 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5346 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5347DOC_END
5348
5349NAME: wccp2_weight
5350TYPE: int
5351LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5352DEFAULT: 10000
5353IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5354DOC_START
5355 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5356 hash proportional to their weight.
5357DOC_END
5358
5359NAME: wccp_address
5360TYPE: address
5361LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5362DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5363IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5364DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5365
8d6275c0 5366NAME: wccp2_address
5367TYPE: address
5368LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5369DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5370IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5371DOC_START
5372 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5373 interface address.
5374
5375 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5376DOC_END
5377
5378COMMENT_START
5379 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5380 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5381
5382 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5383COMMENT_END
5384
5385NAME: client_persistent_connections
5386TYPE: onoff
5387LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5388DEFAULT: on
5389DOC_NONE
5390
5391NAME: server_persistent_connections
5392TYPE: onoff
5393LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5394DEFAULT: on
5395DOC_START
5396 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5397 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5398 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5399 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5400DOC_END
5401
5402NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5403TYPE: onoff
5404LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5405DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5406DOC_START
5407 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5408 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5409 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5410DOC_END
5411
5412NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5413TYPE: onoff
5414LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5415DEFAULT: off
5416DOC_START
5417 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5418 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5419 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5420 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5421
5422 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5423 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5424 after 10 seconds timeout.
5425DOC_END
5426
5427COMMENT_START
5428 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5429 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5430COMMENT_END
5431
5432NAME: digest_generation
5433IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5434TYPE: onoff
5435LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5436DEFAULT: on
5437DOC_START
5438 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5439 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5440 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5441DOC_END
5442
5443NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5444IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5445TYPE: int
5446LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5447DEFAULT: 5
5448DOC_START
5449 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5450 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5451 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5452DOC_END
5453
5454NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5455IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5456COMMENT: (seconds)
5457TYPE: time_t
5458LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5459DEFAULT: 1 hour
5460DOC_START
749ceff8 5461 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5462DOC_END
5463
5464NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5465COMMENT: (seconds)
5466IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5467TYPE: time_t
5468LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5469DEFAULT: 1 hour
5470DOC_START
749ceff8 5471 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5472 disk.
5473DOC_END
5474
5475NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5476COMMENT: (bytes)
5477TYPE: b_size_t
5478IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5479LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5480DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5481DOC_START
5482 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5483 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5484 default swap page.
5485DOC_END
5486
5487NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5488COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5489IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5490TYPE: int
5491LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5492DEFAULT: 10
5493DOC_START
5494 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5495 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5496DOC_END
5497
1db9eacd 5498COMMENT_START
5473c134 5499 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5500 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5501COMMENT_END
5502
5473c134 5503NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5504TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5505LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5506DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5507IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5508DOC_START
87630341 5509 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5510 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5511 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5512 set to "0" (disabled)
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5513
5514 Example:
5515 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5516DOC_END
5517
5473c134 5518NAME: snmp_access
5519TYPE: acl_access
5520LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5521DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5522IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5523DOC_START
5473c134 5524 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5525
5473c134 5526 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5527 usage:
8d6275c0 5528
5473c134 5529 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5530
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5531 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5532 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5533Example:
5534 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5535 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5536DOC_END
5537
5473c134 5538NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5539TYPE: address
5540LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5541DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5542IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5543DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5544
5473c134 5545NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5546TYPE: address
5547LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5548DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5549IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5550DOC_START
df2eec10 5551 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5552
5473c134 5553 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5554 messages from SNMP agents.
5555 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5556 agents.
cccac0a2 5557
0eb08770 5558 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5559 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5560
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5561 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5562 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5563 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5564 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5565
5473c134 5566 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5567 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5568DOC_END
5569
5473c134 5570COMMENT_START
5571 ICP OPTIONS
5572 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5573COMMENT_END
5574
5575NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 5576TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5577DEFAULT: 0
5578LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5579DOC_START
5473c134 5580 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5581 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5582 Default is disabled (0).
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5583
5584 Example:
5585 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5586DOC_END
5587
5473c134 5588NAME: htcp_port
5589IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 5590TYPE: u_short
87630341 5591DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5592LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5593DOC_START
5473c134 5594 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5595 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5596 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5597
5598 Example:
5599 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5600DOC_END
5601
5602NAME: log_icp_queries
5603COMMENT: on|off
5604TYPE: onoff
5605DEFAULT: on
5606LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5607DOC_START
5608 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5609 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5610 up or to simplify log analysis.
5611DOC_END
5612
5473c134 5613NAME: udp_incoming_address
5614TYPE: address
5615LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5616DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5617DOC_START
5618 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5619 caches.
5620
5621 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5622
5623 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5624 a specific interface/address.
5625
5626 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5627 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5628
5629 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5630
5631 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5632 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5633DOC_END
cccac0a2 5634
5473c134 5635NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5636TYPE: address
5637LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5638DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5639DOC_START
8524d4b2 5640 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5641 caches.
cccac0a2 5642
5473c134 5643 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5644
8524d4b2 5645 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5646 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5647 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5648 caches.
5649
8524d4b2 5650 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5651 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5652
5653 see also; udp_incoming_address
5654
5473c134 5655 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5656 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5657DOC_END
5658
3d1e3e43 5659NAME: icp_hit_stale
5660COMMENT: on|off
5661TYPE: onoff
5662DEFAULT: off
5663LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5664DOC_START
5665 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5666 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5667 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5668 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5669 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5670 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5671 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5672DOC_END
5673
5473c134 5674NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5675TYPE: int
5473c134 5676DEFAULT: 4
5677LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5678DOC_START
5473c134 5679 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5680 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5681DOC_END
5682
5473c134 5683NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5684TYPE: int
5685DEFAULT: 400
5686LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5687DOC_START
5473c134 5688 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5689 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5690DOC_END
5691
cccac0a2 5692NAME: netdb_low
5693TYPE: int
5694DEFAULT: 900
5695LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5696DOC_NONE
5697
5698NAME: netdb_high
5699TYPE: int
5700DEFAULT: 1000
5701LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5702DOC_START
5703 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5704 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5705 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5706 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5707DOC_END
5708
cccac0a2 5709NAME: netdb_ping_period
5710TYPE: time_t
5711LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5712DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5713DOC_START
5714 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5715 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5716 network. The default is five minutes.
5717DOC_END
5718
cccac0a2 5719NAME: query_icmp
5720COMMENT: on|off
5721TYPE: onoff
5722DEFAULT: off
5723LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5724DOC_START
5725 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5726 replies, enable this option.
5727
5728 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5729 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5730 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5731 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5732 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5733 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5734 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5735 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5736DOC_END
5737
5738NAME: test_reachability
5739COMMENT: on|off
5740TYPE: onoff
5741DEFAULT: off
5742LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5743DOC_START
5744 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5745 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5746 database, or has a zero RTT.
5747DOC_END
5748
5473c134 5749NAME: icp_query_timeout
5750COMMENT: (msec)
5751DEFAULT: 0
5752TYPE: int
5753LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5754DOC_START
5473c134 5755 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5756 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5757 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5758 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5759 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5760 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5761
5473c134 5762 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5763DOC_END
5764
5473c134 5765NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5766COMMENT: (msec)
5767DEFAULT: 2000
5768TYPE: int
5769LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5770DOC_START
5473c134 5771 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5772 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5773 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5774 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5775 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5776 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5777DOC_END
5778
5473c134 5779NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5780COMMENT: (msec)
5781DEFAULT: 5
5782TYPE: int
5783LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5784DOC_START
5473c134 5785 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5786 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5787 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5788 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5789 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5790 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5791 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5792DOC_END
5793
5473c134 5794NAME: background_ping_rate
5795COMMENT: time-units
5796TYPE: time_t
5797DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5798LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5799DOC_START
5473c134 5800 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5801 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5802DOC_END
5803
5473c134 5804COMMENT_START
5805 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5806 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5807COMMENT_END
5808
5809NAME: mcast_groups
5810TYPE: wordlist
5811LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5812DEFAULT: none
5813DOC_START
5473c134 5814 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5815 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5816
5473c134 5817 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5818 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5819 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5820 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5821 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5822 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5823 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5824
5473c134 5825 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5826 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5827
5473c134 5828 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5829 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5830
5473c134 5831 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5832
5473c134 5833 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5834DOC_END
8c01ada0 5835
5473c134 5836NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5837IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5838TYPE: address
5839LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 5840DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5841DOC_START
5842 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5843 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5844
5473c134 5845 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5846 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5847DOC_END
5848
5473c134 5849NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5850IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5851TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5852LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5853DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5854DOC_START
5473c134 5855 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5856 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5857 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5858DOC_END
cccac0a2 5859
5473c134 5860NAME: mcast_miss_port
5861IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5862TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5863LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5864DEFAULT: 3135
5865DOC_START
5866 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5867 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5868DOC_END
cccac0a2 5869
5473c134 5870NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5871IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5872TYPE: string
5873LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5874DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5875DOC_START
5876 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5877 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5878DOC_END
8c01ada0 5879
5473c134 5880NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5881COMMENT: (msec)
5882DEFAULT: 2000
5883TYPE: int
5884LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5885DOC_START
5886 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5887 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5888 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5889 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5890 seconds.
cccac0a2 5891DOC_END
5892
5473c134 5893COMMENT_START
5894 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5895 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5896COMMENT_END
5897
cccac0a2 5898NAME: icon_directory
5899TYPE: string
5900LOC: Config.icons.directory
5901DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5902DOC_START
5903 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5904 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5905DOC_END
5906
f024c970 5907NAME: global_internal_static
5908TYPE: onoff
5909LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5910DEFAULT: on
5911DOC_START
5912 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5913 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5914 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5915 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5916 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5917 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5918 the server generating a directory listing.
5919DOC_END
5920
5473c134 5921NAME: short_icon_urls
5922TYPE: onoff
5923LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5924DEFAULT: on
5925DOC_START
5926 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5927 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5928 it's own name and port in the URL.
5929
5930 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5931 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5932DOC_END
5933
5934COMMENT_START
5935 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5936 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5937COMMENT_END
5938
5939NAME: error_directory
5940TYPE: string
5941LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 5942DEFAULT: none
5473c134 5943DOC_START
5944 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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5945 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5946 the error/template files to another directory and point
5947 this tag at them.
5948
5949 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5950 on error pages if used.
5473c134 5951
5952 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5953 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 5954 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 5955 contributing your translation back to the project.
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5956 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5957
5958 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
5959 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
5960DOC_END
5961
5962NAME: error_default_language
5963IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5964TYPE: string
5965LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
5966DEFAULT: none
5967DOC_START
5968 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
5969 if no existing translation matches the clients language
5970 preferences.
5971
5972 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
5973
5974 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5975 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
5976 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
5977 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 5978DOC_END
5979
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5980NAME: error_log_languages
5981IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5982TYPE: onoff
5983LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
5984DEFAULT: on
5985DOC_START
5986 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
5987 auto-negotiate for translations.
5988
5989 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
5990 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 5991 of its error page translations.
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5992DOC_END
5993
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5994NAME: err_page_stylesheet
5995TYPE: string
5996LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
5997DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
5998DOC_START
5999 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6000
6001 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6002DOC_END
6003
5473c134 6004NAME: err_html_text
6005TYPE: eol
6006LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6007DEFAULT: none
6008DOC_START
6009 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6010 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6011 organizations Web page.
6012
6013 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6014 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6015 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6016 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6017DOC_END
6018
6019NAME: email_err_data
6020COMMENT: on|off
6021TYPE: onoff
6022LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6023DEFAULT: on
6024DOC_START
6025 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6026 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6027 so that the email body contains the data.
6028 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6029DOC_END
6030
6031NAME: deny_info
6032TYPE: denyinfo
6033LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6034DEFAULT: none
6035DOC_START
6036 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6037 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6038 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6039
6040 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6041 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6042 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6043 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6044
6045 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6046 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6047 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6048 the first authentication related acl encountered
6049 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6050 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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6051 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6052 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6053
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6054 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6055 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6056 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6057
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6058 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6059 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6060 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6061
5473c134 6062 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6063 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6064
6065 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6066 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6067 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6068 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6069 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6070
6071 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6072 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6073 %B - FTP path URL
6074 %e - Error number
6075 %E - Error description
6076 %h - Squid hostname
6077 %H - Request domain name
6078 %i - Client IP Address
6079 %M - Request Method
6080 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6081 %p - Request Port number
6082 %P - Request Protocol name
6083 %R - Request URL path
6084 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6085 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6086 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6087 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6088 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6089 %x - Error name
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6090 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6091
5473c134 6092DOC_END
6093
6094COMMENT_START
6095 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6096 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6097COMMENT_END
6098
6099NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6100TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6101LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6102DEFAULT: on
6103DOC_START
5473c134 6104 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6105 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6106 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6107
5473c134 6108 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6109 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6110
5473c134 6111 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6112 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6113 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6114
5473c134 6115 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6116 this directive.
8d6275c0 6117DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6118
5473c134 6119NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6120TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6121LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6122DEFAULT: off
6123DOC_START
5473c134 6124 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6125 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6126 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6127
5473c134 6128 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6129 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6130 fails.
6131
6132 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6133 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6134 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6135DOC_END
6136
5473c134 6137NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6138TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6139LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6140DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6141DOC_START
5473c134 6142 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6143
5473c134 6144 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6145 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6146 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6147 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6148 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6149
5473c134 6150 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6151 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6152
5473c134 6153 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6154
5473c134 6155 acl FTP proto FTP
6156 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6157
5473c134 6158 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6159 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6160 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6161 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6162 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6163
5473c134 6164 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6165 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6166 always_direct deny local-external
6167 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6168
5473c134 6169 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6170 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6171 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6172 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6173
5473c134 6174 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6175 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6176 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6177
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6178 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6179 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6180DOC_END
0976f8db 6181
5473c134 6182NAME: never_direct
6183TYPE: acl_access
6184LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6185DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6186DOC_START
5473c134 6187 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6188
6189 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6190 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6191
6192 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6193 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6194 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6195 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6196
6197 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6198 never_direct deny local-servers
6199 never_direct allow all
6200
6201 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6202 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6203
6204 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6205 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6206 always_direct deny local-external
6207 always_direct allow local-intranet
6208 never_direct allow all
6209
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6210 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6211 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6212DOC_END
0976f8db 6213
5473c134 6214COMMENT_START
6215 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6216 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6217COMMENT_END
6218
cccac0a2 6219NAME: incoming_icp_average
6220TYPE: int
6221DEFAULT: 6
6222LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
6223DOC_NONE
6224
6225NAME: incoming_http_average
6226TYPE: int
6227DEFAULT: 4
6228LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
6229DOC_NONE
6230
6231NAME: incoming_dns_average
6232TYPE: int
6233DEFAULT: 4
6234LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
6235DOC_NONE
6236
6237NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6238TYPE: int
6239DEFAULT: 8
6240LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
6241DOC_NONE
6242
6243NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6244TYPE: int
6245DEFAULT: 8
6246LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
6247DOC_NONE
6248
6249NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6250TYPE: int
6251DEFAULT: 8
6252LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
6253DOC_START
5473c134 6254 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6255 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6256 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6257DOC_END
6258
6259NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6260TYPE: string
6261DEFAULT: none
6262LOC: Config.accept_filter
6263DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6264 FreeBSD:
6265
5473c134 6266 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6267 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6268 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6269
6270 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6271 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6272 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6273
6274 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6275 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6276 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6277
6278 Linux:
6279
6280 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6281 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6282 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6283 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6284 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6285EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6286# FreeBSD
5473c134 6287accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6288# Linux
6289accept_filter data
5473c134 6290DOC_END
6291
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6292NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6293TYPE: int
6294LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6295DEFAULT: -1
6296DOC_START
6297 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6298 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6299 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6300
6301 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6302 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6303
6304 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6305
6306 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6307 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6308DOC_END
6309
5473c134 6310NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6311COMMENT: (bytes)
6312TYPE: b_size_t
6313DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6314LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6315DOC_START
6316 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6317 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6318 the default buffer size.
6319DOC_END
6320
6321COMMENT_START
6322 ICAP OPTIONS
6323 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6324COMMENT_END
6325
6326NAME: icap_enable
6327TYPE: onoff
6328IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6329COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6330LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6331DEFAULT: off
6332DOC_START
53e738c6 6333 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6334DOC_END
6335
6336NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6337TYPE: time_t
6338DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6339LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6340IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6341DOC_START
6342 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6343 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6344 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6345
6346 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6347 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6348 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6349DOC_END
6350
6351NAME: icap_io_timeout
6352COMMENT: time-units
6353TYPE: time_t
6354DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6355LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6356IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6357DOC_START
6358 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6359 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6360 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6361 failure.
6362
6363 The default is read_timeout.
6364DOC_END
6365
6366NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6367COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6368TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6369IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6370LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6371DEFAULT: 10
6372DOC_START
6373 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6374 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6375 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6376 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6377 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6378
6379 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6380 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6381 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6382
6383 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6384 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6385 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6386 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6387 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6388
6389 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6390 effect on service failure expiration.
6391
6392 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6393 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6394 setting.
6395
6396 For example,
6397 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6398 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6399DOC_END
6400
5473c134 6401NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6402TYPE: int
5473c134 6403IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6404LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6405DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6406DOC_START
5473c134 6407 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6408 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6409 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6410 fetched.
cccac0a2 6411
5473c134 6412 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6413 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6414DOC_END
6415
5473c134 6416NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6417TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6418IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6419COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6420LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6421DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6422DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6423 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6424 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6425 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6426 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6427
6428 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6429 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6430 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6431
6432 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6433 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6434Example:
6435icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6436DOC_END
6437
5473c134 6438NAME: icap_preview_size
6439TYPE: int
6440IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6441LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6442DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6443DOC_START
53e738c6 6444 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6445 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6446 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6447DOC_END
6448
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6449NAME: icap_206_enable
6450TYPE: onoff
6451IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6452COMMENT: on|off
6453LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6454DEFAULT: on
6455DOC_START
6456 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6457 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6458 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6459 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6460
6461 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6462 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6463 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6464 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6465 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6466
6467 Example:
6468 icap_206_enable off
6469DOC_END
6470
5473c134 6471NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6472TYPE: int
6473IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6474LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6475DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6476DOC_START
53e738c6 6477 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6478 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6479DOC_END
6480
5473c134 6481NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6482TYPE: onoff
6483IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6484COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6485LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6486DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6487DOC_START
5473c134 6488 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6489 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6490DOC_END
6491
22fff3bf 6492NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6493TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6494IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6495COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6496LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6497DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6498DOC_START
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6499 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6500 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6501 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6502
6503 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6504DOC_END
6505
22fff3bf 6506NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6507TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6508IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6509COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6510LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6511DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6512DOC_START
5473c134 6513 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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6514 the adaptation service.
6515
6516 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6517 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6518 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6519DOC_END
6520
5473c134 6521NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6522TYPE: string
5473c134 6523IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6524LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6525DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6526DOC_START
db49f682 6527 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 6528DOC_END
6529
5473c134 6530NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6531TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6532IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6533COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6534LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6535DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6536DOC_START
5473c134 6537 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6538DOC_END
6539
5473c134 6540NAME: icap_service
6541TYPE: icap_service_type
6542IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6543LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6544DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6545DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6546 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6547
a22e6cd3 6548 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
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6550 service_name: ID
6551 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
6552
6553 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6554 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6555 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6556 are not yet supported.
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6557
6558 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
6559 ICAP server and service location.
6560
6561 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6562 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6563 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6564 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6565 service_names differ.
6566
6567
6568 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6569 the following name=value options:
6570
6571 bypass=on|off|1|0
6572 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6573 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6574 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6575 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6576 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6577 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6578 returned to the HTTP client.
6579
6580 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6581
6582 routing=on|off|1|0
6583 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6584 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6585 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6586 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6587 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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6588 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
6589 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
6590 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
6591
6592 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6593 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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6594
6595 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6596 response header is ignored.
6597
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6598 ipv6=on|off
6599 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6600 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6601 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6602
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6603 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
6604 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
6605 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
6606 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
6607 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
6608 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
6609 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
6610
6611 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
6612 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
6613 workers may use a given service.
6614
6615 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
6616 otherwise it is set to "wait".
6617
6618
6619 max-conn=number
6620 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
6621 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
6622
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6623 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6624 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 6625
5473c134 6626Example:
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6627icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
6628icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 6629DOC_END
6630
5473c134 6631NAME: icap_class
6632TYPE: icap_class_type
6633IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6634LOC: none
5473c134 6635DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6636DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6637 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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6638 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6639 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6640
62c7f90e 6641 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6642 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6643 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6644DOC_END
6645
5473c134 6646NAME: icap_access
6647TYPE: icap_access_type
6648IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6649LOC: none
cccac0a2 6650DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6651DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6652 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6653 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6654 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6655DOC_END
6656
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6657COMMENT_START
6658 eCAP OPTIONS
6659 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6660COMMENT_END
6661
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6662NAME: ecap_enable
6663TYPE: onoff
6664IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6665COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6666LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6667DEFAULT: off
6668DOC_START
6669 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6670DOC_END
6671
6672NAME: ecap_service
6673TYPE: ecap_service_type
6674IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6675LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6676DEFAULT: none
6677DOC_START
6678 Defines a single eCAP service
6679
6680 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
6681
6682 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6683 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6684 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6685 are not yet supported.
6686 bypass = 1|0
6687 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
6688 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
6689 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
6690 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
6691 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
6692 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
6693 HTTP client.
6694 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6695
6696Example:
6697ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
6698ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
6699DOC_END
6700
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6701NAME: loadable_modules
6702TYPE: wordlist
6703IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6704LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6705DEFAULT: none
6706DOC_START
6707 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6708 preloaded module(s).
6709Example:
6710loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6711DOC_END
6712
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6713COMMENT_START
6714 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6715 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6716COMMENT_END
6717
6718NAME: adaptation_service_set
6719TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6720IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6721LOC: none
6722DEFAULT: none
6723DOC_START
6724
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6725 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6726 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6727
6728 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6729
6730 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6731 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6732 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6733 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6734 intact.
62c7f90e 6735
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6736 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6737 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6738
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6739 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6740 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6741
6742 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6743 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6744 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6745 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6746 transaction fails as well.
6747
6748 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6749 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6750 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6751 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6752 matters.
6753
6754 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6755
6756Example:
6757adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6758adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6759DOC_END
6760
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6761NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6762TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6763IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6764LOC: none
6765DEFAULT: none
6766DOC_START
6767
6768 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6769 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6770 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6771
6772 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6773
6774 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6775 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6776 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6777 the previous service in the chain.
6778
6779 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6780 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6781
6782 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6783 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6784 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6785
6786 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6787 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6788
6789 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6790 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6791 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6792 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6793
6794 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6795
6796Example:
6797adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6798DOC_END
6799
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6800NAME: adaptation_access
6801TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6802IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6803LOC: none
6804DEFAULT: none
6805DOC_START
6806 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6807
6808 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6809 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6810
6811 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6812 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6813 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6814 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6815
6816 - services serving different vectoring points
6817 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6818 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6819 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6820
6821 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6822 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6823 adaptation_service_set for details.
6824
6825 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6826 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6827 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6828 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6829
6830 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6831 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6832
6833 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6834
6835Example:
6836adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6837DOC_END
6838
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6839NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6840TYPE: int
6841IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6842LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6843DEFAULT: 16
6844DOC_START
6845 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6846 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6847 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6848 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6849 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6850 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6851
6852 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6853
6854 See also: icap_service routing=1
6855DOC_END
6856
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6857NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6858TYPE: string
6859IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6860LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6861DEFAULT: none
6862DOC_START
6863 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6864 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6865 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6866 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6867 with the master transaction.
6868
6869 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6870 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6871
6872 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6873 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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6874 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
6875
6876 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6877 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
6878 to provide an option with a name specified in
6879 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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6880
6881 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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6882 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6883
6884 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6885
6886Example:
6887# share authentication information among ICAP services
6888adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6889DOC_END
6890
6891NAME: icap_retry
6892TYPE: acl_access
6893IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6894LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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6895DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6896DOC_START
6897 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
6898 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
6899 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
6900 that response are usually retriable.
6901
6902 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6903
6904 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
6905 due to persistent connection race conditions.
6906
6907 See also: icap_retry_limit
6908DOC_END
6909
6910NAME: icap_retry_limit
6911TYPE: int
6912IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6913LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
6914DEFAULT: 0
6915DOC_START
6916 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
6917 no retries are allowed.
6918
6919 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
6920 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6921 count against this limit.
6922
6923 See also: icap_retry
6924DOC_END
6925
6926
5473c134 6927COMMENT_START
6928 DNS OPTIONS
6929 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6930COMMENT_END
6931
6932NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6933TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6934DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6935LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6936DOC_START
5473c134 6937 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6938 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6939 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 6940DOC_END
6941
5473c134 6942NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6943TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6944DEFAULT: on
5473c134 6945LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6946DOC_START
5473c134 6947 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6948 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6949 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6950 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 6951DOC_END
6952
5473c134 6953NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 6954TYPE: string
5473c134 6955IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6956DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6957LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 6958DOC_START
5473c134 6959 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 6960DOC_END
6961
5473c134 6962NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 6963TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5473c134 6964IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
48d54e4d 6965DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 6966LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 6967DOC_START
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6968 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
6969 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
6970 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
6971 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
6972 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
6973
6974 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6975 tuning.
6976
6977 startup=
6978
6979 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6980 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6981 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
6982
6983 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6984 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
6985
6986 idle=
6987
6988 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6989 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6990 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6991 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 6992DOC_END
6993
5473c134 6994NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 6995TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 6996DEFAULT: 5 seconds
6997LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
6998IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6999DOC_START
5473c134 7000 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7001 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7002DOC_END
7003
5473c134 7004NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7005TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7006DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7007LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
7008IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 7009DOC_START
5473c134 7010 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7011 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7012 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7013DOC_END
7014
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7015NAME: dns_packet_max
7016TYPE: b_ssize_t
7017DEFAULT: none
7018LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
7019IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
7020DOC_START
7021 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7022 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7023
7024 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7025 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7026 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7027 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7028 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7029
7030 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7031 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7032 necessary.
7033
7034 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7035 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7036 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7037 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7038 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7039 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7040 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7041DOC_END
7042
5473c134 7043NAME: dns_defnames
7044COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7045TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7046DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7047LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7048DOC_START
5473c134 7049 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7050 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7051 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7052 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7053DOC_END
7054
5473c134 7055NAME: dns_nameservers
7056TYPE: wordlist
7057DEFAULT: none
7058LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7059DOC_START
5473c134 7060 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7061 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7062 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7063 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7064 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7065 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7066 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7067
5473c134 7068 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7069DOC_END
7070
5473c134 7071NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7072TYPE: string
5473c134 7073DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7074LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7075DOC_START
5473c134 7076 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7077 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7078 default locations:
7079 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7080 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7081 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7082 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7083 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7084 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7085 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7086 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7087
5473c134 7088 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7089 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7090 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7091 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7092
5473c134 7093 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7094 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7095 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7096 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7097 definitions.
cccac0a2 7098DOC_END
7099
5473c134 7100NAME: append_domain
7101TYPE: string
7102LOC: Config.appendDomain
7103DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7104DOC_START
5473c134 7105 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7106 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7107
7108 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7109 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7110 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7111
7112Example:
7113 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7114DOC_END
7115
5473c134 7116NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7117TYPE: onoff
7118LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7119DEFAULT: on
f10a6c8a 7120IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
df6fd596 7121DOC_START
5473c134 7122 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7123 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7124 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7125 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7126 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7127DOC_END
7128
cc192b50 7129NAME: dns_v4_fallback
7130TYPE: onoff
7131DEFAULT: on
7132LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
f10a6c8a 7133IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cc192b50 7134DOC_START
7135 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
7136 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
7137 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
7138
7139 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
7140 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
7141
7142 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
7143 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
7144
7145 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
7146 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
7147 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
7148DOC_END
7149
6bc15a4f 7150NAME: ipcache_size
7151COMMENT: (number of entries)
7152TYPE: int
7153DEFAULT: 1024
7154LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7155DOC_NONE
7156
7157NAME: ipcache_low
7158COMMENT: (percent)
7159TYPE: int
7160DEFAULT: 90
7161LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7162DOC_NONE
7163
7164NAME: ipcache_high
7165COMMENT: (percent)
7166TYPE: int
7167DEFAULT: 95
7168LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7169DOC_START
7170 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7171DOC_END
7172
7173NAME: fqdncache_size
7174COMMENT: (number of entries)
7175TYPE: int
7176DEFAULT: 1024
7177LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7178DOC_START
7179 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7180DOC_END
7181
a58ff010 7182COMMENT_START
5473c134 7183 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7184 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7185COMMENT_END
7186
5473c134 7187NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7188COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7189TYPE: onoff
7190DEFAULT: on
7191LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7192DOC_START
5473c134 7193 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7194 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7195 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7196 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7197DOC_END
7198
5473c134 7199NAME: memory_pools_limit
7200COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7201TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7202DEFAULT: 5 MB
7203LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7204DOC_START
5473c134 7205 Used only with memory_pools on:
7206 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7207
5473c134 7208 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7209 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7210 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7211 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7212 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7213 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7214 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7215
89646bd7 7216 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7217 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7218
5473c134 7219 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7220 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7221
7222 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7223 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7224 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7225 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7226DOC_END
7227
5473c134 7228NAME: forwarded_for
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AJ
7229COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7230TYPE: string
5473c134 7231DEFAULT: on
7232LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7233DOC_START
67c06f0d
AJ
7234 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7235 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7236
5473c134 7237 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7238
67c06f0d 7239 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7240
7241 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
67c06f0d
AJ
7242
7243 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7244 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7245
7246 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7247 X-Forwarded-For header.
7248
7249 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7250 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7251DOC_END
7252
5473c134 7253NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7254TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7255DEFAULT: none
7256LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7257DOC_START
5473c134 7258 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7259
5473c134 7260 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7261
7262 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7263 5min
7264 60min
7265 asndb
7266 authenticator
7267 cbdata
7268 client_list
7269 comm_incoming
7270 config *
7271 counters
7272 delay
7273 digest_stats
7274 dns
7275 events
7276 filedescriptors
7277 fqdncache
7278 histograms
7279 http_headers
7280 info
7281 io
7282 ipcache
7283 mem
7284 menu
7285 netdb
7286 non_peers
7287 objects
7288 offline_toggle *
7289 pconn
7290 peer_select
b360c477 7291 reconfigure *
5473c134 7292 redirector
7293 refresh
7294 server_list
7295 shutdown *
7296 store_digest
7297 storedir
7298 utilization
7299 via_headers
7300 vm_objects
7301
7302 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7303 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7304
7305 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7306 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7307 password to "none".
7308
7309 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7310
7311Example:
7312 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7313 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7314 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7315DOC_END
7316
5473c134 7317NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7318COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7319TYPE: onoff
7320DEFAULT: on
7321LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7322DOC_START
5473c134 7323 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7324 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7325DOC_END
7326
5473c134 7327NAME: refresh_all_ims
7328COMMENT: on|off
7329TYPE: onoff
7330DEFAULT: off
7331LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7332DOC_START
5473c134 7333 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7334 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7335 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7336 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7337 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7338
5473c134 7339 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7340 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7341DOC_END
7342
5473c134 7343NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7344IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7345COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7346TYPE: onoff
7347DEFAULT: off
7348LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7349DOC_START
5473c134 7350 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7351 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7352 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7353 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7354 causes.
7355
7356 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7357DOC_END
7358
31ef19cd 7359NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7360TYPE: int
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AJ
7361LOC: Config.connect_retries
7362DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7363DOC_START
aed188fd
AJ
7364 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7365 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7366 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
7367
7368 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7369 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
7370
7371 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7372 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7373
31ef19cd
AJ
7374 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7375 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7376 a useful server.
a58ff010 7377DOC_END
7378
5473c134 7379NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7380TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7381LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7382DEFAULT: off
7383DOC_START
5473c134 7384 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
7385 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
7386 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
7387 control errors.
5f8252d2 7388DOC_END
7389
5473c134 7390NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7391TYPE: string
5473c134 7392LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7393DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7394DOC_START
5473c134 7395 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7396 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7397DOC_END
7398
5473c134 7399NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7400TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7401LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7402DEFAULT: off
7403DOC_START
5473c134 7404 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7405 objects.
a58ff010 7406DOC_END
7407
5473c134 7408NAME: uri_whitespace
7409TYPE: uri_whitespace
7410LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7411DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7412DOC_START
5473c134 7413 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7414 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7415
5473c134 7416 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7417 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7418 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7419 Request" message.
7420 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7421 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7422 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7423 are in use.
7424 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7425 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7426 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7427 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7428 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7429 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7430 violation.
7431DOC_END
a58ff010 7432
5473c134 7433NAME: chroot
7434TYPE: string
7435LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7436DEFAULT: none
7437DOC_START
9f37c18a 7438 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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HN
7439 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7440 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7441 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7442 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7443DOC_END
a58ff010 7444
5473c134 7445NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7446TYPE: onoff
7447LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7448DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7449DOC_START
cc192b50 7450 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7451 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7452 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7453
5473c134 7454 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7455 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7456 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 7457
cc192b50 7458 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 7459DOC_END
7460
5473c134 7461NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7462TYPE: onoff
7463LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7464DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 7465DOC_START
5473c134 7466 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7467 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7468 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 7469
5473c134 7470 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7471 reasons.
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7472
7473 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 7474DOC_END
a58ff010 7475
5473c134 7476NAME: high_response_time_warning
7477TYPE: int
7478COMMENT: (msec)
7479LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7480DEFAULT: 0
7481DOC_START
7482 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7483 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7484 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 7485DOC_END
7486
5473c134 7487NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7488TYPE: int
7489LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7490DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 7491DOC_START
5473c134 7492 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7493 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7494 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7495 per second.
7496DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7497
5473c134 7498NAME: high_memory_warning
7499TYPE: b_size_t
7500LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 7501DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 7502DOC_START
7503 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7504 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7505 the administrators attention.
7506DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7507
5473c134 7508NAME: sleep_after_fork
7509COMMENT: (microseconds)
7510TYPE: int
7511LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7512DEFAULT: 0
7513DOC_START
7514 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7515 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7516 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7517 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7518 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7519 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7520 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7521 until all the child processes have been started.
7522 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7523 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7524DOC_END
7525
b6696974 7526NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7527IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
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7528COMMENT: on|off
7529TYPE: onoff
7530DEFAULT: on
7531LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7532DOC_START
7533 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7534 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7535 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7536 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7537 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7538 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7539DOC_END
7540
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7541NAME: eui_lookup
7542TYPE: onoff
7543IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7544DEFAULT: on
7545LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7546DOC_START
7547 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7548DOC_END
7549
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7550NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7551TYPE: int
7552DEFAULT: 0
7553LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7554DOC_START
7555 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7556
7557 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7558
7559 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7560 not all comm loops supports large values.
7561DOC_END
7562
13aeac35 7563NAME: workers
007d775d 7564TYPE: int
13aeac35 7565LOC: Config.workers
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7566DEFAULT: 1
7567DOC_START
13aeac35 7568 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
007d775d
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7569 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7570 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
13aeac35
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7571 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7572
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7573 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7574 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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7575DOC_END
7576
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7577NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7578TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7579LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7580DEFAULT: none
7581DOC_START
7582 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7583
7584 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7585
7586 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7587
7588 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7589 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7590
7591 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7592 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7593
7594 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7595
7596 See also: workers
7597DOC_END
7598
cccac0a2 7599EOF