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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 105COMMENT_END
106
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107# Options Removed in 3.2
108NAME: ignore_expect_100
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
112DOC_END
113
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114NAME: dns_v4_fallback
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 Remove this line.
118DOC_END
119
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120NAME: ftp_list_width
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
124DOC_END
125
126NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
130DOC_END
131
132# Options Removed in 3.1
133NAME: dns_testnames
134TYPE: obsolete
135DOC_START
136 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
137DOC_END
138
139NAME: extension_methods
140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
143DOC_END
144
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145# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
146NAME: zero_buffers
147TYPE: obsolete
148DOC_NONE
149
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150# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
151NAME: incoming_rate
152TYPE: obsolete
153DOC_NONE
154
155NAME: server_http11
156TYPE: obsolete
157DOC_START
158 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
159DOC_END
160
161NAME: upgrade_http0.9
162TYPE: obsolete
163DOC_START
164 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
165DOC_END
166
167NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
168TYPE: obsolete
169DOC_START
170 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
171DOC_END
172
173# Options Removed in 3.0
174NAME: header_access
175TYPE: obsolete
176DOC_START
177 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
178 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
179DOC_END
180
181NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
182TYPE: obsolete
183DOC_START
184 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
185DOC_END
186
5473c134 187COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 188 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 189 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
190COMMENT_END
191
41bd17a4 192NAME: auth_param
193TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 194IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 195LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 196DEFAULT: none
197DOC_START
41bd17a4 198 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
199 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 200
41bd17a4 201 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 202
41bd17a4 203 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
204 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
205 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
206 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
207 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
208 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
209 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
210 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
211 program entry).
cccac0a2 212
41bd17a4 213 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
214 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
215 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
216 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
219 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
220 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
221 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
222 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
223 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
224 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
225 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
226 type acl.
cccac0a2 227
41bd17a4 228 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
229 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
230 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
231 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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232 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
233 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 234
41bd17a4 235 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 236
41bd17a4 237 "program" cmdline
238 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
239 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
240 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
241 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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242 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
243 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 244
41bd17a4 245 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
246 program is specified.
cccac0a2 247
41bd17a4 248 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
249 this line to something like
307b83b7 250
41bd17a4 251 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 252
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253 "utf8" on|off
254 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
255 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
256 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
257 username & password to the helper.
258
7353861b 259 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 260 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 261 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
262 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
263 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
264 authenticator processes.
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265
266 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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267 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
268 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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269 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
270 the maximum.
271
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272 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
273 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
274 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
275 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
276 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
277 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 278 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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279
280 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 281
41bd17a4 282 "realm" realmstring
283 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
284 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
285 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
286 password). There is no default.
287 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 288
41bd17a4 289 "credentialsttl" timetolive
290 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
291 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
292 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
293 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
294 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
295 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
296 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
297 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
298 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 299
41bd17a4 300 "casesensitive" on|off
301 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
302 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
303 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
304 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
305 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 306
41bd17a4 307 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 308
41bd17a4 309 "program" cmdline
310 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
311 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
312 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
313 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
314 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
315 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
316 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 317
41bd17a4 318 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
319 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 320
41bd17a4 321 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
322 something like
cccac0a2 323
7ce93108 324 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 325
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326 "utf8" on|off
327 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
328 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
329 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
330 username & password to the helper.
331
7353861b 332 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 333 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 334 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
335 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
336 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
337 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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338
339 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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340 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
341 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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342 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
343 the maximum.
344
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345 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
346 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
347 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
348 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
349 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
350 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
351 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
352
48d54e4d 353 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 354
41bd17a4 355 "realm" realmstring
356 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
357 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
358 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
359 password). There is no default.
360 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 361
41bd17a4 362 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
363 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
364 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 365
41bd17a4 366 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
367 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
368 valid for.
cccac0a2 369
41bd17a4 370 "nonce_max_count" number
371 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
372 used.
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 "nonce_strictness" on|off
375 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
376 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
377 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
378 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 379
41bd17a4 380 "check_nonce_count" on|off
381 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
382 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
383 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
384 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 385
41bd17a4 386 "post_workaround" on|off
387 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
388 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
389 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 390
41bd17a4 391 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 392
41bd17a4 393 "program" cmdline
394 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
395 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
396 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
397 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
398 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
399 is not used.
cccac0a2 400
41bd17a4 401 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 402
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403 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
404 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 405 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
406 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
407 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
408 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
409 processes.
cccac0a2 410
48d54e4d 411 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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412 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
413 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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414 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
415 the maximum.
416
417 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 418
41bd17a4 419 "keep_alive" on|off
420 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
421 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
422 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
423 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
424 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 425
41bd17a4 426 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 427
41bd17a4 428 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 429
41bd17a4 430 "program" cmdline
431 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
432 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
433 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
434 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
435 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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436 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
437 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
438 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 439 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
440 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 441
41bd17a4 442 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 443
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444 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
445 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 446 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
447 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
448 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
449 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
450 processes.
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451
452 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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453 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
454 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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455 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
456 the maximum.
457
458 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 459
41bd17a4 460 "keep_alive" on|off
461 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
462 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
463 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
464 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
465 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 467 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 468
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470 Examples:
471
41bd17a4 472#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
473#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 474#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 475#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 476#
41bd17a4 477#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 478#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 479#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 480#
41bd17a4 481#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 482#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 483#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
484#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
485#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
486#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 487#
41bd17a4 488#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 489#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 490#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
491#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 492DOC_END
cccac0a2 493
41bd17a4 494NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
495TYPE: time_t
496DEFAULT: 1 hour
497LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
498DOC_START
499 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
500 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
501 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
502 have good reason to.
503DOC_END
cccac0a2 504
41bd17a4 505NAME: authenticate_ttl
506TYPE: time_t
507DEFAULT: 1 hour
508LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
509DOC_START
510 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
511 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
512 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
513 TTL are removed from memory.
514DOC_END
cccac0a2 515
41bd17a4 516NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
517TYPE: time_t
518LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
519DEFAULT: 0 seconds
520DOC_START
521 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
522 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
523 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
524 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
525 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
526 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
527 environment with relatively static address assignments.
528DOC_END
cccac0a2 529
3d1e3e43 530COMMENT_START
531 ACCESS CONTROLS
532 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
533COMMENT_END
534
41bd17a4 535NAME: external_acl_type
536TYPE: externalAclHelper
537LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 538DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 539DOC_START
41bd17a4 540 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
541 to look up the status
cccac0a2 542
41bd17a4 543 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 544
41bd17a4 545 Options:
cccac0a2 546
41bd17a4 547 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
548 for 1 hour)
549 negative_ttl=n
550 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
551 as ttl)
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552 children-max=n
553 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
554 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
555 children-startup=n
556 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
557 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
558 of this type. (default 0)
559 children-idle=n
560 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
561 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
562 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
563 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 564 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
565 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 566 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 567 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
568 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 569 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 570 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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571 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
572 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 573
41bd17a4 574 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 575
41bd17a4 576 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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577 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
578 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
579 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 580 %IDENT Ident user name
581 %SRC Client IP
582 %SRCPORT Client source port
583 %URI Requested URI
584 %DST Requested host
585 %PROTO Requested protocol
586 %PORT Requested port
587 %PATH Requested URL path
588 %METHOD Request method
589 %MYADDR Squid interface address
590 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
591 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
592 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
593 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
594 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
595 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 596
c68c9682 597 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 598 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 599 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 600 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 601 HTTP request header list member using ; as
602 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
603 character.
cccac0a2 604
c68c9682 605 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 606 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 607 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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608 %<{Hdr:;member}
609 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
610 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
611 character.
612
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614 an unchanging input format.
615
41bd17a4 616 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
617 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
618 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
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41bd17a4 620 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
621 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
622 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
623 more details.
cccac0a2 624
41bd17a4 625 General result syntax:
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41bd17a4 627 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
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41bd17a4 629 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 631 user= The users name (login)
632 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
633 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
634 in error pages
635 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
636 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
637 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
638 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 639
41bd17a4 640 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
641 each value in both requests and responses.
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41bd17a4 643 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
644 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
645 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 646
41bd17a4 647 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
648 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
649 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 650DOC_END
651
41bd17a4 652NAME: acl
653TYPE: acl
654LOC: Config.aclList
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656DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
657DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
658DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
659DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
660DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
661ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 662DEFAULT: all src all
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663DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
664DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
665DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
666DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 667DOC_START
41bd17a4 668 Defining an Access List
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670 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
671 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
672 they are read from.
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674 acl aclname acltype argument ...
675 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 677 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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679 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
680 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
681 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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684 to access some external data source.
685 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
686 don't are marked as [fast].
687 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
688 for further information
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690 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
691
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692 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
693 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
694 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
695 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 696
41bd17a4 697 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
698 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
699 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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701 # other *BSD variants.
702 # [fast]
41bd17a4 703 #
704 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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705 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
706 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
707
708 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
709 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
710 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 711 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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712 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
713 # regex matching client name [slow]
714 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 715 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 716 #
41bd17a4 717 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
718 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
719 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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721 acl aclname src_as number ...
722 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 723 # [fast]
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725 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
726 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
727 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
728 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
729 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
730 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 731
6db78a1a 732 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 733 # [fast]
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734 # match against a named cache_peer entry
735 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
736
375eeb3b 737 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 738 # [fast]
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740 # S - Sunday
741 # M - Monday
742 # T - Tuesday
743 # W - Wednesday
744 # H - Thursday
745 # F - Friday
746 # A - Saturday
747 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
748
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750 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
751 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
752 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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754 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
755 # ranges are alloed
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756 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
757 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
758
b3567eb5 759 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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761 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
762
763 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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765 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
766 # status code in reply [fast]
e988aa40 767
375eeb3b 768 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 769 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 771 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 772 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 773 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 774
375eeb3b 775 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 776 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 777 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 778 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 779
41bd17a4 780 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
781 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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783 # supplied credentials [slow]
784 #
785 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 786 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
787 #
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789 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
790 #
41bd17a4 791 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
792 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
793 # in access.log.
794 #
795 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
796 # to check username/password combinations (see
797 # auth_param directive).
798 #
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800 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 801 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 802
41bd17a4 803 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 804 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 805 # Example:
806 #
807 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 808
41bd17a4 809 acl aclname maxconn number
810 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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811 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
812 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
813 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 814
41bd17a4 815 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
816 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
817 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 818 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 819 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
820 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
821 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
822 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
823 # request is denied)
824 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
825 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
826 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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828 acl aclname random probability
829 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
830 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
831 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
832
375eeb3b 833 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 834 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
835 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 836 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 837 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
838 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 839
41bd17a4 840 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
841 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
842 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 843 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 844
375eeb3b 845 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 846 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
847 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 848 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 849 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
850 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
851 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 852
41bd17a4 853 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
854 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
855 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 856 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 857
375eeb3b 858 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 859 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 860 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 861
41bd17a4 862 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
863 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 864 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 865
41bd17a4 866 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
867 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 868 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 869
41bd17a4 870 acl aclname ext_user username ...
871 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 872 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 873 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 874
0ab50441 875 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 876 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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878 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
879 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
880 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
881 #
882 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
883 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
884 # http_reply_access.
885
38450a50 886IF USE_SSL
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888 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 889 #
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890 # For valid error names see in @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@/templates/error-details.txt
891 # template file.
cf1c09f6 892 #
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894 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
895 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
896 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
897 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
898 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
899 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
900 #
901 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
902 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
903 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
904 #
905 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
906 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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908
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909 Examples:
910 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
911 acl myexample dst_as 1241
912 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
913 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
914 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 915
41bd17a4 916NOCOMMENT_START
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918# Recommended minimum configuration:
919#
e0855596 920
ee776778 921# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
922# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
923# should be allowed
924acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
925acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
926acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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927acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
928acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 930acl SSL_ports port 443
931acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
932acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
933acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
934acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
935acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
936acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
937acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
938acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
939acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
940acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
941acl CONNECT method CONNECT
942NOCOMMENT_END
943DOC_END
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945NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
946TYPE: acl_access
947IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
948LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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949DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
950DOC_START
951 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
952 find the original source of a request.
953
954 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
955 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
956 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
957 rightmost address being the most recent.
958
959 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
960 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
961 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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963 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
964 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
965 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
966 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
967 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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969 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
970 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 971 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 972 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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973 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
974 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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977 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
978
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980
981 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
982 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
983 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
984 source address of the request. This may enable remote
985 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
986 based on the client's source addresses.
987
988 For example:
989
990 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
991 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
992 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
993 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
994DOC_END
995
996NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
997COMMENT: on|off
998TYPE: onoff
999IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1000DEFAULT: on
1001LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1002DOC_START
1003 Controls whether the indirect client address
1004 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1005 direct client address in acl matching.
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1007 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1008 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1010
1011NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1012COMMENT: on|off
1013TYPE: onoff
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1016LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1017DOC_START
1018 Controls whether the indirect client address
1019 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1020 direct client address in delay pools.
1021DOC_END
1022
1023NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1024COMMENT: on|off
1025TYPE: onoff
1026IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1027DEFAULT: on
1028LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1029DOC_START
1030 Controls whether the indirect client address
1031 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1032 direct client address in the access log.
1033DOC_END
1034
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1035NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1036COMMENT: on|off
1037TYPE: onoff
1038IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1039DEFAULT: off
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1040LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1041DOC_START
1042 Controls whether the indirect client address
1043 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1044 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1046 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1047 mode ports.
1048
1049 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1050 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1051 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1052 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1054
41bd17a4 1055NAME: http_access
1056TYPE: acl_access
1057LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1058DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1059DOC_START
1060 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
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41bd17a4 1062 Access to the HTTP port:
1063 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1064
41bd17a4 1065 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1067 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1068 the request.
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41bd17a4 1070 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1071 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1072 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1073 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1075 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1078 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1079
41bd17a4 1080NOCOMMENT_START
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1082#
1083# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1084#
1085# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1086http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1087http_access deny manager
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1089# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1090http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1092# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1093http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1095# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1096# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1097# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1098#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1100#
1101# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1102#
c8f4eac4 1103
ee776778 1104# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1105# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1106# from where browsing should be allowed
1107http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1108http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1109
41bd17a4 1110# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1111http_access deny all
1112NOCOMMENT_END
1113DOC_END
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1116TYPE: acl_access
1117LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1118DEFAULT: none
1119DOC_START
1120 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1121
1122 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1123 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1124 output.
1125
1126 If not set then only http_access is used.
1127DOC_END
1128
41bd17a4 1129NAME: http_reply_access
1130TYPE: acl_access
1131LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1132DEFAULT: none
1133DOC_START
1134 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1135
41bd17a4 1136 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1137
41bd17a4 1138 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1139 all replies
1a224843 1140
41bd17a4 1141 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1142 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1143 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1145 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1146 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1147DOC_END
1148
41bd17a4 1149NAME: icp_access
1150TYPE: acl_access
1151LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1152DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1153DOC_START
41bd17a4 1154 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1155 access lists
5473c134 1156
41bd17a4 1157 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1158
41bd17a4 1159 See http_access for details
1160
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1162 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1164# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1165#icp_access allow localnet
1166#icp_access deny all
5473c134 1167DOC_END
1168
41bd17a4 1169NAME: htcp_access
1170IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1171TYPE: acl_access
1172LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1173DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1174DOC_START
41bd17a4 1175 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1176 access lists
5473c134 1177
41bd17a4 1178 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1179
41bd17a4 1180 See http_access for details
5473c134 1181
0b48417e 1182 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1183 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1184 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1185
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1187 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1189# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1190#htcp_access allow localnet
1191#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1192DOC_END
5473c134 1193
41bd17a4 1194NAME: htcp_clr_access
1195IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1196TYPE: acl_access
1197LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1198DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1199DOC_START
1200 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1201 on defined access lists
5473c134 1202
41bd17a4 1203 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1204
41bd17a4 1205 See http_access for details
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1208 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1210# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1211acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1212htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1213DOC_END
1214
41bd17a4 1215NAME: miss_access
1216TYPE: acl_access
1217LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1218DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1219DOC_START
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1220 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1221
1222 For example;
1223 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1224 a parent.
5473c134 1225
41bd17a4 1226 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1227 miss_access allow localclients
1228 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1229
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1230 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1231 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1232 objects (HITs).
1233
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1235 The default for this setting allows all clients who passed the
1236 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1238 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1239 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1240DOC_END
1241
1242NAME: ident_lookup_access
1243TYPE: acl_access
1244IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1245DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1246LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1247DOC_START
41bd17a4 1248 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1249 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1250 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1251 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1252 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1253 any requests.
5473c134 1254
41bd17a4 1255 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1256 can follow this example:
5473c134 1257
4daaf3cb 1258 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1259 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1260 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1261
4daaf3cb 1262 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1263 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1264 the correct result.
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1266 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1267 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1268DOC_END
5473c134 1269
5b0f5383 1270NAME: reply_body_max_size
1271COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1272TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1273DEFAULT: none
1274LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1275DOC_START
1276 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1277 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1278 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1279 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1280 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1281 for this reply.
1282
1283 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1284 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1285 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1286 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1287 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1288 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1289 and they will receive a partial reply.
1290
1291 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1292 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1293 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1294 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1295
1296 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1297 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1298 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1299 the size of your largest error page.
1300
1301 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1302 no limit imposed.
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1304 Configuration Format is:
1305 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1306 ie.
1307 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1308
5b0f5383 1309DOC_END
1310
1311COMMENT_START
1312 NETWORK OPTIONS
1313 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1314COMMENT_END
1315
1316NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1317TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1318DEFAULT: none
1319LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1320DOC_START
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1321 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1322 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1323 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1324
1325 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1326 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1327 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1328 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1329 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1330 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1331 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1332
1333 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1334 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1335
1336 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1337 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1338 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1339
1340 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1341
c7b1dd5d 1342 Modes:
5b0f5383 1343
e77bdb4e 1344 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1345 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1346 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1347
1348 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1349 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1350 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1351
7f45065d 1352 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1353
caf3666d 1354 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1355 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1356 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1357 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1358 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1359
7a957a93 1360 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1361 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1362
1363 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1364
1365
1366 Accelerator Mode Options:
1367
5b0f5383 1368 defaultsite=domainname
1369 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1370 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1371 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1372
cf673853 1373 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1374
1375 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1377 https_port
5b0f5383 1378
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1380 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1381
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1382 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1383 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1384
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1385 act-as-origin
1386 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1387 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1388 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1389
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1391
7f45065d 1392 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1394
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1395 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1396 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1397 never_direct was used.
1398
1399 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1400 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1401 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1402 http_access rules when using this.
1403
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1405 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1407
1408 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1409 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1410 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1411 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1412 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1413 certificate will be selfsigned.
1414 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1415 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1416 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1417 years.
1418 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1419 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1420
1421 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1422 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1423 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1424 default value is 4MB.
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1426 TLS / SSL Options:
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1428 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1429
1430 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1431 if not specified, the certificate file is
1432 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1433 key file.
1434
1435 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1436 1 automatic (default)
1437 2 SSLv2 only
1438 3 SSLv3 only
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1439 4 TLSv1.0 only
1440 5 TLSv1.1 only
1441 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1442
1443 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1445 additional settings. If those settings are
1446 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1447 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1448
943c5f16 1449 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1450 being:
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1451 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1452 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1453 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1454 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1455 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1456 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1457 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1459 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1460 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1461 strength to some attacks.
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1462 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1463 complete list of options.
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1465 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1466 requesting a client certificate.
1467
1468 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1469 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1470 clientca will be used.
1471
1472 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1473 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1474
1475 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1476 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1477 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1478
1479 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1480 DH key exchanges. See OpenSSL documentation for details
1481 on how to create this file.
1482 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1483 option is not set.
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1484
1485 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1486 DELAYED_AUTH
1487 Don't request client certificates
1488 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1489 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1490 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1491 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1492 to OpenSSL.
1493 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1494 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1495 will result in a new SSL session.
1496 VERIFY_CRL
1497 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1498 certificates.
1499 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1500 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1501 client certificate chain.
1502
1503 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1504
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1506
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1507 connection-auth[=on|off]
1508 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1509 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1510 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1511
5b0f5383 1512 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1513 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1514 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1515 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1516 support is enabled.
1517 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1518
1519 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1520 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1521 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1522 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1523 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1524 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1525 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1526 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1527
81b6e9a7 1528 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1529 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1530
68924b6d 1531 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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1533 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1534 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1535 timeout the time before giving up.
1536
5b0f5383 1537 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1538 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1539 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1540 visible on the internal address.
1541
1542NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1544# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1545http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1546NOCOMMENT_END
1547DOC_END
1548
1549NAME: https_port
1550IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1551TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1552DEFAULT: none
1553LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1554DOC_START
7f45065d 1555 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1556
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1558 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1559
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1561 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1562
1563 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1564 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1565
7f45065d 1566 Modes:
5b0f5383 1567
7f45065d 1568 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1569
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1571 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1572 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1573
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1575 connections using the client IP address.
1576 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1577
caf3666d 1578 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1579 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1580 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1582 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1583
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1585 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 1586
38450a50 1587 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1588
7f45065d 1589 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1590
5b0f5383 1591
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1593
1594
1595 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1596
1597 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1598
1599 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1600 if not specified, the certificate file is
1601 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1602 key file.
1603
1604 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1605 1 automatic (default)
1606 2 SSLv2 only
1607 3 SSLv3 only
1608 4 TLSv1 only
1609
1610 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1611
1612 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1613 being:
1614 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1615 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1616 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1617 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1618 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1619 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1620 documentation for a complete list of options.
1621
1622 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1623 requesting a client certificate.
1624
1625 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1626 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1627 clientca will be used.
1628
1629 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1630 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1631
1632 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1633 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1634 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1635
1636 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1637 DH key exchanges.
1638
1639 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1640 DELAYED_AUTH
1641 Don't request client certificates
1642 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1643 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1644 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1645 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1646 to OpenSSL.
1647 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1648 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1649 will result in a new SSL session.
1650 VERIFY_CRL
1651 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1652 certificates.
1653 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1654 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1655 client certificate chain.
1656
1657 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1658
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1660 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1661 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1662 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1663 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1664 certificate will be selfsigned.
1665 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1666 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1667 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1668 years.
1669 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1670 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1671
1672 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1673 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1674 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1675 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 1676
859741ed 1677 See http_port for a list of available options.
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1679
41bd17a4 1680NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1681TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1682DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1683LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
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1686 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1687
41bd17a4 1688 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1689
41bd17a4 1690 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1691 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1694 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1695 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1696 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1697
41bd17a4 1698 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1700 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1701
41bd17a4 1702 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1703 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1705 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
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41bd17a4 1707 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1708 matching line.
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1710
41bd17a4 1711NAME: clientside_tos
1712TYPE: acl_tos
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1715DOC_START
1716 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1717 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1718
1719 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1720
1721 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1722 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1723
1724 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1725 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1726 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1727 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1728
1729 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1730 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1731DOC_END
1732
1733NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1734TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1735IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1737LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1738DOC_START
1739 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1740 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1741
1742 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1743
1744 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1745 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1746
1747 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1748 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1749 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1750 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1751DOC_END
1752
1753NAME: clientside_mark
1754TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1755IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1757LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
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1760 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1761
1762 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1763
1764 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1765 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1766
1767 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1768 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1769 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1770 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1771
1772 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1773 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1774DOC_END
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1777TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1778IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1779DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1780LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1781DOC_START
575cb927 1782 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1784 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1785 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1788 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1789 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1792 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1793 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1794
1795 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1796
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1798
1799 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1801 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1802
1803 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1804
1805 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1806
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1808 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1809 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1810 specified in the mask are written.
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1813 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1814 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1815 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1816 with all variants of netfilter.
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575cb927 1818 disable-preserve-miss
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1820 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1821 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1822 and masked with miss-mark.
1823 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1824 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1825 (MARK target).
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1827 miss-mask=0xFF
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1829 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1830 the TOS sent towards clients.
1831 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1832 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1833
1834 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1835 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1836 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1837 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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41bd17a4 1841NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1842TYPE: acl_address
1843DEFAULT: none
1844LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1845DOC_START
1846 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1847 based on the username or source address of the user making
1848 the request.
7f7db318 1849
41bd17a4 1850 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1853 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1855 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1856 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1857
1858 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1859 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1860
1861 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1862 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1863
1864 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1865 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
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41bd17a4 1867 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1868 matching line.
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1871 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1872 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1873
1874
1875 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1876 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1877 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1878 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 1880 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1881 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1883 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1884
cccac0a2 1885DOC_END
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1887NAME: host_verify_strict
1888TYPE: onoff
1889DEFAULT: off
1890LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1891DOC_START
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1893 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 1894 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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1896 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1897 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1898 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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1900 When set to ON:
1901 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
1902 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
1903
1904 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
1905 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
1906 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
1907 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
1908 and Request-URI components:
1909
1910 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
1911 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
1912 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
1913 or FQDN.
1914
1915 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
1916 the scheme-default port is assumed.
1917
1918
1919 When set to OFF (the default):
1920 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
1921 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
1922
1923 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1924
1925 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1926
1927 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 1928 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 1929
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1931 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
1932 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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1934 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
1935 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
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7177edfb 1938 SECURITY NOTE:
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1940 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1941 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1942 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1943 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1944
1945 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1946 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1947 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1948 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1949 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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1951DOC_END
6b185b50 1952
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1953NAME: client_dst_passthru
1954TYPE: onoff
1955DEFAULT: on
1956LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1957DOC_START
1958 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1959 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1960 source using the HTTP Host header.
1961
1962 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
1963 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
1964 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
1965 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
1966
1967 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
1968 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
1969 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
1970
1971 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
1972 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
1973 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
1974
1975 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 1976DOC_END
1977
41bd17a4 1978COMMENT_START
1979 SSL OPTIONS
1980 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1981COMMENT_END
1982
1983NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1984IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1985TYPE: onoff
1986DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1987LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1988DOC_START
41bd17a4 1989 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1990 messages.
cccac0a2 1991DOC_END
1992
41bd17a4 1993NAME: ssl_engine
1994IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1995TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1996LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1997DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1998DOC_START
41bd17a4 1999 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2000 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2001DOC_END
2002
41bd17a4 2003NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
2004IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2005DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2006LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2007TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2008DOC_START
41bd17a4 2009 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2010DOC_END
2011
41bd17a4 2012NAME: sslproxy_client_key
2013IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2014DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2015LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2016TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2017DOC_START
41bd17a4 2018 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2019DOC_END
2020
41bd17a4 2021NAME: sslproxy_version
2022IFDEF: USE_SSL
2023DEFAULT: 1
2024LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2025TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2026DOC_START
41bd17a4 2027 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2029 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2030
2031 1 automatic (default)
2032 2 SSLv2 only
2033 3 SSLv3 only
2034 4 TLSv1.0 only
2035 5 TLSv1.1 only
2036 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2037DOC_END
2038
41bd17a4 2039NAME: sslproxy_options
2040IFDEF: USE_SSL
2041DEFAULT: none
2042LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2043TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2044DOC_START
943c5f16 2045 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2047 The most important being:
2048
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2049 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2050 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2051 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2052 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2053 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2054 SINGLE_DH_USE
2055 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2056 DH key exchanges
2057 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2058 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2059 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2060 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2061 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2062 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2063 strength to some attacks.
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2065 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2066 complete list of possible options.
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2068
41bd17a4 2069NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2070IFDEF: USE_SSL
2071DEFAULT: none
2072LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2073TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2074DOC_START
41bd17a4 2075 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2077 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2078DOC_END
2079
41bd17a4 2080NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2081IFDEF: USE_SSL
2082DEFAULT: none
2083LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2084TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2085DOC_START
41bd17a4 2086 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2087 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2088DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2090NAME: sslproxy_capath
2091IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 2092DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2093LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2094TYPE: string
5473c134 2095DOC_START
41bd17a4 2096 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2097 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2098DOC_END
2099
4c9da963 2100NAME: ssl_bump
2101IFDEF: USE_SSL
caf3666d 2102TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2103LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
2104DEFAULT: none
2105DOC_START
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2106 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2107 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2108 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2109 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2110 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2111 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2112
2113 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2114
2115 The following bumping modes are supported:
2116
2117 client-first
2118 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2119 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2120 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2121 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2122
2123 server-first
2124 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2125 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2126 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2127 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2128
2129 none
2130 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2131 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2132 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2133 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2134
2135 By default, no connections are bumped.
2136
2137 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2138 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2139 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2140 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2141 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2142
e0c0d54c 2143 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2144 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2147
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2150 # localhost and those going to example.com.
e0855596 2151
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2154 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2155 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2156DOC_END
2157
41bd17a4 2158NAME: sslproxy_flags
2159IFDEF: USE_SSL
2160DEFAULT: none
2161LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2162TYPE: string
5473c134 2163DOC_START
41bd17a4 2164 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2165 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2166 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2167 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2168 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2169DOC_END
2170
4c9da963 2171NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2172IFDEF: USE_SSL
2173DEFAULT: none
2174LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2175TYPE: acl_access
2176DOC_START
2177 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2178
2179 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2180 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2181 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2182
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2184 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2185 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2186
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2188 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2189 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2190
2191 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2192 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2193 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2194 the connection may be insecure.
2195
2196 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2197
e0855596 2198 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 2199DOC_END
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2201NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2202IFDEF: USE_SSL
2203DEFAULT: none
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2204POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2205POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2206POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2208LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2209DOC_START
2210
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69742b76 2213 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
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2216 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2217 default for trusted origin server certificates.
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2220 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2221 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
aebe6888 2222 signSelf
69742b76 2223 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
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2226 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2229
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2231 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2232 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2233 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2234 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2236 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2237 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2238 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2239 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2240 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2241 bump-server-first is used.
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2243
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2244NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2245IFDEF: USE_SSL
2246DEFAULT: none
2247TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2248LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2249DOC_START
2250
2251 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2252
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2256 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
fb2178bb 2257 setValidBefore
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2259 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
2260 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2261 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2262 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2263 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2264 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2265 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2268
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2270 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2271 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2272 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2273 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2274 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2277 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2278 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2279 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2280 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2281 bump-server-first is used.
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2283
41bd17a4 2284NAME: sslpassword_program
2285IFDEF: USE_SSL
2286DEFAULT: none
2287LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2288TYPE: string
5473c134 2289DOC_START
41bd17a4 2290 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2291 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2292 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2293 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2295 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2296 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2297 keys.
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2301 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2302 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2303COMMENT_END
2304
2305NAME: sslcrtd_program
2306TYPE: eol
2307IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2308DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2309LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2310DOC_START
2311 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2312 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2313 For more information use:
2314 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2315DOC_END
2316
2317NAME: sslcrtd_children
2318TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2319IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2320DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2321LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2322DOC_START
2323 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2324 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2325
2326 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2327 tuning.
2328
2329 startup=N
2330
2331 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2332 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2333 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2334
2335 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2336 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2337
2338 idle=N
2339
2340 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2341 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2342 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2343 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2344
2345 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2346DOC_END
2347
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41bd17a4 2349 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
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2351COMMENT_END
2352
41bd17a4 2353NAME: cache_peer
2354TYPE: peer
2355DEFAULT: none
2356LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2357DOC_START
41bd17a4 2358 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2360 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2361
41bd17a4 2362 For example,
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41bd17a4 2364 # proxy icp
2365 # hostname type port port options
2366 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2367 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2368 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2369 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2370 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2371 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2372
2373 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2374
2375 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2376 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2377 For web servers this is usually 80
2378
2379 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2380 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2381 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2382
2383
2384 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2385
2386 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2387 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2388
2389
2390 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2391
2392 multicast-responder
2393 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2394 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2395 replies will be accepted from it.
2396
2397 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2398 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2399
2400 background-ping
2401 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2402 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2403 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2404
2405
2406 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2407
2408 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2409 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2410
2411
2412 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2413 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2414 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2415 list of options described below.
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18191440 2417 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2418
18191440 2419 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2420 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2421 only-clr.
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2423 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2424 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2426 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2427 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2428 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2429
18191440 2430 htcp=forward-clr
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2431 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2432
2433
2434 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2435
2436 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2437 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2438
2439
2440 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2441 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2442 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2443
2444 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2445 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2446 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2447
2448 weighted-round-robin
2449 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2450 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2451 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2452 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2453 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2454
2455 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2456 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2457 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2458
2459 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2460
2461 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2463 multicast-siblings
2464 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2465 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2466 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2468 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2469 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2470 members of the same multicast group.
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2472
2473 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2474
2475 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2476 peer-selection mechanisms.
2477 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2478 larger weights are favored more.
2479 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2480 protocol is not in use.
2481
2482 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2483 times of parents.
2484 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2485 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2486 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2487
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2488 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2489 to this address.
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2490 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2491 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2492 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2493 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2494
2495 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2496 delay pools.
2497
2498 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2499 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2500 than the Squid default location.
2501
2502
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2504
2505 carp-key=key-specification
2506 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2507 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2508 scheme, host, port, path, params
2509 Order is not important.
2510
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2511 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2512
2513 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2514 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2515 is a web server.
2516
2517 forceddomain=name
2518 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2519 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2520 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2521 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2522
2523 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2524
2525 no-netdb-exchange
2526 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2527
2528
2529 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2530
2531 login=user:password
2532 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2533 requires proxy authentication.
2534
2535 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2536 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2537
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2538 login=PASSTHRU
2539 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2540 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2541 without alteration to the peer.
2542 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2543
2544 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2545 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2546 connection-auth options are also used.
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2548 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2549 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 2550
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2551 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2552 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2554 they may be sent instead.
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2555
2556 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2557 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2558 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2559 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2560 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2561
2562 login=*:password
2563 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2564 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2565 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2566 needed to identify each user.
2567 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2568 information which is added to the username. This can
2569 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2570 the login=username:password option above.
2571
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2572 login=NEGOTIATE
2573 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2574 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2575 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2576 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2577
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2579 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2580 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2581
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2582 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2583 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2584 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2585 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2586 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2587 used.
2588
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2590 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2591 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2592
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2593 connection-auth=on|off
2594 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2595 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2596 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2597 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2598 of the peer.
2599
2600
2601 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2602
2603 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2604
2605 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2606 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2607 this peer.
2608
2609 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2610 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2611 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2612 reference a combined file containing both the
2613 certificate and the key.
2614
3d96b0e8 2615 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2616 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2617 1 = automatic (default)
2618 2 = SSL v2 only
2619 3 = SSL v3 only
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2620 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2621 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2622 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2623
2624 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2625 to this peer.
2626
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2627 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL implementation options:
2628
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2629 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2630 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2631 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2632 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2633 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2634 SINGLE_DH_USE
2635 Always create a new key when using
2636 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2637 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2638 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2639 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2640 strength to some attacks.
2641
2642 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2643 more complete list.
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2644
2645 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2646 when verifying the peer certificate.
2647
2648 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2649 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2650
2651 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2652 verifying the peer certificate.
2653
2654 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2655
41bd17a4 2656 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2657 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2658 verify.
2659 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2660 Don't use the default CA list built in
2661 to OpenSSL.
2662 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2663 Don't verify the peer certificate
2664 matches the server name
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2665
2666 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2667 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2668 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2669 used.
2670
2671 front-end-https
2672 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2673 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2674 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2675 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2676 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2677
2678
2679 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2680
2681 connect-timeout=N
2682 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2683 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2684
2685 connect-fail-limit=N
2686 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2687 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2688
2689 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2690 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2691 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2692 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2693 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2694 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2695 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2696
2697 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2698 peer. see also
2699
2700 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2701 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2702 but different ports.
2703 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2704 directives to dentify the peer.
2705 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2706 peername ACL type.
2707
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2708 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2709 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2710
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2711 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2712
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41bd17a4 2715NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2716TYPE: hostdomain
2717DEFAULT: none
2718LOC: none
2719DOC_START
2720 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2721 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2722
41bd17a4 2723 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2724 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2725
41bd17a4 2726 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2727
41bd17a4 2728 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2729
41bd17a4 2730 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2731 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2732 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2733 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2734 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2735
41bd17a4 2736 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2737 either on the same or separate lines.
2738 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2739 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2740 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2741 for all requests.
2742 * There are no defaults.
2743 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2744 section.
2745DOC_END
dd9b1776 2746
41bd17a4 2747NAME: cache_peer_access
2748TYPE: peer_access
2749DEFAULT: none
2750LOC: none
2751DOC_START
2752 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2753 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2754
41bd17a4 2755 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2756
41bd17a4 2757 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2758 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2759 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2760DOC_END
dd9b1776 2761
41bd17a4 2762NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2763TYPE: hostdomaintype
2764DEFAULT: none
2765LOC: none
2766DOC_START
2767 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2768
41bd17a4 2769 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2770 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2771 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2772 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2773 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2774 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2775
41bd17a4 2776EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2777 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2778 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2779 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2780DOC_END
6bf4f823 2781
41bd17a4 2782NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2783COMMENT: (seconds)
2784DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2785TYPE: time_t
2786LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2787DOC_START
2788 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2789 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2790 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2791 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2792 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2793 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2794
41bd17a4 2795 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2796 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2797 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2798 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2799 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2800 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2801 instead of to your parents.
2802DOC_END
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2804NAME: forward_max_tries
2805DEFAULT: 10
2806TYPE: int
2807LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2808DOC_START
2809 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2810 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2811
2812 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2813 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2814DOC_END
2815
41bd17a4 2816NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2817TYPE: wordlist
2818DEFAULT: none
2819LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2820DOC_START
2821 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2822 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2823 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2824 list this option multiple times.
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2826 Example:
2827 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2828
2829 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2830DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2832COMMENT_START
2833 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2834 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2835COMMENT_END
2836
2837NAME: cache_mem
2838COMMENT: (bytes)
2839TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2840DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2841LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2842DOC_START
41bd17a4 2843 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2844 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2845 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2846 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2847
2848 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2849 for:
2850 * In-Transit objects
2851 * Hot Objects
2852 * Negative-Cached objects
2853
2854 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2855 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2856 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2857 priority.
2858
2859 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2860 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2861 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2862 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2863 not needed for in-transit objects.
2864
2865 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2866 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2867 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2868 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2869 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2870 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2871 objects.
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2873 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
2874 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
2875 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
2876 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 2877DOC_END
0976f8db 2878
41bd17a4 2879NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2880COMMENT: (bytes)
2881TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2882DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2883LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2884DOC_START
41bd17a4 2885 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2886 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2887 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2888 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2889DOC_END
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2892COMMENT: on|off
2893TYPE: YesNoNone
2894LOC: Config.memShared
2895DEFAULT: none
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2898 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
2899
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2900 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
2901 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
2902 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
2903 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
2904 caching is enabled).
2905
65b81b27 2906 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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2908 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
2909 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
2910 and GCC-style atomic operations).
2911
2912 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
2913 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
2914 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
2915
2916 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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2918
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2919NAME: memory_cache_mode
2920TYPE: memcachemode
2921LOC: Config
2922DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2923DOC_START
ea21d497 2924 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2925
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2926 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2927
2928 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2929 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2930 a second time before cached in memory.
2931
2932 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2934
41bd17a4 2935NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2936TYPE: removalpolicy
2937LOC: Config.memPolicy
2938DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2939DOC_START
41bd17a4 2940 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2941 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2942
41bd17a4 2943 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2944DOC_END
6b698a21 2945
41bd17a4 2946COMMENT_START
2947 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2948 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2949COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2950
41bd17a4 2951NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2952TYPE: removalpolicy
2953LOC: Config.replPolicy
2954DEFAULT: lru
2955DOC_START
2956 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2957 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2958
41bd17a4 2959 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2960 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2961 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2962 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2963
41bd17a4 2964 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2965
41bd17a4 2966 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2967
41bd17a4 2968 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2969 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2970 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2971 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2972
41bd17a4 2973 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2974 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2975 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2976 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2977
41bd17a4 2978 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2979 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2980 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2981
41bd17a4 2982 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2983 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2984 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2985
41bd17a4 2986 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2987 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2988 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2989DOC_END
0976f8db 2990
41bd17a4 2991NAME: cache_dir
2992TYPE: cachedir
2993DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2994LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2995DOC_START
41bd17a4 2996 Usage:
0976f8db 2997
41bd17a4 2998 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2999
41bd17a4 3000 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3001 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3002
41bd17a4 3003 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3004 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3005 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3006
41bd17a4 3007 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3008 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3009 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3010 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3011 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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3013 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3014 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3015 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3016
41bd17a4 3017 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 3018
41bd17a4 3019 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3020 been there.
0976f8db 3021
41bd17a4 3022 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3023
41bd17a4 3024 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3025 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3026 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3027 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3028 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3029
56fba4d0 3030 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3031 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3032
56fba4d0 3033 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3034 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3035 is 256.
0976f8db 3036
41bd17a4 3037 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 3038
41bd17a4 3039 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3040 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3041 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3042
41bd17a4 3043 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3044
41bd17a4 3045 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3046
41bd17a4 3047 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 3048
41bd17a4 3049 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3050 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3051 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3052
41bd17a4 3053 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3054
41bd17a4 3055 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3056
41bd17a4 3057 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3058 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3059 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3060
41bd17a4 3061 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3062 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3063 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3064
41bd17a4 3065 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3066 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3067 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3068 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3069 time.
0976f8db 3070
2e55f083 3071 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 3072
df881a0f 3073 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 3074
2e55f083 3075 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3076 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
3077 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3078 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3079 below for more info on the max-size option.
3080
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3081 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3082 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3083 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3084 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3085 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3086 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3087 expected swap wait time.
3088
df881a0f 3089 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3090 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3091 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3092 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3093 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3094 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3095 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3096 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3097 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3098 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3099 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3100 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3101 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3102 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3103
3104
41bd17a4 3105 The coss store type:
0976f8db 3106
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3107 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3108 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3109 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3110
41bd17a4 3111 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3112 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3113 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3114 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3115 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3116 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3117 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 3118
41bd17a4 3119 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3120 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3121 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 3122
41bd17a4 3123 Common options:
0976f8db 3124
41bd17a4 3125 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 3126
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3127 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
3128 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
3129 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
3130 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
3131
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3132 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
3133 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 3134 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
3135 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
3136 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 3137
41bd17a4 3138 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3139 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3140 option.
bebc043b 3141NOCOMMENT_START
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3142
3143# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3144#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3145NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3146DOC_END
0976f8db 3147
41bd17a4 3148NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3149TYPE: string
3150LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3151DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3152DOC_START
41bd17a4 3153 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 3154DOC_END
0976f8db 3155
41bd17a4 3156NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3157TYPE: int
3158LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3159DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 3160DOC_START
41bd17a4 3161 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3162 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3163 descriptors are open.
3164
3165 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3166DOC_END
0976f8db 3167
41bd17a4 3168NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 3169COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 3170TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 3171DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 3172LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 3173DOC_START
41bd17a4 3174 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3175 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3176 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 3177DOC_END
0976f8db 3178
41bd17a4 3179NAME: maximum_object_size
3180COMMENT: (bytes)
3181TYPE: b_int64_t
3182DEFAULT: 4096 KB
3183LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 3184DOC_START
41bd17a4 3185 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3186 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
3187 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3188 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3189 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
3190 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 3191
41bd17a4 3192 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3193 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3194 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 3195DOC_END
0976f8db 3196
41bd17a4 3197NAME: cache_swap_low
3198COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3199TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3200DEFAULT: 90
3201LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
3202DOC_NONE
3203
3204NAME: cache_swap_high
3205COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3206TYPE: int
3207DEFAULT: 95
3208LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3209DOC_START
41bd17a4 3210
3211 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
3212 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3213 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3214 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3215 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3216 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3217
3218 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3219 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3220 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 3221DOC_END
0976f8db 3222
5473c134 3223COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3224 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3225 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3226COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3227
41bd17a4 3228NAME: logformat
3229TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3230LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3231DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 3232DOC_START
41bd17a4 3233 Usage:
0976f8db 3234
41bd17a4 3235 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3236
41bd17a4 3237 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3238
41bd17a4 3239 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3240
41bd17a4 3241 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3242 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3243 as required according to their context and the output format
3244 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3245 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3246
41bd17a4 3247 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3248
41bd17a4 3249 " output in quoted string format
3250 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3251 # output in URL quoted format
3252 ' output as-is
5473c134 3253
41bd17a4 3254 - left aligned
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3255
3256 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3257 [width_min][.width_max]
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3258 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3259 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3260
41bd17a4 3261 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3262
41bd17a4 3263 Format codes:
5473c134 3264
3ff65596 3265 % a literal % character
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3266 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3267 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3268 a similar internal error identifier.
3269 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
3270
3271 Connection related format codes:
3272
41bd17a4 3273 >a Client source IP address
3274 >A Client FQDN
3275 >p Client source port
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3276 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3277 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3278 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3279
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3280 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3281 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3282
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3283 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3284 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3285 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3286 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3287 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3288
3289 Time related format codes:
3290
41bd17a4 3291 ts Seconds since epoch
3292 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3293 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3294 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3295 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3296 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3297 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3298 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
3299
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3300 Access Control related format codes:
3301
3302 et Tag returned by external acl
3303 ea Log string returned by external acl
3304 un User name (any available)
3305 ul User name from authentication
3306 ue User name from external acl helper
3307 ui User name from ident
3308 us User name from SSL
3309
3310 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3311
ca2e92d8 3312 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3313 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3314 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3315 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3316 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3317 as for >h
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3318 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3319 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3320 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3321 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3322 transfer encoding and control messages.
3323 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3324 received bodies.
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3325 [http::]mt MIME content type
3326 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3327 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3328 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3329 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3330 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3331 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3332 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3333 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3334 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3335 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3336 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3337 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3338 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3339 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3340 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3341 are not included
3342 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3343 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3344 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3345 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3346 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3347 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3348 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3349 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3350 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3351 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3352 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3353 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3354
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3355 Squid handling related format codes:
3356
3357 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3358 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3359
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3360 SSL-related format codes:
3361
3362 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3363
3364 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3365 a connection and for any request received on
3366 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3367 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3368 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3369 more information about these modes.
3370
3371 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3372 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3373 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3374
3375 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3376 logged.
3377
5038f9d8 3378 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3379 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3380
3381 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3382 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3383 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3384 transaction is in progress.
3385
5038f9d8 3386 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3387
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3388 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3389 meta-information from the last eCAP
3390 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3391 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3392 argument.
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3393
3394 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3395 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3396 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3397 value is recorded as an integer number,
3398 representing response time of one or more
3399 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3400 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3401 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3402 logged individually but added to the
3403 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3404 adapt::all_trs.
3405
3406 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3407 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3408 individual transactions are never added
3409 together. Instead, all transaction response
3410 times are recorded individually.
3411
3412 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3413 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3414 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3415
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3416 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3417
3418 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3419 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3420 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3421 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3422 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3423
3424 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3425 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3426 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3427 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3428 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3429
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3430 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3431
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3432logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3433logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3434logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3435logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3436logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3437
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3438 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3439 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3440 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3441
3442 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3443 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3444
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3446
41bd17a4 3447NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3448TYPE: access_log
3449LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3450DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3451DOC_START
41bd17a4 3452 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3453 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3454 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3455 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3456
3457 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3458 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3459 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3460 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3461
3462 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3463
bb7a1781 3464 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3465 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3466
3467 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3468 each request.
3469 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3470
3471 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3472 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3473 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3474
3475 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3476
3477 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3478 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3479 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3480
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3481 where facility could be any of:
3482 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3483
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3484 And priority could be any of:
3485 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3486
3487 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3488 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3489 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3490
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3491 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3492 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3493 Place Format: //host:port
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3494
3495 Default:
82b7abe3 3496 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3497DOC_END
5473c134 3498
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3499NAME: icap_log
3500TYPE: access_log
3501IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3502LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3503DEFAULT: none
3504DOC_START
3505 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3506 transaction.
3507
3508 The icap_log option format is:
3509 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3510 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3511
3512 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3513 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3514 features.
3515
3516 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3517 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3518 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3519 log line.
3520
3521 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3522 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3523 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3524 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3525 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3526 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3527 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3528
3529 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3530
3531 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3532
3533 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3534 option in Squid configuration file.
3535
3536 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3537
3538 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3539 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3540
3541 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3542 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3543
3544 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3545 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3546 the socket).
3547
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3548 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3549 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3550 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3551 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3552 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3553 computed.
3554
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3556 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3557 the ICAP transaction is created and
3558 stops when the transaction is completed.
3559 Similar to tr.
3560
3561 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3562 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3563 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3564 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3565 is received.
3566
3567 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3568 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3569 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3570 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3571 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3572 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3573
3574 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3575
3576 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3577
3578 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3579
3580 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3581 definition, is called icap_squid:
3582
3583logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3584
5038f9d8 3585 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3587
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3588NAME: logfile_daemon
3589TYPE: string
3590DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3591LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3592DOC_START
3593 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3594 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3595
3596 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3597 L<data>\n - logfile data
3598 R\n - rotate file
3599 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3600 O\n - reopen file
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3601 F\n - flush file
3602 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3603 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3604
3605 No responses is expected.
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3607
5b0f5383 3608NAME: log_access
3609TYPE: acl_access
3610LOC: Config.accessList.log
3611DEFAULT: none
3612COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3613DOC_START
3614 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3615 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3616 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3617
3618 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3619 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3620DOC_END
3621
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3622NAME: log_icap
3623TYPE: acl_access
3624IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3625LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3626DEFAULT: none
3627DOC_START
3628 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3629 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3630DOC_END
3631
41bd17a4 3632NAME: cache_store_log
3633TYPE: string
df2eec10 3634DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3635LOC: Config.Log.store
3636DOC_START
3637 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3638 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3639 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
3640 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3641 disable it.
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3642
3643 Example:
3644 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3645DOC_END
3646
41bd17a4 3647NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3648TYPE: string
3649LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3650DEFAULT: none
3651DOC_START
41bd17a4 3652 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3653 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3654 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3655 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3656 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3657 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3658 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3659
41bd17a4 3660 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3661 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3662 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3663 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3664
41bd17a4 3665 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3666 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3667
41bd17a4 3668 cache_swap_log.00
3669 cache_swap_log.01
3670 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3671
41bd17a4 3672 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3673 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3674 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3675 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3676 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3677 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3678 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3679DOC_END
3680
41bd17a4 3681NAME: logfile_rotate
3682TYPE: int
3683DEFAULT: 10
3684LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3685DOC_START
41bd17a4 3686 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3687 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3688 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3689 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3690 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3691 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 3692
41bd17a4 3693 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3694 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3695 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3696 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3697 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3698 <pid>'.
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3699
3700 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3701 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3702DOC_END
5473c134 3703
41bd17a4 3704NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3705TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3706DOC_START
20efa1c2 3707 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3708DOC_END
3709
41bd17a4 3710NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3711TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3712DOC_START
8652f8e7 3713 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3714DOC_END
5473c134 3715
41bd17a4 3716NAME: mime_table
3717TYPE: string
3718DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3719LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3720DOC_START
3721 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3722 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3723 information if you do.
5473c134 3724DOC_END
3725
41bd17a4 3726NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3727COMMENT: on|off
3728TYPE: onoff
3729LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3730DEFAULT: off
3731DOC_START
3732 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3733 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3734 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3735 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3736 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3737DOC_END
5473c134 3738
41bd17a4 3739NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3740TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3741DOC_START
20efa1c2 3742 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3743DOC_END
3744
41bd17a4 3745NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3746TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3747DOC_START
20efa1c2 3748 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3749DOC_END
3750
41bd17a4 3751NAME: pid_filename
3752TYPE: string
3753DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3754LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3755DOC_START
41bd17a4 3756 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3757DOC_END
3758
41bd17a4 3759NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3760TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3761DOC_START
c581e96b 3762 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3763DOC_END
3764
41bd17a4 3765NAME: client_netmask
3766TYPE: address
3767LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3768DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3769DOC_START
41bd17a4 3770 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3771 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3772 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3773 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3774DOC_END
3775
41bd17a4 3776NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3777TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3778DOC_START
20efa1c2 3779 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3780DOC_END
3781
41bd17a4 3782NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3783TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3784LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3785DEFAULT: on
3786DOC_START
41bd17a4 3787 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3788 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3789DOC_END
3790
41bd17a4 3791NAME: buffered_logs
3792COMMENT: on|off
3793TYPE: onoff
3794DEFAULT: off
3795LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3796DOC_START
41bd17a4 3797 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3798 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3799 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3800 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3801 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
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2b753521 3804NAME: netdb_filename
3805TYPE: string
221faecb 3806DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3807LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3808IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3809DOC_START
3810 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3811 To disable, enter "none".
3812DOC_END
3813
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3814COMMENT_START
3815 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3816 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3817COMMENT_END
3818
3819NAME: cache_log
3820TYPE: string
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3821DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3822LOC: Debug::cache_log
3823DOC_START
3824 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3825 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3826 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3827DOC_END
3828
3829NAME: debug_options
3830TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3831DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3832LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3833DOC_START
3834 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3835 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3836 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3837 log file, so be careful.
3838
3839 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3840 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3841
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3842 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3843 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3844 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3845 events affecting Squid.
3846DOC_END
3847
3848NAME: coredump_dir
3849TYPE: string
3850LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3851DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3852DOC_START
3853 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3854 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3855 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3856 and coredump files will be left there.
3857
3858NOCOMMENT_START
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3860# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3861coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3862NOCOMMENT_END
3863DOC_END
3864
3865
41bd17a4 3866COMMENT_START
3867 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3868 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3869COMMENT_END
3870
3871NAME: ftp_user
3872TYPE: string
3873DEFAULT: Squid@
3874LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3875DOC_START
41bd17a4 3876 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3877 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3878 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3879
41bd17a4 3880 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3881 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3882 depending on how the cache is used.
3883 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3884 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3885DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3887NAME: ftp_passive
3888TYPE: onoff
3889DEFAULT: on
3890LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3891DOC_START
41bd17a4 3892 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3893 connections, turn off this option.
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3895 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3896DOC_END
3897
3898NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3899TYPE: onoff
3900DEFAULT: off
3901LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3902DOC_START
3903 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3904
3905 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3906 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3907 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3908
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3909 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
3910 useful.
a689bd4e 3911 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3912 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3913
3914 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3915 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3916
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3918DOC_END
3919
3920NAME: ftp_epsv
3921TYPE: onoff
3922DEFAULT: on
3923LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3924DOC_START
3925 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3926
3927 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3928 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3929 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3930 will never be needed.
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3931
3932 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3933 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3934 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3935
3936 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3937DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3938
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3939NAME: ftp_eprt
3940TYPE: onoff
3941DEFAULT: on
3942LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3943DOC_START
3944 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3945
3946 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3947 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3948 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3949
3950 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3951 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3952
3953 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3954 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3955 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3956 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3957
3958 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3959 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3960DOC_END
3961
41bd17a4 3962NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3963TYPE: onoff
3964DEFAULT: on
3965LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3966DOC_START
3967 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3968 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3969 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3970 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3971 connection turn this off.
3972DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3973
41bd17a4 3974NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3975TYPE: onoff
3976DEFAULT: on
3977LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3978DOC_START
3979 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3980 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3981 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3982 the FTP protocol.
3983
3984 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3985 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3986 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3987 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3988 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3989DOC_END
3990
3991COMMENT_START
3992 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3993 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3994COMMENT_END
3995
3996NAME: diskd_program
3997TYPE: string
3998DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3999LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4000DOC_START
4001 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4002 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4003 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4004DOC_END
4005
4006NAME: unlinkd_program
4007IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4008TYPE: string
4009DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4010LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4011DOC_START
4012 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4013DOC_END
4014
4015NAME: pinger_program
4016TYPE: string
4017DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4018LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4019IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4020DOC_START
4021 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4022DOC_END
4023
cc192b50 4024NAME: pinger_enable
4025TYPE: onoff
4026DEFAULT: on
4027LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4028IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4029DOC_START
4030 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4032 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4033DOC_END
4034
4035
41bd17a4 4036COMMENT_START
4037 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4038 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4039COMMENT_END
4040
4041NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4042TYPE: wordlist
4043LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4044DEFAULT: none
4045DOC_START
2c7aad89 4046 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4047 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4048
2c7aad89 4049 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4050
c71adec1 4051 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
4052
4053 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
4054 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
4055 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4056 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4057
4058 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
4059 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
4060
4061 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
4062 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 4063 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 4064
4065 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4066DOC_END
4067
4068NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4069TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4070DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4071LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4072DOC_START
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4073 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4074 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4075 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4076 and other system resources noticably.
4077
4078 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4079 tuning.
4080
4081 startup=
4082
4083 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4084 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4085 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4086
4087 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4088 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4089
4090 idle=
4091
4092 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4093 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4094 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4095 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4096
4097 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4098
41bd17a4 4099 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4100 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4101 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4102
4103 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4104 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4105 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
4106 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
4107 to that request.
41bd17a4 4108DOC_END
4109
4110NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4111TYPE: onoff
4112DEFAULT: on
4113LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4114DOC_START
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4115 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4116 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4117 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4118
4119 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4120 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4121 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4122
41bd17a4 4123 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4124 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4125
4126 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4127 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4128 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4129DOC_END
4130
4131NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4132TYPE: acl_access
4133DEFAULT: none
4134LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4135DOC_START
4136 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4137 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
4138 are sent.
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4139
4140 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4141 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4142DOC_END
4143
4144NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4145TYPE: onoff
4146LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4147DEFAULT: off
4148DOC_START
4149 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4150 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4151 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4152 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4153 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4154 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4155 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4156 users may have access to pages they should not
4157 be allowed to request.
4158DOC_END
4159
4160COMMENT_START
4161 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4162 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4163COMMENT_END
4164
f04b37d8 4165NAME: cache no_cache
4166TYPE: acl_access
4167DEFAULT: none
4168LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4169DOC_START
240887f0 4170 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 4171 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4172 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 4173
240887f0 4174 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4175 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 4176
240887f0 4177 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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4178
4179 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4180 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4181DOC_END
4182
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4183NAME: max_stale
4184COMMENT: time-units
4185TYPE: time_t
4186LOC: Config.maxStale
4187DEFAULT: 1 week
4188DOC_START
4189 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4190 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4191 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4192DOC_END
4193
41bd17a4 4194NAME: refresh_pattern
4195TYPE: refreshpattern
4196LOC: Config.Refresh
4197DEFAULT: none
4198DOC_START
4199 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 4200
6b698a21 4201 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4202 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 4203
41bd17a4 4204 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4205 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4206 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4207 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4208 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 4209
41bd17a4 4210 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4211 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4212 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 4213
41bd17a4 4214 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4215 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 4216
41bd17a4 4217 options: override-expire
4218 override-lastmod
4219 reload-into-ims
4220 ignore-reload
4221 ignore-no-cache
4222 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 4223 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 4224 ignore-private
4225 ignore-auth
570d3f75 4226 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 4227 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 4228 store-stale
a0ec9f68 4229
41bd17a4 4230 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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4231 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4232 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4233 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4234 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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4236 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4237 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4238 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4239 the object fresh for that period of time.
4240
41bd17a4 4241 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4242 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 4243
41bd17a4 4244 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
4245 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
4246 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4247 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 4248
41bd17a4 4249 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4250 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4251 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4252 it causes.
9bc73deb 4253
41bd17a4 4254 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
4255 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
4256 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
4257 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
4258 send it anyway.
4259
4260 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4261 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4262 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4263 liable for problems which it causes.
4264
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4265 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4266 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4267 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4268 liable for problems which it causes.
4269
41bd17a4 4270 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4271 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4272 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4273 liable for problems which it causes.
4274
4275 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4276 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4277 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4278 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4279 it causes.
4280
4281 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4282 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4283 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4284 if one is available.
4285
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4286 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4287 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4288 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4289 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4290 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4291
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4292 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4293 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4294 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4295
41bd17a4 4296 Basically a cached object is:
4297
4298 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4299 STALE if age > max
4300 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4301 FRESH if age < min
4302 else STALE
4303
4304 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4305 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4306 match the default will be used.
4307
4308 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4309 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4310 used.
4311
41bd17a4 4312NOCOMMENT_START
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4314# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 4315refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4316refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4317refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4318refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4319NOCOMMENT_END
4320DOC_END
4321
4322NAME: quick_abort_min
4323COMMENT: (KB)
4324TYPE: kb_int64_t
4325DEFAULT: 16 KB
4326LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4327DOC_NONE
4328
4329NAME: quick_abort_max
4330COMMENT: (KB)
4331TYPE: kb_int64_t
4332DEFAULT: 16 KB
4333LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4334DOC_NONE
4335
4336NAME: quick_abort_pct
4337COMMENT: (percent)
4338TYPE: int
4339DEFAULT: 95
4340LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4341DOC_START
4342 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4343 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4344 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4345 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4346 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4347 downloads.
4348
4349 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4350 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4351 then.
4352
4353 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4354 it will finish the retrieval.
4355
4356 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4357 it will abort the retrieval.
4358
4359 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4360 it will finish the retrieval.
4361
4362 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4363 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4364 to '0 KB'.
4365
4366 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4367 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4368DOC_END
60d096f4 4369
41bd17a4 4370NAME: read_ahead_gap
4371COMMENT: buffer-size
4372TYPE: b_int64_t
4373LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4374DEFAULT: 16 KB
4375DOC_START
4376 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4377 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4378DOC_END
53e738c6 4379
41bd17a4 4380NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4381IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4382COMMENT: time-units
4383TYPE: time_t
4384LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4385DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4386DOC_START
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4387 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4388 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4389 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4390 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4391 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4392 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4393
4394 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4395
4396 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4397 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4398 causes.
41bd17a4 4399DOC_END
53e738c6 4400
41bd17a4 4401NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4402COMMENT: time-units
4403TYPE: time_t
4404LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4405DEFAULT: 6 hours
4406DOC_START
4407 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4408 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4409 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4410DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4412NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4413COMMENT: time-units
4414TYPE: time_t
4415LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4416DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4417DOC_START
4418 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4419 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4420 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4421 much below 10 seconds.
4422DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4424NAME: range_offset_limit
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4425COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4426TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4427LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4428DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4429DOC_START
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4430 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4431
4432 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4433 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4434 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4435 the result is NOT cached.
4436
41bd17a4 4437 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4438 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4439 sending anything to the client.
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4440
4441 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4442 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4443 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4444 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4445
4446 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4447
4448 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4449 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4450
4451 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4452 client requested. (default)
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4453
4454 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4455 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4456
4457 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4458
4459 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4460 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4461 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4462 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4463DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4465NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4466COMMENT: (seconds)
4467TYPE: time_t
4468LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4469DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4470DOC_START
4471 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4472 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4473 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4474 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4475 is most likely better to make your server return a
4476 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4477 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4478 often be best set to 0.
4479DOC_END
c68e9c6b 4480
41bd17a4 4481NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4482COMMENT: (bytes)
4483TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4484DEFAULT: 13 KB
4485LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4486DOC_START
4487 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4488 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4489DOC_END
4490
41bd17a4 4491NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4492TYPE: int
4493DEFAULT: 20
4494LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4495DOC_START
4496 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4497 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4498 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4499DOC_END
4500
4501COMMENT_START
4502 HTTP OPTIONS
4503 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4504COMMENT_END
4505
f04b37d8 4506NAME: request_header_max_size
4507COMMENT: (KB)
4508TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4509DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4510LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4511DOC_START
4512 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4513 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4514 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4515 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4516 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4517DOC_END
4518
4519NAME: reply_header_max_size
4520COMMENT: (KB)
4521TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4522DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4523LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4524DOC_START
4525 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4526 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4527 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4528 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4529 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4530DOC_END
4531
4532NAME: request_body_max_size
4533COMMENT: (bytes)
4534TYPE: b_int64_t
4535DEFAULT: 0 KB
4536LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4537DOC_START
4538 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4539 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4540 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4541 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4542 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4543 be no limit imposed.
4544DOC_END
4545
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4546NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4547COMMENT: (bytes)
4548TYPE: b_size_t
4549DEFAULT: 512 KB
4550LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4551DOC_START
4552 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4553 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4554 a large file.
4555DOC_END
4556
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4557NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4558COMMENT: (bytes)
4559TYPE: b_int64_t
4560DEFAULT: 64 KB
4561LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4562DOC_START
4563 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4564 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4565 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4566 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4567 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4568 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4569
4570 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4571 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4572 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4573 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4574 as if dechunking was disabled.
4575
4576 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4577 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4578
4579 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4580 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4581 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4582DOC_END
4583
41bd17a4 4584NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4585IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4586TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4587DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4588LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4589DOC_START
41bd17a4 4590 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4591 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4592
41bd17a4 4593 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4594 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4595
41bd17a4 4596 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4597
41bd17a4 4598 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4599 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4600 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4601 a request with an extra CRLF.
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4603 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4604 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4605
41bd17a4 4606Example:
4607 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4608 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4609DOC_END
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22fff3bf 4611NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4612COMMENT: on|off
4613TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4614IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4615DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4616LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4617DOC_START
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4618 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4619 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4620
4621 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4622DOC_END
4623
41bd17a4 4624NAME: via
626096be 4625IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4626COMMENT: on|off
4627TYPE: onoff
4628DEFAULT: on
4629LOC: Config.onoff.via
4630DOC_START
4631 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4632 replies as required by RFC2616.
4633DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4634
41bd17a4 4635NAME: ie_refresh
4636COMMENT: on|off
4637TYPE: onoff
4638LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4639DEFAULT: off
4640DOC_START
4641 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4642 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4643 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4644 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4645 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4646 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4647 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4648 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4649 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4650 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4651 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4652 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4653 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4654 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4655 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4656 force fresh content.
4657DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4659NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4660COMMENT: on|off
4661TYPE: onoff
4662LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4663DEFAULT: off
4664DOC_START
4665 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4666 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4667 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4668 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4669 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4670
4671 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4672 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4673DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4675NAME: request_entities
4676TYPE: onoff
4677LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4678DEFAULT: off
4679DOC_START
4680 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4681 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4682 even if not explicitly forbidden.
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41bd17a4 4684 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4685 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4686 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4687 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4688 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4689DOC_END
6b53c392 4690
41bd17a4 4691NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4692IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4693TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4694LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4695DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4696DOC_START
41bd17a4 4697 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4698
41bd17a4 4699 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4700 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4701 causes.
0976f8db 4702
41bd17a4 4703 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4704 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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4705 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
4706 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
4707
4708 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
4709 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
4710 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
4711 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
4712 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4713
4714 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
4715 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
4716 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
4717
4718 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
4719 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
4720 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
4721 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
4722
4723 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
4724 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
4725 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
4726 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
4727 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
4728 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 4729
41bd17a4 4730 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4731 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4732
41bd17a4 4733 request_header_access From deny all
4734 request_header_access Referer deny all
4735 request_header_access Server deny all
4736 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4737 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4738 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4739
41bd17a4 4740 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4741 you should use:
5401aa8d 4742
41bd17a4 4743 request_header_access Allow allow all
4744 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4745 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4746 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4747 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4748 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4749 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4750 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4751 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4752 request_header_access Date allow all
4753 request_header_access Expires allow all
4754 request_header_access Host allow all
4755 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4756 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4757 request_header_access Location allow all
4758 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4759 request_header_access Accept allow all
4760 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4761 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4762 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4763 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4764 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4765 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4766 request_header_access Title allow all
4767 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4768 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4769
41bd17a4 4770 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4771 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4772
41bd17a4 4773 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4774 performed).
5401aa8d 4775DOC_END
4776
41bd17a4 4777NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4778IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4779TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4780LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4781DEFAULT: none
4782DOC_START
41bd17a4 4783 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4784
41bd17a4 4785 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4786 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4787 causes.
934b03fc 4788
41bd17a4 4789 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4790 server to the client.
934b03fc 4791
41bd17a4 4792 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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4793 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
4794 documentation.
cccac0a2 4795
41bd17a4 4796 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4797 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4798
41bd17a4 4799 reply_header_access From deny all
4800 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4801 reply_header_access Server deny all
4802 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4803 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4804 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4805
41bd17a4 4806 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4807 you should use:
cccac0a2 4808
41bd17a4 4809 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4810 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4811 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4812 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4813 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4814 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4815 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4816 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4817 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4818 reply_header_access Date allow all
4819 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4820 reply_header_access Host allow all
4821 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4822 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4823 reply_header_access Location allow all
4824 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4825 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4826 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4827 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4828 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4829 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4830 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4831 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4832 reply_header_access Title allow all
4833 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4834 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4835
41bd17a4 4836 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4837 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4838
41bd17a4 4839 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4840 performed).
cccac0a2 4841DOC_END
4842
75e4f2ea 4843NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4844IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4845TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 4846LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4847DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4848DOC_START
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4849 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4850 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4851
41bd17a4 4852 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4853 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4854 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4855 option.
cccac0a2 4856
41bd17a4 4857 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4858
41bd17a4 4859 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4860DOC_END
cccac0a2 4861
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4862NAME: reply_header_replace
4863IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4864TYPE: http_header_replace
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4865LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4866DEFAULT: none
4867DOC_START
4868 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4869 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4870
4871 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4872 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4873 with some fixed string.
4874
4875 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4876
4877 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4878DOC_END
4879
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4880NAME: request_header_add
4881TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
4882LOC: Config.request_header_add
4883DEFAULT: none
4884DOC_START
4885 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
4886 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
4887
4888 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
4889 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
4890 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
4891 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
4892 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4893
4894 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
4895 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
4896 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
4897 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
4898 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
4899 header field values are not merged.
4900
4901 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
4902 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
4903 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
4904
4905 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
4906 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
4907 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
4908 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
4909 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
4910 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
4911 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
4912 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
4913
4914 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
4915 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
4916 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
4917 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
4918 only.
4919DOC_END
4920
41bd17a4 4921NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4922COMMENT: on|off|warn
4923TYPE: tristate
4924LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4925DEFAULT: on
4926DOC_START
4927 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4928 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4929 what the sending application intended even if the message
4930 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4931 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4932
41bd17a4 4933 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4934 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4935
41bd17a4 4936 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4937 or response to be rejected.
4938DOC_END
7d90757b 4939
41bd17a4 4940COMMENT_START
4941 TIMEOUTS
4942 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4943COMMENT_END
4944
4945NAME: forward_timeout
4946COMMENT: time-units
4947TYPE: time_t
4948LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4949DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4950DOC_START
4951 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4952 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4953DOC_END
4954
41bd17a4 4955NAME: connect_timeout
4956COMMENT: time-units
4957TYPE: time_t
4958LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4959DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4960DOC_START
41bd17a4 4961 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4962 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4963 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4964DOC_END
4965
41bd17a4 4966NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4967COMMENT: time-units
4968TYPE: time_t
4969LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4970DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4971DOC_START
41bd17a4 4972 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4973 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4974 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4975 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4976DOC_END
7f7db318 4977
41bd17a4 4978NAME: read_timeout
4979COMMENT: time-units
4980TYPE: time_t
4981LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4982DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4983DOC_START
4984 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4985 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4986 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4987 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4988 default is 15 minutes.
4989DOC_END
cccac0a2 4990
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4991NAME: write_timeout
4992COMMENT: time-units
4993TYPE: time_t
4994LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4995DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4996DOC_START
4997 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4998 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4999 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5000 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5001 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5002 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5003 default is 15 minutes.
5004DOC_END
5005
41bd17a4 5006NAME: request_timeout
5007TYPE: time_t
5008LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5009DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5010DOC_START
6b2a2108 5011 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5012 connection establishment.
5013DOC_END
cccac0a2 5014
97b32442 5015NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5016TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5017LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5018DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5019DOC_START
5020 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5021 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5022DOC_END
cccac0a2 5023
41bd17a4 5024NAME: client_lifetime
5025COMMENT: time-units
5026TYPE: time_t
5027LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5028DEFAULT: 1 day
5029DOC_START
5030 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5031 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5032 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5033 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5034 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5035 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5036 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 5037
41bd17a4 5038 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5039 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5040 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5041 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5042 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5043 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5044DOC_END
5045
41bd17a4 5046NAME: half_closed_clients
5047TYPE: onoff
5048LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5049DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5050DOC_START
41bd17a4 5051 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5052 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5053 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5054 fully-closed TCP connection.
5055
5056 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5057 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5058
abdf1651 5059 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5060 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5061 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5062 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5063DOC_END
5064
97b32442 5065NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5066TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5067LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5068DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5069DOC_START
41bd17a4 5070 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5071 proxies.
5072DOC_END
cccac0a2 5073
41bd17a4 5074NAME: ident_timeout
5075TYPE: time_t
5076IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5077LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5078DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5079DOC_START
5080 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5081
41bd17a4 5082 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5083 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5084 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5085DOC_END
5086
41bd17a4 5087NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5088COMMENT: time-units
5089TYPE: time_t
5090LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5091DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5092DOC_START
41bd17a4 5093 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5094 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5095 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5096 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5097 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5098DOC_END
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cccac0a2 5100COMMENT_START
5101 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5102 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5103COMMENT_END
5104
5105NAME: cache_mgr
5106TYPE: string
5107DEFAULT: webmaster
5108LOC: Config.adminEmail
5109DOC_START
5110 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
5111 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
5112DOC_END
5113
abacf776 5114NAME: mail_from
5115TYPE: string
5116DEFAULT: none
5117LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5118DOC_START
5119 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
5120 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 5121 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 5122 src/globals.h before building squid.
5123DOC_END
5124
d084bf20 5125NAME: mail_program
5126TYPE: eol
5127DEFAULT: mail
5128LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5129DOC_START
5130 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5131 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5132 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5133 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5134
d084bf20 5135 Optional command line options can be specified.
5136DOC_END
5137
cccac0a2 5138NAME: cache_effective_user
5139TYPE: string
5483d916 5140DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5141LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5142DOC_START
5143 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5144 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5145 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5146 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5147DOC_END
5148
cccac0a2 5149NAME: cache_effective_group
5150TYPE: string
5151DEFAULT: none
5152LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5153DOC_START
64e288bd 5154 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5155 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5156 from the groups membership.
5157
e3d74828 5158 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5159 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5160 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5161 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5162 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5163 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5164 group.
64e288bd 5165
5166 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5167 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5168 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5169DOC_END
5170
d3caee79 5171NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5172COMMENT: on|off
5173TYPE: onoff
5174DEFAULT: off
5175LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5176DOC_START
5177 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5178DOC_END
5179
cccac0a2 5180NAME: visible_hostname
5181TYPE: string
5182LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5183DEFAULT: none
5184DOC_START
5185 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 5186 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 5187 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5188 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5189 names with this setting.
5190DOC_END
5191
cccac0a2 5192NAME: unique_hostname
5193TYPE: string
5194LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5195DEFAULT: none
5196DOC_START
5197 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 5198 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5199 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 5200DOC_END
5201
cccac0a2 5202NAME: hostname_aliases
5203TYPE: wordlist
5204LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5205DEFAULT: none
5206DOC_START
7f7db318 5207 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 5208DOC_END
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5210NAME: umask
5211TYPE: int
5212LOC: Config.umask
5213DEFAULT: 027
5214DOC_START
5215 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5216 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5217
5218 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5219 your value with 0.
5220DOC_END
5221
cccac0a2 5222COMMENT_START
5223 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5224 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5225
5226 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5227 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5228 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5229 create cache hierarchies.
5230
5231 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5232 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5233 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5234
5235 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5236 following information from this configuration file:
5237
5238 http_port
5239 icp_port
5240 cache_mgr
5241
5242 All current information is processed regularly and made
5243 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5244COMMENT_END
5245
5246NAME: announce_period
5247TYPE: time_t
5248LOC: Config.Announce.period
5249DEFAULT: 0
5250DOC_START
5251 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
5252 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
5253 messages.
5254
e0855596 5255 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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5257 Example:
5258 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 5259DOC_END
5260
cccac0a2 5261NAME: announce_host
5262TYPE: string
5263DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5264LOC: Config.Announce.host
5265DOC_NONE
5266
5267NAME: announce_file
5268TYPE: string
5269DEFAULT: none
5270LOC: Config.Announce.file
5271DOC_NONE
5272
5273NAME: announce_port
ae870270 5274TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 5275DEFAULT: 3131
5276LOC: Config.Announce.port
5277DOC_START
5278 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
5279 number where the registration message will be sent.
5280
5281 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
5282 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
5283 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
5284 message.
5285DOC_END
5286
8d6275c0 5287COMMENT_START
5288 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5289 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5290COMMENT_END
5291
cccac0a2 5292NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5293TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5294DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5295LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5296DOC_START
5297 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5298 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5299 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5300 an identification token.
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5301
5302 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5303DOC_END
5304
5305NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5306COMMENT: on|off
5307TYPE: onoff
5308DEFAULT: off
5309LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5310DOC_START
5311 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
5312 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5313DOC_END
5314
5315NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5316IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5317COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5318TYPE: string
5319LOC: ESIParser::Type
5320DEFAULT: custom
5321DOC_START
5322 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5323 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5324 encodings.
5325DOC_END
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9edd9041 5327COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5328 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5329 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5330COMMENT_END
5331
5332NAME: delay_pools
5333TYPE: delay_pool_count
5334DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5335IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5336LOC: Config.Delay
5337DOC_START
5338 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5339 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5340 have a total of 2 delay pools.
5341DOC_END
5342
5343NAME: delay_class
5344TYPE: delay_pool_class
5345DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5346IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5347LOC: Config.Delay
5348DOC_START
5349 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5350 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5351 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5352 and here would be:
5353
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5355 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5356 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5357 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5358 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5359 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5360
5361 The delay pool classes are:
5362
5363 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5364 bucket.
5365
5366 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5367 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5368 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5369
5370 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5371 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5372 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5373 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5374 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5375
5376 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5377 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5378 only takes effect if the username is established
5379 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5380 http_access rules.
5381
5382 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5383 external_acl's tag= reply).
5384
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5385
5386 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5387 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5388 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5389
9edd9041 5390 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5391 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5392 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5393 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5394
5395 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5396 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5397DOC_END
5398
5399NAME: delay_access
5400TYPE: delay_pool_access
5401DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5402IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5403LOC: Config.Delay
5404DOC_START
5405 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5406
5407 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5408 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5409 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5410 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5411
5412 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5413 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5414
5415Example:
5416 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5417 delay_access 1 deny all
5418 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5419 delay_access 2 deny all
5420 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5421DOC_END
5422
5423NAME: delay_parameters
5424TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5425DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5426IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5427LOC: Config.Delay
5428DOC_START
5429 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5430 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5431 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5432
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5433 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5434 delay_pools pool 1
5435 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5436
5437 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5438 delay_pools pool 2
5439 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5440
5441 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5442 delay_pools pool 3
5443 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5444
5445 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5446 delay_pools pool 4
5447 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5448
5449 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5450 delay_pools pool 5
5451 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5452
0b68481a 5453 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5454
5455 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5456 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5457 delay_class lines.
5458
fdb47ac6 5459 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5460 (class 1, 2, 3).
5461
fdb47ac6 5462 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5463 buckets (class 2, 3).
5464
fdb47ac6 5465 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5466 (class 3).
5467
fdb47ac6 5468 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5469 (class 4).
5470
fdb47ac6 5471 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5472 (class 5).
5473
5474 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5475 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5476 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5477 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5478
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5479 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5480
5481
9edd9041 5482 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5483 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5484 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5485
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5486 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5487
5488 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5489
5490 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5491
0b68481a 5492
9edd9041 5493 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5494 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5495 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5496 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5497 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5498 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5499 large downloads more significantly:
5500
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5501 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5502
5503 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5504 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5505 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5506
9edd9041 5507
5508 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5509 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5510
0b68481a 5511 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5512DOC_END
5513
5514NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5515COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5516TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5517DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5518IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5519LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5520DOC_START
5521 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5522 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5523 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5524 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5525 "seen" by squid).
5526DOC_END
5527
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5528COMMENT_START
5529 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5530 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5531COMMENT_END
5532
5533NAME: client_delay_pools
5534TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5535DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5536IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5537LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5538DOC_START
5539 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5540 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5541
5542Example:
5543 client_delay_pools 2
5544DOC_END
5545
5546NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5547COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5548TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5549DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5550IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5551LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5552DOC_START
5553 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5554 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5555 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5556 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5557
5558 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5559 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5560 from client_delay_parameters.
5561
5562Example:
5563 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5564DOC_END
5565
5566NAME: client_delay_parameters
5567TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5568DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5569IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5570LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5571DOC_START
5572
5573 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5574 following format:
5575
5576 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5577
5578 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5579
5580 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5581
5582 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5583 speed_limit additions.
5584
5585 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5586 examples.
5587
5588Example:
5589 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5590 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5591DOC_END
5592
5593NAME: client_delay_access
5594TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5595DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5596IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5597LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5598DOC_START
5599
5600 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5601 request:
5602
5603 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5604
5605 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5606 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5607 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5608 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5609 limited.
5610
5611 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5612 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5613 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5614 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5615
5616 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5617
5618Example:
5619 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5620 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5621DOC_END
5622
cccac0a2 5623COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5624 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5625 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5626COMMENT_END
5627
8d6275c0 5628NAME: wccp_router
5629TYPE: address
5630LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5631DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5632IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5633DOC_START
5634 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5635 Squid.
5636
5637 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5638
5639 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5640
5641 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5642 which version of WCCP to use.
5643DOC_END
df2eec10 5644
8d6275c0 5645NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5646TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5647LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5648DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5649IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5650DOC_START
8d6275c0 5651 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5652 Squid.
cccac0a2 5653
8d6275c0 5654 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5655
8d6275c0 5656 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5657
8d6275c0 5658 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5659 which version of WCCP to use.
5660DOC_END
5661
5662NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5663TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5664LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5665DEFAULT: 4
5666IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5667DOC_START
8d6275c0 5668 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5669 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5670 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5671 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5672 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5673
8d6275c0 5674 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5675 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5676 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5677 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5678DOC_END
5679
8d6275c0 5680NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5681TYPE: onoff
5682LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5683DEFAULT: on
5684IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5685DOC_START
5686 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5687 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5688DOC_END
cccac0a2 5689
8d6275c0 5690NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5691TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5692LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5693DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5694IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5695DOC_START
699acd19 5696 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5697 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5698
451c4786
AJ
5699 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5700 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5701
8d6275c0 5702 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5703 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5704DOC_END
5705
8d6275c0 5706NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5707TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5708LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5709DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5710IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5711DOC_START
699acd19 5712 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5713 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5714 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5715
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AJ
5716 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5717 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5718
8d6275c0 5719 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5720 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5721
699acd19 5722 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5723 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5724 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5725 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5726DOC_END
5727
8d6275c0 5728NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5729TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5730LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5731DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5732IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5733DOC_START
8d6275c0 5734 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5735 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5736
451c4786 5737 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5738 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5739
8d6275c0 5740 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5741 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5742DOC_END
cccac0a2 5743
8d6275c0 5744NAME: wccp2_service
5745TYPE: wccp2_service
5746LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5747DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5748IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5749DOC_START
5750 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5751 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5752 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5753 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5754 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5755 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5756
5757 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5758 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5759
5760 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5761 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5762
5763 Examples:
5764
5765 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5766 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5767 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5768 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5769DOC_END
5770
5771NAME: wccp2_service_info
5772TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5773LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5774DEFAULT: none
5775IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5776DOC_START
5777 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5778 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5779
5780 The format is:
5781
5782 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5783 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5784
5785 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5786 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5787 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5788 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5789 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5790 + ports_source
5791
5792 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5793
5794 Example:
5795
5796 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5797 priority=240 ports=80
5798
5799 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5800 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5801DOC_END
5802
5803NAME: wccp2_weight
5804TYPE: int
5805LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5806DEFAULT: 10000
5807IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5808DOC_START
5809 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5810 hash proportional to their weight.
5811DOC_END
5812
5813NAME: wccp_address
5814TYPE: address
5815LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5816DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5817IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5818DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5819
8d6275c0 5820NAME: wccp2_address
5821TYPE: address
5822LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5823DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5824IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5825DOC_START
5826 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5827 interface address.
5828
5829 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5830DOC_END
5831
5832COMMENT_START
5833 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5834 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5835
5836 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5837COMMENT_END
5838
5839NAME: client_persistent_connections
5840TYPE: onoff
5841LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5842DEFAULT: on
5843DOC_NONE
5844
5845NAME: server_persistent_connections
5846TYPE: onoff
5847LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5848DEFAULT: on
5849DOC_START
5850 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5851 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5852 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5853 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5854DOC_END
5855
5856NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5857TYPE: onoff
5858LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5859DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5860DOC_START
5861 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5862 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5863 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5864DOC_END
5865
5866NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5867TYPE: onoff
5868LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5869DEFAULT: off
5870DOC_START
5871 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5872 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5873 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5874 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5875
5876 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5877 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5878 after 10 seconds timeout.
5879DOC_END
5880
5881COMMENT_START
5882 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5883 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5884COMMENT_END
5885
5886NAME: digest_generation
5887IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5888TYPE: onoff
5889LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5890DEFAULT: on
5891DOC_START
5892 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5893 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5894 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5895DOC_END
5896
5897NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5898IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5899TYPE: int
5900LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5901DEFAULT: 5
5902DOC_START
5903 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5904 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5905 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5906DOC_END
5907
5908NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5909IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5910COMMENT: (seconds)
5911TYPE: time_t
5912LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5913DEFAULT: 1 hour
5914DOC_START
749ceff8 5915 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5916DOC_END
5917
5918NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5919COMMENT: (seconds)
5920IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5921TYPE: time_t
5922LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5923DEFAULT: 1 hour
5924DOC_START
749ceff8 5925 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5926 disk.
5927DOC_END
5928
5929NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5930COMMENT: (bytes)
5931TYPE: b_size_t
5932IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5933LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5934DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5935DOC_START
5936 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5937 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5938 default swap page.
5939DOC_END
5940
5941NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5942COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5943IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5944TYPE: int
5945LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5946DEFAULT: 10
5947DOC_START
5948 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5949 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5950DOC_END
5951
1db9eacd 5952COMMENT_START
5473c134 5953 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5954 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5955COMMENT_END
5956
5473c134 5957NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5958TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5959LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5960DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5961IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5962DOC_START
87630341 5963 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5964 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5965 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5966 set to "0" (disabled)
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AJ
5967
5968 Example:
5969 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5970DOC_END
5971
5473c134 5972NAME: snmp_access
5973TYPE: acl_access
5974LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5975DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5976IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5977DOC_START
5473c134 5978 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5979
5473c134 5980 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5981 usage:
8d6275c0 5982
5473c134 5983 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5984
b3567eb5
FC
5985 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5986 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5987Example:
5988 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5989 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5990DOC_END
5991
5473c134 5992NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5993TYPE: address
5994LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5995DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5996IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5997DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5998
5473c134 5999NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6000TYPE: address
6001LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6002DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6003IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6004DOC_START
df2eec10 6005 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6006
5473c134 6007 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6008 messages from SNMP agents.
6009 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6010 agents.
cccac0a2 6011
0eb08770 6012 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 6013 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 6014
0eb08770
HN
6015 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6016 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6017 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6018 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6019
5473c134 6020 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
6021 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 6022DOC_END
6023
5473c134 6024COMMENT_START
6025 ICP OPTIONS
6026 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6027COMMENT_END
6028
6029NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6030TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6031DEFAULT: 0
6032LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6033DOC_START
5473c134 6034 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6035 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
6036 Default is disabled (0).
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6038 Example:
6039 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6040DOC_END
6041
5473c134 6042NAME: htcp_port
6043IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6044TYPE: u_short
87630341 6045DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 6046LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6047DOC_START
5473c134 6048 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6049 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
6050 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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6051
6052 Example:
6053 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6054DOC_END
6055
6056NAME: log_icp_queries
6057COMMENT: on|off
6058TYPE: onoff
6059DEFAULT: on
6060LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6061DOC_START
6062 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6063 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6064 up or to simplify log analysis.
6065DOC_END
6066
5473c134 6067NAME: udp_incoming_address
6068TYPE: address
6069LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6070DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 6071DOC_START
6072 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6073 caches.
6074
6075 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6076
6077 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6078 a specific interface/address.
6079
6080 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6081 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6082
6083 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6084
6085 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6086 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6087DOC_END
cccac0a2 6088
5473c134 6089NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6090TYPE: address
6091LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6092DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 6093DOC_START
8524d4b2 6094 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6095 caches.
cccac0a2 6096
5473c134 6097 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6098
8524d4b2 6099 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6100 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6101 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6102 caches.
6103
8524d4b2 6104 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6105 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6106
6107 see also; udp_incoming_address
6108
5473c134 6109 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6110 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6111DOC_END
6112
3d1e3e43 6113NAME: icp_hit_stale
6114COMMENT: on|off
6115TYPE: onoff
6116DEFAULT: off
6117LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6118DOC_START
6119 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6120 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6121 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6122 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6123 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6124 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6125 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6126DOC_END
6127
5473c134 6128NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 6129TYPE: int
5473c134 6130DEFAULT: 4
6131LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 6132DOC_START
5473c134 6133 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6134 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 6135DOC_END
6136
5473c134 6137NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
6138TYPE: int
6139DEFAULT: 400
6140LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 6141DOC_START
5473c134 6142 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6143 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 6144DOC_END
6145
cccac0a2 6146NAME: netdb_low
6147TYPE: int
6148DEFAULT: 900
6149LOC: Config.Netdb.low
6150DOC_NONE
6151
6152NAME: netdb_high
6153TYPE: int
6154DEFAULT: 1000
6155LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6156DOC_START
6157 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
6158 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6159 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
6160 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
6161DOC_END
6162
cccac0a2 6163NAME: netdb_ping_period
6164TYPE: time_t
6165LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6166DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6167DOC_START
6168 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6169 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6170 network. The default is five minutes.
6171DOC_END
6172
cccac0a2 6173NAME: query_icmp
6174COMMENT: on|off
6175TYPE: onoff
6176DEFAULT: off
6177LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6178DOC_START
6179 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6180 replies, enable this option.
6181
6182 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 6183 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6184 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 6185 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6186 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6187 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6188 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6189 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6190DOC_END
6191
6192NAME: test_reachability
6193COMMENT: on|off
6194TYPE: onoff
6195DEFAULT: off
6196LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6197DOC_START
6198 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6199 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6200 database, or has a zero RTT.
6201DOC_END
6202
5473c134 6203NAME: icp_query_timeout
6204COMMENT: (msec)
6205DEFAULT: 0
6206TYPE: int
6207LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 6208DOC_START
5473c134 6209 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6210 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6211 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6212 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6213 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6214 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 6215
5473c134 6216 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 6217DOC_END
6218
5473c134 6219NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6220COMMENT: (msec)
6221DEFAULT: 2000
6222TYPE: int
6223LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 6224DOC_START
5473c134 6225 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6226 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6227 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6228 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6229 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6230 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6231DOC_END
6232
5473c134 6233NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6234COMMENT: (msec)
6235DEFAULT: 5
6236TYPE: int
6237LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 6238DOC_START
5473c134 6239 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6240 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6241 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6242 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6243 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6244 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6245 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6246DOC_END
6247
5473c134 6248NAME: background_ping_rate
6249COMMENT: time-units
6250TYPE: time_t
6251DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6252LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 6253DOC_START
5473c134 6254 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6255 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 6256DOC_END
6257
5473c134 6258COMMENT_START
6259 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6260 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6261COMMENT_END
6262
6263NAME: mcast_groups
6264TYPE: wordlist
6265LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 6266DEFAULT: none
6267DOC_START
5473c134 6268 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6269 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 6270
5473c134 6271 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6272 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6273 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6274 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6275 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6276 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6277 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 6278
5473c134 6279 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6280 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 6281
5473c134 6282 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
6283 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 6284
5473c134 6285 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 6286
5473c134 6287 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6288DOC_END
8c01ada0 6289
5473c134 6290NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6291IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6292TYPE: address
6293LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 6294DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6295DOC_START
6296 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6297 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 6298
5473c134 6299 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6300 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 6301DOC_END
6302
5473c134 6303NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6304IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6305TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6306LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6307DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 6308DOC_START
5473c134 6309 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6310 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6311 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6312DOC_END
cccac0a2 6313
5473c134 6314NAME: mcast_miss_port
6315IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6316TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6317LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6318DEFAULT: 3135
6319DOC_START
6320 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6321 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6322DOC_END
cccac0a2 6323
5473c134 6324NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6325IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6326TYPE: string
6327LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6328DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6329DOC_START
6330 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6331 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6332DOC_END
8c01ada0 6333
5473c134 6334NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6335COMMENT: (msec)
6336DEFAULT: 2000
6337TYPE: int
6338LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6339DOC_START
6340 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6341 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6342 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6343 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6344 seconds.
cccac0a2 6345DOC_END
6346
5473c134 6347COMMENT_START
6348 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6349 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6350COMMENT_END
6351
cccac0a2 6352NAME: icon_directory
6353TYPE: string
6354LOC: Config.icons.directory
6355DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6356DOC_START
6357 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6358 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6359DOC_END
6360
f024c970 6361NAME: global_internal_static
6362TYPE: onoff
6363LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6364DEFAULT: on
6365DOC_START
6366 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6367 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6368 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6369 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6370 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6371 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6372 the server generating a directory listing.
6373DOC_END
6374
5473c134 6375NAME: short_icon_urls
6376TYPE: onoff
6377LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6378DEFAULT: on
6379DOC_START
6380 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6381 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6382 it's own name and port in the URL.
6383
6384 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6385 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6386DOC_END
6387
6388COMMENT_START
6389 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6390 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6391COMMENT_END
6392
6393NAME: error_directory
6394TYPE: string
6395LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6396DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6397DOC_START
6398 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6399 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6400 the error/template files to another directory and point
6401 this tag at them.
6402
6403 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6404 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6405
6406 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6407 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6408 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6409 contributing your translation back to the project.
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6410 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6411
6412 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6413 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6414DOC_END
6415
6416NAME: error_default_language
6417IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6418TYPE: string
6419LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6420DEFAULT: none
6421DOC_START
6422 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6423 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6424 preferences.
6425
6426 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6427
6428 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6429 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6430 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6431 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6432DOC_END
6433
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6434NAME: error_log_languages
6435IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6436TYPE: onoff
6437LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6438DEFAULT: on
6439DOC_START
6440 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6441 auto-negotiate for translations.
6442
6443 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6444 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6445 of its error page translations.
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6446DOC_END
6447
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6448NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6449TYPE: string
6450LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6451DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6452DOC_START
6453 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6454
6455 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6456DOC_END
6457
5473c134 6458NAME: err_html_text
6459TYPE: eol
6460LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6461DEFAULT: none
6462DOC_START
6463 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6464 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6465 organizations Web page.
6466
6467 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6468 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6469 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6470 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6471DOC_END
6472
6473NAME: email_err_data
6474COMMENT: on|off
6475TYPE: onoff
6476LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6477DEFAULT: on
6478DOC_START
6479 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6480 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6481 so that the email body contains the data.
6482 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6483DOC_END
6484
6485NAME: deny_info
6486TYPE: denyinfo
6487LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6488DEFAULT: none
6489DOC_START
6490 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6491 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6492 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6493
6494 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6495 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6496 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6497 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6498
6499 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6500 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6501 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6502 the first authentication related acl encountered
6503 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6504 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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6505 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6506 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6507
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6508 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6509 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6510 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6511
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6512 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6513 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6514 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6515
5473c134 6516 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6517 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6518
6519 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6520 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6521 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6522 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6523 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6524
6525 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6526 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6527 %B - FTP path URL
6528 %e - Error number
6529 %E - Error description
6530 %h - Squid hostname
6531 %H - Request domain name
6532 %i - Client IP Address
6533 %M - Request Method
6534 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6535 %p - Request Port number
6536 %P - Request Protocol name
6537 %R - Request URL path
6538 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6539 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6540 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6541 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6542 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6543 %x - Error name
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6544 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6545
5473c134 6546DOC_END
6547
6548COMMENT_START
6549 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6550 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6551COMMENT_END
6552
6553NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6554TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6555LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6556DEFAULT: on
6557DOC_START
5473c134 6558 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6559 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6560 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6561
5473c134 6562 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6563 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6564
5473c134 6565 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6566 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6567 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6568
5473c134 6569 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6570 this directive.
8d6275c0 6571DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6572
5473c134 6573NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6574TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6575LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6576DEFAULT: off
6577DOC_START
5473c134 6578 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6579 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6580 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6581
5473c134 6582 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6583 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6584 fails.
6585
6586 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6587 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6588 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6589DOC_END
6590
5473c134 6591NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6592TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6593LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6594DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6595DOC_START
5473c134 6596 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6597
5473c134 6598 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6599 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6600 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6601 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6602 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6603
5473c134 6604 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6605 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6606
5473c134 6607 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6608
5473c134 6609 acl FTP proto FTP
6610 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6611
5473c134 6612 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6613 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6614 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6615 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6616 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6617
5473c134 6618 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6619 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6620 always_direct deny local-external
6621 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6622
5473c134 6623 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6624 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6625 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6626 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6627
5473c134 6628 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6629 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6630 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6631
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6632 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6633 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6634DOC_END
0976f8db 6635
5473c134 6636NAME: never_direct
6637TYPE: acl_access
6638LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6639DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6640DOC_START
5473c134 6641 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6642
6643 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6644 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6645
6646 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6647 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6648 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6649 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6650
6651 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6652 never_direct deny local-servers
6653 never_direct allow all
6654
6655 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6656 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6657
6658 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6659 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6660 always_direct deny local-external
6661 always_direct allow local-intranet
6662 never_direct allow all
6663
b3567eb5
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6664 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6665 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6666DOC_END
0976f8db 6667
5473c134 6668COMMENT_START
6669 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6670 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6671COMMENT_END
6672
65d448bc 6673NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 6674TYPE: int
6675DEFAULT: 6
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6676LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
6677DOC_START
6678 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6679 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6680 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6681DOC_END
cccac0a2 6682
65d448bc 6683NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 6684TYPE: int
6685DEFAULT: 4
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6686LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
6687DOC_START
6688 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6689 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6690 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6691DOC_END
cccac0a2 6692
6693NAME: incoming_dns_average
6694TYPE: int
6695DEFAULT: 4
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6696LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
6697DOC_START
6698 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6699 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6700 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6701DOC_END
cccac0a2 6702
65d448bc 6703NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6704TYPE: int
6705DEFAULT: 8
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6706LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
6707DOC_START
6708 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6709 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6710 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6711DOC_END
cccac0a2 6712
6713NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6714TYPE: int
6715DEFAULT: 8
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6716LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
6717DOC_START
6718 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6719 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6720 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6721DOC_END
cccac0a2 6722
65d448bc 6723NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6724TYPE: int
6725DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 6726LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 6727DOC_START
5473c134 6728 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6729 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6730 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6731DOC_END
6732
6733NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6734TYPE: string
6735DEFAULT: none
6736LOC: Config.accept_filter
6737DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6738 FreeBSD:
6739
5473c134 6740 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6741 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6742 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6743
6744 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6745 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6746 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6747
6748 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6749 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6750 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6751
6752 Linux:
6753
6754 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6755 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6756 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6757 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6758 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6759EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6760# FreeBSD
5473c134 6761accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6762# Linux
6763accept_filter data
5473c134 6764DOC_END
6765
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6766NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6767TYPE: int
6768LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6769DEFAULT: -1
6770DOC_START
6771 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6772 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6773 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6774
6775 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6776 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6777
6778 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6779
6780 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6781 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6782DOC_END
6783
5473c134 6784NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6785COMMENT: (bytes)
6786TYPE: b_size_t
6787DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6788LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6789DOC_START
6790 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6791 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6792 the default buffer size.
6793DOC_END
6794
6795COMMENT_START
6796 ICAP OPTIONS
6797 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6798COMMENT_END
6799
6800NAME: icap_enable
6801TYPE: onoff
6802IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6803COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6804LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6805DEFAULT: off
6806DOC_START
53e738c6 6807 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6808DOC_END
6809
6810NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6811TYPE: time_t
6812DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6813LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6814IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6815DOC_START
6816 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6817 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6818 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6819
6820 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6821 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6822 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6823DOC_END
6824
6825NAME: icap_io_timeout
6826COMMENT: time-units
6827TYPE: time_t
6828DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6829LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6830IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6831DOC_START
6832 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6833 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6834 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6835 failure.
6836
6837 The default is read_timeout.
6838DOC_END
6839
6840NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6841COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6842TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6843IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6844LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6845DEFAULT: 10
6846DOC_START
6847 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6848 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6849 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6850 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6851 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6852
6853 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6854 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6855 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6856
6857 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6858 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6859 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6860 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6861 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6862
6863 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6864 effect on service failure expiration.
6865
6866 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6867 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6868 setting.
6869
6870 For example,
6871 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6872 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6873DOC_END
6874
5473c134 6875NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6876TYPE: int
5473c134 6877IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6878LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6879DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6880DOC_START
5473c134 6881 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6882 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6883 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6884 fetched.
cccac0a2 6885
5473c134 6886 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6887 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6888DOC_END
6889
5473c134 6890NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6891TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6892IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6893COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6894LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6895DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6896DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6897 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6898 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6899 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6900 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6901
6902 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6903 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6904 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6905
6906 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6907 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6908Example:
6909icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6910DOC_END
6911
5473c134 6912NAME: icap_preview_size
6913TYPE: int
6914IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6915LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6916DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6917DOC_START
53e738c6 6918 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6919 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6920 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6921DOC_END
6922
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6923NAME: icap_206_enable
6924TYPE: onoff
6925IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6926COMMENT: on|off
6927LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6928DEFAULT: on
6929DOC_START
6930 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6931 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6932 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6933 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6934
6935 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6936 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6937 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6938 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6939 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6940
6941 Example:
6942 icap_206_enable off
6943DOC_END
6944
5473c134 6945NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6946TYPE: int
6947IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6948LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6949DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6950DOC_START
53e738c6 6951 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6952 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6953DOC_END
6954
5473c134 6955NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6956TYPE: onoff
6957IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6958COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6959LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6960DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6961DOC_START
5473c134 6962 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6963 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6964DOC_END
6965
22fff3bf 6966NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6967TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6968IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6969COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6970LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6971DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6972DOC_START
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6973 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6974 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6975 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6976
6977 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6978DOC_END
6979
22fff3bf 6980NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6981TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6982IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6983COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6984LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6985DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6986DOC_START
5473c134 6987 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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6988 the adaptation service.
6989
6990 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6991 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6992 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6993DOC_END
6994
5473c134 6995NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6996TYPE: string
5473c134 6997IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6998LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6999DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7000DOC_START
db49f682 7001 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7002DOC_END
7003
5473c134 7004NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7005TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7006IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7007COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7008LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7009DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7010DOC_START
5473c134 7011 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7012DOC_END
7013
5473c134 7014NAME: icap_service
7015TYPE: icap_service_type
7016IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7017LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7018DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7019DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7020 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7021
c25c2836 7022 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 7023
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7024 id: ID
7025 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7026 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7027 services in squid.conf.
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7028
7029 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7030 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7031 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7032 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7033
c25c2836 7034 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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7035 ICAP server and service location.
7036
7037 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7038 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7039 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7040 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7041 service_names differ.
7042
7043
7044 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7045 the following name=value options:
7046
7047 bypass=on|off|1|0
7048 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7049 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7050 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7051 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7052 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7053 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7054 returned to the HTTP client.
7055
7056 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7057
7058 routing=on|off|1|0
7059 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7060 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7061 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7062 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7063 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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7064 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7065 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7066 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7067
7068 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7069 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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7070
7071 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7072 response header is ignored.
7073
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7074 ipv6=on|off
7075 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
7076 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
7077 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
7078
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7079 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
7080 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
7081 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
7082 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
7083 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
7084 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
7085 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
7086
7087 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
7088 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
7089 workers may use a given service.
7090
7091 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
7092 otherwise it is set to "wait".
7093
7094
7095 max-conn=number
7096 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7097 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7098
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7099 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7100 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 7101
5473c134 7102Example:
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7103icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7104icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 7105DOC_END
7106
5473c134 7107NAME: icap_class
7108TYPE: icap_class_type
7109IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7110LOC: none
5473c134 7111DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7112DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7113 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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7114 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7115 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 7116
62c7f90e 7117 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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7118 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7119 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 7120DOC_END
7121
5473c134 7122NAME: icap_access
7123TYPE: icap_access_type
7124IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7125LOC: none
cccac0a2 7126DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7127DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7128 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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7129 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7130 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 7131DOC_END
7132
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7133COMMENT_START
7134 eCAP OPTIONS
7135 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7136COMMENT_END
7137
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7138NAME: ecap_enable
7139TYPE: onoff
7140IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7141COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 7142LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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7143DEFAULT: off
7144DOC_START
7145 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7146DOC_END
7147
7148NAME: ecap_service
7149TYPE: ecap_service_type
7150IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 7151LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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7152DEFAULT: none
7153DOC_START
7154 Defines a single eCAP service
7155
c25c2836 7156 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 7157
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7158 id: ID
7159 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7160 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7161 services in squid.conf.
7162
7163 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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7164 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7165 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7166 are not yet supported.
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7167
7168 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7169 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7170 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7171 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7172 the service provider.
7173
7174
7175 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7176 the following name=value options:
7177
7178 bypass=on|off|1|0
7179 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7180 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7181 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 7182 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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7183 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7184 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 7185 HTTP client.
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7186
7187 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7188
7189 routing=on|off|1|0
7190 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7191 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7192 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7193
7194 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7195 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7196
7197 Routing is not allowed by default.
7198
7199 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7200 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7201
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7202
7203Example:
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7204ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7205ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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7206DOC_END
7207
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7208NAME: loadable_modules
7209TYPE: wordlist
7210IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7211LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7212DEFAULT: none
7213DOC_START
7214 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7215 preloaded module(s).
7216Example:
7217loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7218DOC_END
7219
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7220COMMENT_START
7221 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7222 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7223COMMENT_END
7224
7225NAME: adaptation_service_set
7226TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7227IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7228LOC: none
7229DEFAULT: none
7230DOC_START
7231
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7232 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
7233 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7234
7235 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7236
7237 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7238 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7239 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7240 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7241 intact.
62c7f90e 7242
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7243 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7244 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 7245
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7246 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7247 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7248
7249 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7250 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7251 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7252 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7253 transaction fails as well.
7254
7255 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7256 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7257 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7258 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7259 matters.
7260
7261 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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7262
7263Example:
7264adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7265adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7266DOC_END
7267
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7268NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7269TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7270IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7271LOC: none
7272DEFAULT: none
7273DOC_START
7274
7275 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
7276 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
7277 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
7278
7279 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
7280
7281 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
7282 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
7283 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7284 the previous service in the chain.
7285
7286 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7287 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7288
7289 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7290 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7291 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7292
7293 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7294 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7295
7296 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7297 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7298 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7299 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7300
7301 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7302
7303Example:
7304adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7305DOC_END
7306
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7307NAME: adaptation_access
7308TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7309IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7310LOC: none
7311DEFAULT: none
7312DOC_START
7313 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7314
7315 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7316 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7317
7318 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7319 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7320 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7321 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7322
7323 - services serving different vectoring points
7324 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7325 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7326 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7327
7328 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7329 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7330 adaptation_service_set for details.
7331
7332 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7333 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7334 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7335 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7336
7337 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7338 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7339
7340 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7341
7342Example:
7343adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7344DOC_END
7345
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7346NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7347TYPE: int
7348IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7349LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7350DEFAULT: 16
7351DOC_START
7352 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7353 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7354 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7355 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7356 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7357 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7358
7359 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
7360
7361 See also: icap_service routing=1
7362DOC_END
7363
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7364NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
7365TYPE: string
7366IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7367LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
7368DEFAULT: none
7369DOC_START
7370 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
7371 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
7372 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
7373 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7374 with the master transaction.
7375
7376 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7377 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7378
7379 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7380 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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7381 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7382
7383 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7384 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7385 to provide an option with a name specified in
7386 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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7387
7388 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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7389 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7390
7391 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7392
7393Example:
7394# share authentication information among ICAP services
7395adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7396DOC_END
7397
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7398NAME: adaptation_meta
7399TYPE: adaptation_meta_type
7400IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7401LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7402DEFAULT: none
7403DOC_START
7404 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7405 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7406 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7407 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7408
7409 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7410 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7411
7412 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7413 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7414 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7415 example:
7416
7417 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7418 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7419
7420 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7421 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7422
7423 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7424 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7425
7426 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7427 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7428 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7429 and double quotes. For example,
7430 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
7431DOC_END
7432
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7433NAME: icap_retry
7434TYPE: acl_access
7435IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7436LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7437DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7438DOC_START
7439 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7440 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7441 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7442 that response are usually retriable.
7443
7444 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7445
7446 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7447 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7448
7449 See also: icap_retry_limit
7450DOC_END
7451
7452NAME: icap_retry_limit
7453TYPE: int
7454IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7455LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7456DEFAULT: 0
7457DOC_START
7458 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7459 no retries are allowed.
7460
7461 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7462 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7463 count against this limit.
7464
7465 See also: icap_retry
7466DOC_END
7467
7468
5473c134 7469COMMENT_START
7470 DNS OPTIONS
7471 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7472COMMENT_END
7473
7474NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7475TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7476DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7477LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7478DOC_START
5473c134 7479 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7480 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7481 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7482DOC_END
7483
5473c134 7484NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7485TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7486DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7487LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7488DOC_START
5473c134 7489 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7490 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7491 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7492 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7493DOC_END
7494
5473c134 7495NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7496TYPE: string
f64091a7 7497IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 7498DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7499LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7500DOC_START
5473c134 7501 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7502DOC_END
7503
5473c134 7504NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7505TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 7506IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 7507DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7508LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7509DOC_START
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7510 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7511 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7512 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7513 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7514 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7515
7516 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7517 tuning.
7518
7519 startup=
7520
7521 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7522 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7523 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7524
7525 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7526 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7527
7528 idle=
7529
7530 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7531 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7532 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7533 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7534DOC_END
7535
5473c134 7536NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7537TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7538DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7539LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 7540IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7541DOC_START
5473c134 7542 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7543 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7544DOC_END
7545
5473c134 7546NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7547TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7548DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7549LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 7550IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7551DOC_START
5473c134 7552 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7553 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7554 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7555DOC_END
7556
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7557NAME: dns_packet_max
7558TYPE: b_ssize_t
7559DEFAULT: none
7560LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 7561IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7562DOC_START
7563 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7564 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7565
7566 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7567 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7568 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7569 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7570 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7571
7572 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7573 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7574 necessary.
7575
7576 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7577 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7578 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7579 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7580 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7581 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7582 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7583DOC_END
7584
5473c134 7585NAME: dns_defnames
7586COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7587TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7588DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7589LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7590DOC_START
5473c134 7591 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7592 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7593 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7594 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7595DOC_END
7596
5473c134 7597NAME: dns_nameservers
7598TYPE: wordlist
7599DEFAULT: none
7600LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7601DOC_START
5473c134 7602 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7603 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7604 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7605 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7606 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7607 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7608 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7609
5473c134 7610 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7611DOC_END
7612
5473c134 7613NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7614TYPE: string
5473c134 7615DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7616LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7617DOC_START
5473c134 7618 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7619 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7620 default locations:
7621 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7622 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7623 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7624 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7625 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7626 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7627 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7628 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7629
5473c134 7630 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7631 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7632 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7633 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7634
5473c134 7635 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7636 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7637 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7638 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7639 definitions.
cccac0a2 7640DOC_END
7641
5473c134 7642NAME: append_domain
7643TYPE: string
7644LOC: Config.appendDomain
7645DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7646DOC_START
5473c134 7647 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7648 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7649
7650 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7651 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7652 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7653
7654Example:
7655 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7656DOC_END
7657
5473c134 7658NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7659TYPE: onoff
7660LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7661DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 7662IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 7663DOC_START
5473c134 7664 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7665 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7666 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7667 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7668 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7669DOC_END
7670
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7671NAME: dns_v4_first
7672TYPE: onoff
7673DEFAULT: off
7674LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 7675IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7676DOC_START
7677 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7678 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7679
7680 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7681 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7682 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7683
7684 WARNING:
7685 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7686 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7687 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7688DOC_END
7689
6bc15a4f 7690NAME: ipcache_size
7691COMMENT: (number of entries)
7692TYPE: int
7693DEFAULT: 1024
7694LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7695DOC_NONE
7696
7697NAME: ipcache_low
7698COMMENT: (percent)
7699TYPE: int
7700DEFAULT: 90
7701LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7702DOC_NONE
7703
7704NAME: ipcache_high
7705COMMENT: (percent)
7706TYPE: int
7707DEFAULT: 95
7708LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7709DOC_START
7710 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7711DOC_END
7712
7713NAME: fqdncache_size
7714COMMENT: (number of entries)
7715TYPE: int
7716DEFAULT: 1024
7717LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7718DOC_START
7719 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7720DOC_END
7721
a58ff010 7722COMMENT_START
5473c134 7723 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7724 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7725COMMENT_END
7726
5473c134 7727NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7728COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7729TYPE: onoff
7730DEFAULT: on
7731LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7732DOC_START
5473c134 7733 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7734 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7735 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7736 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7737DOC_END
7738
5473c134 7739NAME: memory_pools_limit
7740COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7741TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7742DEFAULT: 5 MB
7743LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7744DOC_START
5473c134 7745 Used only with memory_pools on:
7746 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7747
5473c134 7748 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7749 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7750 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7751 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7752 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7753 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7754 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7755
89646bd7 7756 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7757 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7758
5473c134 7759 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7760 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7761
7762 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7763 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7764 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7765 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7766DOC_END
7767
5473c134 7768NAME: forwarded_for
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7769COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7770TYPE: string
5473c134 7771DEFAULT: on
7772LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7773DOC_START
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7774 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7775 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7776
5473c134 7777 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7778
67c06f0d 7779 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7780
7781 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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7782
7783 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7784 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7785
7786 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7787 X-Forwarded-For header.
7788
7789 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7790 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7791DOC_END
7792
5473c134 7793NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7794TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7795DEFAULT: none
7796LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7797DOC_START
5473c134 7798 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7799
5473c134 7800 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7801
7802 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7803 5min
7804 60min
7805 asndb
7806 authenticator
7807 cbdata
7808 client_list
7809 comm_incoming
7810 config *
7811 counters
7812 delay
7813 digest_stats
7814 dns
7815 events
7816 filedescriptors
7817 fqdncache
7818 histograms
7819 http_headers
7820 info
7821 io
7822 ipcache
7823 mem
7824 menu
7825 netdb
7826 non_peers
7827 objects
7828 offline_toggle *
7829 pconn
7830 peer_select
b360c477 7831 reconfigure *
5473c134 7832 redirector
7833 refresh
7834 server_list
7835 shutdown *
7836 store_digest
7837 storedir
7838 utilization
7839 via_headers
7840 vm_objects
7841
7842 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7843 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7844
7845 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7846 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7847 password to "none".
7848
7849 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7850
7851Example:
7852 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7853 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7854 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7855DOC_END
7856
5473c134 7857NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7858COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7859TYPE: onoff
7860DEFAULT: on
7861LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7862DOC_START
5473c134 7863 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7864 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7865DOC_END
7866
5473c134 7867NAME: refresh_all_ims
7868COMMENT: on|off
7869TYPE: onoff
7870DEFAULT: off
7871LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7872DOC_START
5473c134 7873 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7874 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7875 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7876 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7877 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7878
5473c134 7879 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7880 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7881DOC_END
7882
5473c134 7883NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7884IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7885COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7886TYPE: onoff
7887DEFAULT: off
7888LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7889DOC_START
5473c134 7890 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7891 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7892 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7893 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7894 causes.
7895
7896 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7897DOC_END
7898
31ef19cd 7899NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7900TYPE: int
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AJ
7901LOC: Config.connect_retries
7902DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7903DOC_START
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AJ
7904 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7905 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7906 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
7907
7908 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7909 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 7910
31ef19cd
AJ
7911 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7912 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7913
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AJ
7914 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7915 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7916 a useful server.
a58ff010 7917DOC_END
7918
5473c134 7919NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7920TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7921LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7922DEFAULT: off
7923DOC_START
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7924 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
7925 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
7926 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
7927 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
7928
7929 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
7930 work around access control errors.
7931
7932 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
7933 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 7934DOC_END
7935
5473c134 7936NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7937TYPE: string
5473c134 7938LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7939DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7940DOC_START
5473c134 7941 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7942 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7943DOC_END
7944
5473c134 7945NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7946TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7947LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7948DEFAULT: off
7949DOC_START
5473c134 7950 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7951 objects.
a58ff010 7952DOC_END
7953
5473c134 7954NAME: uri_whitespace
7955TYPE: uri_whitespace
7956LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7957DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7958DOC_START
5473c134 7959 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7960 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7961
5473c134 7962 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7963 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7964 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7965 Request" message.
7966 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7967 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7968 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7969 are in use.
7970 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7971 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7972 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7973 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7974 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7975 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7976 violation.
7977DOC_END
a58ff010 7978
5473c134 7979NAME: chroot
7980TYPE: string
7981LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7982DEFAULT: none
7983DOC_START
9f37c18a 7984 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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7985 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7986 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7987 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7988 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7989DOC_END
a58ff010 7990
5473c134 7991NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7992TYPE: onoff
7993LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7994DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7995DOC_START
cc192b50 7996 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7997 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7998 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7999
5473c134 8000 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8001 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8002 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8003
cc192b50 8004 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8005DOC_END
8006
5473c134 8007NAME: pipeline_prefetch
8008TYPE: onoff
8009LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
8010DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 8011DOC_START
5473c134 8012 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
8013 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
8014 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 8015
5473c134 8016 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
8017 reasons.
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8018
8019 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8020DOC_END
a58ff010 8021
5473c134 8022NAME: high_response_time_warning
8023TYPE: int
8024COMMENT: (msec)
8025LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8026DEFAULT: 0
8027DOC_START
8028 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8029 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8030 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 8031DOC_END
8032
5473c134 8033NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8034TYPE: int
8035LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8036DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 8037DOC_START
5473c134 8038 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8039 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8040 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8041 per second.
8042DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8043
5473c134 8044NAME: high_memory_warning
8045TYPE: b_size_t
8046LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 8047DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 8048DOC_START
8049 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 8050 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 8051 the administrators attention.
8052DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8053
5473c134 8054NAME: sleep_after_fork
8055COMMENT: (microseconds)
8056TYPE: int
8057LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
8058DEFAULT: 0
8059DOC_START
8060 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
8061 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
8062 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
8063 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
8064 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
8065 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
8066 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
8067 until all the child processes have been started.
8068 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
8069 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 8070DOC_END
8071
b6696974 8072NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 8073IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
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8074COMMENT: on|off
8075TYPE: onoff
8076DEFAULT: on
8077LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
8078DOC_START
8079 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
8080 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
8081 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
8082 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
8083 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
8084 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
8085DOC_END
8086
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8087NAME: eui_lookup
8088TYPE: onoff
8089IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
8090DEFAULT: on
8091LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
8092DOC_START
8093 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8094DOC_END
8095
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8096NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8097TYPE: int
8098DEFAULT: 0
8099LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8100DOC_START
8101 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
8102
8103 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
8104
8105 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
8106 not all comm loops supports large values.
8107DOC_END
8108
13aeac35 8109NAME: workers
007d775d 8110TYPE: int
13aeac35 8111LOC: Config.workers
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8112DEFAULT: 1
8113DOC_START
13aeac35 8114 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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8115 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8116 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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8117 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8118
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8119 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8120 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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8121DOC_END
8122
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8123NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8124TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8125LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8126DEFAULT: none
8127DOC_START
8128 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8129
8130 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8131
8132 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8133
8134 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8135 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8136
8137 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8138 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8139
8140 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8141
8142 See also: workers
8143DOC_END
8144
cccac0a2 8145EOF