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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 32
cccac0a2 33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
debd9a31 44
cccac0a2 45COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 46
592a09dc 47COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
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60
61
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62 Conditional configuration
63
64 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
65 depend on conditions:
66
67 if <CONDITION>
68 ... regular configuration directives ...
69 [else
70 ... regular configuration directives ...]
71 endif
72
73 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
74 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
75 configuration directives.
76
77 These individual conditions types are supported:
78
79 true
80 Always evaluates to true.
81 false
82 Always evaluates to false.
83 <integer> = <integer>
84 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
85
86
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87 SMP-Related Macros
88
89 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
90
91 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
92 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
93
94 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
95 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
96 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 97COMMENT_END
98
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99# Options Removed in 3.2
100NAME: ignore_expect_100
101TYPE: obsolete
102DOC_START
103 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
104DOC_END
105
106NAME: ftp_list_width
107TYPE: obsolete
108DOC_START
109 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
110DOC_END
111
112NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
113TYPE: obsolete
114DOC_START
115 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
116DOC_END
117
118# Options Removed in 3.1
119NAME: dns_testnames
120TYPE: obsolete
121DOC_START
122 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
123DOC_END
124
125NAME: extension_methods
126TYPE: obsolete
127DOC_START
128 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
129DOC_END
130
131# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
132NAME: incoming_rate
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_NONE
135
136NAME: server_http11
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
140DOC_END
141
142NAME: upgrade_http0.9
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
146DOC_END
147
148NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
152DOC_END
153
154# Options Removed in 3.0
155NAME: header_access
156TYPE: obsolete
157DOC_START
158 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
159 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
160DOC_END
161
162NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
163TYPE: obsolete
164DOC_START
165 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
166DOC_END
167
5473c134 168COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 169 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
171COMMENT_END
172
41bd17a4 173NAME: auth_param
174TYPE: authparam
5817ee13 175LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 176DEFAULT: none
177DOC_START
41bd17a4 178 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
179 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 180
41bd17a4 181 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 182
41bd17a4 183 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
184 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
185 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
186 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
187 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
188 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
189 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
190 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
191 program entry).
cccac0a2 192
41bd17a4 193 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
194 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
195 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
196 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 197
41bd17a4 198 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
199 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
200 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
201 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
202 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
203 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
204 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
205 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
206 type acl.
cccac0a2 207
41bd17a4 208 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
209 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
210 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
211 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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212 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
213 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 214
41bd17a4 215 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 216
41bd17a4 217 "program" cmdline
218 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
219 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
220 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
221 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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222 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
223 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 224
41bd17a4 225 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
226 program is specified.
cccac0a2 227
41bd17a4 228 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
229 this line to something like
307b83b7 230
41bd17a4 231 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 232
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233 "utf8" on|off
234 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
235 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
236 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
237 username & password to the helper.
238
7353861b 239 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 240 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 241 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
242 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
243 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
244 authenticator processes.
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245
246 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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247 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
248 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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249 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
250 the maximum.
251
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252 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
253 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
254 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
255 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
256 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
257 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 258 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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259
260 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 261
41bd17a4 262 "realm" realmstring
263 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
264 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
265 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
266 password). There is no default.
267 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 268
41bd17a4 269 "credentialsttl" timetolive
270 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
271 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
272 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
273 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
274 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
275 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
276 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
277 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
278 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 279
41bd17a4 280 "casesensitive" on|off
281 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
282 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
283 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
284 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
285 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 286
41bd17a4 287 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 288
41bd17a4 289 "program" cmdline
290 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
291 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
292 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
293 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
294 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
295 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
296 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 297
41bd17a4 298 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
299 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 300
41bd17a4 301 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
302 something like
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7ce93108 304 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 305
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306 "utf8" on|off
307 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
308 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
309 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
310 username & password to the helper.
311
7353861b 312 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 313 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 314 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
315 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
316 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
317 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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318
319 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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320 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
321 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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322 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
323 the maximum.
324
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325 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
326 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
327 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
328 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
329 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
330 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
331 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
332
48d54e4d 333 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 334
41bd17a4 335 "realm" realmstring
336 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
337 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
338 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
339 password). There is no default.
340 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 341
41bd17a4 342 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
343 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
344 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 345
41bd17a4 346 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
347 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
348 valid for.
cccac0a2 349
41bd17a4 350 "nonce_max_count" number
351 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
352 used.
cccac0a2 353
41bd17a4 354 "nonce_strictness" on|off
355 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
356 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
357 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
358 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 359
41bd17a4 360 "check_nonce_count" on|off
361 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
362 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
363 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
364 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 365
41bd17a4 366 "post_workaround" on|off
367 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
368 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
369 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 370
41bd17a4 371 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 372
41bd17a4 373 "program" cmdline
374 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
375 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
376 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
377 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
378 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
379 is not used.
cccac0a2 380
41bd17a4 381 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 382
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383 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
384 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 385 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
386 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
387 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
388 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
389 processes.
cccac0a2 390
48d54e4d 391 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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392 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
393 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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394 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
395 the maximum.
396
397 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 398
41bd17a4 399 "keep_alive" on|off
400 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
401 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
402 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
403 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
404 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 405
41bd17a4 406 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 407
41bd17a4 408 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 409
41bd17a4 410 "program" cmdline
411 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
412 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
413 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
414 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
415 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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416 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
417 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
418 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 419 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
420 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 421
41bd17a4 422 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 423
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424 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
425 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 426 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
427 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
428 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
429 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
430 processes.
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431
432 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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433 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
434 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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435 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
436 the maximum.
437
438 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 439
41bd17a4 440 "keep_alive" on|off
441 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
442 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
443 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
444 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
445 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 446
41bd17a4 447 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 448
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450 Examples:
451
41bd17a4 452#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
453#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 454#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 455#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 456#
41bd17a4 457#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 458#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 459#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 460#
41bd17a4 461#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 462#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 463#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
464#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
465#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
466#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 467#
41bd17a4 468#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 469#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 470#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
471#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 472DOC_END
cccac0a2 473
41bd17a4 474NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
475TYPE: time_t
476DEFAULT: 1 hour
477LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
478DOC_START
479 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
480 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
481 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
482 have good reason to.
483DOC_END
cccac0a2 484
41bd17a4 485NAME: authenticate_ttl
486TYPE: time_t
487DEFAULT: 1 hour
488LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
489DOC_START
490 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
491 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
492 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
493 TTL are removed from memory.
494DOC_END
cccac0a2 495
41bd17a4 496NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
497TYPE: time_t
498LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
499DEFAULT: 0 seconds
500DOC_START
501 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
502 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
503 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
504 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
505 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
506 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
507 environment with relatively static address assignments.
508DOC_END
cccac0a2 509
3d1e3e43 510COMMENT_START
511 ACCESS CONTROLS
512 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
513COMMENT_END
514
41bd17a4 515NAME: external_acl_type
516TYPE: externalAclHelper
517LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 518DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 519DOC_START
41bd17a4 520 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
521 to look up the status
cccac0a2 522
41bd17a4 523 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 524
41bd17a4 525 Options:
cccac0a2 526
41bd17a4 527 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
528 for 1 hour)
529 negative_ttl=n
530 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
531 as ttl)
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532 children-max=n
533 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
534 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
535 children-startup=n
536 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
537 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
538 of this type. (default 0)
539 children-idle=n
540 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
541 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
542 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
543 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 544 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
545 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 546 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 547 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
548 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 549 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 550 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 551 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
552 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
055421ee 553 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 554
41bd17a4 555 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 556
41bd17a4 557 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
558 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
559 %IDENT Ident user name
560 %SRC Client IP
561 %SRCPORT Client source port
562 %URI Requested URI
563 %DST Requested host
564 %PROTO Requested protocol
565 %PORT Requested port
566 %PATH Requested URL path
567 %METHOD Request method
568 %MYADDR Squid interface address
569 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
570 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
571 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
572 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
573 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
574 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 575
c68c9682 576 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 577 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 578 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 579 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 580 HTTP request header list member using ; as
581 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
582 character.
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c68c9682 584 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 585 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 586 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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587 %<{Hdr:;member}
588 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
589 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
590 character.
591
41bd17a4 592 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
593 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
594 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 595
41bd17a4 596 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
597 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
598 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
599 more details.
cccac0a2 600
41bd17a4 601 General result syntax:
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41bd17a4 603 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 604
41bd17a4 605 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 606
41bd17a4 607 user= The users name (login)
608 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
609 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
610 in error pages
611 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
612 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
613 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
614 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 615
41bd17a4 616 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
617 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 618
41bd17a4 619 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
620 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
621 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 622
41bd17a4 623 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
624 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
625 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 626DOC_END
627
41bd17a4 628NAME: acl
629TYPE: acl
630LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 631DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 632DOC_START
41bd17a4 633 Defining an Access List
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635 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
636 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
637 they are read from.
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639 acl aclname acltype argument ...
640 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 641
375eeb3b 642 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 643
41bd17a4 644 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
645 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
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648 to access some external data source.
649 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
650 don't are marked as [fast].
651 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
652 for further information
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654 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
655
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656 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address [fast]
657 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses [fast]
658 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
659 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address [fast]
cccac0a2 660
41bd17a4 661 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
662 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
663 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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665 # other *BSD variants.
666 # [fast]
41bd17a4 667 #
668 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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670 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
671
672 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
673 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
674 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 675 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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676 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
677 # regex matching client name [slow]
678 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 679 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 680 #
41bd17a4 681 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
682 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
683 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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685 acl aclname src_as number ...
686 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 687 # [fast]
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689 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
690 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
691 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
692 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
693 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
694 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 695
6db78a1a 696 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 697 # [fast]
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698 # match against a named cache_peer entry
699 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
700
375eeb3b 701 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 702 # [fast]
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704 # S - Sunday
705 # M - Monday
706 # T - Tuesday
707 # W - Wednesday
708 # H - Thursday
709 # F - Friday
710 # A - Saturday
711 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
712
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714 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
715 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
716 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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719 # ranges are alloed
720 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # local socket TCP port [fast]
721 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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723 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
724
725 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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728 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 730 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 731 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 733 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 734 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 735 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 736
375eeb3b 737 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 738 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 739 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 740 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 741
41bd17a4 742 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
743 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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745 # supplied credentials [slow]
746 #
747 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 748 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
749 #
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751 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
752 #
41bd17a4 753 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
754 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
755 # in access.log.
756 #
757 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
758 # to check username/password combinations (see
759 # auth_param directive).
760 #
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762 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 763 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 764
41bd17a4 765 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 766 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 767 # Example:
768 #
769 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 770
41bd17a4 771 acl aclname maxconn number
772 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
b3567eb5 773 # more than <number> HTTP connections established. [fast]
1e5562e3 774
41bd17a4 775 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
776 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
777 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 778 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 779 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
780 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
781 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
782 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
783 # request is denied)
784 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
785 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
786 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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789 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
790 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
791 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
792
375eeb3b 793 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 794 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
795 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 796 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 797 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
798 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 799
41bd17a4 800 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
801 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
802 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 803 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 804
375eeb3b 805 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 806 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
807 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 808 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 809 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
810 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
811 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 812
41bd17a4 813 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
814 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
815 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 816 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 817
375eeb3b 818 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 819 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 820 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 821
41bd17a4 822 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
823 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 824 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 825
41bd17a4 826 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
827 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 828 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 829
41bd17a4 830 acl aclname ext_user username ...
831 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 832 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 833 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 834
0ab50441 835 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 836 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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839 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
840 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
841 #
842 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
843 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
844 # http_reply_access.
845
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847 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
848 acl myexample dst_as 1241
849 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
850 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
851 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 852
41bd17a4 853NOCOMMENT_START
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854#
855# Recommended minimum configuration:
856#
41bd17a4 857acl manager proto cache_object
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858acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
859acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
e0855596 860
ee776778 861# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
862# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
863# should be allowed
864acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
865acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
866acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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867acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
868acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 870acl SSL_ports port 443
871acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
872acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
873acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
874acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
875acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
876acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
877acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
878acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
879acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
880acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
881acl CONNECT method CONNECT
882NOCOMMENT_END
883DOC_END
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885NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
886TYPE: acl_access
887IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
888LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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889DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
890DOC_START
891 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
892 find the original source of a request.
893
894 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
895 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
896 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
897 rightmost address being the most recent.
898
899 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
900 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
901 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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902 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
903 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
904 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
905 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
906 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
907 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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909 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
910 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 911 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 912 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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913 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
914 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 915
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917 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
918
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920
921 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
922 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
923 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
924 source address of the request. This may enable remote
925 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
926 based on the client's source addresses.
927
928 For example:
929
930 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
931 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
932 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
933 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
934DOC_END
935
936NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
937COMMENT: on|off
938TYPE: onoff
939IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
940DEFAULT: on
941LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
942DOC_START
943 Controls whether the indirect client address
944 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
945 direct client address in acl matching.
946DOC_END
947
948NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
949COMMENT: on|off
950TYPE: onoff
0dae2bca 951IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&DELAY_POOLS
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953LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
954DOC_START
955 Controls whether the indirect client address
956 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
957 direct client address in delay pools.
958DOC_END
959
960NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
961COMMENT: on|off
962TYPE: onoff
963IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
964DEFAULT: on
965LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
966DOC_START
967 Controls whether the indirect client address
968 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
969 direct client address in the access log.
970DOC_END
971
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972NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
973COMMENT: on|off
974TYPE: onoff
975IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 976DEFAULT: off
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977LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
978DOC_START
979 Controls whether the indirect client address
980 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
981 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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983 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
984 mode ports.
985
986 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
987 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
988 of folow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
989 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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991
41bd17a4 992NAME: http_access
993TYPE: acl_access
994LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 995DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
996DOC_START
997 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 998
41bd17a4 999 Access to the HTTP port:
1000 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1001
41bd17a4 1002 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1003
41bd17a4 1004 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1005 the request.
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41bd17a4 1007 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1008 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1009 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1010 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1012 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1015 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1016
41bd17a4 1017NOCOMMENT_START
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1019#
1020# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1021#
1022# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
1023http_access allow manager localhost
1024http_access deny manager
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1026# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1027http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1029# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1030http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1032# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1033# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1034# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1035#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1037#
1038# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1039#
c8f4eac4 1040
ee776778 1041# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1042# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1043# from where browsing should be allowed
1044http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1045http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1046
41bd17a4 1047# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1048http_access deny all
1049NOCOMMENT_END
1050DOC_END
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1053TYPE: acl_access
1054LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1055DEFAULT: none
1056DOC_START
1057 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1058
1059 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1060 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1061 output.
1062
1063 If not set then only http_access is used.
1064DOC_END
1065
41bd17a4 1066NAME: http_reply_access
1067TYPE: acl_access
1068LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1069DEFAULT: none
1070DOC_START
1071 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1072
41bd17a4 1073 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1074
41bd17a4 1075 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1076 all replies
1a224843 1077
41bd17a4 1078 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1079 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1080 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1082 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1083 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1084DOC_END
1085
41bd17a4 1086NAME: icp_access
1087TYPE: acl_access
1088LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1089DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1090DOC_START
41bd17a4 1091 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1092 access lists
5473c134 1093
41bd17a4 1094 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1096 See http_access for details
1097
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1099 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1101# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1103#icp_access deny all
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1105
41bd17a4 1106NAME: htcp_access
1107IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1108TYPE: acl_access
1109LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1110DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1111DOC_START
41bd17a4 1112 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1113 access lists
5473c134 1114
41bd17a4 1115 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1117 See http_access for details
5473c134 1118
0b48417e 1119 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1120 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1121 using the htcp option.
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1124 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1126# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1128#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1129DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1131NAME: htcp_clr_access
1132IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1133TYPE: acl_access
1134LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1135DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1136DOC_START
1137 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1138 on defined access lists
5473c134 1139
41bd17a4 1140 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1141
41bd17a4 1142 See http_access for details
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1145 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1147# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1148acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1149htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
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1151
41bd17a4 1152NAME: miss_access
1153TYPE: acl_access
1154LOC: Config.accessList.miss
df2eec10 1155DEFAULT: allow all
5473c134 1156DOC_START
41bd17a4 1157 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1158 a parent. For example:
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41bd17a4 1160 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1161 miss_access allow localclients
1162 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1163
41bd17a4 1164 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
1165 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 1166
41bd17a4 1167 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
1168 to fetch MISSES from us.
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1170 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1171 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1172DOC_END
1173
1174NAME: ident_lookup_access
1175TYPE: acl_access
1176IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1177DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1178LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1179DOC_START
41bd17a4 1180 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1181 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1182 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1183 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1184 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1185 any requests.
5473c134 1186
41bd17a4 1187 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1188 can follow this example:
5473c134 1189
4daaf3cb 1190 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1191 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1192 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1193
4daaf3cb 1194 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1195 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1196 the correct result.
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1198 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1199 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1200DOC_END
5473c134 1201
5b0f5383 1202NAME: reply_body_max_size
1203COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1204TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1205DEFAULT: none
1206LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1207DOC_START
1208 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1209 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1210 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1211 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1212 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1213 for this reply.
1214
1215 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1216 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1217 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1218 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1219 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1220 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1221 and they will receive a partial reply.
1222
1223 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1224 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1225 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1226 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1227
1228 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1229 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1230 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1231 the size of your largest error page.
1232
1233 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1234 no limit imposed.
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1236 Configuration Format is:
1237 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1238 ie.
1239 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1240
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1242
1243COMMENT_START
1244 NETWORK OPTIONS
1245 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1246COMMENT_END
1247
1248NAME: http_port ascii_port
1249TYPE: http_port_list
1250DEFAULT: none
1251LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1252DOC_START
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1253 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1254 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1255 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
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1257 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1258 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1259 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1260 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1261 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1262 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1263 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1264
1265 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1266 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1267
1268 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1269 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1270 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1271
1272 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1273
c7b1dd5d 1274 Modes:
5b0f5383 1275
e77bdb4e 1276 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1277 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1278 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1279
1280 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1281 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1282 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1283
1284 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1285 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1286
3a0c8eb5 1287 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
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1289 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1290 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1291 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1292
1293 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1294 the SslBump feature.
1295
1296 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1297
1298
1299 Accelerator Mode Options:
1300
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1301 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1302 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1303 never_direct was used.
1304
5b0f5383 1305 defaultsite=domainname
1306 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1307 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1308 accelerators should consider the default.
1309 Implies accel.
1310
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1311 vhost Using the Host header for virtual domain support.
1312 Also uses the port as specified in Host: header.
5b0f5383 1313
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1314 vport IP based virtual host support. Using the http_port number
1315 in passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1316
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1317 vport=NN Uses the specified port number rather than the
1318 http_port number.
5b0f5383 1319
1320 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
c7b1dd5d 1321 Defaults to http://.
5b0f5383 1322
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1324
1325 Warning: This option violates HTTP specifications if
1326 used in non-accelerator setups.
1327
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1329 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1330
1331 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1332
1333 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1334 if not specified, the certificate file is
1335 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1336 key file.
1337
1338 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1339 1 automatic (default)
1340 2 SSLv2 only
1341 3 SSLv3 only
1342 4 TLSv1 only
1343
1344 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1345
1346 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1347 being:
1348 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1349 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1350 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1351 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1352 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1353 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1354 documentation for a complete list of options.
1355
1356 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1357 requesting a client certificate.
1358
1359 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1360 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1361 clientca will be used.
1362
1363 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1364 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1365
1366 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1367 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1368 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1369
1370 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1371 DH key exchanges.
1372
1373 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1374 DELAYED_AUTH
1375 Don't request client certificates
1376 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1377 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1378 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1379 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1380 to OpenSSL.
1381 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1382 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1383 will result in a new SSL session.
1384 VERIFY_CRL
1385 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1386 certificates.
1387 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1388 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1389 client certificate chain.
1390
1391 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1392
1393
1394 Other Options:
1395
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1397 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1398 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1400
5b0f5383 1401 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1402 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1403 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1404 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1405 support is enabled.
1406 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1407
1408 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1409 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1410 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1411 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1412 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1413 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1414 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1415 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1416
81b6e9a7 1417 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1418 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1419
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1422 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1423 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1424 timeout the time before giving up.
1425
5b0f5383 1426 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1427 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1428 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1429 visible on the internal address.
1430
1431NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 1432
5b0f5383 1433# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1434http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1435NOCOMMENT_END
1436DOC_END
1437
1438NAME: https_port
1439IFDEF: USE_SSL
1440TYPE: https_port_list
1441DEFAULT: none
1442LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1443DOC_START
1444 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1445
1446 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1447 requests.
1448
1449 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1450 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1451 accelerator level.
1452
1453 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1454 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1455
1456 Options:
1457
1458 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1459 defaultsite or vhost.
1460
1461 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1462 this port. Implies accel.
1463
1464 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1465 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1466 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1467 Implies accel.
1468
1469 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1470 Defaults to https.
1471
1472 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1473
1474 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1475 if not specified, the certificate file is
1476 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1477 key file.
1478
1479 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1480 1 automatic (default)
1481 2 SSLv2 only
1482 3 SSLv3 only
1483 4 TLSv1 only
1484
1485 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1486
1487 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1488 being:
1489 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1490 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1491 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1492 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1493 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1494 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1495 documentation for a complete list of options.
1496
1497 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1498 requesting a client certificate.
1499
1500 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1501 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1502 clientca will be used.
1503
1504 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1505 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1506
1507 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1508 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1509 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1510
1511 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1512 DH key exchanges.
1513
1514 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1515 DELAYED_AUTH
1516 Don't request client certificates
1517 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1518 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1519 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1520 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1521 to OpenSSL.
1522 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1523 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1524 will result in a new SSL session.
1525 VERIFY_CRL
1526 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1527 certificates.
1528 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1529 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1530 client certificate chain.
1531
1532 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1533
1534 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1535
1536 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1537 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1538
81b6e9a7 1539 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1540 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1541
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1543
41bd17a4 1544NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1545TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1546DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1547LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1548DOC_START
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1550 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1551
41bd17a4 1552 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1553
41bd17a4 1554 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1555 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1558 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1559 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1560 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
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41bd17a4 1562 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1563 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1564 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1565
41bd17a4 1566 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1567 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1569 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1570
41bd17a4 1571 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1572 matching line.
cccac0a2 1573DOC_END
1574
41bd17a4 1575NAME: clientside_tos
1576TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1577DEFAULT: none
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1579DOC_START
1580 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1581 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1582
1583 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1584
1585 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1586 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1587
1588 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1589 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1590 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1591 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1592
1593 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1594 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1595DOC_END
1596
1597NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1598TYPE: acl_nfmark
1599IFDEF: SO_MARK
1600DEFAULT: none
1601LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1602DOC_START
1603 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1604 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1605
1606 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1607
1608 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1609 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1610
1611 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1612 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1613 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1614 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1615DOC_END
1616
1617NAME: clientside_mark
1618TYPE: acl_nfmark
1619IFDEF: SO_MARK
1620DEFAULT: none
1621LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
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1624 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1625
1626 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1627
1628 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1629 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1630
1631 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1632 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1633 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1634 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1635
1636 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1637 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1638DOC_END
cccac0a2 1639
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1641TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1642IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1643DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1644LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1645DOC_START
575cb927 1646 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1647 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced. For
1648 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1649 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1652 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1653 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1656 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1657 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1658
1659 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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1662
1663 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1665 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1666
1667 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1668
1669 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1670
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1672 over the preserve-miss feature (see below).
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1675 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1676 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1677 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1678 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1679
575cb927 1680 disable-preserve-miss
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1682 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1683 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1684 and masked with miss-mark.
1685 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1686 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1687 (MARK target).
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1689 miss-mask=0xFF
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1691 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1692 the TOS sent towards clients.
1693 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1694 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1695
1696 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1697 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1698 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1699 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1702
41bd17a4 1703NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1704TYPE: acl_address
1705DEFAULT: none
1706LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1707DOC_START
1708 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1709 based on the username or source address of the user making
1710 the request.
7f7db318 1711
41bd17a4 1712 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1713
41bd17a4 1714 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1715 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1716 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1717 source address 10.1.0.3.
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1720 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1721 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1722 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1723 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
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41bd17a4 1725 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1726 matching line.
cccac0a2 1727
41bd17a4 1728 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1729 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1730 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1731 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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1734 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
1735 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option to
1736 re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
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1738 IPv6 Magic:
1739
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1741 internets.
cc192b50 1742 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1743 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1744 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1745
1746 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1747 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1748 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1749
1750 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1751 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1752 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
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1754 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1755 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
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1757 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1758 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
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1760 WARNING:
1761 'dst ipv6' bases its selection assuming DIRECT access.
1762 If peers are used the peername ACL are needed to select outgoing
1763 address which can link to the peer.
1764
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1766 previously in the http_access rules to locate the destination IP.
1767 Some more magic may be needed for that:
1768 http_access allow to_ipv6 !all
1769 (meaning, allow if to IPv6 but not from anywhere ;)
1770
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1772
41bd17a4 1773COMMENT_START
1774 SSL OPTIONS
1775 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1776COMMENT_END
1777
1778NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1779IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1780TYPE: onoff
1781DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1782LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1783DOC_START
41bd17a4 1784 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1785 messages.
cccac0a2 1786DOC_END
1787
41bd17a4 1788NAME: ssl_engine
1789IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1790TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1791LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1792DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1793DOC_START
41bd17a4 1794 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1795 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1796DOC_END
1797
41bd17a4 1798NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1799IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1800DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1801LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1802TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1803DOC_START
41bd17a4 1804 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1805DOC_END
1806
41bd17a4 1807NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1808IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1809DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1810LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1811TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1812DOC_START
41bd17a4 1813 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1814DOC_END
1815
41bd17a4 1816NAME: sslproxy_version
1817IFDEF: USE_SSL
1818DEFAULT: 1
1819LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1820TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1821DOC_START
41bd17a4 1822 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1823DOC_END
1824
41bd17a4 1825NAME: sslproxy_options
1826IFDEF: USE_SSL
1827DEFAULT: none
1828LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1829TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1830DOC_START
41bd17a4 1831 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1833 The most important being:
1834
1835 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1836 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1837 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1838 SINGLE_DH_USE
1839 Always create a new key when using
1840 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1841
1842 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1843 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1844 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 1845DOC_END
1846
41bd17a4 1847NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1848IFDEF: USE_SSL
1849DEFAULT: none
1850LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1851TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1852DOC_START
41bd17a4 1853 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1855 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1856DOC_END
1857
41bd17a4 1858NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1859IFDEF: USE_SSL
1860DEFAULT: none
1861LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1862TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1863DOC_START
41bd17a4 1864 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1865 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1866DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1868NAME: sslproxy_capath
1869IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1870DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1871LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1872TYPE: string
5473c134 1873DOC_START
41bd17a4 1874 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1875 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1876DOC_END
1877
4c9da963 1878NAME: ssl_bump
1879IFDEF: USE_SSL
1880TYPE: acl_access
1881LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1882DEFAULT: none
1883DOC_START
1884 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1885 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1886 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1887 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1888
1889 By default, no requests are bumped.
1890
1891 See also: http_port sslBump
1892
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1894 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1896
1897 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1898 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1899
1900 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1901 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1902 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1903 ssl_bump deny localhost
1904 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1905 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1906DOC_END
1907
41bd17a4 1908NAME: sslproxy_flags
1909IFDEF: USE_SSL
1910DEFAULT: none
1911LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1912TYPE: string
5473c134 1913DOC_START
41bd17a4 1914 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1915 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1916 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1917 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1918 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1919DOC_END
1920
4c9da963 1921
1922NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1923IFDEF: USE_SSL
1924DEFAULT: none
1925LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1926TYPE: acl_access
1927DOC_START
1928 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1929
1930 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1931 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1932 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1933
1934 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1935 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1936 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1937
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1939 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1940 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 1941
1942 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1943 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1944 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1945 the connection may be insecure.
1946
1947 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1948
e0855596 1949 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 1950DOC_END
1951
1952
1953
41bd17a4 1954NAME: sslpassword_program
1955IFDEF: USE_SSL
1956DEFAULT: none
1957LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1958TYPE: string
5473c134 1959DOC_START
41bd17a4 1960 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1961 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1962 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1963 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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1965 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
1966 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
1967 keys.
5473c134 1968DOC_END
1969
cccac0a2 1970COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1971 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1972 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1973COMMENT_END
1974
41bd17a4 1975NAME: cache_peer
1976TYPE: peer
1977DEFAULT: none
1978LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1979DOC_START
41bd17a4 1980 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 1981
41bd17a4 1982 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 1983
41bd17a4 1984 For example,
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41bd17a4 1986 # proxy icp
1987 # hostname type port port options
1988 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 1989 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 1990 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1991 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
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1993 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
1994
1995 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
1996
1997 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
1998 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
1999 For web servers this is usually 80
2000
2001 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2002 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2003 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2004
2005
2006 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2007
2008 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2009 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2010
2011
2012 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2013
2014 multicast-responder
2015 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2016 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2017 replies will be accepted from it.
2018
2019 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2020 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2021
2022 background-ping
2023 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2024 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2025 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2026
2027
2028 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2029
2030 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2031 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2032
2033
2034 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2035 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2037 list of options described below.
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18191440 2039 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2040
18191440 2041 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2042 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2043 only-clr.
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2046 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2048 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2050 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2051
18191440 2052 htcp=forward-clr
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2054
2055
2056 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2057
2058 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2059 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2060
2061
2062 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2063 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2064 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2065
2066 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2067 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2068 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2069
2070 weighted-round-robin
2071 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2072 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2073 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2074 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2075 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2076
2077 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2078 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2079 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2080
2081 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2082
2083 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2085 multicast-siblings
2086 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2087 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2088 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
2089 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2090 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2091 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2092 members of the same multicast group.
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2094
2095 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2096
2097 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2098 peer-selection mechanisms.
2099 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2100 larger weights are favored more.
2101 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2102 protocol is not in use.
2103
2104 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2105 times of parents.
2106 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2107 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2108 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2109
2110 ttl=N Specify a IP multicast TTL to use when sending an ICP
2111 queries to this address.
2112 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2113 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2114 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2115 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2116
2117 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2118 delay pools.
2119
2120 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2121 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2122 than the Squid default location.
2123
2124
2125 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2126
2127 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2128 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2129 is a web server.
2130
2131 forceddomain=name
2132 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2133 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2134 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2135 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2136
2137 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2138
2139 no-netdb-exchange
2140 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2141
2142
2143 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2144
2145 login=user:password
2146 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2147 requires proxy authentication.
2148
2149 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2150 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2151
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2153 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2154 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2155 without alteration to the peer.
2156 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2157
2158 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2159 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2160 connection-auth options are also used.
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2163 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 2164
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2166 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2168 they may be sent instead.
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2170 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2171 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2172 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2173 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2174 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2175
2176 login=*:password
2177 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2178 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2179 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2180 needed to identify each user.
2181 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2182 information which is added to the username. This can
2183 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2184 the login=username:password option above.
2185
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2187 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2188 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2189 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2190 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2191
2192 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2193 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2194 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2195 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2196 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2197 used.
2198
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2200 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2201 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2202 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2203 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2204 of the peer.
2205
2206
2207 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2208
2209 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2210
2211 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2212 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2213 this peer.
2214
2215 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2216 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2217 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2218 reference a combined file containing both the
2219 certificate and the key.
2220
2221 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2222 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2223 1 = automatic (default)
2224 2 = SSL v2 only
2225 3 = SSL v3 only
2226 4 = TLS v1 only
2227
2228 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2229 to this peer.
2230
2231 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2232 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2233 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2234 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2235 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2236 a more complete list.
2237
2238 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2239 when verifying the peer certificate.
2240
2241 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2242 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2243
2244 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2245 verifying the peer certificate.
2246
2247 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2248
41bd17a4 2249 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2250 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2251 verify.
2252 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2253 Don't use the default CA list built in
2254 to OpenSSL.
2255 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2256 Don't verify the peer certificate
2257 matches the server name
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2259 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2260 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2261 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2262 used.
2263
2264 front-end-https
2265 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2266 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2267 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2268 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2269 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2270
2271
2272 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2273
2274 connect-timeout=N
2275 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2276 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2277
2278 connect-fail-limit=N
2279 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2280 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2281
2282 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2283 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2284 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2285 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2286 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2287 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2288 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2289
2290 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2291 peer. see also
2292
2293 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2294 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2295 but different ports.
2296 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2297 directives to dentify the peer.
2298 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2299 peername ACL type.
2300
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2302 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2303
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2305
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41bd17a4 2308NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2309TYPE: hostdomain
2310DEFAULT: none
2311LOC: none
2312DOC_START
2313 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2314 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2315
41bd17a4 2316 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2317 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2318
41bd17a4 2319 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2320
41bd17a4 2321 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2322
41bd17a4 2323 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2324 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2325 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2326 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2327 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2328
41bd17a4 2329 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2330 either on the same or separate lines.
2331 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2332 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2333 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2334 for all requests.
2335 * There are no defaults.
2336 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2337 section.
2338DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2340NAME: cache_peer_access
2341TYPE: peer_access
2342DEFAULT: none
2343LOC: none
2344DOC_START
2345 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2346 using ACL elements.
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41bd17a4 2348 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2349
41bd17a4 2350 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2351 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2352 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2353DOC_END
dd9b1776 2354
41bd17a4 2355NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2356TYPE: hostdomaintype
2357DEFAULT: none
2358LOC: none
2359DOC_START
2360 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2361
41bd17a4 2362 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2363 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2364 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2365 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2366 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2367 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
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41bd17a4 2369EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2370 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2371 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2372 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2373DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2375NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2376COMMENT: (seconds)
2377DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2378TYPE: time_t
2379LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2380DOC_START
2381 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2382 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2383 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2384 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2385 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2386 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
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41bd17a4 2388 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2389 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2390 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2391 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2392 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2393 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2394 instead of to your parents.
2395DOC_END
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2398DEFAULT: 10
2399TYPE: int
2400LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2401DOC_START
2402 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2403 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
2404DOC_END
2405
41bd17a4 2406NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2407TYPE: wordlist
2408DEFAULT: none
2409LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2410DOC_START
2411 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2412 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2413 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2414 list this option multiple times.
2415 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
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2418# We recommend you to use at least the following line.
41bd17a4 2419hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 2420NOCOMMENT_END
2421DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2423COMMENT_START
2424 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2425 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2426COMMENT_END
2427
2428NAME: cache_mem
2429COMMENT: (bytes)
2430TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2431DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2432LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2433DOC_START
41bd17a4 2434 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2435 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2436 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2437 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2438
2439 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2440 for:
2441 * In-Transit objects
2442 * Hot Objects
2443 * Negative-Cached objects
2444
2445 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2446 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2447 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2448 priority.
2449
2450 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2451 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2452 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2453 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2454 not needed for in-transit objects.
2455
2456 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2457 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2458 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2459 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2460 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2461 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2462 objects.
6b698a21 2463DOC_END
0976f8db 2464
41bd17a4 2465NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2466COMMENT: (bytes)
2467TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2468DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2469LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2470DOC_START
41bd17a4 2471 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2472 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2473 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2474 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2475DOC_END
0976f8db 2476
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2477NAME: memory_cache_mode
2478TYPE: memcachemode
2479LOC: Config
2480DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2481DOC_START
ea21d497 2482 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2483
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2484 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2485
2486 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2487 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2488 a second time before cached in memory.
2489
2490 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2491DOC_END
2492
41bd17a4 2493NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2494TYPE: removalpolicy
2495LOC: Config.memPolicy
2496DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2497DOC_START
41bd17a4 2498 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2499 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2500
41bd17a4 2501 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2502DOC_END
6b698a21 2503
41bd17a4 2504COMMENT_START
2505 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2506 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2507COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2508
41bd17a4 2509NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2510TYPE: removalpolicy
2511LOC: Config.replPolicy
2512DEFAULT: lru
2513DOC_START
2514 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2515 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2516
41bd17a4 2517 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2518 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2519 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2520 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2521
41bd17a4 2522 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2523
41bd17a4 2524 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2525
41bd17a4 2526 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2527 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2528 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2529 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2530
41bd17a4 2531 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2532 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2533 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2534 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2535
41bd17a4 2536 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2537 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2538 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2539
41bd17a4 2540 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2541 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2542 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2543
41bd17a4 2544 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2545 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2546 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2547DOC_END
0976f8db 2548
41bd17a4 2549NAME: cache_dir
2550TYPE: cachedir
2551DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2552LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2553DOC_START
41bd17a4 2554 Usage:
0976f8db 2555
41bd17a4 2556 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2557
41bd17a4 2558 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2559 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2560
41bd17a4 2561 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2562 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2563 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2564
41bd17a4 2565 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2566 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2567 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2568 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2569 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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2571 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2572 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2573 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2574
41bd17a4 2575 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2576
41bd17a4 2577 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2578 been there.
0976f8db 2579
41bd17a4 2580 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2581
41bd17a4 2582 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2583 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2584 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2585 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2586 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2587
56fba4d0 2588 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2589 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2590
56fba4d0 2591 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2592 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2593 is 256.
0976f8db 2594
41bd17a4 2595 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2596
41bd17a4 2597 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2598 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2599 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2600
41bd17a4 2601 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2602
41bd17a4 2603 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2604
41bd17a4 2605 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2606
41bd17a4 2607 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2608 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2609 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2610
41bd17a4 2611 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2612
41bd17a4 2613 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2614
41bd17a4 2615 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2616 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2617 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2618
41bd17a4 2619 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2620 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2621 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2622
41bd17a4 2623 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2624 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2625 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2626 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2627 time.
0976f8db 2628
41bd17a4 2629 The coss store type:
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2631 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2632 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2633 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2634
41bd17a4 2635 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2636 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2637 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2638 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2639 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2640 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2641 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2642
41bd17a4 2643 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2644 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2645 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2646
41bd17a4 2647 Common options:
0976f8db 2648
41bd17a4 2649 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2650
41bd17a4 2651 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
2652 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
2653 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2654 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2655 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2656
41bd17a4 2657 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2658 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2659 option.
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2661
2662# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2663#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2664NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2665DOC_END
0976f8db 2666
41bd17a4 2667NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2668TYPE: string
2669LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2670DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2671DOC_START
41bd17a4 2672 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2673DOC_END
0976f8db 2674
41bd17a4 2675NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2676TYPE: int
2677LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2678DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2679DOC_START
41bd17a4 2680 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2681 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2682 descriptors are open.
2683
2684 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2685DOC_END
0976f8db 2686
41bd17a4 2687NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2688COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2689TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2690DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2691LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2692DOC_START
41bd17a4 2693 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2694 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2695 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2696DOC_END
0976f8db 2697
41bd17a4 2698NAME: maximum_object_size
2699COMMENT: (bytes)
2700TYPE: b_int64_t
2701DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2702LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2703DOC_START
41bd17a4 2704 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2705 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2706 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2707 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2708 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2709 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2710
41bd17a4 2711 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2712 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2713 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2714DOC_END
0976f8db 2715
41bd17a4 2716NAME: cache_swap_low
2717COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2718TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2719DEFAULT: 90
2720LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2721DOC_NONE
2722
2723NAME: cache_swap_high
2724COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2725TYPE: int
2726DEFAULT: 95
2727LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2728DOC_START
41bd17a4 2729
2730 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2731 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2732 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2733 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2734 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2735 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2736
2737 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2738 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2739 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2740DOC_END
0976f8db 2741
5473c134 2742COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2743 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2744 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2745COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2746
41bd17a4 2747NAME: logformat
2748TYPE: logformat
2749LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 2750DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2751DOC_START
41bd17a4 2752 Usage:
0976f8db 2753
41bd17a4 2754 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2755
41bd17a4 2756 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2757
41bd17a4 2758 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2759
41bd17a4 2760 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2761 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2762 as required according to their context and the output format
2763 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2764 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2765
41bd17a4 2766 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2767
41bd17a4 2768 " output in quoted string format
2769 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2770 # output in URL quoted format
2771 ' output as-is
5473c134 2772
41bd17a4 2773 - left aligned
2774 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2775 output is zero padded
2776 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2777
41bd17a4 2778 Format codes:
5473c134 2779
3ff65596 2780 % a literal % character
41bd17a4 2781 >a Client source IP address
2782 >A Client FQDN
2783 >p Client source port
2784 <A Server IP address or peer name
2785 la Local IP address (http_port)
2786 lp Local port number (http_port)
152e24b3 2787 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
17fde513 2788 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
41bd17a4 2789 ts Seconds since epoch
2790 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2791 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2792 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2793 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2794 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2795 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 2796 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
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2797 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
2798 a similar internal error identifier.
2799 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
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2800
2801 HTTP cache related format codes:
2802
ca2e92d8 2803 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 2804 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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2805 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
2806 Optional header name argument as for >h
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2807 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2808 as for >h
2809 [http::]un User name
2810 [http::]ul User name from authentication
2811 [http::]ui User name from ident
2812 [http::]us User name from SSL
2813 [http::]ue User name from external acl helper
2814 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2815 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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2816 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
2817 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
2818 transfer encoding and control messages.
2819 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
2820 received bodies.
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2821 [http::]Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2822 [http::]Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2823 [http::]mt MIME content type
2824 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2825 [http::]ru Request URL
2826 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2827 [http::]rv Request protocol version
2828 [http::]et Tag returned by external acl
2829 [http::]ea Log string returned by external acl
2830 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2831 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2832 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
2833 are not included
2834 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
2835 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
2836 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
2837 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
2838 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
2839 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
2840 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
2841 and stops when the last response byte is received.
2842 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
2843 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
2844 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
2845 with the last I/O with the last peer.
2846
2847 If ICAP is enabled, the following two codes become available (as
2848 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
2849
2850 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
2851 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
2852 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
2853 transaction is in progress.
2854
2855 icap::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response
2856 related to the HTTP transaction. Like
2857 <h, accepts an optional header name
2858 argument. Will not change semantics
2859 when multiple ICAP transactions per HTTP
2860 transaction are supported.
2861
2862 If adaptation is enabled the following two codes become available:
2863
2864 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
2865 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
2866 the order of transaction start time. Each time
2867 value is recorded as an integer number,
2868 representing response time of one or more
2869 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
2870 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
2871 being retried or repeated, its time is not
2872 logged individually but added to the
2873 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
2874 adapt::all_trs.
2875
2876 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
2877 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
2878 individual transactions are never added
2879 together. Instead, all transaction response
2880 times are recorded individually.
2881
2882 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
2883 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
2884 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 2885
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2886 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
2887
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2889logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
2890logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2891logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2892DOC_END
2893
41bd17a4 2894NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2895TYPE: access_log
2896LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 2897DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 2898DOC_START
41bd17a4 2899 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2900 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 2901 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 2902 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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2903
2904 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 2905 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2906 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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2907 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
2908
2909 ===== Modules Currently available =====
2910
2911 none Do not log any requests matchign these ACL.
2912 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
2913
2914 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
2915 each request.
2916 Place: the filename and path to be written.
2917
2918 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
2919 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
2920 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
2921
2922 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
2923
2924 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
2925 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
2926 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 2927
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2928 where facility could be any of:
2929 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 2930
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2931 And priority could be any of:
2932 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
2933
2934 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
2935 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
2936 Place Format: \\host:port
df2eec10 2937
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2938 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
2939 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
2940 Place Format: \\host:port
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2941
2942 Default:
82b7abe3 2943 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 2944DOC_END
5473c134 2945
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2946NAME: icap_log
2947TYPE: access_log
2948IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
2949LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
2950DEFAULT: none
2951DOC_START
2952 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
2953 transaction.
2954
2955 The icap_log option format is:
2956 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2957 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
2958
2959 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
2960 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
2961 features.
2962
2963 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
2964 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
2965 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
2966 log line.
2967
2968 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
2969 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
2970 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
2971 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
2972 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
2973 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
2974 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
2975
2976 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
2977
2978 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
2979
2980 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
2981 option in Squid configuration file.
2982
2983 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
2984
2985 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
2986 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
2987
2988 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
2989 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
2990
2991 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
2992 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
2993 the socket).
2994
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2995 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
2996 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
2997 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
2998 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
2999 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3000 computed.
3001
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3003 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3004 the ICAP transaction is created and
3005 stops when the transaction is completed.
3006 Similar to tr.
3007
3008 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3009 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3010 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3011 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3012 is received.
3013
3014 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3015 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3016 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3017 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3018 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3019 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3020
3021 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3022
3023 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3024
3025 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3026
3027 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3028 definition, is called icap_squid:
3029
3030logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3031
3032 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %icap::<last_h
3033DOC_END
3034
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3035NAME: logfile_daemon
3036TYPE: string
3037DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3038LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3039DOC_START
3040 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3041 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3042
3043 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3044 L<data>\n - logfile data
3045 R\n - rotate file
3046 T\n - truncate file
3047 O\n - repoen file
3048 F\n - flush file
3049 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3050 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3051
3052 No responses is expected.
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3054
5b0f5383 3055NAME: log_access
3056TYPE: acl_access
3057LOC: Config.accessList.log
3058DEFAULT: none
3059COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3060DOC_START
3061 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3062 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3063 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3064
3065 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3066 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3067DOC_END
3068
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3069NAME: log_icap
3070TYPE: acl_access
3071IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3072LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3073DEFAULT: none
3074DOC_START
3075 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3076 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3077DOC_END
3078
41bd17a4 3079NAME: cache_store_log
3080TYPE: string
df2eec10 3081DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3082LOC: Config.Log.store
3083DOC_START
3084 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3085 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3086 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
3087 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3088 disable it.
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3089
3090 Example:
3091 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3092DOC_END
3093
41bd17a4 3094NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3095TYPE: string
3096LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3097DEFAULT: none
3098DOC_START
41bd17a4 3099 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3100 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3101 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3102 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3103 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3104 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3105 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3106
41bd17a4 3107 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3108 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3109 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3110 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3111
41bd17a4 3112 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3113 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3114
41bd17a4 3115 cache_swap_log.00
3116 cache_swap_log.01
3117 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3118
41bd17a4 3119 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3120 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3121 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3122 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3123 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3124 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3125 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3126DOC_END
3127
41bd17a4 3128NAME: logfile_rotate
3129TYPE: int
3130DEFAULT: 10
3131LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3132DOC_START
41bd17a4 3133 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3134 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3135 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3136 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3137 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3138 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 3139
41bd17a4 3140 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3141 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3142 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3143 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3144 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3145 <pid>'.
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3147 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3148 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3149DOC_END
5473c134 3150
41bd17a4 3151NAME: emulate_httpd_log
3152COMMENT: on|off
3153TYPE: onoff
3154DEFAULT: off
3155LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
3156DOC_START
3157 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
3158 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
3159 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
3160 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
3161 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 3162DOC_END
3163
41bd17a4 3164NAME: log_ip_on_direct
3165COMMENT: on|off
3166TYPE: onoff
5473c134 3167DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 3168LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 3169DOC_START
41bd17a4 3170 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
3171 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
3172 prefer the old way set this to off.
3173DOC_END
5473c134 3174
41bd17a4 3175NAME: mime_table
3176TYPE: string
3177DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3178LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3179DOC_START
3180 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3181 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3182 information if you do.
5473c134 3183DOC_END
3184
41bd17a4 3185NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3186COMMENT: on|off
3187TYPE: onoff
3188LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3189DEFAULT: off
3190DOC_START
3191 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3192 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3193 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3194 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3195 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3196DOC_END
5473c134 3197
41bd17a4 3198NAME: useragent_log
3199TYPE: string
3200LOC: Config.Log.useragent
3201DEFAULT: none
3202IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 3203DOC_START
41bd17a4 3204 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
3205 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
3206 is disabled.
5473c134 3207DOC_END
3208
41bd17a4 3209NAME: referer_log referrer_log
3210TYPE: string
3211LOC: Config.Log.referer
3212DEFAULT: none
3213IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 3214DOC_START
41bd17a4 3215 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
3216 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
3217 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
3218 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
3219 and we accept both.
5473c134 3220DOC_END
3221
41bd17a4 3222NAME: pid_filename
3223TYPE: string
3224DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3225LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3226DOC_START
41bd17a4 3227 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3228DOC_END
3229
41bd17a4 3230NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3231TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3232DOC_START
c581e96b 3233 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3234DOC_END
3235
41bd17a4 3236NAME: client_netmask
3237TYPE: address
3238LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3239DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3240DOC_START
41bd17a4 3241 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3242 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3243 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3244 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3245DOC_END
3246
41bd17a4 3247NAME: forward_log
3248IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
3249TYPE: string
3250DEFAULT: none
3251LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 3252DOC_START
41bd17a4 3253 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 3254
41bd17a4 3255 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 3256DOC_END
3257
41bd17a4 3258NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3259TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3260LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3261DEFAULT: on
3262DOC_START
41bd17a4 3263 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3264 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3265DOC_END
3266
41bd17a4 3267NAME: buffered_logs
3268COMMENT: on|off
3269TYPE: onoff
3270DEFAULT: off
3271LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3272DOC_START
41bd17a4 3273 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3274 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3275 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3276 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3277 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 3278DOC_END
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2b753521 3280NAME: netdb_filename
3281TYPE: string
3282DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3283LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3284IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3285DOC_START
3286 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3287 To disable, enter "none".
3288DOC_END
3289
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3290COMMENT_START
3291 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3292 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3293COMMENT_END
3294
3295NAME: cache_log
3296TYPE: string
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3297DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3298LOC: Debug::cache_log
3299DOC_START
3300 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3301 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3302 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3303DOC_END
3304
3305NAME: debug_options
3306TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3307DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3308LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3309DOC_START
3310 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3311 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3312 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3313 log file, so be careful.
3314
3315 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3316 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3317
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3318 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3319 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3320 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3321 events affecting Squid.
3322DOC_END
3323
3324NAME: coredump_dir
3325TYPE: string
3326LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3327DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3328DOC_START
3329 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3330 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3331 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3332 and coredump files will be left there.
3333
3334NOCOMMENT_START
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3336# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3337coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3338NOCOMMENT_END
3339DOC_END
3340
3341
41bd17a4 3342COMMENT_START
3343 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3344 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3345COMMENT_END
3346
3347NAME: ftp_user
3348TYPE: string
3349DEFAULT: Squid@
3350LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3351DOC_START
41bd17a4 3352 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3353 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3354 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3355
41bd17a4 3356 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3357 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3358 depending on how the cache is used.
3359 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3360 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3361DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3363NAME: ftp_passive
3364TYPE: onoff
3365DEFAULT: on
3366LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3367DOC_START
41bd17a4 3368 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3369 connections, turn off this option.
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3371 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3372DOC_END
3373
3374NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3375TYPE: onoff
3376DEFAULT: off
3377LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3378DOC_START
3379 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3380
3381 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3382 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3383 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3384
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3386 useful.
a689bd4e 3387 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3388 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3389
3390 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3391 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3392
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3394DOC_END
3395
3396NAME: ftp_epsv
3397TYPE: onoff
3398DEFAULT: on
3399LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3400DOC_START
3401 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3402
3403 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3404 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3405 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3406 will never be needed.
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3408 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3409 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3410 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3411
3412 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3413DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3415NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3416TYPE: onoff
3417DEFAULT: on
3418LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3419DOC_START
3420 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3421 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3422 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3423 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3424 connection turn this off.
3425DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3427NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3428TYPE: onoff
3429DEFAULT: on
3430LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3431DOC_START
3432 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3433 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3434 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3435 the FTP protocol.
3436
3437 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3438 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3439 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3440 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3441 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3442DOC_END
3443
3444COMMENT_START
3445 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3446 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3447COMMENT_END
3448
3449NAME: diskd_program
3450TYPE: string
3451DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3452LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3453DOC_START
3454 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3455 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3456 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3457DOC_END
3458
3459NAME: unlinkd_program
3460IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3461TYPE: string
3462DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3463LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3464DOC_START
3465 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3466DOC_END
3467
3468NAME: pinger_program
3469TYPE: string
3470DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3471LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3472IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3473DOC_START
3474 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3475DOC_END
3476
cc192b50 3477NAME: pinger_enable
3478TYPE: onoff
3479DEFAULT: on
3480LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3481IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3482DOC_START
3483 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3485 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3486DOC_END
3487
3488
41bd17a4 3489COMMENT_START
3490 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3491 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3492COMMENT_END
3493
3494NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3495TYPE: wordlist
3496LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3497DEFAULT: none
3498DOC_START
3499 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
3500 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3501
3502 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
3503
c71adec1 3504 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3505
3506 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3507 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3508 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3509 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3510
3511 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3512 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3513
3514 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3515 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
3516 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
3517
3518 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3519DOC_END
3520
3521NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3522TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3523DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3524LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3525DOC_START
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3526 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3527 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3528 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3529 and other system resources noticably.
3530
3531 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3532 tuning.
3533
3534 startup=
3535
3536 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3537 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3538 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3539
3540 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3541 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3542
3543 idle=
3544
3545 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3546 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3547 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3548 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3549
3550 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3551
41bd17a4 3552 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3553 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3554 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3556 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3557 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3558 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3559 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3560 to that request.
41bd17a4 3561DOC_END
3562
3563NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3564TYPE: onoff
3565DEFAULT: on
3566LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3567DOC_START
3568 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
3569 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
3570 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
3571
3572 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3573 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
3574DOC_END
3575
3576NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3577TYPE: acl_access
3578DEFAULT: none
3579LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3580DOC_START
3581 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3582 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3583 are sent.
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3585 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3586 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3587DOC_END
3588
3589NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3590TYPE: onoff
3591LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3592DEFAULT: off
3593DOC_START
3594 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3595 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3596 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3597 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3598 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3599 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3600 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3601 users may have access to pages they should not
3602 be allowed to request.
3603DOC_END
3604
3605COMMENT_START
3606 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3607 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3608COMMENT_END
3609
f04b37d8 3610NAME: cache no_cache
3611TYPE: acl_access
3612DEFAULT: none
3613LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3614DOC_START
240887f0 3615 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3616 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3617 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3618
240887f0 3619 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3620 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3621
240887f0 3622 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3624 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3625 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3626DOC_END
3627
3628NAME: refresh_pattern
3629TYPE: refreshpattern
3630LOC: Config.Refresh
3631DEFAULT: none
3632DOC_START
3633 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3634
6b698a21 3635 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3636 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3637
41bd17a4 3638 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3639 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3640 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3641 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3642 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3643
41bd17a4 3644 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3645 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3646 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3647
41bd17a4 3648 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3649 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3650
41bd17a4 3651 options: override-expire
3652 override-lastmod
3653 reload-into-ims
3654 ignore-reload
3655 ignore-no-cache
3656 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3657 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3658 ignore-private
3659 ignore-auth
3660 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 3661 store-stale
a0ec9f68 3662
41bd17a4 3663 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3664 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3665 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3666 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3667 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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3669 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3670 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3671 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3672 the object fresh for that period of time.
3673
41bd17a4 3674 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3675 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3676
41bd17a4 3677 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3678 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3679 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3680 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3681
41bd17a4 3682 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3683 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3684 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3685 it causes.
9bc73deb 3686
41bd17a4 3687 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3688 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3689 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3690 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3691 send it anyway.
3692
3693 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3694 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3695 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3696 liable for problems which it causes.
3697
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3698 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3699 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3700 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3701 liable for problems which it causes.
3702
41bd17a4 3703 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3704 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3705 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3706 liable for problems which it causes.
3707
3708 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3709 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3710 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3711 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3712 it causes.
3713
3714 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3715 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3716 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3717 if one is available.
3718
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3719 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3720 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3721 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3722 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3723 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3724
41bd17a4 3725 Basically a cached object is:
3726
3727 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3728 STALE if age > max
3729 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3730 FRESH if age < min
3731 else STALE
3732
3733 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3734 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3735 match the default will be used.
3736
3737 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3738 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3739 used.
3740
41bd17a4 3741NOCOMMENT_START
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3743# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 3744refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3745refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 3746refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 3747refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3748NOCOMMENT_END
3749DOC_END
3750
3751NAME: quick_abort_min
3752COMMENT: (KB)
3753TYPE: kb_int64_t
3754DEFAULT: 16 KB
3755LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3756DOC_NONE
3757
3758NAME: quick_abort_max
3759COMMENT: (KB)
3760TYPE: kb_int64_t
3761DEFAULT: 16 KB
3762LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3763DOC_NONE
3764
3765NAME: quick_abort_pct
3766COMMENT: (percent)
3767TYPE: int
3768DEFAULT: 95
3769LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3770DOC_START
3771 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3772 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3773 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3774 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3775 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3776 downloads.
3777
3778 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3779 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3780 then.
3781
3782 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3783 it will finish the retrieval.
3784
3785 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3786 it will abort the retrieval.
3787
3788 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3789 it will finish the retrieval.
3790
3791 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3792 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3793 to '0 KB'.
3794
3795 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3796 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3797DOC_END
60d096f4 3798
41bd17a4 3799NAME: read_ahead_gap
3800COMMENT: buffer-size
3801TYPE: b_int64_t
3802LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3803DEFAULT: 16 KB
3804DOC_START
3805 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3806 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3807DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3809NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 3810IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 3811COMMENT: time-units
3812TYPE: time_t
3813LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 3814DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 3815DOC_START
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3816 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3817 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3818 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3819 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3820 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3821 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3822
3823 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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3824
3825 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3826 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3827 causes.
41bd17a4 3828DOC_END
53e738c6 3829
41bd17a4 3830NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3831COMMENT: time-units
3832TYPE: time_t
3833LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3834DEFAULT: 6 hours
3835DOC_START
3836 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3837 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3838 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3839DOC_END
c4ab8329 3840
41bd17a4 3841NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3842COMMENT: time-units
3843TYPE: time_t
3844LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3845DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3846DOC_START
3847 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3848 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3849 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3850 much below 10 seconds.
3851DOC_END
7df0bfd7 3852
41bd17a4 3853NAME: range_offset_limit
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3854COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
3855TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 3856LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 3857DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3858DOC_START
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3859 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
3860
3861 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
3862 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
3863 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
3864 the result is NOT cached.
3865
41bd17a4 3866 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3867 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3868 sending anything to the client.
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3869
3870 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
3871 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
3872 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
3873 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
3874
3875 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
3876
3877 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
3878 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
3879
3880 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 3881 client requested. (default)
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3882
3883 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 3884 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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3885
3886 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
3887
3888 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
3889 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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3890 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
3891 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 3892DOC_END
d95b862f 3893
41bd17a4 3894NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3895COMMENT: (seconds)
3896TYPE: time_t
3897LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3898DEFAULT: 60 seconds
3899DOC_START
3900 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
3901 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 3902 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 3903 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
3904 is most likely better to make your server return a
3905 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
3906 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
3907 often be best set to 0.
3908DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3910NAME: store_avg_object_size
3911COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 3912TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 3913DEFAULT: 13 KB
3914LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3915DOC_START
3916 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3917 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 3918DOC_END
3919
41bd17a4 3920NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3921TYPE: int
3922DEFAULT: 20
3923LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3924DOC_START
3925 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3926 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3927 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
3928DOC_END
3929
3930COMMENT_START
3931 HTTP OPTIONS
3932 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3933COMMENT_END
3934
f04b37d8 3935NAME: request_header_max_size
3936COMMENT: (KB)
3937TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3938DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3939LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
3940DOC_START
3941 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
3942 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3943 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
3944 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3945 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3946DOC_END
3947
3948NAME: reply_header_max_size
3949COMMENT: (KB)
3950TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3951DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3952LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
3953DOC_START
3954 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
3955 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3956 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
3957 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3958 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3959DOC_END
3960
3961NAME: request_body_max_size
3962COMMENT: (bytes)
3963TYPE: b_int64_t
3964DEFAULT: 0 KB
3965LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
3966DOC_START
3967 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
3968 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
3969 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
3970 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
3971 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
3972 be no limit imposed.
3973DOC_END
3974
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3975NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
3976COMMENT: (bytes)
3977TYPE: b_int64_t
3978DEFAULT: 64 KB
3979LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
3980DOC_START
3981 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
3982 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
3983 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
3984 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
3985 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
3986 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
3987
3988 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
3989 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
3990 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
3991 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
3992 as if dechunking was disabled.
3993
3994 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
3995 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
3996
3997 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
3998 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
3999 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4000DOC_END
4001
41bd17a4 4002NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4003IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4004TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4005DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4006LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4007DOC_START
41bd17a4 4008 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4009 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4010
41bd17a4 4011 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4012 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4013
41bd17a4 4014 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4015
41bd17a4 4016 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4017 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4018 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4019 a request with an extra CRLF.
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4021 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4022 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4023
41bd17a4 4024Example:
4025 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4026 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4027DOC_END
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4029NAME: icap_uses_indirect_client
4030COMMENT: on|off
4031TYPE: onoff
0dae2bca 4032IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&ICAP_CLIENT
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4033DEFAULT: on
4034LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.icap_uses_indirect_client
4035DOC_START
4036 Controls whether the indirect client address
4037 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) instead of the
4038 direct client address is passed to an ICAP
4039 server as "X-Client-IP".
4040DOC_END
4041
41bd17a4 4042NAME: via
626096be 4043IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4044COMMENT: on|off
4045TYPE: onoff
4046DEFAULT: on
4047LOC: Config.onoff.via
4048DOC_START
4049 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4050 replies as required by RFC2616.
4051DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4052
41bd17a4 4053NAME: ie_refresh
4054COMMENT: on|off
4055TYPE: onoff
4056LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4057DEFAULT: off
4058DOC_START
4059 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4060 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4061 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4062 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4063 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4064 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4065 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4066 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4067 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4068 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4069 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4070 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4071 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4072 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4073 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4074 force fresh content.
4075DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 4076
41bd17a4 4077NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4078COMMENT: on|off
4079TYPE: onoff
4080LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4081DEFAULT: off
4082DOC_START
4083 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4084 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4085 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4086 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4087 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4088
4089 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4090 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4091DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4093NAME: request_entities
4094TYPE: onoff
4095LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4096DEFAULT: off
4097DOC_START
4098 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4099 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4100 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4101
41bd17a4 4102 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4103 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4104 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4105 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4106 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4107DOC_END
6b53c392 4108
41bd17a4 4109NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4110IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4111TYPE: http_header_access[]
4112LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4113DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4114DOC_START
41bd17a4 4115 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4116
41bd17a4 4117 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4118 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4119 causes.
0976f8db 4120
41bd17a4 4121 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4122 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4123 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4124 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4125 mangling.
934b03fc 4126
41bd17a4 4127 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4128 client to the server.
5401aa8d 4129
41bd17a4 4130 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4131 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4132 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 4133
41bd17a4 4134 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4135 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4136
41bd17a4 4137 request_header_access From deny all
4138 request_header_access Referer deny all
4139 request_header_access Server deny all
4140 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4141 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4142 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4143
41bd17a4 4144 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4145 you should use:
5401aa8d 4146
41bd17a4 4147 request_header_access Allow allow all
4148 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4149 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4150 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4151 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4152 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4153 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4154 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4155 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4156 request_header_access Date allow all
4157 request_header_access Expires allow all
4158 request_header_access Host allow all
4159 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4160 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4161 request_header_access Location allow all
4162 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4163 request_header_access Accept allow all
4164 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4165 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4166 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4167 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4168 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4169 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4170 request_header_access Title allow all
4171 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4172 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4173
41bd17a4 4174 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4175 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4176
41bd17a4 4177 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4178 performed).
5401aa8d 4179DOC_END
4180
41bd17a4 4181NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4182IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4183TYPE: http_header_access[]
4184LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4185DEFAULT: none
4186DOC_START
41bd17a4 4187 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4188
41bd17a4 4189 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4190 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4191 causes.
934b03fc 4192
41bd17a4 4193 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4194 server to the client.
934b03fc 4195
41bd17a4 4196 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4197 direction.
6b53c392 4198
41bd17a4 4199 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4200 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4201 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4202 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4203 mangling.
cccac0a2 4204
41bd17a4 4205 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4206 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4207 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 4208
41bd17a4 4209 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4210 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4211
41bd17a4 4212 reply_header_access From deny all
4213 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4214 reply_header_access Server deny all
4215 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4216 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4217 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4218
41bd17a4 4219 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4220 you should use:
cccac0a2 4221
41bd17a4 4222 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4223 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4224 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4225 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4226 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4227 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4228 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4229 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4230 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4231 reply_header_access Date allow all
4232 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4233 reply_header_access Host allow all
4234 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4235 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4236 reply_header_access Location allow all
4237 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4238 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4239 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4240 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4241 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4242 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4243 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4244 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4245 reply_header_access Title allow all
4246 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4247 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4248
41bd17a4 4249 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4250 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4251
41bd17a4 4252 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4253 performed).
cccac0a2 4254DOC_END
4255
41bd17a4 4256NAME: header_replace
626096be 4257IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4258TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4259LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4260DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4261DOC_START
4262 Usage: header_replace header_name message
4263 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4264
41bd17a4 4265 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4266 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
4267 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
4268 option.
cccac0a2 4269
41bd17a4 4270 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4271
41bd17a4 4272 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4273DOC_END
cccac0a2 4274
41bd17a4 4275NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4276COMMENT: on|off|warn
4277TYPE: tristate
4278LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4279DEFAULT: on
4280DOC_START
4281 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4282 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4283 what the sending application intended even if the message
4284 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4285 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4286
41bd17a4 4287 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4288 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4289
41bd17a4 4290 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4291 or response to be rejected.
4292DOC_END
7d90757b 4293
41bd17a4 4294COMMENT_START
4295 TIMEOUTS
4296 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4297COMMENT_END
4298
4299NAME: forward_timeout
4300COMMENT: time-units
4301TYPE: time_t
4302LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4303DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4304DOC_START
4305 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4306 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4307DOC_END
4308
41bd17a4 4309NAME: connect_timeout
4310COMMENT: time-units
4311TYPE: time_t
4312LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4313DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4314DOC_START
41bd17a4 4315 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4316 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4317 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4318DOC_END
4319
41bd17a4 4320NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4321COMMENT: time-units
4322TYPE: time_t
4323LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4324DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4325DOC_START
41bd17a4 4326 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4327 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4328 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4329 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4330DOC_END
7f7db318 4331
41bd17a4 4332NAME: read_timeout
4333COMMENT: time-units
4334TYPE: time_t
4335LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4336DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4337DOC_START
4338 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4339 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4340 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4341 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4342 default is 15 minutes.
4343DOC_END
cccac0a2 4344
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4345NAME: write_timeout
4346COMMENT: time-units
4347TYPE: time_t
4348LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4349DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4350DOC_START
4351 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4352 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4353 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4354 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4355 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4356 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4357 default is 15 minutes.
4358DOC_END
4359
41bd17a4 4360NAME: request_timeout
4361TYPE: time_t
4362LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4363DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4364DOC_START
4365 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4366 connection establishment.
4367DOC_END
cccac0a2 4368
41bd17a4 4369NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4370TYPE: time_t
4371LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4372DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4373DOC_START
4374 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4375 connection after the previous request completes.
4376DOC_END
cccac0a2 4377
41bd17a4 4378NAME: client_lifetime
4379COMMENT: time-units
4380TYPE: time_t
4381LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4382DEFAULT: 1 day
4383DOC_START
4384 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4385 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4386 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4387 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4388 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4389 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4390 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4391
41bd17a4 4392 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4393 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4394 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4395 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4396 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4397 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4398DOC_END
4399
41bd17a4 4400NAME: half_closed_clients
4401TYPE: onoff
4402LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4403DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4404DOC_START
41bd17a4 4405 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4406 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4407 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4408 fully-closed TCP connection.
4409
4410 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4411 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4412
abdf1651 4413 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4414 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4415 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4416 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4417DOC_END
4418
41bd17a4 4419NAME: pconn_timeout
4420TYPE: time_t
4421LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4422DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4423DOC_START
41bd17a4 4424 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4425 proxies.
4426DOC_END
cccac0a2 4427
41bd17a4 4428NAME: ident_timeout
4429TYPE: time_t
4430IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4431LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4432DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4433DOC_START
4434 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4435
41bd17a4 4436 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4437 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4438 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4439DOC_END
4440
41bd17a4 4441NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4442COMMENT: time-units
4443TYPE: time_t
4444LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4445DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4446DOC_START
41bd17a4 4447 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4448 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4449 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4450 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4451 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4452DOC_END
0976f8db 4453
cccac0a2 4454COMMENT_START
4455 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4456 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4457COMMENT_END
4458
4459NAME: cache_mgr
4460TYPE: string
4461DEFAULT: webmaster
4462LOC: Config.adminEmail
4463DOC_START
4464 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4465 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4466DOC_END
4467
abacf776 4468NAME: mail_from
4469TYPE: string
4470DEFAULT: none
4471LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4472DOC_START
4473 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4474 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4475 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4476 src/globals.h before building squid.
4477DOC_END
4478
d084bf20 4479NAME: mail_program
4480TYPE: eol
4481DEFAULT: mail
4482LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4483DOC_START
4484 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4485 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4486 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4487 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4488
d084bf20 4489 Optional command line options can be specified.
4490DOC_END
4491
cccac0a2 4492NAME: cache_effective_user
4493TYPE: string
5483d916 4494DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4495LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4496DOC_START
4497 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4498 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4499 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4500 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4501DOC_END
4502
cccac0a2 4503NAME: cache_effective_group
4504TYPE: string
4505DEFAULT: none
4506LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4507DOC_START
64e288bd 4508 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4509 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4510 from the groups membership.
4511
e3d74828 4512 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4513 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4514 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4515 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4516 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4517 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4518 group.
64e288bd 4519
4520 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4521 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4522 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4523DOC_END
4524
d3caee79 4525NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4526COMMENT: on|off
4527TYPE: onoff
4528DEFAULT: off
4529LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4530DOC_START
4531 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4532DOC_END
4533
cccac0a2 4534NAME: visible_hostname
4535TYPE: string
4536LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4537DEFAULT: none
4538DOC_START
4539 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4540 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4541 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4542 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4543 names with this setting.
4544DOC_END
4545
cccac0a2 4546NAME: unique_hostname
4547TYPE: string
4548LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4549DEFAULT: none
4550DOC_START
4551 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4552 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4553 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4554DOC_END
4555
cccac0a2 4556NAME: hostname_aliases
4557TYPE: wordlist
4558LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4559DEFAULT: none
4560DOC_START
7f7db318 4561 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4562DOC_END
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4564NAME: umask
4565TYPE: int
4566LOC: Config.umask
4567DEFAULT: 027
4568DOC_START
4569 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4570 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4571
4572 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4573 your value with 0.
4574DOC_END
4575
cccac0a2 4576COMMENT_START
4577 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4578 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4579
4580 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4581 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4582 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4583 create cache hierarchies.
4584
4585 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4586 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4587 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4588
4589 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4590 following information from this configuration file:
4591
4592 http_port
4593 icp_port
4594 cache_mgr
4595
4596 All current information is processed regularly and made
4597 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4598COMMENT_END
4599
4600NAME: announce_period
4601TYPE: time_t
4602LOC: Config.Announce.period
4603DEFAULT: 0
4604DOC_START
4605 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4606 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4607 messages.
4608
e0855596 4609 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 4610
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4611 Example:
4612 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4613DOC_END
4614
cccac0a2 4615NAME: announce_host
4616TYPE: string
4617DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4618LOC: Config.Announce.host
4619DOC_NONE
4620
4621NAME: announce_file
4622TYPE: string
4623DEFAULT: none
4624LOC: Config.Announce.file
4625DOC_NONE
4626
4627NAME: announce_port
4628TYPE: ushort
4629DEFAULT: 3131
4630LOC: Config.Announce.port
4631DOC_START
4632 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4633 number where the registration message will be sent.
4634
4635 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4636 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4637 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4638 message.
4639DOC_END
4640
8d6275c0 4641COMMENT_START
4642 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4643 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4644COMMENT_END
4645
cccac0a2 4646NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4647TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 4648DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4649LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4650DOC_START
4651 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4652 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4653 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4654 an identification token.
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4655
4656 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 4657DOC_END
4658
4659NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 4660COMMENT: on|off
4661TYPE: onoff
4662DEFAULT: off
4663LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4664DOC_START
4665 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4666 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4667DOC_END
4668
4669NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4670IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4671COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4672TYPE: string
4673LOC: ESIParser::Type
4674DEFAULT: custom
4675DOC_START
4676 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4677 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4678 encodings.
4679DOC_END
0976f8db 4680
9edd9041 4681COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4682 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4683 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4684COMMENT_END
4685
4686NAME: delay_pools
4687TYPE: delay_pool_count
4688DEFAULT: 0
4689IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4690LOC: Config.Delay
4691DOC_START
4692 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4693 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4694 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4695DOC_END
4696
4697NAME: delay_class
4698TYPE: delay_pool_class
4699DEFAULT: none
4700IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4701LOC: Config.Delay
4702DOC_START
4703 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4704 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4705 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4706 and here would be:
4707
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4708 Example:
4709 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4710 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4711 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4712 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4713 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 4714
4715 The delay pool classes are:
4716
4717 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4718 bucket.
4719
4720 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4721 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 4722 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4723
4724 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4725 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4726 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4727 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 4728 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4729
4730 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4731 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4732 only takes effect if the username is established
4733 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4734 http_access rules.
4735
4736 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4737 external_acl's tag= reply).
4738
4739 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4740 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4741 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4742 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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4743
4744 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4745 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 4746DOC_END
4747
4748NAME: delay_access
4749TYPE: delay_pool_access
4750DEFAULT: none
4751IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4752LOC: Config.Delay
4753DOC_START
4754 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4755
4756 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4757 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4758 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4759 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4760
4761 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
4762 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4763
4764Example:
4765 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4766 delay_access 1 deny all
4767 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4768 delay_access 2 deny all
4769 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4770DOC_END
4771
4772NAME: delay_parameters
4773TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4774DEFAULT: none
4775IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4776LOC: Config.Delay
4777DOC_START
4778 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4779 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4780 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4781
4782delay_parameters pool aggregate
4783
4784 For a class 2 delay pool:
4785
4786delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4787
4788 For a class 3 delay pool:
4789
4790delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4791
4792 For a class 4 delay pool:
4793
4794delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4795
4796 For a class 5 delay pool:
4797
4798delay_parameters pool tag
4799
4800 The variables here are:
4801
4802 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4803 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4804 delay_class lines.
4805
4806 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
4807 (class 1, 2, 3).
4808
4809 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
4810 buckets (class 2, 3).
4811
4812 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
4813 (class 3).
4814
4815 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
4816 (class 4).
4817
4818 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
4819 (class 5).
4820
4821 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4822 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4823 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4824 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4825
4826 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4827 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4828 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4829
4830delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4831
4832 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4833
4834 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4835 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4836 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4837 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4838 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4839 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4840 large downloads more significantly:
4841
4842delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4843
4844 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4845
4846 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4847 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
4848
4849delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4850DOC_END
4851
4852NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4853COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4854TYPE: ushort
4855DEFAULT: 50
4856IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4857LOC: Config.Delay.initial
4858DOC_START
4859 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
4860 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
4861 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
4862 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
4863 "seen" by squid).
4864DOC_END
4865
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4866COMMENT_START
4867 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
4868 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4869COMMENT_END
4870
4871NAME: client_delay_pools
4872TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
4873DEFAULT: 0
4874IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4875LOC: Config.ClientDelay
4876DOC_START
4877 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
4878 preceed other client_delay_* options.
4879
4880Example:
4881 client_delay_pools 2
4882DOC_END
4883
4884NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
4885COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
4886TYPE: ushort
4887DEFAULT: 50
4888IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4889LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
4890DOC_START
4891 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
4892 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
4893 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
4894 buckets are periodically deleted up.
4895
4896 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
4897 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
4898 from client_delay_parameters.
4899
4900Example:
4901 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
4902DOC_END
4903
4904NAME: client_delay_parameters
4905TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
4906DEFAULT: none
4907IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4908LOC: Config.ClientDelay
4909DOC_START
4910
4911 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
4912 following format:
4913
4914 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
4915
4916 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
4917
4918 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
4919
4920 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
4921 speed_limit additions.
4922
4923 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
4924 examples.
4925
4926Example:
4927 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
4928 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
4929DOC_END
4930
4931NAME: client_delay_access
4932TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
4933DEFAULT: none
4934IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4935LOC: Config.ClientDelay
4936DOC_START
4937
4938 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
4939 request:
4940
4941 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
4942
4943 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
4944 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
4945 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
4946 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
4947 limited.
4948
4949 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
4950 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
4951 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
4952 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
4953
4954 Please see delay_access for more examples.
4955
4956Example:
4957 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
4958 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
4959DOC_END
4960
cccac0a2 4961COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4962 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 4963 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4964COMMENT_END
4965
8d6275c0 4966NAME: wccp_router
4967TYPE: address
4968LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 4969DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 4970IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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4971DOC_START
4972 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4973 Squid.
4974
4975 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4976
4977 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4978
4979 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4980 which version of WCCP to use.
4981DOC_END
df2eec10 4982
8d6275c0 4983NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 4984TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 4985LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 4986DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4987IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4988DOC_START
8d6275c0 4989 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4990 Squid.
cccac0a2 4991
8d6275c0 4992 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 4993
8d6275c0 4994 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 4995
8d6275c0 4996 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4997 which version of WCCP to use.
4998DOC_END
4999
5000NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5001TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5002LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5003DEFAULT: 4
5004IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5005DOC_START
8d6275c0 5006 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5007 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5008 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5009 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5010 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5011
8d6275c0 5012 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5013 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5014 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5015 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5016DOC_END
5017
8d6275c0 5018NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5019TYPE: onoff
5020LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5021DEFAULT: on
5022IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5023DOC_START
5024 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5025 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5026DOC_END
cccac0a2 5027
8d6275c0 5028NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5029TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5030LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5031DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5032IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5033DOC_START
699acd19 5034 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5035 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5036
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5037 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5038 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5039
8d6275c0 5040 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5041 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5042DOC_END
5043
8d6275c0 5044NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5045TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5046LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5047DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5048IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5049DOC_START
699acd19 5050 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5051 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5052 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5053
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5054 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5055 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5056
8d6275c0 5057 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5058 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5059
699acd19 5060 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5061 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5062 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5063 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5064DOC_END
5065
8d6275c0 5066NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5067TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5068LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5069DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5070IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5071DOC_START
8d6275c0 5072 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5073 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5074
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5075 hash - Hash assignment
5076 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5077
8d6275c0 5078 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5079 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5080DOC_END
cccac0a2 5081
8d6275c0 5082NAME: wccp2_service
5083TYPE: wccp2_service
5084LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5085DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5086IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5087DOC_START
5088 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5089 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5090 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5091 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5092 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5093 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5094
5095 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5096 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5097
5098 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5099 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5100
5101 Examples:
5102
5103 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5104 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5105 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5106 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5107DOC_END
5108
5109NAME: wccp2_service_info
5110TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5111LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5112DEFAULT: none
5113IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5114DOC_START
5115 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5116 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5117
5118 The format is:
5119
5120 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5121 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5122
5123 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5124 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5125 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5126 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5127 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5128 + ports_source
5129
5130 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5131
5132 Example:
5133
5134 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5135 priority=240 ports=80
5136
5137 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5138 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5139DOC_END
5140
5141NAME: wccp2_weight
5142TYPE: int
5143LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5144DEFAULT: 10000
5145IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5146DOC_START
5147 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5148 hash proportional to their weight.
5149DOC_END
5150
5151NAME: wccp_address
5152TYPE: address
5153LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5154DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5155IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5156DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5157
8d6275c0 5158NAME: wccp2_address
5159TYPE: address
5160LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5161DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5162IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5163DOC_START
5164 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5165 interface address.
5166
5167 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5168DOC_END
5169
5170COMMENT_START
5171 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5172 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5173
5174 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5175COMMENT_END
5176
5177NAME: client_persistent_connections
5178TYPE: onoff
5179LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5180DEFAULT: on
5181DOC_NONE
5182
5183NAME: server_persistent_connections
5184TYPE: onoff
5185LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5186DEFAULT: on
5187DOC_START
5188 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5189 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5190 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5191 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5192DOC_END
5193
5194NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5195TYPE: onoff
5196LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5197DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5198DOC_START
5199 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5200 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5201 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5202DOC_END
5203
5204NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5205TYPE: onoff
5206LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5207DEFAULT: off
5208DOC_START
5209 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5210 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5211 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5212 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5213
5214 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5215 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5216 after 10 seconds timeout.
5217DOC_END
5218
5219COMMENT_START
5220 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5221 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5222COMMENT_END
5223
5224NAME: digest_generation
5225IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5226TYPE: onoff
5227LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5228DEFAULT: on
5229DOC_START
5230 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5231 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5232 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5233DOC_END
5234
5235NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5236IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5237TYPE: int
5238LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5239DEFAULT: 5
5240DOC_START
5241 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5242 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5243 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5244DOC_END
5245
5246NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5247IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5248COMMENT: (seconds)
5249TYPE: time_t
5250LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5251DEFAULT: 1 hour
5252DOC_START
749ceff8 5253 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5254DOC_END
5255
5256NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5257COMMENT: (seconds)
5258IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5259TYPE: time_t
5260LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5261DEFAULT: 1 hour
5262DOC_START
749ceff8 5263 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5264 disk.
5265DOC_END
5266
5267NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5268COMMENT: (bytes)
5269TYPE: b_size_t
5270IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5271LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5272DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5273DOC_START
5274 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5275 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5276 default swap page.
5277DOC_END
5278
5279NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5280COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5281IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5282TYPE: int
5283LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5284DEFAULT: 10
5285DOC_START
5286 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5287 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5288DOC_END
5289
1db9eacd 5290COMMENT_START
5473c134 5291 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5292 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5293COMMENT_END
5294
5473c134 5295NAME: snmp_port
5296TYPE: ushort
5297LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5298DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5299IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5300DOC_START
87630341 5301 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5302 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5303 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5304 set to "0" (disabled)
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5305
5306 Example:
5307 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5308DOC_END
5309
5473c134 5310NAME: snmp_access
5311TYPE: acl_access
5312LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5313DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5314IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5315DOC_START
5473c134 5316 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5317
5473c134 5318 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5319 usage:
8d6275c0 5320
5473c134 5321 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5322
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5323 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5324 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5325Example:
5326 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5327 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5328DOC_END
5329
5473c134 5330NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5331TYPE: address
5332LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5333DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5334IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5335DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5336
5473c134 5337NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5338TYPE: address
5339LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5340DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5341IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5342DOC_START
df2eec10 5343 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5344
5473c134 5345 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5346 messages from SNMP agents.
5347 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5348 agents.
cccac0a2 5349
0eb08770 5350 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5351 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5352
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5353 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5354 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5355 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5356 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5357
5473c134 5358 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5359 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5360DOC_END
5361
5473c134 5362COMMENT_START
5363 ICP OPTIONS
5364 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5365COMMENT_END
5366
5367NAME: icp_port udp_port
5368TYPE: ushort
5369DEFAULT: 0
5370LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5371DOC_START
5473c134 5372 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5373 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5374 Default is disabled (0).
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5375
5376 Example:
5377 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5378DOC_END
5379
5473c134 5380NAME: htcp_port
5381IFDEF: USE_HTCP
5382TYPE: ushort
87630341 5383DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5384LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5385DOC_START
5473c134 5386 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5387 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5388 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5389
5390 Example:
5391 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5392DOC_END
5393
5394NAME: log_icp_queries
5395COMMENT: on|off
5396TYPE: onoff
5397DEFAULT: on
5398LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5399DOC_START
5400 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5401 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5402 up or to simplify log analysis.
5403DOC_END
5404
5473c134 5405NAME: udp_incoming_address
5406TYPE: address
5407LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5408DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5409DOC_START
5410 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5411 caches.
5412
5413 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5414
5415 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5416 a specific interface/address.
5417
5418 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5419 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5420
5421 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5422
5423 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5424 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5425DOC_END
cccac0a2 5426
5473c134 5427NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5428TYPE: address
5429LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5430DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5431DOC_START
8524d4b2 5432 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5433 caches.
cccac0a2 5434
5473c134 5435 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5436
8524d4b2 5437 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5438 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5439 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5440 caches.
5441
8524d4b2 5442 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5443 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5444
5445 see also; udp_incoming_address
5446
5473c134 5447 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5448 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5449DOC_END
5450
3d1e3e43 5451NAME: icp_hit_stale
5452COMMENT: on|off
5453TYPE: onoff
5454DEFAULT: off
5455LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5456DOC_START
5457 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5458 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5459 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5460 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5461 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5462 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5463 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5464DOC_END
5465
5473c134 5466NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5467TYPE: int
5473c134 5468DEFAULT: 4
5469LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5470DOC_START
5473c134 5471 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5472 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5473DOC_END
5474
5473c134 5475NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5476TYPE: int
5477DEFAULT: 400
5478LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5479DOC_START
5473c134 5480 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5481 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5482DOC_END
5483
cccac0a2 5484NAME: netdb_low
5485TYPE: int
5486DEFAULT: 900
5487LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5488DOC_NONE
5489
5490NAME: netdb_high
5491TYPE: int
5492DEFAULT: 1000
5493LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5494DOC_START
5495 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5496 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5497 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5498 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5499DOC_END
5500
cccac0a2 5501NAME: netdb_ping_period
5502TYPE: time_t
5503LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5504DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5505DOC_START
5506 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5507 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5508 network. The default is five minutes.
5509DOC_END
5510
cccac0a2 5511NAME: query_icmp
5512COMMENT: on|off
5513TYPE: onoff
5514DEFAULT: off
5515LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5516DOC_START
5517 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5518 replies, enable this option.
5519
5520 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5521 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5522 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5523 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5524 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5525 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5526 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5527 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5528DOC_END
5529
5530NAME: test_reachability
5531COMMENT: on|off
5532TYPE: onoff
5533DEFAULT: off
5534LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5535DOC_START
5536 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5537 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5538 database, or has a zero RTT.
5539DOC_END
5540
5473c134 5541NAME: icp_query_timeout
5542COMMENT: (msec)
5543DEFAULT: 0
5544TYPE: int
5545LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5546DOC_START
5473c134 5547 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5548 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5549 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5550 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5551 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5552 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5553
5473c134 5554 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5555DOC_END
5556
5473c134 5557NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5558COMMENT: (msec)
5559DEFAULT: 2000
5560TYPE: int
5561LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5562DOC_START
5473c134 5563 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5564 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5565 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5566 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5567 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5568 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5569DOC_END
5570
5473c134 5571NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5572COMMENT: (msec)
5573DEFAULT: 5
5574TYPE: int
5575LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5576DOC_START
5473c134 5577 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5578 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5579 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5580 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5581 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5582 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5583 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5584DOC_END
5585
5473c134 5586NAME: background_ping_rate
5587COMMENT: time-units
5588TYPE: time_t
5589DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5590LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5591DOC_START
5473c134 5592 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5593 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5594DOC_END
5595
5473c134 5596COMMENT_START
5597 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5598 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5599COMMENT_END
5600
5601NAME: mcast_groups
5602TYPE: wordlist
5603LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5604DEFAULT: none
5605DOC_START
5473c134 5606 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5607 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5608
5473c134 5609 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5610 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5611 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5612 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5613 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5614 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5615 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5616
5473c134 5617 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5618 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5619
5473c134 5620 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5621 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5622
5473c134 5623 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5624
5473c134 5625 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5626DOC_END
8c01ada0 5627
5473c134 5628NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5629IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5630TYPE: address
5631LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 5632DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5633DOC_START
5634 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5635 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5636
5473c134 5637 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5638 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5639DOC_END
5640
5473c134 5641NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5642IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5643TYPE: ushort
5644LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5645DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5646DOC_START
5473c134 5647 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5648 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5649 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5650DOC_END
cccac0a2 5651
5473c134 5652NAME: mcast_miss_port
5653IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5654TYPE: ushort
5655LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5656DEFAULT: 3135
5657DOC_START
5658 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5659 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5660DOC_END
cccac0a2 5661
5473c134 5662NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5663IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5664TYPE: string
5665LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5666DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5667DOC_START
5668 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5669 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5670DOC_END
8c01ada0 5671
5473c134 5672NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5673COMMENT: (msec)
5674DEFAULT: 2000
5675TYPE: int
5676LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5677DOC_START
5678 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5679 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5680 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5681 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5682 seconds.
cccac0a2 5683DOC_END
5684
5473c134 5685COMMENT_START
5686 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5687 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5688COMMENT_END
5689
cccac0a2 5690NAME: icon_directory
5691TYPE: string
5692LOC: Config.icons.directory
5693DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5694DOC_START
5695 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5696 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5697DOC_END
5698
f024c970 5699NAME: global_internal_static
5700TYPE: onoff
5701LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5702DEFAULT: on
5703DOC_START
5704 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5705 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5706 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5707 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5708 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5709 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5710 the server generating a directory listing.
5711DOC_END
5712
5473c134 5713NAME: short_icon_urls
5714TYPE: onoff
5715LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5716DEFAULT: on
5717DOC_START
5718 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5719 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5720 it's own name and port in the URL.
5721
5722 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5723 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5724DOC_END
5725
5726COMMENT_START
5727 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5728 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5729COMMENT_END
5730
5731NAME: error_directory
5732TYPE: string
5733LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 5734DEFAULT: none
5473c134 5735DOC_START
5736 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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5737 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5738 the error/template files to another directory and point
5739 this tag at them.
5740
5741 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5742 on error pages if used.
5473c134 5743
5744 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5745 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 5746 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 5747 contributing your translation back to the project.
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5748 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5749
5750 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
5751 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
5752DOC_END
5753
5754NAME: error_default_language
5755IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5756TYPE: string
5757LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
5758DEFAULT: none
5759DOC_START
5760 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
5761 if no existing translation matches the clients language
5762 preferences.
5763
5764 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
5765
5766 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5767 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
5768 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
5769 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 5770DOC_END
5771
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5772NAME: error_log_languages
5773IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5774TYPE: onoff
5775LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
5776DEFAULT: on
5777DOC_START
5778 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
5779 auto-negotiate for translations.
5780
5781 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
5782 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 5783 of its error page translations.
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5784DOC_END
5785
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5786NAME: err_page_stylesheet
5787TYPE: string
5788LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
5789DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
5790DOC_START
5791 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
5792
5793 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
5794DOC_END
5795
5473c134 5796NAME: err_html_text
5797TYPE: eol
5798LOC: Config.errHtmlText
5799DEFAULT: none
5800DOC_START
5801 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
5802 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
5803 organizations Web page.
5804
5805 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
5806 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
5807 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
5808 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
5809DOC_END
5810
5811NAME: email_err_data
5812COMMENT: on|off
5813TYPE: onoff
5814LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
5815DEFAULT: on
5816DOC_START
5817 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
5818 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
5819 so that the email body contains the data.
5820 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
5821DOC_END
5822
5823NAME: deny_info
5824TYPE: denyinfo
5825LOC: Config.denyInfoList
5826DEFAULT: none
5827DOC_START
5828 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
5829 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 5830 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 5831
5832 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
5833 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
5834 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
5835 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
5836
5837 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
5838 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
5839 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
5840 the first authentication related acl encountered
5841 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
5842 acl processed on the last http_access line.
5843
43000484
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5844 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
5845 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
5846 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 5847
5473c134 5848 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
5849 by specifying TCP_RESET.
15b02e9a
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5850
5851 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
06fcded4 5852 get redirected (302) to the specified URL after formatting tags have
15b02e9a
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5853 been replaced.
5854
5855 URL FORMAT TAGS:
5856 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
5857 %B - FTP path URL
5858 %e - Error number
5859 %E - Error description
5860 %h - Squid hostname
5861 %H - Request domain name
5862 %i - Client IP Address
5863 %M - Request Method
5864 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
5865 %p - Request Port number
5866 %P - Request Protocol name
5867 %R - Request URL path
5868 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
5869 %U - Full canonical URL from client
5870 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
5871 %u - Full canonical URL from client
5872 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
5873 %% - Literal percent (%) code
5874
5473c134 5875DOC_END
5876
5877COMMENT_START
5878 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
5879 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5880COMMENT_END
5881
5882NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 5883TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5884LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 5885DEFAULT: on
5886DOC_START
5473c134 5887 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
5888 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
5889 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 5890
5473c134 5891 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
5892 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 5893
5473c134 5894 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
5895 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
5896 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 5897
5473c134 5898 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
5899 this directive.
8d6275c0 5900DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 5901
5473c134 5902NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 5903TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5904LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 5905DEFAULT: off
5906DOC_START
5473c134 5907 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
5908 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
5909 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 5910
5473c134 5911 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
5912 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
5913 fails.
5914
5915 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
5916 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
5917 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 5918DOC_END
5919
5473c134 5920NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 5921TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 5922LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 5923DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 5924DOC_START
5473c134 5925 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 5926
5473c134 5927 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
5928 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
5929 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
5930 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
5931 something like:
0b0cfcf2 5932
5473c134 5933 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
5934 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 5935
5473c134 5936 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 5937
5473c134 5938 acl FTP proto FTP
5939 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 5940
5473c134 5941 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
5942 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
5943 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
5944 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
5945 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 5946
5473c134 5947 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5948 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5949 always_direct deny local-external
5950 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 5951
5473c134 5952 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
5953 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
5954 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
5955 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 5956
5473c134 5957 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
5958 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 5959 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 5960
b3567eb5
FC
5961 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5962 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 5963DOC_END
0976f8db 5964
5473c134 5965NAME: never_direct
5966TYPE: acl_access
5967LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
5968DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5969DOC_START
5473c134 5970 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5971
5972 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
5973 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
5974
5975 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
5976 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
5977 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
5978 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
5979
5980 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 5981 never_direct deny local-servers
5982 never_direct allow all
5983
5984 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
5985 servers inside the firewall use something like:
5986
5987 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
5988 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5989 always_direct deny local-external
5990 always_direct allow local-intranet
5991 never_direct allow all
5992
b3567eb5
FC
5993 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5994 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 5995DOC_END
0976f8db 5996
5473c134 5997COMMENT_START
5998 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
5999 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6000COMMENT_END
6001
cccac0a2 6002NAME: incoming_icp_average
6003TYPE: int
6004DEFAULT: 6
6005LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
6006DOC_NONE
6007
6008NAME: incoming_http_average
6009TYPE: int
6010DEFAULT: 4
6011LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
6012DOC_NONE
6013
6014NAME: incoming_dns_average
6015TYPE: int
6016DEFAULT: 4
6017LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
6018DOC_NONE
6019
6020NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6021TYPE: int
6022DEFAULT: 8
6023LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
6024DOC_NONE
6025
6026NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6027TYPE: int
6028DEFAULT: 8
6029LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
6030DOC_NONE
6031
6032NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6033TYPE: int
6034DEFAULT: 8
6035LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
6036DOC_START
5473c134 6037 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6038 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6039 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6040DOC_END
6041
6042NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6043TYPE: string
6044DEFAULT: none
6045LOC: Config.accept_filter
6046DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6047 FreeBSD:
6048
5473c134 6049 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6050 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6051 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6052
6053 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6054 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6055 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6056
6057 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6058 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6059 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6060
6061 Linux:
6062
6063 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6064 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6065 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6066 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6067 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6068EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6069# FreeBSD
5473c134 6070accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6071# Linux
6072accept_filter data
5473c134 6073DOC_END
6074
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6075NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6076TYPE: int
6077LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6078DEFAULT: -1
6079DOC_START
6080 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6081 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6082 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6083
6084 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6085 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6086
6087 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6088
6089 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6090 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6091DOC_END
6092
5473c134 6093NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6094COMMENT: (bytes)
6095TYPE: b_size_t
6096DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6097LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6098DOC_START
6099 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6100 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6101 the default buffer size.
6102DOC_END
6103
6104COMMENT_START
6105 ICAP OPTIONS
6106 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6107COMMENT_END
6108
6109NAME: icap_enable
6110TYPE: onoff
6111IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6112COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6113LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6114DEFAULT: off
6115DOC_START
53e738c6 6116 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6117DOC_END
6118
6119NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6120TYPE: time_t
6121DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6122LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6123IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6124DOC_START
6125 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6126 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6127 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6128
6129 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6130 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6131 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6132DOC_END
6133
6134NAME: icap_io_timeout
6135COMMENT: time-units
6136TYPE: time_t
6137DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6138LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6139IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6140DOC_START
6141 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6142 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6143 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6144 failure.
6145
6146 The default is read_timeout.
6147DOC_END
6148
6149NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6150COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6151TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6152IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6153LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6154DEFAULT: 10
6155DOC_START
6156 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6157 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6158 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6159 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6160 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6161
6162 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6163 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6164 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
8277060a
CT
6165
6166 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6167 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6168 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6169 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6170 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6171
6172 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6173 effect on service failure expiration.
6174
6175 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6176 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6177 setting.
6178
6179 For example,
6180 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6181 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6182DOC_END
6183
5473c134 6184NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6185TYPE: int
5473c134 6186IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6187LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6188DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6189DOC_START
5473c134 6190 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6191 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6192 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6193 fetched.
cccac0a2 6194
5473c134 6195 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6196 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6197DOC_END
6198
5473c134 6199NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6200TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6201IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6202COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6203LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6204DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6205DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6206 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6207 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6208 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6209 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6210
6211 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6212 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6213 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6214
6215 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6216 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6217Example:
6218icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6219DOC_END
6220
5473c134 6221NAME: icap_preview_size
6222TYPE: int
6223IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6224LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6225DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6226DOC_START
53e738c6 6227 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6228 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6229 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6230DOC_END
6231
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6232NAME: icap_206_enable
6233TYPE: onoff
6234IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6235COMMENT: on|off
6236LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6237DEFAULT: on
6238DOC_START
6239 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6240 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6241 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6242 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6243
6244 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6245 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6246 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6247 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6248 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6249
6250 Example:
6251 icap_206_enable off
6252DOC_END
6253
5473c134 6254NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6255TYPE: int
6256IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6257LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6258DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6259DOC_START
53e738c6 6260 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6261 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6262DOC_END
6263
5473c134 6264NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6265TYPE: onoff
6266IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6267COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6268LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6269DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6270DOC_START
5473c134 6271 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6272 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6273DOC_END
6274
5473c134 6275NAME: icap_send_client_ip
6276TYPE: onoff
6277IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6278COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6279LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_ip
5473c134 6280DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6281DOC_START
53e738c6 6282 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 6283DOC_END
6284
5473c134 6285NAME: icap_send_client_username
6286TYPE: onoff
6287IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6288COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6289LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_username
5473c134 6290DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6291DOC_START
5473c134 6292 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
6293 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
6294 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6295 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6296DOC_END
6297
5473c134 6298NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6299TYPE: string
5473c134 6300IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6301LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6302DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6303DOC_START
5473c134 6304 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 6305DOC_END
6306
5473c134 6307NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6308TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6309IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6310COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6311LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6312DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6313DOC_START
5473c134 6314 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6315DOC_END
6316
5473c134 6317NAME: icap_service
6318TYPE: icap_service_type
6319IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6320LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6321DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6322DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6323 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6324
a22e6cd3 6325 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
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6327 service_name: ID
6328 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
6329
6330 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6331 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6332 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6333 are not yet supported.
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6334
6335 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
6336 ICAP server and service location.
6337
6338 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6339 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6340 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6341 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6342 service_names differ.
6343
6344
6345 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6346 the following name=value options:
6347
6348 bypass=on|off|1|0
6349 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6350 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6351 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6352 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6353 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6354 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6355 returned to the HTTP client.
6356
6357 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6358
6359 routing=on|off|1|0
6360 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6361 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6362 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6363 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6364 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
6365 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf and
6366 should have the same method and vectoring point as the current
6367 ICAP transaction. Services violating these rules are ignored.
6368 An empty X-Next-Services value results in an empty plan which
6369 ends the current adaptation.
6370
6371 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6372 response header is ignored.
6373
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6374 ipv6=on|off
6375 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6376 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6377 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6378
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6379 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6380 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 6381
5473c134 6382Example:
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6383icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
6384icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 6385DOC_END
6386
5473c134 6387NAME: icap_class
6388TYPE: icap_class_type
6389IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6390LOC: none
5473c134 6391DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6392DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6393 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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6394 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6395 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6396
62c7f90e 6397 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6398 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6399 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6400DOC_END
6401
5473c134 6402NAME: icap_access
6403TYPE: icap_access_type
6404IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6405LOC: none
cccac0a2 6406DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6407DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6408 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6409 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6410 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6411DOC_END
6412
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6413COMMENT_START
6414 eCAP OPTIONS
6415 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6416COMMENT_END
6417
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6418NAME: ecap_enable
6419TYPE: onoff
6420IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6421COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6422LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6423DEFAULT: off
6424DOC_START
6425 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6426DOC_END
6427
6428NAME: ecap_service
6429TYPE: ecap_service_type
6430IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6431LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6432DEFAULT: none
6433DOC_START
6434 Defines a single eCAP service
6435
6436 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
6437
6438 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6439 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6440 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6441 are not yet supported.
6442 bypass = 1|0
6443 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
6444 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
6445 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
6446 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
6447 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
6448 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
6449 HTTP client.
6450 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6451
6452Example:
6453ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
6454ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
6455DOC_END
6456
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6457NAME: loadable_modules
6458TYPE: wordlist
6459IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6460LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6461DEFAULT: none
6462DOC_START
6463 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6464 preloaded module(s).
6465Example:
6466loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6467DOC_END
6468
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6469COMMENT_START
6470 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6471 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6472COMMENT_END
6473
6474NAME: adaptation_service_set
6475TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6476IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6477LOC: none
6478DEFAULT: none
6479DOC_START
6480
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6481 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6482 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6483
6484 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6485
6486 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6487 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6488 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6489 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6490 intact.
62c7f90e 6491
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6492 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6493 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6494
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6495 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6496 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6497
6498 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6499 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6500 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6501 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6502 transaction fails as well.
6503
6504 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6505 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6506 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6507 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6508 matters.
6509
6510 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6511
6512Example:
6513adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6514adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6515DOC_END
6516
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6517NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6518TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6519IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6520LOC: none
6521DEFAULT: none
6522DOC_START
6523
6524 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6525 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6526 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6527
6528 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6529
6530 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6531 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6532 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6533 the previous service in the chain.
6534
6535 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6536 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6537
6538 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6539 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6540 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6541
6542 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6543 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6544
6545 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6546 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6547 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6548 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6549
6550 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6551
6552Example:
6553adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6554DOC_END
6555
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6556NAME: adaptation_access
6557TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6558IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6559LOC: none
6560DEFAULT: none
6561DOC_START
6562 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6563
6564 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6565 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6566
6567 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6568 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6569 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6570 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6571
6572 - services serving different vectoring points
6573 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6574 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6575 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6576
6577 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6578 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6579 adaptation_service_set for details.
6580
6581 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6582 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6583 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6584 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6585
6586 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6587 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6588
6589 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6590
6591Example:
6592adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6593DOC_END
6594
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6595NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6596TYPE: int
6597IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6598LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6599DEFAULT: 16
6600DOC_START
6601 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6602 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6603 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6604 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6605 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6606 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6607
6608 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6609
6610 See also: icap_service routing=1
6611DOC_END
6612
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6613NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6614TYPE: string
6615IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6616LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6617DEFAULT: none
6618DOC_START
6619 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6620 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6621 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6622 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6623 with the master transaction.
6624
6625 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6626 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6627
6628 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6629 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
6630 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names. Squid will store
6631 and forward that ICAP header field to subsequent ICAP
6632 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6633
6634 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6635
6636Example:
6637# share authentication information among ICAP services
6638adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6639DOC_END
6640
6641NAME: icap_retry
6642TYPE: acl_access
6643IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6644LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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6645DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6646DOC_START
6647 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
6648 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
6649 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
6650 that response are usually retriable.
6651
6652 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6653
6654 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
6655 due to persistent connection race conditions.
6656
6657 See also: icap_retry_limit
6658DOC_END
6659
6660NAME: icap_retry_limit
6661TYPE: int
6662IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6663LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
6664DEFAULT: 0
6665DOC_START
6666 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
6667 no retries are allowed.
6668
6669 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
6670 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6671 count against this limit.
6672
6673 See also: icap_retry
6674DOC_END
6675
6676
5473c134 6677COMMENT_START
6678 DNS OPTIONS
6679 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6680COMMENT_END
6681
6682NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6683TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6684DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6685LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6686DOC_START
5473c134 6687 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6688 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6689 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 6690DOC_END
6691
5473c134 6692NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6693TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6694DEFAULT: on
5473c134 6695LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6696DOC_START
5473c134 6697 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6698 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6699 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6700 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 6701DOC_END
6702
5473c134 6703NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 6704TYPE: string
5473c134 6705IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6706DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6707LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 6708DOC_START
5473c134 6709 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 6710DOC_END
6711
5473c134 6712NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 6713TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5473c134 6714IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
48d54e4d 6715DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 6716LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 6717DOC_START
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6718 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
6719 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
6720 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
6721 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
6722 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
6723
6724 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6725 tuning.
6726
6727 startup=
6728
6729 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6730 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6731 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
6732
6733 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6734 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
6735
6736 idle=
6737
6738 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6739 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6740 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6741 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 6742DOC_END
6743
5473c134 6744NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
6745TYPE: time_t
6746DEFAULT: 5 seconds
6747LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
6748IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6749DOC_START
5473c134 6750 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
6751 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 6752DOC_END
6753
5473c134 6754NAME: dns_timeout
6755TYPE: time_t
6756DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6757LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
6758IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6759DOC_START
5473c134 6760 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
6761 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
6762 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 6763DOC_END
6764
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6765NAME: dns_packet_max
6766TYPE: b_ssize_t
6767DEFAULT: none
6768LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
6769IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6770DOC_START
6771 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
6772 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
6773
6774 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
6775 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
6776 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
6777 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
6778 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
6779
6780 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
6781 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
6782 necessary.
6783
6784 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
6785 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
6786 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
6787 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
6788 sizes being advertised by Squid.
6789 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
6790 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
6791DOC_END
6792
5473c134 6793NAME: dns_defnames
6794COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 6795TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6796DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6797LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 6798DOC_START
5473c134 6799 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
6800 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
6801 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
6802 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 6803DOC_END
6804
5473c134 6805NAME: dns_nameservers
6806TYPE: wordlist
6807DEFAULT: none
6808LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 6809DOC_START
5473c134 6810 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
6811 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
6812 /etc/resolv.conf file.
6813 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
6814 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
6815 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
6816 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 6817
5473c134 6818 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 6819DOC_END
6820
5473c134 6821NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 6822TYPE: string
5473c134 6823DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
6824LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 6825DOC_START
5473c134 6826 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
6827 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
6828 default locations:
6829 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
6830 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6831 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
6832 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6833 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
6834 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
6835 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
6836 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 6837
5473c134 6838 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
6839 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
6840 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
6841 character are comments.
cccac0a2 6842
5473c134 6843 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
6844 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
6845 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
6846 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
6847 definitions.
cccac0a2 6848DOC_END
6849
5473c134 6850NAME: append_domain
6851TYPE: string
6852LOC: Config.appendDomain
6853DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 6854DOC_START
5473c134 6855 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
6856 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
6857
6858 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
6859 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
6860 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
6861
6862Example:
6863 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 6864DOC_END
6865
5473c134 6866NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
6867TYPE: onoff
6868LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 6869DEFAULT: on
6870DOC_START
5473c134 6871 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
6872 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
6873 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
6874 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
6875 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 6876DOC_END
6877
cc192b50 6878NAME: dns_v4_fallback
6879TYPE: onoff
6880DEFAULT: on
6881LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
6882DOC_START
6883 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
6884 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
6885 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
6886
6887 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
6888 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
6889
6890 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
6891 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
6892
6893 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
6894 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
6895 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
6896DOC_END
6897
6bc15a4f 6898NAME: ipcache_size
6899COMMENT: (number of entries)
6900TYPE: int
6901DEFAULT: 1024
6902LOC: Config.ipcache.size
6903DOC_NONE
6904
6905NAME: ipcache_low
6906COMMENT: (percent)
6907TYPE: int
6908DEFAULT: 90
6909LOC: Config.ipcache.low
6910DOC_NONE
6911
6912NAME: ipcache_high
6913COMMENT: (percent)
6914TYPE: int
6915DEFAULT: 95
6916LOC: Config.ipcache.high
6917DOC_START
6918 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
6919DOC_END
6920
6921NAME: fqdncache_size
6922COMMENT: (number of entries)
6923TYPE: int
6924DEFAULT: 1024
6925LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
6926DOC_START
6927 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
6928DOC_END
6929
a58ff010 6930COMMENT_START
5473c134 6931 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 6932 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6933COMMENT_END
6934
5473c134 6935NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 6936COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6937TYPE: onoff
6938DEFAULT: on
6939LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 6940DOC_START
5473c134 6941 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
6942 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
6943 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
6944 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 6945DOC_END
6946
5473c134 6947NAME: memory_pools_limit
6948COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 6949TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 6950DEFAULT: 5 MB
6951LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 6952DOC_START
5473c134 6953 Used only with memory_pools on:
6954 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 6955
5473c134 6956 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
6957 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
6958 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
6959 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
6960 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
6961 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
6962 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 6963
89646bd7 6964 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 6965 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 6966
5473c134 6967 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 6968 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 6969
6970 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
6971 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
6972 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
6973 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 6974DOC_END
6975
5473c134 6976NAME: forwarded_for
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6977COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
6978TYPE: string
5473c134 6979DEFAULT: on
6980LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 6981DOC_START
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6982 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
6983 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 6984
5473c134 6985 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
6986
67c06f0d 6987 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 6988
6989 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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6990
6991 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
6992 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
6993
6994 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
6995 X-Forwarded-For header.
6996
6997 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
6998 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place itself as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 6999DOC_END
7000
5473c134 7001NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7002TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7003DEFAULT: none
7004LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7005DOC_START
5473c134 7006 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7007
5473c134 7008 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7009
7010 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7011 5min
7012 60min
7013 asndb
7014 authenticator
7015 cbdata
7016 client_list
7017 comm_incoming
7018 config *
7019 counters
7020 delay
7021 digest_stats
7022 dns
7023 events
7024 filedescriptors
7025 fqdncache
7026 histograms
7027 http_headers
7028 info
7029 io
7030 ipcache
7031 mem
7032 menu
7033 netdb
7034 non_peers
7035 objects
7036 offline_toggle *
7037 pconn
7038 peer_select
b360c477 7039 reconfigure *
5473c134 7040 redirector
7041 refresh
7042 server_list
7043 shutdown *
7044 store_digest
7045 storedir
7046 utilization
7047 via_headers
7048 vm_objects
7049
7050 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7051 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7052
7053 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7054 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7055 password to "none".
7056
7057 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7058
7059Example:
7060 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7061 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7062 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7063DOC_END
7064
5473c134 7065NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7066COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7067TYPE: onoff
7068DEFAULT: on
7069LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7070DOC_START
5473c134 7071 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7072 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7073DOC_END
7074
5473c134 7075NAME: refresh_all_ims
7076COMMENT: on|off
7077TYPE: onoff
7078DEFAULT: off
7079LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7080DOC_START
5473c134 7081 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7082 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7083 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7084 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7085 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7086
5473c134 7087 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7088 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7089DOC_END
7090
5473c134 7091NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7092IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7093COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7094TYPE: onoff
7095DEFAULT: off
7096LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7097DOC_START
5473c134 7098 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7099 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7100 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7101 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7102 causes.
7103
7104 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7105DOC_END
7106
5473c134 7107NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
7108TYPE: int
7109LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
7110DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 7111DOC_START
5473c134 7112 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
7113 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
7114 each address is tried once).
7115
7116 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
7117 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
7118 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
7119
7120 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
7121 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 7122DOC_END
7123
5473c134 7124NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7125TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7126LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7127DEFAULT: off
7128DOC_START
5473c134 7129 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
7130 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
7131 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
7132 control errors.
5f8252d2 7133DOC_END
7134
5473c134 7135NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7136TYPE: string
5473c134 7137LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7138DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7139DOC_START
5473c134 7140 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7141 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7142DOC_END
7143
5473c134 7144NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7145TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7146LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7147DEFAULT: off
7148DOC_START
5473c134 7149 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7150 objects.
a58ff010 7151DOC_END
7152
5473c134 7153NAME: uri_whitespace
7154TYPE: uri_whitespace
7155LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7156DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7157DOC_START
5473c134 7158 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7159 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7160
5473c134 7161 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7162 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7163 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7164 Request" message.
7165 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7166 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7167 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7168 are in use.
7169 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7170 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7171 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7172 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7173 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7174 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7175 violation.
7176DOC_END
a58ff010 7177
5473c134 7178NAME: chroot
7179TYPE: string
7180LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7181DEFAULT: none
7182DOC_START
9f37c18a 7183 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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7184 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7185 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7186 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7187 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7188DOC_END
a58ff010 7189
5473c134 7190NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7191TYPE: onoff
7192LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7193DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7194DOC_START
cc192b50 7195 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7196 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7197 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7198
5473c134 7199 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7200 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7201 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 7202
cc192b50 7203 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 7204DOC_END
7205
5473c134 7206NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7207TYPE: onoff
7208LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7209DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 7210DOC_START
5473c134 7211 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7212 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7213 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 7214
5473c134 7215 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7216 reasons.
7217DOC_END
a58ff010 7218
5473c134 7219NAME: high_response_time_warning
7220TYPE: int
7221COMMENT: (msec)
7222LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7223DEFAULT: 0
7224DOC_START
7225 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7226 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7227 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 7228DOC_END
7229
5473c134 7230NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7231TYPE: int
7232LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7233DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 7234DOC_START
5473c134 7235 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7236 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7237 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7238 per second.
7239DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7240
5473c134 7241NAME: high_memory_warning
7242TYPE: b_size_t
7243LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 7244DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 7245DOC_START
7246 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7247 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7248 the administrators attention.
7249DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7250
5473c134 7251NAME: sleep_after_fork
7252COMMENT: (microseconds)
7253TYPE: int
7254LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7255DEFAULT: 0
7256DOC_START
7257 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7258 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7259 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7260 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7261 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7262 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7263 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7264 until all the child processes have been started.
7265 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7266 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7267DOC_END
7268
b6696974 7269NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7270IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
b6696974
GS
7271COMMENT: on|off
7272TYPE: onoff
7273DEFAULT: on
7274LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7275DOC_START
7276 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7277 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7278 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7279 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7280 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7281 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7282DOC_END
7283
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7284NAME: eui_lookup
7285TYPE: onoff
7286IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7287DEFAULT: on
7288LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7289DOC_START
7290 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7291DOC_END
7292
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7293NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7294TYPE: int
7295DEFAULT: 0
7296LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7297DOC_START
7298 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7299
7300 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7301
7302 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7303 not all comm loops supports large values.
7304DOC_END
7305
13aeac35 7306NAME: workers
007d775d 7307TYPE: int
13aeac35 7308LOC: Config.workers
007d775d
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7309DEFAULT: 1
7310DOC_START
13aeac35 7311 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
007d775d
AR
7312 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7313 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
13aeac35
AR
7314 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7315
b87f6632
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7316 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7317 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
007d775d
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7318DOC_END
7319
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7320NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7321TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7322LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7323DEFAULT: none
7324DOC_START
7325 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7326
7327 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7328
7329 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7330
7331 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7332 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7333
7334 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7335 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7336
7337 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7338
7339 See also: workers
7340DOC_END
7341
cccac0a2 7342EOF