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4ac4a490 1## Copyright (C) 1996-2017 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors
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2##
3## Squid software is distributed under GPLv2+ license and includes
4## contributions from numerous individuals and organizations.
5## Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.
6##
9cef6668 7
0f74202c 8COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 9 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 10 ----------------------------
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11
12 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
13 This documentation can also be found online at:
14 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
15
16 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
17 FAQ and other documentation:
18 http://www.squid-cache.org/
19 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
20 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
21
22 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
23 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
24 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
25
26 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
27 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
28 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
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cccac0a2 30COMMENT_END
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33 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 34 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 35 supported.
36
37 For example,
38
39 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
40
41 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
42 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
43 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
44 configuration files.
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46 Values with byte units
47
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48 Squid accepts size units on some size related directives. All
49 such directives are documented with a default value displaying
50 a unit.
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51
52 Units accepted by Squid are:
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53 bytes - byte
54 KB - Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
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55 MB - Megabyte
56 GB - Gigabyte
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58 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
59
60 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
61 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
62 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
63 disable that support.
64
65 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
66 files using the syntax:
67 parameters("/path/filename")
68 For example:
69 acl whitelist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/whitelist.txt")
70
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71 Conditional configuration
72
73 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
74 depend on conditions:
75
76 if <CONDITION>
77 ... regular configuration directives ...
78 [else
79 ... regular configuration directives ...]
80 endif
81
82 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
83 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
84 configuration directives.
85
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86 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
87
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88 These individual conditions types are supported:
89
90 true
91 Always evaluates to true.
92 false
93 Always evaluates to false.
94 <integer> = <integer>
95 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
96
97
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98 SMP-Related Macros
99
100 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
101
102 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
103 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
104
105 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
106 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
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107 across all Squid processes of the current service instance.
108
109 ${service_name} expands into the current Squid service instance
110 name identifier which is provided by -n on the command line.
111
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112 Logformat Macros
113
114 Logformat macros can be used in many places outside of the logformat
115 directive. In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros,
116 where they are supported. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) when
117 the transaction does not yet have enough information and a value is needed.
118
119 There is no definitive list of what tokens are available at the various
120 stages of the transaction.
121
122 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
123 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
124 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
125 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
126
592a09dc 127COMMENT_END
128
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129# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
130NAME: broken_vary_encoding
131TYPE: obsolete
132DOC_START
133 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
134DOC_END
135
136NAME: cache_vary
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
140DOC_END
141
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142NAME: error_map
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
146DOC_END
147
148NAME: external_refresh_check
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
152DOC_END
153
96598f93 154NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
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155TYPE: obsolete
156DOC_START
157 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
158DOC_END
159
96598f93 160NAME: refresh_stale_hit
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161TYPE: obsolete
162DOC_START
163 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
164DOC_END
165
6eb545bc 166# Options removed in 4.x
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167NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
168TYPE: obsolete
169DOC_START
170 Replace with dstdomain ACLs and cache_peer_access.
171DOC_END
172
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173NAME: ie_refresh
174TYPE: obsolete
175DOC_START
176 Remove this line. The behaviour enabled by this is no longer needed.
177DOC_END
178
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179NAME: sslproxy_cafile
180TYPE: obsolete
181DOC_START
182 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cafile= instead.
183DOC_END
184
185NAME: sslproxy_capath
186TYPE: obsolete
187DOC_START
188 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options capath= instead.
189DOC_END
190
191NAME: sslproxy_cipher
192TYPE: obsolete
193DOC_START
194 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cipher= instead.
195DOC_END
196
197NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
198TYPE: obsolete
199DOC_START
200 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cert= instead.
201DOC_END
202
203NAME: sslproxy_client_key
204TYPE: obsolete
205DOC_START
206 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options key= instead.
207DOC_END
208
209NAME: sslproxy_flags
210TYPE: obsolete
211DOC_START
212 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options flags= instead.
213DOC_END
214
215NAME: sslproxy_options
216TYPE: obsolete
217DOC_START
218 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
219DOC_END
220
221NAME: sslproxy_version
222TYPE: obsolete
223DOC_START
1cc44095 224 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
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225DOC_END
226
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227# Options removed in 3.5
228NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
229TYPE: obsolete
230DOC_START
231 Remove this line. Use always_direct or cache_peer_access ACLs instead if you need to prevent cache_peer use.
232DOC_END
233
a8f70484 234# Options removed in 3.4
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235NAME: log_access
236TYPE: obsolete
237DOC_START
238 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
239DOC_END
240
241NAME: log_icap
242TYPE: obsolete
243DOC_START
244 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
245DOC_END
246
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247# Options Removed in 3.3
248NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
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249TYPE: obsolete
250DOC_START
2d4eefd9 251 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now configured by 'cache_miss_revalidate'.
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252DOC_END
253
76f44481 254# Options Removed in 3.2
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255NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
256TYPE: obsolete
257DOC_START
258 Remove this line. Squid is now HTTP/1.1 compliant.
259DOC_END
260
74d81220 261NAME: dns_v4_fallback
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262TYPE: obsolete
263DOC_START
74d81220 264 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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265DOC_END
266
74d81220 267NAME: emulate_httpd_log
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268TYPE: obsolete
269DOC_START
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270 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
271DOC_END
272
273NAME: forward_log
274TYPE: obsolete
275DOC_START
276 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
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277DOC_END
278
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279NAME: ftp_list_width
280TYPE: obsolete
281DOC_START
282 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
283DOC_END
284
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285NAME: ignore_expect_100
286TYPE: obsolete
287DOC_START
288 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
289DOC_END
290
291NAME: log_fqdn
292TYPE: obsolete
293DOC_START
294 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
295DOC_END
296
297NAME: log_ip_on_direct
298TYPE: obsolete
299DOC_START
300 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
301DOC_END
302
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303NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
304TYPE: obsolete
305DOC_START
306 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
307DOC_END
308
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309NAME: referer_log referrer_log
310TYPE: obsolete
311DOC_START
312 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
313DOC_END
314
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315NAME: update_headers
316TYPE: obsolete
317DOC_START
318 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
319DOC_END
320
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321NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
322TYPE: obsolete
323DOC_START
324 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
325DOC_END
326
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327NAME: useragent_log
328TYPE: obsolete
329DOC_START
330 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
331DOC_END
332
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333# Options Removed in 3.1
334NAME: dns_testnames
335TYPE: obsolete
336DOC_START
337 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
338DOC_END
339
340NAME: extension_methods
341TYPE: obsolete
342DOC_START
343 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
344DOC_END
345
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346# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
347NAME: zero_buffers
348TYPE: obsolete
349DOC_NONE
350
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351# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
352NAME: incoming_rate
353TYPE: obsolete
354DOC_NONE
355
356NAME: server_http11
357TYPE: obsolete
358DOC_START
359 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
360DOC_END
361
362NAME: upgrade_http0.9
363TYPE: obsolete
364DOC_START
365 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
366DOC_END
367
368NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
369TYPE: obsolete
370DOC_START
371 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
372DOC_END
373
374# Options Removed in 3.0
375NAME: header_access
376TYPE: obsolete
377DOC_START
378 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
379 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
380DOC_END
381
382NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
383TYPE: obsolete
384DOC_START
385 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
386DOC_END
387
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388NAME: wais_relay_host
389TYPE: obsolete
390DOC_START
391 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
392DOC_END
393
394NAME: wais_relay_port
395TYPE: obsolete
396DOC_START
397 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
398DOC_END
399
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400COMMENT_START
401 OPTIONS FOR SMP
402 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
403COMMENT_END
404
405NAME: workers
406TYPE: int
407LOC: Config.workers
408DEFAULT: 1
409DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
410DOC_START
411 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
412 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
413 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
414 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
415
416 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
417 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
418DOC_END
419
420NAME: cpu_affinity_map
421TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
422LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
423DEFAULT: none
424DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
425DOC_START
426 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
427
428 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
429
430 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
431
432 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
433 four even cores, starting with core #1.
434
435 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
436 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
437
438 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
439
440 See also: workers
441DOC_END
442
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443NAME: shared_memory_locking
444TYPE: YesNoNone
445COMMENT: on|off
446LOC: Config.shmLocking
447DEFAULT: off
448DOC_START
449 Whether to ensure that all required shared memory is available by
450 "locking" that shared memory into RAM when Squid starts. The
451 alternative is faster startup time followed by slightly slower
452 performance and, if not enough RAM is actually available during
453 runtime, mysterious crashes.
454
455 SMP Squid uses many shared memory segments. These segments are
456 brought into Squid memory space using an mmap(2) system call. During
457 Squid startup, the mmap() call often succeeds regardless of whether
458 the system has enough RAM. In general, Squid cannot tell whether the
459 kernel applies this "optimistic" memory allocation policy (but
460 popular modern kernels usually use it).
461
462 Later, if Squid attempts to actually access the mapped memory
463 regions beyond what the kernel is willing to allocate, the
464 "optimistic" kernel simply kills Squid kid with a SIGBUS signal.
465 Some of the memory limits enforced by the kernel are currently
466 poorly understood: We do not know how to detect and check them. This
467 option ensures that the mapped memory will be available.
468
469 This option may have a positive performance side-effect: Locking
470 memory at start avoids runtime paging I/O. Paging slows Squid down.
471
472 Locking memory may require a large enough RLIMIT_MEMLOCK OS limit,
473 CAP_IPC_LOCK capability, or equivalent.
474DOC_END
475
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476NAME: hopeless_kid_revival_delay
477COMMENT: time-units
478TYPE: time_t
479LOC: Config.hopelessKidRevivalDelay
480DEFAULT: 1 hour
481DOC_START
482 Normally, when a kid process dies, Squid immediately restarts the
483 kid. A kid experiencing frequent deaths is marked as "hopeless" for
484 the duration specified by this directive. Hopeless kids are not
485 automatically restarted.
486
487 Currently, zero values are not supported because they result in
488 misconfigured SMP Squid instances running forever, endlessly
489 restarting each dying kid. To effectively disable hopeless kids
490 revival, set the delay to a huge value (e.g., 1 year).
491
492 Reconfiguration also clears all hopeless kids designations, allowing
493 for manual revival of hopeless kids.
494DOC_END
495
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41bd17a4 497 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 498 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
499COMMENT_END
500
41bd17a4 501NAME: auth_param
502TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 503IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5c112575 504LOC: Auth::TheConfig.schemes
cccac0a2 505DEFAULT: none
506DOC_START
41bd17a4 507 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
508 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 509
66c583dc 510 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 511
41bd17a4 512 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
513 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
514 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
515 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
516 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
517 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
518 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
519 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
520 program entry).
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41bd17a4 522 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
523 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
524 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
525 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
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41bd17a4 527 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
528 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
529 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
530 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
531 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
532 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
533 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
534 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
535 type acl.
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41bd17a4 537 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
538 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
539 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
540 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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541 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
542 authentication disabled.
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545
546 "program" cmdline
66c583dc 547 Specifies the command for the external authenticator.
d4806c91 548
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549 By default, each authentication scheme is not used unless a
550 program is specified.
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552 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers for
553 more details on helper operations and creating your own.
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555 "key_extras" format
556 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for
557 the authentication helper. "Quoted" format values may contain
558 spaces and logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro
559 can be used. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if
560 the helper request is sent before the required macro
561 information is available to Squid.
562
563 By default, Squid uses request formats provided in
564 scheme-specific examples below (search for %credentials).
565
566 The expanded key_extras value is added to the Squid credentials
567 cache and, hence, will affect authentication. It can be used to
568 autenticate different users with identical user names (e.g.,
569 when user authentication depends on http_port).
570
571 Avoid adding frequently changing information to key_extras. For
572 example, if you add user source IP, and it changes frequently
573 in your environment, then max_user_ip ACL is going to treat
574 every user+IP combination as a unique "user", breaking the ACL
575 and wasting a lot of memory on those user records. It will also
576 force users to authenticate from scratch whenever their IP
577 changes.
578
579 "realm" string
580 Specifies the protection scope (aka realm name) which is to be
581 reported to the client for the authentication scheme. It is
582 commonly part of the text the user will see when prompted for
583 their username and password.
584
585 For Basic the default is "Squid proxy-caching web server".
586 For Digest there is no default, this parameter is mandatory.
587 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
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589 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
590 [queue-size=N] [on-persistent-overload=action]
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592 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If
593 you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
594 a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it down. When
595 password verifications are done via a (slow) network you are
596 likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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598 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact
599 amount run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup
600 and reconfigure. Squid will start more in groups of up to
601 idle=N in an attempt to meet traffic needs and to keep idle=N
602 free above those traffic needs up to the maximum.
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604 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests
605 the helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers
606 who only supports one request at a time. Setting this to a
607 number greater than 0 changes the protocol used to include a
608 channel ID field first on the request/response line, allowing
609 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallel
610 without waiting for the response.
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612 Concurrency must not be set unless it's known the helper
613 supports the input format with channel-ID fields.
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615 The queue-size=N option sets the maximum number of queued
616 requests to N. The default maximum is 2*numberofchildren. Squid
617 is allowed to temporarily exceed the configured maximum, marking
618 the affected helper as "overloaded". If the helper overload
619 lasts more than 3 minutes, the action prescribed by the
620 on-persistent-overload option applies.
621
622 The on-persistent-overload=action option specifies Squid
623 reaction to a new helper request arriving when the helper
624 has been overloaded for more that 3 minutes already. The number
625 of queued requests determines whether the helper is overloaded
626 (see the queue-size option).
627
628 Two actions are supported:
629
630 die Squid worker quits. This is the default behavior.
631
632 ERR Squid treats the helper request as if it was
633 immediately submitted, and the helper immediately
634 replied with an ERR response. This action has no effect
635 on the already queued and in-progress helper requests.
6825b101 636
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637 NOTE: NTLM and Negotiate schemes do not support concurrency
638 in the Squid code module even though some helpers can.
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640 "keep_alive" on|off
641 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
642 the NTLM or Negotiate schemes then you can try setting this
643 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
644 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
645 are supported by the proxy.
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b2b09838 647 For Basic and Digest this parameter is ignored.
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649 "utf8" on|off
650 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
651 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
652 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
653 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
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655 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
656
657IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_BASIC
658 === Basic authentication parameters ===
659
41bd17a4 660 "credentialsttl" timetolive
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661 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
662 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
663 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
664 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.
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666 NOTE: setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
667 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
668 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
669 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
670 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
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672 "casesensitive" on|off
673 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases
674 are case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled
675 using both lower and upper case letters, but some are case
676 sensitive. This makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL
677 processing and similar.
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679ENDIF
680IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_DIGEST
681 === Digest authentication parameters ===
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41bd17a4 683 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
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684 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
685 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
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41bd17a4 687 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
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688 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
689 valid for.
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41bd17a4 691 "nonce_max_count" number
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692 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
693 used.
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41bd17a4 695 "nonce_strictness" on|off
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697 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
698 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
699 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 700
41bd17a4 701 "check_nonce_count" on|off
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703 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
704 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
705 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 706
41bd17a4 707 "post_workaround" on|off
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709 incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing the
710 same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
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66c583dc 712ENDIF
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714 === Example Configuration ===
715
716 This configuration displays the recommended authentication scheme
717 order from most to least secure with recommended minimum configuration
718 settings for each scheme:
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41bd17a4 720#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 721#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
e0855596 722#
66c583dc 723#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 724#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 725#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
726#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
727#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
728#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 729#
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730#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
731#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
66c583dc 732#
41bd17a4 733#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 734#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 735#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 736DOC_END
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41bd17a4 738NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
5db226c8 739IFDEF: USE_AUTH
41bd17a4 740TYPE: time_t
741DEFAULT: 1 hour
00ef8d82 742LOC: Auth::TheConfig.garbageCollectInterval
41bd17a4 743DOC_START
744 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 745 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 746 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
747 have good reason to.
748DOC_END
cccac0a2 749
41bd17a4 750NAME: authenticate_ttl
5db226c8 751IFDEF: USE_AUTH
41bd17a4 752TYPE: time_t
753DEFAULT: 1 hour
00ef8d82 754LOC: Auth::TheConfig.credentialsTtl
41bd17a4 755DOC_START
756 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
757 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
758 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
759 TTL are removed from memory.
760DOC_END
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41bd17a4 762NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
5db226c8 763IFDEF: USE_AUTH
41bd17a4 764TYPE: time_t
00ef8d82 765LOC: Auth::TheConfig.ipTtl
c35dd848 766DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 767DOC_START
768 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
769 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
770 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
771 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 772 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 773 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
774 environment with relatively static address assignments.
775DOC_END
cccac0a2 776
3d1e3e43 777COMMENT_START
778 ACCESS CONTROLS
779 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
780COMMENT_END
781
41bd17a4 782NAME: external_acl_type
783TYPE: externalAclHelper
784LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 785DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 786DOC_START
41bd17a4 787 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
788 to look up the status
cccac0a2 789
262eaf9a 790 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT /path/to/helper [helper arguments]
cccac0a2 791
41bd17a4 792 Options:
cccac0a2 793
41bd17a4 794 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
cd0fd8a9 795 for 1 hour)
4f8d0a65 796
41bd17a4 797 negative_ttl=n
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799 as ttl)
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801 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
802 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
803 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
804
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806 default limit is 262144 entries. Each cache entry usually
807 consumes at least 256 bytes. Squid currently does not remove
808 expired cache entries until the limit is reached, so a proxy
809 will sooner or later reach the limit. The expanded FORMAT
810 value is used as the cache key, so if the details in FORMAT
811 are highly variable, a larger cache may be needed to produce
812 reduction in helper load.
4f8d0a65 813
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815 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
2ccfb9a7 816 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
4f8d0a65 817
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819 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
820 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
821 of this type. (default 0)
4f8d0a65 822
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824 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
825 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
826 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
827 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
4f8d0a65 828
41bd17a4 829 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
830 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
4f8d0a65 831
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833 requests. If the queued requests exceed queue size
4f8d0a65 834 the acl is ignored.
6825b101 835 The default value is set to 2*children-max.
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837 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers.
838
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840 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 841
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844 of the accepted codes. Although note that at the time of any external ACL
845 being tested data may not be available and thus some %macro expand to '-'.
846
847 In addition to the logformat codes; when processing external ACLs these
848 additional macros are made available:
7b0ca1e8 849
ec2d5242 850 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
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853 'acl ... external' line, separated by spaces (an
854 "argument string"). see acl external.
855
856 If there are no ACL arguments %DATA expands to '-'.
857
858 If you do not specify a DATA macro inside FORMAT,
859 Squid automatically appends %DATA to your FORMAT.
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862 argument inside the argument string. If an explicit
863 encoding modifier is used (e.g., %#DATA), then Squid
864 encodes the whole argument string as a single token
865 (e.g., with %#DATA, spaces between arguments become
866 %20).
867
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869
870 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
871 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
872 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
873 %USER_CA_CERT_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
874
875
876 NOTE: all other format codes accepted by older Squid versions
877 are deprecated.
0db8942f 878
cccac0a2 879
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881
0638f4a2 882 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values
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884
885 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
886 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
887 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
888
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889 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
890 each value in requests against whitespaces.
891
892 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
893 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
894
895 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
896
897 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
898 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
899 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
900 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
901 of the response relating to its request.
902
903
904 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
905 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
906 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
907
cccac0a2 908
41bd17a4 909 General result syntax:
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912
913 Result consists of one of the codes:
914
915 OK
916 the ACL test produced a match.
917
918 ERR
919 the ACL test does not produce a match.
920
921 BH
4ded749e 922 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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924
925 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
926 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
cccac0a2 927
41bd17a4 928 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 929
41bd17a4 930 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 931
41bd17a4 932 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
5269ec0e 933
05e52854 934 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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936 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
937
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939 does not alter existing tags.
5269ec0e 940
41bd17a4 941 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
cd0fd8a9 942 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 943
cd0fd8a9 944 clt_conn_tag= Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
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946 for this kv-pair.
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05e52854 948 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
6a566b9c 949
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950 All response keyword values need to be a single token with URL
951 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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952 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
953 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
954 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 955
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957
5269ec0e 958 user=John%20Smith
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960 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
cccac0a2 961DOC_END
962
41bd17a4 963NAME: acl
964TYPE: acl
965LOC: Config.aclList
cb4f4424 966IF USE_OPENSSL
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967DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
968DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
969DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
970DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
971DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
972ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 973DEFAULT: all src all
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974DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
975DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
976DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
2c56ee3c 977DEFAULT: CONNECT method CONNECT
29503899 978DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, to_localhost, and CONNECT are predefined.
cccac0a2 979DOC_START
41bd17a4 980 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 981
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982 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
983 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
984 they are read from.
cccac0a2 985
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986 acl aclname acltype argument ...
987 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 988
375eeb3b 989 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 990
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992 ACL Options
993
994 Some acl types supports options which changes their default behaviour:
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996 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
997 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
998 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
999 without -i.
1000
1001 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
1002 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
1003 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
1004 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
1005 without any warnings or lookups.
1006
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1008 Perform a list membership test, interpreting values as
1009 comma-separated token lists and matching against individual
1010 tokens instead of whole values.
1011 The optional "delimiters" parameter specifies one or more
1012 alternative non-alphanumeric delimiter characters.
1013 non-alphanumeric delimiter characters.
1014
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1016 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
1017 is a valid domain name)
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1020 to access some external data source.
1021 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
1022 don't are marked as [fast].
1023 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
1024 for further information
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1026 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
1027
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1028 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
1029 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 1030 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 1031 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 1032
41bd17a4 1033 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
b3567eb5 1034 # [fast]
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1036 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other
1037 # BSD variants.
41bd17a4 1038 #
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1040 # clients that are on the same subnet. If the client is on a
1041 # different subnet, then Squid cannot find out its address.
1042 #
1043 # NOTE 2: IPv6 protocol does not contain ARP. MAC/EUI is either
1044 # encoded directly in the IPv6 address or not available.
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1046 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
1047 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 1048 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 1049 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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1051 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 1052 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 1053 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 1054 #
41bd17a4 1055 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
1056 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
1057 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 1058
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1060 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 1061 # [fast]
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1063 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
1064 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
1065 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
1066 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
1067 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
1068 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 1069
6db78a1a 1070 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 1071 # [fast]
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1073 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
1074
375eeb3b 1075 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 1076 # [fast]
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1078 # S - Sunday
1079 # M - Monday
1080 # T - Tuesday
1081 # W - Wednesday
1082 # H - Thursday
1083 # F - Friday
1084 # A - Saturday
1085 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
1086
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1088 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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1090 # regex matching on URL login field
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1092 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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1095 # ranges are alloed
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1097 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
1098
3cc0f4e7 1099 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # *_port name [fast]
e988aa40 1100
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1102
1103 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 1104
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1106 # status code in reply [fast]
e988aa40 1107
375eeb3b 1108 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1109 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 1110
375eeb3b 1111 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1112 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 1113 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 1115 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 1116 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1117 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 1118 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
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41bd17a4 1120 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
1121 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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1123 # supplied credentials [slow]
1124 #
1125 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 1126 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
1127 #
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1129 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
1130 #
41bd17a4 1131 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
1132 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
1133 # in access.log.
1134 #
1135 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
1136 # to check username/password combinations (see
1137 # auth_param directive).
1138 #
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1140 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 1141 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 1142
41bd17a4 1143 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 1144 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 1145 # Example:
1146 #
1147 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 1148
41bd17a4 1149 acl aclname maxconn number
1150 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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1152 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
1153 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 1154
41bd17a4 1155 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
1156 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
1157 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 1158 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 1159 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
1160 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
1161 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
1162 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
1163 # request is denied)
1164 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
1165 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
1166 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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1169 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
1170 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
1171 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
1172
375eeb3b 1173 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1174 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
1175 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 1176 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 1177 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1178 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 1179
41bd17a4 1180 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1181 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1182 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1183 # ACL [fast]
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375eeb3b 1185 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1186 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1187 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1188 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1189 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1190 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1191 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 1193 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1194 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1195 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1196 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 1197
375eeb3b 1198 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1199 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1200 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 1202 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1203 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
2927ae41 1204 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1205
41bd17a4 1206 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1207 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
2927ae41 1208 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1209
41bd17a4 1210 acl aclname ext_user username ...
1211 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1212 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1213 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1214
0ab50441 1215 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
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1216 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [fast]
1217 # DEPRECATED. Only the first tag will match with this ACL.
1218 # Use the 'note' ACL instead for handling multiple tag values.
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1220 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
1221 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1222 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1223 #
1224 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1225 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1226 # http_reply_access.
1227
76ee67ac 1228 acl aclname note [-m[=delimiters]] name [value ...]
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1229 # match transaction annotation [fast]
1230 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
1231 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
1232 # also has one of the given values.
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1233 # If the -m flag is used, then the value of the named
1234 # annotation is interpreted as a list of tokens, and the ACL
1235 # matches individual name=token pairs rather than whole
1236 # name=value pairs. See "ACL Options" above for more info.
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1237 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
1238 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
1239
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1240 acl aclname annotate_transaction [-m[=delimiters]] key=value ...
1241 acl aclname annotate_transaction [-m[=delimiters]] key+=value ...
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1242 # Always matches. [fast]
1243 # Used for its side effect: This ACL immediately adds a
1244 # key=value annotation to the current master transaction.
1245 # The added annotation can then be tested using note ACL and
1246 # logged (or sent to helpers) using %note format code.
1247 #
1248 # Annotations can be specified using replacement and addition
1249 # formats. The key=value form replaces old same-key annotation
1250 # value(s). The key+=value form appends a new value to the old
1251 # same-key annotation. Both forms create a new key=value
1252 # annotation if no same-key annotation exists already. If
1253 # -m flag is used, then the value is interpreted as a list
1254 # and the annotation will contain key=token pair(s) instead of the
1255 # whole key=value pair.
1256 #
1257 # This ACL is especially useful for recording complex multi-step
1258 # ACL-driven decisions. For example, the following configuration
1259 # avoids logging transactions accepted after aclX matched:
1260 #
1261 # # First, mark transactions accepted after aclX matched
1262 # acl markSpecial annotate_transaction special=true
1263 # http_access allow acl001
1264 # ...
1265 # http_access deny acl100
1266 # http_access allow aclX markSpecial
1267 #
1268 # # Second, do not log marked transactions:
1269 # acl markedSpecial note special true
1270 # access_log ... deny markedSpecial
1271 #
1272 # # Note that the following would not have worked because aclX
1273 # # alone does not determine whether the transaction was allowed:
1274 # access_log ... deny aclX # Wrong!
1275 #
1276 # Warning: This ACL annotates the transaction even when negated
1277 # and even if subsequent ACLs fail to match. For example, the
1278 # following three rules will have exactly the same effect as far
1279 # as annotations set by the "mark" ACL are concerned:
1280 #
1281 # some_directive acl1 ... mark # rule matches if mark is reached
1282 # some_directive acl1 ... !mark # rule never matches
1283 # some_directive acl1 ... mark !all # rule never matches
1284
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1285 acl aclname annotate_client [-m[=delimiters]] key=value ...
1286 acl aclname annotate_client [-m[=delimiters]] key+=value ...
75d47340 1287 #
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1288 # Always matches. [fast]
1289 # Used for its side effect: This ACL immediately adds a
1290 # key=value annotation to the current client-to-Squid
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1291 # connection. Connection annotations are propagated to the current
1292 # and all future master transactions on the annotated connection.
1293 # See the annotate_transaction ACL for details.
1294 #
1295 # For example, the following configuration avoids rewriting URLs
1296 # of transactions bumped by SslBump:
1297 #
1298 # # First, mark bumped connections:
1299 # acl markBumped annotate_client bumped=true
1300 # ssl_bump peek acl1
1301 # ssl_bump stare acl2
1302 # ssl_bump bump acl3 markBumped
1303 # ssl_bump splice all
1304 #
1305 # # Second, do not send marked transactions to the redirector:
1306 # acl markedBumped note bumped true
1307 # url_rewrite_access deny markedBumped
1308 #
1309 # # Note that the following would not have worked because acl3 alone
1310 # # does not determine whether the connection is going to be bumped:
1311 # url_rewrite_access deny acl3 # Wrong!
1312
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1313 acl aclname adaptation_service service ...
1314 # Matches the name of any icap_service, ecap_service,
1315 # adaptation_service_set, or adaptation_service_chain that Squid
1316 # has used (or attempted to use) for the master transaction.
1317 # This ACL must be defined after the corresponding adaptation
1318 # service is named in squid.conf. This ACL is usable with
1319 # adaptation_meta because it starts matching immediately after
1320 # the service has been selected for adaptation.
1321
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1323 # Matches transaction's initiator [fast]
1324 #
1325 # Supported initiators are:
1326 # esi: matches transactions fetching ESI resources
1327 # certificate-fetching: matches transactions fetching
1328 # a missing intermediate TLS certificate
1329 # cache-digest: matches transactions fetching Cache Digests
1330 # from a cache_peer
1331 # htcp: matches HTCP requests from peers
1332 # icp: matches ICP requests to peers
1333 # icmp: matches ICMP RTT database (NetDB) requests to peers
1334 # asn: matches asns db requests
1335 # internal: matches any of the above
1336 # client: matches transactions containing an HTTP or FTP
1337 # client request received at a Squid *_port
1338 # all: matches any transaction, including internal transactions
1339 # without a configurable initiator and hopefully rare
1340 # transactions without a known-to-Squid initiator
1341 #
1342 # Multiple initiators are ORed.
1343
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1344 acl aclname has component
1345 # matches a transaction "component" [fast]
1346 #
1347 # Supported transaction components are:
1348 # request: transaction has a request header (at least)
1349 # response: transaction has a response header (at least)
1350 # ALE: transaction has an internally-generated Access Log Entry
1351 # structure; bugs notwithstanding, all transaction have it
1352 #
1353 # For example, the following configuration helps when dealing with HTTP
1354 # clients that close connections without sending a request header:
1355 #
1356 # acl hasRequest has request
1357 # acl logMe note important_transaction
1358 # # avoid "logMe ACL is used in context without an HTTP request" warnings
1359 # access_log ... logformat=detailed hasRequest logMe
1360 # # log request-less transactions, instead of ignoring them
1361 # access_log ... logformat=brief !hasRequest
1362 #
1363 # Multiple components are not supported for one "acl" rule, but
1364 # can be specified (and are ORed) using multiple same-name rules:
1365 #
1366 # # OK, this strange logging daemon needs request or response,
1367 # # but can work without either a request or a response:
1368 # acl hasWhatMyLoggingDaemonNeeds has request
1369 # acl hasWhatMyLoggingDaemonNeeds has response
1370
cb4f4424 1371IF USE_OPENSSL
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1372 acl aclname ssl_error errorname
1373 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1374 #
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1376 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1377 #
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1378 # The following can be used as shortcuts for certificate properties:
1379 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1380 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1381 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1382 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1383 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1384 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1385 #
1386 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1387 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1388 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1389 #
1390 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1391 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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1394 # match against server SSL certificate fingerprint [fast]
1395 #
1396 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1397 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1398 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1399 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1400 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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1403 # match against the current step during ssl_bump evaluation [fast]
1404 # Never matches and should not be used outside the ssl_bump context.
1405 #
1406 # At each SslBump step, Squid evaluates ssl_bump directives to find
1407 # the next bumping action (e.g., peek or splice). Valid SslBump step
1408 # values and the corresponding ssl_bump evaluation moments are:
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1410 # SslBump2: After getting SSL Client Hello info.
1411 # SslBump3: After getting SSL Server Hello info.
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4f6990ec 1413 acl aclname ssl::server_name [option] .foo.com ...
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1414 # matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
1415 #
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1416 # The ACL computes server name(s) using such information sources as
1417 # CONNECT request URI, TLS client SNI, and TLS server certificate
1418 # subject (CN and SubjectAltName). The computed server name(s) usually
1419 # change with each SslBump step, as more info becomes available:
1420 # * SNI is used as the server name instead of the request URI,
1421 # * subject name(s) from the server certificate (CN and
1422 # SubjectAltName) are used as the server names instead of SNI.
1423 #
1424 # When the ACL computes multiple server names, matching any single
1425 # computed name is sufficient for the ACL to match.
1426 #
1427 # The "none" name can be used to match transactions where the ACL
8d9e6d7f 1428 # could not compute the server name using any information source
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1429 # that was both available and allowed to be used by the ACL options at
1430 # the ACL evaluation time.
1431 #
1432 # Unlike dstdomain, this ACL does not perform DNS lookups.
1433 #
1434 # An ACL option below may be used to restrict what information
1435 # sources are used to extract the server names from:
1436 #
1437 # --client-requested
1438 # The server name is SNI regardless of what the server says.
1439 # --server-provided
1440 # The server name(s) are the certificate subject name(s), regardless
1441 # of what the client has requested. If the server certificate is
1442 # unavailable, then the name is "none".
1443 # --consensus
1444 # The server name is either SNI (if SNI matches at least one of the
1445 # certificate subject names) or "none" (otherwise). When the server
1446 # certificate is unavailable, the consensus server name is SNI.
1447 #
1448 # Combining multiple options in one ACL is a fatal configuration
1449 # error.
1450 #
1451 # For all options: If no SNI is available, then the CONNECT request
1452 # target (a.k.a. URI) is used instead of SNI (for an intercepted
1453 # connection, this target is the destination IP address).
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1455 acl aclname ssl::server_name_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
1456 # regex matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
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1458 acl aclname connections_encrypted
1459 # matches transactions with all HTTP messages received over TLS
1460 # transport connections. [fast]
1461 #
1462 # The master transaction deals with HTTP messages received from
1463 # various sources. All sources used by the master transaction in the
1464 # past are considered by the ACL. The following rules define whether
1465 # a given message source taints the entire master transaction,
1466 # resulting in ACL mismatches:
1467 #
1468 # * The HTTP client transport connection is not TLS.
1469 # * An adaptation service connection-encryption flag is off.
1470 # * The peer or origin server transport connection is not TLS.
1471 #
1472 # Caching currently does not affect these rules. This cache ignorance
1473 # implies that only the current HTTP client transport and REQMOD
1474 # services status determine whether this ACL matches a from-cache
1475 # transaction. The source of the cached response does not have any
1476 # effect on future transaction that use the cached response without
1477 # revalidation. This may change.
1478 #
1479 # DNS, ICP, and HTCP exchanges during the master transaction do not
1480 # affect these rules.
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1482 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1483 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1484 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1485 #
1486 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1487 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1488 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1489 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1490 #
1491 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1492 # and slow otherwise.
1493
1494 acl aclname all-of acl1 acl2 ...
1495 # match all of the acls [fast or slow]
1496 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1497 #
1498 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1499 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1500 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1501 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1502 #
1503 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1504 # and slow otherwise.
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1506 Examples:
1507 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1508 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1509 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1510 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1511 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
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1515# Recommended minimum configuration:
1516#
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ee776778 1518# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1519# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1520# should be allowed
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1521acl localnet src 0.0.0.1-0.255.255.255 # RFC 1122 "this" network (LAN)
1522acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1523acl localnet src 100.64.0.0/10 # RFC 6598 shared address space (CGN)
1524acl localhet src 169.254.0.0/16 # RFC 3927 link-local (directly plugged) machines
1525acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1526acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1527acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1528acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1530acl SSL_ports port 443
1531acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1532acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1533acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1534acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1535acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1536acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1537acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1538acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1539acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1540acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
41bd17a4 1541NOCOMMENT_END
1542DOC_END
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d3d92daa 1544NAME: proxy_protocol_access
3d674977 1545TYPE: acl_access
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1546LOC: Config.accessList.proxyProtocol
1547DEFAULT: none
c390580b 1548DEFAULT_DOC: all TCP connections to ports with require-proxy-header will be denied
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1549DOC_START
1550 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1551 information regarding real client IP address using PROXY protocol.
1552
1553 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1554 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1555 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1556 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1557 * PROXY protocol connection header.
1558
1559 This directive is solely for validating new PROXY protocol
1560 connections received from a port flagged with require-proxy-header.
1561 It is checked only once after TCP connection setup.
1562
1563 A deny match results in TCP connection closure.
1564
1565 An allow match is required for Squid to permit the corresponding
1566 TCP connection, before Squid even looks for HTTP request headers.
1567 If there is an allow match, Squid starts using PROXY header information
1568 to determine the source address of the connection for all future ACL
1569 checks, logging, etc.
1570
1571 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1572
c390580b 1573 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
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1574 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
1575 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1576 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1577 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1578 based on the client's source addresses.
1579
1580 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1581 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1582DOC_END
1583
1584NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1585TYPE: acl_access
1586IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
3d674977 1587LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1588DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
9353df52 1589DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
3d674977 1590DOC_START
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1591 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1592 information regarding real client IP address.
1593
3d674977 1594 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
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1595 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1596 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1597 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1598 * PROXY protocol connection header.
3d674977 1599
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1600 PROXY protocol connections are controlled by the proxy_protocol_access
1601 directive which is checked before this.
1602
3d674977 1603 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
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1604 directive, then we trust the information it provides regarding
1605 the IP of the client it received from (if any).
1606
1607 For the purpose of ACLs used in this directive the src ACL type always
1608 matches the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
1609
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1610 On each HTTP request Squid checks for X-Forwarded-For header fields.
1611 If found the header values are iterated in reverse order and an allow
1612 match is required for Squid to continue on to the next value.
1613 The verification ends when a value receives a deny match, cannot be
1614 tested, or there are no more values to test.
1615 NOTE: Squid does not yet follow the Forwarded HTTP header.
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1617 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1618 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1619 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1620 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1621 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
1622 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1625 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1626
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1627 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1628
c390580b 1629 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
70a16fea 1630 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
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1631 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1632 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1633 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1634 based on the client's source addresses.
1635
1636 For example:
1637
1638 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1639 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1640 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1641 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1642DOC_END
1643
1644NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1645COMMENT: on|off
1646TYPE: onoff
1647IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1648DEFAULT: on
1649LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1650DOC_START
1651 Controls whether the indirect client address
1652 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1653 direct client address in acl matching.
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1655 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1656 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1658
1659NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1660COMMENT: on|off
1661TYPE: onoff
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1663DEFAULT: on
1664LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1665DOC_START
1666 Controls whether the indirect client address
1667 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1668 direct client address in delay pools.
1669DOC_END
1670
1671NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1672COMMENT: on|off
1673TYPE: onoff
1674IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1675DEFAULT: on
1676LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1677DOC_START
1678 Controls whether the indirect client address
1679 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1680 direct client address in the access log.
1681DOC_END
1682
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1683NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1684COMMENT: on|off
1685TYPE: onoff
1686IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1687DEFAULT: off
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1688LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1689DOC_START
1690 Controls whether the indirect client address
1691 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1692 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1693
1694 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1695 mode ports.
1696
1697 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1698 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
16ae256c 1699 of follow_x_forwarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1700 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1703NAME: spoof_client_ip
1704TYPE: acl_access
1705LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1706DEFAULT: none
1707DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1708DOC_START
1709 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1710 defined access lists.
1711
1712 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1713
1714 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1715 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1716
1717 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1718
1719 This clause supports fast acl types.
1720 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1721DOC_END
1722
41bd17a4 1723NAME: http_access
1724TYPE: acl_access
1725LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1726DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1727DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1728DOC_START
1729 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1730
8a2f40dd 1731 To allow or deny a message received on an HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP port:
41bd17a4 1732 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1734 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1736 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1737 the request.
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41bd17a4 1739 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1740 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1741 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1742 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1744 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1747 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1748
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1751#
1752# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1753#
e0855596 1754# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1755http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1757# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1758http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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1761http_access allow localhost manager
1762http_access deny manager
1763
41bd17a4 1764# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1765# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1766# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1767#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1769#
1770# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1771#
c8f4eac4 1772
ee776778 1773# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1774# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1775# from where browsing should be allowed
1776http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1777http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1778
41bd17a4 1779# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1780http_access deny all
1781NOCOMMENT_END
1782DOC_END
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1784NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1785TYPE: acl_access
1786LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1787DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1788DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1790 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1791
1792 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1793 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1794 output.
1795
1796 If not set then only http_access is used.
1797DOC_END
1798
41bd17a4 1799NAME: http_reply_access
1800TYPE: acl_access
1801LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1802DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1803DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1804DOC_START
1805 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1806
41bd17a4 1807 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1808
41bd17a4 1809 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1810 all replies.
1a224843 1811
41bd17a4 1812 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1813 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1814 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1816 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1817 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1818DOC_END
1819
41bd17a4 1820NAME: icp_access
1821TYPE: acl_access
1822LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1824DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1825DOC_START
41bd17a4 1826 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1827 access lists
5473c134 1828
41bd17a4 1829 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1830
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1832 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1833 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1834
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1836 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1838# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1840#icp_access deny all
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1842
41bd17a4 1843NAME: htcp_access
1844IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1845TYPE: acl_access
1846LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1848DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1849DOC_START
41bd17a4 1850 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1851 access lists
5473c134 1852
41bd17a4 1853 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1856 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
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0b48417e 1858 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1859 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1860 using the htcp option.
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1863 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1865# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1867#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1868DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1870NAME: htcp_clr_access
1871IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1872TYPE: acl_access
1873LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1875DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1876DOC_START
1877 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1879 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1880
41bd17a4 1881 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1884 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1886# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1887acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1888htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1889htcp_clr_access deny all
5473c134 1890DOC_END
1891
41bd17a4 1892NAME: miss_access
1893TYPE: acl_access
1894LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1895DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1896DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1897DOC_START
18d1eddf 1898 Determines whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
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1900 For example;
1901 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1902 a parent.
5473c134 1903
638402dd 1904 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1905 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1906 miss_access allow all
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1909 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1910 objects (HITs).
1911
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1913 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1915 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1916 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1917DOC_END
1918
1919NAME: ident_lookup_access
1920TYPE: acl_access
1921IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1923DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1924LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1925DOC_START
41bd17a4 1926 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1927 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1928 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1929 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1930 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1931 any requests.
5473c134 1932
41bd17a4 1933 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1934 can follow this example:
5473c134 1935
4daaf3cb 1936 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1937 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1938 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1939
4daaf3cb 1940 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1941 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1942 the correct result.
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1944 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1945 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1946DOC_END
5473c134 1947
5b0f5383 1948NAME: reply_body_max_size
1949COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1950TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1951DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1952DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1953LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1954DOC_START
1955 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1956 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1957 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1958 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1959 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1960 for this reply.
1961
1962 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1963 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1964 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1965 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1966 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1967 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1968 and they will receive a partial reply.
1969
1970 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1971 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1972 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1973 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1974
1975 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1976 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1977 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1978 the size of your largest error page.
1979
1980 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1981 no limit imposed.
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1983 Configuration Format is:
1984 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1985 ie.
1986 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1987
5b0f5383 1988DOC_END
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1991TYPE: on_unsupported_protocol
1992LOC: Config.accessList.on_unsupported_protocol
1993DEFAULT: none
1994DEFAULT_DOC: Respond with an error message to unidentifiable traffic
1995DOC_START
1996 Determines Squid behavior when encountering strange requests at the
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1998 CONNECT tunnel. Controlling Squid reaction to unexpected traffic is
1999 especially useful in interception environments where Squid is likely
2000 to see connections for unsupported protocols that Squid should either
2001 terminate or tunnel at TCP level.
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2003 on_unsupported_protocol <action> [!]acl ...
2004
56d089f3 2005 The first matching action wins. Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2007 Supported actions are:
2008
2009 tunnel: Establish a TCP connection with the intended server and
2010 blindly shovel TCP packets between the client and server.
2011
2012 respond: Respond with an error message, using the transfer protocol
2013 for the Squid port that received the request (e.g., HTTP
2014 for connections intercepted at the http_port). This is the
2015 default.
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2017 Squid expects the following traffic patterns:
2018
2019 http_port: a plain HTTP request
2020 https_port: SSL/TLS handshake followed by an [encrypted] HTTP request
2021 ftp_port: a plain FTP command (no on_unsupported_protocol support yet!)
2022 CONNECT tunnel on http_port: same as https_port
2023 CONNECT tunnel on https_port: same as https_port
2024
9155253a 2025 Currently, this directive has effect on intercepted connections and
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2027 cannot know the intended destination of other traffic.
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2029 For example:
2030 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving non-HTTP traffic:
2031 acl foreignProtocol squid_error ERR_PROTOCOL_UNKNOWN ERR_TOO_BIG
2032 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving nothing:
2033 acl serverTalksFirstProtocol squid_error ERR_REQUEST_START_TIMEOUT
2034 # tunnel everything that does not look like HTTP:
2035 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel foreignProtocol
2036 # tunnel if we think the client waits for the server to talk first:
2037 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel serverTalksFirstProtocol
2038 # in all other error cases, just send an HTTP "error page" response:
2039 on_unsupported_protocol respond all
2040
2041 See also: squid_error ACL
2042DOC_END
2043
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2044NAME: auth_schemes
2045TYPE: AuthSchemes
2046IFDEF: USE_AUTH
2047LOC: Auth::TheConfig.schemeAccess
2048DEFAULT: none
2049DEFAULT_DOC: use all auth_param schemes in their configuration order
2050DOC_START
2051 Use this directive to customize authentication schemes presence and
2052 order in Squid's Unauthorized and Authentication Required responses.
2053
2054 auth_schemes scheme1,scheme2,... [!]aclname ...
2055
2056 where schemeN is the name of one of the authentication schemes
2057 configured using auth_param directives. At least one scheme name is
2058 required. Multiple scheme names are separated by commas. Either
2059 avoid whitespace or quote the entire schemes list.
2060
2061 A special "ALL" scheme name expands to all auth_param-configured
2062 schemes in their configuration order. This directive cannot be used
2063 to configure Squid to offer no authentication schemes at all.
2064
2065 The first matching auth_schemes rule determines the schemes order
2066 for the current Authentication Required transaction. Note that the
2067 future response is not yet available during auth_schemes evaluation.
2068
2069 If this directive is not used or none of its rules match, then Squid
2070 responds with all configured authentication schemes in the order of
2071 auth_param directives in the configuration file.
2072
2073 This directive does not determine when authentication is used or
2074 how each authentication scheme authenticates clients.
2075
2076 The following example sends basic and negotiate authentication
2077 schemes, in that order, when requesting authentication of HTTP
2078 requests matching the isIE ACL (not shown) while sending all
2079 auth_param schemes in their configuration order to other clients:
2080
2081 auth_schemes basic,negotiate isIE
2082 auth_schemes ALL all # explicit default
2083
2084 This directive supports fast ACLs only.
2085
2086 See also: auth_param.
2087DOC_END
2088
5b0f5383 2089COMMENT_START
2090 NETWORK OPTIONS
2091 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2092COMMENT_END
2093
2094NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 2095TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 2096DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 2097LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 2098DOC_START
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2100 hostname:port [mode] [options]
2101 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 2102
2103 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
2104 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
2105 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
2106 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
2107 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 2108 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 2109 address, so you can use the port number alone.
2110
2111 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
2112 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
2113
2114 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
2115 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
2116 be plain proxy ports with no options.
2117
2118 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
2119
c7b1dd5d 2120 Modes:
5b0f5383 2121
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2123 traffic to this Squid port.
2124 NP: disables authentication on the port.
5b0f5383 2125
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2127 of outgoing connections using the client IP address.
2128 NP: disables authentication on the port.
5b0f5383 2129
7f45065d 2130 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 2131
caf3666d 2132 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 2133 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 2134 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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2136 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
2137
7a957a93 2138 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 2139 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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2141 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
2142
2143
2144 Accelerator Mode Options:
2145
5b0f5383 2146 defaultsite=domainname
2147 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
2148 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
2149 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 2150
cf673853 2151 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 2152
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2154 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
2155 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
2156 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
2157 produce a FATAL error.
2158 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
5b0f5383 2159
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2161 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 2162
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2163 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
2164 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
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2167 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
2168 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
2169 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
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2172
7f45065d 2173 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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2175
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2177 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
2178 never_direct was used.
2179
2180 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
2181 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
2182 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
2183 http_access rules when using this.
2184
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2186 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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2188
2189 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
2190 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
2191 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
2192 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
2193 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
2194 certificate will be selfsigned.
2195 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
2196 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
2197 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
2198 years.
2199 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
2200 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
2201
2202 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
2203 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
2204 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 2205 default value is 4MB.
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2207 TLS / SSL Options:
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2209 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
2210
2211 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
2212 if not specified, the certificate file is
2213 assumed to be a combined certificate and
2214 key file.
2215
c7b1dd5d 2216 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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2218 additional settings. If those settings are
2219 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
2220 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 2221
943c5f16 2222 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 2223 being:
7905e7be 2224
3d96b0e8 2225 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 2226
3d96b0e8 2227 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1f1f29e8 2228
3d96b0e8 2229 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1f1f29e8 2230
3d96b0e8 2231 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1f1f29e8 2232
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2234 Always create a new key when using
c7b1dd5d 2235 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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2238 Enable ephemeral ECDH key exchange.
2239 The adopted curve should be specified
2240 using the tls-dh option.
2241
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2243 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2244 Some servers may have problems
2245 understanding the TLS extension due
2246 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2247
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2249 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2250 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2251 strength to some attacks.
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2253 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2254 more complete list.
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2256 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
2257 requesting a client certificate.
2258
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2260 client certificates. If not configured clientca will be
2261 used. May be repeated to load multiple files.
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2263 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
2264 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
86a84cc0 2265 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
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2267 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
2268 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
2269 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
2270
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2272 File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral DH key
2273 exchanges, optionally prefixed by a curve for ephemeral ECDH
2274 key exchanges.
2275 See OpenSSL documentation for details on how to create the
2276 DH parameter file. Supported curves for ECDH can be listed
2277 using the "openssl ecparam -list_curves" command.
2278 WARNING: EDH and EECDH ciphers will be silently disabled if
2279 this option is not set.
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2281 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
2282 DELAYED_AUTH
2283 Don't request client certificates
2284 immediately, but wait until acl processing
2285 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
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2286 NO_SESSION_REUSE
2287 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
2288 will result in a new SSL session.
2289 VERIFY_CRL
2290 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
2291 certificates.
2292 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
2293 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
2294 client certificate chain.
2295
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2297 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is OFF.
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2299 tls-no-npn Do not use the TLS NPN extension to advertise HTTP/1.1.
2300
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2302
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2304
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2306 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
2307 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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2309
5b0f5383 2310 disable-pmtu-discovery=
2311 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
2312 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
2313 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
2314 support is enabled.
2315 always disable always PMTU discovery.
2316
2317 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
2318 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
2319 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
2320 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
2321 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
2322 have such setup and experience that certain clients
2323 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
2324 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
2325
81b6e9a7 2326 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
2327 the port specification (port or addr:port)
2328
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2331 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
2332 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 2333 timeout the time before giving up.
2334
d3d92daa 2335 require-proxy-header
151ba0d4 2336 Require PROXY protocol version 1 or 2 connections.
d3d92daa 2337 The proxy_protocol_access is required to whitelist
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2339
5b0f5383 2340 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
2341 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
2342 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
2343 visible on the internal address.
2344
2345NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 2347# Squid normally listens to port 3128
2348http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
2349NOCOMMENT_END
2350DOC_END
2351
2352NAME: https_port
339e4d7a 2353IFDEF: USE_GNUTLS||USE_OPENSSL
65d448bc 2354TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 2355DEFAULT: none
339e4d7a 2356LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 2357DOC_START
9155253a 2358 Usage: [ip:]port [mode] cert=certificate.pem [options]
5b0f5383 2359
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2360 The socket address where Squid will listen for client requests made
2361 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 2362
859741ed 2363 This is most useful for situations where you are running squid in
9155253a 2364 accelerator mode and you want to do the TLS work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 2365
2366 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
9155253a 2367 each with their own certificate and/or options.
5b0f5383 2368
9155253a 2369 The TLS cert= option is mandatory on HTTPS ports.
379e8c1c 2370
9155253a 2371 See http_port for a list of modes and options.
5b0f5383 2372DOC_END
2373
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2374NAME: ftp_port
2375TYPE: PortCfg
2376DEFAULT: none
8ea0d847 2377LOC: FtpPortList
434a79b0 2378DOC_START
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2379 Enables Native FTP proxy by specifying the socket address where Squid
2380 listens for FTP client requests. See http_port directive for various
2381 ways to specify the listening address and mode.
2382
2383 Usage: ftp_port address [mode] [options]
2384
2385 WARNING: This is a new, experimental, complex feature that has seen
2386 limited production exposure. Some Squid modules (e.g., caching) do not
2387 currently work with native FTP proxying, and many features have not
2388 even been tested for compatibility. Test well before deploying!
2389
2390 Native FTP proxying differs substantially from proxying HTTP requests
2391 with ftp:// URIs because Squid works as an FTP server and receives
2392 actual FTP commands (rather than HTTP requests with FTP URLs).
2393
2394 Native FTP commands accepted at ftp_port are internally converted or
2395 wrapped into HTTP-like messages. The same happens to Native FTP
2396 responses received from FTP origin servers. Those HTTP-like messages
2397 are shoveled through regular access control and adaptation layers
2398 between the FTP client and the FTP origin server. This allows Squid to
2399 examine, adapt, block, and log FTP exchanges. Squid reuses most HTTP
2400 mechanisms when shoveling wrapped FTP messages. For example,
2401 http_access and adaptation_access directives are used.
2402
2403 Modes:
2404
3cc0f4e7 2405 intercept Same as http_port intercept. The FTP origin address is
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2406 determined based on the intended destination of the
2407 intercepted connection.
2408
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2409 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
2410 connections using the client IP address.
2411 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
2412
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2413 By default (i.e., without an explicit mode option), Squid extracts the
2414 FTP origin address from the login@origin parameter of the FTP USER
2415 command. Many popular FTP clients support such native FTP proxying.
2416
2417 Options:
2418
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2419 name=token Specifies an internal name for the port. Defaults to
2420 the port address. Usable with myportname ACL.
2421
aea65fec 2422 ftp-track-dirs
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2423 Enables tracking of FTP directories by injecting extra
2424 PWD commands and adjusting Request-URI (in wrapping
2425 HTTP requests) to reflect the current FTP server
aea65fec 2426 directory. Tracking is disabled by default.
8a2f40dd 2427
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2428 protocol=FTP Protocol to reconstruct accelerated and intercepted
2429 requests with. Defaults to FTP. No other accepted
2430 values have been tested with. An unsupported value
2431 results in a FATAL error. Accepted values are FTP,
2432 HTTP (or HTTP/1.1), and HTTPS (or HTTPS/1.1).
2433
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2434 Other http_port modes and options that are not specific to HTTP and
2435 HTTPS may also work.
2436DOC_END
434a79b0 2437
41bd17a4 2438NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2439TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 2440DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 2441LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 2442DOC_START
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2443 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
2444 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 2445
41bd17a4 2446 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 2447
41bd17a4 2448 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 2449 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 2450
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2451 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2452 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 2453 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 2454 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 2455
41bd17a4 2456 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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2457 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2458 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 2459
41bd17a4 2460 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
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2461 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2462 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2463 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2464 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
cccac0a2 2465
41bd17a4 2466 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2467 matching line.
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2468
2469 Only fast ACLs are supported.
cccac0a2 2470DOC_END
2471
41bd17a4 2472NAME: clientside_tos
2473TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 2474DEFAULT: none
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2475LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
2476DOC_START
5f53baab 2477 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value for packets being transmitted
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2478 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2479
2480 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2481
2482 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2483 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2484
2485 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2486 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2487 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
2488 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2489
2490 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
2491 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
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2492
2493 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
2494 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2495 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2496 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2497 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
2498
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2500 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2501DOC_END
2502
2503NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
2504TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2505IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2506DEFAULT: none
2507LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
2508DOC_START
2509 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
2510 on the server side, based on an ACL.
2511
2512 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2513
2514 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2515 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2516
2517 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2518 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2519 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2520 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
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2521
2522 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2523DOC_END
2524
2525NAME: clientside_mark
2526TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2527IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2528DEFAULT: none
2529LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 2530DOC_START
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2531 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
2532 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2533
2534 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2535
2536 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2537 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2538
2539 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2540 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2541 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2542 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
2543
2544 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
2545 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
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2547 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2548 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 2549DOC_END
cccac0a2 2550
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2551NAME: qos_flows
2552TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 2553IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 2554DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 2555LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 2556DOC_START
575cb927 2557 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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2558 connections to the client, based on where the reply was sourced.
2559 For platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
425de4c8 2560 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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2562 By default this functionality is disabled. To enable it with the default
2563 settings simply use "qos_flows mark" or "qos_flows tos". Default
2564 settings will result in the netfilter mark or TOS value being copied
2565 from the upstream connection to the client. Note that it is the connection
2566 CONNMARK value not the packet MARK value that is copied.
2567
2568 It is not currently possible to copy the mark or TOS value from the
2569 client to the upstream connection request.
2570
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2571 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
2572 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2573 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
7172612f 2574
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2575 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255.
2576 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2577 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2578 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
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2579
2580 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 2581
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2582 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
2583
2584 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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2585
2586 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
2587
2588 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
2589
2590 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
2591
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2592 miss=0xFF[/mask] Value to mark cache misses. Takes precedence
2593 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2594 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2595 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 2596
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2597 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
2598 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2599 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2600 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2601 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 2602
575cb927 2603 disable-preserve-miss
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2604 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2605 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2606 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2607 and masked with miss-mark.
2608 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2609 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2610 (MARK target).
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2611
2612 miss-mask=0xFF
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2613 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2614 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2615 the TOS sent towards clients.
2616 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2617 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2618
2619 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2620 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2621 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2622 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2624DOC_END
2625
41bd17a4 2626NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2627TYPE: acl_address
2628DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2629DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2630LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2631DOC_START
2632 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2633 based on the username or source address of the user making
2634 the request.
7f7db318 2635
41bd17a4 2636 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 2637
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2638 For example;
2639 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2641 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2642 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2643
2644 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2645 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2646
2647 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2648 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2649
2650 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2651 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2652
41bd17a4 2653 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2654 matching line.
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2656 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
2657 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2658 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2659
2660
2661 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2662 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2663 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2664 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 2665
2dd51400 2666 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 2667 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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2668 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option and the
2669 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 2670
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2672 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 2673DOC_END
6db78a1a 2674
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2675NAME: host_verify_strict
2676TYPE: onoff
2677DEFAULT: off
2678LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2679DOC_START
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2680 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2681 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2682 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2683
2684 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2685 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2686 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2687
2688 When set to ON:
2689 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2690 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2691
2692 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2693 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2694 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2695 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2696 and Request-URI components:
2697
2698 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2699 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2700 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2701 or FQDN.
2702
2703 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2704 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2705
2706
2707 When set to OFF (the default):
2708 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2709 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2710
2711 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2712
2713 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2714
2715 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2716 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2717
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2718 * Intercepted requests which fail verification are sent
2719 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2720 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2721
2722 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2723 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2724
bfe4e2fe 2725
7177edfb 2726 SECURITY NOTE:
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2727
2728 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2729 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2730 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2731 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2732
2733 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2734 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2735 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2736 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2737 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2738
2739DOC_END
6b185b50 2740
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2741NAME: client_dst_passthru
2742TYPE: onoff
2743DEFAULT: on
2744LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2745DOC_START
2746 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2747 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2748 source using the HTTP Host header.
2749
2750 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2751 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2752 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2753 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2754
2755 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2756 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2757 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2758
2759 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2760 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2761 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2762
2763 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2764DOC_END
2765
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2766COMMENT_START
2767 TLS OPTIONS
2768 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2769COMMENT_END
2770
2771NAME: tls_outgoing_options
2772IFDEF: USE_GNUTLS||USE_OPENSSL
2773TYPE: securePeerOptions
2fbb02b1 2774DEFAULT: min-version=1.0
7e62a74f 2775LOC: Security::ProxyOutgoingConfig
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2776DOC_START
2777 disable Do not support https:// URLs.
2778
2779 cert=/path/to/client/certificate
2780 A client TLS certificate to use when connecting.
2781
2782 key=/path/to/client/private_key
2783 The private TLS key corresponding to the cert= above.
2784 If key= is not specified cert= is assumed to reference
2785 a PEM file containing both the certificate and the key.
2786
195f8adb 2787 cipher=... The list of valid TLS ciphers to use.
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2788
2789 min-version=1.N
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2790 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit.
2791 To control SSLv3 use the options= parameter.
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2792 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
2793
3f5b28fe 2794 options=... Specify various TLS/SSL implementation options.
195f8adb 2795
3f5b28fe 2796 OpenSSL options most important are:
7905e7be 2797
3f5b28fe 2798 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
7905e7be 2799
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2800 SINGLE_DH_USE
2801 Always create a new key when using
2802 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
7905e7be 2803
ce0adf1a 2804 NO_TICKET
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2805 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2806 Some servers may have problems
2807 understanding the TLS extension due
2808 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2809
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2810 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2811 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
7905e7be 2812 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
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2813 strength to some attacks.
2814
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2815 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation
2816 for a more complete list.
2817
2818 GnuTLS options most important are:
2819
2820 %NO_TICKETS
2821 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2822 Some servers may have problems
2823 understanding the TLS extension due
2824 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2825
2826 See the GnuTLS Priority Strings documentation
2827 for a more complete list.
2828 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Priority-Strings
2829
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2831 cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2832 the peer certificate. May be repeated to load multiple files.
2833
2834 capath= A directory containing additional CA certificates to
195f8adb 2835 use when verifying the peer certificate.
86a84cc0 2836 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
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2837
2838 crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2839 verifying the peer certificate.
2840
2841 flags=... Specify various flags modifying the TLS implementation:
2842
2843 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2844 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2845 verify.
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2846 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2847 Don't verify the peer certificate
2848 matches the server name
2849
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2850 default-ca[=off]
2851 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is ON.
8b253b83 2852
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2853 domain= The peer name as advertised in its certificate.
2854 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2855 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2856 used.
2857DOC_END
2858
41bd17a4 2859COMMENT_START
2860 SSL OPTIONS
2861 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2862COMMENT_END
2863
2864NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
cb4f4424 2865IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2866TYPE: onoff
2867DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2868LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2869DOC_START
41bd17a4 2870 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2871 messages.
cccac0a2 2872DOC_END
2873
41bd17a4 2874NAME: ssl_engine
cb4f4424 2875IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2876TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2877LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2878DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2879DOC_START
41bd17a4 2880 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2881 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2882DOC_END
2883
10a69fc0 2884NAME: sslproxy_session_ttl
cb4f4424 2885IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2886DEFAULT: 300
2887LOC: Config.SSL.session_ttl
2888TYPE: int
2889DOC_START
2890 Sets the timeout value for SSL sessions
2891DOC_END
2892
2893NAME: sslproxy_session_cache_size
cb4f4424 2894IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2895DEFAULT: 2 MB
2896LOC: Config.SSL.sessionCacheSize
2897TYPE: b_size_t
2898DOC_START
2899 Sets the cache size to use for ssl session
2900DOC_END
2901
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2902NAME: sslproxy_foreign_intermediate_certs
2903IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
2904DEFAULT: none
2905LOC: Config.ssl_client.foreignIntermediateCertsPath
2906TYPE: string
2907DOC_START
2908 Many origin servers fail to send their full server certificate
2909 chain for verification, assuming the client already has or can
2910 easily locate any missing intermediate certificates.
2911
2912 Squid uses the certificates from the specified file to fill in
2913 these missing chains when trying to validate origin server
2914 certificate chains.
2915
2916 The file is expected to contain zero or more PEM-encoded
2917 intermediate certificates. These certificates are not treated
2918 as trusted root certificates, and any self-signed certificate in
2919 this file will be ignored.
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2921
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2922NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign_hash
2923IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
2924DEFAULT: none
2925LOC: Config.SSL.certSignHash
2926TYPE: string
2927DOC_START
2928 Sets the hashing algorithm to use when signing generated certificates.
2929 Valid algorithm names depend on the OpenSSL library used. The following
2930 names are usually available: sha1, sha256, sha512, and md5. Please see
2931 your OpenSSL library manual for the available hashes. By default, Squids
2932 that support this option use sha256 hashes.
2933
2934 Squid does not forcefully purge cached certificates that were generated
2935 with an algorithm other than the currently configured one. They remain
2936 in the cache, subject to the regular cache eviction policy, and become
2937 useful if the algorithm changes again.
2938DOC_END
2939
4c9da963 2940NAME: ssl_bump
cb4f4424 2941IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
caf3666d 2942TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2943LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
8f165829 2944DEFAULT_DOC: Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
4c9da963 2945DEFAULT: none
2946DOC_START
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2947 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2948 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2949 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2950 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2951 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
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2952 depending on the first matching bumping "action".
2953
2954 ssl_bump <action> [!]acl ...
caf3666d 2955
8f165829 2956 The following bumping actions are currently supported:
caf3666d 2957
5d65362c 2958 splice
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2959 Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
2960 This is the default action.
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2961
2962 bump
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2964 with the client first, then connect to the server.
2965 When used on step SslBump2 or SslBump3, establishes a secure
2966 connection with the server and, using a mimicked server
2967 certificate, with the client.
caf3666d 2968
5d65362c 2969 peek
1110989a 2970 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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2972 connection. Peeking at the server certificate (during step 2)
2973 usually precludes bumping of the connection at step 3.
caf3666d 2974
5d65362c 2975 stare
1110989a 2976 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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2977 certificate while preserving the possibility of bumping the
2978 connection. Staring at the server certificate (during step 2)
2979 usually precludes splicing of the connection at step 3.
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2981 terminate
2982 Close client and server connections.
2983
1110989a 2984 Backward compatibility actions available at step SslBump1:
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2985
2986 client-first
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2987 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
2988 client first, then connect to the server. This old mode does
2989 not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does not
2990 work with intercepted SSL connections.
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2991
2992 server-first
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2993 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
2994 server first, then establish a secure connection with the
2995 client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2996 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections, but does
2997 not allow to make decisions based on SSL handshake info.
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2999 peek-and-splice
3000 Decide whether to bump or splice the connection based on
d620ae0e 3001 client-to-squid and server-to-squid SSL hello messages.
8f165829 3002 XXX: Remove.
caf3666d 3003
caf3666d 3004 none
8f165829 3005 Same as the "splice" action.
caf3666d 3006
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3007 All ssl_bump rules are evaluated at each of the supported bumping
3008 steps. Rules with actions that are impossible at the current step are
3009 ignored. The first matching ssl_bump action wins and is applied at the
3010 end of the current step. If no rules match, the splice action is used.
652fcffd 3011 See the at_step ACL for a list of the supported SslBump steps.
4c9da963 3012
e0c0d54c 3013 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 3014 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
e0855596 3015
652fcffd 3016 See also: http_port ssl-bump, https_port ssl-bump, and acl at_step.
caf3666d 3017
e0855596 3018
f3fece95 3019 # Example: Bump all TLS connections except those originating from
638402dd 3020 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 3021
f3fece95 3022 acl broken_sites ssl::server_name .example.com
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3023 ssl_bump splice localhost
3024 ssl_bump splice broken_sites
3025 ssl_bump bump all
4c9da963 3026DOC_END
3027
4c9da963 3028NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
cb4f4424 3029IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
4c9da963 3030DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3031DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 3032LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
3033TYPE: acl_access
3034DOC_START
3035 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
3036
3037 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 3038 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 3039 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
3040
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3041 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
3042 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 3043 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
3044
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3046 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3047 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 3048
3049 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 3050 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
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3052 SQUID_X509_V_ERR_INFINITE_VALIDATION error cannot be bypassed
3053 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
3054
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3055 SECURITY WARNING:
3056 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
3057 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
3058 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 3059
638402dd 3060 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 3061DOC_END
3062
aebe6888 3063NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
cb4f4424 3064IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
aebe6888 3065DEFAULT: none
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3066POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
3067POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
3068POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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3069TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
3070LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
3071DOC_START
3072
69742b76 3073 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 3074
69742b76 3075 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
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aebe6888 3077 signTrusted
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3078 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
3079 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
3080 default for trusted origin server certificates.
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aebe6888 3082 signUntrusted
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3083 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
3084 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
3085 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 3086
aebe6888 3087 signSelf
69742b76 3088 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 3089 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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3090 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
3091 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
aebe6888 3092
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3094
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3095 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
3096 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
3097 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
3098 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
3099 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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3101 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
3102 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
3103 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
3104 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
3105 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
3106 bump-server-first is used.
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3107DOC_END
3108
638402dd 3109NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
cb4f4424 3110IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3111DEFAULT: none
3112TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
3113LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
3114DOC_START
3115
3116 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
3117
69742b76 3118 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 3119
fb2178bb 3120 setValidAfter
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3121 Sets the "Not After" property to the "Not After" property of
3122 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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fb2178bb 3124 setValidBefore
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3125 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
3126 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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3128 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
3129 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
3130 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
3131 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
3132 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
3133 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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3135 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3136
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3137 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
3138 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
3139 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
3140 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
3141 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
3142 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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3144 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
3145 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
3146 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
3147 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
3148 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
3149 bump-server-first is used.
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3150DOC_END
3151
41bd17a4 3152NAME: sslpassword_program
cb4f4424 3153IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 3154DEFAULT: none
3155LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
3156TYPE: string
5473c134 3157DOC_START
41bd17a4 3158 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
3159 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
3160 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
3161 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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3162
3163 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
3164 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
3165 keys.
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3167
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3168COMMENT_START
3169 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
3170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3171COMMENT_END
3172
3173NAME: sslcrtd_program
3174TYPE: eol
3175IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
3176DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
3177LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
3178DOC_START
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3179 Specify the location and options of the executable for certificate
3180 generator.
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3181 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
3182 For more information use:
3183 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
3184DOC_END
3185
3186NAME: sslcrtd_children
3187TYPE: HelperChildConfig
3188IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
3189DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
3190LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
3191DOC_START
3192 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
3193 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
3194
3195 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3196 tuning.
3197
3198 startup=N
3199
3200 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
3201 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3202 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3203
3204 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
3205 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
3206
3207 idle=N
3208
3209 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3210 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3211 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3212 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3213
3214 queue-size=N
3215
3216 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
3217 If the queued requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes
3218 squid aborts its operation.
3219 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3220
3221 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
3222DOC_END
3223
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3224NAME: sslcrtvalidator_program
3225TYPE: eol
cb4f4424 3226IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3227DEFAULT: none
3228LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
3229DOC_START
3230 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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3231 process.
3232
3233 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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3234
3235 Options:
638402dd 3236 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results. The default is 60 secs
14798e73 3237 cache=n limit the result cache size. The default value is 2048
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3238DOC_END
3239
3240NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
3241TYPE: HelperChildConfig
cb4f4424 3242IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
413bb969 3243DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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3244LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
3245DOC_START
638402dd 3246 The maximum number of processes spawn to service SSL server.
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3247 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
3248
3249 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3250 tuning.
3251
3252 startup=N
3253
3254 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
3255 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3256 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3257
3258 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
3259 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
3260
3261 idle=N
3262
3263 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3264 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3265 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3266 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3268 concurrency=
3269
3270 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
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3271 parallel. A value of 0 indicates the certficate validator does not
3272 support concurrency. Defaults to 1.
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3273
3274 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3275 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3276 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3277 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3278 to that request.
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3279
3280 queue-size=N
3281
3282 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
3283 If the queued requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes
3284 squid aborts its operation.
3285 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3287 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
3288DOC_END
3289
cccac0a2 3290COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3291 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 3292 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3293COMMENT_END
3294
41bd17a4 3295NAME: cache_peer
3296TYPE: peer
3297DEFAULT: none
3298LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 3299DOC_START
41bd17a4 3300 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 3301
41bd17a4 3302 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 3303
41bd17a4 3304 For example,
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41bd17a4 3306 # proxy icp
3307 # hostname type port port options
3308 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 3309 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 3310 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
3311 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 3312 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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3313 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
3314
3315 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
3316
3317 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
3318 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
3319 For web servers this is usually 80
3320
3321 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
3322 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
3323 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
3324
3325
3326 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
3327
3328 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
3329 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
3330
3331
3332 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
3333
3334 multicast-responder
3335 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
3336 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
3337 replies will be accepted from it.
3338
3339 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
3340 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
3341
3342 background-ping
3343 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
3344 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
3345 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
3346
3347
3348 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
3349
3350 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
3351 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
3352
3353
3354 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
3355 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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3357 list of options described below.
2b94f655 3358
18191440 3359 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 3360
18191440 3361 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 3362 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 3363 only-clr.
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3365 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
3366 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 3368 htcp=no-purge-clr
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3369 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
3370 they do not result from PURGE requests.
3371
18191440 3372 htcp=forward-clr
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3373 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
3374
3375
3376 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
3377
3378 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
3379 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
3380
3381
3382 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
3383 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
3384 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
3385
3386 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3387 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
3388 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3389
3390 weighted-round-robin
3391 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3392 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
3393 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
3394 Usually used for background-ping parents.
3395 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3396
3397 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
3398 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
3399 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
3400
3401 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
3402
3403 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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3405 multicast-siblings
3406 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
3407 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 3408 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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3409 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
3410 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
3411 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
3412 members of the same multicast group.
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3413
3414
3415 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
3416
3417 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
3418 peer-selection mechanisms.
3419 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
3420 larger weights are favored more.
3421 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
3422 protocol is not in use.
3423
3424 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
3425 times of parents.
3426 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
3427 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
3428 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
3429
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3430 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
3431 to this address.
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3432 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
3433 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
3434 hosts, you must configure other group members as
3435 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
3436
3437 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
3438 delay pools.
3439
3440 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
3441 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
3442 than the Squid default location.
3443
3444
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3446
3447 carp-key=key-specification
3448 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
3449 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
3450 scheme, host, port, path, params
3451 Order is not important.
3452
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3454
3455 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
3456 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
3457 is a web server.
3458
3459 forceddomain=name
3460 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
3461 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
3462 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
3463 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
3464
3465 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
3466
3467 no-netdb-exchange
3468 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
3469
3470
3471 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
3472
3473 login=user:password
3474 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3475 requires proxy authentication.
3476
3477 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
3478 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
3479
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3480 login=PASSTHRU
3481 Send login details received from client to this peer.
3482 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
3483 without alteration to the peer.
3484 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
3485
3486 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
3487 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
3488 connection-auth options are also used.
ee0b94f4 3489
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3490 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
3491 Authentication is not required by this option.
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3493 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
3494 to pass on, but username and password are available
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3496 they may be sent instead.
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3497
3498 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
3499 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
3500 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
3501 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
3502 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
3503
3504 login=*:password
3505 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
3506 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
3507 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
3508 needed to identify each user.
3509 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
3510 information which is added to the username. This can
3511 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
3512 the login=username:password option above.
3513
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3514 login=NEGOTIATE
3515 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3516 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3517 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
3518 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
3519
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3520 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
3521 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3522 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3523
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3524 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
3525 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3526 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3527 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
3528 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
3529 used.
3530
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3531 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
3532 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3533 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3534
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3535 connection-auth=on|off
3536 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
3537 connection oriented authentication, and any such
3538 challenges received from there should be ignored.
3539 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
3540 of the peer.
3541
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3542 auth-no-keytab
3543 Do not use a keytab to authenticate to a peer when
3544 login=NEGOTIATE is specified. Let the GSSAPI
3545 implementation determine which already existing
3546 credentials cache to use instead.
3547
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3549 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
3550
0ff7e52d 3551 tls Encrypt connections to this peer with TLS.
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3552
3553 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
3554 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
3555 this peer.
3556
3557 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
3558 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
3559 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
3560 reference a combined file containing both the
3561 certificate and the key.
3562
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3563 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
3564 to this peer.
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3565
3566 tls-min-version=1.N
3567 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
3f5b28fe 3568 SSLv3 use the tls-options= parameter.
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3569 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
3570
3f5b28fe 3571 tls-options=... Specify various TLS implementation options.
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3f5b28fe 3573 OpenSSL options most important are:
1f1f29e8 3574
3f5b28fe 3575 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 3576
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3577 SINGLE_DH_USE
3578 Always create a new key when using
3579 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1f1f29e8 3580
ce0adf1a 3581 NO_TICKET
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3582 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3583 Some servers may have problems
3584 understanding the TLS extension due
3585 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3586
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3587 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
3588 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
3589 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
3590 strength to some attacks.
3591
3592 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
3593 more complete list.
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3594
3595 GnuTLS options most important are:
3596
3597 %NO_TICKETS
3598 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3599 Some servers may have problems
3600 understanding the TLS extension due
3601 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3602
3603 See the GnuTLS Priority Strings documentation
3604 for a more complete list.
3605 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Priority-Strings
3606
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3607 tls-cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
3608 the peer certificate. May be repeated to load multiple files.
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3609
3610 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
3611 use when verifying the peer certificate.
86a84cc0 3612 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
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3613
3614 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
3615 verifying the peer certificate.
3616
3617 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
3618
41bd17a4 3619 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
3620 Accept certificates even if they fail to
3621 verify.
1f1f29e8 3622
41bd17a4 3623 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
3624 Don't verify the peer certificate
3625 matches the server name
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3626
3627 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
3628 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
3629 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
3630 used.
3631
bad9c5e4 3632 front-end-https[=off|on|auto]
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3633 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
3634 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
3635 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
3636 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
3637 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
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3638
3639 tls-default-ca[=off]
3640 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is ON.
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3642 tls-no-npn Do not use the TLS NPN extension to advertise HTTP/1.1.
3643
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3644 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
3645
3646 connect-timeout=N
3647 A peer-specific connect timeout.
3648 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
3649
3650 connect-fail-limit=N
3651 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
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3652 it is marked as down. Standby connection failures
3653 count towards this limit. Default is 10.
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3655 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
3656 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
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3657 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. Excessive use
3658 of this option may result in forwarding loops. One way
3659 to prevent peering loops when using this option, is to
3660 deny cache peer usage on requests from a peer:
3661 acl fromPeer ...
3662 cache_peer_access peerName deny fromPeer
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3664 max-conn=N Limit the number of concurrent connections the Squid
3665 may open to this peer, including already opened idle
3666 and standby connections. There is no peer-specific
3667 connection limit by default.
3668
3669 A peer exceeding the limit is not used for new
3670 requests unless a standby connection is available.
3671
3672 max-conn currently works poorly with idle persistent
3673 connections: When a peer reaches its max-conn limit,
3674 and there are idle persistent connections to the peer,
3675 the peer may not be selected because the limiting code
3676 does not know whether Squid can reuse those idle
3677 connections.
3678
3679 standby=N Maintain a pool of N "hot standby" connections to an
3680 UP peer, available for requests when no idle
3681 persistent connection is available (or safe) to use.
3682 By default and with zero N, no such pool is maintained.
3683 N must not exceed the max-conn limit (if any).
3684
3685 At start or after reconfiguration, Squid opens new TCP
3686 standby connections until there are N connections
3687 available and then replenishes the standby pool as
3688 opened connections are used up for requests. A used
3689 connection never goes back to the standby pool, but
3690 may go to the regular idle persistent connection pool
3691 shared by all peers and origin servers.
3692
3693 Squid never opens multiple new standby connections
3694 concurrently. This one-at-a-time approach minimizes
3695 flooding-like effect on peers. Furthermore, just a few
3696 standby connections should be sufficient in most cases
3697 to supply most new requests with a ready-to-use
3698 connection.
3699
3700 Standby connections obey server_idle_pconn_timeout.
3701 For the feature to work as intended, the peer must be
3702 configured to accept and keep them open longer than
3703 the idle timeout at the connecting Squid, to minimize
3704 race conditions typical to idle used persistent
3705 connections. Default request_timeout and
3706 server_idle_pconn_timeout values ensure such a
3707 configuration.
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3708
3709 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
3710 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
3711 but different ports.
3712 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
a5bb0c26 3713 directives to identify the peer.
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3714 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3715 peername ACL type.
3716
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3717 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3718 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3719 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
b0758e04 3720
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3721 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
3722
41bd17a4 3723DOC_END
cccac0a2 3724
41bd17a4 3725NAME: cache_peer_access
3726TYPE: peer_access
3727DEFAULT: none
a5bb0c26 3728DEFAULT_DOC: No peer usage restrictions.
41bd17a4 3729LOC: none
3730DOC_START
a5bb0c26 3731 Restricts usage of cache_peer proxies.
cccac0a2 3732
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3734 cache_peer_access peer-name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3735
3736 For the required peer-name parameter, use either the value of the
3737 cache_peer name=value parameter or, if name=value is missing, the
3738 cache_peer hostname parameter.
3739
3740 This directive narrows down the selection of peering candidates, but
3741 does not determine the order in which the selected candidates are
3742 contacted. That order is determined by the peer selection algorithms
3743 (see PEER SELECTION sections in the cache_peer documentation).
3744
3745 If a deny rule matches, the corresponding peer will not be contacted
3746 for the current transaction -- Squid will not send ICP queries and
3747 will not forward HTTP requests to that peer. An allow match leaves
3748 the corresponding peer in the selection. The first match for a given
3749 peer wins for that peer.
3750
3751 The relative order of cache_peer_access directives for the same peer
3752 matters. The relative order of any two cache_peer_access directives
3753 for different peers does not matter. To ease interpretation, it is a
3754 good idea to group cache_peer_access directives for the same peer
3755 together.
3756
3757 A single cache_peer_access directive may be evaluated multiple times
3758 for a given transaction because individual peer selection algorithms
3759 may check it independently from each other. These redundant checks
3760 may be optimized away in future Squid versions.
3761
3762 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3763 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
dd9b1776 3764
41bd17a4 3765DOC_END
dd9b1776 3766
41bd17a4 3767NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3768TYPE: hostdomaintype
3769DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3770DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3771LOC: none
3772DOC_START
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3773 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3774 about specific domains to the peer.
cccac0a2 3775
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3776 Usage:
3777 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
6bf4f823 3778
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3779 For example:
3780 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3781 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
6bf4f823 3782
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3783 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3784 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3785DOC_END
6bf4f823 3786
41bd17a4 3787NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3788COMMENT: (seconds)
3789DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3790TYPE: time_t
3791LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3792DOC_START
3793 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3794 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3795 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3796 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3797 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3798 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3799
41bd17a4 3800 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3801 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3802 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3803 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3804 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3805 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3806 instead of to your parents.
3807DOC_END
cccac0a2 3808
437823b4 3809NAME: forward_max_tries
6c367206 3810DEFAULT: 25
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3811TYPE: int
3812LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3813DOC_START
3814 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3815 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3816
3817 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3818 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3819DOC_END
3820
41bd17a4 3821COMMENT_START
3822 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3823 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3824COMMENT_END
3825
3826NAME: cache_mem
3827COMMENT: (bytes)
3828TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3829DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3830LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3831DOC_START
41bd17a4 3832 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3833 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3834 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3835 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3836
3837 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3838 for:
3839 * In-Transit objects
3840 * Hot Objects
3841 * Negative-Cached objects
3842
3843 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3844 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3845 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3846 priority.
3847
3848 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3849 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3850 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3851 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3852 not needed for in-transit objects.
3853
3854 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3855 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3856 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3857 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3858 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3859 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3860 objects.
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3861
3862 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3863 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3864 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3865 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3866DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3868NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3869COMMENT: (bytes)
3870TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3871DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3872LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3873DOC_START
41bd17a4 3874 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3875 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3876 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3877 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3878DOC_END
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3880NAME: memory_cache_shared
3881COMMENT: on|off
3882TYPE: YesNoNone
3883LOC: Config.memShared
3884DEFAULT: none
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3886DOC_START
3887 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3888
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3889 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3890 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3891 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3892 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3893 caching is enabled).
3894
65b81b27 3895 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3896 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3897 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3898 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3899 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3900
3901 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3902 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3903 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
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3905
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3906NAME: memory_cache_mode
3907TYPE: memcachemode
3908LOC: Config
3909DEFAULT: always
638402dd 3910DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 3911DOC_START
ea21d497 3912 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3913
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3914 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3915
3916 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3917 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3918 a second time before cached in memory.
3919
3920 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3922
41bd17a4 3923NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3924TYPE: removalpolicy
3925LOC: Config.memPolicy
3926DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3927DOC_START
41bd17a4 3928 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3929 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3930
638402dd 3931 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 3932DOC_END
6b698a21 3933
41bd17a4 3934COMMENT_START
3935 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3936 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3937COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3938
41bd17a4 3939NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3940TYPE: removalpolicy
3941LOC: Config.replPolicy
3942DEFAULT: lru
3943DOC_START
3944 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3945 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3946
41bd17a4 3947 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3948 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3949 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3950 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3951
638402dd 3952 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 3953
41bd17a4 3954 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3955
41bd17a4 3956 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3957 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3958 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3959 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3960
41bd17a4 3961 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3962 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3963 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3964 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3965
41bd17a4 3966 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3967 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3968 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3969
41bd17a4 3970 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3971 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3972 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3973
41bd17a4 3974 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3975 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3976 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3977DOC_END
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3979NAME: minimum_object_size
3980COMMENT: (bytes)
3981TYPE: b_int64_t
3982DEFAULT: 0 KB
3983DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
3984LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
3985DOC_START
3986 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3987 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3988 means all responses can be stored.
3989DOC_END
3990
3991NAME: maximum_object_size
3992COMMENT: (bytes)
3993TYPE: b_int64_t
3994DEFAULT: 4 MB
3995LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
3996DOC_START
499f852c 3997 Set the default value for max-size parameter on any cache_dir.
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3998 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3999
4000 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
4001 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
4002 hits).
4003
4004 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
4005 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
4006
4007 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
4008 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
4009 See cache_replacement_policy for a discussion of this policy.
4010DOC_END
4011
41bd17a4 4012NAME: cache_dir
4013TYPE: cachedir
4014DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4015DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 4016LOC: Config.cacheSwap
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4018 Format:
4019 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
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41bd17a4 4021 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
4022 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 4023
41bd17a4 4024 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
4025 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
4026 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 4027
41bd17a4 4028 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
4029 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
4030 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
4031 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
4032 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 4033
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4035 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
4036 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
4037
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4039 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 4040
41bd17a4 4041 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
4042 been there.
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4044 Usage:
4045 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 4046
41bd17a4 4047 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
4048 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
4049 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
4050 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
4051 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 4052
56fba4d0 4053 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 4054 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 4055
56fba4d0 4056 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 4057 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
4058 is 256.
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4061 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 4062
41bd17a4 4063 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
4064 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
4065 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 4066
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4067 Usage:
4068 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 4069
41bd17a4 4070 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 4071
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4073 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 4074
41bd17a4 4075 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
4076 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
4077 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 4078
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4079 Usage:
4080 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 4081
41bd17a4 4082 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 4083
41bd17a4 4084 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
4085 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
4086 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 4087
41bd17a4 4088 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
4089 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
4090 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 4091
41bd17a4 4092 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
4093 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
4094 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
4095 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
4096 time.
0976f8db 4097
e2851fe7 4098
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4099 ==== The rock store type ====
4100
4101 Usage:
e51ce7da 4102 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes [options]
e2851fe7 4103
2e55f083 4104 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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4105 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots.
4106 A single entry occupies one or more slots.
e2851fe7 4107
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4108 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
4109 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
4110 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
4111 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
4112 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
4113
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4114 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
4115 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
4116 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
4117 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
4118 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
4119 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
4120 expected swap wait time.
4121
df881a0f 4122 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 4123 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 4124 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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4125 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
4126 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
4127 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
4128 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
4129 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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4130 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
4131 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
4132 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
4133 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
4134 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
4135 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
4136
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4137 slot-size=bytes: The size of a database "record" used for
4138 storing cached responses. A cached response occupies at least
4139 one slot and all database I/O is done using individual slots so
4140 increasing this parameter leads to more disk space waste while
4141 decreasing it leads to more disk I/O overheads. Should be a
4142 multiple of your operating system I/O page size. Defaults to
4143 16KBytes. A housekeeping header is stored with each slot and
4144 smaller slot-sizes will be rejected. The header is smaller than
4145 100 bytes.
4146
df881a0f 4147
638402dd 4148 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
0976f8db 4149
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4150 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
4151
4152 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
4153 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
4154 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
4155 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
73656056 4156 (e.g. Rock).
638402dd 4157 Defaults to 0.
0976f8db 4158
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4159 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
4160 supports.
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4161 The value in maximum_object_size directive sets
4162 the default unless more specific details are
4163 available (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 4164
41bd17a4 4165 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 4166 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 4167
bebc043b 4168NOCOMMENT_START
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4169
4170# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
4171#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 4172NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 4173DOC_END
0976f8db 4174
41bd17a4 4175NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
4176TYPE: string
4177LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
4178DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 4179DOC_START
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4180 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
4181 object will fit into more than one.
4182
4183 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
4184 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
4185 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
4186 cache_dir.
4187
4188 Algorithms:
4189
4190 least-load
4191
4192 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
4193 sizes and disk speeds.
4194
4195 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
4196 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
4197 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
4198
4199 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
4200 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
4201 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
4202 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
4203
4204
4205 round-robin
4206
4207 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
4208 disk sizes.
4209
4210 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
4211 cache_dir is used.
4212
4213 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
4214 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
4215 max-size parameters.
4216
4217 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
4218 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
4219 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
4220
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4221 If several cache_dirs use similar min-size, max-size, or other
4222 limits to to reject certain responses, then do not group such
4223 cache_dir lines together, to avoid round-robin selection bias
4224 towards the first cache_dir after the group. Instead, interleave
4225 cache_dir lines from different groups. For example:
4226
4227 store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin
4228 cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000
4229 cache_dir rock /ssd1 ... max-size=99999
4230 cache_dir rock /hdd2 ... min-size=100000
4231 cache_dir rock /ssd2 ... max-size=99999
4232 cache_dir rock /hdd3 ... min-size=100000
4233 cache_dir rock /ssd3 ... max-size=99999
6b698a21 4234DOC_END
0976f8db 4235
41bd17a4 4236NAME: max_open_disk_fds
4237TYPE: int
4238LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
4239DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 4240DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 4241DOC_START
41bd17a4 4242 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
4243 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
4244 descriptors are open.
4245
4246 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 4247DOC_END
0976f8db 4248
41bd17a4 4249NAME: cache_swap_low
4250COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 4251TYPE: int
41bd17a4 4252DEFAULT: 90
4253LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
638402dd 4254DOC_START
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4255 The low-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4256 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4257
4258 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4259 above this low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization
4260 near the low-water mark.
4261
4262 As swap utilization increases towards the high-water mark set
4263 by cache_swap_high object eviction becomes more agressive.
4264
4265 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4266 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
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4267 the rate continues to scale in agressiveness by multiples of
4268 this above the high-water mark.
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4269
4270 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4271 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4272 numbers closer together.
4273
5f662601 4274 See also cache_swap_high and cache_replacement_policy
638402dd 4275DOC_END
41bd17a4 4276
4277NAME: cache_swap_high
4278COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4279TYPE: int
4280DEFAULT: 95
4281LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 4282DOC_START
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4283 The high-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4284 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4285
4286 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4287 above the low-water mark set by cache_swap_low and attempts to
4288 maintain utilization near the low-water mark.
4289
4290 As swap utilization increases towards this high-water mark object
4291 eviction becomes more agressive.
4292
4293 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4294 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
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4295 the rate continues to scale in agressiveness by multiples of
4296 this above the high-water mark.
41bd17a4 4297
4298 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4299 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4300 numbers closer together.
638402dd 4301
5f662601 4302 See also cache_swap_low and cache_replacement_policy
6b698a21 4303DOC_END
0976f8db 4304
5473c134 4305COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 4306 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 4307 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4308COMMENT_END
0976f8db 4309
41bd17a4 4310NAME: logformat
4311TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 4312LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 4313DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4314DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 4315DOC_START
41bd17a4 4316 Usage:
0976f8db 4317
41bd17a4 4318 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 4319
41bd17a4 4320 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 4321
41bd17a4 4322 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 4323
41bd17a4 4324 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
4325 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
4326 as required according to their context and the output format
4327 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
4328 output format is desired.
6b698a21 4329
95d78f10 4330 % ["|[|'|#|/] [-] [[0]width] [{arg}] formatcode [{arg}]
0976f8db 4331
41bd17a4 4332 " output in quoted string format
4333 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
4334 # output in URL quoted format
95d78f10 4335 / output in shell \-escaped format
41bd17a4 4336 ' output as-is
5473c134 4337
41bd17a4 4338 - left aligned
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4339
4340 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
4341 [width_min][.width_max]
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4342 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
4343 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 4344
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4345 {arg} argument such as header name etc. This field may be
4346 placed before or after the token, but not both at once.
5473c134 4347
41bd17a4 4348 Format codes:
5473c134 4349
3ff65596 4350 % a literal % character
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4351 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
4352 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
4353 a similar internal error identifier.
4354 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
c7bcf010 4355 note The annotation specified by the argument. Also
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4356 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
4357 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
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4358 If no argument given all annotations logged.
4359 The argument may include a separator to use with
4360 annotation values:
4361 name[:separator]
4362 By default, multiple note values are separated with ","
4363 and multiple notes are separated with "\r\n".
4364 When logging named notes with %{name}note, the
4365 explicitly configured separator is used between note
4366 values. When logging all notes with %note, the
4367 explicitly configured separator is used between
4368 individual notes. There is currently no way to
4369 specify both value and notes separators when logging
4370 all notes with %note.
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4371
4372 Connection related format codes:
4373
41bd17a4 4374 >a Client source IP address
4375 >A Client FQDN
4376 >p Client source port
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4377 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
4378 >la Local IP address the client connected to
4379 >lp Local port number the client connected to
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4380 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
4381 >nfmark Client connection netfilter mark set by Squid
8652f8e7 4382
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4383 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
4384 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
4385
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4386 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
4387 <A Server FQDN or peer name
4388 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 4389 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 4390 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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4391 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
4392 <nfmark Server connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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4393
4394 Time related format codes:
4395
41bd17a4 4396 ts Seconds since epoch
4397 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
4398 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4399 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4400 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4401 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4402 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 4403 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
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4404 tS Approximate master transaction start time in
4405 <full seconds since epoch>.<fractional seconds> format.
4406 Currently, Squid considers the master transaction
4407 started when a complete HTTP request header initiating
4408 the transaction is received from the client. This is
4409 the same value that Squid uses to calculate transaction
4410 response time when logging %tr to access.log. Currently,
4411 Squid uses millisecond resolution for %tS values,
4412 similar to the default access.log "current time" field
4413 (%ts.%03tu).
3ff65596 4414
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4415 Access Control related format codes:
4416
4417 et Tag returned by external acl
4418 ea Log string returned by external acl
4419 un User name (any available)
4420 ul User name from authentication
4421 ue User name from external acl helper
4422 ui User name from ident
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4423 un A user name. Expands to the first available name
4424 from the following list of information sources:
4425 - authenticated user name, like %ul
4426 - user name supplied by an external ACL, like %ue
4427 - SSL client name, like %us
4428 - ident user name, like %ui
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4429 credentials Client credentials. The exact meaning depends on
4430 the authentication scheme: For Basic authentication,
4431 it is the password; for Digest, the realm sent by the
4432 client; for NTLM and Negotiate, the client challenge
4433 or client credentials prefixed with "YR " or "KK ".
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4434
4435 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 4436
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4437 REQUEST
4438
4439 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
4440 [http::]>rm Request method from client
4441 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
4442 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
4443 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
4444 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
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4445 [http::]>rs Request URL scheme from client
4446 [http::]<rs Request URL scheme sent to server or peer
fa450988 4447 [http::]>rd Request URL domain from client
f42ac6e6 4448 [http::]<rd Request URL domain sent to server or peer
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4449 [http::]>rP Request URL port from client
4450 [http::]<rP Request URL port sent to server or peer
4451 [http::]rp Request URL path excluding hostname
4452 [http::]>rp Request URL path excluding hostname from client
4453 [http::]<rp Request URL path excluding hostname sent to server or peer
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4454 [http::]rv Request protocol version
4455 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
4456 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
4457
5aca9cf2 4458 [http::]>h Original received request header.
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4459 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4460 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
4461 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
4462 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
4463 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
4464 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
4465 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4466 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 4467 Optional header name argument as for >h
d6df21d2 4468
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4469 RESPONSE
4470
4471 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
4472 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
4473
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4474 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
4475 as for >h
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4476
4477 [http::]mt MIME content type
4478
4479
4480 SIZE COUNTERS
4481
4482 [http::]st Total size of request + reply traffic with client
4483 [http::]>st Total size of request received from client.
4484 Excluding chunked encoding bytes.
4485 [http::]<st Total size of reply sent to client (after adaptation)
4486
4487 [http::]>sh Size of request headers received from client
4488 [http::]<sh Size of reply headers sent to client (after adaptation)
4489
4490 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
4491 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
4492
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4493 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
4494 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
4495 transfer encoding and control messages.
4496 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
4497 received bodies.
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4499 TIMING
4500
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4501 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
4502 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
4503 and stops when the last response byte is received.
d5430dc8 4504 [http::]<tt Total time in milliseconds. The timer
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4505 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
4506 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
4507 with the last I/O with the last peer.
4508
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4509 Squid handling related format codes:
4510
4511 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
4512 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
4513
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4514 SSL-related format codes:
4515
4516 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
4517
4518 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
4519 a connection and for any request received on
4520 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
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4521 corresponding SslBump mode ("splice", "bump",
4522 "peek", "stare", "terminate", "server-first"
4523 or "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option
4524 for more information about these modes.
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4525
4526 A "none" token is logged for requests that
4527 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
bf352fb2 4528 a "none" rule.
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4529
4530 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
4531 logged.
4532
4f6990ec 4533 ssl::>sni SSL client SNI sent to Squid.
cedca6e7 4534
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4535 ssl::>cert_subject
4536 The Subject field of the received client
4537 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4538 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4539 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4540 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
4541
4542 ssl::>cert_issuer
4543 The Issuer field of the received client
4544 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4545 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4546 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4547 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
4548
4549 ssl::<cert_errors
4550 The list of certificate validation errors
4551 detected by Squid (including OpenSSL and
4552 certificate validation helper components). The
4553 errors are listed in the discovery order. By
4554 default, the error codes are separated by ':'.
4555 Accepts an optional separator argument.
4556
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4557 %ssl::>negotiated_version The negotiated TLS version of the
4558 client connection.
4559
4560 %ssl::<negotiated_version The negotiated TLS version of the
4561 last server or peer connection.
4562
4563 %ssl::>received_hello_version The TLS version of the Hello
4564 message received from TLS client.
4565
4566 %ssl::<received_hello_version The TLS version of the Hello
4567 message received from TLS server.
4568
4569 %ssl::>received_supported_version The maximum TLS version
4570 supported by the TLS client.
4571
4572 %ssl::<received_supported_version The maximum TLS version
4573 supported by the TLS server.
4574
4575 %ssl::>negotiated_cipher The negotiated cipher of the
4576 client connection.
4577
4578 %ssl::<negotiated_cipher The negotiated cipher of the
4579 last server or peer connection.
4580
5038f9d8 4581 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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4582 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
4583
4584 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
4585 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
4586 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
4587 transaction is in progress.
4588
c28b9a0e 4589 If adaptation is enabled the following codes become available:
3ff65596 4590
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4591 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
4592 meta-information from the last eCAP
4593 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
4594 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
4595 argument.
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4596
4597 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
4598 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
4599 the order of transaction start time. Each time
4600 value is recorded as an integer number,
4601 representing response time of one or more
4602 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
4603 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
4604 being retried or repeated, its time is not
4605 logged individually but added to the
4606 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
4607 adapt::all_trs.
4608
4609 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
4610 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
4611 individual transactions are never added
4612 together. Instead, all transaction response
4613 times are recorded individually.
4614
4615 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
4616 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
4617 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 4618
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4619 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
4620
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4621logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
4622logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
4623logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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4624logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
4625logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
4626
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4627 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
4628 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
4629 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
4630
4631 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
4632 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 4633
5473c134 4634DOC_END
4635
41bd17a4 4636NAME: access_log cache_access_log
4637TYPE: access_log
4638LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 4639DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 4640DOC_START
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4641 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
4642 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
4643 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
4644
4645 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
4646 access_log none [acl acl ...]
4647
4648 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 4649 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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4650
4651 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
4652 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
4653 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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4654
4655 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 4656 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
4657 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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4658 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
4659
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4660 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
4661
4662 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
4663 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
4664 to 'squid'.
4665
4666 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
4667 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
4668 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
4669 should flush records before the buffer becomes
4670 full to avoid overflows under normal
4671 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
4672 module-dependent though). The on-error option
4673 controls overflow handling.
4674
4675 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
4676 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
4677 affected log records. The default 'die' action
4678 kills the affected worker. The drop action
4679 support has not been tested for modules other
4680 than tcp.
4681
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4682 rotate=N Specifies the number of log file rotations to
4683 make when you run 'squid -k rotate'. The default
4684 is to obey the logfile_rotate directive. Setting
4685 rotate=0 will disable the file name rotation,
4686 but the log files are still closed and re-opened.
4687 This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4688 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
4689 Only supported by the stdio module.
4690
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4691 ===== Modules Currently available =====
4692
bb7a1781 4693 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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4694 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
4695
4696 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
4697 each request.
4698 Place: the filename and path to be written.
4699
4700 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
4701 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
4702 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
4703
4704 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
4705
4706 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
4707 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
4708 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 4709
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4710 where facility could be any of:
4711 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 4712
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4713 And priority could be any of:
4714 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
4715
4716 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
4717 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4718 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 4719
2bf4e8fa 4720 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 4721 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 4722 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4723 Place Format: //host:port
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4725 Default:
82b7abe3 4726 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 4727DOC_END
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4729NAME: icap_log
4730TYPE: access_log
4731IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4732LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
4733DEFAULT: none
4734DOC_START
4735 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
4736 transaction.
4737
4738 The icap_log option format is:
4739 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
4740 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
4741
4742 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
4743 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
4744 features.
4745
4746 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
4747 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
4748 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
4749 log line.
4750
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4752 HTTP message-related %codes are applied to the HTTP message embedded
4753 in an ICAP message. Logformat "%http::>..." codes are used for HTTP
4754 messages embedded in ICAP requests while "%http::<..." codes are used
4755 for HTTP messages embedded in ICAP responses. For example:
4756
4757 http::>h To-be-adapted HTTP message headers sent by Squid to
4758 the ICAP service. For REQMOD transactions, these are
4759 HTTP request headers. For RESPMOD, these are HTTP
4760 response headers, but Squid currently cannot log them
4761 (i.e., %http::>h will expand to "-" for RESPMOD).
4762
4763 http::<h Adapted HTTP message headers sent by the ICAP
4764 service to Squid (i.e., HTTP request headers in regular
4765 REQMOD; HTTP response headers in RESPMOD and during
4766 request satisfaction in REQMOD).
4767
4768 ICAP OPTIONS transactions do not embed HTTP messages.
4769
4770 Several logformat codes below deal with ICAP message bodies. An ICAP
4771 message body, if any, typically includes a complete HTTP message
4772 (required HTTP headers plus optional HTTP message body). When
4773 computing HTTP message body size for these logformat codes, Squid
4774 either includes or excludes chunked encoding overheads; see
4775 code-specific documentation for details.
4776
4777 For Secure ICAP services, all size-related information is currently
4778 computed before/after TLS encryption/decryption, as if TLS was not
4779 in use at all.
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4781 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
4782
4783 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
4784
4785 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
4786 option in Squid configuration file.
4787
4788 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
4789
4790 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
4791 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
4792
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4793 icap::>st The total size of the ICAP request sent to the ICAP
4794 server (ICAP headers + ICAP body), including chunking
4795 metadata (if any).
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4797 icap::<st The total size of the ICAP response received from the
4798 ICAP server (ICAP headers + ICAP body), including
4799 chunking metadata (if any).
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4801 icap::<bs The size of the ICAP response body received from the
4802 ICAP server, excluding chunking metadata (if any).
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4805 milliseconds). The timer starts when
4806 the ICAP transaction is created and
4807 stops when the transaction is completed.
4808 Similar to tr.
4809
4810 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
4811 timer starts when the first ICAP request
4812 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
4813 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
4814 is received.
4815
4816 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
4817 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
4818 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
4819 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
4820 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
4821 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
4822
4823 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
4824
4825 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
4826
4827 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
4828
4829 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
4830 definition, is called icap_squid:
4831
bd59d61c 4832logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>A %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<st %icap::rm %icap::ru %un -/%icap::<A -
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4836
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4837NAME: logfile_daemon
4838TYPE: string
4839DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
4840LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
4841DOC_START
4842 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
4843 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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4844
4845 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
4846 L<data>\n - logfile data
4847 R\n - rotate file
4848 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 4849 O\n - reopen file
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4850 F\n - flush file
4851 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
4852 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
4853
4854 No responses is expected.
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4855DOC_END
4856
8ebad780 4857NAME: stats_collection
3ff65596 4858TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 4859LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
3ff65596 4860DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4861DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 4862COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
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4864 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
4865 in performance counters.
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4866
4867 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4868 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4870
41bd17a4 4871NAME: cache_store_log
4872TYPE: string
df2eec10 4873DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4874LOC: Config.Log.store
4875DOC_START
4876 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
4877 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 4878 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 4879 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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4880 disable it (the default).
4881
4882 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
4883 of modules supported.
4884
e0855596 4885 Example:
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4886 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
4887 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 4888DOC_END
4889
41bd17a4 4890NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
4891TYPE: string
4892LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 4893DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4894DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 4895DOC_START
41bd17a4 4896 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
4897 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
4898 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
4899 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
4900 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
4901 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
4902 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 4903
41bd17a4 4904 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
4905 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
4906 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
4907 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 4908
41bd17a4 4909 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
4910 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 4911
41bd17a4 4912 cache_swap_log.00
4913 cache_swap_log.01
4914 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 4915
41bd17a4 4916 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
4917 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
4918 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
4919 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
4920 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
4921 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
4922 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 4923DOC_END
4924
41bd17a4 4925NAME: logfile_rotate
4926TYPE: int
4927DEFAULT: 10
4928LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 4929DOC_START
efc23871 4930 Specifies the default number of logfile rotations to make when you
41bd17a4 4931 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
4932 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
4933 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
4934 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4935 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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4937 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
4938 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
4939
4940 Note, from Squid-3.6 this option is only a default for access.log
4941 recorded by stdio: module. Those logs can be rotated separately by
4942 using the rotate=N option on their access_log directive.
4943
41bd17a4 4944 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
4945 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
4946 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
4947 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
4948 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
4949 <pid>'.
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41bd17a4 4951DOC_END
5473c134 4952
41bd17a4 4953NAME: mime_table
4954TYPE: string
4955DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
4956LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
4957DOC_START
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4958 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
4959
4960 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
4961 examples and formatting information if you do.
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4963
41bd17a4 4964NAME: log_mime_hdrs
4965COMMENT: on|off
4966TYPE: onoff
4967LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
4968DEFAULT: off
4969DOC_START
4970 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
4971 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
4972 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
4973 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
4974 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
4975DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4977NAME: pid_filename
4978TYPE: string
4979DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4980LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4981DOC_START
41bd17a4 4982 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4983DOC_END
4984
41bd17a4 4985NAME: client_netmask
4986TYPE: address
4987LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4988DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 4989DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 4990DOC_START
41bd17a4 4991 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4992 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4993 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4994 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4995DOC_END
4996
41bd17a4 4997NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4998TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4999LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 5000DEFAULT: on
5001DOC_START
41bd17a4 5002 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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5003 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
5004
5005 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
5006 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 5007DOC_END
5008
41bd17a4 5009NAME: buffered_logs
5010COMMENT: on|off
5011TYPE: onoff
5012DEFAULT: off
5013LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 5014DOC_START
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5015 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
5016 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
5017 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
5018 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
5019 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
5020 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
5021
5022 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
5023 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
5024 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
5025
fb0c2f17 5026 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 5027DOC_END
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2b753521 5029NAME: netdb_filename
5030TYPE: string
221faecb 5031DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 5032LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 5033IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 5034DOC_START
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5035 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
5036 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
5037
2b753521 5038 To disable, enter "none".
5039DOC_END
5040
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5041COMMENT_START
5042 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
5043 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5044COMMENT_END
5045
5046NAME: cache_log
5047TYPE: string
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5048DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
5049LOC: Debug::cache_log
5050DOC_START
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5051 Squid administrative logging file.
5052
5053 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
5054 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
5055 rotated with "debug_options"
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5056DOC_END
5057
5058NAME: debug_options
5059TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 5060DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 5061DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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5062LOC: Debug::debugOptions
5063DOC_START
5064 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
5065 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
5066 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
5067 log file, so be careful.
5068
5069 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 5070 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
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5073 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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5074 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
5075 events affecting Squid.
5076DOC_END
5077
5078NAME: coredump_dir
5079TYPE: string
5080LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 5081DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 5082DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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5083DOC_START
5084 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5085 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5086 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5087 and coredump files will be left there.
5088
5089NOCOMMENT_START
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5091# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5092coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
5093NOCOMMENT_END
5094DOC_END
5095
5096
41bd17a4 5097COMMENT_START
5098 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
5099 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5100COMMENT_END
5101
5102NAME: ftp_user
5103TYPE: string
5104DEFAULT: Squid@
5105LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 5106DOC_START
41bd17a4 5107 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 5108 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 5109 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 5110
41bd17a4 5111 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
5112 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
5113 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 5114 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 5115 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 5116DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5118NAME: ftp_passive
5119TYPE: onoff
5120DEFAULT: on
5121LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 5122DOC_START
41bd17a4 5123 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
5124 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 5125
5126 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
5127DOC_END
5128
5129NAME: ftp_epsv_all
5130TYPE: onoff
5131DEFAULT: off
5132LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
5133DOC_START
5134 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
5135
5136 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
5137 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
5138 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
5139
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5141 useful.
a689bd4e 5142 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
5143 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
5144
5145 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
5146 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
5147
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5148 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
5149DOC_END
5150
5151NAME: ftp_epsv
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5153DEFAULT: none
5154LOC: Config.accessList.ftp_epsv
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5155DOC_START
5156 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
5157
5158 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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5159 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
5160 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
5161 will never be needed.
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5163 EPSV is often required to interoperate with FTP servers on IPv6
5164 networks. On the other hand, it may break some IPv4 servers.
5165
5166 By default, EPSV may try EPSV with any FTP server. To fine tune
5167 that decision, you may restrict EPSV to certain clients or servers
5168 using ACLs:
5169
5170 ftp_epsv allow|deny al1 acl2 ...
5171
5172 WARNING: Disabling EPSV may cause problems with external NAT and IPv6.
51ee534d 5173
ddf5aa2b 5174 Only fast ACLs are supported.
51ee534d 5175 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 5176DOC_END
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5178NAME: ftp_eprt
5179TYPE: onoff
5180DEFAULT: on
5181LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
5182DOC_START
5183 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
5184
5185 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
5186 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
5187 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
5188
5189 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
5190 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
5191
5192 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
5193 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
5194 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
5195 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
5196
5197 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
5198 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
5199DOC_END
5200
41bd17a4 5201NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
5202TYPE: onoff
5203DEFAULT: on
5204LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
5205DOC_START
5206 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
5207 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
5208 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
5209 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
5210 connection turn this off.
5211DOC_END
9e7dbc51 5212
41bd17a4 5213NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
5214TYPE: onoff
5215DEFAULT: on
5216LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
5217DOC_START
5218 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
5219 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
5220 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
5221 the FTP protocol.
5222
5223 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
5224 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
5225 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
5226 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
5227 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
5228DOC_END
5229
5230COMMENT_START
5231 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
5232 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5233COMMENT_END
5234
5235NAME: diskd_program
5236TYPE: string
5237DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
5238LOC: Config.Program.diskd
5239DOC_START
5240 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
5241 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
5242 diskd as one of the store io modules.
5243DOC_END
5244
5245NAME: unlinkd_program
5246IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
5247TYPE: string
5248DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
5249LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
5250DOC_START
5251 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
5252DOC_END
5253
5254NAME: pinger_program
41bd17a4 5255IFDEF: USE_ICMP
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5256TYPE: icmp
5257DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
5258LOC: IcmpCfg
41bd17a4 5259DOC_START
5260 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
5261DOC_END
5262
cc192b50 5263NAME: pinger_enable
5264TYPE: onoff
5265DEFAULT: on
7a9d36e3 5266LOC: IcmpCfg.enable
cc192b50 5267IFDEF: USE_ICMP
5268DOC_START
5269 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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5270 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
5271 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 5272DOC_END
5273
5274
41bd17a4 5275COMMENT_START
5276 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
5277 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5278COMMENT_END
5279
5280NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
5281TYPE: wordlist
5282LOC: Config.Program.redirect
5283DEFAULT: none
5284DOC_START
2c7aad89 5285 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 5286 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
5287
2c7aad89 5288 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 5289
b11724bb 5290 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
5269ec0e 5291
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5292 See url_rewrite_extras on how to send "extras" with optional values to
5293 the helper.
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5294 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
5295
24eac830 5296 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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5297
5298 The result code can be:
5299
5300 OK status=30N url="..."
5301 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
5302 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
5303 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
5304 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
5305 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
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5307 OK rewrite-url="..."
5308 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
5309 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
5310 the client as the response to its request.
5311
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5312 OK
5313 When neither of url= and rewrite-url= are sent Squid does
5314 not change the URL.
5315
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5316 ERR
5317 Do not change the URL.
5318
5319 BH
4ded749e 5320 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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5321 a result being identified. The 'message=' key name is
5322 reserved for delivering a log message.
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5323
5324
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5325 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5326 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5327 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5328 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5329 The TAG is treated as a regular annotation but persists across
5330 future requests on the client connection rather than just the
5331 current request. A helper may update the TAG during subsequent
5332 requests be returning a new kv-pair.
41bd17a4 5333
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5334 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5335 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5336 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5337 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5338 of the response relating to its request.
5339
5340 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
5341 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 5342
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5343 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
5344 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
5345 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
5346 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
5347 interface.
41bd17a4 5348
5349 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
5350DOC_END
5351
5352NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 5353TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 5354DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 5355LOC: Config.redirectChildren
5356DOC_START
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5357 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
5358 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
5359 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
5360 and other system resources noticably.
5361
5362 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5363 tuning.
5364
5365 startup=
5366
5367 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5368 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5369 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5370
5371 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5372 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5373
5374 idle=
5375
5376 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5377 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5378 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5379 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5380
5381 concurrency=
41bd17a4 5382
41bd17a4 5383 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
5384 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
5385 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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5386
5387 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5388 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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5389 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5390 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5391
5392 queue-size=N
5393
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5394 Sets the maximum number of queued requests to N. The default maximum
5395 is 2*numberofchildren. If the queued requests exceed queue size and
5396 redirector_bypass configuration option is set, then redirector is bypassed.
5397 Otherwise, Squid is allowed to temporarily exceed the configured maximum,
5398 marking the affected helper as "overloaded". If the helper overload lasts
5399 more than 3 minutes, the action prescribed by the on-persistent-overload
5400 option applies.
5401
5402 on-persistent-overload=action
5403
5404 Specifies Squid reaction to a new helper request arriving when the helper
5405 has been overloaded for more that 3 minutes already. The number of queued
5406 requests determines whether the helper is overloaded (see the queue-size
5407 option).
5408
5409 Two actions are supported:
5410
5411 die Squid worker quits. This is the default behavior.
5412
5413 ERR Squid treats the helper request as if it was
5414 immediately submitted, and the helper immediately
5415 replied with an ERR response. This action has no effect
5416 on the already queued and in-progress helper requests.
41bd17a4 5417DOC_END
5418
5419NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
5420TYPE: onoff
5421DEFAULT: on
5422LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
5423DOC_START
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5424 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
5425 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
5426 any Host: header in redirected requests.
5427
5428 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
5429 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
5430 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
5431
41bd17a4 5432 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
5433 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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5434
5435 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
5436 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
5437 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 5438DOC_END
5439
5440NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
5441TYPE: acl_access
5442DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5443DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 5444LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
5445DOC_START
5446 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 5447 sent to the redirector processes.
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5448
5449 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5450 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5451DOC_END
5452
5453NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
5454TYPE: onoff
5455LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
5456DEFAULT: off
5457DOC_START
5458 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
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5459 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off' and the
5460 redirector queue grows too large, the action is prescribed by the
5461 on-persistent-overload option. You should only enable this if the
5462 redirectors are not critical to your caching system. If you use
41bd17a4 5463 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
5464 users may have access to pages they should not
5465 be allowed to request.
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5466 This options sets default queue-size option of the url_rewrite_children
5467 to 0.
41bd17a4 5468DOC_END
5469
fe7966ec 5470NAME: url_rewrite_extras
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5471TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5472LOC: Config.redirector_extras
5473DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5474DOC_START
5475 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5476 rewriter helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5477 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5478 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5479 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5480DOC_END
5481
32fd6d8a 5482NAME: url_rewrite_timeout
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5483TYPE: UrlHelperTimeout
5484LOC: Config.onUrlRewriteTimeout
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5485DEFAULT: none
5486DEFAULT_DOC: Squid waits for the helper response forever
5487DOC_START
5488 Squid times active requests to redirector. The timeout value and Squid
5489 reaction to a timed out request are configurable using the following
5490 format:
5491
ced8def3 5492 url_rewrite_timeout timeout time-units on_timeout=<action> [response=<quoted-response>]
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5493
5494 supported timeout actions:
ced8def3 5495 fail Squid return a ERR_GATEWAY_FAILURE error page
32fd6d8a 5496
ced8def3 5497 bypass Do not re-write the URL
32fd6d8a 5498
ced8def3 5499 retry Send the lookup to the helper again
32fd6d8a 5500
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5501 use_configured_response
5502 Use the <quoted-response> as helper response
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5503DOC_END
5504
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5505COMMENT_START
5506 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
5507 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5508COMMENT_END
5509
5510NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
5511TYPE: wordlist
5512LOC: Config.Program.store_id
5513DEFAULT: none
5514DOC_START
5515 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
5516 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
5517
5518 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
5519
b11724bb 5520 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
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5521
5522
5523 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
5524
5525 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
5526
5527 The result code can be:
5528
5529 OK store-id="..."
5530 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
5531
5532 ERR
5533 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
5534
5535 BH
5536 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
5537 a result being identified.
5538
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5539 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5540 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5541 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5542 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5543 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation for this
5544 kv-pair
a8a0b1c2 5545
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5546 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore
5547 additional whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
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5548
5549 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5550 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5551 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5552 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5553 of the response relating to its request.
5554
5555 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
5556 returned from the helper and not the URL.
5557
5558 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
5559 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
5560
5561 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
5562DOC_END
5563
fe7966ec 5564NAME: store_id_extras
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5565TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5566LOC: Config.storeId_extras
5567DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5568DOC_START
5569 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5570 StoreId helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5571 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5572 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5573 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5574DOC_END
5575
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5576NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
5577TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5578DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
5579LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
5580DOC_START
5581 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
5582 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
5583 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
5584 and other system resources noticably.
5585
5586 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5587 tuning.
5588
5589 startup=
5590
5591 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5592 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5593 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5594
5595 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5596 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5597
5598 idle=
5599
5600 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5601 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5602 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5603 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5604
5605 concurrency=
5606
5607 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
5608 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
5609 is a old-style single threaded program.
5610
5611 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5612 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
5613 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5614 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5615
5616 queue-size=N
5617
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5618 Sets the maximum number of queued requests to N. The default maximum
5619 is 2*numberofchildren. If the queued requests exceed queue size and
5620 redirector_bypass configuration option is set, then redirector is bypassed.
5621 Otherwise, Squid is allowed to temporarily exceed the configured maximum,
5622 marking the affected helper as "overloaded". If the helper overload lasts
5623 more than 3 minutes, the action prescribed by the on-persistent-overload
5624 option applies.
5625
5626 on-persistent-overload=action
5627
5628 Specifies Squid reaction to a new helper request arriving when the helper
5629 has been overloaded for more that 3 minutes already. The number of queued
5630 requests determines whether the helper is overloaded (see the queue-size
5631 option).
5632
5633 Two actions are supported:
5634
5635 die Squid worker quits. This is the default behavior.
5636
5637 ERR Squid treats the helper request as if it was
5638 immediately submitted, and the helper immediately
5639 replied with an ERR response. This action has no effect
5640 on the already queued and in-progress helper requests.
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5641DOC_END
5642
5643NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
5644TYPE: acl_access
5645DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5646DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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5647LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
5648DOC_START
5649 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
5650 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
5651 are sent.
5652
5653 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5654 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5655DOC_END
5656
5657NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
5658TYPE: onoff
5659LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
5660DEFAULT: on
5661DOC_START
5662 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
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5663 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off' and the helper
5664 queue grows too large, the action is prescribed by the
5665 on-persistent-overload option. You should only enable this if the
5666 helpers are not critical to your caching system. If you use
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5667 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
5668 option, users may not get objects from cache.
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5669 This options sets default queue-size option of the store_id_children
5670 to 0.
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5671DOC_END
5672
41bd17a4 5673COMMENT_START
5674 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
5675 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5676COMMENT_END
5677
f04b37d8 5678NAME: cache no_cache
5679TYPE: acl_access
5680DEFAULT: none
70706149 5681DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
f04b37d8 5682LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 5683DOC_START
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5684 Requests denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5685 and their responses will not be stored in the cache. This directive
5686 has no effect on other transactions and on already cached responses.
f04b37d8 5687
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5688 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5689 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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5690
5691 This and the two other similar caching directives listed below are
5692 checked at different transaction processing stages, have different
5693 access to response information, affect different cache operations,
5694 and differ in slow ACLs support:
5695
5696 * cache: Checked before Squid makes a hit/miss determination.
5697 No access to reply information!
5698 Denies both serving a hit and storing a miss.
5699 Supports both fast and slow ACLs.
5700 * send_hit: Checked after a hit was detected.
5701 Has access to reply (hit) information.
5702 Denies serving a hit only.
5703 Supports fast ACLs only.
5704 * store_miss: Checked before storing a cachable miss.
5705 Has access to reply (miss) information.
5706 Denies storing a miss only.
5707 Supports fast ACLs only.
5708
5709 If you are not sure which of the three directives to use, apply the
5710 following decision logic:
5711
5712 * If your ACL(s) are of slow type _and_ need response info, redesign.
5713 Squid does not support that particular combination at this time.
5714 Otherwise:
5715 * If your directive ACL(s) are of slow type, use "cache"; and/or
5716 * if your directive ACL(s) need no response info, use "cache".
5717 Otherwise:
5718 * If you do not want the response cached, use store_miss; and/or
5719 * if you do not want a hit on a cached response, use send_hit.
5720DOC_END
5721
5722NAME: send_hit
5723TYPE: acl_access
5724DEFAULT: none
5725DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5726LOC: Config.accessList.sendHit
5727DOC_START
5728 Responses denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5729 (but may still be cached, see store_miss). This directive has no
5730 effect on the responses it allows and on the cached objects.
5731
5732 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5733 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives.
5734
5735 Unlike the "cache" directive, send_hit only supports fast acl
5736 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5737
5738 For example:
5739
5740 # apply custom Store ID mapping to some URLs
5741 acl MapMe dstdomain .c.example.com
5742 store_id_program ...
5743 store_id_access allow MapMe
5744
5745 # but prevent caching of special responses
5746 # such as 302 redirects that cause StoreID loops
5747 acl Ordinary http_status 200-299
5748 store_miss deny MapMe !Ordinary
5749
5750 # and do not serve any previously stored special responses
5751 # from the cache (in case they were already cached before
5752 # the above store_miss rule was in effect).
5753 send_hit deny MapMe !Ordinary
5754DOC_END
5755
5756NAME: store_miss
5757TYPE: acl_access
5758DEFAULT: none
5759DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5760LOC: Config.accessList.storeMiss
5761DOC_START
5762 Responses denied by this directive will not be cached (but may still
5763 be served from the cache, see send_hit). This directive has no
5764 effect on the responses it allows and on the already cached responses.
5765
5766 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5767 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives. See the
5768 send_hit directive for a usage example.
5769
5770 Unlike the "cache" directive, store_miss only supports fast acl
5771 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5772DOC_END
5773
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5774NAME: max_stale
5775COMMENT: time-units
5776TYPE: time_t
5777LOC: Config.maxStale
5778DEFAULT: 1 week
5779DOC_START
5780 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
5781 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
5782 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
5783DOC_END
5784
41bd17a4 5785NAME: refresh_pattern
5786TYPE: refreshpattern
5787LOC: Config.Refresh
5788DEFAULT: none
5789DOC_START
5790 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 5791
6b698a21 5792 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
5793 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 5794
41bd17a4 5795 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
5796 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
5797 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
5798 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
5799 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 5800
41bd17a4 5801 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
5802 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
5803 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 5804
41bd17a4 5805 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
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5806 expiry time will be considered fresh. The value is also used
5807 to form Cache-Control: max-age header for a request sent from
5808 Squid to origin/parent.
9e7dbc51 5809
41bd17a4 5810 options: override-expire
5811 override-lastmod
5812 reload-into-ims
5813 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 5814 ignore-no-store
5815 ignore-private
570d3f75 5816 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 5817 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 5818 store-stale
a0ec9f68 5819
41bd17a4 5820 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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5821 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
5822 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
5823 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5824 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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5826 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
5827 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
5828 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
5829 the object fresh for that period of time.
5830
41bd17a4 5831 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
5832 that were modified recently.
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5834 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
5835 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
5836 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
5837 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
5838 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5839 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 5840
41bd17a4 5841 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
5842 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5843 this feature could make you liable for problems which
5844 it causes.
9bc73deb 5845
41bd17a4 5846 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
5847 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5848 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5849 liable for problems which it causes.
5850
5851 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
5852 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5853 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5854 liable for problems which it causes.
5855
41bd17a4 5856 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
5857 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
5858 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
5859 if one is available.
5860
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5861 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
5862 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
5863 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
5864 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
5865 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
5866
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5867 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
5868 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
5869 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
5870
41bd17a4 5871 Basically a cached object is:
5872
fb41bbb2 5873 FRESH if expire > now, else STALE
41bd17a4 5874 STALE if age > max
5875 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
5876 FRESH if age < min
5877 else STALE
5878
5879 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
5880 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
5881 match the default will be used.
5882
5883 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
5884 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
5885 used.
5886
41bd17a4 5887NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 5888
638402dd 5889#
e0855596 5890# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 5891#
41bd17a4 5892refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
5893refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 5894refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 5895refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
5896NOCOMMENT_END
5897DOC_END
5898
5899NAME: quick_abort_min
5900COMMENT: (KB)
5901TYPE: kb_int64_t
5902DEFAULT: 16 KB
5903LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
5904DOC_NONE
5905
5906NAME: quick_abort_max
5907COMMENT: (KB)
5908TYPE: kb_int64_t
5909DEFAULT: 16 KB
5910LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
5911DOC_NONE
5912
5913NAME: quick_abort_pct
5914COMMENT: (percent)
5915TYPE: int
5916DEFAULT: 95
5917LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
5918DOC_START
5919 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
5920 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
5921 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
5922 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
5923 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
5924 downloads.
5925
5926 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2d4eefd9 5927 quick_abort values to the amount of data transferred until
41bd17a4 5928 then.
5929
5930 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
5931 it will finish the retrieval.
5932
5933 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
5934 it will abort the retrieval.
5935
5936 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
5937 it will finish the retrieval.
5938
5939 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
5940 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
5941 to '0 KB'.
5942
5943 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
5944 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
5945DOC_END
60d096f4 5946
41bd17a4 5947NAME: read_ahead_gap
5948COMMENT: buffer-size
5949TYPE: b_int64_t
5950LOC: Config.readAheadGap
5951DEFAULT: 16 KB
5952DOC_START
5953 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
5954 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
5955DOC_END
53e738c6 5956
41bd17a4 5957NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 5958IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5959COMMENT: time-units
5960TYPE: time_t
5961LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 5962DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 5963DOC_START
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5964 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
5965 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
5966 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
5967 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
5968 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
5969 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
5970
5971 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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5972
5973 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5974 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5975 causes.
41bd17a4 5976DOC_END
53e738c6 5977
41bd17a4 5978NAME: positive_dns_ttl
5979COMMENT: time-units
5980TYPE: time_t
5981LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
5982DEFAULT: 6 hours
5983DOC_START
5984 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
5985 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
5986 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
5987DOC_END
c4ab8329 5988
41bd17a4 5989NAME: negative_dns_ttl
5990COMMENT: time-units
5991TYPE: time_t
5992LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
5993DEFAULT: 1 minutes
5994DOC_START
5995 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
5996 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
5997 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
5998 much below 10 seconds.
5999DOC_END
7df0bfd7 6000
41bd17a4 6001NAME: range_offset_limit
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6002COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
6003TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 6004LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 6005DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 6006DOC_START
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6007 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
6008
6009 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
6010 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
6011 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
6012 the result is NOT cached.
6013
41bd17a4 6014 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
6015 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
6016 sending anything to the client.
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6017
6018 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
6019 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
6020 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
6021 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
6022
6023 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
6024
6025 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
6026 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
6027
6028 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 6029 client requested. (default)
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6030
6031 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 6032 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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6033
6034 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
6035
6036 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
6037 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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6038 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
6039 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 6040DOC_END
d95b862f 6041
41bd17a4 6042NAME: minimum_expiry_time
6043COMMENT: (seconds)
6044TYPE: time_t
6045LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
6046DEFAULT: 60 seconds
6047DOC_START
6048 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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6049 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
6050 The default is 60 seconds.
6051
6052 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
6053 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
6054 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
6055
6056 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
6057 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 6058DOC_END
c68e9c6b 6059
41bd17a4 6060NAME: store_avg_object_size
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6061COMMENT: (bytes)
6062TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 6063DEFAULT: 13 KB
6064LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
6065DOC_START
6066 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
6067 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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6068
6069 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
6070 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
6071 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
6072 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
6073
6074 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
6075 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 6076DOC_END
6077
41bd17a4 6078NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
6079TYPE: int
6080DEFAULT: 20
6081LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
6082DOC_START
6083 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
6084 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
6085 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
6086DOC_END
6087
6088COMMENT_START
6089 HTTP OPTIONS
6090 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6091COMMENT_END
6092
f04b37d8 6093NAME: request_header_max_size
6094COMMENT: (KB)
6095TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 6096DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 6097LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
6098DOC_START
6099 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
6100 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
6101 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
6102 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
6103 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
6104DOC_END
6105
6106NAME: reply_header_max_size
6107COMMENT: (KB)
6108TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 6109DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 6110LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
6111DOC_START
6112 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
6113 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
6114 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
6115 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
6116 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
6117DOC_END
6118
6119NAME: request_body_max_size
6120COMMENT: (bytes)
6121TYPE: b_int64_t
6122DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 6123DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 6124LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
6125DOC_START
6126 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
6127 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
6128 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
6129 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
6130 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
6131 be no limit imposed.
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6132
6133 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
6134 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 6135DOC_END
6136
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6137NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
6138COMMENT: (bytes)
6139TYPE: b_size_t
6140DEFAULT: 512 KB
6141LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
6142DOC_START
6143 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
6144 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
6145 a large file.
6146DOC_END
6147
41bd17a4 6148NAME: broken_posts
626096be 6149IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 6150TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 6151DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6152DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 6153LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 6154DOC_START
41bd17a4 6155 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
6156 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 6157
41bd17a4 6158 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
6159 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 6160
41bd17a4 6161 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 6162
41bd17a4 6163 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
6164 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
6165 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
6166 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 6167
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6168 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6169 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6170
41bd17a4 6171Example:
6172 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
6173 broken_posts allow buggy_server
6174DOC_END
cccac0a2 6175
22fff3bf 6176NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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6177COMMENT: on|off
6178TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6179IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 6180DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 6181LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 6182DOC_START
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6183 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
6184 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
6185
6186 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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6187DOC_END
6188
41bd17a4 6189NAME: via
626096be 6190IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 6191COMMENT: on|off
6192TYPE: onoff
6193DEFAULT: on
6194LOC: Config.onoff.via
6195DOC_START
6196 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
6197 replies as required by RFC2616.
6198DOC_END
4cc6eb12 6199
41bd17a4 6200NAME: vary_ignore_expire
6201COMMENT: on|off
6202TYPE: onoff
6203LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
6204DEFAULT: off
6205DOC_START
6206 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
6207 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
6208 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
6209 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
6210 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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6211
6212 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
6213 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 6214DOC_END
c4ab8329 6215
41bd17a4 6216NAME: request_entities
6217TYPE: onoff
6218LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
6219DEFAULT: off
6220DOC_START
6221 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
6222 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
6223 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 6224
41bd17a4 6225 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
6226 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
6227 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
6228 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
6229 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 6230DOC_END
6b53c392 6231
41bd17a4 6232NAME: request_header_access
626096be 6233IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6234TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 6235LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 6236DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6237DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 6238DOC_START
41bd17a4 6239 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 6240
41bd17a4 6241 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6242 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6243 causes.
0976f8db 6244
41bd17a4 6245 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
6246 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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6247 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
6248 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
6249
6250 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
6251 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
6252 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
6253 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
6254 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
6255
6256 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
6257 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
6258 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
6259
6260 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
6261 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
6262 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
6263 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
6264
6265 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
6266 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
6267 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
6268 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
6269 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
6270 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 6271
41bd17a4 6272 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
6273 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 6274
41bd17a4 6275 request_header_access From deny all
6276 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 6277 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 6278
41bd17a4 6279 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
6280 you should use:
5401aa8d 6281
41bd17a4 6282 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 6283 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 6284 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 6285 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
6286 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
6287 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 6288 request_header_access Host allow all
6289 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 6290 request_header_access Pragma allow all
6291 request_header_access Accept allow all
6292 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
6293 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
6294 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 6295 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 6296 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 6297
638402dd 6298 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 6299
638402dd 6300 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 6301DOC_END
6302
41bd17a4 6303NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 6304IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6305TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 6306LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 6307DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6308DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 6309DOC_START
41bd17a4 6310 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 6311
41bd17a4 6312 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6313 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6314 causes.
934b03fc 6315
41bd17a4 6316 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
6317 server to the client.
934b03fc 6318
41bd17a4 6319 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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6320 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
6321 documentation.
cccac0a2 6322
41bd17a4 6323 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
6324 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 6325
41bd17a4 6326 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 6327 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
6328 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 6329
41bd17a4 6330 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
6331 you should use:
cccac0a2 6332
41bd17a4 6333 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 6334 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 6335 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
6336 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
6337 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
6338 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
6339 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
6340 reply_header_access Date allow all
6341 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 6342 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
6343 reply_header_access Location allow all
6344 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 6345 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 6346 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
6347 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 6348 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 6349 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 6350 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 6351
638402dd 6352 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 6353
41bd17a4 6354 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
6355 performed).
cccac0a2 6356DOC_END
6357
75e4f2ea 6358NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 6359IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6360TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 6361LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 6362DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 6363DOC_START
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6364 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
6365 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 6366
41bd17a4 6367 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 6368 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 6369 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 6370
41bd17a4 6371 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 6372
41bd17a4 6373 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6374DOC_END
cccac0a2 6375
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6376NAME: reply_header_replace
6377IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6378TYPE: http_header_replace
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6379LOC: Config.reply_header_access
6380DEFAULT: none
6381DOC_START
6382 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
6383 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
6384
6385 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
6386 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
6387 with some fixed string.
6388
6389 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
6390
6391 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6392DOC_END
6393
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6394NAME: request_header_add
6395TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
6396LOC: Config.request_header_add
6397DEFAULT: none
6398DOC_START
cde8f31b 6399 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value [ acl ... ]
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6400 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
6401
6402 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
6403 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
6404 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
6405 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
6406 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
6407
6408 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
6409 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
6410 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
6411 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
6412 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
6413 header field values are not merged.
6414
6415 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
6416 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
6417 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
6418
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6419 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
6420 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
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6421 ACLs in the ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion to
6422 happen. The request_header_add supports fast ACLs only.
6423
6424 See also: reply_header_add.
6425DOC_END
6426
6427NAME: reply_header_add
6428TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
6429LOC: Config.reply_header_add
6430DEFAULT: none
6431DOC_START
6432 Usage: reply_header_add field-name field-value [ acl ... ]
6433 Example: reply_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
6434
6435 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP responses (i.e., response
6436 headers delivered by Squid to the client). This option has no effect on
6437 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in
6438 ICAP terminology is post-cache RESPMOD. This option does not apply to
6439 successful CONNECT replies.
6440
6441 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
6442 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
6443 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
6444 HTTP rules. If the response to be modified already contains a
6445 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
6446 header field values are not merged.
6447
6448 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
6449 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
6450 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
6451
6452 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
6453 injection to matching responses. As always in squid.conf, all
6454 ACLs in the ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion to
6455 happen. The reply_header_add option supports fast ACLs only.
6456
6457 See also: request_header_add.
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6458DOC_END
6459
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6460NAME: note
6461TYPE: note
6462LOC: Config.notes
6463DEFAULT: none
6464DOC_START
6465 This option used to log custom information about the master
6466 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
6467 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
6468 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
6469 authentication information.
6470 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
6471
6472 note key value acl ...
6473 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
6474DOC_END
6475
41bd17a4 6476NAME: relaxed_header_parser
6477COMMENT: on|off|warn
6478TYPE: tristate
6479LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
6480DEFAULT: on
6481DOC_START
6482 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
6483 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
6484 what the sending application intended even if the message
6485 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
6486 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 6487
41bd17a4 6488 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
6489 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 6490
41bd17a4 6491 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
6492 or response to be rejected.
6493DOC_END
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6495NAME: collapsed_forwarding
6496COMMENT: (on|off)
6497TYPE: onoff
6498LOC: Config.onoff.collapsed_forwarding
6499DEFAULT: off
6500DOC_START
6501 This option controls whether Squid is allowed to merge multiple
6502 potentially cachable requests for the same URI before Squid knows
6503 whether the response is going to be cachable.
6504
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6505 When enabled, instead of forwarding each concurrent request for
6506 the same URL, Squid just sends the first of them. The other, so
6507 called "collapsed" requests, wait for the response to the first
6508 request and, if it happens to be cachable, use that response.
6509 Here, "concurrent requests" means "received after the first
6510 request headers were parsed and before the corresponding response
6511 headers were parsed".
6512
6513 This feature is disabled by default: enabling collapsed
6514 forwarding needlessly delays forwarding requests that look
6515 cachable (when they are collapsed) but then need to be forwarded
6516 individually anyway because they end up being for uncachable
6517 content. However, in some cases, such as acceleration of highly
6518 cachable content with periodic or grouped expiration times, the
6519 gains from collapsing [large volumes of simultaneous refresh
6520 requests] outweigh losses from such delays.
6521
6522 Squid collapses two kinds of requests: regular client requests
6523 received on one of the listening ports and internal "cache
6524 revalidation" requests which are triggered by those regular
6525 requests hitting a stale cached object. Revalidation collapsing
6526 is currently disabled for Squid instances containing SMP-aware
6527 disk or memory caches and for Vary-controlled cached objects.
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6529
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6530NAME: collapsed_forwarding_shared_entries_limit
6531COMMENT: (number of entries)
6532TYPE: int64_t
6533LOC: Config.collapsed_forwarding_shared_entries_limit
6534DEFAULT: 16384
6535DOC_START
6536 This limits the size of a table used for sharing information
6537 about collapsible entries among SMP workers. Limiting sharing
6538 too much results in cache content duplication and missed
6539 collapsing opportunities. Using excessively large values
6540 wastes shared memory.
6541
6542 The limit should be significantly larger then the number of
6543 concurrent collapsible entries one wants to share. For a cache
6544 that handles less than 5000 concurrent requests, the default
6545 setting of 16384 should be plenty.
6546
6547 If the limit is set to zero, it disables sharing of collapsed
6548 forwarding between SMP workers.
6549DOC_END
6550
41bd17a4 6551COMMENT_START
6552 TIMEOUTS
6553 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6554COMMENT_END
6555
6556NAME: forward_timeout
6557COMMENT: time-units
6558TYPE: time_t
6559LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
6560DEFAULT: 4 minutes
6561DOC_START
6562 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
6563 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 6564DOC_END
6565
41bd17a4 6566NAME: connect_timeout
6567COMMENT: time-units
6568TYPE: time_t
6569LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
6570DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 6571DOC_START
41bd17a4 6572 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6573 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
6574 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 6575DOC_END
6576
41bd17a4 6577NAME: peer_connect_timeout
6578COMMENT: time-units
6579TYPE: time_t
6580LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
6581DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 6582DOC_START
41bd17a4 6583 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
6584 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
6585 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
6586 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
6587DOC_END
7f7db318 6588
41bd17a4 6589NAME: read_timeout
6590COMMENT: time-units
6591TYPE: time_t
6592LOC: Config.Timeout.read
6593DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6594DOC_START
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6596
6597 After each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
41bd17a4 6598 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
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6599 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT.
6600
6601 The default is 15 minutes.
41bd17a4 6602DOC_END
cccac0a2 6603
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6604NAME: write_timeout
6605COMMENT: time-units
6606TYPE: time_t
6607LOC: Config.Timeout.write
6608DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6609DOC_START
6610 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
6611 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
6612 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
6613 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
6614 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
6615 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
6616 default is 15 minutes.
6617DOC_END
6618
41bd17a4 6619NAME: request_timeout
6620TYPE: time_t
6621LOC: Config.Timeout.request
6622DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6623DOC_START
6b2a2108 6624 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 6625 connection establishment.
6626DOC_END
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6628NAME: request_start_timeout
6629TYPE: time_t
6630LOC: Config.Timeout.request_start_timeout
6631DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6632DOC_START
6633 How long to wait for the first request byte after initial
6634 connection establishment.
6635DOC_END
6636
97b32442 6637NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 6638TYPE: time_t
97b32442 6639LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 6640DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6641DOC_START
6642 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 6643 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 6644DOC_END
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6646NAME: ftp_client_idle_timeout
6647TYPE: time_t
6648LOC: Config.Timeout.ftpClientIdle
6649DEFAULT: 30 minutes
6650DOC_START
6651 How long to wait for an FTP request on a connection to Squid ftp_port.
6652 Many FTP clients do not deal with idle connection closures well,
6653 necessitating a longer default timeout than client_idle_pconn_timeout
6654 used for incoming HTTP requests.
6655DOC_END
6656
41bd17a4 6657NAME: client_lifetime
6658COMMENT: time-units
6659TYPE: time_t
6660LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
6661DEFAULT: 1 day
6662DOC_START
6663 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6664 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
6665 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
6666 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
6667 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
6668 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
6669 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 6670
41bd17a4 6671 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
6672 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
6673 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
6674 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
6675 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
6676 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 6677DOC_END
6678
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6679NAME: pconn_lifetime
6680COMMENT: time-units
6681TYPE: time_t
6682LOC: Config.Timeout.pconnLifetime
6683DEFAULT: 0 seconds
6684DOC_START
6685 Desired maximum lifetime of a persistent connection.
6686 When set, Squid will close a now-idle persistent connection that
6687 exceeded configured lifetime instead of moving the connection into
6688 the idle connection pool (or equivalent). No effect on ongoing/active
6689 transactions. Connection lifetime is the time period from the
6690 connection acceptance or opening time until "now".
6691
6692 This limit is useful in environments with long-lived connections
6693 where Squid configuration or environmental factors change during a
6694 single connection lifetime. If unrestricted, some connections may
6695 last for hours and even days, ignoring those changes that should
6696 have affected their behavior or their existence.
6697
6698 Currently, a new lifetime value supplied via Squid reconfiguration
6699 has no effect on already idle connections unless they become busy.
6700
6701 When set to '0' this limit is not used.
6702DOC_END
6703
41bd17a4 6704NAME: half_closed_clients
6705TYPE: onoff
6706LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 6707DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 6708DOC_START
41bd17a4 6709 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
6710 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
6711 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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6712 fully-closed TCP connection.
6713
6714 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
6715 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
6716
abdf1651 6717 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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6718 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
6719 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
6720 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 6721DOC_END
6722
97b32442 6723NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 6724TYPE: time_t
97b32442 6725LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 6726DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 6727DOC_START
41bd17a4 6728 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
6729 proxies.
6730DOC_END
cccac0a2 6731
41bd17a4 6732NAME: ident_timeout
6733TYPE: time_t
6734IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 6735LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 6736DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6737DOC_START
6738 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 6739
41bd17a4 6740 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
6741 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6742 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 6743DOC_END
6744
41bd17a4 6745NAME: shutdown_lifetime
6746COMMENT: time-units
6747TYPE: time_t
6748LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
6749DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 6750DOC_START
41bd17a4 6751 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
6752 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
6753 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
6754 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
6755 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 6756DOC_END
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cccac0a2 6758COMMENT_START
6759 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
6760 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6761COMMENT_END
6762
6763NAME: cache_mgr
6764TYPE: string
6765DEFAULT: webmaster
6766LOC: Config.adminEmail
6767DOC_START
6768 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 6769 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 6770DOC_END
6771
abacf776 6772NAME: mail_from
6773TYPE: string
6774DEFAULT: none
6775LOC: Config.EmailFrom
6776DOC_START
6777 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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6778 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
6779
6780 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 6781DOC_END
6782
d084bf20 6783NAME: mail_program
6784TYPE: eol
6785DEFAULT: mail
6786LOC: Config.EmailProgram
6787DOC_START
6788 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 6789 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 6790 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 6791 mail-program recipient < mailfile
6792
d084bf20 6793 Optional command line options can be specified.
6794DOC_END
6795
cccac0a2 6796NAME: cache_effective_user
6797TYPE: string
5483d916 6798DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 6799LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 6800DOC_START
6801 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
6802 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 6803 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 6804 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 6805DOC_END
6806
cccac0a2 6807NAME: cache_effective_group
6808TYPE: string
6809DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6810DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 6811LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
6812DOC_START
64e288bd 6813 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
6814 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
6815 from the groups membership.
6816
e3d74828 6817 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
6818 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
6819 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 6820 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 6821 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 6822 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 6823 group.
64e288bd 6824
6825 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
6826 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
6827 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 6828DOC_END
6829
d3caee79 6830NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
6831COMMENT: on|off
6832TYPE: onoff
6833DEFAULT: off
6834LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
6835DOC_START
6836 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
6837DOC_END
6838
cccac0a2 6839NAME: visible_hostname
6840TYPE: string
6841LOC: Config.visibleHostname
6842DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6843DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 6844DOC_START
6845 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 6846 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 6847 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
6848 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
6849 names with this setting.
6850DOC_END
6851
cccac0a2 6852NAME: unique_hostname
6853TYPE: string
6854LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
6855DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6856DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 6857DOC_START
6858 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 6859 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
6860 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 6861DOC_END
6862
cccac0a2 6863NAME: hostname_aliases
6864TYPE: wordlist
6865LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
6866DEFAULT: none
6867DOC_START
7f7db318 6868 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 6869DOC_END
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6871NAME: umask
6872TYPE: int
6873LOC: Config.umask
6874DEFAULT: 027
6875DOC_START
6876 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
6877 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
6878
6879 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
6880 your value with 0.
6881DOC_END
6882
cccac0a2 6883COMMENT_START
6884 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
6885 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6886
6887 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
6888 announcement service. This service is provided to help
6889 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
6890 create cache hierarchies.
6891
6892 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
6893 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
6894 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
6895
6896 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
6897 following information from this configuration file:
6898
6899 http_port
6900 icp_port
6901 cache_mgr
6902
6903 All current information is processed regularly and made
6904 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
6905COMMENT_END
6906
6907NAME: announce_period
6908TYPE: time_t
6909LOC: Config.Announce.period
6910DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6911DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 6912DOC_START
638402dd 6913 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 6914
e0855596 6915 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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6917 Example:
6918 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 6919DOC_END
6920
cccac0a2 6921NAME: announce_host
6922TYPE: string
6923DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
6924LOC: Config.Announce.host
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6925DOC_START
6926 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
6927
6928 See also announce_port and announce_file
6929DOC_END
cccac0a2 6930
6931NAME: announce_file
6932TYPE: string
6933DEFAULT: none
6934LOC: Config.Announce.file
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6935DOC_START
6936 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
6937 registration messages.
6938DOC_END
cccac0a2 6939
6940NAME: announce_port
ae870270 6941TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 6942DEFAULT: 3131
6943LOC: Config.Announce.port
6944DOC_START
638402dd 6945 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 6946
638402dd 6947 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 6948DOC_END
6949
8d6275c0 6950COMMENT_START
6951 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
6952 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6953COMMENT_END
6954
cccac0a2 6955NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6956TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 6957DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6958DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 6959LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6960DOC_START
6961 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
6962 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
6963 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
6964 an identification token.
6965DOC_END
6966
6967NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 6968COMMENT: on|off
6969TYPE: onoff
6970DEFAULT: off
6971LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
6972DOC_START
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6973 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
6974 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
6975
cccac0a2 6976 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
6977DOC_END
6978
6979NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 6980IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 6981COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 6982TYPE: string
6983LOC: ESIParser::Type
6984DEFAULT: custom
6985DOC_START
6986 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
6987 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
6988 encodings.
6989DOC_END
0976f8db 6990
9edd9041 6991COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6992 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 6993 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6994COMMENT_END
6995
6996NAME: delay_pools
6997TYPE: delay_pool_count
6998DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6999IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7000LOC: Config.Delay
7001DOC_START
7002 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
7003 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
7004 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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7005
7006 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
7007 configuration details.
9edd9041 7008DOC_END
7009
7010NAME: delay_class
7011TYPE: delay_pool_class
7012DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 7013IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7014LOC: Config.Delay
7015DOC_START
7016 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
7017 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
7018 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
7019 and here would be:
7020
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7021 Example:
7022 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
7023 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
7024 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
7025 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
7026 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 7027
7028 The delay pool classes are:
7029
7030 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
7031 bucket.
7032
7033 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
7034 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 7035 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 7036
7037 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
7038 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
7039 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
7040 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 7041 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 7042
7043 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
7044 additional limit on a per user basis. This
7045 only takes effect if the username is established
7046 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
7047 http_access rules.
7048
7049 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
7050 external_acl's tag= reply).
7051
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7052
7053 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
7054 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
7055 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
7056
9edd9041 7057 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
7058 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
7059 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
7060 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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7061
7062 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
7063 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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7064
7065 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7066 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
7067
7068 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 7069DOC_END
7070
7071NAME: delay_access
7072TYPE: delay_pool_access
7073DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7074DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 7075IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7076LOC: Config.Delay
7077DOC_START
7078 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
7079
7080 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
7081 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
7082 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
7083 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
7084
7085 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
7086 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
7087
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7088 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
7089 delay_access 1 deny all
7090 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
7091 delay_access 2 deny all
7092 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
7093
7094 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
7095
9edd9041 7096DOC_END
7097
7098NAME: delay_parameters
7099TYPE: delay_pool_rates
7100DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 7101IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7102LOC: Config.Delay
7103DOC_START
7104 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
7105 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 7106 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 7107
0b68481a 7108 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6e7502cc 7109 delay_class pool 1
0b68481a 7110 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 7111
7112 For a class 2 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7113 delay_class pool 2
0b68481a 7114 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 7115
7116 For a class 3 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7117 delay_class pool 3
0b68481a 7118 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 7119
7120 For a class 4 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7121 delay_class pool 4
0b68481a 7122 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 7123
7124 For a class 5 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7125 delay_class pool 5
0b68481a 7126 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 7127
0b68481a 7128 The option variables are:
9edd9041 7129
7130 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
7131 number specified in delay_pools as used in
7132 delay_class lines.
7133
fdb47ac6 7134 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 7135 (class 1, 2, 3).
7136
fdb47ac6 7137 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 7138 buckets (class 2, 3).
7139
fdb47ac6 7140 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 7141 (class 3).
7142
fdb47ac6 7143 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 7144 (class 4).
7145
fdb47ac6 7146 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 7147 (class 5).
7148
7149 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
7150 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
7151 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
7152 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
7153
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7154 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
7155
7156
9edd9041 7157 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 7158 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 7159 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
7160
6e7502cc 7161 delay_parameters 1 none 8000/8000
0b68481a 7162
c3e31a3a 7163 Note that 8 x 8K Byte/sec -> 64K bit/sec.
9edd9041 7164
6e7502cc 7165 Note that the word 'none' is used to represent no limit.
9edd9041 7166
0b68481a 7167
9edd9041 7168 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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7169 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
7170 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
7171 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 7172 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
7173 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
7174 large downloads more significantly:
7175
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7176 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
7177
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7178 Note that 8 x 32K Byte/sec -> 256K bit/sec.
7179 8 x 8K Byte/sec -> 64K bit/sec.
7180 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800 bit/sec.
9edd9041 7181
9edd9041 7182
7183 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 7184 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 7185
0b68481a 7186 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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7187
7188
7189 See also delay_class and delay_access.
7190
9edd9041 7191DOC_END
7192
7193NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
7194COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 7195TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 7196DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 7197IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7198LOC: Config.Delay.initial
7199DOC_START
7200 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
7201 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
7202 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
7203 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
7204 "seen" by squid).
7205DOC_END
7206
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7207COMMENT_START
7208 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
7209 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7210COMMENT_END
7211
7212NAME: client_delay_pools
7213TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
7214DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 7215IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7216LOC: Config.ClientDelay
7217DOC_START
7218 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
7219 preceed other client_delay_* options.
7220
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7221 Example:
7222 client_delay_pools 2
7223
7224 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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7225DOC_END
7226
7227NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
7228COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 7229TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 7230DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 7231IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7232LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
7233DOC_START
7234 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
7235 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
7236 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
7237 buckets are periodically deleted up.
7238
7239 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
7240 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
7241 from client_delay_parameters.
7242
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7243 Example:
7244 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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7245DOC_END
7246
7247NAME: client_delay_parameters
7248TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
7249DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 7250IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7251LOC: Config.ClientDelay
7252DOC_START
7253
7254 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
7255 following format:
7256
7257 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
7258
7259 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
7260
7261 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
7262
7263 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
7264 speed_limit additions.
7265
7266 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
7267 examples.
7268
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7269 Example:
7270 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
7271 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
7272
7273 See also client_delay_access.
7274
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7275DOC_END
7276
7277NAME: client_delay_access
7278TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
7279DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7280DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 7281IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7282LOC: Config.ClientDelay
7283DOC_START
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7284 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
7285 request:
7286
7287 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
7288
7289 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
7290 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
7291 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
7292 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
7293 limited.
7294
7295 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
7296 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
7297 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
7298 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
7299
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7300 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7301 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
7302 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
7303 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
7304
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7305 Please see delay_access for more examples.
7306
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7307 Example:
7308 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
7309 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
7310
7311
7312 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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7313DOC_END
7314
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7315NAME: response_delay_pool
7316TYPE: response_delay_pool_parameters
7317DEFAULT: none
7318IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
7319LOC: Config.MessageDelay
7320DOC_START
7321 This option configures client response bandwidth limits using the
7322 following format:
7323
7324 response_delay_pool name [option=value] ...
7325
7326 name the response delay pool name
7327
7328 available options:
7329
7330 individual-restore The speed limit of an individual
7331 bucket(bytes/s). To be used in conjunction
7332 with 'individual-maximum'.
7333
7334 individual-maximum The maximum number of bytes which can
7335 be placed into the individual bucket. To be used
7336 in conjunction with 'individual-restore'.
7337
7338 aggregate-restore The speed limit for the aggregate
7339 bucket(bytes/s). To be used in conjunction with
7340 'aggregate-maximum'.
7341
7342 aggregate-maximum The maximum number of bytes which can
7343 be placed into the aggregate bucket. To be used
7344 in conjunction with 'aggregate-restore'.
7345
7346 initial-bucket-level The initial bucket size as a percentage
7347 of individual-maximum.
7348
7349 Individual and(or) aggregate bucket options may not be specified,
7350 meaning no individual and(or) aggregate speed limitation.
7351 See also response_delay_pool_access and delay_parameters for
7352 terminology details.
7353DOC_END
7354
7355NAME: response_delay_pool_access
7356TYPE: response_delay_pool_access
7357DEFAULT: none
7358DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
7359IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
7360LOC: Config.MessageDelay
7361DOC_START
7362 Determines whether a specific named response delay pool is used
7363 for the transaction. The syntax for this directive is:
7364
7365 response_delay_pool_access pool_name allow|deny acl_name
7366
7367 All response_delay_pool_access options are checked in the order
7368 they appear in this configuration file. The first rule with a
7369 matching ACL wins. If (and only if) an "allow" rule won, Squid
7370 assigns the response to the corresponding named delay pool.
7371DOC_END
7372
cccac0a2 7373COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 7374 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 7375 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7376COMMENT_END
7377
8d6275c0 7378NAME: wccp_router
7379TYPE: address
7380LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 7381DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7382DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 7383IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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7384DOC_START
7385 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
7386 Squid.
7387
7388 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
7389
7390 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
7391
7392 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
7393 which version of WCCP to use.
7394DOC_END
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8d6275c0 7396NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 7397TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 7398LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 7399DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7400DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 7401IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7402DOC_START
8d6275c0 7403 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
7404 Squid.
cccac0a2 7405
8d6275c0 7406 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 7407
8d6275c0 7408 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 7409
8d6275c0 7410 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
7411 which version of WCCP to use.
7412DOC_END
7413
7414NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 7415TYPE: int
8d6275c0 7416LOC: Config.Wccp.version
7417DEFAULT: 4
7418IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 7419DOC_START
8d6275c0 7420 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
7421 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
7422 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
7423 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
7424 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 7425
8d6275c0 7426 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
7427 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
7428 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
7429 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 7430DOC_END
7431
8d6275c0 7432NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
7433TYPE: onoff
7434LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
7435DEFAULT: on
7436IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7437DOC_START
7438 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
7439 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
7440DOC_END
cccac0a2 7441
8d6275c0 7442NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 7443TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 7444LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 7445DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7446IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7447DOC_START
699acd19 7448 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 7449 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
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7451 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7452 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7453
8d6275c0 7454 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7455 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 7456DOC_END
7457
8d6275c0 7458NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 7459TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 7460LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 7461DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7462IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7463DOC_START
699acd19 7464 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 7465 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
7466 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7467
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7468 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7469 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7470
8d6275c0 7471 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7472 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 7473
699acd19 7474 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 7475 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
7476 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
7477 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 7478DOC_END
7479
8d6275c0 7480NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 7481TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 7482LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 7483DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 7484IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7485DOC_START
8d6275c0 7486 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
7487 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7488
451c4786 7489 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 7490 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 7491
8d6275c0 7492 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
7493 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
7494DOC_END
cccac0a2 7495
8d6275c0 7496NAME: wccp2_service
7497TYPE: wccp2_service
7498LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 7499DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 7500DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 7501IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7502DOC_START
7503 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
7504 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
7505 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
7506 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
7507 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
7508 using the wccp2_service_info option.
7509
7510 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
7511 just specifying the service id will suffice.
7512
7513 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
7514 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
7515
7516 Examples:
7517
7518 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
7519 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
7520 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
7521 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 7522DOC_END
7523
7524NAME: wccp2_service_info
7525TYPE: wccp2_service_info
7526LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
7527DEFAULT: none
7528IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7529DOC_START
7530 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
7531 traffic you wish to have diverted.
7532
7533 The format is:
7534
7535 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
7536 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
7537
7538 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
7539 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 7540 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 7541 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
7542 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
7543 + ports_source
7544
7545 The port list can be one to eight entries.
7546
7547 Example:
7548
7549 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
7550 priority=240 ports=80
7551
7552 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
7553 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
7554DOC_END
7555
7556NAME: wccp2_weight
7557TYPE: int
7558LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
7559DEFAULT: 10000
7560IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7561DOC_START
7562 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
7563 hash proportional to their weight.
7564DOC_END
7565
7566NAME: wccp_address
7567TYPE: address
7568LOC: Config.Wccp.address
7569DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7570DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7571IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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7572DOC_START
7573 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
7574 interface address.
7575
7576 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7577DOC_END
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8d6275c0 7579NAME: wccp2_address
7580TYPE: address
7581LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
7582DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7583DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7584IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7585DOC_START
7586 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
7587 interface address.
7588
7589 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7590DOC_END
7591
7592COMMENT_START
7593 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
7594 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7595
7596 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
7597COMMENT_END
7598
7599NAME: client_persistent_connections
7600TYPE: onoff
7601LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
7602DEFAULT: on
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7603DOC_START
7604 Persistent connection support for clients.
7605 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7606 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
7607DOC_END
8d6275c0 7608
7609NAME: server_persistent_connections
7610TYPE: onoff
7611LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
7612DEFAULT: on
7613DOC_START
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7614 Persistent connection support for servers.
7615 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7616 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 7617DOC_END
7618
7619NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
7620TYPE: onoff
7621LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 7622DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 7623DOC_START
7624 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
7625 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
7626 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
7627DOC_END
7628
7629NAME: detect_broken_pconn
7630TYPE: onoff
7631LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
7632DEFAULT: off
7633DOC_START
7634 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
7635 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
7636 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
7637 has mostly been seen on redirects.
7638
7639 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
7640 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
7641 after 10 seconds timeout.
7642DOC_END
7643
7644COMMENT_START
7645 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
7646 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7647COMMENT_END
7648
7649NAME: digest_generation
7650IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7651TYPE: onoff
7652LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
7653DEFAULT: on
7654DOC_START
7655 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
7656 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 7657 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 7658DOC_END
7659
7660NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
7661IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7662TYPE: int
7663LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
7664DEFAULT: 5
7665DOC_START
7666 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
7667 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
7668 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
7669DOC_END
7670
7671NAME: digest_rebuild_period
7672IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7673COMMENT: (seconds)
7674TYPE: time_t
7675LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
7676DEFAULT: 1 hour
7677DOC_START
749ceff8 7678 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 7679DOC_END
7680
7681NAME: digest_rewrite_period
7682COMMENT: (seconds)
7683IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7684TYPE: time_t
7685LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
7686DEFAULT: 1 hour
7687DOC_START
749ceff8 7688 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 7689 disk.
7690DOC_END
7691
7692NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
7693COMMENT: (bytes)
7694TYPE: b_size_t
7695IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7696LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
7697DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
7698DOC_START
7699 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
7700 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
7701 default swap page.
7702DOC_END
7703
7704NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
7705COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
7706IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7707TYPE: int
7708LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
7709DEFAULT: 10
7710DOC_START
7711 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
7712 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
7713DOC_END
7714
1db9eacd 7715COMMENT_START
5473c134 7716 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 7717 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7718COMMENT_END
7719
5473c134 7720NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 7721TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7722LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 7723DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7724DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 7725IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 7726DOC_START
87630341 7727 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
7728 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
7729 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
7730 set to "0" (disabled)
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7731
7732 Example:
7733 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 7734DOC_END
7735
5473c134 7736NAME: snmp_access
7737TYPE: acl_access
7738LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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7739DEFAULT: none
7740DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 7741IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 7742DOC_START
5473c134 7743 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 7744
5473c134 7745 All access to the agent is denied by default.
7746 usage:
8d6275c0 7747
5473c134 7748 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 7749
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7750 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7751 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 7752
5473c134 7753Example:
7754 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
7755 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 7756DOC_END
7757
5473c134 7758NAME: snmp_incoming_address
7759TYPE: address
7760LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 7761DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7762DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 7763IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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7764DOC_START
7765 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
7766
7767 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
7768 messages from SNMP agents.
7769
7770 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
7771 available network interfaces.
7772DOC_END
df2eec10 7773
5473c134 7774NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
7775TYPE: address
7776LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 7777DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7778DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 7779IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 7780DOC_START
638402dd 7781 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 7782
5473c134 7783 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
7784 agents.
cccac0a2 7785
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7787 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
7788 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
7789 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 7790
5473c134 7791 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 7792 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7793DOC_END
7794
5473c134 7795COMMENT_START
7796 ICP OPTIONS
7797 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7798COMMENT_END
7799
7800NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 7801TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7802DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7803DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 7804LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 7805DOC_START
5473c134 7806 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
7807 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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7808
7809 Example:
7810 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 7811DOC_END
7812
5473c134 7813NAME: htcp_port
7814IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 7815TYPE: u_short
87630341 7816DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7817DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 7818LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 7819DOC_START
5473c134 7820 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 7821 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 7822 4827.
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7823
7824 Example:
7825 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 7826DOC_END
7827
7828NAME: log_icp_queries
7829COMMENT: on|off
7830TYPE: onoff
7831DEFAULT: on
7832LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
7833DOC_START
7834 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
7835 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
7836 up or to simplify log analysis.
7837DOC_END
7838
5473c134 7839NAME: udp_incoming_address
7840TYPE: address
7841LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 7842DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7843DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 7844DOC_START
7845 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
7846 caches.
7847
7848 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7849
7850 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
7851 a specific interface/address.
7852
7853 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7854 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7855
7856 see also; udp_outgoing_address
7857
7858 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
7859 have the same value since they both use the same port.
7860DOC_END
cccac0a2 7861
5473c134 7862NAME: udp_outgoing_address
7863TYPE: address
7864LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 7865DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7866DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 7867DOC_START
8524d4b2 7868 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 7869 caches.
cccac0a2 7870
5473c134 7871 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 7872
8524d4b2 7873 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
7874 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
7875 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 7876 caches.
7877
8524d4b2 7878 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7879 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7880
7881 see also; udp_incoming_address
7882
5473c134 7883 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 7884 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7885DOC_END
7886
3d1e3e43 7887NAME: icp_hit_stale
7888COMMENT: on|off
7889TYPE: onoff
7890DEFAULT: off
7891LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
7892DOC_START
7893 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
7894 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
7895 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7896 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
7897 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7898 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
7899 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
7900DOC_END
7901
5473c134 7902NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 7903TYPE: int
5473c134 7904DEFAULT: 4
7905LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 7906DOC_START
5473c134 7907 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7908 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 7909DOC_END
7910
5473c134 7911NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 7912COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 7913TYPE: int
7914DEFAULT: 400
7915LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 7916DOC_START
5473c134 7917 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7918 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 7919DOC_END
7920
cccac0a2 7921NAME: netdb_low
7922TYPE: int
7923DEFAULT: 900
7924LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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7926 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7927
7928 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
7929
7930 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7931 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7932 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7933 mark is reached.
7934DOC_END
cccac0a2 7935
7936NAME: netdb_high
7937TYPE: int
7938DEFAULT: 1000
7939LOC: Config.Netdb.high
7940DOC_START
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7941 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7942
7943 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
7944
7945 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7946 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7947 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7948 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 7949DOC_END
7950
cccac0a2 7951NAME: netdb_ping_period
7952TYPE: time_t
7953LOC: Config.Netdb.period
7954DEFAULT: 5 minutes
7955DOC_START
7956 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
7957 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
7958 network. The default is five minutes.
7959DOC_END
7960
cccac0a2 7961NAME: query_icmp
7962COMMENT: on|off
7963TYPE: onoff
7964DEFAULT: off
7965LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
7966DOC_START
7967 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
7968 replies, enable this option.
7969
7970 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 7971 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
7972 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 7973 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
7974 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
7975 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
7976 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
7977 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
7978DOC_END
7979
7980NAME: test_reachability
7981COMMENT: on|off
7982TYPE: onoff
7983DEFAULT: off
7984LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
7985DOC_START
7986 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
7987 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
7988 database, or has a zero RTT.
7989DOC_END
7990
5473c134 7991NAME: icp_query_timeout
7992COMMENT: (msec)
7993DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7994DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 7995TYPE: int
7996LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 7997DOC_START
5473c134 7998 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
7999 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
8000 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
8001 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
8002 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
8003 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 8004
5473c134 8005 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 8006DOC_END
8007
5473c134 8008NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
8009COMMENT: (msec)
8010DEFAULT: 2000
8011TYPE: int
8012LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 8013DOC_START
5473c134 8014 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
8015 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
8016 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
8017 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
8018 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
8019 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 8020DOC_END
8021
5473c134 8022NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
8023COMMENT: (msec)
8024DEFAULT: 5
8025TYPE: int
8026LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 8027DOC_START
5473c134 8028 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
8029 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
8030 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
8031 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
8032 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
8033 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
8034 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 8035DOC_END
8036
5473c134 8037NAME: background_ping_rate
8038COMMENT: time-units
8039TYPE: time_t
8040DEFAULT: 10 seconds
8041LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 8042DOC_START
5473c134 8043 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
8044 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 8045DOC_END
8046
5473c134 8047COMMENT_START
8048 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
8049 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8050COMMENT_END
8051
8052NAME: mcast_groups
8053TYPE: wordlist
8054LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 8055DEFAULT: none
8056DOC_START
5473c134 8057 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
8058 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 8059
5473c134 8060 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
8061 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
8062 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
8063 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
8064 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
8065 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
8066 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 8067
5473c134 8068 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
8069 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 8070
5473c134 8071 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
8072 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 8073
5473c134 8074 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 8075
5473c134 8076 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
8077DOC_END
8c01ada0 8078
5473c134 8079NAME: mcast_miss_addr
8080IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
8081TYPE: address
8082LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 8083DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 8084DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 8085DOC_START
8086 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
8087 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 8088
5473c134 8089 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
8090 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 8091DOC_END
8092
5473c134 8093NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
8094IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 8095TYPE: u_short
5473c134 8096LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
8097DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 8098DOC_START
5473c134 8099 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
8100 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
8101 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
8102DOC_END
cccac0a2 8103
5473c134 8104NAME: mcast_miss_port
8105IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 8106TYPE: u_short
5473c134 8107LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
8108DEFAULT: 3135
8109DOC_START
8110 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
8111 'mcast_miss_addr'.
8112DOC_END
cccac0a2 8113
5473c134 8114NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
8115IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
8116TYPE: string
8117LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
8118DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
8119DOC_START
8120 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
8121 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
8122DOC_END
8c01ada0 8123
5473c134 8124NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
8125COMMENT: (msec)
8126DEFAULT: 2000
8127TYPE: int
8128LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
8129DOC_START
8130 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
8131 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
8132 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
8133 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
8134 seconds.
cccac0a2 8135DOC_END
8136
5473c134 8137COMMENT_START
8138 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
8139 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8140COMMENT_END
8141
cccac0a2 8142NAME: icon_directory
8143TYPE: string
8144LOC: Config.icons.directory
8145DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
8146DOC_START
8147 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
8148 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
8149DOC_END
8150
f024c970 8151NAME: global_internal_static
8152TYPE: onoff
8153LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
8154DEFAULT: on
8155DOC_START
8156 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
8157 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
8158 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
8159 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
8160 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
8161 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
8162 the server generating a directory listing.
8163DOC_END
8164
5473c134 8165NAME: short_icon_urls
8166TYPE: onoff
8167LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
8168DEFAULT: on
8169DOC_START
8170 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
8171 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
8172 it's own name and port in the URL.
8173
8174 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
8175 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
8176DOC_END
8177
8178COMMENT_START
8179 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
8180 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8181COMMENT_END
8182
8183NAME: error_directory
8184TYPE: string
8185LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 8186DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8187DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 8188DOC_START
8189 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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8190 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
8191 the error/template files to another directory and point
8192 this tag at them.
8193
8194 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
8195 on error pages if used.
5473c134 8196
8197 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
8198 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 8199 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 8200 contributing your translation back to the project.
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8201 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
8202
8203 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
8204 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
8205DOC_END
8206
8207NAME: error_default_language
8208IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
8209TYPE: string
8210LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
8211DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8212DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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8213DOC_START
8214 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
8215 if no existing translation matches the clients language
8216 preferences.
8217
8218 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
8219
8220 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
8221 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
8222 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
8223 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 8224DOC_END
8225
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8226NAME: error_log_languages
8227IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
8228TYPE: onoff
8229LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
8230DEFAULT: on
8231DOC_START
8232 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
8233 auto-negotiate for translations.
8234
8235 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
8236 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 8237 of its error page translations.
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8238DOC_END
8239
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8240NAME: err_page_stylesheet
8241TYPE: string
8242LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
8243DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
8244DOC_START
8245 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
8246
8247 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
8248DOC_END
8249
5473c134 8250NAME: err_html_text
8251TYPE: eol
8252LOC: Config.errHtmlText
8253DEFAULT: none
8254DOC_START
8255 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
8256 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
8257 organizations Web page.
8258
8259 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
8260 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
8261 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
8262 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
8263DOC_END
8264
8265NAME: email_err_data
8266COMMENT: on|off
8267TYPE: onoff
8268LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
8269DEFAULT: on
8270DOC_START
8271 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
8272 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
8273 so that the email body contains the data.
8274 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
8275DOC_END
8276
8277NAME: deny_info
8278TYPE: denyinfo
8279LOC: Config.denyInfoList
8280DEFAULT: none
8281DOC_START
8282 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
8283 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 8284 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 8285
8286 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
8287 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
8288 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
8289 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
8290
8291 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
8292 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
8293 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
8294 the first authentication related acl encountered
8295 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
8296 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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8297 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
8298 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 8299
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8300 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
8301 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
8302 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 8303
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8304 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
8305 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
8306 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
8307
5473c134 8308 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
8309 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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8310
8311 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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8312 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
8313 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
8314 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
8315 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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8316
8317 URL FORMAT TAGS:
8318 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
8319 %B - FTP path URL
8320 %e - Error number
8321 %E - Error description
8322 %h - Squid hostname
8323 %H - Request domain name
8324 %i - Client IP Address
8325 %M - Request Method
05dbf66c 8326 %O - Unescaped message result from external ACL helper
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8327 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
8328 %p - Request Port number
8329 %P - Request Protocol name
8330 %R - Request URL path
8331 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
8332 %U - Full canonical URL from client
8333 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
8334 %u - Full canonical URL from client
8335 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 8336 %x - Error name
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8337 %% - Literal percent (%) code
8338
5473c134 8339DOC_END
8340
8341COMMENT_START
8342 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
8343 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8344COMMENT_END
8345
8346NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 8347TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8348LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 8349DEFAULT: on
8350DOC_START
5473c134 8351 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
9967aef6 8352 (not cacheable request type) direct to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 8353
638402dd 8354 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 8355 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 8356
5473c134 8357 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
8358 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
8359 ratio.
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8361 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
8362 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
8363 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 8364DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 8365
5473c134 8366NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 8367TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8368LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 8369DEFAULT: off
8370DOC_START
5473c134 8371 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
8372 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
8373 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 8374
5473c134 8375 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
8376 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
8377 fails.
8378
8379 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
8380 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
8381 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 8382DOC_END
8383
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8384NAME: cache_miss_revalidate
8385COMMENT: on|off
8386TYPE: onoff
8387DEFAULT: on
8388LOC: Config.onoff.cache_miss_revalidate
8389DOC_START
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8390 RFC 7232 defines a conditional request mechanism to prevent
8391 response objects being unnecessarily transferred over the network.
8392 If that mechanism is used by the client and a cache MISS occurs
8393 it can prevent new cache entries being created.
8394
8395 This option determines whether Squid on cache MISS will pass the
8396 client revalidation request to the server or tries to fetch new
8397 content for caching. It can be useful while the cache is mostly
8398 empty to more quickly have the cache populated by generating
8399 non-conditional GETs.
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8400
8401 When set to 'on' (default), Squid will pass all client If-* headers
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8402 to the server. This permits server responses without a cacheable
8403 payload to be delivered and on MISS no new cache entry is created.
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8404
8405 When set to 'off' and if the request is cacheable, Squid will
8406 remove the clients If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers from
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8407 the request sent to the server. This requests a 200 status response
8408 from the server to create a new cache entry with.
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8409DOC_END
8410
5473c134 8411NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 8412TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 8413LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 8414DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8415DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 8416DOC_START
5473c134 8417 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 8418
5473c134 8419 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
8420 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
8421 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
8422 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
8423 something like:
0b0cfcf2 8424
5473c134 8425 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
8426 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 8427
5473c134 8428 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 8429
5473c134 8430 acl FTP proto FTP
8431 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 8432
5473c134 8433 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
8434 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
8435 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
8436 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
8437 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 8438
5473c134 8439 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
8440 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
8441 always_direct deny local-external
8442 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 8443
5473c134 8444 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
8445 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
8446 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
8447 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 8448
5473c134 8449 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
8450 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 8451 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 8452
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8453 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8454 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 8455DOC_END
0976f8db 8456
5473c134 8457NAME: never_direct
8458TYPE: acl_access
8459LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
8460DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8461DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 8462DOC_START
5473c134 8463 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8464
8465 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
8466 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
8467
8468 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
8469 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
8470 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
8471 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
8472
8473 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 8474 never_direct deny local-servers
8475 never_direct allow all
8476
8477 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
8478 servers inside the firewall use something like:
8479
8480 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
8481 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
8482 always_direct deny local-external
8483 always_direct allow local-intranet
8484 never_direct allow all
8485
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8486 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8487 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 8488DOC_END
0976f8db 8489
5473c134 8490COMMENT_START
8491 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
8492 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8493COMMENT_END
8494
65d448bc 8495NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 8496TYPE: int
8497DEFAULT: 6
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8498LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
8499DOC_START
8500 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8501 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8502 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8503DOC_END
cccac0a2 8504
65d448bc 8505NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 8506TYPE: int
8507DEFAULT: 4
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8508LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
8509DOC_START
8510 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8511 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8512 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8513DOC_END
cccac0a2 8514
8515NAME: incoming_dns_average
8516TYPE: int
8517DEFAULT: 4
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8518LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
8519DOC_START
8520 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8521 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8522 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8523DOC_END
cccac0a2 8524
65d448bc 8525NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8526TYPE: int
8527DEFAULT: 8
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8528LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
8529DOC_START
8530 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8531 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8532 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8533DOC_END
cccac0a2 8534
8535NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
8536TYPE: int
8537DEFAULT: 8
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8538LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
8539DOC_START
8540 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8541 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8542 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8543DOC_END
cccac0a2 8544
65d448bc 8545NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8546TYPE: int
8547DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 8548LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 8549DOC_START
5473c134 8550 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8551 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8552 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8553DOC_END
8554
8555NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 8556TYPE: string
8557DEFAULT: none
8558LOC: Config.accept_filter
8559DOC_START
0b4d4be5 8560 FreeBSD:
8561
5473c134 8562 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
8563 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
8564 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
8565
8566 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 8567 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 8568 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
8569
8570 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
8571 to Squid until there is some data to process.
8572 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
8573
8574 Linux:
8575
8576 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
8577 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
8578 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
8579 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
8580 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 8581EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 8582# FreeBSD
5473c134 8583accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 8584# Linux
8585accept_filter data
5473c134 8586DOC_END
8587
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8588NAME: client_ip_max_connections
8589TYPE: int
8590LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
8591DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 8592DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
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8593DOC_START
8594 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
8595 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
8596 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
8597
8598 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
8599 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
8600
8601 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
8602
8603 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
8604 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
8605DOC_END
8606
5473c134 8607NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
8608COMMENT: (bytes)
8609TYPE: b_size_t
8610DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 8611DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 8612LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
8613DOC_START
8614 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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8615 as easy to change your kernel's default.
8616 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 8617DOC_END
8618
8619COMMENT_START
8620 ICAP OPTIONS
8621 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8622COMMENT_END
8623
8624NAME: icap_enable
8625TYPE: onoff
8626IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8627COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8628LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 8629DEFAULT: off
8630DOC_START
53e738c6 8631 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 8632DOC_END
8633
8634NAME: icap_connect_timeout
8635TYPE: time_t
8636DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 8637LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 8638IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8639DOC_START
8640 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
8641 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
8642 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
8643
8644 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
8645 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
8646 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
8647DOC_END
8648
8649NAME: icap_io_timeout
8650COMMENT: time-units
8651TYPE: time_t
8652DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8653DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 8654LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 8655IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8656DOC_START
8657 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
8658 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
8659 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
8660 failure.
5473c134 8661DOC_END
8662
8663NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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8664COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
8665TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 8666IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 8667LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 8668DEFAULT: 10
8669DOC_START
8670 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
8671 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
8672 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
8673 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 8674 OPTIONS.
5473c134 8675
8676 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
8677 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
8678 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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8679
8680 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
8681 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
8682 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
8683 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
8684 value into ten time slots of equal length.
8685
8686 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
8687 effect on service failure expiration.
8688
8689 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
8690 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
8691 setting.
8692
8693 For example,
8694 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
8695 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 8696DOC_END
8697
5473c134 8698NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 8699TYPE: int
5473c134 8700IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8701LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 8702DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 8703DOC_START
5473c134 8704 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
8705 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
8706 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
8707 fetched.
cccac0a2 8708
5473c134 8709 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
8710 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 8711DOC_END
8712
5473c134 8713NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 8714TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8715IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8716COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8717LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 8718DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 8719DOC_START
ac7a62f9 8720 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
8721 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
8722 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
8723 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
8724
8725 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
8726 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
8727 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
8728
8729 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
8730 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
8731Example:
8732icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 8733DOC_END
8734
5473c134 8735NAME: icap_preview_size
8736TYPE: int
8737IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8738LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 8739DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 8740DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 8741DOC_START
53e738c6 8742 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 8743 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 8744DOC_END
8745
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8746NAME: icap_206_enable
8747TYPE: onoff
8748IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8749COMMENT: on|off
8750LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
8751DEFAULT: on
8752DOC_START
8753 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
8754 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
8755 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
8756 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
8757
8758 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
8759 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
8760 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
8761 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
8762 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
8763
8764 Example:
8765 icap_206_enable off
8766DOC_END
8767
5473c134 8768NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
8769TYPE: int
8770IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8771LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 8772DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 8773DOC_START
53e738c6 8774 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 8775 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 8776DOC_END
8777
5473c134 8778NAME: icap_persistent_connections
8779TYPE: onoff
8780IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8781COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8782LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 8783DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 8784DOC_START
5473c134 8785 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
8786 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 8787DOC_END
8788
22fff3bf 8789NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 8790TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 8791IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 8792COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 8793LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 8794DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8795DOC_START
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8796 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
8797 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
8798 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
8799
8800 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 8801DOC_END
8802
22fff3bf 8803NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 8804TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 8805IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 8806COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 8807LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 8808DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8809DOC_START
5473c134 8810 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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8811 the adaptation service.
8812
8813 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 8814 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
8815 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 8816DOC_END
8817
5473c134 8818NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 8819TYPE: string
5473c134 8820IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8821LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 8822DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 8823DOC_START
db49f682 8824 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 8825DOC_END
8826
5473c134 8827NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 8828TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8829IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8830COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8831LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 8832DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8833DOC_START
5473c134 8834 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 8835DOC_END
8836
5473c134 8837NAME: icap_service
8838TYPE: icap_service_type
8839IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8840LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 8841DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8842DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8843 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 8844
c25c2836 8845 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 8846
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CT
8847 id: ID
8848 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8849 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8850 services in squid.conf.
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8851
8852 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 8853 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8854 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8855 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 8856
c25c2836 8857 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
a22e6cd3 8858 ICAP server and service location.
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8859 icaps://servername:port/servicepath
8860 The "icap:" URI scheme is used for traditional ICAP server and
8861 service location (default port is 1344, connections are not
8862 encrypted). The "icaps:" URI scheme is for Secure ICAP
8863 services that use SSL/TLS-encrypted ICAP connections (by
8864 default, on port 11344).
a22e6cd3
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8865
8866 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
8867 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
8868 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
8869 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
8870 service_names differ.
8871
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8872 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
8873 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8874
8875 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
8876 the following name=value options:
8877
8878 bypass=on|off|1|0
8879 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
8880 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
8881 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
8882 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
8883 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
8884 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
8885 returned to the HTTP client.
8886
8887 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8888
8889 routing=on|off|1|0
8890 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
8891 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8892 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
8893 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
8894 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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8895 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
8896 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
8897 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
8898
8899 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8900 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
a22e6cd3
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8901
8902 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
8903 response header is ignored.
8904
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8905 ipv6=on|off
8906 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
8907 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
8908 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
8909
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8910 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
8911 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
8912 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
8913 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
8914 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
8915 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
8916 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
8917
8918 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
8919 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
8920 workers may use a given service.
8921
8922 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
8923 otherwise it is set to "wait".
8924
8925
8926 max-conn=number
8927 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
8928 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
8929
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8930 connection-encryption=on|off
8931 Determines the ICAP service effect on the connections_encrypted
8932 ACL.
8933
8934 The default is "on" for Secure ICAP services (i.e., those
8935 with the icaps:// service URIs scheme) and "off" for plain ICAP
8936 services.
8937
8938 Does not affect ICAP connections (e.g., does not turn Secure
8939 ICAP on or off).
8940
4dd2c9d6 8941 ==== ICAPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
1b091aec
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8942
8943 These options are used for Secure ICAP (icaps://....) services only.
8944
4dd2c9d6 8945 tls-cert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1b091aec
CT
8946 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
8947 this icap server.
8948
4dd2c9d6
AJ
8949 tls-key=/path/to/ssl/key
8950 The private TLS/SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
8951 If 'tls-key' is not specified 'tls-cert' is assumed to
8952 reference a combined PEM format file containing both the
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8953 certificate and the key.
8954
4dd2c9d6 8955 tls-cipher=... The list of valid TLS/SSL ciphers to use when connecting
1b091aec
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8956 to this icap server.
8957
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8958 tls-min-version=1.N
8959 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
3f5b28fe 8960 SSLv3 use the tls-options= parameter.
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AJ
8961 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
8962
4dd2c9d6 8963 tls-options=... Specify various OpenSSL library options:
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8964
8965 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
4dd2c9d6 8966
1b091aec
CT
8967 SINGLE_DH_USE
8968 Always create a new key when using
8969 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
4dd2c9d6 8970
1b091aec 8971 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
4dd2c9d6
AJ
8972 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
8973 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
8974 strength to some attacks.
1b091aec
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8975
8976 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
4dd2c9d6
AJ
8977 more complete list. Options relevant only to SSLv2 are
8978 not supported.
1b091aec 8979
86a84cc0
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8980 tls-cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
8981 the icap server certificate.
8982 Use to specify intermediate CA certificate(s) if not sent
8983 by the server. Or the full CA chain for the server when
435c72b0 8984 using the tls-default-ca=off flag.
86a84cc0 8985 May be repeated to load multiple files.
1b091aec 8986
4dd2c9d6 8987 tls-capath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
1b091aec 8988 use when verifying the icap server certificate.
86a84cc0 8989 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
1b091aec 8990
4dd2c9d6 8991 tls-crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
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8992 verifying the icap server certificate.
8993
4dd2c9d6 8994 tls-flags=... Specify various flags modifying the Squid TLS implementation:
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8995
8996 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
8997 Accept certificates even if they fail to
8998 verify.
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8999 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
9000 Don't verify the icap server certificate
9001 matches the server name
9002
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9003 tls-default-ca[=off]
9004 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is ON.
8b253b83 9005
4dd2c9d6 9006 tls-domain= The icap server name as advertised in it's certificate.
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9007 Used for verifying the correctness of the received icap
9008 server certificate. If not specified the icap server
9009 hostname extracted from ICAP URI will be used.
9010
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9011 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
9012 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 9013
5473c134 9014Example:
c25c2836 9015icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
1b091aec 9016icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icaps://icap2.mydomain.net:11344/reqmod routing=on
cccac0a2 9017DOC_END
9018
5473c134 9019NAME: icap_class
9020TYPE: icap_class_type
9021IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 9022LOC: none
5473c134 9023DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 9024DOC_START
a22e6cd3 9025 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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9026 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
9027 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 9028
62c7f90e 9029 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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9030 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
9031 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 9032DOC_END
9033
5473c134 9034NAME: icap_access
9035TYPE: icap_access_type
9036IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 9037LOC: none
cccac0a2 9038DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 9039DOC_START
a22e6cd3 9040 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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9041 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
9042 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 9043DOC_END
9044
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9045COMMENT_START
9046 eCAP OPTIONS
9047 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9048COMMENT_END
9049
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9050NAME: ecap_enable
9051TYPE: onoff
9052IFDEF: USE_ECAP
9053COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 9054LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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9055DEFAULT: off
9056DOC_START
9057 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
9058DOC_END
9059
9060NAME: ecap_service
9061TYPE: ecap_service_type
9062IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 9063LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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9064DEFAULT: none
9065DOC_START
9066 Defines a single eCAP service
9067
c25c2836 9068 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 9069
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9070 id: ID
9071 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
9072 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
9073 services in squid.conf.
9074
9075 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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9076 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
9077 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
9078 are not yet supported.
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9079
9080 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
9081 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
9082 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
9083 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
9084 the service provider.
9085
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9086 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
9087 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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9088
9089 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
9090 the following name=value options:
9091
9092 bypass=on|off|1|0
9093 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
9094 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
9095 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 9096 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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9097 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
9098 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 9099 HTTP client.
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9100
9101 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
9102
9103 routing=on|off|1|0
9104 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
9105 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
9106 returning a chain of services to be used next.
9107
9108 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
9109 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
9110
9111 Routing is not allowed by default.
9112
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9113 connection-encryption=on|off
9114 Determines the eCAP service effect on the connections_encrypted
9115 ACL.
9116
9117 Defaults to "on", which does not taint the master transaction
9118 w.r.t. that ACL.
9119
9120 Does not affect eCAP API calls.
9121
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9122 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
9123 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
9124
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9125
9126Example:
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9127ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
9128ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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9129DOC_END
9130
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9131NAME: loadable_modules
9132TYPE: wordlist
9133IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
9134LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
9135DEFAULT: none
9136DOC_START
9137 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
9138 preloaded module(s).
9139Example:
9140loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
9141DOC_END
9142
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9143COMMENT_START
9144 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
9145 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9146COMMENT_END
9147
9148NAME: adaptation_service_set
9149TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
9150IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9151LOC: none
9152DEFAULT: none
9153DOC_START
9154
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9155 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
9156 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
9157
9158 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
9159
9160 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
9161 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
9162 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
9163 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
9164 intact.
62c7f90e 9165
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9166 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
9167 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 9168
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9169 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
9170 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
9171
9172 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
9173 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
9174 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
9175 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
9176 transaction fails as well.
9177
9178 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
9179 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
9180 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
9181 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
9182 matters.
9183
9184 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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9185
9186Example:
9187adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
9188adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
9189DOC_END
9190
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9191NAME: adaptation_service_chain
9192TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
9193IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9194LOC: none
9195DEFAULT: none
9196DOC_START
9197
9198 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
9199 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
9200 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
9201
9202 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
9203
9204 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
9205 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
9206 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
9207 the previous service in the chain.
9208
9209 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
9210 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
9211
9212 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
9213 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
9214 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
9215
9216 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
9217 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
9218
9219 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
9220 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
9221 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
9222 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
9223
9224 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
9225
9226Example:
9227adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
9228DOC_END
9229
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9230NAME: adaptation_access
9231TYPE: adaptation_access_type
9232IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9233LOC: none
9234DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9235DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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9236DOC_START
9237 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
9238
9239 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
9240 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
9241
9242 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
9243 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
9244 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
9245 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
9246
9247 - services serving different vectoring points
9248 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
9249 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
9250 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
9251
9252 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
9253 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
9254 adaptation_service_set for details.
9255
9256 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
9257 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
9258 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
9259 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
9260
9261 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
9262 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
9263
9264 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
9265
9266Example:
9267adaptation_access service_1 allow all
9268DOC_END
9269
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9270NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
9271TYPE: int
9272IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9273LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
9274DEFAULT: 16
9275DOC_START
9276 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
9277 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
9278 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
9279 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
9280 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
9281 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
9282
9283 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
9284
9285 See also: icap_service routing=1
9286DOC_END
9287
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9288NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
9289TYPE: string
9290IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9291LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
9292DEFAULT: none
9293DOC_START
9294 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
9295 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
9296 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
9297 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
9298 with the master transaction.
9299
9300 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
9301 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
9302
9303 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
9304 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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9305 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
9306
9307 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
9308 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
9309 to provide an option with a name specified in
9310 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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9311
9312 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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9313 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
9314
9315 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
9316
9317Example:
9318# share authentication information among ICAP services
9319adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
9320DOC_END
9321
71be37e0 9322NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 9323TYPE: note
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9324IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9325LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
9326DEFAULT: none
9327DOC_START
9328 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
9329 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
9330 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
9331 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
9332
9333 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
9334 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
9335
9336 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
9337 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
9338 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
9339 example:
9340
9341 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
9342 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
9343
9344 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
9345 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
9346
9347 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
9348 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
9349
9350 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
9351 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
9352 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
9353 and double quotes. For example,
9354 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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9355
9356 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
9357 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
9358 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
9359 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
9360 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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9361DOC_END
9362
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9363NAME: icap_retry
9364TYPE: acl_access
9365IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9366LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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9367DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
9368DOC_START
9369 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
9370 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
9371 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
9372 that response are usually retriable.
9373
9374 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
9375
9376 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
9377 due to persistent connection race conditions.
9378
9379 See also: icap_retry_limit
9380DOC_END
9381
9382NAME: icap_retry_limit
9383TYPE: int
9384IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9385LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
9386DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9387DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 9388DOC_START
638402dd 9389 Limits the number of retries allowed.
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9390
9391 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
9392 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
9393 count against this limit.
9394
9395 See also: icap_retry
9396DOC_END
9397
9398
5473c134 9399COMMENT_START
9400 DNS OPTIONS
9401 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9402COMMENT_END
9403
9404NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 9405TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 9406DEFAULT: off
5473c134 9407LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 9408DOC_START
5473c134 9409 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
9410 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
9411 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 9412DOC_END
9413
5473c134 9414NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 9415TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 9416DEFAULT: on
5473c134 9417LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 9418DOC_START
5473c134 9419 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
9420 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
9421 Squid to be strict about the standard.
9422 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 9423DOC_END
9424
5473c134 9425NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 9426TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 9427DEFAULT: 5 seconds
9428LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
cccac0a2 9429DOC_START
5473c134 9430 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
9431 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 9432DOC_END
9433
5473c134 9434NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 9435TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 9436DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 9437LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
cccac0a2 9438DOC_START
5473c134 9439 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
9440 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
9441 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 9442DOC_END
9443
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9444NAME: dns_packet_max
9445TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 9446DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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9447DEFAULT: none
9448LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
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9449DOC_START
9450 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
9451 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
9452
9453 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
9454 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
9455 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
9456 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
9457 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
9458
9459 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
9460 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
9461 necessary.
9462
9463 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
9464 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
9465 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
9466 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
9467 sizes being advertised by Squid.
9468 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
9469 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
9470DOC_END
9471
5473c134 9472NAME: dns_defnames
9473COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 9474TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 9475DEFAULT: off
638402dd 9476DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 9477LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 9478DOC_START
5473c134 9479 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
9480 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
9481 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
9482 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 9483DOC_END
9484
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9485NAME: dns_multicast_local
9486COMMENT: on|off
9487TYPE: onoff
9488DEFAULT: off
9489DEFAULT_DOC: Search for .local and .arpa names is disabled.
9490LOC: Config.onoff.dns_mdns
9491DOC_START
9492 When set to on, Squid sends multicast DNS lookups on the local
9493 network for domains ending in .local and .arpa.
9494 This enables local servers and devices to be contacted in an
9495 ad-hoc or zero-configuration network environment.
9496DOC_END
9497
5473c134 9498NAME: dns_nameservers
5a1098fb 9499TYPE: SBufList
5473c134 9500DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9501DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5a1098fb 9502LOC: Config.dns.nameservers
cccac0a2 9503DOC_START
5473c134 9504 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
9505 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
9506 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 9507
5473c134 9508 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
9509 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
9510 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
9511 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 9512
5473c134 9513 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 9514DOC_END
9515
5473c134 9516NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 9517TYPE: string
5473c134 9518DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
9519LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 9520DOC_START
5473c134 9521 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
9522 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
9523 default locations:
9524 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
9525 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9526 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
9527 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9528 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
9529 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
9530 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
9531 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 9532
5473c134 9533 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
9534 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
9535 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
9536 character are comments.
cccac0a2 9537
5473c134 9538 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
9539 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
9540 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
9541 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
9542 definitions.
cccac0a2 9543DOC_END
9544
5473c134 9545NAME: append_domain
9546TYPE: string
9547LOC: Config.appendDomain
9548DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9549DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 9550DOC_START
5473c134 9551 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
9552 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
9553
9554 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
9555 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
9556 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
9557
9558Example:
9559 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 9560DOC_END
9561
5473c134 9562NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
9563TYPE: onoff
9564LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 9565DEFAULT: on
9566DOC_START
5473c134 9567 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
9568 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
9569 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
9570 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
9571 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 9572DOC_END
9573
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9574NAME: dns_v4_first
9575TYPE: onoff
9576DEFAULT: off
9577LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
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9578DOC_START
9579 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
9580 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
9581
9582 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
9583 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
9584 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
9585
9586 WARNING:
9587 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
9588 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
9589 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
9590DOC_END
9591
6bc15a4f 9592NAME: ipcache_size
9593COMMENT: (number of entries)
9594TYPE: int
9595DEFAULT: 1024
9596LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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9598 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
9599DOC_END
6bc15a4f 9600
9601NAME: ipcache_low
9602COMMENT: (percent)
9603TYPE: int
9604DEFAULT: 90
9605LOC: Config.ipcache.low
9606DOC_NONE
9607
9608NAME: ipcache_high
9609COMMENT: (percent)
9610TYPE: int
9611DEFAULT: 95
9612LOC: Config.ipcache.high
9613DOC_START
9614 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
9615DOC_END
9616
9617NAME: fqdncache_size
9618COMMENT: (number of entries)
9619TYPE: int
9620DEFAULT: 1024
9621LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
9622DOC_START
9623 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
9624DOC_END
9625
a58ff010 9626COMMENT_START
5473c134 9627 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 9628 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9629COMMENT_END
9630
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9631NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9632COMMENT: on|off
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9633TYPE: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9634DEFAULT: off
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9635LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
9636DOC_START
9637 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
9638 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
9639 parameter value is interpreted or used.
9640 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
9641 section for more details.
9642DOC_END
9643
5473c134 9644NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 9645COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9646TYPE: onoff
9647DEFAULT: on
9648LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 9649DOC_START
5473c134 9650 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
9651 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
9652 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
9653 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 9654DOC_END
9655
5473c134 9656NAME: memory_pools_limit
9657COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 9658TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 9659DEFAULT: 5 MB
9660LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 9661DOC_START
5473c134 9662 Used only with memory_pools on:
9663 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 9664
5473c134 9665 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
9666 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
9667 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
9668 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
9669 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
9670 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
9671 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 9672
89646bd7 9673 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 9674 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 9675
5473c134 9676 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 9677 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 9678
9679 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
9680 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
9681 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
9682 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 9683DOC_END
9684
5473c134 9685NAME: forwarded_for
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9686COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
9687TYPE: string
5473c134 9688DEFAULT: on
9689LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 9690DOC_START
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9691 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
9692 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 9693
5473c134 9694 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
9695
67c06f0d 9696 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 9697
9698 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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9699
9700 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
9701 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
9702
9703 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
9704 X-Forwarded-For header.
9705
9706 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 9707 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 9708DOC_END
9709
5473c134 9710NAME: cachemgr_passwd
9711TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
9712DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9713DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 9714LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 9715DOC_START
5473c134 9716 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 9717
5473c134 9718 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
9719
9720 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
9721 5min
9722 60min
9723 asndb
9724 authenticator
9725 cbdata
9726 client_list
9727 comm_incoming
9728 config *
9729 counters
9730 delay
9731 digest_stats
9732 dns
9733 events
9734 filedescriptors
9735 fqdncache
9736 histograms
9737 http_headers
9738 info
9739 io
9740 ipcache
9741 mem
9742 menu
9743 netdb
9744 non_peers
9745 objects
9746 offline_toggle *
9747 pconn
9748 peer_select
b360c477 9749 reconfigure *
5473c134 9750 redirector
9751 refresh
9752 server_list
9753 shutdown *
9754 store_digest
9755 storedir
9756 utilization
9757 via_headers
9758 vm_objects
9759
9760 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
9761 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
9762
9763 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
9764 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
9765 password to "none".
9766
9767 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
9768
9769Example:
9770 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
9771 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
9772 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 9773DOC_END
9774
5473c134 9775NAME: client_db
a58ff010 9776COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9777TYPE: onoff
9778DEFAULT: on
9779LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 9780DOC_START
5473c134 9781 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
9782 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 9783DOC_END
9784
5473c134 9785NAME: refresh_all_ims
9786COMMENT: on|off
9787TYPE: onoff
9788DEFAULT: off
9789LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 9790DOC_START
5473c134 9791 When you enable this option, squid will always check
9792 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
9793 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
9794 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
9795 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 9796
5473c134 9797 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
9798 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 9799DOC_END
9800
5473c134 9801NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 9802IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 9803COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9804TYPE: onoff
9805DEFAULT: off
9806LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 9807DOC_START
5473c134 9808 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
9809 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
9810 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
9811 feature could make you liable for problems which it
9812 causes.
9813
9814 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 9815DOC_END
9816
31ef19cd 9817NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 9818TYPE: int
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9819LOC: Config.connect_retries
9820DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9821DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 9822DOC_START
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9823 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
9824 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
9825 complete within the connection timeout period.
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9826
9827 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
9828 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 9829
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9830 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
9831 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 9832
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9833 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
9834 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
9835 a useful server.
a58ff010 9836DOC_END
9837
5473c134 9838NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 9839TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9840LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 9841DEFAULT: off
9842DOC_START
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9843 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
9844 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
9845 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
9846 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
9847
9848 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
9849 work around access control errors.
9850
9851 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
9852 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 9853DOC_END
9854
5473c134 9855NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 9856TYPE: string
5473c134 9857LOC: Config.as_whois_server
9858DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 9859DOC_START
5473c134 9860 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
9861 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 9862DOC_END
9863
5473c134 9864NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 9865TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9866LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 9867DEFAULT: off
9868DOC_START
5473c134 9869 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
9870 objects.
a58ff010 9871DOC_END
9872
5473c134 9873NAME: uri_whitespace
9874TYPE: uri_whitespace
9875LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
9876DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 9877DOC_START
5473c134 9878 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
9879 URI. Options:
a58ff010 9880
5473c134 9881 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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9882 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
9883 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
9884 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
9885
5473c134 9886 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
9887 Request" message.
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9888 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
9889 handling of HTTP request URL.
9890
5473c134 9891 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
9892 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
9893 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
9894 are in use.
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9895 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
9896 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
9897 URL field.
9898
5473c134 9899 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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9900 encoded according to RFC1738.
9901
5473c134 9902 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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9903 first whitespace.
9904
9905
9906 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
9907 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 9908DOC_END
a58ff010 9909
5473c134 9910NAME: chroot
9911TYPE: string
9912LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 9913DEFAULT: none
9914DOC_START
9f37c18a 9915 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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9916 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
9917 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
9918 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
9919 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 9920DOC_END
a58ff010 9921
5473c134 9922NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
9923TYPE: onoff
9924LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 9925DEFAULT: off
5473c134 9926DOC_START
cc192b50 9927 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
9928 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
9929 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
9930
5473c134 9931 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
9932 found not to preserve user session state across requests
9933 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 9934
cc192b50 9935 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 9936DOC_END
9937
5473c134 9938NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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9939TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
9940LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
9941DEFAULT: 0
9942DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 9943DOC_START
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9944 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
9945 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
9946 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
9947 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
9948 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
9949 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 9950
079a8480 9951 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 9952 reasons.
a0e23afd 9953
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9954 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
9955
a0e23afd 9956 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 9957DOC_END
a58ff010 9958
5473c134 9959NAME: high_response_time_warning
9960TYPE: int
9961COMMENT: (msec)
9962LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
9963DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9964DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9965DOC_START
9966 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
9967 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
9968 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 9969DOC_END
9970
5473c134 9971NAME: high_page_fault_warning
9972TYPE: int
9973LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
9974DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9975DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 9976DOC_START
5473c134 9977 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
9978 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
9979 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
9980 per second.
9981DOC_END
cc9f92d4 9982
5473c134 9983NAME: high_memory_warning
9984TYPE: b_size_t
9985LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
f2228f3b 9986IFDEF: HAVE_MSTATS&&HAVE_GNUMALLOC_H
904971da 9987DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 9988DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9989DOC_START
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9990 If the memory usage (as determined by gnumalloc, if available and used)
9991 exceeds this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 9992 the administrators attention.
9993DOC_END
4bf2a476 9994# TODO: link high_memory_warning to mempools?
cc9f92d4 9995
5473c134 9996NAME: sleep_after_fork
9997COMMENT: (microseconds)
9998TYPE: int
9999LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
10000DEFAULT: 0
10001DOC_START
10002 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
10003 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
10004 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
10005 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
10006 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
10007 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
10008 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
10009 until all the child processes have been started.
10010 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
10011 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 10012DOC_END
10013
b6696974 10014NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 10015IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
b6696974
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10016COMMENT: on|off
10017TYPE: onoff
10018DEFAULT: on
10019LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
10020DOC_START
10021 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
10022 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
10023 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
10024 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
10025 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
10026 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
10027DOC_END
10028
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10029NAME: eui_lookup
10030TYPE: onoff
10031IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
10032DEFAULT: on
10033LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
10034DOC_START
10035 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
10036DOC_END
10037
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10038NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
10039TYPE: int
10040DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 10041DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
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10042LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
10043DOC_START
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10044 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
10045 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 10046
638402dd 10047 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
f3f0f563
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10048
10049 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 10050 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
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10051DOC_END
10052
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10053NAME: force_request_body_continuation
10054TYPE: acl_access
10055LOC: Config.accessList.forceRequestBodyContinuation
10056DEFAULT: none
10057DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
10058DOC_START
10059 This option controls how Squid handles data upload requests from HTTP
10060 and FTP agents that require a "Please Continue" control message response
10061 to actually send the request body to Squid. It is mostly useful in
10062 adaptation environments.
10063
10064 When Squid receives an HTTP request with an "Expect: 100-continue"
10065 header or an FTP upload command (e.g., STOR), Squid normally sends the
10066 request headers or FTP command information to an adaptation service (or
10067 peer) and waits for a response. Most adaptation services (and some
10068 broken peers) may not respond to Squid at that stage because they may
10069 decide to wait for the HTTP request body or FTP data transfer. However,
10070 that request body or data transfer may never come because Squid has not
10071 responded with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150 (Please Continue) control message
10072 to the request sender yet!
10073
10074 An allow match tells Squid to respond with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150
10075 (Please Continue) control message on its own, before forwarding the
10076 request to an adaptation service or peer. Such a response usually forces
10077 the request sender to proceed with sending the body. A deny match tells
10078 Squid to delay that control response until the origin server confirms
10079 that the request body is needed. Delaying is the default behavior.
10080DOC_END
10081
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10082NAME: server_pconn_for_nonretriable
10083TYPE: acl_access
10084DEFAULT: none
10085DEFAULT_DOC: Open new connections for forwarding requests Squid cannot retry safely.
10086LOC: Config.accessList.serverPconnForNonretriable
10087DOC_START
10088 This option provides fine-grained control over persistent connection
10089 reuse when forwarding HTTP requests that Squid cannot retry. It is useful
10090 in environments where opening new connections is very expensive
10091 (e.g., all connections are secured with TLS with complex client and server
10092 certificate validation) and race conditions associated with persistent
10093 connections are very rare and/or only cause minor problems.
10094
10095 HTTP prohibits retrying unsafe and non-idempotent requests (e.g., POST).
10096 Squid limitations also prohibit retrying all requests with bodies (e.g., PUT).
10097 By default, when forwarding such "risky" requests, Squid opens a new
10098 connection to the server or cache_peer, even if there is an idle persistent
10099 connection available. When Squid is configured to risk sending a non-retriable
10100 request on a previously used persistent connection, and the server closes
10101 the connection before seeing that risky request, the user gets an error response
10102 from Squid. In most cases, that error response will be HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway)
10103 with ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT or ERR_WRITE_ERROR (peer connection reset) error detail.
10104
10105 If an allow rule matches, Squid reuses an available idle persistent connection
10106 (if any) for the request that Squid cannot retry. If a deny rule matches, then
10107 Squid opens a new connection for the request that Squid cannot retry.
10108
10109 This option does not affect requests that Squid can retry. They will reuse idle
10110 persistent connections (if any).
10111
10112 This clause only supports fast acl types.
10113 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
10114
10115 Example:
10116 acl SpeedIsWorthTheRisk method POST
10117 server_pconn_for_nonretriable allow SpeedIsWorthTheRisk
10118DOC_END
10119
cccac0a2 10120EOF