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31
0f74202c 32COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 33 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
34 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 35
cccac0a2 36 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
37 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
38 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 39
cccac0a2 40 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
41 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
42 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
43 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
44 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
45 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
46 case.
debd9a31 47
cccac0a2 48COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 49
592a09dc 50COMMENT_START
51 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
52 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
53 supported.
54
55 For example,
56
57 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
58
59 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
60 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
61 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
62 configuration files.
63COMMENT_END
64
5473c134 65COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 66 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 67 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
68COMMENT_END
69
41bd17a4 70NAME: auth_param
71TYPE: authparam
72LOC: Config.authConfiguration
cccac0a2 73DEFAULT: none
74DOC_START
41bd17a4 75 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
76 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 77
41bd17a4 78 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 79
41bd17a4 80 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
81 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
82 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
83 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
84 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
85 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
86 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
87 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
88 program entry).
cccac0a2 89
41bd17a4 90 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
91 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
92 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
93 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 94
41bd17a4 95 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
96 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
97 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
98 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
99 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
100 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
101 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
102 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
103 type acl.
cccac0a2 104
41bd17a4 105 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
106 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
107 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
108 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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109 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have authentication
110 disabled.
cccac0a2 111
41bd17a4 112 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 113
41bd17a4 114 "program" cmdline
115 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
116 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
117 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
118 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
119 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 120
41bd17a4 121 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
122 program is specified.
cccac0a2 123
41bd17a4 124 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
125 this line to something like
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41bd17a4 127 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 128
41bd17a4 129 "children" numberofchildren
130 The number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
131 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
132 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
133 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
134 authenticator processes.
135 auth_param basic children 5
9e7dbc51 136
41bd17a4 137 "concurrency" concurrency
138 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
139 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
140 one request at a time. Setting this changes the protocol used to
141 include a channel number first on the request/response line, allowing
142 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallell without
143 wating for the response.
144 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
145 auth_param basic concurrency 0
0fdafae7 146
41bd17a4 147 "realm" realmstring
148 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
149 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
150 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
151 password). There is no default.
152 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 153
41bd17a4 154 "credentialsttl" timetolive
155 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
156 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
157 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
158 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
159 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
160 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
161 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
162 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
163 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 164
41bd17a4 165 "casesensitive" on|off
166 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
167 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
168 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
169 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
170 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 171
41bd17a4 172 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 173
41bd17a4 174 "program" cmdline
175 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
176 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
177 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
178 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
179 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
180 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
181 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 182
41bd17a4 183 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
184 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 185
41bd17a4 186 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
187 something like
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41bd17a4 189 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 190
41bd17a4 191 "children" numberofchildren
192 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
193 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
194 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
195 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
196 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
197 auth_param digest children 5
cccac0a2 198
41bd17a4 199 "realm" realmstring
200 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
201 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
202 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
203 password). There is no default.
204 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 205
41bd17a4 206 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
207 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
208 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 209
41bd17a4 210 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
211 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
212 valid for.
cccac0a2 213
41bd17a4 214 "nonce_max_count" number
215 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
216 used.
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 "nonce_strictness" on|off
219 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
220 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
221 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
222 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 223
41bd17a4 224 "check_nonce_count" on|off
225 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
226 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
227 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
228 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 229
41bd17a4 230 "post_workaround" on|off
231 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
232 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
233 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 234
41bd17a4 235 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 236
41bd17a4 237 "program" cmdline
238 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
239 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
240 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
241 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
242 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
243 is not used.
cccac0a2 244
41bd17a4 245 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 246
41bd17a4 247 "children" numberofchildren
248 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
249 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
250 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
251 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
252 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
253 processes.
cccac0a2 254
41bd17a4 255 auth_param ntlm children 5
cccac0a2 256
41bd17a4 257 "keep_alive" on|off
258 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
259 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
260 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
261 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
262 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 263
41bd17a4 264 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 265
41bd17a4 266 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 267
41bd17a4 268 "program" cmdline
269 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
270 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
271 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
272 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
273 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
274 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least one acl
275 of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate authenticator_program
276 is not used.
277 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
278 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 279
41bd17a4 280 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 281
41bd17a4 282 "children" numberofchildren
283 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
284 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
285 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
286 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
287 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
288 processes.
289 auth_param negotiate children 5
d3803853 290
41bd17a4 291 "keep_alive" on|off
292 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
293 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
294 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
295 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
296 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 298 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 299
41bd17a4 300NOCOMMENT_START
301#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
302#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
303#auth_param negotiate children 5
304#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
305#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
306#auth_param ntlm children 5
307#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
308#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
309#auth_param digest children 5
310#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
311#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
312#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
313#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
314#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
315#auth_param basic children 5
316#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
317#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
318NOCOMMENT_END
319DOC_END
cccac0a2 320
41bd17a4 321NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
322TYPE: time_t
323DEFAULT: 1 hour
324LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
325DOC_START
326 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
327 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
328 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
329 have good reason to.
330DOC_END
cccac0a2 331
41bd17a4 332NAME: authenticate_ttl
333TYPE: time_t
334DEFAULT: 1 hour
335LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
336DOC_START
337 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
338 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
339 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
340 TTL are removed from memory.
341DOC_END
cccac0a2 342
41bd17a4 343NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
344TYPE: time_t
345LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
346DEFAULT: 0 seconds
347DOC_START
348 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
349 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
350 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
351 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
352 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
353 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
354 environment with relatively static address assignments.
355DOC_END
cccac0a2 356
3d1e3e43 357COMMENT_START
358 ACCESS CONTROLS
359 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
360COMMENT_END
361
41bd17a4 362NAME: external_acl_type
363TYPE: externalAclHelper
364LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 365DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 366DOC_START
41bd17a4 367 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
368 to look up the status
cccac0a2 369
41bd17a4 370 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 Options:
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
375 for 1 hour)
376 negative_ttl=n
377 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
378 as ttl)
379 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
380 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
381 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
382 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
383 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
384 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
385 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
386 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
387 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 388 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
389 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
390 'ipv4' is the default unless --with-localhost-ipv6 is used.
391 --with-localhost-ipv6 changes the default to 'ipv6'.
392 SPECIAL NOTE: these options override --with-localhost-ipv6
cccac0a2 393
41bd17a4 394 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 395
41bd17a4 396 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
397 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
398 %IDENT Ident user name
399 %SRC Client IP
400 %SRCPORT Client source port
401 %URI Requested URI
402 %DST Requested host
403 %PROTO Requested protocol
404 %PORT Requested port
405 %PATH Requested URL path
406 %METHOD Request method
407 %MYADDR Squid interface address
408 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
409 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
410 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
411 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
412 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
413 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
414 %{Header} HTTP request header
415 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
416 %{Hdr:;member}
417 HTTP request header list member using ; as
418 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
419 character.
cccac0a2 420
41bd17a4 421 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
422 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
423 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 424
41bd17a4 425 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
426 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
427 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
428 more details.
cccac0a2 429
41bd17a4 430 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 431
41bd17a4 432 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 433
41bd17a4 434 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 435
41bd17a4 436 user= The users name (login)
437 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
438 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
439 in error pages
440 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
441 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
442 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
443 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 444
41bd17a4 445 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
446 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 447
41bd17a4 448 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
449 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
450 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 451
41bd17a4 452 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
453 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
454 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 455DOC_END
456
41bd17a4 457NAME: acl
458TYPE: acl
459LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 460DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 461DOC_START
41bd17a4 462 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 463
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464 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
465 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
466 they are read from.
cccac0a2 467
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468 acl aclname acltype argument ...
469 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 470
375eeb3b 471 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 472
41bd17a4 473 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
474 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 475
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476
477 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
478
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479 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address
480 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses
481 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address
482 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address
cccac0a2 483
41bd17a4 484 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
485 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
486 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
487 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
488 #
489 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
490 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
491 # find out its MAC address.
934b03fc 492
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493 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, from client IP
494 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
495 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ... # regex matching client name
496 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ... # regex matching server
41bd17a4 497 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
498 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
499 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 500
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501 acl aclname src_as number ...
502 acl aclname dst_as number ...
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503 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
504 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
505 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
506 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
507 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
508 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
509 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 510
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511 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
512 # day-abbrevs:
513 # S - Sunday
514 # M - Monday
515 # T - Tuesday
516 # W - Wednesday
517 # H - Thursday
518 # F - Friday
519 # A - Saturday
520 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
521
522 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
41bd17a4 523 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
e988aa40 524
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525 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
526 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
527 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
197f6b3c 528 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name
e988aa40 529
375eeb3b 530 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
e988aa40 531
375eeb3b 532 acl aclname method GET POST ...
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533
534 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
535
375eeb3b 536 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
41bd17a4 537 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
e988aa40 538
375eeb3b 539 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
41bd17a4 540 # pattern match on Referer header
541 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 542
375eeb3b 543 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 544 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
545 # string match on ident output.
546 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 547
41bd17a4 548 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
549 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
550 # list of valid usernames
551 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
552 #
553 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
554 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
555 # in access.log.
556 #
557 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
558 # to check username/password combinations (see
559 # auth_param directive).
560 #
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561 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent/intercepting proxy
562 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 563 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 564
41bd17a4 565 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
566 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
567 # Example:
568 #
569 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 570
41bd17a4 571 acl aclname maxconn number
572 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
573 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
1e5562e3 574
41bd17a4 575 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
576 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
577 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
578 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
579 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
580 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
581 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
582 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
583 # request is denied)
584 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
585 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
586 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 587
375eeb3b 588 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 589 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
590 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
591 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
592 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
593 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 594
41bd17a4 595 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
596 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
597 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
598 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 599
375eeb3b 600 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 601 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
602 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
603 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
604 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
605 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
606 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 607
41bd17a4 608 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
609 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
610 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
611 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 612
375eeb3b 613 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 614 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
615 # external_acl_type directive.
cccac0a2 616
41bd17a4 617 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
618 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
619 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 620
41bd17a4 621 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
622 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
623 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 624
41bd17a4 625 acl aclname ext_user username ...
626 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
627 # string match on username returned by external acl helper
628 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
cccac0a2 629
41bd17a4 630Examples:
631acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
632acl myexample dst_as 1241
633acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
634acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
635acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 636
41bd17a4 637NOCOMMENT_START
638#Recommended minimum configuration:
41bd17a4 639acl manager proto cache_object
ee776778 640acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
41bd17a4 641acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ee776778 642#
643# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
644# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
645# should be allowed
646acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
647acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
648acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
649#
41bd17a4 650acl SSL_ports port 443
651acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
652acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
653acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
654acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
655acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
656acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
657acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
658acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
659acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
660acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
661acl CONNECT method CONNECT
662NOCOMMENT_END
663DOC_END
cccac0a2 664
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665NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
666TYPE: acl_access
667IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
668LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
669DEFAULT: none
670DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
671DOC_START
672 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
673 find the original source of a request.
674
675 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
676 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
677 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
678 rightmost address being the most recent.
679
680 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
681 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
682 to see where that host received the request from. If the
683 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, and if
684 acl_uses_indirect_client is on, then we continue backtracking
685 until we reach an address for which we are not allowed to
686 follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
687 address in the list. (If acl_uses_indirect_client is off, then
688 it's impossible to backtrack through more than one level of
689 X-Forwarded-For addresses.)
690
691 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
692 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
693 be treated as the client address for access control, delay
694 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
695 delay_pool_uses_indirect_client and log_uses_indirect_client
696 options.
697
698 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
699
700 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
701 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
702 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
703 source address of the request. This may enable remote
704 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
705 based on the client's source addresses.
706
707 For example:
708
709 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
710 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
711 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
712 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
713DOC_END
714
715NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
716COMMENT: on|off
717TYPE: onoff
718IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
719DEFAULT: on
720LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
721DOC_START
722 Controls whether the indirect client address
723 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
724 direct client address in acl matching.
725DOC_END
726
727NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
728COMMENT: on|off
729TYPE: onoff
730IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR && DELAY_POOLS
731DEFAULT: on
732LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
733DOC_START
734 Controls whether the indirect client address
735 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
736 direct client address in delay pools.
737DOC_END
738
739NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
740COMMENT: on|off
741TYPE: onoff
742IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
743DEFAULT: on
744LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
745DOC_START
746 Controls whether the indirect client address
747 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
748 direct client address in the access log.
749DOC_END
750
41bd17a4 751NAME: http_access
752TYPE: acl_access
753LOC: Config.accessList.http
754DEFAULT: none
755DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
756DOC_START
757 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 758
41bd17a4 759 Access to the HTTP port:
760 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 761
41bd17a4 762 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 763
41bd17a4 764 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
765 the request.
cccac0a2 766
41bd17a4 767 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
768 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
769 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
770 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
771 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
772 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 773
41bd17a4 774NOCOMMENT_START
775#Recommended minimum configuration:
776#
777# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
778http_access allow manager localhost
779http_access deny manager
780# Deny requests to unknown ports
781http_access deny !Safe_ports
782# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
783http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
784#
785# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
786# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
787# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
788#http_access deny to_localhost
789#
790# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
c8f4eac4 791
ee776778 792# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
793# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
794# from where browsing should be allowed
795http_access allow localnet
7d90757b 796
41bd17a4 797# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
798http_access deny all
799NOCOMMENT_END
800DOC_END
7d90757b 801
41bd17a4 802NAME: http_reply_access
803TYPE: acl_access
804LOC: Config.accessList.reply
805DEFAULT: none
806DOC_START
807 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 808
41bd17a4 809 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 810
41bd17a4 811 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
812 all replies
1a224843 813
41bd17a4 814 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
815 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
816 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
cccac0a2 817DOC_END
818
41bd17a4 819NAME: icp_access
820TYPE: acl_access
821LOC: Config.accessList.icp
822DEFAULT: none
823DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 824DOC_START
41bd17a4 825 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
826 access lists
5473c134 827
41bd17a4 828 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 829
41bd17a4 830 See http_access for details
831
832NOCOMMENT_START
ee776778 833#Allow ICP queries from local networks only
4e9c5ff8 834icp_access allow localnet
835icp_access deny all
41bd17a4 836NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 837DOC_END
838
41bd17a4 839NAME: htcp_access
840IFDEF: USE_HTCP
841TYPE: acl_access
842LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
843DEFAULT: none
844DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 845DOC_START
41bd17a4 846 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
847 access lists
5473c134 848
41bd17a4 849 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 850
41bd17a4 851 See http_access for details
5473c134 852
0b48417e 853 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
854 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
855 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
856
ee776778 857NOCOMMENT_START
858#Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
4e9c5ff8 859htcp_access allow localnet
860htcp_access deny all
ee776778 861NOCOMMENT_END
41bd17a4 862DOC_END
5473c134 863
41bd17a4 864NAME: htcp_clr_access
865IFDEF: USE_HTCP
866TYPE: acl_access
867LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
868DEFAULT: none
869DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
870DOC_START
871 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
872 on defined access lists
5473c134 873
41bd17a4 874 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 875
41bd17a4 876 See http_access for details
5473c134 877
41bd17a4 878#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
879acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
880htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 881DOC_END
882
41bd17a4 883NAME: miss_access
884TYPE: acl_access
885LOC: Config.accessList.miss
886DEFAULT: none
5473c134 887DOC_START
41bd17a4 888 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
889 a parent. For example:
5473c134 890
41bd17a4 891 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
892 miss_access allow localclients
893 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 894
41bd17a4 895 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
896 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 897
41bd17a4 898 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
899 to fetch MISSES from us.
5473c134 900
41bd17a4 901NOCOMMENT_START
902#Default setting:
903# miss_access allow all
904NOCOMMENT_END
905DOC_END
906
907NAME: ident_lookup_access
908TYPE: acl_access
909IFDEF: USE_IDENT
910DEFAULT: none
911DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
912LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
5473c134 913DOC_START
41bd17a4 914 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
915 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
916 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
917 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
918 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
919 any requests.
5473c134 920
41bd17a4 921 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
922 can follow this example:
5473c134 923
41bd17a4 924 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
925 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
926 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 927
41bd17a4 928 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
929 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
930 the correct result.
931DOC_END
5473c134 932
5b0f5383 933NAME: reply_body_max_size
934COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
935TYPE: acl_b_size_t
936DEFAULT: none
937LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
938DOC_START
939 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
940 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
941 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
942 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
943 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
944 for this reply.
945
946 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
947 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
948 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
949 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
950 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
951 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
952 and they will receive a partial reply.
953
954 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
955 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
956 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
957 use this option if you have downstream caches.
958
959 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
960 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
961 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
962 the size of your largest error page.
963
964 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
965 no limit imposed.
966DOC_END
967
968COMMENT_START
969 NETWORK OPTIONS
970 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
971COMMENT_END
972
973NAME: http_port ascii_port
974TYPE: http_port_list
975DEFAULT: none
976LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
977DOC_START
978 Usage: port [options]
979 hostname:port [options]
980 1.2.3.4:port [options]
981
982 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
983 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
984 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
985 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
986 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
987 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
988 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
989 address, so you can use the port number alone.
990
991 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
992 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
993
994 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
995 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
996 be plain proxy ports with no options.
997
998 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
999
1000 Options:
1001
e77bdb4e 1002 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1003 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1004 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1005
1006 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1007 connections using the client IP address.
13b5cd0c 1008 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1009
1010 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1011 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1012
1013 defaultsite=domainname
1014 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1015 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1016 accelerators should consider the default.
1017 Implies accel.
1018
1019 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1020 domain support. Implies accel.
1021
1022 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1023 Implies accel.
1024
1025 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1026 than the http_port number. Implies accel.
1027
1028 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1029 Defaults to http.
1030
1031 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1032 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1033 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1034 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1035 support is enabled.
1036 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1037
1038 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1039 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1040 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1041 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1042 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1043 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1044 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1045 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1046
4c9da963 1047 sslBump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
1048 establish secure connection with the client and with
1049 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1050 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1051 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1052
1053 When this option is enabled, additional options become
1054 available to specify SSL-related properties of the
1055 client-side connection: cert, key, version, cipher,
1056 options, clientca, cafile, capath, crlfile, dhparams,
1057 sslflags, and sslcontext. See the https_port directive
1058 for more information on these options.
1059
1060 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1061 the SslBump feature.
1062
81b6e9a7 1063 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1064 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1065
b2130d58 1066 keepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
1067 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections
1068 idle is the initial time before TCP starts probing
1069 the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1070 timeout the time before giving up.
1071
5b0f5383 1072 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1073 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1074 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1075 visible on the internal address.
1076
1077NOCOMMENT_START
1078# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1079http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1080NOCOMMENT_END
1081DOC_END
1082
1083NAME: https_port
1084IFDEF: USE_SSL
1085TYPE: https_port_list
1086DEFAULT: none
1087LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1088DOC_START
1089 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1090
1091 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1092 requests.
1093
1094 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1095 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1096 accelerator level.
1097
1098 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1099 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1100
1101 Options:
1102
1103 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1104 defaultsite or vhost.
1105
1106 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1107 this port. Implies accel.
1108
1109 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1110 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1111 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1112 Implies accel.
1113
1114 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1115 Defaults to https.
1116
1117 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1118
1119 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1120 if not specified, the certificate file is
1121 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1122 key file.
1123
1124 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1125 1 automatic (default)
1126 2 SSLv2 only
1127 3 SSLv3 only
1128 4 TLSv1 only
1129
1130 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1131
1132 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1133 being:
1134 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1135 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1136 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1137 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1138 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1139 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1140 documentation for a complete list of options.
1141
1142 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1143 requesting a client certificate.
1144
1145 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1146 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1147 clientca will be used.
1148
1149 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1150 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1151
1152 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1153 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1154 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1155
1156 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1157 DH key exchanges.
1158
1159 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1160 DELAYED_AUTH
1161 Don't request client certificates
1162 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1163 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1164 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1165 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1166 to OpenSSL.
1167 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1168 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1169 will result in a new SSL session.
1170 VERIFY_CRL
1171 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1172 certificates.
1173 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1174 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1175 client certificate chain.
1176
1177 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1178
1179 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1180
1181 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1182 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1183
81b6e9a7 1184 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1185 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1186
5b0f5383 1187DOC_END
1188
41bd17a4 1189NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1190TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1191DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1192LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1193DOC_START
41bd17a4 1194 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1195 connections with, based on the username or source address
1196 making the request.
5473c134 1197
41bd17a4 1198 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1199
41bd17a4 1200 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1201 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1202
41bd17a4 1203 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1204 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2c73de90 1205 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1206 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1207
41bd17a4 1208 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1209 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474 and
1210 RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1211
41bd17a4 1212 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1213 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1214 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1215 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1216
41bd17a4 1217 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1218 matching line.
cccac0a2 1219
41bd17a4 1220 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1221 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1222 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1223 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1224DOC_END
1225
41bd17a4 1226NAME: clientside_tos
1227TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1228DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1229LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1230DOC_START
41bd17a4 1231 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1232 connections with, based on the username or source address
1233 making the request.
1234DOC_END
cccac0a2 1235
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1236NAME: zph_tos_local
1237TYPE: int
1238IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1239DEFAULT: 0
1240LOC: Config.zph_tos_local
1241DOC_START
1242 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark local hits. Read above
1243 (tcp_outgoing_tos) for details/requirements about TOS.
1244 Default: 0 (disabled).
1245DOC_END
1246
1247NAME: zph_tos_peer
1248TYPE: int
1249IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1250DEFAULT: 0
1251LOC: Config.zph_tos_peer
1252DOC_START
1253 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark peer hits. Read above
1254 (tcp_outgoing_tos) for details/requirements about TOS.
1255 Default: 0 (disabled).
1256DOC_END
1257
1258NAME: zph_tos_parent
1259COMMENT: on|off
1260TYPE: onoff
1261IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1262DEFAULT: on
1263LOC: Config.onoff.zph_tos_parent
1264DOC_START
1265 Set this to off if you want only sibling hits to be marked.
1266 If set to on (default), parent hits are being marked too.
1267DOC_END
1268
1269NAME: zph_preserve_miss_tos
1270COMMENT: on|off
1271TYPE: onoff
1272IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1273DEFAULT: on
1274LOC: Config.onoff.zph_preserve_miss_tos
1275DOC_START
1276 If set to on (default), any HTTP response towards clients will
1277 have the TOS value of the response comming from the remote
1278 server masked with the value of zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask.
1279 For this to work correctly, you will need to patch your linux
1280 kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch.
1281 The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1282DOC_END
1283
1284NAME: zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask
1285TYPE: int
1286IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1287DEFAULT: 255
1288LOC: Config.zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask
1289DOC_START
1290 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the
1291 remote server, before copying the value to the TOS send towards
1292 clients.
1293 Default: 255 (TOS from server is not changed).
1294DOC_END
1295
41bd17a4 1296NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1297TYPE: acl_address
1298DEFAULT: none
1299LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1300DOC_START
1301 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1302 based on the username or source address of the user making
1303 the request.
7f7db318 1304
41bd17a4 1305 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1306
41bd17a4 1307 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1308 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1309 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1310 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1311
17148b2f 1312 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1313 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1314 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1315 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1316 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1317
41bd17a4 1318 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1319 matching line.
cccac0a2 1320
41bd17a4 1321 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1322 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1323 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1324 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1325
1326
1327 IPv6 Magic:
1328
1329 Squid is built with a capability of bridging the IPv4 and IPv6 internets.
1330 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1331 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1332 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1333
1334 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1335 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1336 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1337
1338 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1339 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1340 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1341
1342 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1343 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1344
1345 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1346 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
cccac0a2 1347DOC_END
1348
41bd17a4 1349COMMENT_START
1350 SSL OPTIONS
1351 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1352COMMENT_END
1353
1354NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1355IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1356TYPE: onoff
1357DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1358LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1359DOC_START
41bd17a4 1360 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1361 messages.
cccac0a2 1362DOC_END
1363
41bd17a4 1364NAME: ssl_engine
1365IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1366TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1367LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1368DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1369DOC_START
41bd17a4 1370 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1371 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1372DOC_END
1373
41bd17a4 1374NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1375IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1376DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1377LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1378TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1379DOC_START
41bd17a4 1380 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1381DOC_END
1382
41bd17a4 1383NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1384IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1385DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1386LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1387TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1388DOC_START
41bd17a4 1389 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1390DOC_END
1391
41bd17a4 1392NAME: sslproxy_version
1393IFDEF: USE_SSL
1394DEFAULT: 1
1395LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1396TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1397DOC_START
41bd17a4 1398 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1399DOC_END
1400
41bd17a4 1401NAME: sslproxy_options
1402IFDEF: USE_SSL
1403DEFAULT: none
1404LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1405TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1406DOC_START
41bd17a4 1407 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1408DOC_END
1409
41bd17a4 1410NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1411IFDEF: USE_SSL
1412DEFAULT: none
1413LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1414TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1415DOC_START
41bd17a4 1416 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1417DOC_END
1418
41bd17a4 1419NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1420IFDEF: USE_SSL
1421DEFAULT: none
1422LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1423TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1424DOC_START
41bd17a4 1425 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1426 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1427DOC_END
0976f8db 1428
41bd17a4 1429NAME: sslproxy_capath
1430IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1431DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1432LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1433TYPE: string
5473c134 1434DOC_START
41bd17a4 1435 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1436 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1437DOC_END
1438
4c9da963 1439NAME: ssl_bump
1440IFDEF: USE_SSL
1441TYPE: acl_access
1442LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1443DEFAULT: none
1444DOC_START
1445 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1446 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1447 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1448 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1449
1450 By default, no requests are bumped.
1451
1452 See also: http_port sslBump
1453
1454NOCOMMENT_START
1455# Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1456# those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1457#
1458# acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1459# acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1460# acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1461# ssl_bump deny localhost
1462# ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1463# ssl_bump allow all
1464NOCOMMENT_END
1465DOC_END
1466
41bd17a4 1467NAME: sslproxy_flags
1468IFDEF: USE_SSL
1469DEFAULT: none
1470LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1471TYPE: string
5473c134 1472DOC_START
41bd17a4 1473 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1474 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1475 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1476 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1477 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1478DOC_END
1479
4c9da963 1480
1481NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1482IFDEF: USE_SSL
1483DEFAULT: none
1484LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1485TYPE: acl_access
1486DOC_START
1487 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1488
1489 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1490 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1491 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1492
1493 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1494 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1495 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1496
1497 This option must use fast ACL expressions only. Expressions that use
1498 external lookups or communication result in unpredictable behavior or
1499 crashes.
1500
1501 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1502 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1503 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1504 the connection may be insecure.
1505
1506 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1507
1508NOCOMMENT_START
1509#Default setting:
1510# sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1511NOCOMMENT_END
1512DOC_END
1513
1514
1515
41bd17a4 1516NAME: sslpassword_program
1517IFDEF: USE_SSL
1518DEFAULT: none
1519LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1520TYPE: string
5473c134 1521DOC_START
41bd17a4 1522 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1523 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1524 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1525 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
5473c134 1526DOC_END
1527
cccac0a2 1528COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1529 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1530 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1531COMMENT_END
1532
41bd17a4 1533NAME: cache_peer
1534TYPE: peer
1535DEFAULT: none
1536LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1537DOC_START
41bd17a4 1538 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
cccac0a2 1539
41bd17a4 1540 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
cccac0a2 1541
41bd17a4 1542 For example,
cccac0a2 1543
41bd17a4 1544 # proxy icp
1545 # hostname type port port options
1546 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
1547 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 proxy-only default
1548 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1549 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
cccac0a2 1550
41bd17a4 1551 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
d5277f40 1552
41bd17a4 1553 proxy-port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
1554 requests.
8d6275c0 1555
41bd17a4 1556 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
1557 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
1558 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
1559 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
1560 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
1561 NOTE: Also requires icp_port option enabled to send/receive
1562 requests via this method.
a78278e2 1563
41bd17a4 1564 options: proxy-only
1565 weight=n
1566 basetime=n
1567 ttl=n
1568 no-query
1569 background-ping
1570 default
1571 round-robin
1572 weighted-round-robin
1573 carp
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1574 userhash
1575 sourcehash
41bd17a4 1576 multicast-responder
1577 closest-only
1578 no-digest
1579 no-netdb-exchange
1580 no-delay
1581 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
1582 connect-timeout=nn
1583 digest-url=url
1584 allow-miss
1585 max-conn=n
1586 htcp
1587 htcp-oldsquid
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1588 htcp-no-clr
1589 htcp-no-purge-clr
1590 htcp-only-clr
1591 htcp-forward-clr
41bd17a4 1592 originserver
1593 name=xxx
1594 forceddomain=name
1595 ssl
1596 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1597 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
1598 sslversion=1|2|3|4
1599 sslcipher=...
1600 ssloptions=...
1601 front-end-https[=on|auto]
cccac0a2 1602
41bd17a4 1603 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
1604 from this cache should not be saved locally.
cccac0a2 1605
41bd17a4 1606 use 'weight=n' to affect the selection of a peer
1607 during any weighted peer-selection mechanisms.
1608 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1609 larger weights are favored more.
1610 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1611 protocol is not in use.
cccac0a2 1612
41bd17a4 1613 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
1614 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
1615 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1616 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1617 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 1618
41bd17a4 1619 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
1620 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
1621 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1622 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1623 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1624 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
5473c134 1625
41bd17a4 1626 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
1627 neighbor.
5473c134 1628
41bd17a4 1629 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
1630 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
1631 round trip time updated and is usually used in
1632 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
cccac0a2 1633
41bd17a4 1634 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
1635 be used as a "last-resort" if a peer cannot be located
1636 by any of the peer-selection mechanisms.
1637 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
cccac0a2 1638
41bd17a4 1639 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
1640 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
1641 absence of any ICP queries.
cccac0a2 1642
41bd17a4 1643 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
1644 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
1645 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
1646 time. Closer parents are used more often.
1647 Usually used for background-ping parents.
cccac0a2 1648
41bd17a4 1649 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
1650 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
1651 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
382db7eb 1652 balancing hash function based on their weight.
cccac0a2 1653
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1654 use 'userhash' to load-balance amongst a set of parents
1655 based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
1656
1657 use 'sourcehash' to load-balance amongst a set of parents
1658 based on the client source ip.
1659
41bd17a4 1660 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
1661 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
1662 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
1663 will be accepted from it.
cccac0a2 1664
41bd17a4 1665 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
1666 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
1667 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
cccac0a2 1668
41bd17a4 1669 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
1670 this neighbor.
cccac0a2 1671
41bd17a4 1672 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
1673 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
cccac0a2 1674
41bd17a4 1675 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
1676 from influencing the delay pools.
7d90757b 1677
41bd17a4 1678 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
1679 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
1680 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
1681 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
7d90757b 1682
41bd17a4 1683 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
1684 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
1685 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
1686 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
1687 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
1688 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
1689 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
1690 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
1691 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
1692 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
7d90757b 1693
41bd17a4 1694 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
1695 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
1696 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
1697 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
1698 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
1699 information which is added to the username. This can
1700 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
1701 the login=username:password option above.
cccac0a2 1702
41bd17a4 1703 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
1704 specific connect timeout (also see the
1705 peer_connect_timeout directive)
7f7db318 1706
41bd17a4 1707 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
1708 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
1709 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
1710 location.
cccac0a2 1711
41bd17a4 1712 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
1713 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
1714 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
1715 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
1716 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
1717 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
1718 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
1719 source is a peer)
cccac0a2 1720
41bd17a4 1721 use 'max-conn=n' to limit the amount of connections Squid
1722 may open to this peer.
cccac0a2 1723
41bd17a4 1724 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
1725 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
1726 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
0b48417e 1727 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1728 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1729
41bd17a4 1730 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
0b48417e 1731 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1732 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1733
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1734 use 'htcp-no-clr' to send HTCP to the neighbor but without
1735 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
1736 htcp-only-clr.
1737
1738 use 'htcp-no-purge-clr' to send HTCP to the neighbor
1739 including CLRs but only when they do not result from
1740 PURGE requests.
1741
1742 use 'htcp-only-clr' to send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY
1743 CLR requests. This cannot be used with htcp-no-clr.
1744
1745 use 'htcp-forward-clr' to forward any HTCP CLR requests
1746 this proxy receives to the peer.
1747
41bd17a4 1748 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
1749 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
cccac0a2 1750
41bd17a4 1751 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
1752 host but different ports. This name can be used to
1753 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
1754 directives.
cccac0a2 1755
41bd17a4 1756 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
1757 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
1758 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
1759 name and using redirectors to feed this domain name
1760 is not feasible.
64658378 1761
41bd17a4 1762 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
1763 be SSL/TLS encrypted.
cccac0a2 1764
41bd17a4 1765 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
1766 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
4c9fa5d5 1767
41bd17a4 1768 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
1769 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
1770 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
1771 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
4c9fa5d5 1772
41bd17a4 1773 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
1774 when connecting to this peer
1775 1 = automatic (default)
1776 2 = SSL v2 only
1777 3 = SSL v3 only
1778 4 = TLS v1 only
cccac0a2 1779
41bd17a4 1780 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL ciphers
1781 to use when connecting to this peer.
cccac0a2 1782
41bd17a4 1783 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
1784 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1785 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1786 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1787 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
1788 a more complete list.
cccac0a2 1789
41bd17a4 1790 use sslcafile=... to specify a file containing
1791 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1792 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1793
41bd17a4 1794 use sslcapath=... to specify a directory containing
1795 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1796 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1797
41bd17a4 1798 use sslcrlfile=... to specify a certificate revocation
1799 list file to use when verifying the peer certificate.
1800
1801 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
1802 SSL implementation:
1803 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
1804 Accept certificates even if they fail to
1805 verify.
1806 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1807 Don't use the default CA list built in
1808 to OpenSSL.
1809 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
1810 Don't verify the peer certificate
1811 matches the server name
cccac0a2 1812
41bd17a4 1813 use ssldomain= to specify the peer name as advertised
1814 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
1815 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
1816 peer hostname will be used.
cccac0a2 1817
41bd17a4 1818 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
1819 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend in front
1820 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
1821 on this header. If set to auto the header will
1822 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
1823 URL.
1824DOC_END
cccac0a2 1825
41bd17a4 1826NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
1827TYPE: hostdomain
1828DEFAULT: none
1829LOC: none
1830DOC_START
1831 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
1832 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 1833
41bd17a4 1834 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
1835 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 1836
41bd17a4 1837 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 1838
41bd17a4 1839 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 1840
41bd17a4 1841 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
1842 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
1843 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
1844 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
1845 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 1846
41bd17a4 1847 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
1848 either on the same or separate lines.
1849 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
1850 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
1851 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
1852 for all requests.
1853 * There are no defaults.
1854 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
1855 section.
1856DOC_END
dd9b1776 1857
41bd17a4 1858NAME: cache_peer_access
1859TYPE: peer_access
1860DEFAULT: none
1861LOC: none
1862DOC_START
1863 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
1864 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 1865
41bd17a4 1866 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 1867
41bd17a4 1868 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
1869 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
1870 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
1871DOC_END
dd9b1776 1872
41bd17a4 1873NAME: neighbor_type_domain
1874TYPE: hostdomaintype
1875DEFAULT: none
1876LOC: none
1877DOC_START
1878 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 1879
41bd17a4 1880 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
1881 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
1882 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
1883 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
1884 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
1885 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 1886
41bd17a4 1887EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 1888 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 1889 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
1890 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
1891DOC_END
6bf4f823 1892
41bd17a4 1893NAME: dead_peer_timeout
1894COMMENT: (seconds)
1895DEFAULT: 10 seconds
1896TYPE: time_t
1897LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
1898DOC_START
1899 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
1900 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
1901 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
1902 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
1903 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
1904 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 1905
41bd17a4 1906 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
1907 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
1908 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
1909 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
1910 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
1911 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
1912 instead of to your parents.
1913DOC_END
cccac0a2 1914
41bd17a4 1915NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
1916TYPE: wordlist
1917DEFAULT: none
1918LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
1919DOC_START
1920 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
1921 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
1922 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
1923 list this option multiple times.
1924 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
cccac0a2 1925NOCOMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1926#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
1927hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 1928NOCOMMENT_END
1929DOC_END
0976f8db 1930
41bd17a4 1931COMMENT_START
1932 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
1933 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1934COMMENT_END
1935
1936NAME: cache_mem
1937COMMENT: (bytes)
1938TYPE: b_size_t
1939DEFAULT: 8 MB
1940LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 1941DOC_START
41bd17a4 1942 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
1943 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
1944 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
1945 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
1946
1947 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
1948 for:
1949 * In-Transit objects
1950 * Hot Objects
1951 * Negative-Cached objects
1952
1953 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
1954 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
1955 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
1956 priority.
1957
1958 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
1959 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
1960 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
1961 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
1962 not needed for in-transit objects.
1963
1964 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
1965 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
1966 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
1967 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
1968 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
1969 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
1970 objects.
6b698a21 1971DOC_END
0976f8db 1972
41bd17a4 1973NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
1974COMMENT: (bytes)
1975TYPE: b_size_t
1976DEFAULT: 8 KB
1977LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 1978DOC_START
41bd17a4 1979 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
1980 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
1981 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
1982 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 1983DOC_END
0976f8db 1984
41bd17a4 1985NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1986TYPE: removalpolicy
1987LOC: Config.memPolicy
1988DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 1989DOC_START
41bd17a4 1990 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1991 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 1992
41bd17a4 1993 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1994DOC_END
6b698a21 1995
41bd17a4 1996COMMENT_START
1997 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
1998 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1999COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2000
41bd17a4 2001NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2002TYPE: removalpolicy
2003LOC: Config.replPolicy
2004DEFAULT: lru
2005DOC_START
2006 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2007 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2008
41bd17a4 2009 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2010 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2011 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2012 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2013
41bd17a4 2014 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2015
41bd17a4 2016 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2017
41bd17a4 2018 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2019 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2020 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2021 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2022
41bd17a4 2023 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2024 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2025 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2026 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2027
41bd17a4 2028 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2029 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2030 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2031
41bd17a4 2032 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2033 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2034 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2035
41bd17a4 2036 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2037 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2038 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2039DOC_END
0976f8db 2040
41bd17a4 2041NAME: cache_dir
2042TYPE: cachedir
2043DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2044LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2045DOC_START
41bd17a4 2046 Usage:
0976f8db 2047
41bd17a4 2048 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2049
41bd17a4 2050 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2051 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2052
41bd17a4 2053 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2054 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2055 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2056
41bd17a4 2057 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2058 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2059 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2060 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2061 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2062
41bd17a4 2063 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2064
41bd17a4 2065 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2066 been there.
0976f8db 2067
41bd17a4 2068 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2069
41bd17a4 2070 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2071 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2072 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2073 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2074 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2075
41bd17a4 2076 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2077 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2078
41bd17a4 2079 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2080 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2081 is 256.
0976f8db 2082
41bd17a4 2083 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2084
41bd17a4 2085 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2086 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2087 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2088
41bd17a4 2089 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2090
41bd17a4 2091 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2092
41bd17a4 2093 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2094
41bd17a4 2095 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2096 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2097 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2098
41bd17a4 2099 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2100
41bd17a4 2101 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2102
41bd17a4 2103 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2104 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2105 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2106
41bd17a4 2107 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2108 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2109 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2110
41bd17a4 2111 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2112 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2113 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2114 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2115 time.
0976f8db 2116
41bd17a4 2117 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2118
41bd17a4 2119 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2120 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2121 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2122 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2123 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2124 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2125 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2126
41bd17a4 2127 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2128 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2129 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2130
41bd17a4 2131 Common options:
0976f8db 2132
41bd17a4 2133 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2134
41bd17a4 2135 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
2136 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
2137 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2138 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2139 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2140
41bd17a4 2141 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2142 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2143 option.
bebc043b 2144NOCOMMENT_START
dee5bef7 2145cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2146NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2147DOC_END
0976f8db 2148
41bd17a4 2149NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2150TYPE: string
2151LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2152DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2153DOC_START
41bd17a4 2154 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2155DOC_END
0976f8db 2156
41bd17a4 2157NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2158TYPE: int
2159LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2160DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2161DOC_START
41bd17a4 2162 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2163 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2164 descriptors are open.
2165
2166 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2167DOC_END
0976f8db 2168
41bd17a4 2169NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2170COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2171TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2172DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2173LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2174DOC_START
41bd17a4 2175 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2176 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2177 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2178DOC_END
0976f8db 2179
41bd17a4 2180NAME: maximum_object_size
2181COMMENT: (bytes)
2182TYPE: b_int64_t
2183DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2184LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2185DOC_START
41bd17a4 2186 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2187 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2188 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2189 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2190 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2191 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2192
41bd17a4 2193 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2194 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2195 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2196DOC_END
0976f8db 2197
41bd17a4 2198NAME: cache_swap_low
2199COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2200TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2201DEFAULT: 90
2202LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2203DOC_NONE
2204
2205NAME: cache_swap_high
2206COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2207TYPE: int
2208DEFAULT: 95
2209LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2210DOC_START
41bd17a4 2211
2212 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2213 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2214 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2215 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2216 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2217 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2218
2219 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2220 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2221 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2222DOC_END
0976f8db 2223
5473c134 2224COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2225 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2226 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2227COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2228
41bd17a4 2229NAME: logformat
2230TYPE: logformat
2231LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 2232DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2233DOC_START
41bd17a4 2234 Usage:
0976f8db 2235
41bd17a4 2236 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2237
41bd17a4 2238 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2239
41bd17a4 2240 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2241
41bd17a4 2242 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2243 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2244 as required according to their context and the output format
2245 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2246 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2247
41bd17a4 2248 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2249
41bd17a4 2250 " output in quoted string format
2251 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2252 # output in URL quoted format
2253 ' output as-is
5473c134 2254
41bd17a4 2255 - left aligned
2256 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2257 output is zero padded
2258 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2259
41bd17a4 2260 Format codes:
5473c134 2261
41bd17a4 2262 >a Client source IP address
2263 >A Client FQDN
2264 >p Client source port
2265 <A Server IP address or peer name
2266 la Local IP address (http_port)
2267 lp Local port number (http_port)
2268 ts Seconds since epoch
2269 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2270 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
2271 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2272 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
2273 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2274 tr Response time (milliseconds)
2275 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
2276 on the format header[:[separator]element]
2277 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2278 as for >h
2279 un User name
2280 ul User name from authentication
2281 ui User name from ident
2282 us User name from SSL
2283 ue User name from external acl helper
2284 Hs HTTP status code
2285 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2286 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2287 mt MIME content type
2288 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2289 ru Request URL
2290 rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2291 rv Request protocol version
2292 et Tag returned by external acl
2293 ea Log string returned by external acl
2294 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
1a86db31
AJ
2295 >st Request size including HTTP headers
2296 st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
41bd17a4 2297 <sH Reply high offset sent
2298 <sS Upstream object size
2299 % a literal % character
5473c134 2300
7d9acc3c
AJ
2301 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
2302
2303logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2304logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
41bd17a4 2305logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2306logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2307DOC_END
2308
41bd17a4 2309NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2310TYPE: access_log
2311LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
5473c134 2312DEFAULT: none
2313DOC_START
41bd17a4 2314 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2315 ICP request. The format is:
2316 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2317 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
5473c134 2318
41bd17a4 2319 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
2320 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2321 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
2322 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
5473c134 2323
41bd17a4 2324 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
2325 a logformat name should not be specified.
5473c134 2326
41bd17a4 2327 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
5473c134 2328
41bd17a4 2329 access_log syslog[:facility.priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
2330 where facility could be any of:
2331 authpriv, daemon, local0 .. local7 or user.
5473c134 2332
41bd17a4 2333 And priority could be any of:
2334 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
2335NOCOMMENT_START
2336access_log @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
2337NOCOMMENT_END
2338DOC_END
5473c134 2339
5b0f5383 2340NAME: log_access
2341TYPE: acl_access
2342LOC: Config.accessList.log
2343DEFAULT: none
2344COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2345DOC_START
2346 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2347 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2348 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2349DOC_END
2350
41bd17a4 2351NAME: cache_log
2352TYPE: string
2353DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
2354LOC: Config.Log.log
2355DOC_START
2356 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
2357 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
2358 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
2359DOC_END
5473c134 2360
41bd17a4 2361NAME: cache_store_log
2362TYPE: string
2363DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
2364LOC: Config.Log.store
2365DOC_START
2366 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2367 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
2368 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
2369 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
2370 disable it.
5473c134 2371DOC_END
2372
41bd17a4 2373NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2374TYPE: string
2375LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2376DEFAULT: none
2377DOC_START
41bd17a4 2378 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2379 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2380 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2381 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2382 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2383 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2384 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2385
41bd17a4 2386 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2387 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2388 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2389 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2390
41bd17a4 2391 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2392 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2393
41bd17a4 2394 cache_swap_log.00
2395 cache_swap_log.01
2396 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2397
41bd17a4 2398 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2399 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2400 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2401 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2402 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2403 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2404 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2405DOC_END
2406
41bd17a4 2407NAME: logfile_rotate
2408TYPE: int
2409DEFAULT: 10
2410LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2411DOC_START
41bd17a4 2412 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2413 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2414 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2415 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2416 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2417 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2418
41bd17a4 2419 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2420 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2421 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2422 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2423 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2424 <pid>'.
2425DOC_END
5473c134 2426
41bd17a4 2427NAME: emulate_httpd_log
2428COMMENT: on|off
2429TYPE: onoff
2430DEFAULT: off
2431LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
2432DOC_START
2433 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
2434 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
2435 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
2436 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
2437 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 2438DOC_END
2439
41bd17a4 2440NAME: log_ip_on_direct
2441COMMENT: on|off
2442TYPE: onoff
5473c134 2443DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 2444LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 2445DOC_START
41bd17a4 2446 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
2447 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
2448 prefer the old way set this to off.
2449DOC_END
5473c134 2450
41bd17a4 2451NAME: mime_table
2452TYPE: string
2453DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
2454LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
2455DOC_START
2456 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
2457 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
2458 information if you do.
5473c134 2459DOC_END
2460
41bd17a4 2461NAME: log_mime_hdrs
2462COMMENT: on|off
2463TYPE: onoff
2464LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
2465DEFAULT: off
2466DOC_START
2467 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
2468 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
2469 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
2470 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
2471 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
2472DOC_END
5473c134 2473
41bd17a4 2474NAME: useragent_log
2475TYPE: string
2476LOC: Config.Log.useragent
2477DEFAULT: none
2478IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 2479DOC_START
41bd17a4 2480 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
2481 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
2482 is disabled.
5473c134 2483DOC_END
2484
41bd17a4 2485NAME: referer_log referrer_log
2486TYPE: string
2487LOC: Config.Log.referer
2488DEFAULT: none
2489IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 2490DOC_START
41bd17a4 2491 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
2492 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
2493 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
2494 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
2495 and we accept both.
5473c134 2496DOC_END
2497
41bd17a4 2498NAME: pid_filename
2499TYPE: string
2500DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
2501LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 2502DOC_START
41bd17a4 2503 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 2504DOC_END
2505
41bd17a4 2506NAME: debug_options
fb6a61d1 2507TYPE: eol
41bd17a4 2508DEFAULT: ALL,1
2509LOC: Config.debugOptions
5473c134 2510DOC_START
41bd17a4 2511 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
2512 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
2513 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
2514 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
2515 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
2516 "ALL,1".
5473c134 2517DOC_END
2518
41bd17a4 2519NAME: log_fqdn
2520COMMENT: on|off
2521TYPE: onoff
2522DEFAULT: off
2523LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 2524DOC_START
41bd17a4 2525 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
2526 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
2527 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
2528 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
2529 browsing.
5473c134 2530DOC_END
2531
41bd17a4 2532NAME: client_netmask
2533TYPE: address
2534LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
2535DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5473c134 2536DOC_START
41bd17a4 2537 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
2538 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
2539 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
2540 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 2541DOC_END
2542
41bd17a4 2543NAME: forward_log
2544IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
2545TYPE: string
2546DEFAULT: none
2547LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 2548DOC_START
41bd17a4 2549 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 2550
41bd17a4 2551 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 2552DOC_END
2553
41bd17a4 2554NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 2555TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 2556LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 2557DEFAULT: on
2558DOC_START
41bd17a4 2559 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
2560 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 2561DOC_END
2562
41bd17a4 2563NAME: buffered_logs
2564COMMENT: on|off
2565TYPE: onoff
2566DEFAULT: off
2567LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 2568DOC_START
41bd17a4 2569 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2570 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2571 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2572 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2573 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 2574DOC_END
0976f8db 2575
2b753521 2576NAME: netdb_filename
2577TYPE: string
2578DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2579LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 2580IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 2581DOC_START
2582 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
2583 To disable, enter "none".
2584DOC_END
2585
41bd17a4 2586COMMENT_START
2587 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
2588 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2589COMMENT_END
2590
2591NAME: ftp_user
2592TYPE: string
2593DEFAULT: Squid@
2594LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 2595DOC_START
41bd17a4 2596 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
2597 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
2598 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 2599
41bd17a4 2600 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
2601 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
2602 depending on how the cache is used.
2603 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
2604 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 2605DOC_END
0976f8db 2606
41bd17a4 2607NAME: ftp_list_width
2608TYPE: size_t
2609DEFAULT: 32
2610LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
6b698a21 2611DOC_START
41bd17a4 2612 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
2613 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
2614 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
6b698a21 2615DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2616
41bd17a4 2617NAME: ftp_passive
2618TYPE: onoff
2619DEFAULT: on
2620LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 2621DOC_START
41bd17a4 2622 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
2623 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 2624
2625 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
2626DOC_END
2627
2628NAME: ftp_epsv_all
2629TYPE: onoff
2630DEFAULT: off
2631LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
2632DOC_START
2633 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
2634
2635 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
2636 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
2637 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
2638
2639 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be useful.
2640 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
2641 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
2642
2643 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
2644 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
2645
2646 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default)
41bd17a4 2647DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2648
41bd17a4 2649NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
2650TYPE: onoff
2651DEFAULT: on
2652LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
2653DOC_START
2654 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
2655 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
2656 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
2657 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
2658 connection turn this off.
2659DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2660
41bd17a4 2661NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
2662TYPE: onoff
2663DEFAULT: on
2664LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
2665DOC_START
2666 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
2667 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
2668 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
2669 the FTP protocol.
2670
2671 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
2672 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
2673 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
2674 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
2675 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
2676DOC_END
2677
2678COMMENT_START
2679 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2680 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2681COMMENT_END
2682
2683NAME: diskd_program
2684TYPE: string
2685DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
2686LOC: Config.Program.diskd
2687DOC_START
2688 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
2689 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
2690 diskd as one of the store io modules.
2691DOC_END
2692
2693NAME: unlinkd_program
2694IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
2695TYPE: string
2696DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
2697LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
2698DOC_START
2699 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
2700DOC_END
2701
2702NAME: pinger_program
2703TYPE: string
2704DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 2705LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 2706IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2707DOC_START
2708 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
2709DOC_END
2710
cc192b50 2711NAME: pinger_enable
2712TYPE: onoff
2713DEFAULT: on
2714LOC: Config.pinger.enable
2715IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2716DOC_START
2717 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
2718 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple squid -k reconfigure.
2719DOC_END
2720
2721
41bd17a4 2722COMMENT_START
2723 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
2724 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2725COMMENT_END
2726
2727NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
2728TYPE: wordlist
2729LOC: Config.Program.redirect
2730DEFAULT: none
2731DOC_START
2732 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
2733 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
2734
2735 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
2736
c71adec1 2737 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
2738
2739 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
2740 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
2741 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
2742 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 2743
2744 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
2745 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
2746
2747 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
2748 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2749 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
2750
2751 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
2752DOC_END
2753
2754NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
2755TYPE: int
2756DEFAULT: 5
2757LOC: Config.redirectChildren
2758DOC_START
2759 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
2760 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
2761 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
2762 and other system resources.
2763DOC_END
2764
2765NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
2766TYPE: int
2767DEFAULT: 0
2768LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
2769DOC_START
2770 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
2771 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
2772 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2773DOC_END
2774
2775NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
2776TYPE: onoff
2777DEFAULT: on
2778LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
2779DOC_START
2780 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
2781 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
2782 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
2783
2784 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
2785 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
2786DOC_END
2787
2788NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
2789TYPE: acl_access
2790DEFAULT: none
2791LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
2792DOC_START
2793 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
2794 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
2795 are sent.
2796DOC_END
2797
2798NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
2799TYPE: onoff
2800LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
2801DEFAULT: off
2802DOC_START
2803 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
2804 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
2805 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
2806 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
2807 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
2808 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
2809 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
2810 users may have access to pages they should not
2811 be allowed to request.
2812DOC_END
2813
2814COMMENT_START
2815 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2816 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2817COMMENT_END
2818
f04b37d8 2819NAME: cache no_cache
2820TYPE: acl_access
2821DEFAULT: none
2822LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 2823DOC_START
240887f0 2824 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 2825 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
2826 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 2827
240887f0 2828 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
2829 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 2830
240887f0 2831 Default is to allow all to be cached.
41bd17a4 2832DOC_END
2833
2834NAME: refresh_pattern
2835TYPE: refreshpattern
2836LOC: Config.Refresh
2837DEFAULT: none
2838DOC_START
2839 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 2840
6b698a21 2841 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2842 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2843
41bd17a4 2844 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2845 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2846 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2847 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2848 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 2849
41bd17a4 2850 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2851 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2852 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 2853
41bd17a4 2854 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2855 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 2856
41bd17a4 2857 options: override-expire
2858 override-lastmod
2859 reload-into-ims
2860 ignore-reload
2861 ignore-no-cache
2862 ignore-no-store
2863 ignore-private
2864 ignore-auth
2865 refresh-ims
a0ec9f68 2866
41bd17a4 2867 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
9b2ad080
HN
2868 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
2869 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
2870 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
2871 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
6468fe10 2872
41bd17a4 2873 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
2874 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 2875
41bd17a4 2876 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2877 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2878 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2879 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 2880
41bd17a4 2881 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2882 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2883 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2884 it causes.
9bc73deb 2885
41bd17a4 2886 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2887 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2888 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2889 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2890 send it anyway.
2891
2892 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2893 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2894 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2895 liable for problems which it causes.
2896
2897 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2898 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2899 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2900 liable for problems which it causes.
2901
2902 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2903 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
2904 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
2905 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
2906 it causes.
2907
2908 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2909 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2910 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2911 if one is available.
2912
2913 Basically a cached object is:
2914
2915 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2916 STALE if age > max
2917 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2918 FRESH if age < min
2919 else STALE
2920
2921 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2922 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
2923 match the default will be used.
2924
2925 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2926 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2927 used.
2928
2929Suggested default:
2930NOCOMMENT_START
2931refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2932refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 2933refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 2934refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2935NOCOMMENT_END
2936DOC_END
2937
2938NAME: quick_abort_min
2939COMMENT: (KB)
2940TYPE: kb_int64_t
2941DEFAULT: 16 KB
2942LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2943DOC_NONE
2944
2945NAME: quick_abort_max
2946COMMENT: (KB)
2947TYPE: kb_int64_t
2948DEFAULT: 16 KB
2949LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2950DOC_NONE
2951
2952NAME: quick_abort_pct
2953COMMENT: (percent)
2954TYPE: int
2955DEFAULT: 95
2956LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2957DOC_START
2958 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2959 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2960 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2961 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2962 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2963 downloads.
2964
2965 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2966 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2967 then.
2968
2969 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2970 it will finish the retrieval.
2971
2972 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2973 it will abort the retrieval.
2974
2975 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2976 it will finish the retrieval.
2977
2978 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2979 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2980 to '0 KB'.
2981
2982 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
2983 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
2984DOC_END
60d096f4 2985
41bd17a4 2986NAME: read_ahead_gap
2987COMMENT: buffer-size
2988TYPE: b_int64_t
2989LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2990DEFAULT: 16 KB
2991DOC_START
2992 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2993 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2994DOC_END
53e738c6 2995
41bd17a4 2996NAME: negative_ttl
ac9cc053 2997IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 2998COMMENT: time-units
2999TYPE: time_t
3000LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 3001DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 3002DOC_START
ac9cc053
AJ
3003 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3004 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3005 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3006 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3007 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3008 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3009
3010 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
39956c7c
AJ
3011
3012 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3013 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3014 causes.
41bd17a4 3015DOC_END
53e738c6 3016
41bd17a4 3017NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3018COMMENT: time-units
3019TYPE: time_t
3020LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3021DEFAULT: 6 hours
3022DOC_START
3023 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3024 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3025 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3026DOC_END
c4ab8329 3027
41bd17a4 3028NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3029COMMENT: time-units
3030TYPE: time_t
3031LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3032DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3033DOC_START
3034 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3035 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3036 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3037 much below 10 seconds.
3038DOC_END
7df0bfd7 3039
41bd17a4 3040NAME: range_offset_limit
3041COMMENT: (bytes)
3042TYPE: b_int64_t
3043LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
3044DEFAULT: 0 KB
3045DOC_START
3046 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
3047 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
3048 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
3049 is NOT cached.
c4ab8329 3050
41bd17a4 3051 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3052 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3053 sending anything to the client.
a7ad6e4e 3054
41bd17a4 3055 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
3056 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
a7ad6e4e 3057
41bd17a4 3058 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
3059 client requested. (default)
3060DOC_END
d95b862f 3061
41bd17a4 3062NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3063COMMENT: (seconds)
3064TYPE: time_t
3065LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3066DEFAULT: 60 seconds
3067DOC_START
3068 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
3069 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 3070 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 3071 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
3072 is most likely better to make your server return a
3073 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
3074 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
3075 often be best set to 0.
3076DOC_END
c68e9c6b 3077
41bd17a4 3078NAME: store_avg_object_size
3079COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 3080TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 3081DEFAULT: 13 KB
3082LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3083DOC_START
3084 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3085 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 3086DOC_END
3087
41bd17a4 3088NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3089TYPE: int
3090DEFAULT: 20
3091LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3092DOC_START
3093 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3094 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3095 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
3096DOC_END
3097
3098COMMENT_START
3099 HTTP OPTIONS
3100 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3101COMMENT_END
3102
f04b37d8 3103NAME: request_header_max_size
3104COMMENT: (KB)
3105TYPE: b_size_t
3106DEFAULT: 20 KB
3107LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
3108DOC_START
3109 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
3110 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3111 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
3112 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3113 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3114DOC_END
3115
3116NAME: reply_header_max_size
3117COMMENT: (KB)
3118TYPE: b_size_t
3119DEFAULT: 20 KB
3120LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
3121DOC_START
3122 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
3123 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3124 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
3125 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3126 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3127DOC_END
3128
3129NAME: request_body_max_size
3130COMMENT: (bytes)
3131TYPE: b_int64_t
3132DEFAULT: 0 KB
3133LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
3134DOC_START
3135 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
3136 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
3137 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
3138 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
3139 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
3140 be no limit imposed.
3141DOC_END
3142
41bd17a4 3143NAME: broken_posts
cccac0a2 3144TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 3145DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3146LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 3147DOC_START
41bd17a4 3148 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
3149 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 3150
41bd17a4 3151 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
3152 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 3153
41bd17a4 3154 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 3155
41bd17a4 3156 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
3157 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
3158 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
3159 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 3160
41bd17a4 3161Example:
3162 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
3163 broken_posts allow buggy_server
3164DOC_END
cccac0a2 3165
41bd17a4 3166NAME: via
3167IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3168COMMENT: on|off
3169TYPE: onoff
3170DEFAULT: on
3171LOC: Config.onoff.via
3172DOC_START
3173 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3174 replies as required by RFC2616.
3175DOC_END
4cc6eb12 3176
41bd17a4 3177NAME: ie_refresh
3178COMMENT: on|off
3179TYPE: onoff
3180LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
3181DEFAULT: off
3182DOC_START
3183 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
3184 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
3185 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
3186 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
3187 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
3188 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
3189 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
3190 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
3191 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
3192 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
3193 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
3194 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
3195 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
3196 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
3197 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
3198 force fresh content.
3199DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 3200
41bd17a4 3201NAME: vary_ignore_expire
3202COMMENT: on|off
3203TYPE: onoff
3204LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
3205DEFAULT: off
3206DOC_START
3207 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
3208 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
3209 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
3210 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
3211 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
3212 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
3213 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 3214DOC_END
c4ab8329 3215
41bd17a4 3216NAME: request_entities
3217TYPE: onoff
3218LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
3219DEFAULT: off
3220DOC_START
3221 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
3222 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
3223 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 3224
41bd17a4 3225 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
3226 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
3227 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
3228 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
3229 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 3230DOC_END
6b53c392 3231
41bd17a4 3232NAME: request_header_access
3233IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3234TYPE: http_header_access[]
3235LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3236DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 3237DOC_START
41bd17a4 3238 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 3239
41bd17a4 3240 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3241 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3242 causes.
0976f8db 3243
41bd17a4 3244 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3245 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3246 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3247 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3248 mangling.
934b03fc 3249
41bd17a4 3250 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3251 client to the server.
5401aa8d 3252
41bd17a4 3253 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3254 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3255 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 3256
41bd17a4 3257 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3258 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 3259
41bd17a4 3260 request_header_access From deny all
3261 request_header_access Referer deny all
3262 request_header_access Server deny all
3263 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3264 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3265 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 3266
41bd17a4 3267 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3268 you should use:
5401aa8d 3269
41bd17a4 3270 request_header_access Allow allow all
3271 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3272 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3273 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3274 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3275 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3276 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3277 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3278 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3279 request_header_access Date allow all
3280 request_header_access Expires allow all
3281 request_header_access Host allow all
3282 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3283 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3284 request_header_access Location allow all
3285 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3286 request_header_access Accept allow all
3287 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3288 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3289 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3290 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3291 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3292 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3293 request_header_access Title allow all
3294 request_header_access Connection allow all
3295 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3296 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 3297
41bd17a4 3298 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3299 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 3300
41bd17a4 3301 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3302 performed).
5401aa8d 3303DOC_END
3304
41bd17a4 3305NAME: reply_header_access
3306IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3307TYPE: http_header_access[]
3308LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 3309DEFAULT: none
3310DOC_START
41bd17a4 3311 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 3312
41bd17a4 3313 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3314 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3315 causes.
934b03fc 3316
41bd17a4 3317 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3318 server to the client.
934b03fc 3319
41bd17a4 3320 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3321 direction.
6b53c392 3322
41bd17a4 3323 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3324 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3325 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3326 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3327 mangling.
cccac0a2 3328
41bd17a4 3329 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3330 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3331 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 3332
41bd17a4 3333 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3334 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 3335
41bd17a4 3336 reply_header_access From deny all
3337 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3338 reply_header_access Server deny all
3339 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3340 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3341 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3342
41bd17a4 3343 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3344 you should use:
cccac0a2 3345
41bd17a4 3346 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3347 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3348 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3349 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3350 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3351 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3352 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3353 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3354 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3355 reply_header_access Date allow all
3356 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3357 reply_header_access Host allow all
3358 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3359 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3360 reply_header_access Location allow all
3361 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3362 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3363 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3364 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3365 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3366 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3367 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3368 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3369 reply_header_access Title allow all
3370 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3371 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3372 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 3373
41bd17a4 3374 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3375 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3376
41bd17a4 3377 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3378 performed).
cccac0a2 3379DOC_END
3380
41bd17a4 3381NAME: header_replace
3382IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3383TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3384LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3385DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3386DOC_START
3387 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3388 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 3389
41bd17a4 3390 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3391 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3392 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3393 option.
cccac0a2 3394
41bd17a4 3395 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 3396
41bd17a4 3397 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3398DOC_END
cccac0a2 3399
41bd17a4 3400NAME: relaxed_header_parser
3401COMMENT: on|off|warn
3402TYPE: tristate
3403LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
3404DEFAULT: on
3405DOC_START
3406 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
3407 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
3408 what the sending application intended even if the message
3409 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
3410 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 3411
41bd17a4 3412 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
3413 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 3414
41bd17a4 3415 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
3416 or response to be rejected.
3417DOC_END
7d90757b 3418
41bd17a4 3419COMMENT_START
3420 TIMEOUTS
3421 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3422COMMENT_END
3423
3424NAME: forward_timeout
3425COMMENT: time-units
3426TYPE: time_t
3427LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
3428DEFAULT: 4 minutes
3429DOC_START
3430 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
3431 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 3432DOC_END
3433
41bd17a4 3434NAME: connect_timeout
3435COMMENT: time-units
3436TYPE: time_t
3437LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
3438DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 3439DOC_START
41bd17a4 3440 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
3441 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
3442 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 3443DOC_END
3444
41bd17a4 3445NAME: peer_connect_timeout
3446COMMENT: time-units
3447TYPE: time_t
3448LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
3449DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3450DOC_START
41bd17a4 3451 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
3452 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
3453 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
3454 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
3455DOC_END
7f7db318 3456
41bd17a4 3457NAME: read_timeout
3458COMMENT: time-units
3459TYPE: time_t
3460LOC: Config.Timeout.read
3461DEFAULT: 15 minutes
3462DOC_START
3463 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
3464 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
3465 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
3466 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
3467 default is 15 minutes.
3468DOC_END
cccac0a2 3469
41bd17a4 3470NAME: request_timeout
3471TYPE: time_t
3472LOC: Config.Timeout.request
3473DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3474DOC_START
3475 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
3476 connection establishment.
3477DOC_END
cccac0a2 3478
41bd17a4 3479NAME: persistent_request_timeout
3480TYPE: time_t
3481LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
3482DEFAULT: 2 minutes
3483DOC_START
3484 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
3485 connection after the previous request completes.
3486DOC_END
cccac0a2 3487
41bd17a4 3488NAME: client_lifetime
3489COMMENT: time-units
3490TYPE: time_t
3491LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
3492DEFAULT: 1 day
3493DOC_START
3494 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
3495 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
3496 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
3497 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
3498 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
3499 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
3500 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 3501
41bd17a4 3502 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
3503 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
3504 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
3505 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
3506 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
3507 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 3508DOC_END
3509
41bd17a4 3510NAME: half_closed_clients
3511TYPE: onoff
3512LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
3513DEFAULT: on
4eb368f9 3514DOC_START
41bd17a4 3515 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
3516 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
3517 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
3518 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
3519 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
3520 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
3521 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
3522 "no more data to read."
4eb368f9 3523DOC_END
3524
41bd17a4 3525NAME: pconn_timeout
3526TYPE: time_t
3527LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
3528DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 3529DOC_START
41bd17a4 3530 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
3531 proxies.
3532DOC_END
cccac0a2 3533
41bd17a4 3534NAME: ident_timeout
3535TYPE: time_t
3536IFDEF: USE_IDENT
3537LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
3538DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3539DOC_START
3540 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 3541
41bd17a4 3542 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
3543 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
3544 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 3545DOC_END
3546
41bd17a4 3547NAME: shutdown_lifetime
3548COMMENT: time-units
3549TYPE: time_t
3550LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
3551DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3552DOC_START
41bd17a4 3553 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
3554 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
3555 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
3556 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
3557 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 3558DOC_END
0976f8db 3559
cccac0a2 3560COMMENT_START
3561 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3562 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3563COMMENT_END
3564
3565NAME: cache_mgr
3566TYPE: string
3567DEFAULT: webmaster
3568LOC: Config.adminEmail
3569DOC_START
3570 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3571 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3572DOC_END
3573
abacf776 3574NAME: mail_from
3575TYPE: string
3576DEFAULT: none
3577LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3578DOC_START
3579 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3580 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3581 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3582 src/globals.h before building squid.
3583DOC_END
3584
d084bf20 3585NAME: mail_program
3586TYPE: eol
3587DEFAULT: mail
3588LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3589DOC_START
3590 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 3591 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 3592 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 3593 mail-program recipient < mailfile
3594
d084bf20 3595 Optional command line options can be specified.
3596DOC_END
3597
cccac0a2 3598NAME: cache_effective_user
3599TYPE: string
5483d916 3600DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 3601LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3602DOC_START
3603 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3604 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 3605 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 3606 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 3607DOC_END
3608
cccac0a2 3609NAME: cache_effective_group
3610TYPE: string
3611DEFAULT: none
3612LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3613DOC_START
64e288bd 3614 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
3615 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
3616 from the groups membership.
3617
e3d74828 3618 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3619 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3620 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 3621 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 3622 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 3623 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 3624 group.
64e288bd 3625
3626 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
3627 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
3628 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 3629DOC_END
3630
d3caee79 3631NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3632COMMENT: on|off
3633TYPE: onoff
3634DEFAULT: off
3635LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3636DOC_START
3637 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3638DOC_END
3639
cccac0a2 3640NAME: visible_hostname
3641TYPE: string
3642LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3643DEFAULT: none
3644DOC_START
3645 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3646 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3647 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3648 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3649 names with this setting.
3650DOC_END
3651
cccac0a2 3652NAME: unique_hostname
3653TYPE: string
3654LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3655DEFAULT: none
3656DOC_START
3657 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3658 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3659 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3660DOC_END
3661
cccac0a2 3662NAME: hostname_aliases
3663TYPE: wordlist
3664LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3665DEFAULT: none
3666DOC_START
7f7db318 3667 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3668DOC_END
0976f8db 3669
c642c141
AJ
3670NAME: umask
3671TYPE: int
3672LOC: Config.umask
3673DEFAULT: 027
3674DOC_START
3675 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
3676 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
3677
3678 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
3679 your value with 0.
3680DOC_END
3681
cccac0a2 3682COMMENT_START
3683 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3684 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3685
3686 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3687 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3688 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3689 create cache hierarchies.
3690
3691 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3692 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3693 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3694
3695 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3696 following information from this configuration file:
3697
3698 http_port
3699 icp_port
3700 cache_mgr
3701
3702 All current information is processed regularly and made
3703 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3704COMMENT_END
3705
3706NAME: announce_period
3707TYPE: time_t
3708LOC: Config.Announce.period
3709DEFAULT: 0
3710DOC_START
3711 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3712 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3713 messages.
3714
3715 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3716 below.
3717
3718NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3719#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3720#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3721NOCOMMENT_END
3722DOC_END
3723
cccac0a2 3724NAME: announce_host
3725TYPE: string
3726DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3727LOC: Config.Announce.host
3728DOC_NONE
3729
3730NAME: announce_file
3731TYPE: string
3732DEFAULT: none
3733LOC: Config.Announce.file
3734DOC_NONE
3735
3736NAME: announce_port
3737TYPE: ushort
3738DEFAULT: 3131
3739LOC: Config.Announce.port
3740DOC_START
3741 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3742 number where the registration message will be sent.
3743
3744 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3745 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3746 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3747 message.
3748DOC_END
3749
8d6275c0 3750COMMENT_START
3751 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
3752 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3753COMMENT_END
3754
cccac0a2 3755NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
f41735ea 3756IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3757TYPE: string
3758LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3759DEFAULT: unset-id
3760DOC_START
3761 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3762 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3763 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3764 an identification token.
3765DOC_END
3766
3767NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
f41735ea 3768IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3769COMMENT: on|off
3770TYPE: onoff
3771DEFAULT: off
3772LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3773DOC_START
3774 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3775 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3776DOC_END
3777
3778NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 3779IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 3780COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3781TYPE: string
3782LOC: ESIParser::Type
3783DEFAULT: custom
3784DOC_START
3785 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3786 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3787 encodings.
3788DOC_END
0976f8db 3789
9edd9041 3790COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3791 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 3792 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3793COMMENT_END
3794
3795NAME: delay_pools
3796TYPE: delay_pool_count
3797DEFAULT: 0
3798IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3799LOC: Config.Delay
3800DOC_START
3801 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3802 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3803 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3804DOC_END
3805
3806NAME: delay_class
3807TYPE: delay_pool_class
3808DEFAULT: none
3809IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3810LOC: Config.Delay
3811DOC_START
3812 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3813 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3814 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3815 and here would be:
3816
3817Example:
3818 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3819 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3820 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3821 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3822 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3823
3824 The delay pool classes are:
3825
3826 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3827 bucket.
3828
3829 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3830 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3831 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3832
3833 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3834 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3835 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3836 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3837 32 of the IP address.
3838
3839 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
3840 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3841 only takes effect if the username is established
3842 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3843 http_access rules.
3844
3845 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
3846 external_acl's tag= reply).
3847
3848 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3849 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3850 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3851 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3852DOC_END
3853
3854NAME: delay_access
3855TYPE: delay_pool_access
3856DEFAULT: none
3857IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3858LOC: Config.Delay
3859DOC_START
3860 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3861
3862 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
3863 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
3864 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
3865 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
3866
3867 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3868 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3869
3870Example:
3871 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3872 delay_access 1 deny all
3873 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3874 delay_access 2 deny all
3875 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3876DOC_END
3877
3878NAME: delay_parameters
3879TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3880DEFAULT: none
3881IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3882LOC: Config.Delay
3883DOC_START
3884 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3885 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3886 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3887
3888delay_parameters pool aggregate
3889
3890 For a class 2 delay pool:
3891
3892delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3893
3894 For a class 3 delay pool:
3895
3896delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3897
3898 For a class 4 delay pool:
3899
3900delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3901
3902 For a class 5 delay pool:
3903
3904delay_parameters pool tag
3905
3906 The variables here are:
3907
3908 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3909 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3910 delay_class lines.
3911
3912 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3913 (class 1, 2, 3).
3914
3915 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3916 buckets (class 2, 3).
3917
3918 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3919 (class 3).
3920
3921 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
3922 (class 4).
3923
3924 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
3925 (class 5).
3926
3927 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3928 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3929 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3930 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3931
3932 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3933 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3934 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3935
3936delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3937
3938 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3939
3940 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3941 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3942 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3943 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3944 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3945 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3946 large downloads more significantly:
3947
3948delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
3949
3950 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
3951
3952 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
3953 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
3954
3955delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
3956DOC_END
3957
3958NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3959COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3960TYPE: ushort
3961DEFAULT: 50
3962IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3963LOC: Config.Delay.initial
3964DOC_START
3965 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3966 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3967 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3968 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3969 "seen" by squid).
3970DOC_END
3971
cccac0a2 3972COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3973 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 3974 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3975COMMENT_END
3976
8d6275c0 3977NAME: wccp_router
3978TYPE: address
3979LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3980DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3981IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3982DOC_NONE
3983NAME: wccp2_router
cc192b50 3984TYPE: IPAddress_list
8d6275c0 3985LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 3986DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 3987IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3988DOC_START
8d6275c0 3989 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3990 Squid.
cccac0a2 3991
8d6275c0 3992 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 3993
8d6275c0 3994 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 3995
8d6275c0 3996 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
3997 which version of WCCP to use.
3998DOC_END
3999
4000NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 4001TYPE: int
8d6275c0 4002LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4003DEFAULT: 4
4004IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 4005DOC_START
8d6275c0 4006 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4007 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4008 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4009 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4010 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 4011
8d6275c0 4012 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4013 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4014 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4015 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 4016DOC_END
4017
8d6275c0 4018NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4019TYPE: onoff
4020LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4021DEFAULT: on
4022IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4023DOC_START
4024 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4025 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4026DOC_END
cccac0a2 4027
8d6275c0 4028NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
4029TYPE: int
4030LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
4031DEFAULT: 1
4032IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4033DOC_START
699acd19 4034 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 4035 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4036
8d6275c0 4037 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4038 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4039
8d6275c0 4040 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4041 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 4042DOC_END
4043
8d6275c0 4044NAME: wccp2_return_method
4045TYPE: int
4046LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
4047DEFAULT: 1
4048IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4049DOC_START
699acd19 4050 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 4051 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4052 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4053
8d6275c0 4054 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4055 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4056
8d6275c0 4057 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4058 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 4059
699acd19 4060 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 4061 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4062 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4063 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 4064DOC_END
4065
8d6275c0 4066NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
4067TYPE: int
4068LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
4069DEFAULT: 1
4070IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4071DOC_START
8d6275c0 4072 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4073 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4074
8d6275c0 4075 1 - Hash assignment
4076 2 - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 4077
8d6275c0 4078 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4079 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4080DOC_END
cccac0a2 4081
8d6275c0 4082NAME: wccp2_service
4083TYPE: wccp2_service
4084LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4085DEFAULT: none
4086DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4087IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4088DOC_START
4089 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4090 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4091 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4092 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4093 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4094 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4095
4096 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4097 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4098
4099 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4100 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4101
4102 Examples:
4103
4104 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4105 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4106 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4107 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
4108
4109DOC_END
4110
4111NAME: wccp2_service_info
4112TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4113LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4114DEFAULT: none
4115IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4116DOC_START
4117 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4118 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4119
4120 The format is:
4121
4122 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4123 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4124
4125 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4126 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 4127 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 4128 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4129 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4130 + ports_source
4131
4132 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4133
4134 Example:
4135
4136 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4137 priority=240 ports=80
4138
4139 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4140 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4141DOC_END
4142
4143NAME: wccp2_weight
4144TYPE: int
4145LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4146DEFAULT: 10000
4147IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4148DOC_START
4149 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4150 hash proportional to their weight.
4151DOC_END
4152
4153NAME: wccp_address
4154TYPE: address
4155LOC: Config.Wccp.address
4156DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4157IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4158DOC_NONE
4159NAME: wccp2_address
4160TYPE: address
4161LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4162DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4163IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4164DOC_START
4165 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4166 interface address.
4167
4168 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4169DOC_END
4170
4171COMMENT_START
4172 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
4173 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4174
4175 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
4176COMMENT_END
4177
4178NAME: client_persistent_connections
4179TYPE: onoff
4180LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4181DEFAULT: on
4182DOC_NONE
4183
4184NAME: server_persistent_connections
4185TYPE: onoff
4186LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4187DEFAULT: on
4188DOC_START
4189 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4190 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4191 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4192 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4193DOC_END
4194
4195NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
4196TYPE: onoff
4197LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4198DEFAULT: off
4199DOC_START
4200 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4201 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4202 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
4203DOC_END
4204
4205NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4206TYPE: onoff
4207LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4208DEFAULT: off
4209DOC_START
4210 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4211 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4212 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4213 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4214
4215 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4216 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4217 after 10 seconds timeout.
4218DOC_END
4219
4220COMMENT_START
4221 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
4222 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4223COMMENT_END
4224
4225NAME: digest_generation
4226IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4227TYPE: onoff
4228LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4229DEFAULT: on
4230DOC_START
4231 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4232 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 4233 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 4234DOC_END
4235
4236NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4237IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4238TYPE: int
4239LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4240DEFAULT: 5
4241DOC_START
4242 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4243 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4244 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4245DOC_END
4246
4247NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4248IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4249COMMENT: (seconds)
4250TYPE: time_t
4251LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4252DEFAULT: 1 hour
4253DOC_START
749ceff8 4254 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 4255DOC_END
4256
4257NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4258COMMENT: (seconds)
4259IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4260TYPE: time_t
4261LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4262DEFAULT: 1 hour
4263DOC_START
749ceff8 4264 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 4265 disk.
4266DOC_END
4267
4268NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4269COMMENT: (bytes)
4270TYPE: b_size_t
4271IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4272LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4273DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4274DOC_START
4275 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4276 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4277 default swap page.
4278DOC_END
4279
4280NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4281COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4282IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4283TYPE: int
4284LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4285DEFAULT: 10
4286DOC_START
4287 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4288 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4289DOC_END
4290
1db9eacd 4291COMMENT_START
5473c134 4292 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 4293 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4294COMMENT_END
4295
5473c134 4296NAME: snmp_port
4297TYPE: ushort
4298LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 4299DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4300IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4301DOC_START
87630341 4302 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
4303 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
4304 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
4305 set to "0" (disabled)
4306NOCOMMENT_START
4307#snmp_port 3401
4308NOCOMMENT_END
8d6275c0 4309DOC_END
4310
5473c134 4311NAME: snmp_access
4312TYPE: acl_access
4313LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 4314DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4315DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4316IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4317DOC_START
5473c134 4318 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 4319
5473c134 4320 All access to the agent is denied by default.
4321 usage:
8d6275c0 4322
5473c134 4323 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 4324
5473c134 4325Example:
4326 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
4327 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 4328DOC_END
4329
5473c134 4330NAME: snmp_incoming_address
4331TYPE: address
4332LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4333DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4334IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4335DOC_NONE
4336NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4337TYPE: address
4338LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4339DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4340IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 4341DOC_START
5473c134 4342 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 4343
5473c134 4344 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4345 messages from SNMP agents.
4346 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4347 agents.
cccac0a2 4348
5473c134 4349 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4350 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 4351
5473c134 4352 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
4353 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
4354 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4355 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 4356
5473c134 4357 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4358 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 4359DOC_END
4360
5473c134 4361COMMENT_START
4362 ICP OPTIONS
4363 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4364COMMENT_END
4365
4366NAME: icp_port udp_port
4367TYPE: ushort
4368DEFAULT: 0
4369LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 4370DOC_START
5473c134 4371 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
4372 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
4373 Default is disabled (0).
4374NOCOMMENT_START
4375icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
4376NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4377DOC_END
4378
5473c134 4379NAME: htcp_port
4380IFDEF: USE_HTCP
4381TYPE: ushort
87630341 4382DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4383LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 4384DOC_START
5473c134 4385 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 4386 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
4387 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
4388NOCOMMENT_START
4389#htcp_port 4827
4390NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4391DOC_END
4392
4393NAME: log_icp_queries
4394COMMENT: on|off
4395TYPE: onoff
4396DEFAULT: on
4397LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
4398DOC_START
4399 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
4400 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
4401 up or to simplify log analysis.
4402DOC_END
4403
5473c134 4404NAME: udp_incoming_address
4405TYPE: address
4406LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
4407DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
8524d4b2 4408DOC_START
4409 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
4410 caches.
4411
4412 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4413
4414 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
4415 a specific interface/address.
4416
4417 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4418 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4419
4420 see also; udp_outgoing_address
4421
4422 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
4423 have the same value since they both use the same port.
4424DOC_END
cccac0a2 4425
5473c134 4426NAME: udp_outgoing_address
4427TYPE: address
4428LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
4429DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
cccac0a2 4430DOC_START
8524d4b2 4431 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 4432 caches.
cccac0a2 4433
5473c134 4434 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4435
8524d4b2 4436 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
4437 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
4438 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 4439 caches.
4440
8524d4b2 4441 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4442 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4443
4444 see also; udp_incoming_address
4445
5473c134 4446 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 4447 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 4448DOC_END
4449
3d1e3e43 4450NAME: icp_hit_stale
4451COMMENT: on|off
4452TYPE: onoff
4453DEFAULT: off
4454LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
4455DOC_START
4456 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
4457 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
4458 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
4459 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
4460 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
4461 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
4462 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
4463DOC_END
4464
5473c134 4465NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 4466TYPE: int
5473c134 4467DEFAULT: 4
4468LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 4469DOC_START
5473c134 4470 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4471 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 4472DOC_END
4473
5473c134 4474NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
4475TYPE: int
4476DEFAULT: 400
4477LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 4478DOC_START
5473c134 4479 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4480 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 4481DOC_END
4482
cccac0a2 4483NAME: netdb_low
4484TYPE: int
4485DEFAULT: 900
4486LOC: Config.Netdb.low
4487DOC_NONE
4488
4489NAME: netdb_high
4490TYPE: int
4491DEFAULT: 1000
4492LOC: Config.Netdb.high
4493DOC_START
4494 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
4495 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
4496 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
4497 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
4498DOC_END
4499
cccac0a2 4500NAME: netdb_ping_period
4501TYPE: time_t
4502LOC: Config.Netdb.period
4503DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4504DOC_START
4505 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
4506 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
4507 network. The default is five minutes.
4508DOC_END
4509
cccac0a2 4510NAME: query_icmp
4511COMMENT: on|off
4512TYPE: onoff
4513DEFAULT: off
4514LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
4515DOC_START
4516 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
4517 replies, enable this option.
4518
4519 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 4520 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
4521 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 4522 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
4523 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
4524 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
4525 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
4526 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
4527DOC_END
4528
4529NAME: test_reachability
4530COMMENT: on|off
4531TYPE: onoff
4532DEFAULT: off
4533LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
4534DOC_START
4535 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
4536 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
4537 database, or has a zero RTT.
4538DOC_END
4539
5473c134 4540NAME: icp_query_timeout
4541COMMENT: (msec)
4542DEFAULT: 0
4543TYPE: int
4544LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 4545DOC_START
5473c134 4546 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
4547 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
4548 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
4549 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
4550 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
4551 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 4552
5473c134 4553 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 4554DOC_END
4555
5473c134 4556NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
4557COMMENT: (msec)
4558DEFAULT: 2000
4559TYPE: int
4560LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 4561DOC_START
5473c134 4562 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4563 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
4564 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
4565 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4566 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4567 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4568DOC_END
4569
5473c134 4570NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
4571COMMENT: (msec)
4572DEFAULT: 5
4573TYPE: int
4574LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 4575DOC_START
5473c134 4576 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4577 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
4578 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
4579 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
4580 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4581 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4582 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4583DOC_END
4584
5473c134 4585NAME: background_ping_rate
4586COMMENT: time-units
4587TYPE: time_t
4588DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4589LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 4590DOC_START
5473c134 4591 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
4592 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 4593DOC_END
4594
5473c134 4595COMMENT_START
4596 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
4597 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4598COMMENT_END
4599
4600NAME: mcast_groups
4601TYPE: wordlist
4602LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 4603DEFAULT: none
4604DOC_START
5473c134 4605 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
4606 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 4607
5473c134 4608 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
4609 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
4610 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
4611 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
4612 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
4613 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
4614 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 4615
5473c134 4616 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
4617 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 4618
5473c134 4619 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
4620 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 4621
5473c134 4622 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 4623
5473c134 4624 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
4625DOC_END
8c01ada0 4626
5473c134 4627NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4628IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4629TYPE: address
4630LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4631DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4632DOC_START
4633 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4634 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 4635
5473c134 4636 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4637 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 4638DOC_END
4639
5473c134 4640NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
4641IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4642TYPE: ushort
4643LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4644DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 4645DOC_START
5473c134 4646 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4647 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4648 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4649DOC_END
cccac0a2 4650
5473c134 4651NAME: mcast_miss_port
4652IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4653TYPE: ushort
4654LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4655DEFAULT: 3135
4656DOC_START
4657 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4658 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4659DOC_END
cccac0a2 4660
5473c134 4661NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4662IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4663TYPE: string
4664LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4665DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4666DOC_START
4667 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4668 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4669DOC_END
8c01ada0 4670
5473c134 4671NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
4672COMMENT: (msec)
4673DEFAULT: 2000
4674TYPE: int
4675LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
4676DOC_START
4677 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
4678 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
4679 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
4680 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
4681 seconds.
cccac0a2 4682DOC_END
4683
5473c134 4684COMMENT_START
4685 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
4686 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4687COMMENT_END
4688
cccac0a2 4689NAME: icon_directory
4690TYPE: string
4691LOC: Config.icons.directory
4692DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4693DOC_START
4694 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
4695 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4696DOC_END
4697
f024c970 4698NAME: global_internal_static
4699TYPE: onoff
4700LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
4701DEFAULT: on
4702DOC_START
4703 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
4704 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
4705 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
4706 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
4707 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
4708 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
4709 the server generating a directory listing.
4710DOC_END
4711
5473c134 4712NAME: short_icon_urls
4713TYPE: onoff
4714LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
4715DEFAULT: on
4716DOC_START
4717 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
4718 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
4719 it's own name and port in the URL.
4720
4721 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
4722 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
4723DOC_END
4724
4725COMMENT_START
4726 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
4727 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4728COMMENT_END
4729
4730NAME: error_directory
4731TYPE: string
4732LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 4733DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4734DOC_START
4735 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
43000484
AJ
4736 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
4737 the error/template files to another directory and point
4738 this tag at them.
4739
4740 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
4741 on error pages if used.
5473c134 4742
4743 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4744 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 4745 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 4746 contributing your translation back to the project.
43000484
AJ
4747 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
4748
4749 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
4750 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
4751DOC_END
4752
4753NAME: error_default_language
4754IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
4755TYPE: string
4756LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
4757DEFAULT: none
4758DOC_START
4759 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
4760 if no existing translation matches the clients language
4761 preferences.
4762
4763 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
4764
4765 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4766 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
4767 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
4768 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 4769DOC_END
4770
4771NAME: err_html_text
4772TYPE: eol
4773LOC: Config.errHtmlText
4774DEFAULT: none
4775DOC_START
4776 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
4777 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
4778 organizations Web page.
4779
4780 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
4781 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
4782 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
4783 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
4784DOC_END
4785
4786NAME: email_err_data
4787COMMENT: on|off
4788TYPE: onoff
4789LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
4790DEFAULT: on
4791DOC_START
4792 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
4793 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
4794 so that the email body contains the data.
4795 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
4796DOC_END
4797
4798NAME: deny_info
4799TYPE: denyinfo
4800LOC: Config.denyInfoList
4801DEFAULT: none
4802DOC_START
4803 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
4804 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 4805 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 4806
4807 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
4808 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
4809 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
4810 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
4811
4812 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
4813 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
4814 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
4815 the first authentication related acl encountered
4816 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
4817 acl processed on the last http_access line.
4818
43000484
AJ
4819 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
4820 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
4821 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 4822
4823 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
4824 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
4825 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
4826
4827 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
4828 by specifying TCP_RESET.
4829DOC_END
4830
4831COMMENT_START
4832 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
4833 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4834COMMENT_END
4835
4836NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4837TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4838LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4839DEFAULT: on
4840DOC_START
5473c134 4841 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4842 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
4843 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 4844
5473c134 4845 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
4846 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 4847
5473c134 4848 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4849 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4850 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 4851
5473c134 4852 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
4853 this directive.
8d6275c0 4854DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 4855
5473c134 4856NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4857TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4858LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4859DEFAULT: off
4860DOC_START
5473c134 4861 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
4862 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
4863 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 4864
5473c134 4865 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4866 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4867 fails.
4868
4869 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4870 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
4871 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 4872DOC_END
4873
5473c134 4874NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 4875TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 4876LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 4877DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 4878DOC_START
5473c134 4879 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 4880
5473c134 4881 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
4882 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
4883 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
4884 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
4885 something like:
0b0cfcf2 4886
5473c134 4887 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
4888 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 4889
5473c134 4890 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 4891
5473c134 4892 acl FTP proto FTP
4893 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 4894
5473c134 4895 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
4896 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
4897 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
4898 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
4899 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 4900
5473c134 4901 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4902 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4903 always_direct deny local-external
4904 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 4905
5473c134 4906 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
4907 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
4908 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
4909 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 4910
5473c134 4911 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
4912 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
4913 the replies see no_cache.
4914
4915 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
4916 and local_ip.
cccac0a2 4917DOC_END
0976f8db 4918
5473c134 4919NAME: never_direct
4920TYPE: acl_access
4921LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
4922DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4923DOC_START
5473c134 4924 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4925
4926 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
4927 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
4928
4929 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
4930 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
4931 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
4932 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
4933
4934 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 4935 never_direct deny local-servers
4936 never_direct allow all
4937
4938 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
4939 servers inside the firewall use something like:
4940
4941 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
4942 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4943 always_direct deny local-external
4944 always_direct allow local-intranet
4945 never_direct allow all
4946
4947 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
4948 and firewall_ip.
8d6275c0 4949DOC_END
0976f8db 4950
5473c134 4951COMMENT_START
4952 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
4953 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4954COMMENT_END
4955
cccac0a2 4956NAME: incoming_icp_average
4957TYPE: int
4958DEFAULT: 6
4959LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4960DOC_NONE
4961
4962NAME: incoming_http_average
4963TYPE: int
4964DEFAULT: 4
4965LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
4966DOC_NONE
4967
4968NAME: incoming_dns_average
4969TYPE: int
4970DEFAULT: 4
4971LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
4972DOC_NONE
4973
4974NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
4975TYPE: int
4976DEFAULT: 8
4977LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
4978DOC_NONE
4979
4980NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
4981TYPE: int
4982DEFAULT: 8
4983LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
4984DOC_NONE
4985
4986NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
4987TYPE: int
4988DEFAULT: 8
4989LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
4990DOC_START
5473c134 4991 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
4992 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
4993 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
4994DOC_END
4995
4996NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 4997TYPE: string
4998DEFAULT: none
4999LOC: Config.accept_filter
5000DOC_START
0b4d4be5 5001 FreeBSD:
5002
5473c134 5003 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
5004 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
5005 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
5006
5007 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 5008 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 5009 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
5010
5011 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
5012 to Squid until there is some data to process.
5013 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
5014
5015 Linux:
5016
5017 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
5018 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
5019 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
5020 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
5021 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 5022EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 5023# FreeBSD
5473c134 5024accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 5025# Linux
5026accept_filter data
5473c134 5027DOC_END
5028
5029NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
5030COMMENT: (bytes)
5031TYPE: b_size_t
5032DEFAULT: 0 bytes
5033LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
5034DOC_START
5035 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
5036 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
5037 the default buffer size.
5038DOC_END
5039
5040COMMENT_START
5041 ICAP OPTIONS
5042 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5043COMMENT_END
5044
5045NAME: icap_enable
5046TYPE: onoff
5047IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5048COMMENT: on|off
5049LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
5050DEFAULT: off
5051DOC_START
53e738c6 5052 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 5053DOC_END
5054
5055NAME: icap_connect_timeout
5056TYPE: time_t
5057DEFAULT: none
5058LOC: TheICAPConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5059IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5060DOC_START
5061 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5062 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
5063 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
5064
5065 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
5066 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
5067 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
5068DOC_END
5069
5070NAME: icap_io_timeout
5071COMMENT: time-units
5072TYPE: time_t
5073DEFAULT: none
5074LOC: TheICAPConfig.io_timeout_raw
5075IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5076DOC_START
5077 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
5078 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
5079 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
5080 failure.
5081
5082 The default is read_timeout.
5083DOC_END
5084
5085NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
5086TYPE: int
5087IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5088LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_failure_limit
5089DEFAULT: 10
5090DOC_START
5091 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
5092 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
5093 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
5094 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
5095 OPTIONS. The per-service failure counter is reset to zero each
5096 time Squid fetches new service OPTIONS.
5097
5098 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
5099 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
5100 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5101DOC_END
5102
5473c134 5103NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 5104TYPE: int
5473c134 5105IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5106LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_revival_delay
5107DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 5108DOC_START
5473c134 5109 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
5110 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
5111 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
5112 fetched.
cccac0a2 5113
5473c134 5114 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
5115 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 5116DOC_END
5117
5473c134 5118NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 5119TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5120IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5121COMMENT: on|off
5122LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 5123DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5124DOC_START
ac7a62f9 5125 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
5126 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
5127 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
5128 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
5129
5130 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
5131 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
5132 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
5133
5134 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
5135 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
5136Example:
5137icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 5138DOC_END
5139
5473c134 5140NAME: icap_preview_size
5141TYPE: int
5142IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5143LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
5144DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 5145DOC_START
53e738c6 5146 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
5147 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
5148 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5149DOC_END
5150
5473c134 5151NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
5152TYPE: int
5153IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5154LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
5155DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 5156DOC_START
53e738c6 5157 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 5158 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 5159DOC_END
5160
5473c134 5161NAME: icap_persistent_connections
5162TYPE: onoff
5163IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5164COMMENT: on|off
5165LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
5166DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5167DOC_START
5473c134 5168 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
5169 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 5170DOC_END
5171
5473c134 5172NAME: icap_send_client_ip
5173TYPE: onoff
5174IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5175COMMENT: on|off
5176LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
5177DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5178DOC_START
53e738c6 5179 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 5180DOC_END
5181
5473c134 5182NAME: icap_send_client_username
5183TYPE: onoff
5184IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5185COMMENT: on|off
5186LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
5187DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5188DOC_START
5473c134 5189 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
5190 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
5191 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
5192 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 5193DOC_END
5194
5473c134 5195NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 5196TYPE: string
5473c134 5197IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5198LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_header
5199DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 5200DOC_START
5473c134 5201 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 5202DOC_END
5203
5473c134 5204NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 5205TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5206IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5207COMMENT: on|off
5208LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_encode
5209DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5210DOC_START
5473c134 5211 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 5212DOC_END
5213
5473c134 5214NAME: icap_service
5215TYPE: icap_service_type
5216IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5217LOC: TheICAPConfig
5218DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5219DOC_START
53e738c6 5220 Defines a single ICAP service
cccac0a2 5221
53e738c6 5222 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
7d90757b 5223
53e738c6 5224 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 5225 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
5226 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
5227 are not yet supported.
53e738c6 5228 bypass = 1|0
f3db09e2 5229 If set to 1, the ICAP service is treated as optional. If the
5230 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
5231 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
5232 was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be bypassed.
5233 If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as essential and all
5234 ICAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
5235 HTTP client.
53e738c6 5236 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5473c134 5237
5473c134 5238Example:
5239icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
5240icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 5241DOC_END
5242
5473c134 5243NAME: icap_class
5244TYPE: icap_class_type
5245IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5246LOC: TheICAPConfig
5247DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5248DOC_START
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5249 This depricated option was documented to define an ICAP service
5250 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
5251 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 5252
62c7f90e
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5253 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
5254 adaptation_service_set directive.
5473c134 5255
62c7f90e
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5256 If you need adaptation service chains, patches or sponsorship
5257 is welcome.
cccac0a2 5258DOC_END
5259
5473c134 5260NAME: icap_access
5261TYPE: icap_access_type
5262IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5263LOC: TheICAPConfig
cccac0a2 5264DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5265DOC_START
62c7f90e
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5266 This option is depricated. Please use adaptation_access, which
5267 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
5268 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 5269DOC_END
5270
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5271COMMENT_START
5272 eCAP OPTIONS
5273 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5274COMMENT_END
5275
5276NAME: loadable_modules
5277TYPE: wordlist
5278IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
5279LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
5280DEFAULT: none
5281DOC_START
5282 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
5283 preloaded module(s).
5284Example:
5285loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
5286DOC_END
5287
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5288COMMENT_START
5289 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
5290 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5291COMMENT_END
5292
5293NAME: adaptation_service_set
5294TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
5295IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5296LOC: none
5297DEFAULT: none
5298DOC_START
5299
5300 Defines a named adaptation service set. The set is populated in
5301 the order of adaptation_service_set directives in this file.
5302 When adaptation ACLs are processed, the first and only the first
5303 applicable adaptation service from the set will be used. Thus,
5304 the set should group similar, redundant services, rather than a
5305 chain of complementary services.
5306
5307 If you have a single adaptation service, you do not need to
5308 define a set containing it because adaptation_access accepts
5309 service names.
5310
5311 See also: adaptation_access
5312
5313Example:
5314adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
5315adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
5316DOC_END
5317
5318NAME: adaptation_access
5319TYPE: adaptation_access_type
5320IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5321LOC: none
5322DEFAULT: none
5323DOC_START
5324 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
5325
5326 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5327 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5328
5329 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
5330 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
5331 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
5332 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
5333
5334 - services serving different vectoring points
5335 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
5336 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
5337 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
5338
5339 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
5340 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
5341 adaptation_service_set for details.
5342
5343 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
5344 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
5345 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
5346 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
5347
5348 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
5349 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
5350
5351 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
5352
5353Example:
5354adaptation_access service_1 allow all
5355DOC_END
5356
5473c134 5357COMMENT_START
5358 DNS OPTIONS
5359 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5360COMMENT_END
5361
5362NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 5363TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5364DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5365LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 5366DOC_START
5473c134 5367 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
5368 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
5369 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 5370DOC_END
5371
5473c134 5372NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 5373TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5374DEFAULT: on
5473c134 5375LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 5376DOC_START
5473c134 5377 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
5378 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
5379 Squid to be strict about the standard.
5380 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 5381DOC_END
5382
5473c134 5383NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 5384TYPE: string
5473c134 5385IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
5386DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
5387LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 5388DOC_START
5473c134 5389 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 5390DOC_END
5391
5473c134 5392NAME: dns_children
5393TYPE: int
5394IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
5395DEFAULT: 5
5396LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 5397DOC_START
5473c134 5398 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
5399 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
5400 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
5401 is 32. The default is 5.
58850d15 5402
5473c134 5403 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
58850d15 5404DOC_END
5405
5473c134 5406NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
5407TYPE: time_t
5408DEFAULT: 5 seconds
5409LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
5410IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5411DOC_START
5473c134 5412 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
5413 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 5414
cccac0a2 5415DOC_END
5416
5473c134 5417NAME: dns_timeout
5418TYPE: time_t
5419DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5420LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
5421IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5422DOC_START
5473c134 5423 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
5424 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
5425 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 5426DOC_END
5427
5473c134 5428NAME: dns_defnames
5429COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 5430TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5431DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5432LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 5433DOC_START
5473c134 5434 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
5435 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
5436 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
5437 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 5438DOC_END
5439
5473c134 5440NAME: dns_nameservers
5441TYPE: wordlist
5442DEFAULT: none
5443LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 5444DOC_START
5473c134 5445 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
5446 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
5447 /etc/resolv.conf file.
5448 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
5449 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
5450 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
5451 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 5452
5473c134 5453 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 5454DOC_END
5455
5473c134 5456NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 5457TYPE: string
5473c134 5458DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
5459LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 5460DOC_START
5473c134 5461 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
5462 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
5463 default locations:
5464 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
5465 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5466 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
5467 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5468 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
5469 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
5470 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
5471 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 5472
5473c134 5473 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
5474 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
5475 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
5476 character are comments.
cccac0a2 5477
5473c134 5478 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
5479 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
5480 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
5481 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
5482 definitions.
cccac0a2 5483DOC_END
5484
5473c134 5485NAME: append_domain
5486TYPE: string
5487LOC: Config.appendDomain
5488DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 5489DOC_START
5473c134 5490 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
5491 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
5492
5493 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
5494 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
5495 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
5496
5497Example:
5498 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 5499DOC_END
5500
5473c134 5501NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
5502TYPE: onoff
5503LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 5504DEFAULT: on
5505DOC_START
5473c134 5506 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
5507 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
5508 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
5509 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
5510 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 5511DOC_END
5512
cc192b50 5513NAME: dns_v4_fallback
5514TYPE: onoff
5515DEFAULT: on
5516LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
5517DOC_START
5518 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
5519 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
5520 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
5521
5522 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
5523 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
5524
5525 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
5526 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
5527
5528 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
5529 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
5530 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
5531DOC_END
5532
6bc15a4f 5533NAME: ipcache_size
5534COMMENT: (number of entries)
5535TYPE: int
5536DEFAULT: 1024
5537LOC: Config.ipcache.size
5538DOC_NONE
5539
5540NAME: ipcache_low
5541COMMENT: (percent)
5542TYPE: int
5543DEFAULT: 90
5544LOC: Config.ipcache.low
5545DOC_NONE
5546
5547NAME: ipcache_high
5548COMMENT: (percent)
5549TYPE: int
5550DEFAULT: 95
5551LOC: Config.ipcache.high
5552DOC_START
5553 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
5554DOC_END
5555
5556NAME: fqdncache_size
5557COMMENT: (number of entries)
5558TYPE: int
5559DEFAULT: 1024
5560LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
5561DOC_START
5562 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
5563DOC_END
5564
a58ff010 5565COMMENT_START
5473c134 5566 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 5567 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5568COMMENT_END
5569
5473c134 5570NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 5571COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5572TYPE: onoff
5573DEFAULT: on
5574LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 5575DOC_START
5473c134 5576 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
5577 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
5578 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
5579 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 5580DOC_END
5581
5473c134 5582NAME: memory_pools_limit
5583COMMENT: (bytes)
5584TYPE: b_size_t
5585DEFAULT: 5 MB
5586LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 5587DOC_START
5473c134 5588 Used only with memory_pools on:
5589 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 5590
5473c134 5591 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
5592 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
5593 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
5594 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
5595 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
5596 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
5597 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 5598
5473c134 5599 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5600 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 5601
5473c134 5602 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
5603 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5604
5605 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
5606 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
5607 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
5608 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 5609DOC_END
5610
5473c134 5611NAME: forwarded_for
67c06f0d
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5612COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
5613TYPE: string
5473c134 5614DEFAULT: on
5615LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 5616DOC_START
67c06f0d
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5617 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
5618 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 5619
5473c134 5620 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
5621
67c06f0d 5622 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 5623
5624 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
67c06f0d
AJ
5625
5626 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
5627 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
5628
5629 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
5630 X-Forwarded-For header.
5631
5632 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
5633 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place itself as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 5634DOC_END
5635
5473c134 5636NAME: cachemgr_passwd
5637TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
5638DEFAULT: none
5639LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 5640DOC_START
5473c134 5641 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 5642
5473c134 5643 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
5644
5645 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
5646 5min
5647 60min
5648 asndb
5649 authenticator
5650 cbdata
5651 client_list
5652 comm_incoming
5653 config *
5654 counters
5655 delay
5656 digest_stats
5657 dns
5658 events
5659 filedescriptors
5660 fqdncache
5661 histograms
5662 http_headers
5663 info
5664 io
5665 ipcache
5666 mem
5667 menu
5668 netdb
5669 non_peers
5670 objects
5671 offline_toggle *
5672 pconn
5673 peer_select
b360c477 5674 reconfigure *
5473c134 5675 redirector
5676 refresh
5677 server_list
5678 shutdown *
5679 store_digest
5680 storedir
5681 utilization
5682 via_headers
5683 vm_objects
5684
5685 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
5686 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
5687
5688 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
5689 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
5690 password to "none".
5691
5692 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
5693
5694Example:
5695 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
5696 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
5697 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 5698DOC_END
5699
5473c134 5700NAME: client_db
a58ff010 5701COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5702TYPE: onoff
5703DEFAULT: on
5704LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 5705DOC_START
5473c134 5706 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
5707 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 5708DOC_END
5709
5473c134 5710NAME: refresh_all_ims
5711COMMENT: on|off
5712TYPE: onoff
5713DEFAULT: off
5714LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 5715DOC_START
5473c134 5716 When you enable this option, squid will always check
5717 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
5718 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
5719 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
5720 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 5721
5473c134 5722 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
5723 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 5724DOC_END
5725
5473c134 5726NAME: reload_into_ims
5727IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 5728COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5729TYPE: onoff
5730DEFAULT: off
5731LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 5732DOC_START
5473c134 5733 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
5734 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
5735 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
5736 feature could make you liable for problems which it
5737 causes.
5738
5739 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 5740DOC_END
5741
5473c134 5742NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
5743TYPE: int
5744LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
5745DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 5746DOC_START
5473c134 5747 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
5748 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
5749 each address is tried once).
5750
5751 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
5752 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
5753 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
5754
5755 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
5756 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 5757DOC_END
5758
5473c134 5759NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 5760TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5761LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 5762DEFAULT: off
5763DOC_START
5473c134 5764 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
5765 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
5766 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
5767 control errors.
5f8252d2 5768DOC_END
5769
5473c134 5770NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 5771TYPE: string
5473c134 5772LOC: Config.as_whois_server
5773DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5774DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 5775DOC_START
5473c134 5776 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
5777 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 5778DOC_END
5779
5473c134 5780NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 5781TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5782LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 5783DEFAULT: off
5784DOC_START
5473c134 5785 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
5786 objects.
a58ff010 5787DOC_END
5788
5473c134 5789NAME: uri_whitespace
5790TYPE: uri_whitespace
5791LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
5792DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 5793DOC_START
5473c134 5794 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
5795 URI. Options:
a58ff010 5796
5473c134 5797 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
5798 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
5799 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
5800 Request" message.
5801 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
5802 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
5803 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
5804 are in use.
5805 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
5806 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
5807 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
5808 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
5809 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
5810 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
5811 violation.
5812DOC_END
a58ff010 5813
5473c134 5814NAME: coredump_dir
5815TYPE: string
5816LOC: Config.coredump_dir
5817DEFAULT: none
5818DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
5819DOC_START
5820 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5821 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5822 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5823 and coredump files will be left there.
a58ff010 5824
5473c134 5825NOCOMMENT_START
5826# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5827coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
5828NOCOMMENT_END
5829DOC_END
a58ff010 5830
5473c134 5831NAME: chroot
5832TYPE: string
5833LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 5834DEFAULT: none
5835DOC_START
5473c134 5836 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
5837 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
5838 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
5839 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will may get an
5840 error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5841DOC_END
a58ff010 5842
5473c134 5843NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
5844TYPE: onoff
5845LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 5846DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5847DOC_START
cc192b50 5848 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
5849 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
5850 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
5851
5473c134 5852 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
5853 found not to preserve user session state across requests
5854 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 5855
cc192b50 5856 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 5857DOC_END
5858
5473c134 5859NAME: pipeline_prefetch
5860TYPE: onoff
5861LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
5862DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 5863DOC_START
5473c134 5864 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
5865 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5866 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 5867
5473c134 5868 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
5869 reasons.
5870DOC_END
a58ff010 5871
5473c134 5872NAME: high_response_time_warning
5873TYPE: int
5874COMMENT: (msec)
5875LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
5876DEFAULT: 0
5877DOC_START
5878 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
5879 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
5880 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 5881DOC_END
5882
5473c134 5883NAME: high_page_fault_warning
5884TYPE: int
5885LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
5886DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 5887DOC_START
5473c134 5888 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
5889 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5890 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
5891 per second.
5892DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5893
5473c134 5894NAME: high_memory_warning
5895TYPE: b_size_t
5896LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 5897DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 5898DOC_START
5899 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 5900 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 5901 the administrators attention.
5902DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5903
5473c134 5904NAME: sleep_after_fork
5905COMMENT: (microseconds)
5906TYPE: int
5907LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
5908DEFAULT: 0
5909DOC_START
5910 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
5911 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
5912 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
5913 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
5914 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
5915 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
5916 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
5917 until all the child processes have been started.
5918 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
5919 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 5920DOC_END
5921
b6696974
GS
5922NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
5923COMMENT: on|off
5924TYPE: onoff
5925DEFAULT: on
5926LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
5927DOC_START
5928 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
5929 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
5930 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
5931 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
5932 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
5933 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
5934DOC_END
5935
cccac0a2 5936EOF