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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 105COMMENT_END
106
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107# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
108NAME: broken_vary_encoding
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
112DOC_END
113
114NAME: cache_vary
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
118DOC_END
119
120NAME: collapsed_forwarding
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3. see http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3495
124DOC_END
125
126NAME: error_map
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
130DOC_END
131
132NAME: external_refresh_check
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_START
135 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
136DOC_END
137
138NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
139TYPE: obsolete
140DOC_START
141 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
142DOC_END
143
144NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
145TYPE: obsolete
146DOC_START
147 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
148DOC_END
149
150NAME: refresh_stale_hit
151TYPE: obsolete
152DOC_START
153 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
154DOC_END
155
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156# no Options Removed in 3.3
157
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158# Options Removed in 3.2
159NAME: ignore_expect_100
160TYPE: obsolete
161DOC_START
162 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
163DOC_END
164
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165NAME: dns_v4_fallback
166TYPE: obsolete
167DOC_START
4ded749e 168 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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169DOC_END
170
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171NAME: ftp_list_width
172TYPE: obsolete
173DOC_START
174 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
175DOC_END
176
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177NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
178TYPE: obsolete
179DOC_START
180 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
181DOC_END
182
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183NAME: update_headers
184TYPE: obsolete
185DOC_START
186 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
187DOC_END
188
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189NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
190TYPE: obsolete
191DOC_START
192 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
193DOC_END
194
195# Options Removed in 3.1
196NAME: dns_testnames
197TYPE: obsolete
198DOC_START
199 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
200DOC_END
201
202NAME: extension_methods
203TYPE: obsolete
204DOC_START
205 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
206DOC_END
207
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208# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
209NAME: zero_buffers
210TYPE: obsolete
211DOC_NONE
212
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213# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
214NAME: incoming_rate
215TYPE: obsolete
216DOC_NONE
217
218NAME: server_http11
219TYPE: obsolete
220DOC_START
221 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
222DOC_END
223
224NAME: upgrade_http0.9
225TYPE: obsolete
226DOC_START
227 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
228DOC_END
229
230NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
231TYPE: obsolete
232DOC_START
233 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
234DOC_END
235
236# Options Removed in 3.0
237NAME: header_access
238TYPE: obsolete
239DOC_START
240 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
241 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
242DOC_END
243
244NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
245TYPE: obsolete
246DOC_START
247 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
248DOC_END
249
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250NAME: wais_relay_host
251TYPE: obsolete
252DOC_START
253 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
254DOC_END
255
256NAME: wais_relay_port
257TYPE: obsolete
258DOC_START
259 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
260DOC_END
261
5473c134 262COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 263 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 264 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
265COMMENT_END
266
41bd17a4 267NAME: auth_param
268TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 269IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 270LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 271DEFAULT: none
272DOC_START
41bd17a4 273 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
274 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 275
41bd17a4 276 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 277
41bd17a4 278 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
279 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
280 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
281 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
282 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
283 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
284 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
285 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
286 program entry).
cccac0a2 287
41bd17a4 288 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
289 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
290 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
291 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 292
41bd17a4 293 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
294 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
295 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
296 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
297 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
298 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
299 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
300 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
301 type acl.
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41bd17a4 303 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
304 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
305 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
306 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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307 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
308 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 309
41bd17a4 310 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 311
41bd17a4 312 "program" cmdline
313 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
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314 reads a line containing "username password" and replies with one of
315 three results:
316
317 OK
318 the user exists.
319
320 ERR
321 the user does not exist.
322
323 BH
4ded749e 324 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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325 a result being identified.
326
327 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
328 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
329
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330 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
331 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 332
41bd17a4 333 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
334 program is specified.
cccac0a2 335
41bd17a4 336 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
337 this line to something like
307b83b7 338
f6c0fef2 339 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/basic_ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 340
d2a89ac1 341 "utf8" on|off
4ded749e 342 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
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343 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
344 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
345 username & password to the helper.
346
7353861b 347 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 348 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 349 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
350 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
351 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
352 authenticator processes.
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353
354 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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355 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
356 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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357 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
358 the maximum.
359
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360 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
361 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
362 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
363 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
364 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
4ded749e 365 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
41bd17a4 366 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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367
368 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 369
41bd17a4 370 "realm" realmstring
371 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
372 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
373 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
374 password). There is no default.
375 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 376
41bd17a4 377 "credentialsttl" timetolive
378 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
379 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
380 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
381 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
382 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
383 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
384 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
385 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
386 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 387
41bd17a4 388 "casesensitive" on|off
389 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
390 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
391 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
392 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
393 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 394
41bd17a4 395 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 396
41bd17a4 397 "program" cmdline
398 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
399 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
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400 replies with one of three results:
401
402 OK ha1="..."
403 the user exists. The ha1= key is mandatory and
404 contains the appropriate H(A1) value, hex encoded.
405 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
406
407 ERR
408 the user does not exist.
409
410 BH
4ded749e 411 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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412 a result being identified.
413
414 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
415 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 416
41bd17a4 417 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
418 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 419
41bd17a4 420 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
421 something like
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7ce93108 423 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 424
d2a89ac1 425 "utf8" on|off
4ded749e 426 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
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427 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
428 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
429 username & password to the helper.
430
7353861b 431 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 432 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 433 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
434 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
435 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
436 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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437
438 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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439 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
440 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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441 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
442 the maximum.
443
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444 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
445 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
446 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
447 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
448 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
4ded749e 449 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
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450 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
451
48d54e4d 452 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 453
41bd17a4 454 "realm" realmstring
455 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
456 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
457 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
458 password). There is no default.
459 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 460
41bd17a4 461 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
462 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
463 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 464
41bd17a4 465 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
466 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
467 valid for.
cccac0a2 468
41bd17a4 469 "nonce_max_count" number
470 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
471 used.
cccac0a2 472
41bd17a4 473 "nonce_strictness" on|off
474 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
475 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
4ded749e 476 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
41bd17a4 477 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 478
41bd17a4 479 "check_nonce_count" on|off
480 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
481 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
482 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
483 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 484
41bd17a4 485 "post_workaround" on|off
486 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
487 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
488 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 489
41bd17a4 490 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 491
41bd17a4 492 "program" cmdline
493 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
494 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
495 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
496 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
5269ec0e 497 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator program
41bd17a4 498 is not used.
cccac0a2 499
e4752e21 500 auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 501
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502 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
503 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 504 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
505 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
506 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
507 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
508 processes.
cccac0a2 509
48d54e4d 510 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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511 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
512 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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513 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
514 the maximum.
515
516 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 517
41bd17a4 518 "keep_alive" on|off
519 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
520 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
521 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
522 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
523 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 524
41bd17a4 525 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 526
41bd17a4 527 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 528
41bd17a4 529 "program" cmdline
530 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
531 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
532 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
533 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
534 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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535 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
536 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
5269ec0e 537 authenticator program is not used.
41bd17a4 538 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
539 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 540
e4752e21 541 auth_param negotiate program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 542
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543 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
544 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 545 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
546 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
4ded749e 547 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
41bd17a4 548 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
549 processes.
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550
551 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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552 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
553 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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554 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
555 the maximum.
556
557 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
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41bd17a4 559 "keep_alive" on|off
560 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
561 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
562 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
563 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
564 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 565
41bd17a4 566 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 567
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569 Examples:
570
41bd17a4 571#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
572#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 573#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 574#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 575#
41bd17a4 576#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 577#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 578#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 579#
41bd17a4 580#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 581#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 582#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
583#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
584#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
585#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 586#
41bd17a4 587#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 588#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 589#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
590#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 591DOC_END
cccac0a2 592
41bd17a4 593NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
594TYPE: time_t
595DEFAULT: 1 hour
596LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
597DOC_START
598 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 599 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 600 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
601 have good reason to.
602DOC_END
cccac0a2 603
41bd17a4 604NAME: authenticate_ttl
605TYPE: time_t
606DEFAULT: 1 hour
607LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
608DOC_START
609 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
610 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
611 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
612 TTL are removed from memory.
613DOC_END
cccac0a2 614
41bd17a4 615NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
616TYPE: time_t
617LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
c35dd848 618DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 619DOC_START
620 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
621 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
622 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
623 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 624 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 625 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
626 environment with relatively static address assignments.
627DOC_END
cccac0a2 628
3d1e3e43 629COMMENT_START
630 ACCESS CONTROLS
631 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
632COMMENT_END
633
41bd17a4 634NAME: external_acl_type
635TYPE: externalAclHelper
636LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 637DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 638DOC_START
41bd17a4 639 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
640 to look up the status
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41bd17a4 642 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 643
41bd17a4 644 Options:
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41bd17a4 646 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
647 for 1 hour)
648 negative_ttl=n
649 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
650 as ttl)
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651 children-max=n
652 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
653 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
654 children-startup=n
655 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
656 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
657 of this type. (default 0)
658 children-idle=n
659 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
660 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
661 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
662 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 663 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
664 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 665 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 666 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
667 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 668 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 669 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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670 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
671 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
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41bd17a4 673 FORMAT specifications
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41bd17a4 675 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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676 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
677 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
678 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 679 %IDENT Ident user name
680 %SRC Client IP
681 %SRCPORT Client source port
682 %URI Requested URI
683 %DST Requested host
684 %PROTO Requested protocol
685 %PORT Requested port
686 %PATH Requested URL path
687 %METHOD Request method
688 %MYADDR Squid interface address
689 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
690 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
691 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
692 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
693 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
694 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 695
c68c9682 696 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 697 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 698 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 699 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 700 HTTP request header list member using ; as
701 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
702 character.
cccac0a2 703
c68c9682 704 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 705 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 706 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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707 %<{Hdr:;member}
708 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
709 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
710 character.
711
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712 %% The percent sign. Useful for helpers which need
713 an unchanging input format.
714
cccac0a2 715
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716 General request syntax:
717
718 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
719
720
721 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
722 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
723 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
724
725 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
726 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
727
728 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
729 each value in requests against whitespaces.
730
731 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
732 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
733
734 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
735
736 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
737 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
738 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
739 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
740 of the response relating to its request.
741
742
743 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
744 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
745 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
746
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41bd17a4 748 General result syntax:
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750 [channel-ID] result keyword=value ...
751
752 Result consists of one of the codes:
753
754 OK
755 the ACL test produced a match.
756
757 ERR
758 the ACL test does not produce a match.
759
760 BH
4ded749e 761 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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762 a result being identified.
763
764 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
765 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 767 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 769 user= The users name (login)
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41bd17a4 771 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
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05e52854 773 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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774 Available as %o in error pages.
775 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
776
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777 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
778 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 780 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 781 %ea in logformat specifications.
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05e52854 783 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
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785 All response keyword values need to be a single token with URL
786 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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787 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
788 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
789 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 790
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791 Some example key values:
792
5269ec0e 793 user=John%20Smith
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794 user="John Smith"
795 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
cccac0a2 796DOC_END
797
41bd17a4 798NAME: acl
799TYPE: acl
800LOC: Config.aclList
38450a50 801IF USE_SSL
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802DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
803DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
804DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
805DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
806DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
807ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 808DEFAULT: all src all
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809DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
810DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
811DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
812DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 813DOC_START
41bd17a4 814 Defining an Access List
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816 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
817 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
818 they are read from.
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820 acl aclname acltype argument ...
821 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 822
375eeb3b 823 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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826 The available options are:
827
828 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
829 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
830 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
831 without -i.
832
833 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
834 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
835 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
836 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
837 without any warnings or lookups.
838
839 -- Used to stop processing all options, in the case the first acl
840 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
841 is a valid domain name)
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844 to access some external data source.
845 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
846 don't are marked as [fast].
847 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
848 for further information
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850 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
851
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852 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
853 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 854 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 855 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 856
41bd17a4 857 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
858 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
859 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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860 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
861 # other *BSD variants.
862 # [fast]
41bd17a4 863 #
864 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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865 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
866 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
867
868 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
869 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 870 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 871 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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872 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
873 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 874 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 875 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 876 #
41bd17a4 877 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
878 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
879 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 880
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881 acl aclname src_as number ...
882 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 883 # [fast]
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884 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
885 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
886 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
887 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
888 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
889 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
890 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 891
6db78a1a 892 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 893 # [fast]
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894 # match against a named cache_peer entry
895 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
896
375eeb3b 897 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 898 # [fast]
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900 # S - Sunday
901 # M - Monday
902 # T - Tuesday
903 # W - Wednesday
904 # H - Thursday
905 # F - Friday
906 # A - Saturday
907 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
908
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909 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
910 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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911 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
912 # regex matching on URL login field
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913 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
914 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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916 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
917 # ranges are alloed
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918 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
919 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
920
b3567eb5 921 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
e988aa40 922
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923 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
924
925 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 926
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927 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
928 # status code in reply [fast]
e988aa40 929
375eeb3b 930 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 931 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 933 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 934 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 935 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 937 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 938 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 939 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 940 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
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41bd17a4 942 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
943 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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945 # supplied credentials [slow]
946 #
947 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 948 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
949 #
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951 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
952 #
41bd17a4 953 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
954 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
955 # in access.log.
956 #
957 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
958 # to check username/password combinations (see
959 # auth_param directive).
960 #
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962 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 963 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 964
41bd17a4 965 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 966 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 967 # Example:
968 #
969 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 971 acl aclname maxconn number
972 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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973 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
974 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
975 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 976
41bd17a4 977 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
978 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
979 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 980 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 981 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
982 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
983 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
984 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
985 # request is denied)
986 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
987 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
988 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 989
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990 acl aclname random probability
991 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
992 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
993 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
994
375eeb3b 995 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 996 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
997 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 998 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 999 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1000 # to match the returned file type.
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41bd17a4 1002 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1003 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1004 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1005 # ACL [fast]
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375eeb3b 1007 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1008 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1009 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1010 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1011 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1012 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1013 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 1015 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1016 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1017 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1018 # ACLs [fast]
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375eeb3b 1020 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1021 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1022 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 1023
41bd17a4 1024 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1025 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 1026 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 1027
41bd17a4 1028 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1029 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 1030 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 1031
41bd17a4 1032 acl aclname ext_user username ...
1033 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1034 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1035 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1036
0ab50441 1037 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 1038 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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1041 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1042 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1043 #
1044 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1045 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1046 # http_reply_access.
1047
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1050 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1051 #
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1052 # For valid error names see in @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@/templates/error-details.txt
1053 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1054 #
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1056 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1057 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1058 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1059 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1060 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1061 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1062 #
1063 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1064 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1065 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1066 #
1067 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1068 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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1072 #
1073 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1074 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1075 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1076 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1077 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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1080 Examples:
1081 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1082 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1083 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1084 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1085 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 1086
41bd17a4 1087NOCOMMENT_START
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1089# Recommended minimum configuration:
1090#
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ee776778 1092# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1093# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1094# should be allowed
1095acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1096acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1097acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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1098acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1099acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1101acl SSL_ports port 443
1102acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1103acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1104acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1105acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1106acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1107acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1108acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1109acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1110acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1111acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1112acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1113NOCOMMENT_END
1114DOC_END
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1116NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1117TYPE: acl_access
1118IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1119LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1120DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1121DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
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1123 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
1124 find the original source of a request.
1125
1126 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1127 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
1128 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
1129 rightmost address being the most recent.
1130
1131 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
1132 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
1133 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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1135 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
1136 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
1137 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
1138 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
1139 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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1141 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1142 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1143 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1144 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1146 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 1147
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1149 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1152
1153 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
1154 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
1155 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1156 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1157 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1158 based on the client's source addresses.
1159
1160 For example:
1161
1162 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1163 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1164 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1165 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1166DOC_END
1167
1168NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1169COMMENT: on|off
1170TYPE: onoff
1171IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1172DEFAULT: on
1173LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1174DOC_START
1175 Controls whether the indirect client address
1176 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1177 direct client address in acl matching.
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1179 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1180 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1182
1183NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1184COMMENT: on|off
1185TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1186IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1188LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1189DOC_START
1190 Controls whether the indirect client address
1191 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1192 direct client address in delay pools.
1193DOC_END
1194
1195NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1196COMMENT: on|off
1197TYPE: onoff
1198IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1199DEFAULT: on
1200LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1201DOC_START
1202 Controls whether the indirect client address
1203 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1204 direct client address in the access log.
1205DOC_END
1206
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1207NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1208COMMENT: on|off
1209TYPE: onoff
1210IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1211DEFAULT: off
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1213DOC_START
1214 Controls whether the indirect client address
1215 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1216 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1218 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1219 mode ports.
1220
1221 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1222 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1223 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1224 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1226
41bd17a4 1227NAME: http_access
1228TYPE: acl_access
1229LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1230DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1231DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1232DOC_START
1233 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1234
41bd17a4 1235 Access to the HTTP port:
1236 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1237
41bd17a4 1238 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1239
41bd17a4 1240 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1241 the request.
cccac0a2 1242
41bd17a4 1243 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1244 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1245 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1246 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1248 lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 1249
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1251 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1252
41bd17a4 1253NOCOMMENT_START
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1255#
1256# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1257#
e0855596 1258# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1259http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1261# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1262http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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1265http_access allow localhost manager
1266http_access deny manager
1267
41bd17a4 1268# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1269# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1270# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1271#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1273#
1274# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1275#
c8f4eac4 1276
ee776778 1277# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1278# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1279# from where browsing should be allowed
1280http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1281http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1282
41bd17a4 1283# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1284http_access deny all
1285NOCOMMENT_END
1286DOC_END
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1288NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1289TYPE: acl_access
1290LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1291DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1292DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1294 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1295
1296 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1297 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1298 output.
1299
1300 If not set then only http_access is used.
1301DOC_END
1302
41bd17a4 1303NAME: http_reply_access
1304TYPE: acl_access
1305LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1306DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1307DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1308DOC_START
1309 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1310
41bd17a4 1311 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1312
41bd17a4 1313 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1314 all replies.
1a224843 1315
41bd17a4 1316 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1317 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1318 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1320 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1321 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1322DOC_END
1323
41bd17a4 1324NAME: icp_access
1325TYPE: acl_access
1326LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1328DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1329DOC_START
41bd17a4 1330 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1331 access lists
5473c134 1332
41bd17a4 1333 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1334
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1336 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1337 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1338
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1340 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1342# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1344#icp_access deny all
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1346
41bd17a4 1347NAME: htcp_access
1348IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1349TYPE: acl_access
1350LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1352DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1353DOC_START
41bd17a4 1354 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1355 access lists
5473c134 1356
41bd17a4 1357 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1358
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1360 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
5473c134 1361
0b48417e 1362 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1363 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1364 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1365
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1367 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1369# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1371#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1372DOC_END
5473c134 1373
41bd17a4 1374NAME: htcp_clr_access
1375IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1376TYPE: acl_access
1377LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1379DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1380DOC_START
1381 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1383 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1384
41bd17a4 1385 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1388 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1390# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1391acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1392htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1393htcp_clr_access deny all
5473c134 1394DOC_END
1395
41bd17a4 1396NAME: miss_access
1397TYPE: acl_access
1398LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1399DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1400DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1401DOC_START
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1402 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1403
1404 For example;
1405 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1406 a parent.
5473c134 1407
638402dd 1408 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1409 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1410 miss_access allow all
5473c134 1411
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1413 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1414 objects (HITs).
1415
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1417 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1419 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1420 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1421DOC_END
1422
1423NAME: ident_lookup_access
1424TYPE: acl_access
1425IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1427DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1428LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1429DOC_START
41bd17a4 1430 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1431 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1432 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1433 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1434 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1435 any requests.
5473c134 1436
41bd17a4 1437 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1438 can follow this example:
5473c134 1439
4daaf3cb 1440 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1441 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1442 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1443
4daaf3cb 1444 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1445 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1446 the correct result.
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1448 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1449 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1450DOC_END
5473c134 1451
5b0f5383 1452NAME: reply_body_max_size
1453COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1454TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1455DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1456DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1457LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1458DOC_START
1459 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1460 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1461 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1462 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1463 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1464 for this reply.
1465
1466 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1467 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1468 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1469 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1470 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1471 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1472 and they will receive a partial reply.
1473
1474 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1475 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1476 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1477 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1478
1479 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1480 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1481 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1482 the size of your largest error page.
1483
1484 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1485 no limit imposed.
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1487 Configuration Format is:
1488 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1489 ie.
1490 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1491
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1493
1494COMMENT_START
1495 NETWORK OPTIONS
1496 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1497COMMENT_END
1498
1499NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1500TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1501DEFAULT: none
1502LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1503DOC_START
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1504 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1505 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1506 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1507
1508 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1509 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1510 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1511 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1512 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1513 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1514 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1515
1516 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1517 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1518
1519 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1520 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1521 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1522
1523 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1524
c7b1dd5d 1525 Modes:
5b0f5383 1526
e77bdb4e 1527 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1528 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1529 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1530
1531 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1532 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1533 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1534
7f45065d 1535 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1536
caf3666d 1537 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1538 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1539 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1541 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1542
7a957a93 1543 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
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1546 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1547
1548
1549 Accelerator Mode Options:
1550
5b0f5383 1551 defaultsite=domainname
1552 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1553 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1554 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1555
cf673853 1556 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1557
1558 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1560 https_port
5b0f5383 1561
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1563 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1564
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1565 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1566 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1567
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1569 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1570 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1571 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1572
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1574
7f45065d 1575 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1577
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1579 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1580 never_direct was used.
1581
1582 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1583 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1584 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1585 http_access rules when using this.
1586
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1588 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1590
1591 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1592 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1593 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1594 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1595 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1596 certificate will be selfsigned.
1597 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1598 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1599 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1600 years.
1601 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1602 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1603
1604 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1605 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1606 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1607 default value is 4MB.
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1609 TLS / SSL Options:
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1611 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1612
1613 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1614 if not specified, the certificate file is
1615 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1616 key file.
1617
1618 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1619 1 automatic (default)
1620 2 SSLv2 only
1621 3 SSLv3 only
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1623 5 TLSv1.1 only
1624 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1626 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1628 additional settings. If those settings are
1629 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1630 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1631
943c5f16 1632 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1633 being:
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1635 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1636 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1637 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1638 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1639 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1640 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1642 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1643 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1644 strength to some attacks.
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1645 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1646 complete list of options.
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1648 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1649 requesting a client certificate.
1650
1651 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1652 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1653 clientca will be used.
1654
1655 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1656 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1657
1658 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1659 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1660 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1661
1662 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1664 on how to create this file.
1665 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1666 option is not set.
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1667
1668 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1669 DELAYED_AUTH
1670 Don't request client certificates
1671 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1672 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1673 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1674 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1675 to OpenSSL.
1676 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1677 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1678 will result in a new SSL session.
1679 VERIFY_CRL
1680 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1681 certificates.
1682 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1683 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1684 client certificate chain.
1685
1686 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1687
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1689
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1691 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1692 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1694
5b0f5383 1695 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1696 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1697 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1698 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1699 support is enabled.
1700 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1701
1702 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1703 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1704 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1705 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1706 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1707 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1708 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1709 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1710
81b6e9a7 1711 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1712 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1713
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1716 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1717 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1718 timeout the time before giving up.
1719
5b0f5383 1720 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1721 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1722 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1723 visible on the internal address.
1724
1725NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1727# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1728http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1729NOCOMMENT_END
1730DOC_END
1731
1732NAME: https_port
1733IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1734TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1735DEFAULT: none
1736LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1737DOC_START
7f45065d 1738 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1739
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1741 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1742
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1744 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1745
1746 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1747 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1748
7f45065d 1749 Modes:
5b0f5383 1750
7f45065d 1751 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
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1753 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
1754 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1755 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1756
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1758 connections using the client IP address.
1759 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1760
caf3666d 1761 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1762 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1763 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1765 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1766
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1768 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 1769
38450a50 1770 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1771
7f45065d 1772 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
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1776
1777
1778 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1779
1780 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1781
1782 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1783 if not specified, the certificate file is
1784 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1785 key file.
1786
1787 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1788 1 automatic (default)
1789 2 SSLv2 only
1790 3 SSLv3 only
1791 4 TLSv1 only
1792
1793 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1794
1795 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1796 being:
1797 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1798 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1799 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1800 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1801 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1802 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1803 documentation for a complete list of options.
1804
1805 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1806 requesting a client certificate.
1807
1808 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1809 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1810 clientca will be used.
1811
1812 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1813 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1814
1815 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1816 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1817 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1818
1819 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1820 DH key exchanges.
1821
1822 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1823 DELAYED_AUTH
1824 Don't request client certificates
1825 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1826 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1827 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1828 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1829 to OpenSSL.
1830 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1831 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1832 will result in a new SSL session.
1833 VERIFY_CRL
1834 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1835 certificates.
1836 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1837 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1838 client certificate chain.
1839
1840 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1841
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1843 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1844 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1845 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1846 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1847 certificate will be selfsigned.
1848 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1849 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1850 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1851 years.
1852 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1853 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1854
1855 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1856 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1857 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1858 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 1859
859741ed 1860 See http_port for a list of available options.
5b0f5383 1861DOC_END
1862
41bd17a4 1863NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1864TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1865DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1866LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1867DOC_START
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1869 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1870
41bd17a4 1871 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1872
41bd17a4 1873 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1874 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1877 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1878 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1879 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1880
41bd17a4 1881 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1883 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1884
41bd17a4 1885 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1886 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1888 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1889
41bd17a4 1890 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1891 matching line.
cccac0a2 1892DOC_END
1893
41bd17a4 1894NAME: clientside_tos
1895TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1896DEFAULT: none
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1898DOC_START
1899 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1900 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1901
1902 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1903
1904 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1905 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1906
1907 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1908 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1909 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1910 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1911
1912 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1913 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1914DOC_END
1915
1916NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1917TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1918IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1920LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1921DOC_START
1922 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1923 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1924
1925 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1926
1927 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1928 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1929
1930 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1931 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1932 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1933 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1934DOC_END
1935
1936NAME: clientside_mark
1937TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1938IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1940LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1941DOC_START
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1942 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
1943 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1944
1945 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1946
1947 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1948 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1949
1950 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1951 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1952 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1953 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1954
1955 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1956 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1957DOC_END
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1960TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1961IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1962DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1963LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1964DOC_START
575cb927 1965 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1967 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1968 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
7172612f 1969
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1970 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
1971 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1972 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
7172612f 1973
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1975 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1976 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1977
1978 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1979
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1981
1982 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1984 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1985
1986 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1987
1988 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1989
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1991 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1992 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1993 specified in the mask are written.
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1996 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1997 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1998 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1999 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 2000
575cb927 2001 disable-preserve-miss
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2003 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2004 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2005 and masked with miss-mark.
2006 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2007 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2008 (MARK target).
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2010 miss-mask=0xFF
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2012 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2013 the TOS sent towards clients.
2014 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2015 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2016
2017 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2018 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2019 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2020 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2023
41bd17a4 2024NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2025TYPE: acl_address
2026DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2027DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2028LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2029DOC_START
2030 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2031 based on the username or source address of the user making
2032 the request.
7f7db318 2033
41bd17a4 2034 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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2037 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2039 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2040 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2041
2042 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2043 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2044
2045 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2046 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2047
2048 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2049 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2050
41bd17a4 2051 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2052 matching line.
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2055 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2056 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2057
2058
2059 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2060 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2061 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2062 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 2064 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
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2067 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
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2071NAME: host_verify_strict
2072TYPE: onoff
2073DEFAULT: off
2074LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2075DOC_START
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2077 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2078 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2080 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2081 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2082 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2084 When set to ON:
2085 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2086 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2087
2088 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2089 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2090 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2091 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2092 and Request-URI components:
2093
2094 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2095 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2096 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2097 or FQDN.
2098
2099 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2100 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2101
2102
2103 When set to OFF (the default):
2104 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2105 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2106
2107 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2108
2109 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2110
2111 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2112 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2113
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2115 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2116 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2118 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2119 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2120
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2124 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2125 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2126 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2127 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2128
2129 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2130 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2131 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2132 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2133 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2135DOC_END
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2137NAME: client_dst_passthru
2138TYPE: onoff
2139DEFAULT: on
2140LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2141DOC_START
2142 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2143 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2144 source using the HTTP Host header.
2145
2146 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2147 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2148 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2149 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2150
2151 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2152 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2153 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2154
2155 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2156 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2157 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2158
2159 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2160DOC_END
2161
41bd17a4 2162COMMENT_START
2163 SSL OPTIONS
2164 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2165COMMENT_END
2166
2167NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
2168IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2169TYPE: onoff
2170DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2171LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2172DOC_START
41bd17a4 2173 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2174 messages.
cccac0a2 2175DOC_END
2176
41bd17a4 2177NAME: ssl_engine
2178IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2179TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2180LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2181DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2182DOC_START
41bd17a4 2183 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2184 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2185DOC_END
2186
41bd17a4 2187NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
2188IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2189DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2190LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2191TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2192DOC_START
41bd17a4 2193 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2194DOC_END
2195
41bd17a4 2196NAME: sslproxy_client_key
2197IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2198DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2199LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2200TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2201DOC_START
41bd17a4 2202 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2203DOC_END
2204
41bd17a4 2205NAME: sslproxy_version
2206IFDEF: USE_SSL
2207DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 2208DEFAULT_DOC: automatic SSL/TLS version negotiation
41bd17a4 2209LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2210TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2211DOC_START
41bd17a4 2212 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2214 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2215
2216 1 automatic (default)
2217 2 SSLv2 only
2218 3 SSLv3 only
2219 4 TLSv1.0 only
2220 5 TLSv1.1 only
2221 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2222DOC_END
2223
41bd17a4 2224NAME: sslproxy_options
2225IFDEF: USE_SSL
2226DEFAULT: none
2227LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2228TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2229DOC_START
943c5f16 2230 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2232 The most important being:
2233
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2234 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2235 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2236 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2237 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2238 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2239 SINGLE_DH_USE
2240 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2241 DH key exchanges
2242 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2243 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2244 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2245 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2246 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2247 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2248 strength to some attacks.
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2251 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 2252DOC_END
2253
41bd17a4 2254NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2255IFDEF: USE_SSL
2256DEFAULT: none
2257LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2258TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2259DOC_START
41bd17a4 2260 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2262 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2263DOC_END
2264
41bd17a4 2265NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2266IFDEF: USE_SSL
2267DEFAULT: none
2268LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2269TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2270DOC_START
41bd17a4 2271 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2272 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2273DOC_END
0976f8db 2274
41bd17a4 2275NAME: sslproxy_capath
2276IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 2277DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2278LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2279TYPE: string
5473c134 2280DOC_START
41bd17a4 2281 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2282 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2283DOC_END
2284
4c9da963 2285NAME: ssl_bump
2286IFDEF: USE_SSL
caf3666d 2287TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2288LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
638402dd 2289DEFAULT_DOC: Does not bump unless rules are present in squid.conf
4c9da963 2290DEFAULT: none
2291DOC_START
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2293 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2294 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2295 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2296 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2297 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2298
2299 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2300
2301 The following bumping modes are supported:
2302
2303 client-first
2304 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2305 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2306 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2307 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2308
2309 server-first
2310 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2311 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2312 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2313 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2314
2315 none
2316 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2317 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2318 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2319 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2320
2321 By default, no connections are bumped.
2322
2323 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2324 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2325 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2326 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2327 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2328
e0c0d54c 2329 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2330 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2333
e0855596 2334
caf3666d 2335 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from
638402dd 2336 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 2337
e0855596 2338 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2340 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2341 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2342DOC_END
2343
41bd17a4 2344NAME: sslproxy_flags
2345IFDEF: USE_SSL
2346DEFAULT: none
2347LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2348TYPE: string
5473c134 2349DOC_START
41bd17a4 2350 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2351 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2352 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2353 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2354 to OpenSSL.
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2356
4c9da963 2357NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2358IFDEF: USE_SSL
2359DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2360DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 2361LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2362TYPE: acl_access
2363DOC_START
2364 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2365
2366 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2367 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2368 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2369
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2370 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
2371 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2372 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2373
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2375 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2376 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
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2378 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 2379 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
4c9da963 2380
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2381 SECURITY WARNING:
2382 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
2383 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
2384 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 2385
638402dd 2386 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 2387DOC_END
2388
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2389NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2390IFDEF: USE_SSL
2391DEFAULT: none
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2392POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2393POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2394POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2395TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2396LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2397DOC_START
2398
69742b76 2399 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
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69742b76 2401 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2402
aebe6888 2403 signTrusted
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2405 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2406 default for trusted origin server certificates.
638402dd 2407
aebe6888 2408 signUntrusted
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2409 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2410 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2411 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 2412
aebe6888 2413 signSelf
69742b76 2414 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2415 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2417 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2420
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2421 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2422 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2423 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2424 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2425 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2427 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2428 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2429 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2430 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2431 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2432 bump-server-first is used.
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2434
638402dd 2435NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
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2436IFDEF: USE_SSL
2437DEFAULT: none
2438TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2439LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2440DOC_START
2441
2442 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2443
69742b76 2444 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2445
fb2178bb 2446 setValidAfter
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2448 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 2449
fb2178bb 2450 setValidBefore
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2451 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
2452 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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2455 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2456 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2457 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2458 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2459 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2462
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2463 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
2464 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2465 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2466 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2467 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2468 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2470 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2471 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2472 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2473 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2474 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2475 bump-server-first is used.
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2477
41bd17a4 2478NAME: sslpassword_program
2479IFDEF: USE_SSL
2480DEFAULT: none
2481LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2482TYPE: string
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41bd17a4 2484 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2485 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2486 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2487 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2489 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2490 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2491 keys.
5473c134 2492DOC_END
2493
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2494COMMENT_START
2495 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2496 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2497COMMENT_END
2498
2499NAME: sslcrtd_program
2500TYPE: eol
2501IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2502DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2503LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2504DOC_START
2505 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2506 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2507 For more information use:
2508 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2509DOC_END
2510
2511NAME: sslcrtd_children
2512TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2513IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2514DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2515LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2516DOC_START
2517 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2518 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2519
2520 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2521 tuning.
2522
2523 startup=N
2524
2525 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2526 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2527 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2528
2529 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2530 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2531
2532 idle=N
2533
2534 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2535 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2536 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2537 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2538
2539 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2540DOC_END
2541
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2542NAME: sslcrtvalidator_program
2543TYPE: eol
2544IFDEF: USE_SSL
2545DEFAULT: none
2546LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
2547DOC_START
2548 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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2549 process.
2550
2551 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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2552
2553 Options:
638402dd 2554 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results. The default is 60 secs
14798e73 2555 cache=n limit the result cache size. The default value is 2048
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2556DOC_END
2557
2558NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
2559TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2560IFDEF: USE_SSL
413bb969 2561DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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2562LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
2563DOC_START
638402dd 2564 The maximum number of processes spawn to service SSL server.
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2565 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2566
2567 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2568 tuning.
2569
2570 startup=N
2571
2572 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2573 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2574 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2575
2576 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2577 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2578
2579 idle=N
2580
2581 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2582 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2583 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2584 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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2586 concurrency=
2587
2588 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
2589 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the certficate validator
2590 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2591
2592 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
2593 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
2594 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
2595 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
2596 to that request.
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2598 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
2599DOC_END
2600
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41bd17a4 2602 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2603 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2604COMMENT_END
2605
41bd17a4 2606NAME: cache_peer
2607TYPE: peer
2608DEFAULT: none
2609LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2610DOC_START
41bd17a4 2611 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 2612
41bd17a4 2613 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2614
41bd17a4 2615 For example,
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41bd17a4 2617 # proxy icp
2618 # hostname type port port options
2619 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2620 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2621 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2622 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2623 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2624 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2625
2626 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2627
2628 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2629 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2630 For web servers this is usually 80
2631
2632 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2633 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2634 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2635
2636
2637 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2638
2639 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2640 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2641
2642
2643 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2644
2645 multicast-responder
2646 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2647 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2648 replies will be accepted from it.
2649
2650 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2651 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2652
2653 background-ping
2654 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2655 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2656 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2657
2658
2659 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2660
2661 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2662 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2663
2664
2665 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2666 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2667 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2668 list of options described below.
2b94f655 2669
18191440 2670 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2671
18191440 2672 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2673 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2674 only-clr.
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2676 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2677 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2b94f655 2678
18191440 2679 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2680 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2681 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2682
18191440 2683 htcp=forward-clr
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2684 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2685
2686
2687 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2688
2689 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2690 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2691
2692
2693 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2694 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2695 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2696
2697 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2698 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2699 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2700
2701 weighted-round-robin
2702 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2703 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2704 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2705 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2706 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2707
2708 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2709 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2710 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2711
2712 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2713
2714 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2715
2716 multicast-siblings
2717 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2718 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2719 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2720 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2721 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2722 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2723 members of the same multicast group.
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2724
2725
2726 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2727
2728 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2729 peer-selection mechanisms.
2730 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2731 larger weights are favored more.
2732 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2733 protocol is not in use.
2734
2735 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2736 times of parents.
2737 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2738 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2739 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2740
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2741 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2742 to this address.
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2743 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2744 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2745 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2746 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2747
2748 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2749 delay pools.
2750
2751 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2752 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2753 than the Squid default location.
2754
2755
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2757
2758 carp-key=key-specification
2759 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2760 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2761 scheme, host, port, path, params
2762 Order is not important.
2763
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2764 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2765
2766 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2767 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2768 is a web server.
2769
2770 forceddomain=name
2771 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2772 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2773 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2774 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2775
2776 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2777
2778 no-netdb-exchange
2779 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2780
2781
2782 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2783
2784 login=user:password
2785 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2786 requires proxy authentication.
2787
2788 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2789 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2790
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2791 login=PASSTHRU
2792 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2793 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2794 without alteration to the peer.
2795 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2796
2797 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2798 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2799 connection-auth options are also used.
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2801 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2802 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 2803
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2804 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2805 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2807 they may be sent instead.
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2808
2809 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2810 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2811 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2812 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2813 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2814
2815 login=*:password
2816 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2817 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2818 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2819 needed to identify each user.
2820 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2821 information which is added to the username. This can
2822 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2823 the login=username:password option above.
2824
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2825 login=NEGOTIATE
2826 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2827 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2828 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2829 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2830
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2832 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2833 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2834
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2835 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2836 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2837 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2838 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2839 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2840 used.
2841
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2843 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2844 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2845
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2846 connection-auth=on|off
2847 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2848 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2849 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2850 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2851 of the peer.
2852
2853
2854 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2855
2856 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2857
2858 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2859 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2860 this peer.
2861
2862 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2863 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2864 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2865 reference a combined file containing both the
2866 certificate and the key.
2867
3d96b0e8 2868 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2869 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2870 1 = automatic (default)
2871 2 = SSL v2 only
2872 3 = SSL v3 only
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2873 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2874 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2875 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2876
2877 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2878 to this peer.
2879
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2881
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2882 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2883 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2884 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2885 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2886 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2887 SINGLE_DH_USE
2888 Always create a new key when using
2889 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2890 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2891 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2892 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2893 strength to some attacks.
2894
2895 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2896 more complete list.
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2898 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2899 when verifying the peer certificate.
2900
2901 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2902 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2903
2904 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2905 verifying the peer certificate.
2906
2907 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2908
41bd17a4 2909 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2910 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2911 verify.
2912 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2913 Don't use the default CA list built in
2914 to OpenSSL.
2915 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2916 Don't verify the peer certificate
2917 matches the server name
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2919 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2920 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2921 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2922 used.
2923
2924 front-end-https
2925 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2926 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2927 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2928 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2929 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2930
2931
2932 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2933
2934 connect-timeout=N
2935 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2936 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2937
2938 connect-fail-limit=N
2939 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2940 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2941
2942 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2943 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2944 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2945 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2946 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2947 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2948 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2949
2950 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2951 peer. see also
2952
2953 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2954 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2955 but different ports.
2956 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2957 directives to dentify the peer.
2958 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2959 peername ACL type.
2960
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2961 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2962 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2963
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2964 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2965
41bd17a4 2966DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2968NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2969TYPE: hostdomain
2970DEFAULT: none
2971LOC: none
2972DOC_START
2973 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
638402dd 2974 queried.
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2976 Usage:
2977 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2978 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2979
41bd17a4 2980 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2981
41bd17a4 2982 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2983
41bd17a4 2984 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2985 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2986 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2987 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2988 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2989
41bd17a4 2990 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2991 either on the same or separate lines.
2992 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2993 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2994 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2995 for all requests.
2996 * There are no defaults.
2997 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2998 section.
2999DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3001NAME: cache_peer_access
3002TYPE: peer_access
3003DEFAULT: none
3004LOC: none
3005DOC_START
3006 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
3007 using ACL elements.
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3009 Usage:
3010 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 3011
41bd17a4 3012 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
3013 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 3014 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 3015DOC_END
dd9b1776 3016
41bd17a4 3017NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3018TYPE: hostdomaintype
3019DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3020DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3021LOC: none
3022DOC_START
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3023 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3024 about specific domains to the peer.
3025
3026 Usage:
3027 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 3028
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3030 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3031 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
6bf4f823 3032
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3033 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3034 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3035DOC_END
6bf4f823 3036
41bd17a4 3037NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3038COMMENT: (seconds)
3039DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3040TYPE: time_t
3041LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3042DOC_START
3043 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3044 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3045 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3046 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3047 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3048 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3049
41bd17a4 3050 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3051 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3052 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3053 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3054 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3055 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3056 instead of to your parents.
3057DOC_END
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3059NAME: forward_max_tries
3060DEFAULT: 10
3061TYPE: int
3062LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3063DOC_START
3064 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3065 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3066
3067 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3068 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3069DOC_END
3070
41bd17a4 3071NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
3072TYPE: wordlist
3073DEFAULT: none
3074LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
3075DOC_START
3076 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
3077 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
3078 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
3079 list this option multiple times.
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3081 Example:
3082 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
3083
3084 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 3085DOC_END
0976f8db 3086
41bd17a4 3087COMMENT_START
3088 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3089 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3090COMMENT_END
3091
3092NAME: cache_mem
3093COMMENT: (bytes)
3094TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3095DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3096LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3097DOC_START
41bd17a4 3098 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3099 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3100 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3101 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3102
3103 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3104 for:
3105 * In-Transit objects
3106 * Hot Objects
3107 * Negative-Cached objects
3108
3109 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3110 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3111 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3112 priority.
3113
3114 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3115 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3116 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3117 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3118 not needed for in-transit objects.
3119
3120 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3121 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3122 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3123 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3124 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3125 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3126 objects.
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3128 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3129 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3130 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3131 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3132DOC_END
0976f8db 3133
41bd17a4 3134NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3135COMMENT: (bytes)
3136TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3137DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3138LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3139DOC_START
41bd17a4 3140 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3141 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3142 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3143 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3144DOC_END
0976f8db 3145
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3146NAME: memory_cache_shared
3147COMMENT: on|off
3148TYPE: YesNoNone
3149LOC: Config.memShared
3150DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3151DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3152DOC_START
3153 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3154
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3155 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3156 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3157 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3158 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3159 caching is enabled).
3160
65b81b27 3161 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3162 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3163 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3164 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3165 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3166
3167 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3168 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3169 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3170
3171 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3173
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3174NAME: memory_cache_mode
3175TYPE: memcachemode
3176LOC: Config
3177DEFAULT: always
638402dd 3178DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 3179DOC_START
ea21d497 3180 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3181
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3182 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3183
3184 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3185 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3186 a second time before cached in memory.
3187
3188 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3189DOC_END
3190
41bd17a4 3191NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3192TYPE: removalpolicy
3193LOC: Config.memPolicy
3194DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3195DOC_START
41bd17a4 3196 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3197 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3198
638402dd 3199 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 3200DOC_END
6b698a21 3201
41bd17a4 3202COMMENT_START
3203 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3204 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3205COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3206
41bd17a4 3207NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3208TYPE: removalpolicy
3209LOC: Config.replPolicy
3210DEFAULT: lru
3211DOC_START
3212 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3213 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3214
41bd17a4 3215 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3216 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3217 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3218 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3219
638402dd 3220 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 3221
41bd17a4 3222 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3223
41bd17a4 3224 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3225 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3226 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3227 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3228
41bd17a4 3229 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3230 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3231 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3232 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3233
41bd17a4 3234 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3235 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3236 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3237
41bd17a4 3238 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3239 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3240 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3241
41bd17a4 3242 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3243 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3244 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3245DOC_END
0976f8db 3246
41bd17a4 3247NAME: cache_dir
3248TYPE: cachedir
3249DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3250DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 3251LOC: Config.cacheSwap
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3253 Format:
3254 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3255
41bd17a4 3256 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3257 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3258
41bd17a4 3259 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3260 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3261 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3262
41bd17a4 3263 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3264 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3265 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3266 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3267 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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3269 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3270 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3271 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3272
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3273
3274 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 3275
41bd17a4 3276 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3277 been there.
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3279 Usage:
3280 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3281
41bd17a4 3282 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3283 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3284 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3285 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3286 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3287
56fba4d0 3288 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3289 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3290
56fba4d0 3291 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3292 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3293 is 256.
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3295
3296 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 3297
41bd17a4 3298 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3299 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3300 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3301
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3302 Usage:
3303 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3304
41bd17a4 3305 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3306
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3307
3308 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 3309
41bd17a4 3310 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3311 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3312 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3313
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3314 Usage:
3315 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3316
41bd17a4 3317 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3318
41bd17a4 3319 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3320 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3321 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3322
41bd17a4 3323 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3324 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3325 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3326
41bd17a4 3327 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3328 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3329 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3330 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3331 time.
0976f8db 3332
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3334 ==== The rock store type ====
3335
3336 Usage:
df881a0f 3337 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 3338
2e55f083 3339 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3340 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
3341 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3342 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3343 below for more info on the max-size option.
3344
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3345 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
3346 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
3347 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
3348 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
3349 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
3350
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3351 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3352 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3353 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3354 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3355 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3356 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3357 expected swap wait time.
3358
df881a0f 3359 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3360 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3361 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3362 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3363 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3364 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3365 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3366 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3368 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3369 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3370 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3371 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3372 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3373
3374
638402dd 3375 ==== The coss store type ====
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3377 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3378 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3379 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3380
41bd17a4 3381 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3382 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3383 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3384 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3385 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3386 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3387 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 3388
41bd17a4 3389 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3390 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3391 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 3392
0976f8db 3393
638402dd 3394 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
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3396 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
3397
3398 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3399 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
3400 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
3401 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
3402 (e.g. COSS).
3403 Defaults to 0.
3404
3405 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3406 supports.
3407 The value in maximum_object_size directive, sets
3408 a default unless more specific details are available
3409 about the cache_dir (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 3410
41bd17a4 3411 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 3412 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 3413
41bd17a4 3414 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3415 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3416 option.
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3420# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3421#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
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6b698a21 3423DOC_END
0976f8db 3424
41bd17a4 3425NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3426TYPE: string
3427LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3428DEFAULT: least-load
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3430 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
3431 object will fit into more than one.
3432
3433 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
3434 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
3435 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
3436 cache_dir.
3437
3438 Algorithms:
3439
3440 least-load
3441
3442 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
3443 sizes and disk speeds.
3444
3445 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
3446 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
3447 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
3448
3449 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
3450 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
3451 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
3452 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
3453
3454
3455 round-robin
3456
3457 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
3458 disk sizes.
3459
3460 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
3461 cache_dir is used.
3462
3463 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
3464 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
3465 max-size parameters.
3466
3467 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
3468 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
3469 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
3470
6b698a21 3471DOC_END
0976f8db 3472
41bd17a4 3473NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3474TYPE: int
3475LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3476DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 3477DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 3478DOC_START
41bd17a4 3479 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3480 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3481 descriptors are open.
3482
3483 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3484DOC_END
0976f8db 3485
41bd17a4 3486NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 3487COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 3488TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 3489DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 3490DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
41bd17a4 3491LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 3492DOC_START
41bd17a4 3493 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
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3494 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3495 means all responses can be stored.
6b698a21 3496DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3498NAME: maximum_object_size
3499COMMENT: (bytes)
3500TYPE: b_int64_t
b51ec8c8 3501DEFAULT: 4 MB
41bd17a4 3502LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
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3504 The default limit on size of objects stored to disk.
3505 This size is used for cache_dir where max-size is not set.
3506 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3507
3508 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
41bd17a4 3509 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
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3510 hits).
3511
3512 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
41bd17a4 3513 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 3514
41bd17a4 3515 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3516 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3517 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 3518DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3520NAME: cache_swap_low
3521COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3522TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3523DEFAULT: 90
3524LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
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3525DOC_START
3526 The low-water mark for cache object replacement.
3527 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3528 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3529 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3530 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3531 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3532
3533 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3534 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3535 numbers closer together.
3536
3537 See also cache_swap_high
3538DOC_END
41bd17a4 3539
3540NAME: cache_swap_high
3541COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3542TYPE: int
3543DEFAULT: 95
3544LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3545DOC_START
638402dd 3546 The high-water mark for cache object replacement.
41bd17a4 3547 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3548 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3549 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3550 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3551 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3552
3553 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3554 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3555 numbers closer together.
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3556
3557 See also cache_swap_low
6b698a21 3558DOC_END
0976f8db 3559
5473c134 3560COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3561 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3562 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3563COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3564
41bd17a4 3565NAME: logformat
3566TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3567LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3568DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3569DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 3570DOC_START
41bd17a4 3571 Usage:
0976f8db 3572
41bd17a4 3573 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3574
41bd17a4 3575 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3576
41bd17a4 3577 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
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41bd17a4 3579 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3580 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3581 as required according to their context and the output format
3582 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3583 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3584
41bd17a4 3585 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3586
41bd17a4 3587 " output in quoted string format
3588 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3589 # output in URL quoted format
3590 ' output as-is
5473c134 3591
41bd17a4 3592 - left aligned
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3593
3594 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3595 [width_min][.width_max]
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3596 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3597 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3598
41bd17a4 3599 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3600
41bd17a4 3601 Format codes:
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3ff65596 3603 % a literal % character
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3604 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3605 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3606 a similar internal error identifier.
3607 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
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3608 note The meta header specified by the argument. Also
3609 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3610 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
3611 If no argument given all meta headers logged.
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3612
3613 Connection related format codes:
3614
41bd17a4 3615 >a Client source IP address
3616 >A Client FQDN
3617 >p Client source port
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3618 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3619 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3620 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3621
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3622 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3623 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3624
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3625 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3626 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3627 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3628 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3629 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3630
3631 Time related format codes:
3632
41bd17a4 3633 ts Seconds since epoch
3634 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3635 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3636 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3637 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3638 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3639 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3640 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
3641
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3642 Access Control related format codes:
3643
3644 et Tag returned by external acl
3645 ea Log string returned by external acl
3646 un User name (any available)
3647 ul User name from authentication
3648 ue User name from external acl helper
3649 ui User name from ident
3650 us User name from SSL
3651
3652 HTTP related format codes:
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3654 [http::]>h Original received request header.
3655 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3656 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
3657 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
3658 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
3659 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
3660 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
3661 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3662 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 3663 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3664 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3665 as for >h
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3666 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3667 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3668 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3669 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3670 transfer encoding and control messages.
3671 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3672 received bodies.
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3673 [http::]mt MIME content type
3674 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3675 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3676 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3677 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3678 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3679 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3680 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3681 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3682 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3683 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3684 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3685 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3686 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3687 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3688 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3689 are not included
3690 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3691 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3692 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3693 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3694 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3695 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3696 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3697 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3698 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3699 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3700 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3701 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3702
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3703 Squid handling related format codes:
3704
3705 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3706 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3707
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3708 SSL-related format codes:
3709
3710 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3711
3712 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3713 a connection and for any request received on
3714 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3715 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3716 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3717 more information about these modes.
3718
3719 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3720 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3721 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3722
3723 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3724 logged.
3725
5038f9d8 3726 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3727 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3728
3729 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3730 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3731 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3732 transaction is in progress.
3733
5038f9d8 3734 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3735
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3736 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3737 meta-information from the last eCAP
3738 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3739 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3740 argument.
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3741
3742 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3743 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3744 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3745 value is recorded as an integer number,
3746 representing response time of one or more
3747 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3748 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3749 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3750 logged individually but added to the
3751 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3752 adapt::all_trs.
3753
3754 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3755 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3756 individual transactions are never added
3757 together. Instead, all transaction response
3758 times are recorded individually.
3759
3760 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3761 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3762 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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3764 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3765
3766 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3767 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3768 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3769 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3770 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3771
3772 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3773 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3774 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3775 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3776 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3777
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3778 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3779
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3780logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3781logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3782logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3783logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3784logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3785
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3786 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3787 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3788 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3789
3790 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3791 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3792
5473c134 3793DOC_END
3794
41bd17a4 3795NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3796TYPE: access_log
3797LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3798DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3799DOC_START
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3800 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
3801 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
3802 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
3803
3804 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
3805 access_log none [acl acl ...]
3806
3807 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 3808 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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3809
3810 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
3811 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
3812 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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3813
3814 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3815 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3816 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3817 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3818
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3819 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
3820
3821 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
3822 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
3823 to 'squid'.
3824
3825 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
3826 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
3827 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
3828 should flush records before the buffer becomes
3829 full to avoid overflows under normal
3830 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
3831 module-dependent though). The on-error option
3832 controls overflow handling.
3833
3834 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
3835 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
3836 affected log records. The default 'die' action
3837 kills the affected worker. The drop action
3838 support has not been tested for modules other
3839 than tcp.
3840
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3841 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3842
bb7a1781 3843 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3844 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3845
3846 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3847 each request.
3848 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3849
3850 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3851 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3852 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3853
3854 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3855
3856 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3857 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3858 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3859
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3860 where facility could be any of:
3861 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3862
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3863 And priority could be any of:
3864 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3865
3866 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3867 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3868 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3869
2bf4e8fa 3870 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 3871 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 3872 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3873 Place Format: //host:port
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3874
3875 Default:
82b7abe3 3876 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3877DOC_END
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3879NAME: icap_log
3880TYPE: access_log
3881IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3882LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3883DEFAULT: none
3884DOC_START
3885 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3886 transaction.
3887
3888 The icap_log option format is:
3889 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3890 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3891
3892 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3893 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3894 features.
3895
3896 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3897 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3898 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3899 log line.
3900
3901 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3902 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3903 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3904 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3905 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3906 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3907 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3908
3909 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3910
3911 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3912
3913 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3914 option in Squid configuration file.
3915
3916 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3917
3918 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3919 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3920
3921 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3922 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3923
3924 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3925 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3926 the socket).
3927
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3928 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3929 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3930 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3931 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3932 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3933 computed.
3934
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3935 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
3936 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3937 the ICAP transaction is created and
3938 stops when the transaction is completed.
3939 Similar to tr.
3940
3941 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3942 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3943 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3944 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3945 is received.
3946
3947 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3948 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3949 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3950 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3951 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3952 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3953
3954 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3955
3956 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3957
3958 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3959
3960 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3961 definition, is called icap_squid:
3962
3963logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3964
5038f9d8 3965 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3966DOC_END
3967
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3968NAME: logfile_daemon
3969TYPE: string
3970DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3971LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3972DOC_START
3973 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3974 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3975
3976 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3977 L<data>\n - logfile data
3978 R\n - rotate file
3979 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3980 O\n - reopen file
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3981 F\n - flush file
3982 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3983 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3984
3985 No responses is expected.
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3986DOC_END
3987
5b0f5383 3988NAME: log_access
3989TYPE: acl_access
3990LOC: Config.accessList.log
3991DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3992DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 3993COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3994DOC_START
3995 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3996 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3997 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3998
3999 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4000 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 4001DOC_END
4002
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4003NAME: log_icap
4004TYPE: acl_access
4005IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4006LOC: Config.accessList.icap
4007DEFAULT: none
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4009DOC_START
4010 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
4011 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
4012DOC_END
4013
41bd17a4 4014NAME: cache_store_log
4015TYPE: string
df2eec10 4016DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4017LOC: Config.Log.store
4018DOC_START
4019 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
4020 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 4021 saved and for how long.
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4023 disable it (the default).
4024
4025 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
4026 of modules supported.
4027
e0855596 4028 Example:
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4029 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
4030 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 4031DOC_END
4032
41bd17a4 4033NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
4034TYPE: string
4035LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 4036DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4037DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 4038DOC_START
41bd17a4 4039 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
4040 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
4041 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
4042 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
4043 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
4044 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
4045 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
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41bd17a4 4047 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
4048 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
4049 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
4050 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 4051
41bd17a4 4052 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
4053 these swap logs will have names such as:
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41bd17a4 4055 cache_swap_log.00
4056 cache_swap_log.01
4057 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 4058
41bd17a4 4059 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
4060 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
4061 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
4062 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
4063 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
4064 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
4065 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
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4067
41bd17a4 4068NAME: logfile_rotate
4069TYPE: int
4070DEFAULT: 10
4071LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 4072DOC_START
41bd17a4 4073 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
4074 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
4075 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
4076 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
4077 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4078 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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41bd17a4 4080 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
4081 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
4082 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
4083 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
4084 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
4085 <pid>'.
62493678 4086
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4088 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
41bd17a4 4089DOC_END
5473c134 4090
41bd17a4 4091NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 4092TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 4093DOC_START
20efa1c2 4094 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 4095DOC_END
4096
41bd17a4 4097NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 4098TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4099DOC_START
8652f8e7 4100 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 4101DOC_END
5473c134 4102
41bd17a4 4103NAME: mime_table
4104TYPE: string
4105DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
4106LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
4107DOC_START
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4108 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
4109
4110 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
4111 examples and formatting information if you do.
5473c134 4112DOC_END
4113
41bd17a4 4114NAME: log_mime_hdrs
4115COMMENT: on|off
4116TYPE: onoff
4117LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
4118DEFAULT: off
4119DOC_START
4120 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
4121 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
4122 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
4123 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
4124 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
4125DOC_END
5473c134 4126
41bd17a4 4127NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 4128TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4129DOC_START
20efa1c2 4130 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 4131DOC_END
4132
41bd17a4 4133NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 4134TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4135DOC_START
20efa1c2 4136 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 4137DOC_END
4138
41bd17a4 4139NAME: pid_filename
4140TYPE: string
4141DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4142LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4143DOC_START
41bd17a4 4144 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4145DOC_END
4146
41bd17a4 4147NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 4148TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4149DOC_START
c581e96b 4150 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 4151DOC_END
4152
41bd17a4 4153NAME: client_netmask
4154TYPE: address
4155LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4156DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 4157DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 4158DOC_START
41bd17a4 4159 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4160 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4161 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4162 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4163DOC_END
4164
41bd17a4 4165NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 4166TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4167DOC_START
20efa1c2 4168 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 4169DOC_END
4170
41bd17a4 4171NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4172TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4173LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 4174DEFAULT: on
4175DOC_START
41bd17a4 4176 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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4177 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
4178
4179 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
4180 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 4181DOC_END
4182
41bd17a4 4183NAME: buffered_logs
4184COMMENT: on|off
4185TYPE: onoff
4186DEFAULT: off
4187LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 4188DOC_START
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4189 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
4190 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
4191 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
4192 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
4193 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
4194 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
4195
4196 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
4197 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
4198 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
4199
fb0c2f17 4200 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 4201DOC_END
0976f8db 4202
2b753521 4203NAME: netdb_filename
4204TYPE: string
221faecb 4205DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 4206LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 4207IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 4208DOC_START
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4210 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
4211
2b753521 4212 To disable, enter "none".
4213DOC_END
4214
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4215COMMENT_START
4216 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
4217 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4218COMMENT_END
4219
4220NAME: cache_log
4221TYPE: string
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4222DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
4223LOC: Debug::cache_log
4224DOC_START
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4225 Squid administrative logging file.
4226
4227 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
4228 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
4229 rotated with "debug_options"
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4230DOC_END
4231
4232NAME: debug_options
7767ab7f 4233TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 4234DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 4235DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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4236LOC: Debug::debugOptions
4237DOC_START
4238 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
4239 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
4240 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
4241 log file, so be careful.
4242
4243 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 4244 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
62493678 4245
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4246 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
4247 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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4248 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
4249 events affecting Squid.
4250DOC_END
4251
4252NAME: coredump_dir
4253TYPE: string
4254LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 4255DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 4256DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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4257DOC_START
4258 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4259 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4260 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4261 and coredump files will be left there.
4262
4263NOCOMMENT_START
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4265# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
4266coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4267NOCOMMENT_END
4268DOC_END
4269
4270
41bd17a4 4271COMMENT_START
4272 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4273 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4274COMMENT_END
4275
4276NAME: ftp_user
4277TYPE: string
4278DEFAULT: Squid@
4279LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4280DOC_START
41bd17a4 4281 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 4282 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 4283 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4284
41bd17a4 4285 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4286 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4287 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 4288 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 4289 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4290DOC_END
0976f8db 4291
41bd17a4 4292NAME: ftp_passive
4293TYPE: onoff
4294DEFAULT: on
4295LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4296DOC_START
41bd17a4 4297 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4298 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 4299
4300 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4301DOC_END
4302
4303NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4304TYPE: onoff
4305DEFAULT: off
4306LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4307DOC_START
4308 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4309
4310 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4311 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4312 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4313
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4315 useful.
a689bd4e 4316 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4317 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4318
4319 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4320 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4321
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4322 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4323DOC_END
4324
4325NAME: ftp_epsv
4326TYPE: onoff
4327DEFAULT: on
4328LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
4329DOC_START
4330 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4331
4332 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4333 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4334 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4335 will never be needed.
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4336
4337 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
4338 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4339 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
4340
4341 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4342DOC_END
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4344NAME: ftp_eprt
4345TYPE: onoff
4346DEFAULT: on
4347LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4348DOC_START
4349 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4350
4351 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4352 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4353 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4354
4355 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4356 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4357
4358 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4359 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4360 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4361 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4362
4363 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4364 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4365DOC_END
4366
41bd17a4 4367NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4368TYPE: onoff
4369DEFAULT: on
4370LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4371DOC_START
4372 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4373 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4374 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4375 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4376 connection turn this off.
4377DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4379NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4380TYPE: onoff
4381DEFAULT: on
4382LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4383DOC_START
4384 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4385 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4386 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4387 the FTP protocol.
4388
4389 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4390 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4391 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4392 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4393 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4394DOC_END
4395
4396COMMENT_START
4397 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4398 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4399COMMENT_END
4400
4401NAME: diskd_program
4402TYPE: string
4403DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4404LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4405DOC_START
4406 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4407 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4408 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4409DOC_END
4410
4411NAME: unlinkd_program
4412IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4413TYPE: string
4414DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4415LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4416DOC_START
4417 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4418DOC_END
4419
4420NAME: pinger_program
4421TYPE: string
4422DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4423LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4424IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4425DOC_START
4426 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4427DOC_END
4428
cc192b50 4429NAME: pinger_enable
4430TYPE: onoff
4431DEFAULT: on
4432LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4433IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4434DOC_START
4435 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4436 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4437 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4438DOC_END
4439
4440
41bd17a4 4441COMMENT_START
4442 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4443 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4444COMMENT_END
4445
4446NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4447TYPE: wordlist
4448LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4449DEFAULT: none
4450DOC_START
2c7aad89 4451 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4452 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4453
2c7aad89 4454 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4455
24eac830 4456 [channel-ID <SP>] URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kv-pairs]<NL>
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c71adec1 4458
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4459 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4460
24eac830 4461 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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4462
4463 The result code can be:
4464
4465 OK status=30N url="..."
4466 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4467 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4468 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4469 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4470 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
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4472 OK rewrite-url="..."
4473 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4474 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4475 the client as the response to its request.
4476
4477 ERR
4478 Do not change the URL.
4479
4480 BH
4ded749e 4481 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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4482 a result being identified.
4483
4484
4485 In the future, the interface protocol will be extended with
24eac830 4486 key=value pairs ("kv-pairs" shown above). Helper programs
c71adec1 4487 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4488 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4489
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4490 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4491 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4492 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4493 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4494 of the response relating to its request.
4495
4496 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
4497 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 4498
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4499 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
4500 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
4501 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
4502 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
4503 interface.
41bd17a4 4504
4505 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4506DOC_END
4507
4508NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4509TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4510DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4511LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4512DOC_START
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4513 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4514 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4515 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4516 and other system resources noticably.
4517
4518 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4519 tuning.
4520
4521 startup=
4522
4523 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4524 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4525 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4526
4527 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4528 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4529
4530 idle=
4531
4532 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4533 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4534 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4535 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4536
4537 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4538
41bd17a4 4539 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4540 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4541 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4542
4543 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4544 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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4545 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4546 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
41bd17a4 4547DOC_END
4548
4549NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4550TYPE: onoff
4551DEFAULT: on
4552LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4553DOC_START
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4554 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4555 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4556 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4557
4558 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4559 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4560 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4561
41bd17a4 4562 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4563 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4564
4565 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4566 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4567 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4568DOC_END
4569
4570NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4571TYPE: acl_access
4572DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4573DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 4574LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4575DOC_START
4576 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 4577 sent to the redirector processes.
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4578
4579 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4580 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4581DOC_END
4582
4583NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4584TYPE: onoff
4585LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4586DEFAULT: off
4587DOC_START
4588 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
638402dd 4589 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
41bd17a4 4590 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4591 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4592 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4593 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4594 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4595 users may have access to pages they should not
4596 be allowed to request.
4597DOC_END
4598
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4600 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
4601 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4602COMMENT_END
4603
4604NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
4605TYPE: wordlist
4606LOC: Config.Program.store_id
4607DEFAULT: none
4608DOC_START
4609 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
4610 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4611
4612 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
4613
4614 [channel-ID <SP>] URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kv-pairs]<NL>
4615
4616
4617 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4618
4619 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
4620
4621 The result code can be:
4622
4623 OK store-id="..."
4624 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
4625
4626 ERR
4627 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
4628
4629 BH
4630 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
4631 a result being identified.
4632
4633
4634 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4635 kv-pairs with keys they do not support.
4636
4637 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4638 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4639 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4640 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4641 of the response relating to its request.
4642
4643 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
4644 returned from the helper and not the URL.
4645
4646 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
4647 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
4648
4649 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
4650DOC_END
4651
4652NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
4653TYPE: HelperChildConfig
4654DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
4655LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
4656DOC_START
4657 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
4658 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4659 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4660 and other system resources noticably.
4661
4662 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4663 tuning.
4664
4665 startup=
4666
4667 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4668 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4669 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4670
4671 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4672 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4673
4674 idle=
4675
4676 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4677 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4678 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4679 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4680
4681 concurrency=
4682
4683 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
4684 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
4685 is a old-style single threaded program.
4686
4687 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4688 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4689 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4690 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
4691DOC_END
4692
4693NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
4694TYPE: acl_access
4695DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4696DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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4697LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
4698DOC_START
4699 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4700 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
4701 are sent.
4702
4703 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4704 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4705DOC_END
4706
4707NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
4708TYPE: onoff
4709LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
4710DEFAULT: on
4711DOC_START
4712 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4713 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
4714 and the helper queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4715 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4716 helpers. You should only enable this if the helperss
4717 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4718 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
4719 option, users may not get objects from cache.
4720DOC_END
4721
41bd17a4 4722COMMENT_START
4723 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4724 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4725COMMENT_END
4726
f04b37d8 4727NAME: cache no_cache
4728TYPE: acl_access
4729DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4730DEFAULT_DOC: Allow caching, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
f04b37d8 4731LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4732DOC_START
240887f0 4733 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 4734 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4735 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 4736
240887f0 4737 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4738 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 4739
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4740 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4741 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4742DOC_END
4743
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4744NAME: max_stale
4745COMMENT: time-units
4746TYPE: time_t
4747LOC: Config.maxStale
4748DEFAULT: 1 week
4749DOC_START
4750 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4751 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4752 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4753DOC_END
4754
41bd17a4 4755NAME: refresh_pattern
4756TYPE: refreshpattern
4757LOC: Config.Refresh
4758DEFAULT: none
4759DOC_START
4760 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 4761
6b698a21 4762 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4763 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 4764
41bd17a4 4765 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4766 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4767 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4768 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4769 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 4770
41bd17a4 4771 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4772 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4773 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 4774
41bd17a4 4775 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4776 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 4777
41bd17a4 4778 options: override-expire
4779 override-lastmod
4780 reload-into-ims
4781 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 4782 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 4783 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 4784 ignore-private
4785 ignore-auth
570d3f75 4786 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 4787 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 4788 store-stale
a0ec9f68 4789
41bd17a4 4790 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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4791 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4792 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4793 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4794 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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4796 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4797 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4798 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4799 the object fresh for that period of time.
4800
41bd17a4 4801 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4802 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 4803
41bd17a4 4804 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
4805 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
4806 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4807 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 4808
41bd17a4 4809 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4810 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4811 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4812 it causes.
9bc73deb 4813
41bd17a4 4814 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4815 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4816 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4817 liable for problems which it causes.
4818
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4819 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4820 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4821 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4822 liable for problems which it causes.
4823
41bd17a4 4824 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4825 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4826 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4827 liable for problems which it causes.
4828
4829 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4830 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4831 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4832 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4833 it causes.
4834
4835 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4836 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4837 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4838 if one is available.
4839
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4840 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4841 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4842 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4843 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4844 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4845
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4846 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4847 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4848 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4849
41bd17a4 4850 Basically a cached object is:
4851
4852 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4853 STALE if age > max
4854 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4855 FRESH if age < min
4856 else STALE
4857
4858 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4859 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4860 match the default will be used.
4861
4862 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4863 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4864 used.
4865
41bd17a4 4866NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 4867
638402dd 4868#
e0855596 4869# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 4870#
41bd17a4 4871refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4872refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4873refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4874refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4875NOCOMMENT_END
4876DOC_END
4877
4878NAME: quick_abort_min
4879COMMENT: (KB)
4880TYPE: kb_int64_t
4881DEFAULT: 16 KB
4882LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4883DOC_NONE
4884
4885NAME: quick_abort_max
4886COMMENT: (KB)
4887TYPE: kb_int64_t
4888DEFAULT: 16 KB
4889LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4890DOC_NONE
4891
4892NAME: quick_abort_pct
4893COMMENT: (percent)
4894TYPE: int
4895DEFAULT: 95
4896LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4897DOC_START
4898 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4899 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4900 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4901 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4902 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4903 downloads.
4904
4905 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4906 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4907 then.
4908
4909 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4910 it will finish the retrieval.
4911
4912 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4913 it will abort the retrieval.
4914
4915 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4916 it will finish the retrieval.
4917
4918 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4919 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4920 to '0 KB'.
4921
4922 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4923 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4924DOC_END
60d096f4 4925
41bd17a4 4926NAME: read_ahead_gap
4927COMMENT: buffer-size
4928TYPE: b_int64_t
4929LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4930DEFAULT: 16 KB
4931DOC_START
4932 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4933 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4934DOC_END
53e738c6 4935
41bd17a4 4936NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4937IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4938COMMENT: time-units
4939TYPE: time_t
4940LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4941DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4942DOC_START
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4943 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4944 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4945 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4946 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4947 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4948 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4949
4950 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4951
4952 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4953 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4954 causes.
41bd17a4 4955DOC_END
53e738c6 4956
41bd17a4 4957NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4958COMMENT: time-units
4959TYPE: time_t
4960LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4961DEFAULT: 6 hours
4962DOC_START
4963 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4964 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4965 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4966DOC_END
c4ab8329 4967
41bd17a4 4968NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4969COMMENT: time-units
4970TYPE: time_t
4971LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4972DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4973DOC_START
4974 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4975 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4976 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4977 much below 10 seconds.
4978DOC_END
7df0bfd7 4979
41bd17a4 4980NAME: range_offset_limit
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4981COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4982TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4983LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4984DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4985DOC_START
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4986 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4987
4988 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4989 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4990 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4991 the result is NOT cached.
4992
41bd17a4 4993 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4994 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4995 sending anything to the client.
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4996
4997 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4998 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4999 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
5000 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
5001
5002 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
5003
5004 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
5005 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
5006
5007 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 5008 client requested. (default)
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5009
5010 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 5011 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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5012
5013 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
5014
5015 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
5016 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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5017 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
5018 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 5019DOC_END
d95b862f 5020
41bd17a4 5021NAME: minimum_expiry_time
5022COMMENT: (seconds)
5023TYPE: time_t
5024LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
5025DEFAULT: 60 seconds
5026DOC_START
5027 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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5028 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
5029 The default is 60 seconds.
5030
5031 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
5032 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
5033 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
5034
5035 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
5036 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 5037DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5039NAME: store_avg_object_size
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5040COMMENT: (bytes)
5041TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 5042DEFAULT: 13 KB
5043LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
5044DOC_START
5045 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
5046 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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5047
5048 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
5049 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
5050 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
5051 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
5052
5053 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
5054 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 5055DOC_END
5056
41bd17a4 5057NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
5058TYPE: int
5059DEFAULT: 20
5060LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
5061DOC_START
5062 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
5063 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
5064 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
5065DOC_END
5066
5067COMMENT_START
5068 HTTP OPTIONS
5069 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5070COMMENT_END
5071
f04b37d8 5072NAME: request_header_max_size
5073COMMENT: (KB)
5074TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5075DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5076LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
5077DOC_START
5078 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
5079 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5080 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
5081 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5082 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5083DOC_END
5084
5085NAME: reply_header_max_size
5086COMMENT: (KB)
5087TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5088DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5089LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
5090DOC_START
5091 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
5092 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5093 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
5094 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5095 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5096DOC_END
5097
5098NAME: request_body_max_size
5099COMMENT: (bytes)
5100TYPE: b_int64_t
5101DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 5102DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 5103LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
5104DOC_START
5105 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
5106 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
5107 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
5108 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
5109 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
5110 be no limit imposed.
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5112 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
5113 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 5114DOC_END
5115
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5116NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
5117COMMENT: (bytes)
5118TYPE: b_size_t
5119DEFAULT: 512 KB
5120LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
5121DOC_START
5122 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
5123 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
5124 a large file.
5125DOC_END
5126
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5127NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
5128COMMENT: (bytes)
5129TYPE: b_int64_t
5130DEFAULT: 64 KB
5131LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
5132DOC_START
5133 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
5134 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
5135 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
5136 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
5137 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
5138 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
5139
5140 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
5141 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
5142 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
5143 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
5144 as if dechunking was disabled.
5145
5146 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
5147 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
5148
5149 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
5150 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
5151 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
5152DOC_END
5153
41bd17a4 5154NAME: broken_posts
626096be 5155IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 5156TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 5157DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5158DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 5159LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 5160DOC_START
41bd17a4 5161 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
5162 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 5163
41bd17a4 5164 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
5165 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 5166
41bd17a4 5167 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 5168
41bd17a4 5169 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
5170 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
5171 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
5172 a request with an extra CRLF.
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5174 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5175 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5176
41bd17a4 5177Example:
5178 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
5179 broken_posts allow buggy_server
5180DOC_END
cccac0a2 5181
22fff3bf 5182NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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5183COMMENT: on|off
5184TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 5185IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 5186DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 5187LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 5188DOC_START
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5189 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
5190 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
5191
5192 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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5193DOC_END
5194
41bd17a4 5195NAME: via
626096be 5196IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5197COMMENT: on|off
5198TYPE: onoff
5199DEFAULT: on
5200LOC: Config.onoff.via
5201DOC_START
5202 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
5203 replies as required by RFC2616.
5204DOC_END
4cc6eb12 5205
41bd17a4 5206NAME: ie_refresh
5207COMMENT: on|off
5208TYPE: onoff
5209LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
5210DEFAULT: off
5211DOC_START
5212 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
5213 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
5214 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
5215 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
5216 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
5217 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
5218 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
5219 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
5220 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
5221 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
5222 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
5223 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
5224 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
5225 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
5226 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
5227 force fresh content.
5228DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5230NAME: vary_ignore_expire
5231COMMENT: on|off
5232TYPE: onoff
5233LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
5234DEFAULT: off
5235DOC_START
5236 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
5237 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
5238 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
5239 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
5240 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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5241
5242 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
5243 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 5244DOC_END
c4ab8329 5245
41bd17a4 5246NAME: request_entities
5247TYPE: onoff
5248LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
5249DEFAULT: off
5250DOC_START
5251 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
5252 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
5253 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 5254
41bd17a4 5255 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
5256 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
5257 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
5258 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
5259 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 5260DOC_END
6b53c392 5261
41bd17a4 5262NAME: request_header_access
626096be 5263IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5264TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5265LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5266DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5267DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5268DOC_START
41bd17a4 5269 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 5270
41bd17a4 5271 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5272 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5273 causes.
0976f8db 5274
41bd17a4 5275 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
5276 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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5277 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
5278 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
5279
5280 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
5281 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
5282 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
5283 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
5284 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5285
5286 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
5287 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
5288 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
5289
5290 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
5291 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
5292 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
5293 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
5294
5295 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
5296 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
5297 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
5298 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
5299 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
5300 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 5301
41bd17a4 5302 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5303 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 5304
41bd17a4 5305 request_header_access From deny all
5306 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 5307 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 5308
41bd17a4 5309 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5310 you should use:
5401aa8d 5311
41bd17a4 5312 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5313 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5314 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 5315 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
5316 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
5317 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 5318 request_header_access Host allow all
5319 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 5320 request_header_access Pragma allow all
5321 request_header_access Accept allow all
5322 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5323 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5324 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5325 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5326 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 5327
638402dd 5328 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 5329
638402dd 5330 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 5331DOC_END
5332
41bd17a4 5333NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 5334IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5335TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5336LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 5337DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5338DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5339DOC_START
41bd17a4 5340 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 5341
41bd17a4 5342 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5343 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5344 causes.
934b03fc 5345
41bd17a4 5346 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
5347 server to the client.
934b03fc 5348
41bd17a4 5349 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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5350 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
5351 documentation.
cccac0a2 5352
41bd17a4 5353 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5354 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 5355
41bd17a4 5356 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 5357 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
5358 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 5359
41bd17a4 5360 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5361 you should use:
cccac0a2 5362
41bd17a4 5363 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 5364 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 5365 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
5366 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
5367 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
5368 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
5369 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
5370 reply_header_access Date allow all
5371 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 5372 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
5373 reply_header_access Location allow all
5374 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 5375 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5376 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
5377 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 5378 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 5379 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5380 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 5381
638402dd 5382 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 5383
41bd17a4 5384 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5385 performed).
cccac0a2 5386DOC_END
5387
75e4f2ea 5388NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 5389IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5390TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 5391LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5392DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5393DOC_START
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5394 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
5395 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 5396
41bd17a4 5397 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 5398 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 5399 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 5400
41bd17a4 5401 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 5402
41bd17a4 5403 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5404DOC_END
cccac0a2 5405
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5406NAME: reply_header_replace
5407IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5408TYPE: http_header_replace
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5409LOC: Config.reply_header_access
5410DEFAULT: none
5411DOC_START
5412 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
5413 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
5414
5415 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5416 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
5417 with some fixed string.
5418
5419 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
5420
5421 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5422DOC_END
5423
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5424NAME: request_header_add
5425TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
5426LOC: Config.request_header_add
5427DEFAULT: none
5428DOC_START
5429 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
5430 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
5431
5432 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
5433 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
5434 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
5435 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
5436 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5437
5438 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
5439 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
5440 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
5441 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
5442 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
5443 header field values are not merged.
5444
5445 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
5446 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
5447 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
5448
5449 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
5450 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
5451 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
5452 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
5453 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
5454 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
5455 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
5456 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
5457
5458 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
5459 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
5460 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
5461 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
5462 only.
5463DOC_END
5464
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5465NAME: note
5466TYPE: note
5467LOC: Config.notes
5468DEFAULT: none
5469DOC_START
5470 This option used to log custom information about the master
5471 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
5472 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
5473 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
5474 authentication information.
5475 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
5476
5477 note key value acl ...
5478 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
5479DOC_END
5480
41bd17a4 5481NAME: relaxed_header_parser
5482COMMENT: on|off|warn
5483TYPE: tristate
5484LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
5485DEFAULT: on
5486DOC_START
5487 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
5488 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
5489 what the sending application intended even if the message
5490 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
5491 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 5492
41bd17a4 5493 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
5494 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 5495
41bd17a4 5496 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
5497 or response to be rejected.
5498DOC_END
7d90757b 5499
41bd17a4 5500COMMENT_START
5501 TIMEOUTS
5502 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5503COMMENT_END
5504
5505NAME: forward_timeout
5506COMMENT: time-units
5507TYPE: time_t
5508LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
5509DEFAULT: 4 minutes
5510DOC_START
5511 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
5512 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 5513DOC_END
5514
41bd17a4 5515NAME: connect_timeout
5516COMMENT: time-units
5517TYPE: time_t
5518LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
5519DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 5520DOC_START
41bd17a4 5521 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5522 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
5523 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 5524DOC_END
5525
41bd17a4 5526NAME: peer_connect_timeout
5527COMMENT: time-units
5528TYPE: time_t
5529LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
5530DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5531DOC_START
41bd17a4 5532 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
5533 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
5534 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
5535 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
5536DOC_END
7f7db318 5537
41bd17a4 5538NAME: read_timeout
5539COMMENT: time-units
5540TYPE: time_t
5541LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5542DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5543DOC_START
5544 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5545 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5546 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5547 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5548 default is 15 minutes.
5549DOC_END
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5551NAME: write_timeout
5552COMMENT: time-units
5553TYPE: time_t
5554LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5555DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5556DOC_START
5557 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5558 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5559 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5560 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5561 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5562 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5563 default is 15 minutes.
5564DOC_END
5565
41bd17a4 5566NAME: request_timeout
5567TYPE: time_t
5568LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5569DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5570DOC_START
6b2a2108 5571 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5572 connection establishment.
5573DOC_END
cccac0a2 5574
97b32442 5575NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5576TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5577LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5578DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5579DOC_START
5580 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5581 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5582DOC_END
cccac0a2 5583
41bd17a4 5584NAME: client_lifetime
5585COMMENT: time-units
5586TYPE: time_t
5587LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5588DEFAULT: 1 day
5589DOC_START
5590 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5591 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5592 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5593 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5594 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5595 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5596 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 5597
41bd17a4 5598 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5599 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5600 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5601 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5602 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5603 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5604DOC_END
5605
41bd17a4 5606NAME: half_closed_clients
5607TYPE: onoff
5608LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5609DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5610DOC_START
41bd17a4 5611 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5612 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5613 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5614 fully-closed TCP connection.
5615
5616 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5617 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5618
abdf1651 5619 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5620 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5621 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5622 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5623DOC_END
5624
97b32442 5625NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5626TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5627LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5628DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5629DOC_START
41bd17a4 5630 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5631 proxies.
5632DOC_END
cccac0a2 5633
41bd17a4 5634NAME: ident_timeout
5635TYPE: time_t
5636IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5637LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5638DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5639DOC_START
5640 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5641
41bd17a4 5642 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5643 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5644 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5645DOC_END
5646
41bd17a4 5647NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5648COMMENT: time-units
5649TYPE: time_t
5650LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5651DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5652DOC_START
41bd17a4 5653 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5654 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5655 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5656 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5657 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5658DOC_END
0976f8db 5659
cccac0a2 5660COMMENT_START
5661 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5662 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5663COMMENT_END
5664
5665NAME: cache_mgr
5666TYPE: string
5667DEFAULT: webmaster
5668LOC: Config.adminEmail
5669DOC_START
5670 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 5671 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 5672DOC_END
5673
abacf776 5674NAME: mail_from
5675TYPE: string
5676DEFAULT: none
5677LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5678DOC_START
5679 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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5680 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
5681
5682 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 5683DOC_END
5684
d084bf20 5685NAME: mail_program
5686TYPE: eol
5687DEFAULT: mail
5688LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5689DOC_START
5690 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5691 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5692 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5693 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5694
d084bf20 5695 Optional command line options can be specified.
5696DOC_END
5697
cccac0a2 5698NAME: cache_effective_user
5699TYPE: string
5483d916 5700DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5701LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5702DOC_START
5703 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5704 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5705 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5706 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5707DOC_END
5708
cccac0a2 5709NAME: cache_effective_group
5710TYPE: string
5711DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5712DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 5713LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5714DOC_START
64e288bd 5715 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5716 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5717 from the groups membership.
5718
e3d74828 5719 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5720 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5721 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5722 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5723 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5724 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5725 group.
64e288bd 5726
5727 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5728 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5729 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5730DOC_END
5731
d3caee79 5732NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5733COMMENT: on|off
5734TYPE: onoff
5735DEFAULT: off
5736LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5737DOC_START
5738 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5739DOC_END
5740
cccac0a2 5741NAME: visible_hostname
5742TYPE: string
5743LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5744DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5745DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 5746DOC_START
5747 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 5748 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 5749 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5750 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5751 names with this setting.
5752DOC_END
5753
cccac0a2 5754NAME: unique_hostname
5755TYPE: string
5756LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5757DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5758DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5759DOC_START
5760 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 5761 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5762 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 5763DOC_END
5764
cccac0a2 5765NAME: hostname_aliases
5766TYPE: wordlist
5767LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5768DEFAULT: none
5769DOC_START
7f7db318 5770 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 5771DOC_END
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5773NAME: umask
5774TYPE: int
5775LOC: Config.umask
5776DEFAULT: 027
5777DOC_START
5778 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5779 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5780
5781 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5782 your value with 0.
5783DOC_END
5784
cccac0a2 5785COMMENT_START
5786 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5787 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5788
5789 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5790 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5791 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5792 create cache hierarchies.
5793
5794 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5795 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5796 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5797
5798 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5799 following information from this configuration file:
5800
5801 http_port
5802 icp_port
5803 cache_mgr
5804
5805 All current information is processed regularly and made
5806 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5807COMMENT_END
5808
5809NAME: announce_period
5810TYPE: time_t
5811LOC: Config.Announce.period
5812DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 5813DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 5814DOC_START
638402dd 5815 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 5816
e0855596 5817 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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5819 Example:
5820 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 5821DOC_END
5822
cccac0a2 5823NAME: announce_host
5824TYPE: string
5825DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5826LOC: Config.Announce.host
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5827DOC_START
5828 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
5829
5830 See also announce_port and announce_file
5831DOC_END
cccac0a2 5832
5833NAME: announce_file
5834TYPE: string
5835DEFAULT: none
5836LOC: Config.Announce.file
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5837DOC_START
5838 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
5839 registration messages.
5840DOC_END
cccac0a2 5841
5842NAME: announce_port
ae870270 5843TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 5844DEFAULT: 3131
5845LOC: Config.Announce.port
5846DOC_START
638402dd 5847 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 5848
638402dd 5849 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 5850DOC_END
5851
8d6275c0 5852COMMENT_START
5853 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5854 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5855COMMENT_END
5856
cccac0a2 5857NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5858TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5859DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5860DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 5861LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5862DOC_START
5863 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5864 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5865 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5866 an identification token.
5867DOC_END
5868
5869NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5870COMMENT: on|off
5871TYPE: onoff
5872DEFAULT: off
5873LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5874DOC_START
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5875 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
5876 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
5877
cccac0a2 5878 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5879DOC_END
5880
5881NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5882IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5883COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5884TYPE: string
5885LOC: ESIParser::Type
5886DEFAULT: custom
5887DOC_START
5888 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5889 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5890 encodings.
5891DOC_END
0976f8db 5892
9edd9041 5893COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5894 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5895 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5896COMMENT_END
5897
5898NAME: delay_pools
5899TYPE: delay_pool_count
5900DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5901IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5902LOC: Config.Delay
5903DOC_START
5904 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5905 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5906 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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5907
5908 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
5909 configuration details.
9edd9041 5910DOC_END
5911
5912NAME: delay_class
5913TYPE: delay_pool_class
5914DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5915IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5916LOC: Config.Delay
5917DOC_START
5918 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5919 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5920 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5921 and here would be:
5922
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5923 Example:
5924 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5925 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5926 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5927 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5928 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5929
5930 The delay pool classes are:
5931
5932 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5933 bucket.
5934
5935 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5936 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5937 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5938
5939 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5940 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5941 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5942 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5943 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5944
5945 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5946 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5947 only takes effect if the username is established
5948 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5949 http_access rules.
5950
5951 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5952 external_acl's tag= reply).
5953
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5954
5955 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5956 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5957 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5958
9edd9041 5959 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5960 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5961 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5962 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5963
5964 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5965 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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5966
5967 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5968 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5969
5970 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 5971DOC_END
5972
5973NAME: delay_access
5974TYPE: delay_pool_access
5975DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5976DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 5977IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5978LOC: Config.Delay
5979DOC_START
5980 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5981
5982 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5983 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5984 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5985 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5986
5987 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5988 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5989
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5990 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5991 delay_access 1 deny all
5992 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5993 delay_access 2 deny all
5994 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5995
5996 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
5997
9edd9041 5998DOC_END
5999
6000NAME: delay_parameters
6001TYPE: delay_pool_rates
6002DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6003IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6004LOC: Config.Delay
6005DOC_START
6006 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
6007 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 6008 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 6009
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6010 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6011 delay_pools pool 1
6012 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 6013
6014 For a class 2 delay pool:
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6015 delay_pools pool 2
6016 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 6017
6018 For a class 3 delay pool:
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6019 delay_pools pool 3
6020 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 6021
6022 For a class 4 delay pool:
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6023 delay_pools pool 4
6024 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 6025
6026 For a class 5 delay pool:
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6027 delay_pools pool 5
6028 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 6029
0b68481a 6030 The option variables are:
9edd9041 6031
6032 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
6033 number specified in delay_pools as used in
6034 delay_class lines.
6035
fdb47ac6 6036 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 6037 (class 1, 2, 3).
6038
fdb47ac6 6039 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 6040 buckets (class 2, 3).
6041
fdb47ac6 6042 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 6043 (class 3).
6044
fdb47ac6 6045 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 6046 (class 4).
6047
fdb47ac6 6048 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 6049 (class 5).
6050
6051 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
6052 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
6053 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
6054 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
6055
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6056 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
6057
6058
9edd9041 6059 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 6060 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 6061 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
6062
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6063 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
6064
6065 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 6066
6067 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
6068
0b68481a 6069
9edd9041 6070 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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6071 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
6072 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
6073 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 6074 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
6075 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
6076 large downloads more significantly:
6077
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6078 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
6079
6080 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
6081 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
6082 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 6083
9edd9041 6084
6085 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 6086 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 6087
0b68481a 6088 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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6089
6090
6091 See also delay_class and delay_access.
6092
9edd9041 6093DOC_END
6094
6095NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
6096COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 6097TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 6098DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6099IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6100LOC: Config.Delay.initial
6101DOC_START
6102 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
6103 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
6104 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
6105 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
6106 "seen" by squid).
6107DOC_END
6108
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6109COMMENT_START
6110 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
6111 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6112COMMENT_END
6113
6114NAME: client_delay_pools
6115TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
6116DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6117IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6118LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6119DOC_START
6120 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
6121 preceed other client_delay_* options.
6122
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6123 Example:
6124 client_delay_pools 2
6125
6126 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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6127DOC_END
6128
6129NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
6130COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 6131TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 6132DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6133IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6134LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
6135DOC_START
6136 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
6137 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
6138 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
6139 buckets are periodically deleted up.
6140
6141 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
6142 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
6143 from client_delay_parameters.
6144
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6145 Example:
6146 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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6147DOC_END
6148
6149NAME: client_delay_parameters
6150TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
6151DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6152IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6153LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6154DOC_START
6155
6156 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
6157 following format:
6158
6159 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
6160
6161 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
6162
6163 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
6164
6165 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
6166 speed_limit additions.
6167
6168 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
6169 examples.
6170
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6171 Example:
6172 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
6173 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
6174
6175 See also client_delay_access.
6176
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6177DOC_END
6178
6179NAME: client_delay_access
6180TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
6181DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6182DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6183IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6184LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6185DOC_START
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6186 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
6187 request:
6188
6189 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
6190
6191 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
6192 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
6193 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
6194 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
6195 limited.
6196
6197 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
6198 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
6199 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
6200 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
6201
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6202 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6203 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6204 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
6205 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
6206
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6207 Please see delay_access for more examples.
6208
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6209 Example:
6210 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
6211 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
6212
6213
6214 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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6215DOC_END
6216
cccac0a2 6217COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6218 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 6219 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6220COMMENT_END
6221
8d6275c0 6222NAME: wccp_router
6223TYPE: address
6224LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 6225DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6226DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 6227IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6228DOC_START
6229 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6230 Squid.
6231
6232 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
6233
6234 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
6235
6236 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6237 which version of WCCP to use.
6238DOC_END
df2eec10 6239
8d6275c0 6240NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 6241TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 6242LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 6243DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6244DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 6245IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6246DOC_START
8d6275c0 6247 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6248 Squid.
cccac0a2 6249
8d6275c0 6250 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 6251
8d6275c0 6252 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 6253
8d6275c0 6254 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6255 which version of WCCP to use.
6256DOC_END
6257
6258NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 6259TYPE: int
8d6275c0 6260LOC: Config.Wccp.version
6261DEFAULT: 4
6262IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 6263DOC_START
8d6275c0 6264 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
6265 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
6266 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
6267 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
6268 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 6269
8d6275c0 6270 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
6271 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
6272 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
6273 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 6274DOC_END
6275
8d6275c0 6276NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
6277TYPE: onoff
6278LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
6279DEFAULT: on
6280IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6281DOC_START
6282 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
6283 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
6284DOC_END
cccac0a2 6285
8d6275c0 6286NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 6287TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6288LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 6289DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6290IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6291DOC_START
699acd19 6292 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 6293 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6294
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6295 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6296 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6297
8d6275c0 6298 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6299 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 6300DOC_END
6301
8d6275c0 6302NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 6303TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6304LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 6305DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6306IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6307DOC_START
699acd19 6308 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 6309 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
6310 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6311
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6312 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6313 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6314
8d6275c0 6315 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6316 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 6317
699acd19 6318 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 6319 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
6320 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
6321 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 6322DOC_END
6323
8d6275c0 6324NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 6325TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 6326LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 6327DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 6328IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6329DOC_START
8d6275c0 6330 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
6331 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6332
451c4786 6333 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 6334 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 6335
8d6275c0 6336 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
6337 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
6338DOC_END
cccac0a2 6339
8d6275c0 6340NAME: wccp2_service
6341TYPE: wccp2_service
6342LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 6343DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 6344DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 6345IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6346DOC_START
6347 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
6348 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
6349 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
6350 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
6351 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
6352 using the wccp2_service_info option.
6353
6354 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
6355 just specifying the service id will suffice.
6356
6357 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
6358 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
6359
6360 Examples:
6361
6362 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
6363 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
6364 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
6365 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 6366DOC_END
6367
6368NAME: wccp2_service_info
6369TYPE: wccp2_service_info
6370LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
6371DEFAULT: none
6372IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6373DOC_START
6374 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
6375 traffic you wish to have diverted.
6376
6377 The format is:
6378
6379 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
6380 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
6381
6382 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
6383 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 6384 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 6385 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
6386 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
6387 + ports_source
6388
6389 The port list can be one to eight entries.
6390
6391 Example:
6392
6393 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
6394 priority=240 ports=80
6395
6396 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
6397 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
6398DOC_END
6399
6400NAME: wccp2_weight
6401TYPE: int
6402LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
6403DEFAULT: 10000
6404IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6405DOC_START
6406 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
6407 hash proportional to their weight.
6408DOC_END
6409
6410NAME: wccp_address
6411TYPE: address
6412LOC: Config.Wccp.address
6413DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6414DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6415IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6416DOC_START
6417 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
6418 interface address.
6419
6420 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6421DOC_END
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8d6275c0 6423NAME: wccp2_address
6424TYPE: address
6425LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
6426DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6427DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6428IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6429DOC_START
6430 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
6431 interface address.
6432
6433 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6434DOC_END
6435
6436COMMENT_START
6437 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
6438 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6439
6440 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
6441COMMENT_END
6442
6443NAME: client_persistent_connections
6444TYPE: onoff
6445LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
6446DEFAULT: on
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6447DOC_START
6448 Persistent connection support for clients.
6449 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6450 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
6451DOC_END
8d6275c0 6452
6453NAME: server_persistent_connections
6454TYPE: onoff
6455LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
6456DEFAULT: on
6457DOC_START
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6458 Persistent connection support for servers.
6459 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6460 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 6461DOC_END
6462
6463NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
6464TYPE: onoff
6465LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 6466DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 6467DOC_START
6468 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
6469 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
6470 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
6471DOC_END
6472
6473NAME: detect_broken_pconn
6474TYPE: onoff
6475LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
6476DEFAULT: off
6477DOC_START
6478 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
6479 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
6480 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
6481 has mostly been seen on redirects.
6482
6483 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
6484 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
6485 after 10 seconds timeout.
6486DOC_END
6487
6488COMMENT_START
6489 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
6490 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6491COMMENT_END
6492
6493NAME: digest_generation
6494IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6495TYPE: onoff
6496LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
6497DEFAULT: on
6498DOC_START
6499 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
6500 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 6501 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 6502DOC_END
6503
6504NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
6505IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6506TYPE: int
6507LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
6508DEFAULT: 5
6509DOC_START
6510 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
6511 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
6512 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
6513DOC_END
6514
6515NAME: digest_rebuild_period
6516IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6517COMMENT: (seconds)
6518TYPE: time_t
6519LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
6520DEFAULT: 1 hour
6521DOC_START
749ceff8 6522 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 6523DOC_END
6524
6525NAME: digest_rewrite_period
6526COMMENT: (seconds)
6527IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6528TYPE: time_t
6529LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
6530DEFAULT: 1 hour
6531DOC_START
749ceff8 6532 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 6533 disk.
6534DOC_END
6535
6536NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
6537COMMENT: (bytes)
6538TYPE: b_size_t
6539IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6540LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
6541DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
6542DOC_START
6543 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
6544 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
6545 default swap page.
6546DOC_END
6547
6548NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
6549COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
6550IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6551TYPE: int
6552LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
6553DEFAULT: 10
6554DOC_START
6555 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
6556 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
6557DOC_END
6558
1db9eacd 6559COMMENT_START
5473c134 6560 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 6561 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6562COMMENT_END
6563
5473c134 6564NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 6565TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6566LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 6567DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6568DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 6569IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6570DOC_START
87630341 6571 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
6572 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
6573 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
6574 set to "0" (disabled)
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6575
6576 Example:
6577 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 6578DOC_END
6579
5473c134 6580NAME: snmp_access
6581TYPE: acl_access
6582LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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6583DEFAULT: none
6584DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 6585IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6586DOC_START
5473c134 6587 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 6588
5473c134 6589 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6590 usage:
8d6275c0 6591
5473c134 6592 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 6593
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6594 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6595 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 6596
5473c134 6597Example:
6598 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6599 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 6600DOC_END
6601
5473c134 6602NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6603TYPE: address
6604LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6605DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6606DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 6607IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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6608DOC_START
6609 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
6610
6611 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6612 messages from SNMP agents.
6613
6614 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
6615 available network interfaces.
6616DOC_END
df2eec10 6617
5473c134 6618NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6619TYPE: address
6620LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6621DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6622DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 6623IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6624DOC_START
638402dd 6625 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6626
5473c134 6627 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6628 agents.
cccac0a2 6629
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6630 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6631 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6632 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6633 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6634
5473c134 6635 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 6636 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6637DOC_END
6638
5473c134 6639COMMENT_START
6640 ICP OPTIONS
6641 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6642COMMENT_END
6643
6644NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6645TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6646DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6647DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 6648LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6649DOC_START
5473c134 6650 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6651 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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6652
6653 Example:
6654 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6655DOC_END
6656
5473c134 6657NAME: htcp_port
6658IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6659TYPE: u_short
87630341 6660DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6661DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 6662LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6663DOC_START
5473c134 6664 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6665 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 6666 4827.
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6667
6668 Example:
6669 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6670DOC_END
6671
6672NAME: log_icp_queries
6673COMMENT: on|off
6674TYPE: onoff
6675DEFAULT: on
6676LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6677DOC_START
6678 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6679 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6680 up or to simplify log analysis.
6681DOC_END
6682
5473c134 6683NAME: udp_incoming_address
6684TYPE: address
6685LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6686DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6687DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 6688DOC_START
6689 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6690 caches.
6691
6692 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6693
6694 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6695 a specific interface/address.
6696
6697 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6698 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6699
6700 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6701
6702 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6703 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6704DOC_END
cccac0a2 6705
5473c134 6706NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6707TYPE: address
6708LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6709DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6710DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 6711DOC_START
8524d4b2 6712 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6713 caches.
cccac0a2 6714
5473c134 6715 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6716
8524d4b2 6717 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6718 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6719 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6720 caches.
6721
8524d4b2 6722 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6723 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6724
6725 see also; udp_incoming_address
6726
5473c134 6727 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6728 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6729DOC_END
6730
3d1e3e43 6731NAME: icp_hit_stale
6732COMMENT: on|off
6733TYPE: onoff
6734DEFAULT: off
6735LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6736DOC_START
6737 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6738 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6739 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6740 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6741 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6742 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6743 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6744DOC_END
6745
5473c134 6746NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 6747TYPE: int
5473c134 6748DEFAULT: 4
6749LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 6750DOC_START
5473c134 6751 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6752 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 6753DOC_END
6754
5473c134 6755NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 6756COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 6757TYPE: int
6758DEFAULT: 400
6759LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 6760DOC_START
5473c134 6761 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6762 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 6763DOC_END
6764
cccac0a2 6765NAME: netdb_low
6766TYPE: int
6767DEFAULT: 900
6768LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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6769DOC_START
6770 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
6771
6772 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
6773
6774 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6775 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
6776 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
6777 mark is reached.
6778DOC_END
cccac0a2 6779
6780NAME: netdb_high
6781TYPE: int
6782DEFAULT: 1000
6783LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6784DOC_START
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6785 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
6786
6787 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
6788
6789 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6790 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
6791 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
6792 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 6793DOC_END
6794
cccac0a2 6795NAME: netdb_ping_period
6796TYPE: time_t
6797LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6798DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6799DOC_START
6800 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6801 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6802 network. The default is five minutes.
6803DOC_END
6804
cccac0a2 6805NAME: query_icmp
6806COMMENT: on|off
6807TYPE: onoff
6808DEFAULT: off
6809LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6810DOC_START
6811 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6812 replies, enable this option.
6813
6814 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 6815 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6816 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 6817 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6818 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6819 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6820 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6821 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6822DOC_END
6823
6824NAME: test_reachability
6825COMMENT: on|off
6826TYPE: onoff
6827DEFAULT: off
6828LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6829DOC_START
6830 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6831 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6832 database, or has a zero RTT.
6833DOC_END
6834
5473c134 6835NAME: icp_query_timeout
6836COMMENT: (msec)
6837DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6838DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 6839TYPE: int
6840LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 6841DOC_START
5473c134 6842 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6843 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6844 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6845 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6846 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6847 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 6848
5473c134 6849 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 6850DOC_END
6851
5473c134 6852NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6853COMMENT: (msec)
6854DEFAULT: 2000
6855TYPE: int
6856LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 6857DOC_START
5473c134 6858 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6859 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6860 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6861 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6862 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6863 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6864DOC_END
6865
5473c134 6866NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6867COMMENT: (msec)
6868DEFAULT: 5
6869TYPE: int
6870LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 6871DOC_START
5473c134 6872 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6873 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6874 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6875 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6876 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6877 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6878 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6879DOC_END
6880
5473c134 6881NAME: background_ping_rate
6882COMMENT: time-units
6883TYPE: time_t
6884DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6885LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 6886DOC_START
5473c134 6887 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6888 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 6889DOC_END
6890
5473c134 6891COMMENT_START
6892 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6893 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6894COMMENT_END
6895
6896NAME: mcast_groups
6897TYPE: wordlist
6898LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 6899DEFAULT: none
6900DOC_START
5473c134 6901 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6902 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 6903
5473c134 6904 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6905 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6906 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6907 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6908 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6909 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6910 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 6911
5473c134 6912 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6913 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 6914
5473c134 6915 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
6916 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 6917
5473c134 6918 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 6919
5473c134 6920 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6921DOC_END
8c01ada0 6922
5473c134 6923NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6924IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6925TYPE: address
6926LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 6927DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6928DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 6929DOC_START
6930 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6931 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 6932
5473c134 6933 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6934 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 6935DOC_END
6936
5473c134 6937NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6938IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6939TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6940LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6941DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 6942DOC_START
5473c134 6943 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6944 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6945 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6946DOC_END
cccac0a2 6947
5473c134 6948NAME: mcast_miss_port
6949IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6950TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6951LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6952DEFAULT: 3135
6953DOC_START
6954 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6955 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6956DOC_END
cccac0a2 6957
5473c134 6958NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6959IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6960TYPE: string
6961LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6962DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6963DOC_START
6964 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6965 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6966DOC_END
8c01ada0 6967
5473c134 6968NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6969COMMENT: (msec)
6970DEFAULT: 2000
6971TYPE: int
6972LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6973DOC_START
6974 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6975 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6976 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6977 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6978 seconds.
cccac0a2 6979DOC_END
6980
5473c134 6981COMMENT_START
6982 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6983 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6984COMMENT_END
6985
cccac0a2 6986NAME: icon_directory
6987TYPE: string
6988LOC: Config.icons.directory
6989DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6990DOC_START
6991 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6992 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6993DOC_END
6994
f024c970 6995NAME: global_internal_static
6996TYPE: onoff
6997LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6998DEFAULT: on
6999DOC_START
7000 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
7001 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
7002 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
7003 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
7004 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
7005 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
7006 the server generating a directory listing.
7007DOC_END
7008
5473c134 7009NAME: short_icon_urls
7010TYPE: onoff
7011LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
7012DEFAULT: on
7013DOC_START
7014 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
7015 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
7016 it's own name and port in the URL.
7017
7018 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7019 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
7020DOC_END
7021
7022COMMENT_START
7023 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
7024 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7025COMMENT_END
7026
7027NAME: error_directory
7028TYPE: string
7029LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 7030DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7031DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 7032DOC_START
7033 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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7034 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
7035 the error/template files to another directory and point
7036 this tag at them.
7037
7038 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
7039 on error pages if used.
5473c134 7040
7041 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7042 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 7043 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 7044 contributing your translation back to the project.
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7045 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
7046
7047 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
7048 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
7049DOC_END
7050
7051NAME: error_default_language
7052IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7053TYPE: string
7054LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
7055DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7056DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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7057DOC_START
7058 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
7059 if no existing translation matches the clients language
7060 preferences.
7061
7062 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
7063
7064 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7065 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
7066 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
7067 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 7068DOC_END
7069
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7070NAME: error_log_languages
7071IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7072TYPE: onoff
7073LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
7074DEFAULT: on
7075DOC_START
7076 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
7077 auto-negotiate for translations.
7078
7079 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
7080 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 7081 of its error page translations.
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7082DOC_END
7083
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7084NAME: err_page_stylesheet
7085TYPE: string
7086LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
7087DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
7088DOC_START
7089 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
7090
7091 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
7092DOC_END
7093
5473c134 7094NAME: err_html_text
7095TYPE: eol
7096LOC: Config.errHtmlText
7097DEFAULT: none
7098DOC_START
7099 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
7100 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
7101 organizations Web page.
7102
7103 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
7104 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
7105 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
7106 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
7107DOC_END
7108
7109NAME: email_err_data
7110COMMENT: on|off
7111TYPE: onoff
7112LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
7113DEFAULT: on
7114DOC_START
7115 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
7116 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7117 so that the email body contains the data.
7118 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
7119DOC_END
7120
7121NAME: deny_info
7122TYPE: denyinfo
7123LOC: Config.denyInfoList
7124DEFAULT: none
7125DOC_START
7126 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
7127 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 7128 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 7129
7130 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
7131 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
7132 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
7133 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
7134
7135 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
7136 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
7137 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
7138 the first authentication related acl encountered
7139 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
7140 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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7141 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
7142 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 7143
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7144 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
7145 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
7146 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 7147
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7148 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
7149 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
7150 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
7151
5473c134 7152 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
7153 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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7154
7155 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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7156 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
7157 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
7158 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
7159 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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7160
7161 URL FORMAT TAGS:
7162 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
7163 %B - FTP path URL
7164 %e - Error number
7165 %E - Error description
7166 %h - Squid hostname
7167 %H - Request domain name
7168 %i - Client IP Address
7169 %M - Request Method
7170 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
7171 %p - Request Port number
7172 %P - Request Protocol name
7173 %R - Request URL path
7174 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
7175 %U - Full canonical URL from client
7176 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
7177 %u - Full canonical URL from client
7178 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 7179 %x - Error name
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7180 %% - Literal percent (%) code
7181
5473c134 7182DOC_END
7183
7184COMMENT_START
7185 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
7186 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7187COMMENT_END
7188
7189NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7190TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7191LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7192DEFAULT: on
7193DOC_START
5473c134 7194 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
7195 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
7196 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 7197
638402dd 7198 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 7199 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 7200
5473c134 7201 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
7202 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
7203 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 7204
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7205 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
7206 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
7207 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 7208DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 7209
5473c134 7210NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7211TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7212LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7213DEFAULT: off
7214DOC_START
5473c134 7215 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
7216 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7217 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 7218
5473c134 7219 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
7220 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
7221 fails.
7222
7223 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
7224 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
7225 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 7226DOC_END
7227
5473c134 7228NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 7229TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 7230LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 7231DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7232DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 7233DOC_START
5473c134 7234 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 7235
5473c134 7236 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
7237 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
7238 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
7239 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
7240 something like:
0b0cfcf2 7241
5473c134 7242 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
7243 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 7244
5473c134 7245 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 7246
5473c134 7247 acl FTP proto FTP
7248 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 7249
5473c134 7250 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
7251 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
7252 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
7253 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
7254 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 7255
5473c134 7256 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7257 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
7258 always_direct deny local-external
7259 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 7260
5473c134 7261 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
7262 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
7263 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
7264 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 7265
5473c134 7266 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
7267 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 7268 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 7269
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7270 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7271 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 7272DOC_END
0976f8db 7273
5473c134 7274NAME: never_direct
7275TYPE: acl_access
7276LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
7277DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7278DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 7279DOC_START
5473c134 7280 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7281
7282 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
7283 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
7284
7285 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
7286 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
7287 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
7288 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
7289
7290 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 7291 never_direct deny local-servers
7292 never_direct allow all
7293
7294 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
7295 servers inside the firewall use something like:
7296
7297 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
7298 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7299 always_direct deny local-external
7300 always_direct allow local-intranet
7301 never_direct allow all
7302
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7303 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7304 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 7305DOC_END
0976f8db 7306
5473c134 7307COMMENT_START
7308 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
7309 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7310COMMENT_END
7311
65d448bc 7312NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 7313TYPE: int
7314DEFAULT: 6
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7315LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
7316DOC_START
7317 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7318 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7319 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7320DOC_END
cccac0a2 7321
65d448bc 7322NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 7323TYPE: int
7324DEFAULT: 4
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7325LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
7326DOC_START
7327 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7328 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7329 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7330DOC_END
cccac0a2 7331
7332NAME: incoming_dns_average
7333TYPE: int
7334DEFAULT: 4
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7335LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
7336DOC_START
7337 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7338 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7339 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7340DOC_END
cccac0a2 7341
65d448bc 7342NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7343TYPE: int
7344DEFAULT: 8
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7345LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
7346DOC_START
7347 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7348 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7349 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7350DOC_END
cccac0a2 7351
7352NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
7353TYPE: int
7354DEFAULT: 8
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7355LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
7356DOC_START
7357 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7358 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7359 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7360DOC_END
cccac0a2 7361
65d448bc 7362NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7363TYPE: int
7364DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 7365LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 7366DOC_START
5473c134 7367 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7368 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7369 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7370DOC_END
7371
7372NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 7373TYPE: string
7374DEFAULT: none
7375LOC: Config.accept_filter
7376DOC_START
0b4d4be5 7377 FreeBSD:
7378
5473c134 7379 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
7380 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
7381 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
7382
7383 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 7384 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 7385 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
7386
7387 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
7388 to Squid until there is some data to process.
7389 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
7390
7391 Linux:
7392
7393 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
7394 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
7395 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
7396 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
7397 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 7398EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 7399# FreeBSD
5473c134 7400accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 7401# Linux
7402accept_filter data
5473c134 7403DOC_END
7404
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7405NAME: client_ip_max_connections
7406TYPE: int
7407LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
7408DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7409DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
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7410DOC_START
7411 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
7412 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
7413 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
7414
7415 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
7416 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
7417
7418 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
7419
7420 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
7421 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
7422DOC_END
7423
5473c134 7424NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
7425COMMENT: (bytes)
7426TYPE: b_size_t
7427DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 7428DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 7429LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
7430DOC_START
7431 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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7432 as easy to change your kernel's default.
7433 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 7434DOC_END
7435
7436COMMENT_START
7437 ICAP OPTIONS
7438 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7439COMMENT_END
7440
7441NAME: icap_enable
7442TYPE: onoff
7443IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7444COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7445LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 7446DEFAULT: off
7447DOC_START
53e738c6 7448 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 7449DOC_END
7450
7451NAME: icap_connect_timeout
7452TYPE: time_t
7453DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7454LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 7455IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7456DOC_START
7457 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7458 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
7459 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
7460
7461 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
7462 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
7463 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
7464DOC_END
7465
7466NAME: icap_io_timeout
7467COMMENT: time-units
7468TYPE: time_t
7469DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7470DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 7471LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 7472IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7473DOC_START
7474 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
7475 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
7476 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
7477 failure.
5473c134 7478DOC_END
7479
7480NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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7481COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
7482TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 7483IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 7484LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7485DEFAULT: 10
7486DOC_START
7487 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
7488 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
7489 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
7490 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 7491 OPTIONS.
5473c134 7492
7493 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
7494 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
7495 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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7496
7497 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
7498 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
7499 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
7500 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
7501 value into ten time slots of equal length.
7502
7503 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
7504 effect on service failure expiration.
7505
7506 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
7507 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
7508 setting.
7509
7510 For example,
7511 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
7512 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 7513DOC_END
7514
5473c134 7515NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 7516TYPE: int
5473c134 7517IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7518LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 7519DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 7520DOC_START
5473c134 7521 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
7522 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
7523 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
7524 fetched.
cccac0a2 7525
5473c134 7526 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
7527 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 7528DOC_END
7529
5473c134 7530NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 7531TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7532IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7533COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7534LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 7535DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7536DOC_START
ac7a62f9 7537 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
7538 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
7539 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
7540 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
7541
7542 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
7543 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
7544 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
7545
7546 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
7547 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
7548Example:
7549icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 7550DOC_END
7551
5473c134 7552NAME: icap_preview_size
7553TYPE: int
7554IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7555LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 7556DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7557DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 7558DOC_START
53e738c6 7559 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 7560 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 7561DOC_END
7562
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7563NAME: icap_206_enable
7564TYPE: onoff
7565IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7566COMMENT: on|off
7567LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
7568DEFAULT: on
7569DOC_START
7570 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
7571 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
7572 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
7573 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
7574
7575 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
7576 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
7577 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
7578 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
7579 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
7580
7581 Example:
7582 icap_206_enable off
7583DOC_END
7584
5473c134 7585NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
7586TYPE: int
7587IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7588LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 7589DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 7590DOC_START
53e738c6 7591 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 7592 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 7593DOC_END
7594
5473c134 7595NAME: icap_persistent_connections
7596TYPE: onoff
7597IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7598COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7599LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 7600DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7601DOC_START
5473c134 7602 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
7603 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 7604DOC_END
7605
22fff3bf 7606NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 7607TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7608IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7609COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7610LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 7611DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7612DOC_START
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7613 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
7614 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
7615 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
7616
7617 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 7618DOC_END
7619
22fff3bf 7620NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 7621TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7622IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7623COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7624LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 7625DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7626DOC_START
5473c134 7627 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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7628 the adaptation service.
7629
7630 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 7631 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7632 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 7633DOC_END
7634
5473c134 7635NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7636TYPE: string
5473c134 7637IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7638LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7639DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7640DOC_START
db49f682 7641 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7642DOC_END
7643
5473c134 7644NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7645TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7646IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7647COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7648LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7649DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7650DOC_START
5473c134 7651 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7652DOC_END
7653
5473c134 7654NAME: icap_service
7655TYPE: icap_service_type
7656IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7657LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7658DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7659DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7660 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7661
c25c2836 7662 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 7663
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7664 id: ID
7665 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7666 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7667 services in squid.conf.
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7668
7669 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7670 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7671 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7672 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7673
c25c2836 7674 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
a22e6cd3
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7675 ICAP server and service location.
7676
7677 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7678 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7679 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7680 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7681 service_names differ.
7682
7683
7684 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7685 the following name=value options:
7686
7687 bypass=on|off|1|0
7688 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7689 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7690 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7691 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7692 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7693 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7694 returned to the HTTP client.
7695
7696 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7697
7698 routing=on|off|1|0
7699 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7700 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7701 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7702 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7703 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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7704 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7705 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7706 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7707
7708 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7709 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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7710
7711 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7712 response header is ignored.
7713
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7714 ipv6=on|off
7715 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
7716 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
7717 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
7718
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7719 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
7720 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
7721 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
7722 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
7723 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
7724 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
7725 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
7726
7727 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
7728 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
7729 workers may use a given service.
7730
7731 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
7732 otherwise it is set to "wait".
7733
7734
7735 max-conn=number
7736 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7737 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7738
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7739 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7740 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 7741
5473c134 7742Example:
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7743icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7744icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 7745DOC_END
7746
5473c134 7747NAME: icap_class
7748TYPE: icap_class_type
7749IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7750LOC: none
5473c134 7751DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7752DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7753 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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7754 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7755 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 7756
62c7f90e 7757 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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7758 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7759 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 7760DOC_END
7761
5473c134 7762NAME: icap_access
7763TYPE: icap_access_type
7764IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7765LOC: none
cccac0a2 7766DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7767DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7768 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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7769 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7770 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 7771DOC_END
7772
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7773COMMENT_START
7774 eCAP OPTIONS
7775 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7776COMMENT_END
7777
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7778NAME: ecap_enable
7779TYPE: onoff
7780IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7781COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 7782LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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7783DEFAULT: off
7784DOC_START
7785 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7786DOC_END
7787
7788NAME: ecap_service
7789TYPE: ecap_service_type
7790IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 7791LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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7792DEFAULT: none
7793DOC_START
7794 Defines a single eCAP service
7795
c25c2836 7796 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 7797
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7798 id: ID
7799 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7800 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7801 services in squid.conf.
7802
7803 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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7804 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7805 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7806 are not yet supported.
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7807
7808 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7809 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7810 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7811 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7812 the service provider.
7813
7814
7815 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7816 the following name=value options:
7817
7818 bypass=on|off|1|0
7819 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7820 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7821 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 7822 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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7823 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7824 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 7825 HTTP client.
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7826
7827 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7828
7829 routing=on|off|1|0
7830 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7831 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7832 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7833
7834 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7835 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7836
7837 Routing is not allowed by default.
7838
7839 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7840 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7841
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7842
7843Example:
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7844ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7845ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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7846DOC_END
7847
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7848NAME: loadable_modules
7849TYPE: wordlist
7850IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7851LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7852DEFAULT: none
7853DOC_START
7854 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7855 preloaded module(s).
7856Example:
7857loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7858DOC_END
7859
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7860COMMENT_START
7861 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7862 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7863COMMENT_END
7864
7865NAME: adaptation_service_set
7866TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7867IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7868LOC: none
7869DEFAULT: none
7870DOC_START
7871
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7872 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
7873 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7874
7875 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7876
7877 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7878 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7879 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7880 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7881 intact.
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7883 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7884 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
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7886 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7887 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7888
7889 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7890 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7891 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7892 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7893 transaction fails as well.
7894
7895 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7896 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7897 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7898 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7899 matters.
7900
7901 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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7903Example:
7904adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7905adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7906DOC_END
7907
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7908NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7909TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7910IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7911LOC: none
7912DEFAULT: none
7913DOC_START
7914
7915 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
7916 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
7917 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
7918
7919 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
7920
7921 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
7922 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
7923 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7924 the previous service in the chain.
7925
7926 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7927 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7928
7929 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7930 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7931 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7932
7933 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7934 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7935
7936 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7937 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7938 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7939 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7940
7941 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7942
7943Example:
7944adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7945DOC_END
7946
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7947NAME: adaptation_access
7948TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7949IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7950LOC: none
7951DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7952DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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7953DOC_START
7954 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7955
7956 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7957 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7958
7959 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7960 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7961 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7962 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7963
7964 - services serving different vectoring points
7965 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7966 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7967 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7968
7969 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7970 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7971 adaptation_service_set for details.
7972
7973 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7974 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7975 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7976 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7977
7978 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7979 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7980
7981 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7982
7983Example:
7984adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7985DOC_END
7986
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7987NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7988TYPE: int
7989IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7990LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7991DEFAULT: 16
7992DOC_START
7993 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7994 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7995 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7996 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7997 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7998 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7999
8000 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
8001
8002 See also: icap_service routing=1
8003DOC_END
8004
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8005NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
8006TYPE: string
8007IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8008LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
8009DEFAULT: none
8010DOC_START
8011 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
8012 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
8013 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
8014 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
8015 with the master transaction.
8016
8017 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
8018 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
8019
8020 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8021 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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8022 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
8023
8024 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8025 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
8026 to provide an option with a name specified in
8027 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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8029 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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8030 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
8031
8032 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
8033
8034Example:
8035# share authentication information among ICAP services
8036adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
8037DOC_END
8038
71be37e0 8039NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 8040TYPE: note
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8041IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8042LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
8043DEFAULT: none
8044DOC_START
8045 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
8046 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
8047 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
8048 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
8049
8050 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
8051 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
8052
8053 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
8054 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
8055 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
8056 example:
8057
8058 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
8059 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
8060
8061 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
8062 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
8063
8064 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
8065 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
8066
8067 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
8068 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
8069 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
8070 and double quotes. For example,
8071 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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8072
8073 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
8074 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
8075 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
8076 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
8077 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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8079
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8080NAME: icap_retry
8081TYPE: acl_access
8082IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8083LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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8084DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
8085DOC_START
8086 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
8087 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
8088 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
8089 that response are usually retriable.
8090
8091 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8092
8093 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
8094 due to persistent connection race conditions.
8095
8096 See also: icap_retry_limit
8097DOC_END
8098
8099NAME: icap_retry_limit
8100TYPE: int
8101IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8102LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
8103DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8104DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 8105DOC_START
638402dd 8106 Limits the number of retries allowed.
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8107
8108 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
8109 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
8110 count against this limit.
8111
8112 See also: icap_retry
8113DOC_END
8114
8115
5473c134 8116COMMENT_START
8117 DNS OPTIONS
8118 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8119COMMENT_END
8120
8121NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8122TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8123DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8124LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8125DOC_START
5473c134 8126 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
8127 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
8128 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 8129DOC_END
8130
5473c134 8131NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8132TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8133DEFAULT: on
5473c134 8134LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8135DOC_START
5473c134 8136 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
8137 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
8138 Squid to be strict about the standard.
8139 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 8140DOC_END
8141
5473c134 8142NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 8143TYPE: string
f64091a7 8144IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 8145DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
8146LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 8147DOC_START
5473c134 8148 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 8149DOC_END
8150
5473c134 8151NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 8152TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 8153IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 8154DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 8155LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 8156DOC_START
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8157 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
8158 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
8159 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
8160 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
8161 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
8162
8163 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
8164 tuning.
8165
8166 startup=
8167
8168 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
8169 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
8170 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
8171
8172 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
8173 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
8174
8175 idle=
8176
8177 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
8178 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
8179 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
8180 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 8181DOC_END
8182
5473c134 8183NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 8184TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 8185DEFAULT: 5 seconds
8186LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 8187IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 8188DOC_START
5473c134 8189 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
8190 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 8191DOC_END
8192
5473c134 8193NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 8194TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 8195DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 8196LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 8197IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 8198DOC_START
5473c134 8199 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
8200 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
8201 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 8202DOC_END
8203
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8204NAME: dns_packet_max
8205TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 8206DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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8207DEFAULT: none
8208LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 8209IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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8210DOC_START
8211 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
8212 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
8213
8214 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
8215 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
8216 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
8217 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
8218 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
8219
8220 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
8221 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
8222 necessary.
8223
8224 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
8225 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
8226 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
8227 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
8228 sizes being advertised by Squid.
8229 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
8230 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
8231DOC_END
8232
5473c134 8233NAME: dns_defnames
8234COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 8235TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8236DEFAULT: off
638402dd 8237DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 8238LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 8239DOC_START
5473c134 8240 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
8241 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
8242 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
8243 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 8244DOC_END
8245
5473c134 8246NAME: dns_nameservers
8247TYPE: wordlist
8248DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8249DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5473c134 8250LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 8251DOC_START
5473c134 8252 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
8253 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
8254 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 8255
5473c134 8256 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
8257 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
8258 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
8259 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 8260
5473c134 8261 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 8262DOC_END
8263
5473c134 8264NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 8265TYPE: string
5473c134 8266DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
8267LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 8268DOC_START
5473c134 8269 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
8270 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
8271 default locations:
8272 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
8273 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8274 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
8275 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8276 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
8277 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
8278 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
8279 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 8280
5473c134 8281 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
8282 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
8283 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
8284 character are comments.
cccac0a2 8285
5473c134 8286 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
8287 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
8288 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
8289 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
8290 definitions.
cccac0a2 8291DOC_END
8292
5473c134 8293NAME: append_domain
8294TYPE: string
8295LOC: Config.appendDomain
8296DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8297DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 8298DOC_START
5473c134 8299 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
8300 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
8301
8302 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
8303 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
8304 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
8305
8306Example:
8307 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 8308DOC_END
8309
5473c134 8310NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
8311TYPE: onoff
8312LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 8313DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 8314IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 8315DOC_START
5473c134 8316 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
8317 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
8318 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
8319 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
8320 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 8321DOC_END
8322
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8323NAME: dns_v4_first
8324TYPE: onoff
8325DEFAULT: off
8326LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 8327IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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8328DOC_START
8329 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
8330 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
8331
8332 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
8333 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
8334 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
8335
8336 WARNING:
8337 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
8338 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
8339 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
8340DOC_END
8341
6bc15a4f 8342NAME: ipcache_size
8343COMMENT: (number of entries)
8344TYPE: int
8345DEFAULT: 1024
8346LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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8347DOC_START
8348 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
8349DOC_END
6bc15a4f 8350
8351NAME: ipcache_low
8352COMMENT: (percent)
8353TYPE: int
8354DEFAULT: 90
8355LOC: Config.ipcache.low
8356DOC_NONE
8357
8358NAME: ipcache_high
8359COMMENT: (percent)
8360TYPE: int
8361DEFAULT: 95
8362LOC: Config.ipcache.high
8363DOC_START
8364 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
8365DOC_END
8366
8367NAME: fqdncache_size
8368COMMENT: (number of entries)
8369TYPE: int
8370DEFAULT: 1024
8371LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
8372DOC_START
8373 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
8374DOC_END
8375
a58ff010 8376COMMENT_START
5473c134 8377 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 8378 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8379COMMENT_END
8380
5473c134 8381NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 8382COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8383TYPE: onoff
8384DEFAULT: on
8385LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 8386DOC_START
5473c134 8387 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
8388 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
8389 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
8390 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 8391DOC_END
8392
5473c134 8393NAME: memory_pools_limit
8394COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 8395TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 8396DEFAULT: 5 MB
8397LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 8398DOC_START
5473c134 8399 Used only with memory_pools on:
8400 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 8401
5473c134 8402 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
8403 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
8404 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
8405 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
8406 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
8407 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
8408 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 8409
89646bd7 8410 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 8411 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 8412
5473c134 8413 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 8414 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 8415
8416 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
8417 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
8418 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
8419 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 8420DOC_END
8421
5473c134 8422NAME: forwarded_for
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8423COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
8424TYPE: string
5473c134 8425DEFAULT: on
8426LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 8427DOC_START
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8428 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
8429 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 8430
5473c134 8431 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
8432
67c06f0d 8433 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 8434
8435 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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8436
8437 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
8438 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
8439
8440 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
8441 X-Forwarded-For header.
8442
8443 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 8444 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 8445DOC_END
8446
5473c134 8447NAME: cachemgr_passwd
8448TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
8449DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8450DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 8451LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 8452DOC_START
5473c134 8453 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 8454
5473c134 8455 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
8456
8457 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
8458 5min
8459 60min
8460 asndb
8461 authenticator
8462 cbdata
8463 client_list
8464 comm_incoming
8465 config *
8466 counters
8467 delay
8468 digest_stats
8469 dns
8470 events
8471 filedescriptors
8472 fqdncache
8473 histograms
8474 http_headers
8475 info
8476 io
8477 ipcache
8478 mem
8479 menu
8480 netdb
8481 non_peers
8482 objects
8483 offline_toggle *
8484 pconn
8485 peer_select
b360c477 8486 reconfigure *
5473c134 8487 redirector
8488 refresh
8489 server_list
8490 shutdown *
8491 store_digest
8492 storedir
8493 utilization
8494 via_headers
8495 vm_objects
8496
8497 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
8498 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
8499
8500 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
8501 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
8502 password to "none".
8503
8504 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
8505
8506Example:
8507 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
8508 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
8509 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 8510DOC_END
8511
5473c134 8512NAME: client_db
a58ff010 8513COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8514TYPE: onoff
8515DEFAULT: on
8516LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 8517DOC_START
5473c134 8518 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
8519 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 8520DOC_END
8521
5473c134 8522NAME: refresh_all_ims
8523COMMENT: on|off
8524TYPE: onoff
8525DEFAULT: off
8526LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 8527DOC_START
5473c134 8528 When you enable this option, squid will always check
8529 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
8530 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
8531 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
8532 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 8533
5473c134 8534 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
8535 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 8536DOC_END
8537
5473c134 8538NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 8539IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 8540COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8541TYPE: onoff
8542DEFAULT: off
8543LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 8544DOC_START
5473c134 8545 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
8546 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
8547 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
8548 feature could make you liable for problems which it
8549 causes.
8550
8551 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 8552DOC_END
8553
31ef19cd 8554NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 8555TYPE: int
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8556LOC: Config.connect_retries
8557DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8558DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 8559DOC_START
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8560 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
8561 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
8562 complete within the connection timeout period.
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8563
8564 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
8565 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 8566
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8567 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
8568 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 8569
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8570 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
8571 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
8572 a useful server.
a58ff010 8573DOC_END
8574
5473c134 8575NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 8576TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8577LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 8578DEFAULT: off
8579DOC_START
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8580 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
8581 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
8582 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
8583 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
8584
8585 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
8586 work around access control errors.
8587
8588 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
8589 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 8590DOC_END
8591
5473c134 8592NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 8593TYPE: string
5473c134 8594LOC: Config.as_whois_server
8595DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 8596DOC_START
5473c134 8597 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
8598 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 8599DOC_END
8600
5473c134 8601NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 8602TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8603LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 8604DEFAULT: off
8605DOC_START
5473c134 8606 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
8607 objects.
a58ff010 8608DOC_END
8609
5473c134 8610NAME: uri_whitespace
8611TYPE: uri_whitespace
8612LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
8613DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 8614DOC_START
5473c134 8615 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
8616 URI. Options:
a58ff010 8617
5473c134 8618 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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8619 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
8620 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
8621 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
8622
5473c134 8623 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
8624 Request" message.
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8625 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
8626 handling of HTTP request URL.
8627
5473c134 8628 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
8629 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
8630 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
8631 are in use.
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8632 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
8633 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
8634 URL field.
8635
5473c134 8636 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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8637 encoded according to RFC1738.
8638
5473c134 8639 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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8640 first whitespace.
8641
8642
8643 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
8644 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 8645DOC_END
a58ff010 8646
5473c134 8647NAME: chroot
8648TYPE: string
8649LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 8650DEFAULT: none
8651DOC_START
9f37c18a 8652 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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8653 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8654 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8655 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8656 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 8657DOC_END
a58ff010 8658
5473c134 8659NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8660TYPE: onoff
8661LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8662DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8663DOC_START
cc192b50 8664 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8665 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8666 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8667
5473c134 8668 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8669 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8670 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8671
cc192b50 8672 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8673DOC_END
8674
5473c134 8675NAME: pipeline_prefetch
8676TYPE: onoff
8677LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
8678DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 8679DOC_START
5473c134 8680 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
8681 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
8682 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 8683
5473c134 8684 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
8685 reasons.
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8686
8687 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8688DOC_END
a58ff010 8689
5473c134 8690NAME: high_response_time_warning
8691TYPE: int
8692COMMENT: (msec)
8693LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8694DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8695DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 8696DOC_START
8697 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8698 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8699 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 8700DOC_END
8701
5473c134 8702NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8703TYPE: int
8704LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8705DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8706DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 8707DOC_START
5473c134 8708 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8709 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8710 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8711 per second.
8712DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8713
5473c134 8714NAME: high_memory_warning
8715TYPE: b_size_t
8716LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 8717DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 8718DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 8719DOC_START
8720 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 8721 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 8722 the administrators attention.
8723DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8724
5473c134 8725NAME: sleep_after_fork
8726COMMENT: (microseconds)
8727TYPE: int
8728LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
8729DEFAULT: 0
8730DOC_START
8731 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
8732 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
8733 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
8734 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
8735 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
8736 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
8737 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
8738 until all the child processes have been started.
8739 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
8740 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 8741DOC_END
8742
b6696974 8743NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 8744IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
b6696974
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8745COMMENT: on|off
8746TYPE: onoff
8747DEFAULT: on
8748LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
8749DOC_START
8750 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
8751 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
8752 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
8753 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
8754 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
8755 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
8756DOC_END
8757
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8758NAME: eui_lookup
8759TYPE: onoff
8760IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
8761DEFAULT: on
8762LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
8763DOC_START
8764 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8765DOC_END
8766
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8767NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8768TYPE: int
8769DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8770DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
f3f0f563
AJ
8771LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8772DOC_START
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8773 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
8774 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 8775
638402dd 8776 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
f3f0f563
AJ
8777
8778 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 8779 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
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8780DOC_END
8781
13aeac35 8782NAME: workers
007d775d 8783TYPE: int
13aeac35 8784LOC: Config.workers
007d775d 8785DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 8786DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
007d775d 8787DOC_START
13aeac35 8788 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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AR
8789 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8790 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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8791 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8792
b87f6632
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8793 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8794 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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8795DOC_END
8796
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8797NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8798TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8799LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8800DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8801DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
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AR
8802DOC_START
8803 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8804
8805 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8806
8807 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8808
8809 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8810 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8811
8812 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8813 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8814
8815 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8816
8817 See also: workers
8818DOC_END
8819
cccac0a2 8820EOF