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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.
d4a3e179 66
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67 Values with byte units
68
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69 Squid accepts size units on some size related directives. All
70 such directives are documented with a default value displaying
71 a unit.
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72
73 Units accepted by Squid are:
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74 bytes - byte
75 KB - Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
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76 MB - Megabyte
77 GB - Gigabyte
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79 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
80
81 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
82 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
83 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
84 disable that support.
85
86 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
87 files using the syntax:
88 parameters("/path/filename")
89 For example:
90 acl whitelist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/whitelist.txt")
91
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92 Conditional configuration
93
94 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
95 depend on conditions:
96
97 if <CONDITION>
98 ... regular configuration directives ...
99 [else
100 ... regular configuration directives ...]
101 endif
102
103 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
104 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
105 configuration directives.
106
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107 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
108
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109 These individual conditions types are supported:
110
111 true
112 Always evaluates to true.
113 false
114 Always evaluates to false.
115 <integer> = <integer>
116 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
117
118
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119 SMP-Related Macros
120
121 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
122
123 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
124 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
125
126 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
127 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
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128 across all Squid processes of the current service instance.
129
130 ${service_name} expands into the current Squid service instance
131 name identifier which is provided by -n on the command line.
132
592a09dc 133COMMENT_END
134
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135# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
136NAME: broken_vary_encoding
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
140DOC_END
141
142NAME: cache_vary
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
146DOC_END
147
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148NAME: error_map
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
152DOC_END
153
154NAME: external_refresh_check
155TYPE: obsolete
156DOC_START
157 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
158DOC_END
159
96598f93 160NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
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161TYPE: obsolete
162DOC_START
163 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
164DOC_END
165
96598f93 166NAME: refresh_stale_hit
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167TYPE: obsolete
168DOC_START
169 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
170DOC_END
171
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172# Options Removed in 3.3
173NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
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174TYPE: obsolete
175DOC_START
96598f93 176 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
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177DOC_END
178
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179# Options Removed in 3.2
180NAME: ignore_expect_100
181TYPE: obsolete
182DOC_START
183 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
184DOC_END
185
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186NAME: dns_v4_fallback
187TYPE: obsolete
188DOC_START
4ded749e 189 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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190DOC_END
191
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192NAME: ftp_list_width
193TYPE: obsolete
194DOC_START
195 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
196DOC_END
197
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198NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
199TYPE: obsolete
200DOC_START
201 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
202DOC_END
203
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204NAME: update_headers
205TYPE: obsolete
206DOC_START
207 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
208DOC_END
209
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210NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
211TYPE: obsolete
212DOC_START
213 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
214DOC_END
215
216# Options Removed in 3.1
217NAME: dns_testnames
218TYPE: obsolete
219DOC_START
220 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
221DOC_END
222
223NAME: extension_methods
224TYPE: obsolete
225DOC_START
226 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
227DOC_END
228
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229# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
230NAME: zero_buffers
231TYPE: obsolete
232DOC_NONE
233
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234# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
235NAME: incoming_rate
236TYPE: obsolete
237DOC_NONE
238
239NAME: server_http11
240TYPE: obsolete
241DOC_START
242 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
243DOC_END
244
245NAME: upgrade_http0.9
246TYPE: obsolete
247DOC_START
248 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
249DOC_END
250
251NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
252TYPE: obsolete
253DOC_START
254 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
255DOC_END
256
257# Options Removed in 3.0
258NAME: header_access
259TYPE: obsolete
260DOC_START
261 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
262 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
263DOC_END
264
265NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
266TYPE: obsolete
267DOC_START
268 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
269DOC_END
270
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271NAME: wais_relay_host
272TYPE: obsolete
273DOC_START
274 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
275DOC_END
276
277NAME: wais_relay_port
278TYPE: obsolete
279DOC_START
280 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
281DOC_END
282
5473c134 283COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 284 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 285 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
286COMMENT_END
287
41bd17a4 288NAME: auth_param
289TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 290IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 291LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 292DEFAULT: none
293DOC_START
41bd17a4 294 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
295 schemes supported by Squid.
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66c583dc 297 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 298
41bd17a4 299 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
300 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
301 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
302 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
303 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
304 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
305 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
306 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
307 program entry).
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41bd17a4 309 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
310 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
311 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
312 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 313
41bd17a4 314 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
315 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
316 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
317 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
318 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
319 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
320 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
321 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
322 type acl.
cccac0a2 323
41bd17a4 324 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
325 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
326 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
327 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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328 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
329 authentication disabled.
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331 === Parameters common to all schemes. ===
332
333 "program" cmdline
66c583dc 334 Specifies the command for the external authenticator.
d4806c91 335
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336 By default, each authentication scheme is not used unless a
337 program is specified.
cccac0a2 338
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339 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers for
340 more details on helper operations and creating your own.
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342 "key_extras" format
343 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for
344 the authentication helper. "Quoted" format values may contain
345 spaces and logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro
346 can be used. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if
347 the helper request is sent before the required macro
348 information is available to Squid.
349
350 By default, Squid uses request formats provided in
351 scheme-specific examples below (search for %credentials).
352
353 The expanded key_extras value is added to the Squid credentials
354 cache and, hence, will affect authentication. It can be used to
355 autenticate different users with identical user names (e.g.,
356 when user authentication depends on http_port).
357
358 Avoid adding frequently changing information to key_extras. For
359 example, if you add user source IP, and it changes frequently
360 in your environment, then max_user_ip ACL is going to treat
361 every user+IP combination as a unique "user", breaking the ACL
362 and wasting a lot of memory on those user records. It will also
363 force users to authenticate from scratch whenever their IP
364 changes.
365
366 "realm" string
367 Specifies the protection scope (aka realm name) which is to be
368 reported to the client for the authentication scheme. It is
369 commonly part of the text the user will see when prompted for
370 their username and password.
371
372 For Basic the default is "Squid proxy-caching web server".
373 For Digest there is no default, this parameter is mandatory.
374 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
5269ec0e 375
66c583dc 376 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
5269ec0e 377
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378 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If
379 you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
380 a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it down. When
381 password verifications are done via a (slow) network you are
382 likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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384 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact
385 amount run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup
386 and reconfigure. Squid will start more in groups of up to
387 idle=N in an attempt to meet traffic needs and to keep idle=N
388 free above those traffic needs up to the maximum.
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390 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests
391 the helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers
392 who only supports one request at a time. Setting this to a
393 number greater than 0 changes the protocol used to include a
394 channel ID field first on the request/response line, allowing
395 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallel
396 without waiting for the response.
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398 Concurrency must not be set unless it's known the helper
399 supports the input format with channel-ID fields.
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401 NOTE: NTLM and Negotiate schemes do not support concurrency
402 in the Squid code module even though some helpers can.
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405IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_BASIC
406 === Basic authentication parameters ===
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408 "utf8" on|off
409 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
410 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
411 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
412 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
d1b63fc8 413
41bd17a4 414 "credentialsttl" timetolive
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415 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
416 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
417 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
418 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.
5269ec0e 419
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420 NOTE: setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
421 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
422 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
423 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
424 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
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426 "casesensitive" on|off
427 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases
428 are case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled
429 using both lower and upper case letters, but some are case
430 sensitive. This makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL
431 processing and similar.
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433ENDIF
434IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_DIGEST
435 === Digest authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 436
d2a89ac1 437 "utf8" on|off
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438 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
439 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
440 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
441 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
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41bd17a4 443 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
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444 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
445 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 446
41bd17a4 447 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
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448 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
449 valid for.
cccac0a2 450
41bd17a4 451 "nonce_max_count" number
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452 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
453 used.
cccac0a2 454
41bd17a4 455 "nonce_strictness" on|off
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456 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
457 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
458 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
459 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 460
41bd17a4 461 "check_nonce_count" on|off
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462 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
463 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
464 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
465 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 466
41bd17a4 467 "post_workaround" on|off
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468 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who send an
469 incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing the
470 same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
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472ENDIF
473IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NEGOTIATE
474 === Negotiate authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 475
41bd17a4 476 "keep_alive" on|off
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477 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
478 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
479 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
480 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
481 are supported by the proxy.
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483ENDIF
484IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NTLM
485 === NTLM authentication parameters ===
d3803853 486
41bd17a4 487 "keep_alive" on|off
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488 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
489 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
490 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
491 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
492 are supported by the proxy.
493ENDIF
527ee50d 494
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495 === Example Configuration ===
496
497 This configuration displays the recommended authentication scheme
498 order from most to least secure with recommended minimum configuration
499 settings for each scheme:
e0855596 500
41bd17a4 501#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 502#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 503#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 504#
66c583dc 505#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 506#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 507#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
508#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
509#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
510#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 511#
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512#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
513#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
514#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
515#
41bd17a4 516#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 517#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 518#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
519#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 520DOC_END
cccac0a2 521
41bd17a4 522NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
523TYPE: time_t
524DEFAULT: 1 hour
525LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
526DOC_START
527 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 528 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 529 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
530 have good reason to.
531DOC_END
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41bd17a4 533NAME: authenticate_ttl
534TYPE: time_t
535DEFAULT: 1 hour
536LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
537DOC_START
538 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
539 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
540 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
541 TTL are removed from memory.
542DOC_END
cccac0a2 543
41bd17a4 544NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
545TYPE: time_t
546LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
c35dd848 547DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 548DOC_START
549 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
550 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
551 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
552 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 553 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 554 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
555 environment with relatively static address assignments.
556DOC_END
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559 ACCESS CONTROLS
560 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
561COMMENT_END
562
41bd17a4 563NAME: external_acl_type
564TYPE: externalAclHelper
565LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 566DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 567DOC_START
41bd17a4 568 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
569 to look up the status
cccac0a2 570
41bd17a4 571 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 572
41bd17a4 573 Options:
cccac0a2 574
41bd17a4 575 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
576 for 1 hour)
577 negative_ttl=n
578 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
579 as ttl)
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580 children-max=n
581 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
582 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
583 children-startup=n
584 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
585 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
586 of this type. (default 0)
587 children-idle=n
588 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
589 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
590 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
591 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 592 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
593 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
7b27ba35 594 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is 262144.
41bd17a4 595 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
596 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 597 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 598 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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599 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
600 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 601
41bd17a4 602 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 603
41bd17a4 604 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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605 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
606 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
607 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 608 %IDENT Ident user name
609 %SRC Client IP
610 %SRCPORT Client source port
611 %URI Requested URI
612 %DST Requested host
4e3f4dc7 613 %PROTO Requested URL scheme
41bd17a4 614 %PORT Requested port
615 %PATH Requested URL path
616 %METHOD Request method
617 %MYADDR Squid interface address
618 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
619 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
620 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
621 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
622 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
623 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 624
c68c9682 625 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 626 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 627 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 628 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 629 HTTP request header list member using ; as
630 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
631 character.
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c68c9682 633 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 634 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 635 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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636 %<{Hdr:;member}
637 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
638 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
639 character.
640
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641 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
642 %DATA The ACL arguments. If not used then any arguments
643 is automatically added at the end of the line
644 sent to the helper.
645 NOTE: this will encode the arguments as one token,
646 whereas the default will pass each separately.
647
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649 an unchanging input format.
650
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652 General request syntax:
653
654 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
655
656
657 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
658 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
659 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
660
661 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
662 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
663
664 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
665 each value in requests against whitespaces.
666
667 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
668 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
669
670 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
671
672 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
673 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
674 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
675 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
676 of the response relating to its request.
677
678
679 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
680 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
681 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
682
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41bd17a4 684 General result syntax:
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687
688 Result consists of one of the codes:
689
690 OK
691 the ACL test produced a match.
692
693 ERR
694 the ACL test does not produce a match.
695
696 BH
4ded749e 697 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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698 a result being identified.
699
700 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
701 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 703 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 705 user= The users name (login)
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41bd17a4 707 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
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05e52854 709 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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710 Available as %o in error pages.
711 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
712
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714 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 716 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 717 %ea in logformat specifications.
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05e52854 719 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
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722 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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724 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
725 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
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728
5269ec0e 729 user=John%20Smith
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730 user="John Smith"
731 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
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733
41bd17a4 734NAME: acl
735TYPE: acl
736LOC: Config.aclList
cb4f4424 737IF USE_OPENSSL
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738DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
739DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
740DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
741DEFAULT: 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
742DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
743ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 744DEFAULT: all src all
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745DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
746DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
747DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
748DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 749DOC_START
41bd17a4 750 Defining an Access List
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752 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
753 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
754 they are read from.
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756 acl aclname acltype argument ...
757 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 759 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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762 The available options are:
763
764 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
765 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
766 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
767 without -i.
768
769 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
770 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
771 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
772 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
773 without any warnings or lookups.
774
775 -- Used to stop processing all options, in the case the first acl
776 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
777 is a valid domain name)
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780 to access some external data source.
781 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
782 don't are marked as [fast].
783 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
784 for further information
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786 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
787
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788 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
789 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 790 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 791 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 792
41bd17a4 793 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
794 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
795 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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797 # other *BSD variants.
798 # [fast]
41bd17a4 799 #
800 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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802 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
803
804 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
805 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 806 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 807 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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809 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 810 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 811 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 812 #
41bd17a4 813 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
814 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
815 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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817 acl aclname src_as number ...
818 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 819 # [fast]
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820 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
821 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
822 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
823 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
824 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
825 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
826 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 827
6db78a1a 828 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 829 # [fast]
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830 # match against a named cache_peer entry
831 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
832
375eeb3b 833 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 834 # [fast]
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836 # S - Sunday
837 # M - Monday
838 # T - Tuesday
839 # W - Wednesday
840 # H - Thursday
841 # F - Friday
842 # A - Saturday
843 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
844
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846 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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847 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
848 # regex matching on URL login field
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849 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
850 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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853 # ranges are alloed
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854 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
855 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
856
b3567eb5 857 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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859 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
860
861 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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864 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 866 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 867 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 869 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 870 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 871 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 873 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 874 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 875 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 876 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
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41bd17a4 878 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
879 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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881 # supplied credentials [slow]
882 #
883 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 884 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
885 #
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887 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
888 #
41bd17a4 889 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
890 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
891 # in access.log.
892 #
893 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
894 # to check username/password combinations (see
895 # auth_param directive).
896 #
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898 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 899 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 900
41bd17a4 901 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 902 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 903 # Example:
904 #
905 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 907 acl aclname maxconn number
908 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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909 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
910 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
911 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 912
41bd17a4 913 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
914 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
915 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 916 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 917 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
918 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
919 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
920 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
921 # request is denied)
922 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
923 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
924 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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927 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
928 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
929 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
930
375eeb3b 931 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 932 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
933 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 934 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 935 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
936 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 937
41bd17a4 938 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
939 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
940 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 941 # ACL [fast]
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375eeb3b 943 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 944 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
945 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 946 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 947 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
948 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
949 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 951 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
952 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
953 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 954 # ACLs [fast]
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375eeb3b 956 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 957 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 958 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 960 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
961 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 962 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
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41bd17a4 964 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
965 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 966 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
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41bd17a4 968 acl aclname ext_user username ...
969 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 970 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 971 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 972
0ab50441 973 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 974 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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977 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
978 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
979 #
980 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
981 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
982 # http_reply_access.
983
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985 # match transaction annotation [fast]
986 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
987 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
988 # also has one of the given values.
989 # Names and values are compared using a string equality test.
990 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
991 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
992
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994 # Matches the name of any icap_service, ecap_service,
995 # adaptation_service_set, or adaptation_service_chain that Squid
996 # has used (or attempted to use) for the master transaction.
997 # This ACL must be defined after the corresponding adaptation
998 # service is named in squid.conf. This ACL is usable with
999 # adaptation_meta because it starts matching immediately after
1000 # the service has been selected for adaptation.
1001
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1004 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1005 #
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1007 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1008 #
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1010 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1011 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1012 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1013 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1014 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1015 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1016 #
1017 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1018 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1019 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1020 #
1021 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1022 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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1026 #
1027 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1028 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1029 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1030 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1031 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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1033 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1034 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1035 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1036 #
1037 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1038 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1039 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1040 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1041 #
1042 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1043 # and slow otherwise.
1044
1045 acl aclname all-of acl1 acl2 ...
1046 # match all of the acls [fast or slow]
1047 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1048 #
1049 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1050 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1051 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1052 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1053 #
1054 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1055 # and slow otherwise.
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1058 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1059 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1060 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1061 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1062 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
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1066# Recommended minimum configuration:
1067#
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1070# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1071# should be allowed
1072acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1073acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1074acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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1076acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1078acl SSL_ports port 443
1079acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1080acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1081acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1082acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1083acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1084acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1085acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1086acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1087acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1088acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1089acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1090NOCOMMENT_END
1091DOC_END
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1094TYPE: acl_access
1095IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1096LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1097DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1098DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
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1100 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
1101 find the original source of a request.
1102
1103 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1104 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
1105 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
1106 rightmost address being the most recent.
1107
1108 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
1109 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
1110 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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1112 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
1113 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
1114 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
1115 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
1116 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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1118 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1119 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1120 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
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1123 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1126 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1127
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1129
1130 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
1131 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
1132 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1133 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1134 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1135 based on the client's source addresses.
1136
1137 For example:
1138
1139 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1140 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1141 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1142 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
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1144
1145NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1146COMMENT: on|off
1147TYPE: onoff
1148IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1149DEFAULT: on
1150LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1151DOC_START
1152 Controls whether the indirect client address
1153 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1154 direct client address in acl matching.
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1156 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1157 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1159
1160NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1161COMMENT: on|off
1162TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1163IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1165LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1166DOC_START
1167 Controls whether the indirect client address
1168 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1169 direct client address in delay pools.
1170DOC_END
1171
1172NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1173COMMENT: on|off
1174TYPE: onoff
1175IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1176DEFAULT: on
1177LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1178DOC_START
1179 Controls whether the indirect client address
1180 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1181 direct client address in the access log.
1182DOC_END
1183
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1184NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1185COMMENT: on|off
1186TYPE: onoff
1187IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1188DEFAULT: off
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1189LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1190DOC_START
1191 Controls whether the indirect client address
1192 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1193 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1195 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1196 mode ports.
1197
1198 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1199 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1200 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1201 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1203
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1204NAME: spoof_client_ip
1205TYPE: acl_access
1206LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1207DEFAULT: none
1208DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1209DOC_START
1210 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1211 defined access lists.
1212
1213 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1214
1215 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1216 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1217
1218 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1219
1220 This clause supports fast acl types.
1221 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1222DOC_END
1223
41bd17a4 1224NAME: http_access
1225TYPE: acl_access
1226LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1227DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1228DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1229DOC_START
1230 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1231
41bd17a4 1232 Access to the HTTP port:
1233 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1234
41bd17a4 1235 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1236
41bd17a4 1237 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1238 the request.
cccac0a2 1239
41bd17a4 1240 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1241 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1242 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1243 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1245 lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 1246
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1248 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1249
41bd17a4 1250NOCOMMENT_START
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1252#
1253# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1254#
e0855596 1255# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1256http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1258# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1259http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
e0855596 1260
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1262http_access allow localhost manager
1263http_access deny manager
1264
41bd17a4 1265# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1266# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1267# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1268#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1270#
1271# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1272#
c8f4eac4 1273
ee776778 1274# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1275# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1276# from where browsing should be allowed
1277http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1278http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1279
41bd17a4 1280# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1281http_access deny all
1282NOCOMMENT_END
1283DOC_END
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1285NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1286TYPE: acl_access
1287LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1288DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1289DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1291 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1292
1293 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1294 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1295 output.
1296
1297 If not set then only http_access is used.
1298DOC_END
1299
41bd17a4 1300NAME: http_reply_access
1301TYPE: acl_access
1302LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1303DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1304DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1305DOC_START
1306 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1307
41bd17a4 1308 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1309
41bd17a4 1310 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1311 all replies.
1a224843 1312
41bd17a4 1313 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1314 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1315 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1317 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1318 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1319DOC_END
1320
41bd17a4 1321NAME: icp_access
1322TYPE: acl_access
1323LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1325DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1326DOC_START
41bd17a4 1327 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1328 access lists
5473c134 1329
41bd17a4 1330 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1331
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1333 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1334 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1335
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1337 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1339# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1340#icp_access allow localnet
1341#icp_access deny all
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1343
41bd17a4 1344NAME: htcp_access
1345IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1346TYPE: acl_access
1347LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1349DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1350DOC_START
41bd17a4 1351 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1352 access lists
5473c134 1353
41bd17a4 1354 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1355
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1357 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
5473c134 1358
0b48417e 1359 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1360 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1361 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1362
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1364 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1366# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1367#htcp_access allow localnet
1368#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1369DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1371NAME: htcp_clr_access
1372IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1373TYPE: acl_access
1374LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1376DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1377DOC_START
1378 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1380 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1381
41bd17a4 1382 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1385 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1387# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1388acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1389htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1390htcp_clr_access deny all
5473c134 1391DOC_END
1392
41bd17a4 1393NAME: miss_access
1394TYPE: acl_access
1395LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1396DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1397DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1398DOC_START
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1399 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1400
1401 For example;
1402 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1403 a parent.
5473c134 1404
638402dd 1405 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1406 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1407 miss_access allow all
5473c134 1408
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1410 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1411 objects (HITs).
1412
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1414 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1416 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1417 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1418DOC_END
1419
1420NAME: ident_lookup_access
1421TYPE: acl_access
1422IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1424DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1425LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1426DOC_START
41bd17a4 1427 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1428 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1429 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1430 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1431 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1432 any requests.
5473c134 1433
41bd17a4 1434 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1435 can follow this example:
5473c134 1436
4daaf3cb 1437 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1438 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1439 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1440
4daaf3cb 1441 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1442 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1443 the correct result.
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1445 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1446 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1447DOC_END
5473c134 1448
5b0f5383 1449NAME: reply_body_max_size
1450COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1451TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1452DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1453DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1454LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1455DOC_START
1456 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1457 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1458 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1459 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1460 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1461 for this reply.
1462
1463 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1464 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1465 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1466 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1467 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1468 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1469 and they will receive a partial reply.
1470
1471 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1472 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1473 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1474 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1475
1476 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1477 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1478 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1479 the size of your largest error page.
1480
1481 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1482 no limit imposed.
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1484 Configuration Format is:
1485 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1486 ie.
1487 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1488
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1490
1491COMMENT_START
1492 NETWORK OPTIONS
1493 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1494COMMENT_END
1495
1496NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1497TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1498DEFAULT: none
1499LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1500DOC_START
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1501 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1502 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1503 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1504
1505 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1506 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1507 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1508 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1509 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1510 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1511 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1512
1513 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1514 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1515
1516 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1517 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1518 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1519
1520 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1521
c7b1dd5d 1522 Modes:
5b0f5383 1523
e77bdb4e 1524 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1525 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1526 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1527
1528 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1529 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1530 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1531
7f45065d 1532 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1533
caf3666d 1534 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1535 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1536 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1538 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1539
7a957a93 1540 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1541 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1543 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1544
1545
1546 Accelerator Mode Options:
1547
5b0f5383 1548 defaultsite=domainname
1549 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1550 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1551 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1552
cf673853 1553 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1554
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1555 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated and intercepted
1556 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
1557 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
1558 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
1559 produce a FATAL error.
1560 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
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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1578 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
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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1634 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
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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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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1690 connection-auth[=on|off]
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
cb4f4424 1733IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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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1868 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
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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1882 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
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
cccac0a2 1958
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1959NAME: qos_flows
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 For platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
425de4c8 1968 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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1971 settings simply use "qos_flows mark" or "qos_flows tos". Default
1972 settings will result in the netfilter mark or TOS value being copied
1973 from the upstream connection to the client. Note that it is the connection
1974 CONNMARK value not the packet MARK value that is copied.
1975
1976 It is not currently possible to copy the mark or TOS value from the
1977 client to the upstream connection request.
1978
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1980 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1981 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
7172612f 1982
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1984 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1985 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1986
1987 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1988
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1990
1991 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1993 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1994
1995 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1996
1997 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1998
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2000 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2001 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2002 specified in the mask are written.
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2005 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2006 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2007 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2008 with all variants of netfilter.
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575cb927 2010 disable-preserve-miss
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2011 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2012 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2013 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2014 and masked with miss-mark.
2015 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2016 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2017 (MARK target).
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2019 miss-mask=0xFF
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2020 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2021 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2022 the TOS sent towards clients.
2023 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2024 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2025
2026 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2027 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2028 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2029 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2032
41bd17a4 2033NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2034TYPE: acl_address
2035DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2036DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2037LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2038DOC_START
2039 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2040 based on the username or source address of the user making
2041 the request.
7f7db318 2042
41bd17a4 2043 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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2045 For example;
2046 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2049 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2050
2051 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2052 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2053
2054 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2055 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2056
2057 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2058 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2059
41bd17a4 2060 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2061 matching line.
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2064 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2065 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2066
2067
2068 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2069 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2070 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2071 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 2072
2dd51400 2073 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 2074 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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2076 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 2077
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2080NAME: host_verify_strict
2081TYPE: onoff
2082DEFAULT: off
2083LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2084DOC_START
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2086 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2087 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2089 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2090 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2091 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2092
2093 When set to ON:
2094 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2095 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2096
2097 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2098 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2099 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2100 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2101 and Request-URI components:
2102
2103 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2104 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2105 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2106 or FQDN.
2107
2108 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2109 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2110
2111
2112 When set to OFF (the default):
2113 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2114 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2115
2116 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2117
2118 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2119
2120 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2121 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2122
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2124 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2125 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2126
2127 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2128 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2129
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2133 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2134 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2135 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2136 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2137
2138 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2139 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2140 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2141 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2142 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2144DOC_END
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2146NAME: client_dst_passthru
2147TYPE: onoff
2148DEFAULT: on
2149LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2150DOC_START
2151 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2152 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2153 source using the HTTP Host header.
2154
2155 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2156 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2157 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2158 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2159
2160 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2161 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2162 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2163
2164 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2165 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2166 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2167
2168 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2169DOC_END
2170
41bd17a4 2171COMMENT_START
2172 SSL OPTIONS
2173 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2174COMMENT_END
2175
2176NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
cb4f4424 2177IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2178TYPE: onoff
2179DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2180LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2181DOC_START
41bd17a4 2182 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2183 messages.
cccac0a2 2184DOC_END
2185
41bd17a4 2186NAME: ssl_engine
cb4f4424 2187IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2188TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2189LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2190DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2191DOC_START
41bd17a4 2192 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2193 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2194DOC_END
2195
41bd17a4 2196NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
cb4f4424 2197IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2198DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2199LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2200TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2201DOC_START
41bd17a4 2202 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2203DOC_END
2204
41bd17a4 2205NAME: sslproxy_client_key
cb4f4424 2206IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2207DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2208LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2209TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2210DOC_START
41bd17a4 2211 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2212DOC_END
2213
41bd17a4 2214NAME: sslproxy_version
cb4f4424 2215IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2216DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 2217DEFAULT_DOC: automatic SSL/TLS version negotiation
41bd17a4 2218LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2219TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2220DOC_START
41bd17a4 2221 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2223 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2224
2225 1 automatic (default)
2226 2 SSLv2 only
2227 3 SSLv3 only
2228 4 TLSv1.0 only
2229 5 TLSv1.1 only
2230 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2231DOC_END
2232
41bd17a4 2233NAME: sslproxy_options
cb4f4424 2234IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2235DEFAULT: none
2236LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2237TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2238DOC_START
943c5f16 2239 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2241 The most important being:
2242
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2243 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2244 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2245 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2246 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2247 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2249 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2250 DH key exchanges
2251 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2252 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2253 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2254 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2255 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2256 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2257 strength to some attacks.
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2260 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 2261DOC_END
2262
41bd17a4 2263NAME: sslproxy_cipher
cb4f4424 2264IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2265DEFAULT: none
2266LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2267TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2268DOC_START
41bd17a4 2269 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2271 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2272DOC_END
2273
41bd17a4 2274NAME: sslproxy_cafile
cb4f4424 2275IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2276DEFAULT: none
2277LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2278TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2279DOC_START
41bd17a4 2280 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2281 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2282DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2284NAME: sslproxy_capath
cb4f4424 2285IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
5473c134 2286DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2287LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2288TYPE: string
5473c134 2289DOC_START
41bd17a4 2290 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2291 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2292DOC_END
2293
10a69fc0 2294NAME: sslproxy_session_ttl
cb4f4424 2295IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2297LOC: Config.SSL.session_ttl
2298TYPE: int
2299DOC_START
2300 Sets the timeout value for SSL sessions
2301DOC_END
2302
2303NAME: sslproxy_session_cache_size
cb4f4424 2304IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2306LOC: Config.SSL.sessionCacheSize
2307TYPE: b_size_t
2308DOC_START
2309 Sets the cache size to use for ssl session
2310DOC_END
2311
4c9da963 2312NAME: ssl_bump
cb4f4424 2313IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
caf3666d 2314TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2315LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
638402dd 2316DEFAULT_DOC: Does not bump unless rules are present in squid.conf
4c9da963 2317DEFAULT: none
2318DOC_START
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2320 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2321 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2322 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2323 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2324 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2325
2326 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2327
2328 The following bumping modes are supported:
2329
2330 client-first
2331 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2332 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2333 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2334 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2335
2336 server-first
2337 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2338 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2339 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2340 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2341
2342 none
2343 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2344 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2345 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2346 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2347
2348 By default, no connections are bumped.
2349
2350 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2351 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2352 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2353 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2354 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2355
e0c0d54c 2356 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2357 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2360
e0855596 2361
caf3666d 2362 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from
638402dd 2363 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 2364
e0855596 2365 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2366 ssl_bump none localhost
2367 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2368 ssl_bump server-first all
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2370
41bd17a4 2371NAME: sslproxy_flags
cb4f4424 2372IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2373DEFAULT: none
2374LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2375TYPE: string
5473c134 2376DOC_START
41bd17a4 2377 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2378 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2379 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2380 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2381 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2382DOC_END
2383
4c9da963 2384NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
cb4f4424 2385IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
4c9da963 2386DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2387DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 2388LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2389TYPE: acl_access
2390DOC_START
2391 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2392
2393 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2394 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2395 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2396
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2397 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
2398 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2399 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2400
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2402 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2403 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2404
2405 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 2406 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
4c9da963 2407
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2408 SQUID_X509_V_ERR_INFINITE_VALIDATION error cannot be bypassed
2409 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
2410
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2411 SECURITY WARNING:
2412 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
2413 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
2414 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 2415
638402dd 2416 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 2417DOC_END
2418
aebe6888 2419NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
cb4f4424 2420IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
aebe6888 2421DEFAULT: none
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2422POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2423POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2424POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2425TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2426LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2427DOC_START
2428
69742b76 2429 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 2430
69742b76 2431 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
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aebe6888 2433 signTrusted
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2435 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2436 default for trusted origin server certificates.
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aebe6888 2438 signUntrusted
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2439 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2440 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2441 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 2442
aebe6888 2443 signSelf
69742b76 2444 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2445 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2447 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2450
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2451 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2452 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2453 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2454 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2455 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2457 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2458 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2459 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2460 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2461 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2462 bump-server-first is used.
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2464
638402dd 2465NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
cb4f4424 2466IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2467DEFAULT: none
2468TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2469LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2470DOC_START
2471
2472 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2473
69742b76 2474 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2475
fb2178bb 2476 setValidAfter
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2478 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 2479
fb2178bb 2480 setValidBefore
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2481 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
2482 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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2485 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2486 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2487 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2488 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2489 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
fb2178bb 2490
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2492
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2493 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
2494 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2495 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2496 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2497 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2498 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2500 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2501 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2502 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2503 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2504 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2505 bump-server-first is used.
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2507
41bd17a4 2508NAME: sslpassword_program
cb4f4424 2509IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2510DEFAULT: none
2511LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2512TYPE: string
5473c134 2513DOC_START
41bd17a4 2514 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2515 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2516 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2517 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2518
2519 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2520 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2521 keys.
5473c134 2522DOC_END
2523
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2525 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2526 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2527COMMENT_END
2528
2529NAME: sslcrtd_program
2530TYPE: eol
2531IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2532DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2533LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2534DOC_START
2535 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2536 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2537 For more information use:
2538 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2539DOC_END
2540
2541NAME: sslcrtd_children
2542TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2543IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2544DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2545LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2546DOC_START
2547 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2548 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2549
2550 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2551 tuning.
2552
2553 startup=N
2554
2555 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2556 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2557 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2558
2559 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2560 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2561
2562 idle=N
2563
2564 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2565 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2566 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2567 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2568
2569 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2570DOC_END
2571
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2573TYPE: eol
cb4f4424 2574IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2575DEFAULT: none
2576LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
2577DOC_START
2578 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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2579 process.
2580
2581 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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2583 Options:
638402dd 2584 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results. The default is 60 secs
14798e73 2585 cache=n limit the result cache size. The default value is 2048
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2587
2588NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
2589TYPE: HelperChildConfig
cb4f4424 2590IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
413bb969 2591DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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2592LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
2593DOC_START
638402dd 2594 The maximum number of processes spawn to service SSL server.
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2596
2597 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2598 tuning.
2599
2600 startup=N
2601
2602 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2603 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2604 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2605
2606 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2607 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2608
2609 idle=N
2610
2611 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2612 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2613 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2614 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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2616 concurrency=
2617
2618 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
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2619 parallel. A value of 0 indicates the certficate validator does not
2620 support concurrency. Defaults to 1.
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2621
2622 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
2623 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
2624 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
2625 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
2626 to that request.
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2627
2628 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
2629DOC_END
2630
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41bd17a4 2632 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2633 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2634COMMENT_END
2635
41bd17a4 2636NAME: cache_peer
2637TYPE: peer
2638DEFAULT: none
2639LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2640DOC_START
41bd17a4 2641 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 2642
41bd17a4 2643 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2644
41bd17a4 2645 For example,
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41bd17a4 2647 # proxy icp
2648 # hostname type port port options
2649 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2650 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2651 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2652 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2653 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2654 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2655
2656 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2657
2658 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2659 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2660 For web servers this is usually 80
2661
2662 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2663 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2664 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2665
2666
2667 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2668
2669 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2670 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2671
2672
2673 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2674
2675 multicast-responder
2676 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2677 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2678 replies will be accepted from it.
2679
2680 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2681 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2682
2683 background-ping
2684 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2685 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2686 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2687
2688
2689 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2690
2691 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2692 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2693
2694
2695 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2696 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2697 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2698 list of options described below.
2b94f655 2699
18191440 2700 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2701
18191440 2702 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2703 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2704 only-clr.
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2706 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2707 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2b94f655 2708
18191440 2709 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2710 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2711 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2712
18191440 2713 htcp=forward-clr
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2714 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2715
2716
2717 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2718
2719 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2720 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2721
2722
2723 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2724 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2725 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2726
2727 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2728 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2729 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2730
2731 weighted-round-robin
2732 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2733 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2734 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2735 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2736 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2737
2738 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2739 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2740 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2741
2742 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2743
2744 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2746 multicast-siblings
2747 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2748 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2749 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2750 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2751 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2752 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2753 members of the same multicast group.
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2754
2755
2756 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2757
2758 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2759 peer-selection mechanisms.
2760 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2761 larger weights are favored more.
2762 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2763 protocol is not in use.
2764
2765 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2766 times of parents.
2767 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2768 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2769 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2770
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2771 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2772 to this address.
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2773 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2774 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2775 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2776 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2777
2778 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2779 delay pools.
2780
2781 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2782 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2783 than the Squid default location.
2784
2785
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2787
2788 carp-key=key-specification
2789 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2790 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2791 scheme, host, port, path, params
2792 Order is not important.
2793
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2795
2796 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2797 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2798 is a web server.
2799
2800 forceddomain=name
2801 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2802 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2803 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2804 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2805
2806 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2807
2808 no-netdb-exchange
2809 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2810
2811
2812 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2813
2814 login=user:password
2815 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2816 requires proxy authentication.
2817
2818 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2819 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2820
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2821 login=PASSTHRU
2822 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2823 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2824 without alteration to the peer.
2825 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2826
2827 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2828 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2829 connection-auth options are also used.
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2831 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2832 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 2833
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2834 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2835 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2837 they may be sent instead.
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2838
2839 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2840 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2841 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2842 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2843 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2844
2845 login=*:password
2846 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2847 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2848 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2849 needed to identify each user.
2850 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2851 information which is added to the username. This can
2852 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2853 the login=username:password option above.
2854
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2855 login=NEGOTIATE
2856 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2857 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2858 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2859 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2860
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2862 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2863 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2864
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2865 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2866 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2867 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2868 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2869 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2870 used.
2871
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2872 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
2873 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2874 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2875
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2876 connection-auth=on|off
2877 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2878 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2879 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2880 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2881 of the peer.
2882
2883
2884 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2885
2886 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2887
2888 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2889 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2890 this peer.
2891
2892 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2893 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2894 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2895 reference a combined file containing both the
2896 certificate and the key.
2897
3d96b0e8 2898 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2899 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2900 1 = automatic (default)
2901 2 = SSL v2 only
2902 3 = SSL v3 only
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2903 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2904 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2905 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2906
2907 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2908 to this peer.
2909
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2911
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2912 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2913 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2914 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2915 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2916 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2917 SINGLE_DH_USE
2918 Always create a new key when using
2919 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2920 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2921 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2922 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2923 strength to some attacks.
2924
2925 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2926 more complete list.
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2927
2928 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2929 when verifying the peer certificate.
2930
2931 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2932 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2933
2934 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2935 verifying the peer certificate.
2936
2937 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2938
41bd17a4 2939 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2940 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2941 verify.
2942 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2943 Don't use the default CA list built in
2944 to OpenSSL.
2945 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2946 Don't verify the peer certificate
2947 matches the server name
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2949 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2950 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2951 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2952 used.
2953
2954 front-end-https
2955 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2956 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2957 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2958 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2959 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2960
2961
2962 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2963
2964 connect-timeout=N
2965 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2966 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2967
2968 connect-fail-limit=N
2969 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
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2970 it is marked as down. Standby connection failures
2971 count towards this limit. Default is 10.
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2973 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2974 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2975 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2976 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2977 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2978 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2979 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2980
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2981 max-conn=N Limit the number of concurrent connections the Squid
2982 may open to this peer, including already opened idle
2983 and standby connections. There is no peer-specific
2984 connection limit by default.
2985
2986 A peer exceeding the limit is not used for new
2987 requests unless a standby connection is available.
2988
2989 max-conn currently works poorly with idle persistent
2990 connections: When a peer reaches its max-conn limit,
2991 and there are idle persistent connections to the peer,
2992 the peer may not be selected because the limiting code
2993 does not know whether Squid can reuse those idle
2994 connections.
2995
2996 standby=N Maintain a pool of N "hot standby" connections to an
2997 UP peer, available for requests when no idle
2998 persistent connection is available (or safe) to use.
2999 By default and with zero N, no such pool is maintained.
3000 N must not exceed the max-conn limit (if any).
3001
3002 At start or after reconfiguration, Squid opens new TCP
3003 standby connections until there are N connections
3004 available and then replenishes the standby pool as
3005 opened connections are used up for requests. A used
3006 connection never goes back to the standby pool, but
3007 may go to the regular idle persistent connection pool
3008 shared by all peers and origin servers.
3009
3010 Squid never opens multiple new standby connections
3011 concurrently. This one-at-a-time approach minimizes
3012 flooding-like effect on peers. Furthermore, just a few
3013 standby connections should be sufficient in most cases
3014 to supply most new requests with a ready-to-use
3015 connection.
3016
3017 Standby connections obey server_idle_pconn_timeout.
3018 For the feature to work as intended, the peer must be
3019 configured to accept and keep them open longer than
3020 the idle timeout at the connecting Squid, to minimize
3021 race conditions typical to idle used persistent
3022 connections. Default request_timeout and
3023 server_idle_pconn_timeout values ensure such a
3024 configuration.
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3025
3026 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
3027 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
3028 but different ports.
3029 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
3030 directives to dentify the peer.
3031 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3032 peername ACL type.
3033
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3034 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3035 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3036 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
b0758e04 3037
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3038 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
3039
41bd17a4 3040DOC_END
cccac0a2 3041
41bd17a4 3042NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
3043TYPE: hostdomain
3044DEFAULT: none
3045LOC: none
3046DOC_START
3047 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
638402dd 3048 queried.
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3050 Usage:
3051 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
3052 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 3053
41bd17a4 3054 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 3055
41bd17a4 3056 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 3057
41bd17a4 3058 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
3059 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
3060 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
3061 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
3062 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 3063
41bd17a4 3064 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
3065 either on the same or separate lines.
3066 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
3067 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
3068 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
3069 for all requests.
3070 * There are no defaults.
3071 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
3072 section.
3073DOC_END
dd9b1776 3074
41bd17a4 3075NAME: cache_peer_access
3076TYPE: peer_access
3077DEFAULT: none
3078LOC: none
3079DOC_START
3080 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
3081 using ACL elements.
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3083 Usage:
3084 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 3085
41bd17a4 3086 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
3087 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 3088 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 3089DOC_END
dd9b1776 3090
41bd17a4 3091NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3092TYPE: hostdomaintype
3093DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3094DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3095LOC: none
3096DOC_START
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3097 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3098 about specific domains to the peer.
cccac0a2 3099
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3100 Usage:
3101 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
6bf4f823 3102
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3103 For example:
3104 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3105 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
6bf4f823 3106
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3107 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3108 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3109DOC_END
6bf4f823 3110
41bd17a4 3111NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3112COMMENT: (seconds)
3113DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3114TYPE: time_t
3115LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3116DOC_START
3117 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3118 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3119 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3120 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3121 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3122 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3123
41bd17a4 3124 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3125 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3126 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3127 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3128 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3129 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3130 instead of to your parents.
3131DOC_END
cccac0a2 3132
437823b4 3133NAME: forward_max_tries
6c367206 3134DEFAULT: 25
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3135TYPE: int
3136LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3137DOC_START
3138 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3139 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3140
3141 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3142 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3143DOC_END
3144
41bd17a4 3145NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
3146TYPE: wordlist
3147DEFAULT: none
3148LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
3149DOC_START
3150 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
3151 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
3152 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
3153 list this option multiple times.
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3155 Example:
3156 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
3157
3158 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 3159DOC_END
0976f8db 3160
41bd17a4 3161COMMENT_START
3162 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3163 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3164COMMENT_END
3165
3166NAME: cache_mem
3167COMMENT: (bytes)
3168TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3169DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3170LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3171DOC_START
41bd17a4 3172 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3173 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3174 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3175 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3176
3177 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3178 for:
3179 * In-Transit objects
3180 * Hot Objects
3181 * Negative-Cached objects
3182
3183 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3184 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3185 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3186 priority.
3187
3188 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3189 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3190 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3191 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3192 not needed for in-transit objects.
3193
3194 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3195 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3196 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3197 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3198 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3199 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3200 objects.
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3201
3202 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3203 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3204 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3205 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3206DOC_END
0976f8db 3207
41bd17a4 3208NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3209COMMENT: (bytes)
3210TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3211DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3212LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3213DOC_START
41bd17a4 3214 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3215 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3216 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3217 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3218DOC_END
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3220NAME: memory_cache_shared
3221COMMENT: on|off
3222TYPE: YesNoNone
3223LOC: Config.memShared
3224DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3225DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3226DOC_START
3227 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3228
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3229 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3230 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3231 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3232 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3233 caching is enabled).
3234
65b81b27 3235 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3236 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3237 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3238 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3239 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3240
3241 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3242 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3243 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3244
3245 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3247
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3248NAME: memory_cache_mode
3249TYPE: memcachemode
3250LOC: Config
3251DEFAULT: always
638402dd 3252DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 3253DOC_START
ea21d497 3254 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3255
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3256 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3257
3258 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3259 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3260 a second time before cached in memory.
3261
3262 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3263DOC_END
3264
41bd17a4 3265NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3266TYPE: removalpolicy
3267LOC: Config.memPolicy
3268DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3269DOC_START
41bd17a4 3270 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3271 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3272
638402dd 3273 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 3274DOC_END
6b698a21 3275
41bd17a4 3276COMMENT_START
3277 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3278 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3279COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3280
41bd17a4 3281NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3282TYPE: removalpolicy
3283LOC: Config.replPolicy
3284DEFAULT: lru
3285DOC_START
3286 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3287 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3288
41bd17a4 3289 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3290 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3291 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3292 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3293
638402dd 3294 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 3295
41bd17a4 3296 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3297
41bd17a4 3298 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3299 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3300 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3301 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3302
41bd17a4 3303 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3304 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3305 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3306 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3307
41bd17a4 3308 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3309 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3310 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3311
41bd17a4 3312 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3313 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3314 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3315
41bd17a4 3316 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3317 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3318 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3319DOC_END
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3321NAME: minimum_object_size
3322COMMENT: (bytes)
3323TYPE: b_int64_t
3324DEFAULT: 0 KB
3325DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
3326LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
3327DOC_START
3328 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3329 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3330 means all responses can be stored.
3331DOC_END
3332
3333NAME: maximum_object_size
3334COMMENT: (bytes)
3335TYPE: b_int64_t
3336DEFAULT: 4 MB
3337LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
3338DOC_START
499f852c 3339 Set the default value for max-size parameter on any cache_dir.
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3340 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3341
3342 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3343 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3344 hits).
3345
3346 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
3347 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
3348
3349 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3350 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3351 See cache_replacement_policy for a discussion of this policy.
3352DOC_END
3353
41bd17a4 3354NAME: cache_dir
3355TYPE: cachedir
3356DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3357DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 3358LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 3359DOC_START
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3360 Format:
3361 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3362
41bd17a4 3363 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3364 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3365
41bd17a4 3366 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3367 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3368 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3369
41bd17a4 3370 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3371 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3372 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3373 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3374 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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3376 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3377 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3378 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3379
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3381 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 3382
41bd17a4 3383 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3384 been there.
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3386 Usage:
3387 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3388
41bd17a4 3389 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3390 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3391 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3392 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3393 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3394
56fba4d0 3395 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3396 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3397
56fba4d0 3398 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3399 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3400 is 256.
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3403 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 3404
41bd17a4 3405 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3406 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3407 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
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3409 Usage:
3410 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3411
41bd17a4 3412 see argument descriptions under ufs above
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3415 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 3416
41bd17a4 3417 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3418 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3419 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3420
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3421 Usage:
3422 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3423
41bd17a4 3424 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3425
41bd17a4 3426 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3427 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3428 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3429
41bd17a4 3430 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3431 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3432 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3433
41bd17a4 3434 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3435 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3436 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3437 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3438 time.
0976f8db 3439
e2851fe7 3440
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3441 ==== The rock store type ====
3442
3443 Usage:
e51ce7da 3444 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes [options]
e2851fe7 3445
2e55f083 3446 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3448 A single entry occupies one or more slots.
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3450 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
3451 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
3452 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
3453 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
3454 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
3455
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3456 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3457 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3458 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3459 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3460 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3461 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3462 expected swap wait time.
3463
df881a0f 3464 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3465 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3466 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3467 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3468 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3469 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3470 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3471 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3473 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3474 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3475 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3476 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3477 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3478
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3480 storing cached responses. A cached response occupies at least
3481 one slot and all database I/O is done using individual slots so
3482 increasing this parameter leads to more disk space waste while
3483 decreasing it leads to more disk I/O overheads. Should be a
3484 multiple of your operating system I/O page size. Defaults to
3485 16KBytes. A housekeeping header is stored with each slot and
3486 smaller slot-sizes will be rejected. The header is smaller than
3487 100 bytes.
3488
df881a0f 3489
638402dd 3490 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
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3492 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
3493
3494 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3495 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
3496 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
3497 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
73656056 3498 (e.g. Rock).
638402dd 3499 Defaults to 0.
0976f8db 3500
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3501 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3502 supports.
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3503 The value in maximum_object_size directive sets
3504 the default unless more specific details are
3505 available (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 3506
41bd17a4 3507 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 3508 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 3509
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3511
3512# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3513#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
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6b698a21 3515DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3517NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3518TYPE: string
3519LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3520DEFAULT: least-load
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3522 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
3523 object will fit into more than one.
3524
3525 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
3526 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
3527 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
3528 cache_dir.
3529
3530 Algorithms:
3531
3532 least-load
3533
3534 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
3535 sizes and disk speeds.
3536
3537 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
3538 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
3539 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
3540
3541 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
3542 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
3543 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
3544 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
3545
3546
3547 round-robin
3548
3549 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
3550 disk sizes.
3551
3552 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
3553 cache_dir is used.
3554
3555 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
3556 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
3557 max-size parameters.
3558
3559 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
3560 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
3561 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
3562
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3563 If several cache_dirs use similar min-size, max-size, or other
3564 limits to to reject certain responses, then do not group such
3565 cache_dir lines together, to avoid round-robin selection bias
3566 towards the first cache_dir after the group. Instead, interleave
3567 cache_dir lines from different groups. For example:
3568
3569 store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin
3570 cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000
3571 cache_dir rock /ssd1 ... max-size=99999
3572 cache_dir rock /hdd2 ... min-size=100000
3573 cache_dir rock /ssd2 ... max-size=99999
3574 cache_dir rock /hdd3 ... min-size=100000
3575 cache_dir rock /ssd3 ... max-size=99999
6b698a21 3576DOC_END
0976f8db 3577
41bd17a4 3578NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3579TYPE: int
3580LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3581DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 3582DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 3583DOC_START
41bd17a4 3584 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3585 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3586 descriptors are open.
3587
3588 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3589DOC_END
0976f8db 3590
41bd17a4 3591NAME: cache_swap_low
3592COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3593TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3594DEFAULT: 90
3595LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
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3596DOC_START
3597 The low-water mark for cache object replacement.
3598 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3599 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3600 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3601 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3602 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3603
3604 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3605 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3606 numbers closer together.
3607
3608 See also cache_swap_high
3609DOC_END
41bd17a4 3610
3611NAME: cache_swap_high
3612COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3613TYPE: int
3614DEFAULT: 95
3615LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3616DOC_START
638402dd 3617 The high-water mark for cache object replacement.
41bd17a4 3618 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3619 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3620 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3621 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3622 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3623
3624 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3625 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3626 numbers closer together.
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3627
3628 See also cache_swap_low
6b698a21 3629DOC_END
0976f8db 3630
5473c134 3631COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3632 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3633 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3634COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3635
41bd17a4 3636NAME: logformat
3637TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3638LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3639DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3640DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 3641DOC_START
41bd17a4 3642 Usage:
0976f8db 3643
41bd17a4 3644 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3645
41bd17a4 3646 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3647
41bd17a4 3648 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3649
41bd17a4 3650 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3651 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3652 as required according to their context and the output format
3653 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3654 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3655
41bd17a4 3656 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3657
41bd17a4 3658 " output in quoted string format
3659 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3660 # output in URL quoted format
3661 ' output as-is
5473c134 3662
41bd17a4 3663 - left aligned
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3664
3665 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3666 [width_min][.width_max]
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3667 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3668 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3669
41bd17a4 3670 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3671
41bd17a4 3672 Format codes:
5473c134 3673
3ff65596 3674 % a literal % character
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3675 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3676 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3677 a similar internal error identifier.
3678 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
c7bcf010 3679 note The annotation specified by the argument. Also
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3680 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3681 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
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3682 If no argument given all annotations logged.
3683 The argument may include a separator to use with
3684 annotation values:
3685 name[:separator]
3686 By default, multiple note values are separated with ","
3687 and multiple notes are separated with "\r\n".
3688 When logging named notes with %{name}note, the
3689 explicitly configured separator is used between note
3690 values. When logging all notes with %note, the
3691 explicitly configured separator is used between
3692 individual notes. There is currently no way to
3693 specify both value and notes separators when logging
3694 all notes with %note.
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3695
3696 Connection related format codes:
3697
41bd17a4 3698 >a Client source IP address
3699 >A Client FQDN
3700 >p Client source port
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3701 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3702 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3703 >lp Local port number the client connected to
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3704 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
3705 >nfmark Client connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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3707 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3708 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3709
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3710 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3711 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3712 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3713 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3714 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3715 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
3716 <nfmark Server connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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3717
3718 Time related format codes:
3719
41bd17a4 3720 ts Seconds since epoch
3721 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3722 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3723 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3724 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3725 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3726 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 3727 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
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3728 tS Approximate master transaction start time in
3729 <full seconds since epoch>.<fractional seconds> format.
3730 Currently, Squid considers the master transaction
3731 started when a complete HTTP request header initiating
3732 the transaction is received from the client. This is
3733 the same value that Squid uses to calculate transaction
3734 response time when logging %tr to access.log. Currently,
3735 Squid uses millisecond resolution for %tS values,
3736 similar to the default access.log "current time" field
3737 (%ts.%03tu).
3ff65596 3738
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3739 Access Control related format codes:
3740
3741 et Tag returned by external acl
3742 ea Log string returned by external acl
3743 un User name (any available)
3744 ul User name from authentication
3745 ue User name from external acl helper
3746 ui User name from ident
3747 us User name from SSL
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3748 credentials Client credentials. The exact meaning depends on
3749 the authentication scheme: For Basic authentication,
3750 it is the password; for Digest, the realm sent by the
3751 client; for NTLM and Negotiate, the client challenge
3752 or client credentials prefixed with "YR " or "KK ".
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3753
3754 HTTP related format codes:
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3756 REQUEST
3757
3758 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
3759 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3760 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3761 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3762 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3763 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
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3764 [http::]>rs Request URL scheme from client
3765 [http::]<rs Request URL scheme sent to server or peer
fa450988 3766 [http::]>rd Request URL domain from client
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3767 [http::]>rd Request URL domain sent to server or peer
3768 [http::]>rP Request URL port from client
3769 [http::]<rP Request URL port sent to server or peer
3770 [http::]rp Request URL path excluding hostname
3771 [http::]>rp Request URL path excluding hostname from client
3772 [http::]<rp Request URL path excluding hostname sent to server or peer
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3773 [http::]rv Request protocol version
3774 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3775 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
3776
5aca9cf2 3777 [http::]>h Original received request header.
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3778 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3779 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
3780 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
3781 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
3782 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
3783 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
3784 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3785 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 3786 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3787
3788
3789 RESPONSE
3790
3791 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
3792 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3793
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3794 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3795 as for >h
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3796
3797 [http::]mt MIME content type
3798
3799
3800 SIZE COUNTERS
3801
3802 [http::]st Total size of request + reply traffic with client
3803 [http::]>st Total size of request received from client.
3804 Excluding chunked encoding bytes.
3805 [http::]<st Total size of reply sent to client (after adaptation)
3806
3807 [http::]>sh Size of request headers received from client
3808 [http::]<sh Size of reply headers sent to client (after adaptation)
3809
3810 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3811 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3812
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3813 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3814 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3815 transfer encoding and control messages.
3816 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3817 received bodies.
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3818
3819
3820 TIMING
3821
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3822 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3823 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3824 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3825 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3826 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3827 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3828 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3829
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3830 Squid handling related format codes:
3831
3832 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3833 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3834
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3835 SSL-related format codes:
3836
3837 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3838
3839 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3840 a connection and for any request received on
3841 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3842 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3843 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3844 more information about these modes.
3845
3846 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3847 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3848 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3849
3850 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3851 logged.
3852
5038f9d8 3853 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3854 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3855
3856 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3857 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3858 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3859 transaction is in progress.
3860
5038f9d8 3861 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3862
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3863 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3864 meta-information from the last eCAP
3865 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3866 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3867 argument.
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3868
3869 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3870 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3871 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3872 value is recorded as an integer number,
3873 representing response time of one or more
3874 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3875 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3876 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3877 logged individually but added to the
3878 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3879 adapt::all_trs.
3880
3881 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3882 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3883 individual transactions are never added
3884 together. Instead, all transaction response
3885 times are recorded individually.
3886
3887 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3888 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3889 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3890
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3891 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3892
3893 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3894 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3895 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3896 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3897 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3898
3899 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3900 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3901 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3902 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3903 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3904
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3905 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3906
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3907logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3908logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3909logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3910logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3911logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3912
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3913 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3914 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3915 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3916
3917 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3918 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3919
5473c134 3920DOC_END
3921
41bd17a4 3922NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3923TYPE: access_log
3924LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3925DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3926DOC_START
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3927 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
3928 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
3929 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
3930
3931 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
3932 access_log none [acl acl ...]
3933
3934 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 3935 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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3936
3937 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
3938 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
3939 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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3940
3941 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3942 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3943 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3944 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3945
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3946 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
3947
3948 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
3949 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
3950 to 'squid'.
3951
3952 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
3953 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
3954 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
3955 should flush records before the buffer becomes
3956 full to avoid overflows under normal
3957 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
3958 module-dependent though). The on-error option
3959 controls overflow handling.
3960
3961 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
3962 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
3963 affected log records. The default 'die' action
3964 kills the affected worker. The drop action
3965 support has not been tested for modules other
3966 than tcp.
3967
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3968 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3969
bb7a1781 3970 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3971 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3972
3973 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3974 each request.
3975 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3976
3977 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3978 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3979 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3980
3981 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3982
3983 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3984 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3985 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3986
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3987 where facility could be any of:
3988 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3989
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3990 And priority could be any of:
3991 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3992
3993 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3994 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3995 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3996
2bf4e8fa 3997 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 3998 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 3999 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4000 Place Format: //host:port
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4001
4002 Default:
82b7abe3 4003 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 4004DOC_END
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4006NAME: icap_log
4007TYPE: access_log
4008IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4009LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
4010DEFAULT: none
4011DOC_START
4012 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
4013 transaction.
4014
4015 The icap_log option format is:
4016 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
4017 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
4018
4019 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
4020 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
4021 features.
4022
4023 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
4024 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
4025 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
4026 log line.
4027
4028 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
4029 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
4030 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
4031 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
4032 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
4033 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
4034 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
4035
4036 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
4037
4038 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
4039
4040 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
4041 option in Squid configuration file.
4042
4043 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
4044
4045 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
4046 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
4047
4048 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
4049 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
4050
4051 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
4052 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
4053 the socket).
4054
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4055 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
4056 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
4057 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
4058 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
4059 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
4060 computed.
4061
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4062 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
4063 milliseconds). The timer starts when
4064 the ICAP transaction is created and
4065 stops when the transaction is completed.
4066 Similar to tr.
4067
4068 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
4069 timer starts when the first ICAP request
4070 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
4071 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
4072 is received.
4073
4074 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
4075 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
4076 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
4077 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
4078 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
4079 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
4080
4081 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
4082
4083 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
4084
4085 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
4086
4087 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
4088 definition, is called icap_squid:
4089
4090logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
4091
5038f9d8 4092 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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4093DOC_END
4094
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4095NAME: logfile_daemon
4096TYPE: string
4097DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
4098LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
4099DOC_START
4100 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
4101 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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4102
4103 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
4104 L<data>\n - logfile data
4105 R\n - rotate file
4106 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 4107 O\n - reopen file
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4108 F\n - flush file
4109 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
4110 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
4111
4112 No responses is expected.
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4113DOC_END
4114
5b0f5383 4115NAME: log_access
8ebad780 4116TYPE: obsolete
5b0f5383 4117DOC_START
8ebad780 4118 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
5b0f5383 4119DOC_END
4120
3ff65596 4121NAME: log_icap
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4122TYPE: obsolete
4123DOC_START
4124 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
4125DOC_END
4126
4127NAME: stats_collection
3ff65596 4128TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 4129LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
3ff65596 4130DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4131DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 4132COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3ff65596 4133DOC_START
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4134 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
4135 in performance counters.
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4136
4137 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4138 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4140
41bd17a4 4141NAME: cache_store_log
4142TYPE: string
df2eec10 4143DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4144LOC: Config.Log.store
4145DOC_START
4146 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
4147 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 4148 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 4149 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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4150 disable it (the default).
4151
4152 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
4153 of modules supported.
4154
e0855596 4155 Example:
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4156 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
4157 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 4158DOC_END
4159
41bd17a4 4160NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
4161TYPE: string
4162LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 4163DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4164DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 4165DOC_START
41bd17a4 4166 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
4167 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
4168 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
4169 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
4170 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
4171 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
4172 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 4173
41bd17a4 4174 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
4175 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
4176 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
4177 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 4178
41bd17a4 4179 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
4180 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 4181
41bd17a4 4182 cache_swap_log.00
4183 cache_swap_log.01
4184 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 4185
41bd17a4 4186 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
4187 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
4188 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
4189 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
4190 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
4191 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
4192 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 4193DOC_END
4194
41bd17a4 4195NAME: logfile_rotate
4196TYPE: int
4197DEFAULT: 10
4198LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 4199DOC_START
41bd17a4 4200 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
4201 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
4202 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
4203 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
4204 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4205 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 4206
41bd17a4 4207 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
4208 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
4209 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
4210 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
4211 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
4212 <pid>'.
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4214 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
4215 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
41bd17a4 4216DOC_END
5473c134 4217
41bd17a4 4218NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 4219TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 4220DOC_START
20efa1c2 4221 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 4222DOC_END
4223
41bd17a4 4224NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 4225TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4226DOC_START
8652f8e7 4227 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 4228DOC_END
5473c134 4229
41bd17a4 4230NAME: mime_table
4231TYPE: string
4232DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
4233LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
4234DOC_START
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4235 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
4236
4237 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
4238 examples and formatting information if you do.
5473c134 4239DOC_END
4240
41bd17a4 4241NAME: log_mime_hdrs
4242COMMENT: on|off
4243TYPE: onoff
4244LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
4245DEFAULT: off
4246DOC_START
4247 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
4248 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
4249 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
4250 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
4251 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
4252DOC_END
5473c134 4253
41bd17a4 4254NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 4255TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4256DOC_START
20efa1c2 4257 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 4258DOC_END
4259
41bd17a4 4260NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 4261TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4262DOC_START
20efa1c2 4263 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 4264DOC_END
4265
41bd17a4 4266NAME: pid_filename
4267TYPE: string
4268DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4269LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4270DOC_START
41bd17a4 4271 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4272DOC_END
4273
41bd17a4 4274NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 4275TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4276DOC_START
c581e96b 4277 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 4278DOC_END
4279
41bd17a4 4280NAME: client_netmask
4281TYPE: address
4282LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4283DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 4284DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 4285DOC_START
41bd17a4 4286 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4287 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4288 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4289 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4290DOC_END
4291
41bd17a4 4292NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 4293TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4294DOC_START
20efa1c2 4295 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 4296DOC_END
4297
41bd17a4 4298NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4299TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4300LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 4301DEFAULT: on
4302DOC_START
41bd17a4 4303 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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4304 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
4305
4306 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
4307 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 4308DOC_END
4309
41bd17a4 4310NAME: buffered_logs
4311COMMENT: on|off
4312TYPE: onoff
4313DEFAULT: off
4314LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 4315DOC_START
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4316 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
4317 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
4318 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
4319 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
4320 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
4321 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
4322
4323 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
4324 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
4325 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
4326
fb0c2f17 4327 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 4328DOC_END
0976f8db 4329
2b753521 4330NAME: netdb_filename
4331TYPE: string
221faecb 4332DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 4333LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 4334IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 4335DOC_START
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4336 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
4337 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
4338
2b753521 4339 To disable, enter "none".
4340DOC_END
4341
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4342COMMENT_START
4343 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
4344 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4345COMMENT_END
4346
4347NAME: cache_log
4348TYPE: string
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4349DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
4350LOC: Debug::cache_log
4351DOC_START
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4352 Squid administrative logging file.
4353
4354 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
4355 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
4356 rotated with "debug_options"
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4357DOC_END
4358
4359NAME: debug_options
4360TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 4361DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 4362DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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4363LOC: Debug::debugOptions
4364DOC_START
4365 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
4366 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
4367 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
4368 log file, so be careful.
4369
4370 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 4371 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
62493678 4372
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4373 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
4374 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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4375 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
4376 events affecting Squid.
4377DOC_END
4378
4379NAME: coredump_dir
4380TYPE: string
4381LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 4382DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 4383DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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4384DOC_START
4385 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4386 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4387 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4388 and coredump files will be left there.
4389
4390NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 4391
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4392# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
4393coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4394NOCOMMENT_END
4395DOC_END
4396
4397
41bd17a4 4398COMMENT_START
4399 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4400 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4401COMMENT_END
4402
4403NAME: ftp_user
4404TYPE: string
4405DEFAULT: Squid@
4406LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4407DOC_START
41bd17a4 4408 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 4409 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 4410 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4411
41bd17a4 4412 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4413 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4414 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 4415 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 4416 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4417DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4419NAME: ftp_passive
4420TYPE: onoff
4421DEFAULT: on
4422LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4423DOC_START
41bd17a4 4424 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4425 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 4426
4427 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4428DOC_END
4429
4430NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4431TYPE: onoff
4432DEFAULT: off
4433LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4434DOC_START
4435 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4436
4437 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4438 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4439 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4440
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4442 useful.
a689bd4e 4443 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4444 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4445
4446 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4447 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4448
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4449 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4450DOC_END
4451
4452NAME: ftp_epsv
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4454DEFAULT: none
4455LOC: Config.accessList.ftp_epsv
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4456DOC_START
4457 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4458
4459 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4460 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4461 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4462 will never be needed.
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4464 EPSV is often required to interoperate with FTP servers on IPv6
4465 networks. On the other hand, it may break some IPv4 servers.
4466
4467 By default, EPSV may try EPSV with any FTP server. To fine tune
4468 that decision, you may restrict EPSV to certain clients or servers
4469 using ACLs:
4470
4471 ftp_epsv allow|deny al1 acl2 ...
4472
4473 WARNING: Disabling EPSV may cause problems with external NAT and IPv6.
51ee534d 4474
ddf5aa2b 4475 Only fast ACLs are supported.
51ee534d 4476 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4477DOC_END
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4479NAME: ftp_eprt
4480TYPE: onoff
4481DEFAULT: on
4482LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4483DOC_START
4484 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4485
4486 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4487 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4488 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4489
4490 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4491 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4492
4493 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4494 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4495 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4496 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4497
4498 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4499 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4500DOC_END
4501
41bd17a4 4502NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4503TYPE: onoff
4504DEFAULT: on
4505LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4506DOC_START
4507 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4508 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4509 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4510 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4511 connection turn this off.
4512DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4513
41bd17a4 4514NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4515TYPE: onoff
4516DEFAULT: on
4517LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4518DOC_START
4519 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4520 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4521 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4522 the FTP protocol.
4523
4524 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4525 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4526 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4527 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4528 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4529DOC_END
4530
4531COMMENT_START
4532 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4533 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4534COMMENT_END
4535
4536NAME: diskd_program
4537TYPE: string
4538DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4539LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4540DOC_START
4541 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4542 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4543 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4544DOC_END
4545
4546NAME: unlinkd_program
4547IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4548TYPE: string
4549DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4550LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4551DOC_START
4552 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4553DOC_END
4554
4555NAME: pinger_program
4556TYPE: string
4557DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4558LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4559IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4560DOC_START
4561 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4562DOC_END
4563
cc192b50 4564NAME: pinger_enable
4565TYPE: onoff
4566DEFAULT: on
4567LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4568IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4569DOC_START
4570 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4571 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4572 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4573DOC_END
4574
4575
41bd17a4 4576COMMENT_START
4577 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4578 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4579COMMENT_END
4580
4581NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4582TYPE: wordlist
4583LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4584DEFAULT: none
4585DOC_START
2c7aad89 4586 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4587 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4588
2c7aad89 4589 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4590
b11724bb 4591 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
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4594 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4595
24eac830 4596 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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4598 The result code can be:
4599
4600 OK status=30N url="..."
4601 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4602 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4603 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4604 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4605 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
c71adec1 4606
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4607 OK rewrite-url="..."
4608 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4609 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4610 the client as the response to its request.
4611
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4612 OK
4613 When neither of url= and rewrite-url= are sent Squid does
4614 not change the URL.
4615
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4616 ERR
4617 Do not change the URL.
4618
4619 BH
4ded749e 4620 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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4621 a result being identified. The 'message=' key name is
4622 reserved for delivering a log message.
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4623
4624
4625 In the future, the interface protocol will be extended with
24eac830 4626 key=value pairs ("kv-pairs" shown above). Helper programs
c71adec1 4627 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4628 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4629
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4630 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4631 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4632 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4633 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4634 of the response relating to its request.
4635
4636 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
4637 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 4638
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4639 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
4640 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
4641 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
4642 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
4643 interface.
41bd17a4 4644
4645 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4646DOC_END
4647
4648NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4649TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4650DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4651LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4652DOC_START
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4653 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4654 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4655 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4656 and other system resources noticably.
4657
4658 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4659 tuning.
4660
4661 startup=
4662
4663 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4664 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4665 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4666
4667 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4668 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4669
4670 idle=
4671
4672 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4673 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4674 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4675 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4676
4677 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4678
41bd17a4 4679 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4680 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4681 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4683 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4684 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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4685 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4686 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
41bd17a4 4687DOC_END
4688
4689NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4690TYPE: onoff
4691DEFAULT: on
4692LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4693DOC_START
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4694 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4695 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4696 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4697
4698 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4699 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4700 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4701
41bd17a4 4702 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4703 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4704
4705 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4706 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4707 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4708DOC_END
4709
4710NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4711TYPE: acl_access
4712DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4713DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 4714LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4715DOC_START
4716 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 4717 sent to the redirector processes.
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4718
4719 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4720 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4721DOC_END
4722
4723NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4724TYPE: onoff
4725LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4726DEFAULT: off
4727DOC_START
4728 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
638402dd 4729 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
41bd17a4 4730 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4731 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4732 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4733 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4734 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4735 users may have access to pages they should not
4736 be allowed to request.
4737DOC_END
4738
fe7966ec 4739NAME: url_rewrite_extras
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4740TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
4741LOC: Config.redirector_extras
4742DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
4743DOC_START
4744 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
4745 rewriter helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
4746 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
4747 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
4748 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
4749DOC_END
4750
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4751COMMENT_START
4752 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
4753 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4754COMMENT_END
4755
4756NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
4757TYPE: wordlist
4758LOC: Config.Program.store_id
4759DEFAULT: none
4760DOC_START
4761 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
4762 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4763
4764 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
4765
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4767
4768
4769 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4770
4771 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
4772
4773 The result code can be:
4774
4775 OK store-id="..."
4776 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
4777
4778 ERR
4779 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
4780
4781 BH
4782 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
4783 a result being identified.
4784
4785
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4786 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore
4787 additional whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
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4788
4789 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4790 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4791 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4792 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4793 of the response relating to its request.
4794
4795 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
4796 returned from the helper and not the URL.
4797
4798 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
4799 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
4800
4801 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
4802DOC_END
4803
fe7966ec 4804NAME: store_id_extras
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4805TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
4806LOC: Config.storeId_extras
4807DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
4808DOC_START
4809 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
4810 StoreId helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
4811 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
4812 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
4813 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
4814DOC_END
4815
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4816NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
4817TYPE: HelperChildConfig
4818DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
4819LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
4820DOC_START
4821 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
4822 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4823 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4824 and other system resources noticably.
4825
4826 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4827 tuning.
4828
4829 startup=
4830
4831 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4832 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4833 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4834
4835 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4836 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4837
4838 idle=
4839
4840 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4841 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4842 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4843 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4844
4845 concurrency=
4846
4847 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
4848 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
4849 is a old-style single threaded program.
4850
4851 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4852 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4853 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4854 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
4855DOC_END
4856
4857NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
4858TYPE: acl_access
4859DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4860DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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4861LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
4862DOC_START
4863 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4864 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
4865 are sent.
4866
4867 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4868 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4869DOC_END
4870
4871NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
4872TYPE: onoff
4873LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
4874DEFAULT: on
4875DOC_START
4876 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4877 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
4878 and the helper queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4879 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4880 helpers. You should only enable this if the helperss
4881 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4882 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
4883 option, users may not get objects from cache.
4884DOC_END
4885
41bd17a4 4886COMMENT_START
4887 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4888 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4889COMMENT_END
4890
f04b37d8 4891NAME: cache no_cache
4892TYPE: acl_access
4893DEFAULT: none
70706149 4894DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
f04b37d8 4895LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4896DOC_START
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4897 Requests denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
4898 and their responses will not be stored in the cache. This directive
4899 has no effect on other transactions and on already cached responses.
f04b37d8 4900
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4901 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4902 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4903
4904 This and the two other similar caching directives listed below are
4905 checked at different transaction processing stages, have different
4906 access to response information, affect different cache operations,
4907 and differ in slow ACLs support:
4908
4909 * cache: Checked before Squid makes a hit/miss determination.
4910 No access to reply information!
4911 Denies both serving a hit and storing a miss.
4912 Supports both fast and slow ACLs.
4913 * send_hit: Checked after a hit was detected.
4914 Has access to reply (hit) information.
4915 Denies serving a hit only.
4916 Supports fast ACLs only.
4917 * store_miss: Checked before storing a cachable miss.
4918 Has access to reply (miss) information.
4919 Denies storing a miss only.
4920 Supports fast ACLs only.
4921
4922 If you are not sure which of the three directives to use, apply the
4923 following decision logic:
4924
4925 * If your ACL(s) are of slow type _and_ need response info, redesign.
4926 Squid does not support that particular combination at this time.
4927 Otherwise:
4928 * If your directive ACL(s) are of slow type, use "cache"; and/or
4929 * if your directive ACL(s) need no response info, use "cache".
4930 Otherwise:
4931 * If you do not want the response cached, use store_miss; and/or
4932 * if you do not want a hit on a cached response, use send_hit.
4933DOC_END
4934
4935NAME: send_hit
4936TYPE: acl_access
4937DEFAULT: none
4938DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
4939LOC: Config.accessList.sendHit
4940DOC_START
4941 Responses denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
4942 (but may still be cached, see store_miss). This directive has no
4943 effect on the responses it allows and on the cached objects.
4944
4945 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
4946 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives.
4947
4948 Unlike the "cache" directive, send_hit only supports fast acl
4949 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4950
4951 For example:
4952
4953 # apply custom Store ID mapping to some URLs
4954 acl MapMe dstdomain .c.example.com
4955 store_id_program ...
4956 store_id_access allow MapMe
4957
4958 # but prevent caching of special responses
4959 # such as 302 redirects that cause StoreID loops
4960 acl Ordinary http_status 200-299
4961 store_miss deny MapMe !Ordinary
4962
4963 # and do not serve any previously stored special responses
4964 # from the cache (in case they were already cached before
4965 # the above store_miss rule was in effect).
4966 send_hit deny MapMe !Ordinary
4967DOC_END
4968
4969NAME: store_miss
4970TYPE: acl_access
4971DEFAULT: none
4972DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
4973LOC: Config.accessList.storeMiss
4974DOC_START
4975 Responses denied by this directive will not be cached (but may still
4976 be served from the cache, see send_hit). This directive has no
4977 effect on the responses it allows and on the already cached responses.
4978
4979 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
4980 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives. See the
4981 send_hit directive for a usage example.
4982
4983 Unlike the "cache" directive, store_miss only supports fast acl
4984 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4985DOC_END
4986
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4987NAME: max_stale
4988COMMENT: time-units
4989TYPE: time_t
4990LOC: Config.maxStale
4991DEFAULT: 1 week
4992DOC_START
4993 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4994 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4995 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4996DOC_END
4997
41bd17a4 4998NAME: refresh_pattern
4999TYPE: refreshpattern
5000LOC: Config.Refresh
5001DEFAULT: none
5002DOC_START
5003 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 5004
6b698a21 5005 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
5006 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 5007
41bd17a4 5008 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
5009 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
5010 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
5011 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
5012 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 5013
41bd17a4 5014 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
5015 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
5016 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 5017
41bd17a4 5018 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
5019 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 5020
41bd17a4 5021 options: override-expire
5022 override-lastmod
5023 reload-into-ims
5024 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 5025 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 5026 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 5027 ignore-private
5028 ignore-auth
570d3f75 5029 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 5030 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 5031 store-stale
a0ec9f68 5032
41bd17a4 5033 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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5034 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
5035 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
5036 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5037 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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5039 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
5040 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
5041 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
5042 the object fresh for that period of time.
5043
41bd17a4 5044 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
5045 that were modified recently.
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5047 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
5048 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
5049 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
5050 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
5051 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5052 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 5053
41bd17a4 5054 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
5055 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5056 this feature could make you liable for problems which
5057 it causes.
9bc73deb 5058
41bd17a4 5059 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
5060 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5061 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5062 liable for problems which it causes.
5063
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5064 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
5065 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5066 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5067 liable for problems which it causes.
5068
41bd17a4 5069 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
5070 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5071 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5072 liable for problems which it causes.
5073
5074 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
5075 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
5076 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
5077 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
5078 it causes.
5079
5080 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
5081 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
5082 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
5083 if one is available.
5084
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5085 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
5086 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
5087 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
5088 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
5089 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
5090
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5091 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
5092 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
5093 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
5094
41bd17a4 5095 Basically a cached object is:
5096
5097 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
5098 STALE if age > max
5099 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
5100 FRESH if age < min
5101 else STALE
5102
5103 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
5104 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
5105 match the default will be used.
5106
5107 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
5108 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
5109 used.
5110
41bd17a4 5111NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 5112
638402dd 5113#
e0855596 5114# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 5115#
41bd17a4 5116refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
5117refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 5118refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 5119refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
5120NOCOMMENT_END
5121DOC_END
5122
5123NAME: quick_abort_min
5124COMMENT: (KB)
5125TYPE: kb_int64_t
5126DEFAULT: 16 KB
5127LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
5128DOC_NONE
5129
5130NAME: quick_abort_max
5131COMMENT: (KB)
5132TYPE: kb_int64_t
5133DEFAULT: 16 KB
5134LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
5135DOC_NONE
5136
5137NAME: quick_abort_pct
5138COMMENT: (percent)
5139TYPE: int
5140DEFAULT: 95
5141LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
5142DOC_START
5143 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
5144 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
5145 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
5146 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
5147 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
5148 downloads.
5149
5150 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
5151 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
5152 then.
5153
5154 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
5155 it will finish the retrieval.
5156
5157 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
5158 it will abort the retrieval.
5159
5160 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
5161 it will finish the retrieval.
5162
5163 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
5164 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
5165 to '0 KB'.
5166
5167 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
5168 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
5169DOC_END
60d096f4 5170
41bd17a4 5171NAME: read_ahead_gap
5172COMMENT: buffer-size
5173TYPE: b_int64_t
5174LOC: Config.readAheadGap
5175DEFAULT: 16 KB
5176DOC_START
5177 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
5178 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
5179DOC_END
53e738c6 5180
41bd17a4 5181NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 5182IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5183COMMENT: time-units
5184TYPE: time_t
5185LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 5186DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 5187DOC_START
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5188 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
5189 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
5190 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
5191 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
5192 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
5193 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
5194
5195 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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5196
5197 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5198 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5199 causes.
41bd17a4 5200DOC_END
53e738c6 5201
41bd17a4 5202NAME: positive_dns_ttl
5203COMMENT: time-units
5204TYPE: time_t
5205LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
5206DEFAULT: 6 hours
5207DOC_START
5208 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
5209 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
5210 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
5211DOC_END
c4ab8329 5212
41bd17a4 5213NAME: negative_dns_ttl
5214COMMENT: time-units
5215TYPE: time_t
5216LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
5217DEFAULT: 1 minutes
5218DOC_START
5219 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
5220 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
5221 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
5222 much below 10 seconds.
5223DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5225NAME: range_offset_limit
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5226COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
5227TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 5228LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 5229DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5230DOC_START
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5231 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
5232
5233 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
5234 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
5235 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
5236 the result is NOT cached.
5237
41bd17a4 5238 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
5239 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
5240 sending anything to the client.
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5241
5242 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
5243 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
5244 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
5245 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
5246
5247 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
5248
5249 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
5250 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
5251
5252 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 5253 client requested. (default)
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5254
5255 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 5256 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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5257
5258 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
5259
5260 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
5261 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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5262 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
5263 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 5264DOC_END
d95b862f 5265
41bd17a4 5266NAME: minimum_expiry_time
5267COMMENT: (seconds)
5268TYPE: time_t
5269LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
5270DEFAULT: 60 seconds
5271DOC_START
5272 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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5273 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
5274 The default is 60 seconds.
5275
5276 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
5277 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
5278 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
5279
5280 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
5281 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 5282DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5284NAME: store_avg_object_size
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5285COMMENT: (bytes)
5286TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 5287DEFAULT: 13 KB
5288LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
5289DOC_START
5290 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
5291 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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5292
5293 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
5294 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
5295 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
5296 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
5297
5298 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
5299 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 5300DOC_END
5301
41bd17a4 5302NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
5303TYPE: int
5304DEFAULT: 20
5305LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
5306DOC_START
5307 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
5308 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
5309 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
5310DOC_END
5311
5312COMMENT_START
5313 HTTP OPTIONS
5314 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5315COMMENT_END
5316
f04b37d8 5317NAME: request_header_max_size
5318COMMENT: (KB)
5319TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5320DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5321LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
5322DOC_START
5323 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
5324 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5325 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
5326 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5327 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5328DOC_END
5329
5330NAME: reply_header_max_size
5331COMMENT: (KB)
5332TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5333DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5334LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
5335DOC_START
5336 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
5337 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5338 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
5339 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5340 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5341DOC_END
5342
5343NAME: request_body_max_size
5344COMMENT: (bytes)
5345TYPE: b_int64_t
5346DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 5347DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 5348LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
5349DOC_START
5350 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
5351 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
5352 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
5353 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
5354 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
5355 be no limit imposed.
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5356
5357 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
5358 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 5359DOC_END
5360
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5361NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
5362COMMENT: (bytes)
5363TYPE: b_size_t
5364DEFAULT: 512 KB
5365LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
5366DOC_START
5367 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
5368 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
5369 a large file.
5370DOC_END
5371
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5372NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
5373COMMENT: (bytes)
5374TYPE: b_int64_t
5375DEFAULT: 64 KB
5376LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
5377DOC_START
5378 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
5379 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
5380 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
5381 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
5382 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
5383 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
5384
5385 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
5386 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
5387 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
5388 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
5389 as if dechunking was disabled.
5390
5391 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
5392 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
5393
5394 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
5395 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
5396 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
5397DOC_END
5398
41bd17a4 5399NAME: broken_posts
626096be 5400IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 5401TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 5402DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5403DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 5404LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 5405DOC_START
41bd17a4 5406 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
5407 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 5408
41bd17a4 5409 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
5410 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 5411
41bd17a4 5412 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 5413
41bd17a4 5414 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
5415 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
5416 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
5417 a request with an extra CRLF.
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5419 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5420 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5421
41bd17a4 5422Example:
5423 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
5424 broken_posts allow buggy_server
5425DOC_END
cccac0a2 5426
22fff3bf 5427NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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5428COMMENT: on|off
5429TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 5430IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 5431DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 5432LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 5433DOC_START
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5434 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
5435 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
5436
5437 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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5438DOC_END
5439
41bd17a4 5440NAME: via
626096be 5441IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5442COMMENT: on|off
5443TYPE: onoff
5444DEFAULT: on
5445LOC: Config.onoff.via
5446DOC_START
5447 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
5448 replies as required by RFC2616.
5449DOC_END
4cc6eb12 5450
41bd17a4 5451NAME: ie_refresh
5452COMMENT: on|off
5453TYPE: onoff
5454LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
5455DEFAULT: off
5456DOC_START
5457 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
5458 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
5459 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
5460 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
5461 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
5462 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
5463 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
5464 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
5465 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
5466 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
5467 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
5468 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
5469 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
5470 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
5471 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
5472 force fresh content.
5473DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 5474
41bd17a4 5475NAME: vary_ignore_expire
5476COMMENT: on|off
5477TYPE: onoff
5478LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
5479DEFAULT: off
5480DOC_START
5481 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
5482 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
5483 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
5484 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
5485 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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5486
5487 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
5488 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 5489DOC_END
c4ab8329 5490
41bd17a4 5491NAME: request_entities
5492TYPE: onoff
5493LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
5494DEFAULT: off
5495DOC_START
5496 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
5497 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
5498 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 5499
41bd17a4 5500 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
5501 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
5502 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
5503 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
5504 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 5505DOC_END
6b53c392 5506
41bd17a4 5507NAME: request_header_access
626096be 5508IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5509TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5510LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5511DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5512DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5513DOC_START
41bd17a4 5514 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 5515
41bd17a4 5516 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5517 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5518 causes.
0976f8db 5519
41bd17a4 5520 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
5521 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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5522 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
5523 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
5524
5525 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
5526 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
5527 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
5528 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
5529 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5530
5531 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
5532 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
5533 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
5534
5535 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
5536 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
5537 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
5538 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
5539
5540 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
5541 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
5542 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
5543 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
5544 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
5545 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 5546
41bd17a4 5547 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5548 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 5549
41bd17a4 5550 request_header_access From deny all
5551 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 5552 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 5553
41bd17a4 5554 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5555 you should use:
5401aa8d 5556
41bd17a4 5557 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5558 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5559 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 5560 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
5561 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
5562 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 5563 request_header_access Host allow all
5564 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 5565 request_header_access Pragma allow all
5566 request_header_access Accept allow all
5567 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5568 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5569 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5570 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5571 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 5572
638402dd 5573 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 5574
638402dd 5575 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 5576DOC_END
5577
41bd17a4 5578NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 5579IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5580TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5581LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 5582DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5583DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5584DOC_START
41bd17a4 5585 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 5586
41bd17a4 5587 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5588 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5589 causes.
934b03fc 5590
41bd17a4 5591 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
5592 server to the client.
934b03fc 5593
41bd17a4 5594 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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5595 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
5596 documentation.
cccac0a2 5597
41bd17a4 5598 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5599 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 5600
41bd17a4 5601 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 5602 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
5603 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 5604
41bd17a4 5605 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5606 you should use:
cccac0a2 5607
41bd17a4 5608 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 5609 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 5610 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
5611 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
5612 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
5613 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
5614 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
5615 reply_header_access Date allow all
5616 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 5617 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
5618 reply_header_access Location allow all
5619 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 5620 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5621 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
5622 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 5623 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 5624 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5625 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 5626
638402dd 5627 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 5628
41bd17a4 5629 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5630 performed).
cccac0a2 5631DOC_END
5632
75e4f2ea 5633NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 5634IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5635TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 5636LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5637DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5638DOC_START
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5639 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
5640 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 5641
41bd17a4 5642 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 5643 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 5644 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 5645
41bd17a4 5646 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 5647
41bd17a4 5648 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5649DOC_END
cccac0a2 5650
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5651NAME: reply_header_replace
5652IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5653TYPE: http_header_replace
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5654LOC: Config.reply_header_access
5655DEFAULT: none
5656DOC_START
5657 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
5658 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
5659
5660 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5661 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
5662 with some fixed string.
5663
5664 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
5665
5666 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5667DOC_END
5668
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5669NAME: request_header_add
5670TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
5671LOC: Config.request_header_add
5672DEFAULT: none
5673DOC_START
5674 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
5675 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
5676
5677 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
5678 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
5679 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
5680 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
5681 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5682
5683 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
5684 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
5685 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
5686 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
5687 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
5688 header field values are not merged.
5689
5690 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
5691 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
5692 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
5693
5694 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
5695 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
5696 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
5697 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
5698 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
5699 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
5700 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
5701 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
5702
5703 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
5704 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
5705 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
5706 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
5707 only.
5708DOC_END
5709
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5710NAME: note
5711TYPE: note
5712LOC: Config.notes
5713DEFAULT: none
5714DOC_START
5715 This option used to log custom information about the master
5716 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
5717 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
5718 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
5719 authentication information.
5720 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
5721
5722 note key value acl ...
5723 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
5724DOC_END
5725
41bd17a4 5726NAME: relaxed_header_parser
5727COMMENT: on|off|warn
5728TYPE: tristate
5729LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
5730DEFAULT: on
5731DOC_START
5732 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
5733 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
5734 what the sending application intended even if the message
5735 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
5736 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 5737
41bd17a4 5738 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
5739 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 5740
41bd17a4 5741 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
5742 or response to be rejected.
5743DOC_END
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5745NAME: collapsed_forwarding
5746COMMENT: (on|off)
5747TYPE: onoff
5748LOC: Config.onoff.collapsed_forwarding
5749DEFAULT: off
5750DOC_START
5751 This option controls whether Squid is allowed to merge multiple
5752 potentially cachable requests for the same URI before Squid knows
5753 whether the response is going to be cachable.
5754
5755 This feature is disabled by default: Enabling collapsed forwarding
5756 needlessly delays forwarding requests that look cachable (when they are
5757 collapsed) but then need to be forwarded individually anyway because
5758 they end up being for uncachable content. However, in some cases, such
5759 as accelleration of highly cachable content with periodic or groupped
5760 expiration times, the gains from collapsing [large volumes of
5761 simultenous refresh requests] outweigh losses from such delays.
5762DOC_END
5763
41bd17a4 5764COMMENT_START
5765 TIMEOUTS
5766 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5767COMMENT_END
5768
5769NAME: forward_timeout
5770COMMENT: time-units
5771TYPE: time_t
5772LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
5773DEFAULT: 4 minutes
5774DOC_START
5775 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
5776 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 5777DOC_END
5778
41bd17a4 5779NAME: connect_timeout
5780COMMENT: time-units
5781TYPE: time_t
5782LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
5783DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 5784DOC_START
41bd17a4 5785 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5786 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
5787 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 5788DOC_END
5789
41bd17a4 5790NAME: peer_connect_timeout
5791COMMENT: time-units
5792TYPE: time_t
5793LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
5794DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5795DOC_START
41bd17a4 5796 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
5797 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
5798 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
5799 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
5800DOC_END
7f7db318 5801
41bd17a4 5802NAME: read_timeout
5803COMMENT: time-units
5804TYPE: time_t
5805LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5806DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5807DOC_START
5808 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5809 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5810 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5811 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5812 default is 15 minutes.
5813DOC_END
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5815NAME: write_timeout
5816COMMENT: time-units
5817TYPE: time_t
5818LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5819DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5820DOC_START
5821 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5822 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5823 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5824 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5825 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5826 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5827 default is 15 minutes.
5828DOC_END
5829
41bd17a4 5830NAME: request_timeout
5831TYPE: time_t
5832LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5833DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5834DOC_START
6b2a2108 5835 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5836 connection establishment.
5837DOC_END
cccac0a2 5838
97b32442 5839NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5840TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5841LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5842DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5843DOC_START
5844 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5845 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5846DOC_END
cccac0a2 5847
41bd17a4 5848NAME: client_lifetime
5849COMMENT: time-units
5850TYPE: time_t
5851LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5852DEFAULT: 1 day
5853DOC_START
5854 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5855 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5856 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5857 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5858 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5859 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5860 day, 1440 minutes.
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41bd17a4 5862 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5863 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5864 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5865 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5866 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5867 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5868DOC_END
5869
41bd17a4 5870NAME: half_closed_clients
5871TYPE: onoff
5872LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5873DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5874DOC_START
41bd17a4 5875 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5876 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5877 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5878 fully-closed TCP connection.
5879
5880 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5881 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5882
abdf1651 5883 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5884 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5885 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5886 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5887DOC_END
5888
97b32442 5889NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5890TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5891LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5892DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5893DOC_START
41bd17a4 5894 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5895 proxies.
5896DOC_END
cccac0a2 5897
41bd17a4 5898NAME: ident_timeout
5899TYPE: time_t
5900IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5901LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5902DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5903DOC_START
5904 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5905
41bd17a4 5906 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5907 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5908 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5909DOC_END
5910
41bd17a4 5911NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5912COMMENT: time-units
5913TYPE: time_t
5914LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5915DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5916DOC_START
41bd17a4 5917 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5918 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5919 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5920 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5921 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5922DOC_END
0976f8db 5923
cccac0a2 5924COMMENT_START
5925 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5926 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5927COMMENT_END
5928
5929NAME: cache_mgr
5930TYPE: string
5931DEFAULT: webmaster
5932LOC: Config.adminEmail
5933DOC_START
5934 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 5935 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 5936DOC_END
5937
abacf776 5938NAME: mail_from
5939TYPE: string
5940DEFAULT: none
5941LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5942DOC_START
5943 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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5944 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
5945
5946 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 5947DOC_END
5948
d084bf20 5949NAME: mail_program
5950TYPE: eol
5951DEFAULT: mail
5952LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5953DOC_START
5954 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5955 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5956 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5957 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5958
d084bf20 5959 Optional command line options can be specified.
5960DOC_END
5961
cccac0a2 5962NAME: cache_effective_user
5963TYPE: string
5483d916 5964DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5965LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5966DOC_START
5967 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5968 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5969 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5970 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5971DOC_END
5972
cccac0a2 5973NAME: cache_effective_group
5974TYPE: string
5975DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5976DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 5977LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5978DOC_START
64e288bd 5979 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5980 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5981 from the groups membership.
5982
e3d74828 5983 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5984 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5985 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5986 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5987 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5988 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5989 group.
64e288bd 5990
5991 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5992 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5993 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5994DOC_END
5995
d3caee79 5996NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5997COMMENT: on|off
5998TYPE: onoff
5999DEFAULT: off
6000LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
6001DOC_START
6002 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
6003DOC_END
6004
cccac0a2 6005NAME: visible_hostname
6006TYPE: string
6007LOC: Config.visibleHostname
6008DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6009DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 6010DOC_START
6011 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 6012 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 6013 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
6014 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
6015 names with this setting.
6016DOC_END
6017
cccac0a2 6018NAME: unique_hostname
6019TYPE: string
6020LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
6021DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6022DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 6023DOC_START
6024 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 6025 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
6026 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 6027DOC_END
6028
cccac0a2 6029NAME: hostname_aliases
6030TYPE: wordlist
6031LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
6032DEFAULT: none
6033DOC_START
7f7db318 6034 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 6035DOC_END
0976f8db 6036
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6037NAME: umask
6038TYPE: int
6039LOC: Config.umask
6040DEFAULT: 027
6041DOC_START
6042 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
6043 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
6044
6045 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
6046 your value with 0.
6047DOC_END
6048
cccac0a2 6049COMMENT_START
6050 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
6051 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6052
6053 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
6054 announcement service. This service is provided to help
6055 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
6056 create cache hierarchies.
6057
6058 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
6059 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
6060 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
6061
6062 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
6063 following information from this configuration file:
6064
6065 http_port
6066 icp_port
6067 cache_mgr
6068
6069 All current information is processed regularly and made
6070 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
6071COMMENT_END
6072
6073NAME: announce_period
6074TYPE: time_t
6075LOC: Config.Announce.period
6076DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6077DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 6078DOC_START
638402dd 6079 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 6080
e0855596 6081 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 6082
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6083 Example:
6084 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 6085DOC_END
6086
cccac0a2 6087NAME: announce_host
6088TYPE: string
6089DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
6090LOC: Config.Announce.host
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6091DOC_START
6092 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
6093
6094 See also announce_port and announce_file
6095DOC_END
cccac0a2 6096
6097NAME: announce_file
6098TYPE: string
6099DEFAULT: none
6100LOC: Config.Announce.file
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6101DOC_START
6102 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
6103 registration messages.
6104DOC_END
cccac0a2 6105
6106NAME: announce_port
ae870270 6107TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 6108DEFAULT: 3131
6109LOC: Config.Announce.port
6110DOC_START
638402dd 6111 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 6112
638402dd 6113 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 6114DOC_END
6115
8d6275c0 6116COMMENT_START
6117 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
6118 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6119COMMENT_END
6120
cccac0a2 6121NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6122TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 6123DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6124DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 6125LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6126DOC_START
6127 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
6128 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
6129 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
6130 an identification token.
6131DOC_END
6132
6133NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 6134COMMENT: on|off
6135TYPE: onoff
6136DEFAULT: off
6137LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
6138DOC_START
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6139 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
6140 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
6141
cccac0a2 6142 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
6143DOC_END
6144
6145NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 6146IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 6147COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 6148TYPE: string
6149LOC: ESIParser::Type
6150DEFAULT: custom
6151DOC_START
6152 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
6153 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
6154 encodings.
6155DOC_END
0976f8db 6156
9edd9041 6157COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6158 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 6159 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6160COMMENT_END
6161
6162NAME: delay_pools
6163TYPE: delay_pool_count
6164DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6165IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6166LOC: Config.Delay
6167DOC_START
6168 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
6169 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
6170 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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6171
6172 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
6173 configuration details.
9edd9041 6174DOC_END
6175
6176NAME: delay_class
6177TYPE: delay_pool_class
6178DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6179IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6180LOC: Config.Delay
6181DOC_START
6182 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
6183 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
6184 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
6185 and here would be:
6186
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6187 Example:
6188 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
6189 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
6190 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
6191 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
6192 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 6193
6194 The delay pool classes are:
6195
6196 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6197 bucket.
6198
6199 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6200 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 6201 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6202
6203 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6204 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
6205 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
6206 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 6207 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6208
6209 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
6210 additional limit on a per user basis. This
6211 only takes effect if the username is established
6212 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
6213 http_access rules.
6214
6215 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
6216 external_acl's tag= reply).
6217
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6218
6219 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
6220 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
6221 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
6222
9edd9041 6223 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
6224 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
6225 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
6226 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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6227
6228 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
6229 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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6230
6231 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6232 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6233
6234 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 6235DOC_END
6236
6237NAME: delay_access
6238TYPE: delay_pool_access
6239DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6240DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6241IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6242LOC: Config.Delay
6243DOC_START
6244 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
6245
6246 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
6247 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
6248 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
6249 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
6250
6251 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
6252 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
6253
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6254 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
6255 delay_access 1 deny all
6256 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
6257 delay_access 2 deny all
6258 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
6259
6260 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
6261
9edd9041 6262DOC_END
6263
6264NAME: delay_parameters
6265TYPE: delay_pool_rates
6266DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6267IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6268LOC: Config.Delay
6269DOC_START
6270 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
6271 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 6272 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 6273
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6274 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6275 delay_pools pool 1
6276 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 6277
6278 For a class 2 delay pool:
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6279 delay_pools pool 2
6280 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 6281
6282 For a class 3 delay pool:
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6283 delay_pools pool 3
6284 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 6285
6286 For a class 4 delay pool:
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6287 delay_pools pool 4
6288 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 6289
6290 For a class 5 delay pool:
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6291 delay_pools pool 5
6292 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 6293
0b68481a 6294 The option variables are:
9edd9041 6295
6296 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
6297 number specified in delay_pools as used in
6298 delay_class lines.
6299
fdb47ac6 6300 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 6301 (class 1, 2, 3).
6302
fdb47ac6 6303 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 6304 buckets (class 2, 3).
6305
fdb47ac6 6306 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 6307 (class 3).
6308
fdb47ac6 6309 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 6310 (class 4).
6311
fdb47ac6 6312 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 6313 (class 5).
6314
6315 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
6316 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
6317 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
6318 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
6319
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6320 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
6321
6322
9edd9041 6323 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 6324 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 6325 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
6326
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6327 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
6328
6329 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 6330
6331 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
6332
0b68481a 6333
9edd9041 6334 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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6335 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
6336 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
6337 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 6338 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
6339 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
6340 large downloads more significantly:
6341
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6342 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
6343
6344 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
6345 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
6346 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 6347
9edd9041 6348
6349 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 6350 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 6351
0b68481a 6352 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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6353
6354
6355 See also delay_class and delay_access.
6356
9edd9041 6357DOC_END
6358
6359NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
6360COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 6361TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 6362DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6363IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6364LOC: Config.Delay.initial
6365DOC_START
6366 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
6367 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
6368 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
6369 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
6370 "seen" by squid).
6371DOC_END
6372
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6373COMMENT_START
6374 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
6375 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6376COMMENT_END
6377
6378NAME: client_delay_pools
6379TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
6380DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6381IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6382LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6383DOC_START
6384 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
6385 preceed other client_delay_* options.
6386
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6387 Example:
6388 client_delay_pools 2
6389
6390 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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6391DOC_END
6392
6393NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
6394COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 6395TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 6396DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6397IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6398LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
6399DOC_START
6400 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
6401 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
6402 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
6403 buckets are periodically deleted up.
6404
6405 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
6406 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
6407 from client_delay_parameters.
6408
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6409 Example:
6410 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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6411DOC_END
6412
6413NAME: client_delay_parameters
6414TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
6415DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6416IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6417LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6418DOC_START
6419
6420 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
6421 following format:
6422
6423 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
6424
6425 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
6426
6427 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
6428
6429 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
6430 speed_limit additions.
6431
6432 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
6433 examples.
6434
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6435 Example:
6436 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
6437 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
6438
6439 See also client_delay_access.
6440
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6441DOC_END
6442
6443NAME: client_delay_access
6444TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
6445DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6446DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6447IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6448LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6449DOC_START
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6450 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
6451 request:
6452
6453 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
6454
6455 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
6456 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
6457 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
6458 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
6459 limited.
6460
6461 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
6462 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
6463 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
6464 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
6465
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6466 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6467 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6468 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
6469 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
6470
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6471 Please see delay_access for more examples.
6472
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6473 Example:
6474 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
6475 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
6476
6477
6478 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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6479DOC_END
6480
cccac0a2 6481COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6482 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 6483 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6484COMMENT_END
6485
8d6275c0 6486NAME: wccp_router
6487TYPE: address
6488LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 6489DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6490DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 6491IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6492DOC_START
6493 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6494 Squid.
6495
6496 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
6497
6498 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
6499
6500 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6501 which version of WCCP to use.
6502DOC_END
df2eec10 6503
8d6275c0 6504NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 6505TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 6506LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 6507DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6508DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 6509IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6510DOC_START
8d6275c0 6511 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6512 Squid.
cccac0a2 6513
8d6275c0 6514 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 6515
8d6275c0 6516 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 6517
8d6275c0 6518 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6519 which version of WCCP to use.
6520DOC_END
6521
6522NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 6523TYPE: int
8d6275c0 6524LOC: Config.Wccp.version
6525DEFAULT: 4
6526IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 6527DOC_START
8d6275c0 6528 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
6529 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
6530 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
6531 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
6532 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 6533
8d6275c0 6534 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
6535 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
6536 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
6537 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 6538DOC_END
6539
8d6275c0 6540NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
6541TYPE: onoff
6542LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
6543DEFAULT: on
6544IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6545DOC_START
6546 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
6547 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
6548DOC_END
cccac0a2 6549
8d6275c0 6550NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 6551TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6552LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 6553DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6554IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6555DOC_START
699acd19 6556 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 6557 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6558
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6559 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6560 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6561
8d6275c0 6562 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6563 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 6564DOC_END
6565
8d6275c0 6566NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 6567TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6568LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 6569DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6570IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6571DOC_START
699acd19 6572 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 6573 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
6574 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6575
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6576 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6577 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6578
8d6275c0 6579 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6580 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 6581
699acd19 6582 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 6583 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
6584 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
6585 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 6586DOC_END
6587
8d6275c0 6588NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 6589TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 6590LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 6591DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 6592IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6593DOC_START
8d6275c0 6594 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
6595 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6596
451c4786 6597 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 6598 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 6599
8d6275c0 6600 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
6601 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
6602DOC_END
cccac0a2 6603
8d6275c0 6604NAME: wccp2_service
6605TYPE: wccp2_service
6606LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 6607DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 6608DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 6609IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6610DOC_START
6611 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
6612 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
6613 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
6614 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
6615 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
6616 using the wccp2_service_info option.
6617
6618 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
6619 just specifying the service id will suffice.
6620
6621 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
6622 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
6623
6624 Examples:
6625
6626 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
6627 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
6628 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
6629 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 6630DOC_END
6631
6632NAME: wccp2_service_info
6633TYPE: wccp2_service_info
6634LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
6635DEFAULT: none
6636IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6637DOC_START
6638 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
6639 traffic you wish to have diverted.
6640
6641 The format is:
6642
6643 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
6644 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
6645
6646 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
6647 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 6648 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 6649 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
6650 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
6651 + ports_source
6652
6653 The port list can be one to eight entries.
6654
6655 Example:
6656
6657 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
6658 priority=240 ports=80
6659
6660 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
6661 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
6662DOC_END
6663
6664NAME: wccp2_weight
6665TYPE: int
6666LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
6667DEFAULT: 10000
6668IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6669DOC_START
6670 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
6671 hash proportional to their weight.
6672DOC_END
6673
6674NAME: wccp_address
6675TYPE: address
6676LOC: Config.Wccp.address
6677DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6678DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6679IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6680DOC_START
6681 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
6682 interface address.
6683
6684 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6685DOC_END
df2eec10 6686
8d6275c0 6687NAME: wccp2_address
6688TYPE: address
6689LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
6690DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6691DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6692IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6693DOC_START
6694 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
6695 interface address.
6696
6697 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6698DOC_END
6699
6700COMMENT_START
6701 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
6702 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6703
6704 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
6705COMMENT_END
6706
6707NAME: client_persistent_connections
6708TYPE: onoff
6709LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
6710DEFAULT: on
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6711DOC_START
6712 Persistent connection support for clients.
6713 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6714 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
6715DOC_END
8d6275c0 6716
6717NAME: server_persistent_connections
6718TYPE: onoff
6719LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
6720DEFAULT: on
6721DOC_START
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6722 Persistent connection support for servers.
6723 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6724 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 6725DOC_END
6726
6727NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
6728TYPE: onoff
6729LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 6730DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 6731DOC_START
6732 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
6733 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
6734 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
6735DOC_END
6736
6737NAME: detect_broken_pconn
6738TYPE: onoff
6739LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
6740DEFAULT: off
6741DOC_START
6742 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
6743 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
6744 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
6745 has mostly been seen on redirects.
6746
6747 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
6748 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
6749 after 10 seconds timeout.
6750DOC_END
6751
6752COMMENT_START
6753 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
6754 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6755COMMENT_END
6756
6757NAME: digest_generation
6758IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6759TYPE: onoff
6760LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
6761DEFAULT: on
6762DOC_START
6763 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
6764 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 6765 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 6766DOC_END
6767
6768NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
6769IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6770TYPE: int
6771LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
6772DEFAULT: 5
6773DOC_START
6774 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
6775 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
6776 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
6777DOC_END
6778
6779NAME: digest_rebuild_period
6780IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6781COMMENT: (seconds)
6782TYPE: time_t
6783LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
6784DEFAULT: 1 hour
6785DOC_START
749ceff8 6786 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 6787DOC_END
6788
6789NAME: digest_rewrite_period
6790COMMENT: (seconds)
6791IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6792TYPE: time_t
6793LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
6794DEFAULT: 1 hour
6795DOC_START
749ceff8 6796 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 6797 disk.
6798DOC_END
6799
6800NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
6801COMMENT: (bytes)
6802TYPE: b_size_t
6803IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6804LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
6805DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
6806DOC_START
6807 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
6808 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
6809 default swap page.
6810DOC_END
6811
6812NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
6813COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
6814IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6815TYPE: int
6816LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
6817DEFAULT: 10
6818DOC_START
6819 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
6820 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
6821DOC_END
6822
1db9eacd 6823COMMENT_START
5473c134 6824 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 6825 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6826COMMENT_END
6827
5473c134 6828NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 6829TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6830LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 6831DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6832DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 6833IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6834DOC_START
87630341 6835 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
6836 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
6837 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
6838 set to "0" (disabled)
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6839
6840 Example:
6841 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 6842DOC_END
6843
5473c134 6844NAME: snmp_access
6845TYPE: acl_access
6846LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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6847DEFAULT: none
6848DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 6849IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6850DOC_START
5473c134 6851 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 6852
5473c134 6853 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6854 usage:
8d6275c0 6855
5473c134 6856 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 6857
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6858 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6859 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 6860
5473c134 6861Example:
6862 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6863 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 6864DOC_END
6865
5473c134 6866NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6867TYPE: address
6868LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6869DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6870DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 6871IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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6872DOC_START
6873 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
6874
6875 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6876 messages from SNMP agents.
6877
6878 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
6879 available network interfaces.
6880DOC_END
df2eec10 6881
5473c134 6882NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6883TYPE: address
6884LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6885DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6886DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 6887IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6888DOC_START
638402dd 6889 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6890
5473c134 6891 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6892 agents.
cccac0a2 6893
0eb08770
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6894 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6895 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6896 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6897 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6898
5473c134 6899 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 6900 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6901DOC_END
6902
5473c134 6903COMMENT_START
6904 ICP OPTIONS
6905 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6906COMMENT_END
6907
6908NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6909TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6910DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6911DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 6912LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6913DOC_START
5473c134 6914 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6915 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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6916
6917 Example:
6918 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6919DOC_END
6920
5473c134 6921NAME: htcp_port
6922IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6923TYPE: u_short
87630341 6924DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6925DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 6926LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6927DOC_START
5473c134 6928 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6929 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 6930 4827.
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6931
6932 Example:
6933 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6934DOC_END
6935
6936NAME: log_icp_queries
6937COMMENT: on|off
6938TYPE: onoff
6939DEFAULT: on
6940LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6941DOC_START
6942 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6943 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6944 up or to simplify log analysis.
6945DOC_END
6946
5473c134 6947NAME: udp_incoming_address
6948TYPE: address
6949LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6950DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6951DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 6952DOC_START
6953 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6954 caches.
6955
6956 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6957
6958 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6959 a specific interface/address.
6960
6961 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6962 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6963
6964 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6965
6966 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6967 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6968DOC_END
cccac0a2 6969
5473c134 6970NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6971TYPE: address
6972LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6973DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6974DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 6975DOC_START
8524d4b2 6976 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6977 caches.
cccac0a2 6978
5473c134 6979 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6980
8524d4b2 6981 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6982 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6983 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6984 caches.
6985
8524d4b2 6986 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6987 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6988
6989 see also; udp_incoming_address
6990
5473c134 6991 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6992 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6993DOC_END
6994
3d1e3e43 6995NAME: icp_hit_stale
6996COMMENT: on|off
6997TYPE: onoff
6998DEFAULT: off
6999LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
7000DOC_START
7001 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
7002 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
7003 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7004 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
7005 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7006 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
7007 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
7008DOC_END
7009
5473c134 7010NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 7011TYPE: int
5473c134 7012DEFAULT: 4
7013LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 7014DOC_START
5473c134 7015 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7016 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 7017DOC_END
7018
5473c134 7019NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 7020COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 7021TYPE: int
7022DEFAULT: 400
7023LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 7024DOC_START
5473c134 7025 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7026 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 7027DOC_END
7028
cccac0a2 7029NAME: netdb_low
7030TYPE: int
7031DEFAULT: 900
7032LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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7033DOC_START
7034 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7035
7036 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
7037
7038 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7039 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7040 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7041 mark is reached.
7042DOC_END
cccac0a2 7043
7044NAME: netdb_high
7045TYPE: int
7046DEFAULT: 1000
7047LOC: Config.Netdb.high
7048DOC_START
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7049 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7050
7051 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
7052
7053 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7054 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7055 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7056 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 7057DOC_END
7058
cccac0a2 7059NAME: netdb_ping_period
7060TYPE: time_t
7061LOC: Config.Netdb.period
7062DEFAULT: 5 minutes
7063DOC_START
7064 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
7065 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
7066 network. The default is five minutes.
7067DOC_END
7068
cccac0a2 7069NAME: query_icmp
7070COMMENT: on|off
7071TYPE: onoff
7072DEFAULT: off
7073LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
7074DOC_START
7075 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
7076 replies, enable this option.
7077
7078 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 7079 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
7080 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 7081 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
7082 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
7083 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
7084 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
7085 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
7086DOC_END
7087
7088NAME: test_reachability
7089COMMENT: on|off
7090TYPE: onoff
7091DEFAULT: off
7092LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
7093DOC_START
7094 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
7095 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
7096 database, or has a zero RTT.
7097DOC_END
7098
5473c134 7099NAME: icp_query_timeout
7100COMMENT: (msec)
7101DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7102DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 7103TYPE: int
7104LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 7105DOC_START
5473c134 7106 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
7107 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
7108 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
7109 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
7110 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
7111 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 7112
5473c134 7113 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 7114DOC_END
7115
5473c134 7116NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
7117COMMENT: (msec)
7118DEFAULT: 2000
7119TYPE: int
7120LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 7121DOC_START
5473c134 7122 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7123 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
7124 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
7125 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7126 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7127 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7128DOC_END
7129
5473c134 7130NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
7131COMMENT: (msec)
7132DEFAULT: 5
7133TYPE: int
7134LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 7135DOC_START
5473c134 7136 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7137 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
7138 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
7139 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
7140 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7141 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7142 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7143DOC_END
7144
5473c134 7145NAME: background_ping_rate
7146COMMENT: time-units
7147TYPE: time_t
7148DEFAULT: 10 seconds
7149LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 7150DOC_START
5473c134 7151 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
7152 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 7153DOC_END
7154
5473c134 7155COMMENT_START
7156 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
7157 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7158COMMENT_END
7159
7160NAME: mcast_groups
7161TYPE: wordlist
7162LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 7163DEFAULT: none
7164DOC_START
5473c134 7165 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
7166 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 7167
5473c134 7168 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
7169 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
7170 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
7171 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
7172 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
7173 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
7174 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 7175
5473c134 7176 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
7177 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 7178
5473c134 7179 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
7180 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 7181
5473c134 7182 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 7183
5473c134 7184 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
7185DOC_END
8c01ada0 7186
5473c134 7187NAME: mcast_miss_addr
7188IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7189TYPE: address
7190LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 7191DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7192DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 7193DOC_START
7194 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
7195 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 7196
5473c134 7197 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
7198 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 7199DOC_END
7200
5473c134 7201NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
7202IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7203TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7204LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
7205DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 7206DOC_START
5473c134 7207 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
7208 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
7209 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
7210DOC_END
cccac0a2 7211
5473c134 7212NAME: mcast_miss_port
7213IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7214TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7215LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
7216DEFAULT: 3135
7217DOC_START
7218 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
7219 'mcast_miss_addr'.
7220DOC_END
cccac0a2 7221
5473c134 7222NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
7223IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7224TYPE: string
7225LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
7226DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
7227DOC_START
7228 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
7229 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
7230DOC_END
8c01ada0 7231
5473c134 7232NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
7233COMMENT: (msec)
7234DEFAULT: 2000
7235TYPE: int
7236LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
7237DOC_START
7238 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
7239 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
7240 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
7241 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
7242 seconds.
cccac0a2 7243DOC_END
7244
5473c134 7245COMMENT_START
7246 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
7247 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7248COMMENT_END
7249
cccac0a2 7250NAME: icon_directory
7251TYPE: string
7252LOC: Config.icons.directory
7253DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7254DOC_START
7255 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
7256 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7257DOC_END
7258
f024c970 7259NAME: global_internal_static
7260TYPE: onoff
7261LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
7262DEFAULT: on
7263DOC_START
7264 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
7265 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
7266 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
7267 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
7268 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
7269 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
7270 the server generating a directory listing.
7271DOC_END
7272
5473c134 7273NAME: short_icon_urls
7274TYPE: onoff
7275LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
7276DEFAULT: on
7277DOC_START
7278 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
7279 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
7280 it's own name and port in the URL.
7281
7282 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7283 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
7284DOC_END
7285
7286COMMENT_START
7287 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
7288 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7289COMMENT_END
7290
7291NAME: error_directory
7292TYPE: string
7293LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 7294DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7295DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 7296DOC_START
7297 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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7298 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
7299 the error/template files to another directory and point
7300 this tag at them.
7301
7302 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
7303 on error pages if used.
5473c134 7304
7305 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7306 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 7307 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 7308 contributing your translation back to the project.
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7309 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
7310
7311 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
7312 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
7313DOC_END
7314
7315NAME: error_default_language
7316IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7317TYPE: string
7318LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
7319DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7320DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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7321DOC_START
7322 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
7323 if no existing translation matches the clients language
7324 preferences.
7325
7326 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
7327
7328 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7329 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
7330 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
7331 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 7332DOC_END
7333
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7334NAME: error_log_languages
7335IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7336TYPE: onoff
7337LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
7338DEFAULT: on
7339DOC_START
7340 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
7341 auto-negotiate for translations.
7342
7343 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
7344 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 7345 of its error page translations.
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7346DOC_END
7347
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7348NAME: err_page_stylesheet
7349TYPE: string
7350LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
7351DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
7352DOC_START
7353 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
7354
7355 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
7356DOC_END
7357
5473c134 7358NAME: err_html_text
7359TYPE: eol
7360LOC: Config.errHtmlText
7361DEFAULT: none
7362DOC_START
7363 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
7364 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
7365 organizations Web page.
7366
7367 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
7368 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
7369 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
7370 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
7371DOC_END
7372
7373NAME: email_err_data
7374COMMENT: on|off
7375TYPE: onoff
7376LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
7377DEFAULT: on
7378DOC_START
7379 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
7380 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7381 so that the email body contains the data.
7382 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
7383DOC_END
7384
7385NAME: deny_info
7386TYPE: denyinfo
7387LOC: Config.denyInfoList
7388DEFAULT: none
7389DOC_START
7390 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
7391 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 7392 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 7393
7394 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
7395 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
7396 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
7397 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
7398
7399 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
7400 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
7401 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
7402 the first authentication related acl encountered
7403 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
7404 acl processed on the last http_access line.
3af10ac0
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7405 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
7406 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 7407
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7408 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
7409 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
7410 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 7411
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7412 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
7413 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
7414 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
7415
5473c134 7416 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
7417 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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7418
7419 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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7420 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
7421 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
7422 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
7423 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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7424
7425 URL FORMAT TAGS:
7426 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
7427 %B - FTP path URL
7428 %e - Error number
7429 %E - Error description
7430 %h - Squid hostname
7431 %H - Request domain name
7432 %i - Client IP Address
7433 %M - Request Method
7434 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
7435 %p - Request Port number
7436 %P - Request Protocol name
7437 %R - Request URL path
7438 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
7439 %U - Full canonical URL from client
7440 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
7441 %u - Full canonical URL from client
7442 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 7443 %x - Error name
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AJ
7444 %% - Literal percent (%) code
7445
5473c134 7446DOC_END
7447
7448COMMENT_START
7449 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
7450 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7451COMMENT_END
7452
7453NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7454TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7455LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7456DEFAULT: on
7457DOC_START
5473c134 7458 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
7459 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
7460 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 7461
638402dd 7462 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 7463 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 7464
5473c134 7465 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
7466 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
7467 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 7468
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7469 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
7470 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
7471 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 7472DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 7473
5473c134 7474NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7475TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7476LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7477DEFAULT: off
7478DOC_START
5473c134 7479 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
7480 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7481 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 7482
5473c134 7483 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
7484 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
7485 fails.
7486
7487 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
7488 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
7489 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 7490DOC_END
7491
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7492NAME: cache_miss_revalidate
7493COMMENT: on|off
7494TYPE: onoff
7495DEFAULT: on
7496LOC: Config.onoff.cache_miss_revalidate
7497DOC_START
7498 Whether Squid on cache MISS will pass client revalidation requests
7499 to the server or tries to fetch new content for caching.
7500 This is useful while the cache is mostly empty to more quickly
7501 have the cache populated.
7502
7503 When set to 'on' (default), Squid will pass all client If-* headers
7504 to the server.
7505
7506 When set to 'off' and if the request is cacheable, Squid will
7507 remove the clients If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers from
7508 the request sent to the server.
7509DOC_END
7510
5473c134 7511NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 7512TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 7513LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 7514DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7515DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 7516DOC_START
5473c134 7517 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 7518
5473c134 7519 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
7520 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
7521 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
7522 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
7523 something like:
0b0cfcf2 7524
5473c134 7525 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
7526 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 7527
5473c134 7528 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 7529
5473c134 7530 acl FTP proto FTP
7531 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 7532
5473c134 7533 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
7534 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
7535 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
7536 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
7537 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 7538
5473c134 7539 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7540 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
7541 always_direct deny local-external
7542 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 7543
5473c134 7544 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
7545 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
7546 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
7547 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 7548
5473c134 7549 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
7550 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 7551 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 7552
b3567eb5
FC
7553 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7554 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 7555DOC_END
0976f8db 7556
5473c134 7557NAME: never_direct
7558TYPE: acl_access
7559LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
7560DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7561DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 7562DOC_START
5473c134 7563 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7564
7565 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
7566 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
7567
7568 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
7569 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
7570 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
7571 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
7572
7573 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 7574 never_direct deny local-servers
7575 never_direct allow all
7576
7577 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
7578 servers inside the firewall use something like:
7579
7580 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
7581 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7582 always_direct deny local-external
7583 always_direct allow local-intranet
7584 never_direct allow all
7585
b3567eb5
FC
7586 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7587 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 7588DOC_END
0976f8db 7589
5473c134 7590COMMENT_START
7591 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
7592 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7593COMMENT_END
7594
65d448bc 7595NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 7596TYPE: int
7597DEFAULT: 6
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AJ
7598LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
7599DOC_START
7600 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7601 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7602 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7603DOC_END
cccac0a2 7604
65d448bc 7605NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 7606TYPE: int
7607DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
7608LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
7609DOC_START
7610 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7611 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7612 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7613DOC_END
cccac0a2 7614
7615NAME: incoming_dns_average
7616TYPE: int
7617DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
7618LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
7619DOC_START
7620 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7621 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7622 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7623DOC_END
cccac0a2 7624
65d448bc 7625NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7626TYPE: int
7627DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
7628LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
7629DOC_START
7630 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7631 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7632 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7633DOC_END
cccac0a2 7634
7635NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
7636TYPE: int
7637DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
7638LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
7639DOC_START
7640 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7641 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7642 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7643DOC_END
cccac0a2 7644
65d448bc 7645NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7646TYPE: int
7647DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 7648LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 7649DOC_START
5473c134 7650 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7651 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7652 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7653DOC_END
7654
7655NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 7656TYPE: string
7657DEFAULT: none
7658LOC: Config.accept_filter
7659DOC_START
0b4d4be5 7660 FreeBSD:
7661
5473c134 7662 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
7663 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
7664 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
7665
7666 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 7667 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 7668 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
7669
7670 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
7671 to Squid until there is some data to process.
7672 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
7673
7674 Linux:
7675
7676 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
7677 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
7678 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
7679 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
7680 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 7681EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 7682# FreeBSD
5473c134 7683accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 7684# Linux
7685accept_filter data
5473c134 7686DOC_END
7687
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7688NAME: client_ip_max_connections
7689TYPE: int
7690LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
7691DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7692DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
ab2ecb0e
AJ
7693DOC_START
7694 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
7695 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
7696 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
7697
7698 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
7699 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
7700
7701 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
7702
7703 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
7704 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
7705DOC_END
7706
5473c134 7707NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
7708COMMENT: (bytes)
7709TYPE: b_size_t
7710DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 7711DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 7712LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
7713DOC_START
7714 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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AJ
7715 as easy to change your kernel's default.
7716 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 7717DOC_END
7718
7719COMMENT_START
7720 ICAP OPTIONS
7721 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7722COMMENT_END
7723
7724NAME: icap_enable
7725TYPE: onoff
7726IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7727COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7728LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 7729DEFAULT: off
7730DOC_START
53e738c6 7731 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 7732DOC_END
7733
7734NAME: icap_connect_timeout
7735TYPE: time_t
7736DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7737LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 7738IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7739DOC_START
7740 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7741 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
7742 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
7743
7744 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
7745 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
7746 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
7747DOC_END
7748
7749NAME: icap_io_timeout
7750COMMENT: time-units
7751TYPE: time_t
7752DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7753DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 7754LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 7755IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7756DOC_START
7757 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
7758 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
7759 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
7760 failure.
5473c134 7761DOC_END
7762
7763NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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7764COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
7765TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 7766IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 7767LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7768DEFAULT: 10
7769DOC_START
7770 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
7771 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
7772 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
7773 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 7774 OPTIONS.
5473c134 7775
7776 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
7777 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
7778 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
8277060a
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7779
7780 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
7781 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
7782 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
7783 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
7784 value into ten time slots of equal length.
7785
7786 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
7787 effect on service failure expiration.
7788
7789 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
7790 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
7791 setting.
7792
7793 For example,
7794 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
7795 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 7796DOC_END
7797
5473c134 7798NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 7799TYPE: int
5473c134 7800IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7801LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 7802DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 7803DOC_START
5473c134 7804 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
7805 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
7806 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
7807 fetched.
cccac0a2 7808
5473c134 7809 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
7810 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 7811DOC_END
7812
5473c134 7813NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 7814TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7815IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7816COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7817LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 7818DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7819DOC_START
ac7a62f9 7820 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
7821 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
7822 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
7823 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
7824
7825 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
7826 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
7827 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
7828
7829 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
7830 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
7831Example:
7832icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 7833DOC_END
7834
5473c134 7835NAME: icap_preview_size
7836TYPE: int
7837IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7838LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 7839DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7840DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 7841DOC_START
53e738c6 7842 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 7843 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 7844DOC_END
7845
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7846NAME: icap_206_enable
7847TYPE: onoff
7848IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7849COMMENT: on|off
7850LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
7851DEFAULT: on
7852DOC_START
7853 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
7854 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
7855 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
7856 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
7857
7858 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
7859 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
7860 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
7861 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
7862 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
7863
7864 Example:
7865 icap_206_enable off
7866DOC_END
7867
5473c134 7868NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
7869TYPE: int
7870IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7871LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 7872DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 7873DOC_START
53e738c6 7874 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 7875 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 7876DOC_END
7877
5473c134 7878NAME: icap_persistent_connections
7879TYPE: onoff
7880IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7881COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7882LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 7883DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7884DOC_START
5473c134 7885 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
7886 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 7887DOC_END
7888
22fff3bf 7889NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 7890TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7891IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7892COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7893LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 7894DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7895DOC_START
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7896 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
7897 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
7898 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
7899
7900 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 7901DOC_END
7902
22fff3bf 7903NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 7904TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7905IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7906COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7907LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 7908DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7909DOC_START
5473c134 7910 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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7911 the adaptation service.
7912
7913 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 7914 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7915 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 7916DOC_END
7917
5473c134 7918NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7919TYPE: string
5473c134 7920IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7921LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7922DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7923DOC_START
db49f682 7924 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7925DOC_END
7926
5473c134 7927NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7928TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7929IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7930COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7931LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7932DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7933DOC_START
5473c134 7934 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7935DOC_END
7936
5473c134 7937NAME: icap_service
7938TYPE: icap_service_type
7939IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7940LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7941DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7942DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7943 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7944
c25c2836 7945 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
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7947 id: ID
7948 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7949 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7950 services in squid.conf.
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7951
7952 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7953 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7954 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7955 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7956
c25c2836 7957 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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7958 ICAP server and service location.
7959
7960 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7961 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7962 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7963 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7964 service_names differ.
7965
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7966 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
7967 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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7968
7969 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7970 the following name=value options:
7971
7972 bypass=on|off|1|0
7973 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7974 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7975 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7976 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7977 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7978 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7979 returned to the HTTP client.
7980
7981 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7982
7983 routing=on|off|1|0
7984 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7985 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7986 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7987 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7988 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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7989 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7990 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7991 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7992
7993 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7994 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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7995
7996 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7997 response header is ignored.
7998
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7999 ipv6=on|off
8000 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
8001 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
8002 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
8003
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8004 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
8005 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
8006 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
8007 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
8008 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
8009 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
8010 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
8011
8012 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
8013 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
8014 workers may use a given service.
8015
8016 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
8017 otherwise it is set to "wait".
8018
8019
8020 max-conn=number
8021 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
8022 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
8023
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8024 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
8025 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 8026
5473c134 8027Example:
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8028icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
8029icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 8030DOC_END
8031
5473c134 8032NAME: icap_class
8033TYPE: icap_class_type
8034IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8035LOC: none
5473c134 8036DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8037DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8038 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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8039 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
8040 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 8041
62c7f90e 8042 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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8043 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
8044 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 8045DOC_END
8046
5473c134 8047NAME: icap_access
8048TYPE: icap_access_type
8049IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8050LOC: none
cccac0a2 8051DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8052DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8053 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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8054 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
8055 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 8056DOC_END
8057
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8058COMMENT_START
8059 eCAP OPTIONS
8060 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8061COMMENT_END
8062
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8063NAME: ecap_enable
8064TYPE: onoff
8065IFDEF: USE_ECAP
8066COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 8067LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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8068DEFAULT: off
8069DOC_START
8070 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
8071DOC_END
8072
8073NAME: ecap_service
8074TYPE: ecap_service_type
8075IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 8076LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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8077DEFAULT: none
8078DOC_START
8079 Defines a single eCAP service
8080
c25c2836 8081 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 8082
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8083 id: ID
8084 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8085 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8086 services in squid.conf.
8087
8088 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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8089 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8090 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8091 are not yet supported.
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8092
8093 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
8094 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
8095 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
8096 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
8097 the service provider.
8098
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8100 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8101
8102 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
8103 the following name=value options:
8104
8105 bypass=on|off|1|0
8106 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
8107 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
8108 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 8109 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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8110 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
8111 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 8112 HTTP client.
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8113
8114 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8115
8116 routing=on|off|1|0
8117 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
8118 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8119 returning a chain of services to be used next.
8120
8121 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8122 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
8123
8124 Routing is not allowed by default.
8125
8126 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
8127 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
8128
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8129
8130Example:
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8131ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
8132ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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8133DOC_END
8134
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8135NAME: loadable_modules
8136TYPE: wordlist
8137IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
8138LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
8139DEFAULT: none
8140DOC_START
8141 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
8142 preloaded module(s).
8143Example:
8144loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
8145DOC_END
8146
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8147COMMENT_START
8148 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
8149 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8150COMMENT_END
8151
8152NAME: adaptation_service_set
8153TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
8154IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8155LOC: none
8156DEFAULT: none
8157DOC_START
8158
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8159 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
8160 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
8161
8162 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
8163
8164 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
8165 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
8166 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
8167 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
8168 intact.
62c7f90e 8169
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8170 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8171 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 8172
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8173 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
8174 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8175
8176 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
8177 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
8178 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
8179 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
8180 transaction fails as well.
8181
8182 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
8183 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
8184 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
8185 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
8186 matters.
8187
8188 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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8189
8190Example:
8191adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
8192adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
8193DOC_END
8194
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8195NAME: adaptation_service_chain
8196TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
8197IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8198LOC: none
8199DEFAULT: none
8200DOC_START
8201
8202 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
8203 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
8204 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
8205
8206 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
8207
8208 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
8209 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
8210 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
8211 the previous service in the chain.
8212
8213 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8214 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
8215
8216 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
8217 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
8218 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
8219
8220 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
8221 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8222
8223 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
8224 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
8225 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
8226 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
8227
8228 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
8229
8230Example:
8231adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
8232DOC_END
8233
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8234NAME: adaptation_access
8235TYPE: adaptation_access_type
8236IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8237LOC: none
8238DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8239DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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8240DOC_START
8241 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
8242
8243 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8244 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8245
8246 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
8247 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
8248 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
8249 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
8250
8251 - services serving different vectoring points
8252 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
8253 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
8254 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
8255
8256 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
8257 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
8258 adaptation_service_set for details.
8259
8260 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
8261 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
8262 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
8263 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
8264
8265 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
8266 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
8267
8268 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
8269
8270Example:
8271adaptation_access service_1 allow all
8272DOC_END
8273
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8274NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
8275TYPE: int
8276IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8277LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
8278DEFAULT: 16
8279DOC_START
8280 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
8281 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
8282 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
8283 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
8284 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
8285 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
8286
8287 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
8288
8289 See also: icap_service routing=1
8290DOC_END
8291
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8292NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
8293TYPE: string
8294IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8295LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
8296DEFAULT: none
8297DOC_START
8298 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
8299 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
8300 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
8301 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
8302 with the master transaction.
8303
8304 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
8305 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
8306
8307 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8308 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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8309 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
8310
8311 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8312 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
8313 to provide an option with a name specified in
8314 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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8316 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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8317 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
8318
8319 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
8320
8321Example:
8322# share authentication information among ICAP services
8323adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
8324DOC_END
8325
71be37e0 8326NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 8327TYPE: note
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8328IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8329LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
8330DEFAULT: none
8331DOC_START
8332 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
8333 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
8334 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
8335 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
8336
8337 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
8338 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
8339
8340 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
8341 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
8342 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
8343 example:
8344
8345 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
8346 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
8347
8348 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
8349 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
8350
8351 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
8352 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
8353
8354 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
8355 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
8356 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
8357 and double quotes. For example,
8358 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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8359
8360 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
8361 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
8362 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
8363 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
8364 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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8365DOC_END
8366
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8367NAME: icap_retry
8368TYPE: acl_access
8369IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8370LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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8371DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
8372DOC_START
8373 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
8374 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
8375 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
8376 that response are usually retriable.
8377
8378 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8379
8380 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
8381 due to persistent connection race conditions.
8382
8383 See also: icap_retry_limit
8384DOC_END
8385
8386NAME: icap_retry_limit
8387TYPE: int
8388IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8389LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
8390DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8391DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 8392DOC_START
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8394
8395 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
8396 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
8397 count against this limit.
8398
8399 See also: icap_retry
8400DOC_END
8401
8402
5473c134 8403COMMENT_START
8404 DNS OPTIONS
8405 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8406COMMENT_END
8407
8408NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8409TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8410DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8411LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8412DOC_START
5473c134 8413 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
8414 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
8415 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 8416DOC_END
8417
5473c134 8418NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8419TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8420DEFAULT: on
5473c134 8421LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8422DOC_START
5473c134 8423 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
8424 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
8425 Squid to be strict about the standard.
8426 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 8427DOC_END
8428
5473c134 8429NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 8430TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 8431DEFAULT: 5 seconds
8432LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
cccac0a2 8433DOC_START
5473c134 8434 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
8435 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 8436DOC_END
8437
5473c134 8438NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 8439TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 8440DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 8441LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
cccac0a2 8442DOC_START
5473c134 8443 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
8444 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
8445 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 8446DOC_END
8447
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8448NAME: dns_packet_max
8449TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 8450DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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8451DEFAULT: none
8452LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
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8453DOC_START
8454 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
8455 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
8456
8457 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
8458 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
8459 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
8460 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
8461 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
8462
8463 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
8464 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
8465 necessary.
8466
8467 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
8468 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
8469 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
8470 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
8471 sizes being advertised by Squid.
8472 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
8473 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
8474DOC_END
8475
5473c134 8476NAME: dns_defnames
8477COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 8478TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8479DEFAULT: off
638402dd 8480DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 8481LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 8482DOC_START
5473c134 8483 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
8484 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
8485 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
8486 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 8487DOC_END
8488
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8489NAME: dns_multicast_local
8490COMMENT: on|off
8491TYPE: onoff
8492DEFAULT: off
8493DEFAULT_DOC: Search for .local and .arpa names is disabled.
8494LOC: Config.onoff.dns_mdns
8495DOC_START
8496 When set to on, Squid sends multicast DNS lookups on the local
8497 network for domains ending in .local and .arpa.
8498 This enables local servers and devices to be contacted in an
8499 ad-hoc or zero-configuration network environment.
8500DOC_END
8501
5473c134 8502NAME: dns_nameservers
8503TYPE: wordlist
8504DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8505DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5473c134 8506LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 8507DOC_START
5473c134 8508 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
8509 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
8510 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 8511
5473c134 8512 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
8513 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
8514 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
8515 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 8516
5473c134 8517 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 8518DOC_END
8519
5473c134 8520NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 8521TYPE: string
5473c134 8522DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
8523LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 8524DOC_START
5473c134 8525 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
8526 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
8527 default locations:
8528 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
8529 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8530 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
8531 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8532 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
8533 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
8534 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
8535 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 8536
5473c134 8537 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
8538 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
8539 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
8540 character are comments.
cccac0a2 8541
5473c134 8542 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
8543 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
8544 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
8545 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
8546 definitions.
cccac0a2 8547DOC_END
8548
5473c134 8549NAME: append_domain
8550TYPE: string
8551LOC: Config.appendDomain
8552DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8553DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 8554DOC_START
5473c134 8555 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
8556 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
8557
8558 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
8559 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
8560 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
8561
8562Example:
8563 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 8564DOC_END
8565
5473c134 8566NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
8567TYPE: onoff
8568LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 8569DEFAULT: on
8570DOC_START
5473c134 8571 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
8572 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
8573 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
8574 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
8575 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 8576DOC_END
8577
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8578NAME: dns_v4_first
8579TYPE: onoff
8580DEFAULT: off
8581LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
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8582DOC_START
8583 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
8584 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
8585
8586 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
8587 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
8588 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
8589
8590 WARNING:
8591 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
8592 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
8593 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
8594DOC_END
8595
6bc15a4f 8596NAME: ipcache_size
8597COMMENT: (number of entries)
8598TYPE: int
8599DEFAULT: 1024
8600LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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8601DOC_START
8602 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
8603DOC_END
6bc15a4f 8604
8605NAME: ipcache_low
8606COMMENT: (percent)
8607TYPE: int
8608DEFAULT: 90
8609LOC: Config.ipcache.low
8610DOC_NONE
8611
8612NAME: ipcache_high
8613COMMENT: (percent)
8614TYPE: int
8615DEFAULT: 95
8616LOC: Config.ipcache.high
8617DOC_START
8618 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
8619DOC_END
8620
8621NAME: fqdncache_size
8622COMMENT: (number of entries)
8623TYPE: int
8624DEFAULT: 1024
8625LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
8626DOC_START
8627 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
8628DOC_END
8629
a58ff010 8630COMMENT_START
5473c134 8631 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 8632 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8633COMMENT_END
8634
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8635NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
8636COMMENT: on|off
bde7a8ce
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8637TYPE: configuration_includes_quoted_values
8638DEFAULT: off
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8639LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
8640DOC_START
8641 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
8642 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
8643 parameter value is interpreted or used.
8644 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
8645 section for more details.
8646DOC_END
8647
5473c134 8648NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 8649COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8650TYPE: onoff
8651DEFAULT: on
8652LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 8653DOC_START
5473c134 8654 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
8655 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
8656 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
8657 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 8658DOC_END
8659
5473c134 8660NAME: memory_pools_limit
8661COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 8662TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 8663DEFAULT: 5 MB
8664LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 8665DOC_START
5473c134 8666 Used only with memory_pools on:
8667 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 8668
5473c134 8669 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
8670 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
8671 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
8672 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
8673 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
8674 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
8675 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 8676
89646bd7 8677 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 8678 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 8679
5473c134 8680 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 8681 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 8682
8683 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
8684 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
8685 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
8686 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 8687DOC_END
8688
5473c134 8689NAME: forwarded_for
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8690COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
8691TYPE: string
5473c134 8692DEFAULT: on
8693LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 8694DOC_START
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8695 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
8696 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 8697
5473c134 8698 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
8699
67c06f0d 8700 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 8701
8702 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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8703
8704 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
8705 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
8706
8707 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
8708 X-Forwarded-For header.
8709
8710 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 8711 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 8712DOC_END
8713
5473c134 8714NAME: cachemgr_passwd
8715TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
8716DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8717DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 8718LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 8719DOC_START
5473c134 8720 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 8721
5473c134 8722 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
8723
8724 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
8725 5min
8726 60min
8727 asndb
8728 authenticator
8729 cbdata
8730 client_list
8731 comm_incoming
8732 config *
8733 counters
8734 delay
8735 digest_stats
8736 dns
8737 events
8738 filedescriptors
8739 fqdncache
8740 histograms
8741 http_headers
8742 info
8743 io
8744 ipcache
8745 mem
8746 menu
8747 netdb
8748 non_peers
8749 objects
8750 offline_toggle *
8751 pconn
8752 peer_select
b360c477 8753 reconfigure *
5473c134 8754 redirector
8755 refresh
8756 server_list
8757 shutdown *
8758 store_digest
8759 storedir
8760 utilization
8761 via_headers
8762 vm_objects
8763
8764 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
8765 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
8766
8767 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
8768 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
8769 password to "none".
8770
8771 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
8772
8773Example:
8774 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
8775 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
8776 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 8777DOC_END
8778
5473c134 8779NAME: client_db
a58ff010 8780COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8781TYPE: onoff
8782DEFAULT: on
8783LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 8784DOC_START
5473c134 8785 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
8786 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 8787DOC_END
8788
5473c134 8789NAME: refresh_all_ims
8790COMMENT: on|off
8791TYPE: onoff
8792DEFAULT: off
8793LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 8794DOC_START
5473c134 8795 When you enable this option, squid will always check
8796 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
8797 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
8798 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
8799 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 8800
5473c134 8801 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
8802 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 8803DOC_END
8804
5473c134 8805NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 8806IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 8807COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8808TYPE: onoff
8809DEFAULT: off
8810LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 8811DOC_START
5473c134 8812 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
8813 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
8814 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
8815 feature could make you liable for problems which it
8816 causes.
8817
8818 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 8819DOC_END
8820
31ef19cd 8821NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 8822TYPE: int
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AJ
8823LOC: Config.connect_retries
8824DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8825DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 8826DOC_START
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AJ
8827 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
8828 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
8829 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
8830
8831 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
8832 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 8833
31ef19cd
AJ
8834 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
8835 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 8836
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AJ
8837 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
8838 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
8839 a useful server.
a58ff010 8840DOC_END
8841
5473c134 8842NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 8843TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8844LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 8845DEFAULT: off
8846DOC_START
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8847 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
8848 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
8849 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
8850 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
8851
8852 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
8853 work around access control errors.
8854
8855 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
8856 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 8857DOC_END
8858
5473c134 8859NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 8860TYPE: string
5473c134 8861LOC: Config.as_whois_server
8862DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 8863DOC_START
5473c134 8864 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
8865 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 8866DOC_END
8867
5473c134 8868NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 8869TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8870LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 8871DEFAULT: off
8872DOC_START
5473c134 8873 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
8874 objects.
a58ff010 8875DOC_END
8876
5473c134 8877NAME: uri_whitespace
8878TYPE: uri_whitespace
8879LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
8880DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 8881DOC_START
5473c134 8882 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
8883 URI. Options:
a58ff010 8884
5473c134 8885 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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AJ
8886 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
8887 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
8888 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
8889
5473c134 8890 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
8891 Request" message.
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AJ
8892 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
8893 handling of HTTP request URL.
8894
5473c134 8895 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
8896 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
8897 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
8898 are in use.
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8899 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
8900 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
8901 URL field.
8902
5473c134 8903 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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AJ
8904 encoded according to RFC1738.
8905
5473c134 8906 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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AJ
8907 first whitespace.
8908
8909
8910 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
8911 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 8912DOC_END
a58ff010 8913
5473c134 8914NAME: chroot
8915TYPE: string
8916LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 8917DEFAULT: none
8918DOC_START
9f37c18a 8919 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
2d89f399
HN
8920 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8921 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8922 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8923 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 8924DOC_END
a58ff010 8925
5473c134 8926NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8927TYPE: onoff
8928LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8929DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8930DOC_START
cc192b50 8931 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8932 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8933 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8934
5473c134 8935 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8936 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8937 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8938
cc192b50 8939 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8940DOC_END
8941
5473c134 8942NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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8943TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
8944LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
8945DEFAULT: 0
8946DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 8947DOC_START
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AJ
8948 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
8949 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
8950 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
8951 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
8952 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
8953 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 8954
079a8480 8955 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 8956 reasons.
a0e23afd 8957
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AJ
8958 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
8959
a0e23afd 8960 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8961DOC_END
a58ff010 8962
5473c134 8963NAME: high_response_time_warning
8964TYPE: int
8965COMMENT: (msec)
8966LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8967DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8968DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 8969DOC_START
8970 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8971 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8972 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 8973DOC_END
8974
5473c134 8975NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8976TYPE: int
8977LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8978DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8979DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 8980DOC_START
5473c134 8981 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8982 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8983 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8984 per second.
8985DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8986
5473c134 8987NAME: high_memory_warning
8988TYPE: b_size_t
8989LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
f2228f3b 8990IFDEF: HAVE_MSTATS&&HAVE_GNUMALLOC_H
904971da 8991DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 8992DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 8993DOC_START
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FC
8994 If the memory usage (as determined by gnumalloc, if available and used)
8995 exceeds this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 8996 the administrators attention.
8997DOC_END
4bf2a476 8998# TODO: link high_memory_warning to mempools?
cc9f92d4 8999
5473c134 9000NAME: sleep_after_fork
9001COMMENT: (microseconds)
9002TYPE: int
9003LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
9004DEFAULT: 0
9005DOC_START
9006 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
9007 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
9008 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
9009 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
9010 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
9011 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
9012 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
9013 until all the child processes have been started.
9014 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
9015 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 9016DOC_END
9017
b6696974 9018NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 9019IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
b6696974
GS
9020COMMENT: on|off
9021TYPE: onoff
9022DEFAULT: on
9023LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
9024DOC_START
9025 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
9026 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
9027 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
9028 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
9029 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
9030 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
9031DOC_END
9032
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9033NAME: eui_lookup
9034TYPE: onoff
9035IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
9036DEFAULT: on
9037LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
9038DOC_START
9039 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
9040DOC_END
9041
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AJ
9042NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
9043TYPE: int
9044DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9045DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
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AJ
9046LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
9047DOC_START
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AJ
9048 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
9049 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 9050
638402dd 9051 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
f3f0f563
AJ
9052
9053 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 9054 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
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9055DOC_END
9056
13aeac35 9057NAME: workers
007d775d 9058TYPE: int
13aeac35 9059LOC: Config.workers
007d775d 9060DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 9061DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
007d775d 9062DOC_START
13aeac35 9063 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
007d775d
AR
9064 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
9065 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
13aeac35
AR
9066 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
9067
b87f6632
AR
9068 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
9069 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
007d775d
AR
9070DOC_END
9071
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9072NAME: cpu_affinity_map
9073TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
9074LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
9075DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9076DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
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9077DOC_START
9078 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
9079
9080 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
9081
9082 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
9083
9084 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
9085 four even cores, starting with core #1.
9086
9087 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
9088 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
9089
9090 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
9091
9092 See also: workers
9093DOC_END
9094
cccac0a2 9095EOF