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31
0f74202c 32COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 33 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
34 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 35
cccac0a2 36 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
37 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
38 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 39
cccac0a2 40 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
41 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
42 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
43 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
44 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
45 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
46 case.
debd9a31 47
cccac0a2 48COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 49
592a09dc 50COMMENT_START
51 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
52 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
53 supported.
54
55 For example,
56
57 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
58
59 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
60 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
61 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
62 configuration files.
63COMMENT_END
64
5473c134 65COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 66 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 67 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
68COMMENT_END
69
41bd17a4 70NAME: auth_param
71TYPE: authparam
72LOC: Config.authConfiguration
cccac0a2 73DEFAULT: none
74DOC_START
41bd17a4 75 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
76 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 77
41bd17a4 78 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 79
41bd17a4 80 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
81 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
82 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
83 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
84 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
85 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
86 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
87 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
88 program entry).
cccac0a2 89
41bd17a4 90 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
91 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
92 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
93 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 94
41bd17a4 95 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
96 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
97 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
98 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
99 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
100 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
101 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
102 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
103 type acl.
cccac0a2 104
41bd17a4 105 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
106 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
107 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
108 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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109 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have authentication
110 disabled.
cccac0a2 111
41bd17a4 112 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 113
41bd17a4 114 "program" cmdline
115 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
116 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
117 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
118 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
119 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 120
41bd17a4 121 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
122 program is specified.
cccac0a2 123
41bd17a4 124 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
125 this line to something like
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41bd17a4 127 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 128
41bd17a4 129 "children" numberofchildren
130 The number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
131 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
132 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
133 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
134 authenticator processes.
135 auth_param basic children 5
9e7dbc51 136
41bd17a4 137 "concurrency" concurrency
138 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
139 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
140 one request at a time. Setting this changes the protocol used to
141 include a channel number first on the request/response line, allowing
142 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallell without
143 wating for the response.
144 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
145 auth_param basic concurrency 0
0fdafae7 146
41bd17a4 147 "realm" realmstring
148 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
149 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
150 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
151 password). There is no default.
152 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 153
41bd17a4 154 "credentialsttl" timetolive
155 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
156 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
157 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
158 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
159 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
160 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
161 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
162 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
163 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 164
41bd17a4 165 "casesensitive" on|off
166 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
167 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
168 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
169 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
170 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 171
41bd17a4 172 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 173
41bd17a4 174 "program" cmdline
175 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
176 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
177 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
178 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
179 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
180 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
181 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 182
41bd17a4 183 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
184 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 185
41bd17a4 186 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
187 something like
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41bd17a4 189 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 190
41bd17a4 191 "children" numberofchildren
192 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
193 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
194 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
195 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
196 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
197 auth_param digest children 5
cccac0a2 198
41bd17a4 199 "realm" realmstring
200 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
201 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
202 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
203 password). There is no default.
204 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 205
41bd17a4 206 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
207 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
208 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 209
41bd17a4 210 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
211 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
212 valid for.
cccac0a2 213
41bd17a4 214 "nonce_max_count" number
215 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
216 used.
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 "nonce_strictness" on|off
219 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
220 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
221 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
222 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 223
41bd17a4 224 "check_nonce_count" on|off
225 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
226 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
227 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
228 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 229
41bd17a4 230 "post_workaround" on|off
231 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
232 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
233 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 234
41bd17a4 235 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 236
41bd17a4 237 "program" cmdline
238 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
239 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
240 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
241 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
242 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
243 is not used.
cccac0a2 244
41bd17a4 245 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 246
41bd17a4 247 "children" numberofchildren
248 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
249 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
250 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
251 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
252 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
253 processes.
cccac0a2 254
41bd17a4 255 auth_param ntlm children 5
cccac0a2 256
41bd17a4 257 "keep_alive" on|off
258 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
259 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
260 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
261 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
262 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 263
41bd17a4 264 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 265
41bd17a4 266 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 267
41bd17a4 268 "program" cmdline
269 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
270 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
271 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
272 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
273 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
274 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least one acl
275 of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate authenticator_program
276 is not used.
277 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
278 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 279
41bd17a4 280 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 281
41bd17a4 282 "children" numberofchildren
283 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
284 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
285 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
286 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
287 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
288 processes.
289 auth_param negotiate children 5
d3803853 290
41bd17a4 291 "keep_alive" on|off
292 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
293 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
294 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
295 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
296 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 297
41bd17a4 298 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 299
41bd17a4 300NOCOMMENT_START
301#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
302#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
303#auth_param negotiate children 5
304#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
305#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
306#auth_param ntlm children 5
307#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
308#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
309#auth_param digest children 5
310#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
311#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
312#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
313#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
314#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
315#auth_param basic children 5
316#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
317#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
318NOCOMMENT_END
319DOC_END
cccac0a2 320
41bd17a4 321NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
322TYPE: time_t
323DEFAULT: 1 hour
324LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
325DOC_START
326 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
327 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
328 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
329 have good reason to.
330DOC_END
cccac0a2 331
41bd17a4 332NAME: authenticate_ttl
333TYPE: time_t
334DEFAULT: 1 hour
335LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
336DOC_START
337 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
338 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
339 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
340 TTL are removed from memory.
341DOC_END
cccac0a2 342
41bd17a4 343NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
344TYPE: time_t
345LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
346DEFAULT: 0 seconds
347DOC_START
348 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
349 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
350 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
351 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
352 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
353 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
354 environment with relatively static address assignments.
355DOC_END
cccac0a2 356
3d1e3e43 357COMMENT_START
358 ACCESS CONTROLS
359 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
360COMMENT_END
361
41bd17a4 362NAME: external_acl_type
363TYPE: externalAclHelper
364LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 365DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 366DOC_START
41bd17a4 367 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
368 to look up the status
cccac0a2 369
41bd17a4 370 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 Options:
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
375 for 1 hour)
376 negative_ttl=n
377 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
378 as ttl)
379 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
380 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
381 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
382 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
383 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
384 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
385 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
386 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
387 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 388 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
389 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
390 'ipv4' is the default unless --with-localhost-ipv6 is used.
391 --with-localhost-ipv6 changes the default to 'ipv6'.
392 SPECIAL NOTE: these options override --with-localhost-ipv6
cccac0a2 393
41bd17a4 394 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 395
41bd17a4 396 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
397 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
398 %IDENT Ident user name
399 %SRC Client IP
400 %SRCPORT Client source port
401 %URI Requested URI
402 %DST Requested host
403 %PROTO Requested protocol
404 %PORT Requested port
405 %PATH Requested URL path
406 %METHOD Request method
407 %MYADDR Squid interface address
408 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
409 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
410 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
411 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
412 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
413 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
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415 %>{Header} HTTP request header
416 %>{Hdr:member}
417 HTTP request header list member
418 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 419 HTTP request header list member using ; as
420 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
421 character.
cccac0a2 422
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423 %<{Header} HTTP reply header
424 %<{Hdr:member}
425 HTTP reply header list member
426 %<{Hdr:;member}
427 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
428 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
429 character.
430
41bd17a4 431 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
432 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
433 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 434
41bd17a4 435 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
436 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
437 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
438 more details.
cccac0a2 439
41bd17a4 440 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 441
41bd17a4 442 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 443
41bd17a4 444 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 445
41bd17a4 446 user= The users name (login)
447 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
448 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
449 in error pages
450 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
451 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
452 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
453 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 454
41bd17a4 455 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
456 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 457
41bd17a4 458 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
459 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
460 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 461
41bd17a4 462 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
463 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
464 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 465DOC_END
466
41bd17a4 467NAME: acl
468TYPE: acl
469LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 470DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 471DOC_START
41bd17a4 472 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 473
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474 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
475 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
476 they are read from.
cccac0a2 477
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478 acl aclname acltype argument ...
479 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 480
375eeb3b 481 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 482
41bd17a4 483 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
484 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 485
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486
487 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
488
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489 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address
490 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses
491 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address
492 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address
cccac0a2 493
41bd17a4 494 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
495 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
496 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
497 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
498 #
499 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
500 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
501 # find out its MAC address.
934b03fc 502
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503 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, from client IP
504 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
505 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ... # regex matching client name
506 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ... # regex matching server
41bd17a4 507 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
508 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
509 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 510
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511 acl aclname src_as number ...
512 acl aclname dst_as number ...
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513 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
514 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
515 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
516 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
517 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
518 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
519 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 520
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521 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
522 # day-abbrevs:
523 # S - Sunday
524 # M - Monday
525 # T - Tuesday
526 # W - Wednesday
527 # H - Thursday
528 # F - Friday
529 # A - Saturday
530 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
531
532 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
41bd17a4 533 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
e988aa40 534
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535 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
536 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
537 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
197f6b3c 538 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name
e988aa40 539
375eeb3b 540 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
e988aa40 541
375eeb3b 542 acl aclname method GET POST ...
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543
544 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
545
375eeb3b 546 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
41bd17a4 547 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
e988aa40 548
375eeb3b 549 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
41bd17a4 550 # pattern match on Referer header
551 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 552
375eeb3b 553 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 554 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
555 # string match on ident output.
556 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 557
41bd17a4 558 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
559 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
560 # list of valid usernames
561 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
562 #
563 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
564 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
565 # in access.log.
566 #
567 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
568 # to check username/password combinations (see
569 # auth_param directive).
570 #
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571 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent/intercepting proxy
572 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 573 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 574
41bd17a4 575 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
576 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
577 # Example:
578 #
579 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 580
41bd17a4 581 acl aclname maxconn number
582 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
583 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
1e5562e3 584
41bd17a4 585 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
586 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
587 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
588 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
589 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
590 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
591 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
592 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
593 # request is denied)
594 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
595 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
596 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 597
375eeb3b 598 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 599 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
600 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
601 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
602 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
603 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 604
41bd17a4 605 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
606 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
607 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
608 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 609
375eeb3b 610 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 611 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
612 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
613 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
614 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
615 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
616 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 617
41bd17a4 618 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
619 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
620 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
621 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 622
375eeb3b 623 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 624 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
625 # external_acl_type directive.
cccac0a2 626
41bd17a4 627 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
628 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
629 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 630
41bd17a4 631 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
632 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
633 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 634
41bd17a4 635 acl aclname ext_user username ...
636 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
637 # string match on username returned by external acl helper
638 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
cccac0a2 639
41bd17a4 640Examples:
641acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
642acl myexample dst_as 1241
643acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
644acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
645acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 646
41bd17a4 647NOCOMMENT_START
648#Recommended minimum configuration:
41bd17a4 649acl manager proto cache_object
ee776778 650acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
41bd17a4 651acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ee776778 652#
653# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
654# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
655# should be allowed
656acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
657acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
658acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
659#
41bd17a4 660acl SSL_ports port 443
661acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
662acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
663acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
664acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
665acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
666acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
667acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
668acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
669acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
670acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
671acl CONNECT method CONNECT
672NOCOMMENT_END
673DOC_END
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675NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
676TYPE: acl_access
677IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
678LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
679DEFAULT: none
680DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
681DOC_START
682 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
683 find the original source of a request.
684
685 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
686 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
687 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
688 rightmost address being the most recent.
689
690 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
691 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
692 to see where that host received the request from. If the
693 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, and if
694 acl_uses_indirect_client is on, then we continue backtracking
695 until we reach an address for which we are not allowed to
696 follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
697 address in the list. (If acl_uses_indirect_client is off, then
698 it's impossible to backtrack through more than one level of
699 X-Forwarded-For addresses.)
700
701 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
702 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
703 be treated as the client address for access control, delay
704 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
705 delay_pool_uses_indirect_client and log_uses_indirect_client
706 options.
707
708 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
709
710 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
711 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
712 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
713 source address of the request. This may enable remote
714 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
715 based on the client's source addresses.
716
717 For example:
718
719 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
720 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
721 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
722 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
723DOC_END
724
725NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
726COMMENT: on|off
727TYPE: onoff
728IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
729DEFAULT: on
730LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
731DOC_START
732 Controls whether the indirect client address
733 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
734 direct client address in acl matching.
735DOC_END
736
737NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
738COMMENT: on|off
739TYPE: onoff
740IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR && DELAY_POOLS
741DEFAULT: on
742LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
743DOC_START
744 Controls whether the indirect client address
745 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
746 direct client address in delay pools.
747DOC_END
748
749NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
750COMMENT: on|off
751TYPE: onoff
752IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
753DEFAULT: on
754LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
755DOC_START
756 Controls whether the indirect client address
757 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
758 direct client address in the access log.
759DOC_END
760
41bd17a4 761NAME: http_access
762TYPE: acl_access
763LOC: Config.accessList.http
764DEFAULT: none
765DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
766DOC_START
767 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 768
41bd17a4 769 Access to the HTTP port:
770 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 771
41bd17a4 772 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 773
41bd17a4 774 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
775 the request.
cccac0a2 776
41bd17a4 777 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
778 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
779 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
780 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
781 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
782 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 783
41bd17a4 784NOCOMMENT_START
785#Recommended minimum configuration:
786#
787# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
788http_access allow manager localhost
789http_access deny manager
790# Deny requests to unknown ports
791http_access deny !Safe_ports
792# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
793http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
794#
795# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
796# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
797# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
798#http_access deny to_localhost
799#
800# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
c8f4eac4 801
ee776778 802# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
803# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
804# from where browsing should be allowed
805http_access allow localnet
7d90757b 806
41bd17a4 807# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
808http_access deny all
809NOCOMMENT_END
810DOC_END
7d90757b 811
41bd17a4 812NAME: http_reply_access
813TYPE: acl_access
814LOC: Config.accessList.reply
815DEFAULT: none
816DOC_START
817 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 818
41bd17a4 819 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 820
41bd17a4 821 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
822 all replies
1a224843 823
41bd17a4 824 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
825 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
826 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
cccac0a2 827DOC_END
828
41bd17a4 829NAME: icp_access
830TYPE: acl_access
831LOC: Config.accessList.icp
832DEFAULT: none
833DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 834DOC_START
41bd17a4 835 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
836 access lists
5473c134 837
41bd17a4 838 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 839
41bd17a4 840 See http_access for details
841
842NOCOMMENT_START
ee776778 843#Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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844#icp_access allow localnet
845#icp_access deny all
41bd17a4 846NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 847DOC_END
848
41bd17a4 849NAME: htcp_access
850IFDEF: USE_HTCP
851TYPE: acl_access
852LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
853DEFAULT: none
854DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 855DOC_START
41bd17a4 856 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
857 access lists
5473c134 858
41bd17a4 859 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 860
41bd17a4 861 See http_access for details
5473c134 862
0b48417e 863 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
864 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
865 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
866
ee776778 867NOCOMMENT_START
868#Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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869#htcp_access allow localnet
870#htcp_access deny all
ee776778 871NOCOMMENT_END
41bd17a4 872DOC_END
5473c134 873
41bd17a4 874NAME: htcp_clr_access
875IFDEF: USE_HTCP
876TYPE: acl_access
877LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
878DEFAULT: none
879DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
880DOC_START
881 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
882 on defined access lists
5473c134 883
41bd17a4 884 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 885
41bd17a4 886 See http_access for details
5473c134 887
41bd17a4 888#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
889acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
890htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 891DOC_END
892
41bd17a4 893NAME: miss_access
894TYPE: acl_access
895LOC: Config.accessList.miss
df2eec10 896DEFAULT: allow all
5473c134 897DOC_START
41bd17a4 898 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
899 a parent. For example:
5473c134 900
41bd17a4 901 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
902 miss_access allow localclients
903 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 904
41bd17a4 905 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
906 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 907
41bd17a4 908 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
909 to fetch MISSES from us.
41bd17a4 910DOC_END
911
912NAME: ident_lookup_access
913TYPE: acl_access
914IFDEF: USE_IDENT
915DEFAULT: none
916DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
917LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
5473c134 918DOC_START
41bd17a4 919 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
920 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
921 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
922 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
923 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
924 any requests.
5473c134 925
41bd17a4 926 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
927 can follow this example:
5473c134 928
41bd17a4 929 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
930 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
931 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 932
41bd17a4 933 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
934 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
935 the correct result.
936DOC_END
5473c134 937
5b0f5383 938NAME: reply_body_max_size
939COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
940TYPE: acl_b_size_t
941DEFAULT: none
942LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
943DOC_START
944 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
945 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
946 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
947 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
948 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
949 for this reply.
950
951 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
952 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
953 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
954 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
955 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
956 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
957 and they will receive a partial reply.
958
959 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
960 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
961 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
962 use this option if you have downstream caches.
963
964 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
965 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
966 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
967 the size of your largest error page.
968
969 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
970 no limit imposed.
971DOC_END
972
973COMMENT_START
974 NETWORK OPTIONS
975 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
976COMMENT_END
977
978NAME: http_port ascii_port
979TYPE: http_port_list
980DEFAULT: none
981LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
982DOC_START
983 Usage: port [options]
984 hostname:port [options]
985 1.2.3.4:port [options]
986
987 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
988 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
989 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
990 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
991 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
992 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
993 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
994 address, so you can use the port number alone.
995
996 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
997 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
998
999 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1000 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1001 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1002
1003 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1004
1005 Options:
1006
e77bdb4e 1007 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1008 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1009 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1010
1011 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1012 connections using the client IP address.
13b5cd0c 1013 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1014
1015 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1016 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1017
1018 defaultsite=domainname
1019 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1020 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1021 accelerators should consider the default.
1022 Implies accel.
1023
1024 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1025 domain support. Implies accel.
1026
1027 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1028 Implies accel.
1029
1030 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1031 than the http_port number. Implies accel.
1032
1033 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1034 Defaults to http.
1035
1036 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1037 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1038 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1039 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1040 support is enabled.
1041 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1042
1043 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1044 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1045 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1046 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1047 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1048 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1049 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1050 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1051
4c9da963 1052 sslBump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
1053 establish secure connection with the client and with
1054 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1055 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1056 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1057
1058 When this option is enabled, additional options become
1059 available to specify SSL-related properties of the
1060 client-side connection: cert, key, version, cipher,
1061 options, clientca, cafile, capath, crlfile, dhparams,
1062 sslflags, and sslcontext. See the https_port directive
1063 for more information on these options.
1064
1065 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1066 the SslBump feature.
1067
81b6e9a7 1068 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1069 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1070
b2130d58 1071 keepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
1072 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections
1073 idle is the initial time before TCP starts probing
1074 the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1075 timeout the time before giving up.
1076
5b0f5383 1077 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1078 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1079 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1080 visible on the internal address.
1081
1082NOCOMMENT_START
1083# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1084http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1085NOCOMMENT_END
1086DOC_END
1087
1088NAME: https_port
1089IFDEF: USE_SSL
1090TYPE: https_port_list
1091DEFAULT: none
1092LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1093DOC_START
1094 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1095
1096 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1097 requests.
1098
1099 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1100 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1101 accelerator level.
1102
1103 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1104 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1105
1106 Options:
1107
1108 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1109 defaultsite or vhost.
1110
1111 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1112 this port. Implies accel.
1113
1114 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1115 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1116 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1117 Implies accel.
1118
1119 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1120 Defaults to https.
1121
1122 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1123
1124 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1125 if not specified, the certificate file is
1126 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1127 key file.
1128
1129 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1130 1 automatic (default)
1131 2 SSLv2 only
1132 3 SSLv3 only
1133 4 TLSv1 only
1134
1135 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1136
1137 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1138 being:
1139 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1140 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1141 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1142 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1143 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1144 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1145 documentation for a complete list of options.
1146
1147 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1148 requesting a client certificate.
1149
1150 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1151 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1152 clientca will be used.
1153
1154 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1155 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1156
1157 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1158 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1159 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1160
1161 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1162 DH key exchanges.
1163
1164 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1165 DELAYED_AUTH
1166 Don't request client certificates
1167 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1168 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1169 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1170 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1171 to OpenSSL.
1172 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1173 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1174 will result in a new SSL session.
1175 VERIFY_CRL
1176 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1177 certificates.
1178 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1179 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1180 client certificate chain.
1181
1182 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1183
1184 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1185
1186 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1187 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1188
81b6e9a7 1189 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1190 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1191
5b0f5383 1192DOC_END
1193
41bd17a4 1194NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1195TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1196DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1197LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1198DOC_START
41bd17a4 1199 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1200 connections with, based on the username or source address
1201 making the request.
5473c134 1202
41bd17a4 1203 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1204
41bd17a4 1205 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1206 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1207
41bd17a4 1208 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1209 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2c73de90 1210 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1211 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1212
41bd17a4 1213 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1214 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474 and
1215 RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1216
41bd17a4 1217 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1218 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1219 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1220 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1221
41bd17a4 1222 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1223 matching line.
cccac0a2 1224
41bd17a4 1225 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1226 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1227 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1228 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1229DOC_END
1230
41bd17a4 1231NAME: clientside_tos
1232TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1233DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1234LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1235DOC_START
41bd17a4 1236 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1237 connections with, based on the username or source address
1238 making the request.
1239DOC_END
cccac0a2 1240
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1241NAME: zph_tos_local
1242TYPE: int
1243IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1244DEFAULT: 0
1245LOC: Config.zph_tos_local
1246DOC_START
1247 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark local hits. Read above
1248 (tcp_outgoing_tos) for details/requirements about TOS.
1249 Default: 0 (disabled).
1250DOC_END
1251
1252NAME: zph_tos_peer
1253TYPE: int
1254IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1255DEFAULT: 0
1256LOC: Config.zph_tos_peer
1257DOC_START
1258 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark peer hits. Read above
1259 (tcp_outgoing_tos) for details/requirements about TOS.
1260 Default: 0 (disabled).
1261DOC_END
1262
1263NAME: zph_tos_parent
1264COMMENT: on|off
1265TYPE: onoff
1266IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1267DEFAULT: on
1268LOC: Config.onoff.zph_tos_parent
1269DOC_START
1270 Set this to off if you want only sibling hits to be marked.
1271 If set to on (default), parent hits are being marked too.
1272DOC_END
1273
1274NAME: zph_preserve_miss_tos
1275COMMENT: on|off
1276TYPE: onoff
1277IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1278DEFAULT: on
1279LOC: Config.onoff.zph_preserve_miss_tos
1280DOC_START
1281 If set to on (default), any HTTP response towards clients will
1282 have the TOS value of the response comming from the remote
1283 server masked with the value of zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask.
1284 For this to work correctly, you will need to patch your linux
1285 kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch.
1286 The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1287DOC_END
1288
1289NAME: zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask
1290TYPE: int
1291IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1292DEFAULT: 255
1293LOC: Config.zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask
1294DOC_START
1295 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the
1296 remote server, before copying the value to the TOS send towards
1297 clients.
1298 Default: 255 (TOS from server is not changed).
1299DOC_END
1300
41bd17a4 1301NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1302TYPE: acl_address
1303DEFAULT: none
1304LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1305DOC_START
1306 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1307 based on the username or source address of the user making
1308 the request.
7f7db318 1309
41bd17a4 1310 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1311
41bd17a4 1312 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1313 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1314 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1315 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1316
17148b2f 1317 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1318 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1319 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1320 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1321 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1322
41bd17a4 1323 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1324 matching line.
cccac0a2 1325
41bd17a4 1326 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1327 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1328 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1329 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1330
1331
1332 IPv6 Magic:
1333
1334 Squid is built with a capability of bridging the IPv4 and IPv6 internets.
1335 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1336 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1337 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1338
1339 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1340 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1341 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1342
1343 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1344 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1345 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1346
1347 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1348 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1349
1350 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1351 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
cccac0a2 1352DOC_END
1353
41bd17a4 1354COMMENT_START
1355 SSL OPTIONS
1356 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1357COMMENT_END
1358
1359NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1360IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1361TYPE: onoff
1362DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1363LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1364DOC_START
41bd17a4 1365 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1366 messages.
cccac0a2 1367DOC_END
1368
41bd17a4 1369NAME: ssl_engine
1370IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1371TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1372LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1373DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1374DOC_START
41bd17a4 1375 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1376 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1377DOC_END
1378
41bd17a4 1379NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1380IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1381DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1382LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1383TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1384DOC_START
41bd17a4 1385 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1386DOC_END
1387
41bd17a4 1388NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1389IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1390DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1391LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1392TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1393DOC_START
41bd17a4 1394 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1395DOC_END
1396
41bd17a4 1397NAME: sslproxy_version
1398IFDEF: USE_SSL
1399DEFAULT: 1
1400LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1401TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1402DOC_START
41bd17a4 1403 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1404DOC_END
1405
41bd17a4 1406NAME: sslproxy_options
1407IFDEF: USE_SSL
1408DEFAULT: none
1409LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1410TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1411DOC_START
41bd17a4 1412 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1413DOC_END
1414
41bd17a4 1415NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1416IFDEF: USE_SSL
1417DEFAULT: none
1418LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1419TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1420DOC_START
41bd17a4 1421 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1422DOC_END
1423
41bd17a4 1424NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1425IFDEF: USE_SSL
1426DEFAULT: none
1427LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1428TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1429DOC_START
41bd17a4 1430 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1431 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1432DOC_END
0976f8db 1433
41bd17a4 1434NAME: sslproxy_capath
1435IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1436DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1437LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1438TYPE: string
5473c134 1439DOC_START
41bd17a4 1440 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1441 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1442DOC_END
1443
4c9da963 1444NAME: ssl_bump
1445IFDEF: USE_SSL
1446TYPE: acl_access
1447LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1448DEFAULT: none
1449DOC_START
1450 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1451 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1452 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1453 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1454
1455 By default, no requests are bumped.
1456
1457 See also: http_port sslBump
1458
1459NOCOMMENT_START
1460# Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1461# those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1462#
1463# acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1464# acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1465# acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1466# ssl_bump deny localhost
1467# ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1468# ssl_bump allow all
1469NOCOMMENT_END
1470DOC_END
1471
41bd17a4 1472NAME: sslproxy_flags
1473IFDEF: USE_SSL
1474DEFAULT: none
1475LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1476TYPE: string
5473c134 1477DOC_START
41bd17a4 1478 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1479 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1480 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1481 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1482 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1483DOC_END
1484
4c9da963 1485
1486NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1487IFDEF: USE_SSL
1488DEFAULT: none
1489LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1490TYPE: acl_access
1491DOC_START
1492 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1493
1494 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1495 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1496 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1497
1498 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1499 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1500 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1501
1502 This option must use fast ACL expressions only. Expressions that use
1503 external lookups or communication result in unpredictable behavior or
1504 crashes.
1505
1506 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1507 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1508 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1509 the connection may be insecure.
1510
1511 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1512
1513NOCOMMENT_START
1514#Default setting:
1515# sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1516NOCOMMENT_END
1517DOC_END
1518
1519
1520
41bd17a4 1521NAME: sslpassword_program
1522IFDEF: USE_SSL
1523DEFAULT: none
1524LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1525TYPE: string
5473c134 1526DOC_START
41bd17a4 1527 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1528 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1529 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1530 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
5473c134 1531DOC_END
1532
cccac0a2 1533COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1534 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1535 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1536COMMENT_END
1537
41bd17a4 1538NAME: cache_peer
1539TYPE: peer
1540DEFAULT: none
1541LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1542DOC_START
41bd17a4 1543 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
cccac0a2 1544
41bd17a4 1545 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
cccac0a2 1546
41bd17a4 1547 For example,
cccac0a2 1548
41bd17a4 1549 # proxy icp
1550 # hostname type port port options
1551 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
1552 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 proxy-only default
1553 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1554 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
cccac0a2 1555
41bd17a4 1556 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
d5277f40 1557
41bd17a4 1558 proxy-port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
1559 requests.
8d6275c0 1560
41bd17a4 1561 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
1562 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
df2eec10 1563 specify '0' for the ICP port.
41bd17a4 1564 NOTE: Also requires icp_port option enabled to send/receive
1565 requests via this method.
a78278e2 1566
41bd17a4 1567 options: proxy-only
1568 weight=n
1569 basetime=n
1570 ttl=n
1571 no-query
1572 background-ping
1573 default
1574 round-robin
1575 weighted-round-robin
1576 carp
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1577 userhash
1578 sourcehash
41bd17a4 1579 multicast-responder
1580 closest-only
1581 no-digest
1582 no-netdb-exchange
1583 no-delay
1584 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
1585 connect-timeout=nn
1586 digest-url=url
1587 allow-miss
1588 max-conn=n
1589 htcp
1590 htcp-oldsquid
1591 originserver
1592 name=xxx
1593 forceddomain=name
1594 ssl
1595 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1596 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
1597 sslversion=1|2|3|4
1598 sslcipher=...
1599 ssloptions=...
1600 front-end-https[=on|auto]
cccac0a2 1601
41bd17a4 1602 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
1603 from this cache should not be saved locally.
cccac0a2 1604
41bd17a4 1605 use 'weight=n' to affect the selection of a peer
1606 during any weighted peer-selection mechanisms.
1607 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1608 larger weights are favored more.
1609 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1610 protocol is not in use.
cccac0a2 1611
41bd17a4 1612 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
1613 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
1614 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1615 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1616 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 1617
41bd17a4 1618 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
1619 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
1620 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1621 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1622 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1623 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
5473c134 1624
41bd17a4 1625 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
1626 neighbor.
5473c134 1627
41bd17a4 1628 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
1629 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
1630 round trip time updated and is usually used in
1631 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
cccac0a2 1632
41bd17a4 1633 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
1634 be used as a "last-resort" if a peer cannot be located
1635 by any of the peer-selection mechanisms.
1636 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
cccac0a2 1637
41bd17a4 1638 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
1639 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
1640 absence of any ICP queries.
cccac0a2 1641
41bd17a4 1642 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
1643 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
1644 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
1645 time. Closer parents are used more often.
1646 Usually used for background-ping parents.
cccac0a2 1647
41bd17a4 1648 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
1649 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
1650 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
382db7eb 1651 balancing hash function based on their weight.
cccac0a2 1652
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1653 use 'userhash' to load-balance amongst a set of parents
1654 based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
1655
1656 use 'sourcehash' to load-balance amongst a set of parents
1657 based on the client source ip.
1658
41bd17a4 1659 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
1660 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
1661 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
1662 will be accepted from it.
cccac0a2 1663
41bd17a4 1664 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
1665 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
1666 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
cccac0a2 1667
41bd17a4 1668 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
1669 this neighbor.
cccac0a2 1670
41bd17a4 1671 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
1672 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
cccac0a2 1673
41bd17a4 1674 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
1675 from influencing the delay pools.
7d90757b 1676
41bd17a4 1677 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
1678 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
1679 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
1680 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
7d90757b 1681
41bd17a4 1682 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
1683 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
1684 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
1685 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
1686 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
1687 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
1688 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
1689 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
1690 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
1691 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
7d90757b 1692
41bd17a4 1693 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
1694 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
1695 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
1696 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
1697 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
1698 information which is added to the username. This can
1699 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
1700 the login=username:password option above.
cccac0a2 1701
41bd17a4 1702 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
1703 specific connect timeout (also see the
1704 peer_connect_timeout directive)
7f7db318 1705
41bd17a4 1706 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
1707 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
1708 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
1709 location.
cccac0a2 1710
41bd17a4 1711 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
1712 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
1713 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
1714 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
1715 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
1716 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
1717 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
1718 source is a peer)
cccac0a2 1719
41bd17a4 1720 use 'max-conn=n' to limit the amount of connections Squid
1721 may open to this peer.
cccac0a2 1722
41bd17a4 1723 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
1724 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
1725 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
0b48417e 1726 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1727 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1728
41bd17a4 1729 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
0b48417e 1730 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1731 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1732
41bd17a4 1733 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
1734 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
cccac0a2 1735
41bd17a4 1736 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
1737 host but different ports. This name can be used to
1738 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
1739 directives.
cccac0a2 1740
41bd17a4 1741 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
1742 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
1743 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
1744 name and using redirectors to feed this domain name
1745 is not feasible.
64658378 1746
41bd17a4 1747 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
1748 be SSL/TLS encrypted.
cccac0a2 1749
41bd17a4 1750 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
1751 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
4c9fa5d5 1752
41bd17a4 1753 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
1754 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
1755 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
1756 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
4c9fa5d5 1757
41bd17a4 1758 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
1759 when connecting to this peer
1760 1 = automatic (default)
1761 2 = SSL v2 only
1762 3 = SSL v3 only
1763 4 = TLS v1 only
cccac0a2 1764
41bd17a4 1765 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL ciphers
1766 to use when connecting to this peer.
cccac0a2 1767
41bd17a4 1768 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
1769 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1770 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1771 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1772 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
1773 a more complete list.
cccac0a2 1774
41bd17a4 1775 use sslcafile=... to specify a file containing
1776 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1777 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1778
41bd17a4 1779 use sslcapath=... to specify a directory containing
1780 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1781 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1782
41bd17a4 1783 use sslcrlfile=... to specify a certificate revocation
1784 list file to use when verifying the peer certificate.
1785
1786 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
1787 SSL implementation:
1788 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
1789 Accept certificates even if they fail to
1790 verify.
1791 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1792 Don't use the default CA list built in
1793 to OpenSSL.
1794 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
1795 Don't verify the peer certificate
1796 matches the server name
cccac0a2 1797
41bd17a4 1798 use ssldomain= to specify the peer name as advertised
1799 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
1800 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
1801 peer hostname will be used.
cccac0a2 1802
41bd17a4 1803 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
1804 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend in front
1805 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
1806 on this header. If set to auto the header will
1807 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
1808 URL.
1809DOC_END
cccac0a2 1810
41bd17a4 1811NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
1812TYPE: hostdomain
1813DEFAULT: none
1814LOC: none
1815DOC_START
1816 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
1817 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 1818
41bd17a4 1819 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
1820 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 1821
41bd17a4 1822 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 1823
41bd17a4 1824 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 1825
41bd17a4 1826 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
1827 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
1828 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
1829 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
1830 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 1831
41bd17a4 1832 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
1833 either on the same or separate lines.
1834 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
1835 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
1836 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
1837 for all requests.
1838 * There are no defaults.
1839 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
1840 section.
1841DOC_END
dd9b1776 1842
41bd17a4 1843NAME: cache_peer_access
1844TYPE: peer_access
1845DEFAULT: none
1846LOC: none
1847DOC_START
1848 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
1849 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 1850
41bd17a4 1851 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 1852
41bd17a4 1853 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
1854 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
1855 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
1856DOC_END
dd9b1776 1857
41bd17a4 1858NAME: neighbor_type_domain
1859TYPE: hostdomaintype
1860DEFAULT: none
1861LOC: none
1862DOC_START
1863 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 1864
41bd17a4 1865 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
1866 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
1867 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
1868 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
1869 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
1870 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 1871
41bd17a4 1872EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 1873 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 1874 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
1875 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
1876DOC_END
6bf4f823 1877
41bd17a4 1878NAME: dead_peer_timeout
1879COMMENT: (seconds)
1880DEFAULT: 10 seconds
1881TYPE: time_t
1882LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
1883DOC_START
1884 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
1885 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
1886 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
1887 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
1888 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
1889 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 1890
41bd17a4 1891 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
1892 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
1893 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
1894 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
1895 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
1896 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
1897 instead of to your parents.
1898DOC_END
cccac0a2 1899
41bd17a4 1900NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
1901TYPE: wordlist
1902DEFAULT: none
1903LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
1904DOC_START
1905 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
1906 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
1907 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
1908 list this option multiple times.
1909 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
cccac0a2 1910NOCOMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1911#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
1912hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 1913NOCOMMENT_END
1914DOC_END
0976f8db 1915
41bd17a4 1916COMMENT_START
1917 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
1918 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1919COMMENT_END
1920
1921NAME: cache_mem
1922COMMENT: (bytes)
1923TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 1924DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 1925LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 1926DOC_START
41bd17a4 1927 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
1928 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
1929 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
1930 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
1931
1932 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
1933 for:
1934 * In-Transit objects
1935 * Hot Objects
1936 * Negative-Cached objects
1937
1938 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
1939 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
1940 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
1941 priority.
1942
1943 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
1944 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
1945 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
1946 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
1947 not needed for in-transit objects.
1948
1949 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
1950 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
1951 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
1952 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
1953 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
1954 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
1955 objects.
6b698a21 1956DOC_END
0976f8db 1957
41bd17a4 1958NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
1959COMMENT: (bytes)
1960TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 1961DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 1962LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 1963DOC_START
41bd17a4 1964 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
1965 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
1966 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
1967 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 1968DOC_END
0976f8db 1969
41bd17a4 1970NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1971TYPE: removalpolicy
1972LOC: Config.memPolicy
1973DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 1974DOC_START
41bd17a4 1975 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1976 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 1977
41bd17a4 1978 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1979DOC_END
6b698a21 1980
41bd17a4 1981COMMENT_START
1982 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
1983 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1984COMMENT_END
6b698a21 1985
41bd17a4 1986NAME: cache_replacement_policy
1987TYPE: removalpolicy
1988LOC: Config.replPolicy
1989DEFAULT: lru
1990DOC_START
1991 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
1992 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 1993
41bd17a4 1994 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
1995 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
1996 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
1997 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 1998
41bd17a4 1999 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2000
41bd17a4 2001 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2002
41bd17a4 2003 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2004 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2005 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2006 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2007
41bd17a4 2008 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2009 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2010 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2011 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2012
41bd17a4 2013 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2014 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2015 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2016
41bd17a4 2017 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2018 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2019 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2020
41bd17a4 2021 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2022 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2023 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2024DOC_END
0976f8db 2025
41bd17a4 2026NAME: cache_dir
2027TYPE: cachedir
2028DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2029LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2030DOC_START
41bd17a4 2031 Usage:
0976f8db 2032
41bd17a4 2033 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2034
41bd17a4 2035 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2036 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2037
41bd17a4 2038 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2039 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2040 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2041
41bd17a4 2042 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2043 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2044 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2045 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2046 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2047
41bd17a4 2048 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2049
41bd17a4 2050 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2051 been there.
0976f8db 2052
41bd17a4 2053 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2054
41bd17a4 2055 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2056 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2057 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2058 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2059 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2060
41bd17a4 2061 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2062 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2063
41bd17a4 2064 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2065 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2066 is 256.
0976f8db 2067
41bd17a4 2068 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2069
41bd17a4 2070 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2071 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2072 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2073
41bd17a4 2074 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2075
41bd17a4 2076 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2077
41bd17a4 2078 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2079
41bd17a4 2080 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2081 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2082 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2083
41bd17a4 2084 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2085
41bd17a4 2086 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2087
41bd17a4 2088 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2089 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2090 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2091
41bd17a4 2092 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2093 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2094 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2095
41bd17a4 2096 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2097 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2098 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2099 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2100 time.
0976f8db 2101
41bd17a4 2102 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2103
41bd17a4 2104 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2105 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2106 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2107 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2108 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2109 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2110 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2111
41bd17a4 2112 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2113 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2114 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2115
41bd17a4 2116 Common options:
0976f8db 2117
41bd17a4 2118 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2119
41bd17a4 2120 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
2121 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
2122 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2123 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2124 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2125
41bd17a4 2126 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2127 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2128 option.
bebc043b 2129NOCOMMENT_START
df2eec10 2130# cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2131NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2132DOC_END
0976f8db 2133
41bd17a4 2134NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2135TYPE: string
2136LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2137DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2138DOC_START
41bd17a4 2139 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2140DOC_END
0976f8db 2141
41bd17a4 2142NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2143TYPE: int
2144LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2145DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2146DOC_START
41bd17a4 2147 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2148 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2149 descriptors are open.
2150
2151 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2152DOC_END
0976f8db 2153
41bd17a4 2154NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2155COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2156TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2157DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2158LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2159DOC_START
41bd17a4 2160 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2161 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2162 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2163DOC_END
0976f8db 2164
41bd17a4 2165NAME: maximum_object_size
2166COMMENT: (bytes)
2167TYPE: b_int64_t
2168DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2169LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2170DOC_START
41bd17a4 2171 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2172 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2173 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2174 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2175 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2176 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2177
41bd17a4 2178 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2179 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2180 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2181DOC_END
0976f8db 2182
41bd17a4 2183NAME: cache_swap_low
2184COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2185TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2186DEFAULT: 90
2187LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2188DOC_NONE
2189
2190NAME: cache_swap_high
2191COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2192TYPE: int
2193DEFAULT: 95
2194LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2195DOC_START
41bd17a4 2196
2197 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2198 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2199 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2200 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2201 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2202 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2203
2204 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2205 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2206 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2207DOC_END
0976f8db 2208
5473c134 2209COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2210 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2211 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2212COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2213
41bd17a4 2214NAME: logformat
2215TYPE: logformat
2216LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 2217DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2218DOC_START
41bd17a4 2219 Usage:
0976f8db 2220
41bd17a4 2221 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2222
41bd17a4 2223 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2224
41bd17a4 2225 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2226
41bd17a4 2227 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2228 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2229 as required according to their context and the output format
2230 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2231 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2232
41bd17a4 2233 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2234
41bd17a4 2235 " output in quoted string format
2236 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2237 # output in URL quoted format
2238 ' output as-is
5473c134 2239
41bd17a4 2240 - left aligned
2241 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2242 output is zero padded
2243 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2244
41bd17a4 2245 Format codes:
5473c134 2246
41bd17a4 2247 >a Client source IP address
2248 >A Client FQDN
2249 >p Client source port
2250 <A Server IP address or peer name
2251 la Local IP address (http_port)
2252 lp Local port number (http_port)
2253 ts Seconds since epoch
2254 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2255 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
2256 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2257 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
2258 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2259 tr Response time (milliseconds)
2260 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
2261 on the format header[:[separator]element]
2262 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2263 as for >h
2264 un User name
2265 ul User name from authentication
2266 ui User name from ident
2267 us User name from SSL
2268 ue User name from external acl helper
2269 Hs HTTP status code
2270 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2271 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2272 mt MIME content type
2273 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2274 ru Request URL
2275 rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2276 rv Request protocol version
2277 et Tag returned by external acl
2278 ea Log string returned by external acl
2279 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
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2280 >st Request size including HTTP headers
2281 st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
41bd17a4 2282 <sH Reply high offset sent
2283 <sS Upstream object size
2284 % a literal % character
5473c134 2285
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2286 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
2287
2288logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2289logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
41bd17a4 2290logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2291logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2292DOC_END
2293
41bd17a4 2294NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2295TYPE: access_log
2296LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
df2eec10 2297DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 2298DOC_START
41bd17a4 2299 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2300 ICP request. The format is:
2301 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2302 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
5473c134 2303
41bd17a4 2304 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
2305 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2306 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
2307 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
5473c134 2308
41bd17a4 2309 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
2310 a logformat name should not be specified.
5473c134 2311
41bd17a4 2312 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
5473c134 2313
41bd17a4 2314 access_log syslog[:facility.priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
2315 where facility could be any of:
2316 authpriv, daemon, local0 .. local7 or user.
5473c134 2317
41bd17a4 2318 And priority could be any of:
2319 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
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2320
2321 Default:
2322 access_log @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 2323DOC_END
5473c134 2324
5b0f5383 2325NAME: log_access
2326TYPE: acl_access
2327LOC: Config.accessList.log
2328DEFAULT: none
2329COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2330DOC_START
2331 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2332 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2333 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2334DOC_END
2335
41bd17a4 2336NAME: cache_log
2337TYPE: string
2338DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
2339LOC: Config.Log.log
2340DOC_START
2341 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
2342 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
2343 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
2344DOC_END
5473c134 2345
41bd17a4 2346NAME: cache_store_log
2347TYPE: string
df2eec10 2348DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2349LOC: Config.Log.store
2350DOC_START
2351 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2352 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
df2eec10
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2353 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
2354 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 2355 disable it.
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2356NOCOMMENT_START
2357# cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
2358NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 2359DOC_END
2360
41bd17a4 2361NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2362TYPE: string
2363LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2364DEFAULT: none
2365DOC_START
41bd17a4 2366 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2367 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2368 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2369 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2370 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2371 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2372 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2373
41bd17a4 2374 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2375 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2376 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2377 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2378
41bd17a4 2379 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2380 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2381
41bd17a4 2382 cache_swap_log.00
2383 cache_swap_log.01
2384 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2385
41bd17a4 2386 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2387 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2388 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2389 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2390 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2391 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2392 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2393DOC_END
2394
41bd17a4 2395NAME: logfile_rotate
2396TYPE: int
2397DEFAULT: 10
2398LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2399DOC_START
41bd17a4 2400 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2401 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2402 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2403 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2404 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2405 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2406
41bd17a4 2407 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2408 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2409 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2410 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2411 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2412 <pid>'.
2413DOC_END
5473c134 2414
41bd17a4 2415NAME: emulate_httpd_log
2416COMMENT: on|off
2417TYPE: onoff
2418DEFAULT: off
2419LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
2420DOC_START
2421 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
2422 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
2423 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
2424 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
2425 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 2426DOC_END
2427
41bd17a4 2428NAME: log_ip_on_direct
2429COMMENT: on|off
2430TYPE: onoff
5473c134 2431DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 2432LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 2433DOC_START
41bd17a4 2434 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
2435 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
2436 prefer the old way set this to off.
2437DOC_END
5473c134 2438
41bd17a4 2439NAME: mime_table
2440TYPE: string
2441DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
2442LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
2443DOC_START
2444 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
2445 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
2446 information if you do.
5473c134 2447DOC_END
2448
41bd17a4 2449NAME: log_mime_hdrs
2450COMMENT: on|off
2451TYPE: onoff
2452LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
2453DEFAULT: off
2454DOC_START
2455 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
2456 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
2457 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
2458 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
2459 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
2460DOC_END
5473c134 2461
41bd17a4 2462NAME: useragent_log
2463TYPE: string
2464LOC: Config.Log.useragent
2465DEFAULT: none
2466IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 2467DOC_START
41bd17a4 2468 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
2469 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
2470 is disabled.
5473c134 2471DOC_END
2472
41bd17a4 2473NAME: referer_log referrer_log
2474TYPE: string
2475LOC: Config.Log.referer
2476DEFAULT: none
2477IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 2478DOC_START
41bd17a4 2479 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
2480 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
2481 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
2482 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
2483 and we accept both.
5473c134 2484DOC_END
2485
41bd17a4 2486NAME: pid_filename
2487TYPE: string
2488DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
2489LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 2490DOC_START
41bd17a4 2491 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 2492DOC_END
2493
41bd17a4 2494NAME: debug_options
fb6a61d1 2495TYPE: eol
41bd17a4 2496DEFAULT: ALL,1
2497LOC: Config.debugOptions
5473c134 2498DOC_START
41bd17a4 2499 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
2500 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
2501 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
2502 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
2503 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
2504 "ALL,1".
5473c134 2505DOC_END
2506
41bd17a4 2507NAME: log_fqdn
2508COMMENT: on|off
2509TYPE: onoff
2510DEFAULT: off
2511LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 2512DOC_START
41bd17a4 2513 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
2514 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
2515 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
2516 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
2517 browsing.
5473c134 2518DOC_END
2519
41bd17a4 2520NAME: client_netmask
2521TYPE: address
2522LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
2523DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5473c134 2524DOC_START
41bd17a4 2525 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
2526 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
2527 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
2528 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 2529DOC_END
2530
41bd17a4 2531NAME: forward_log
2532IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
2533TYPE: string
2534DEFAULT: none
2535LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 2536DOC_START
41bd17a4 2537 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 2538
41bd17a4 2539 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 2540DOC_END
2541
41bd17a4 2542NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 2543TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 2544LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 2545DEFAULT: on
2546DOC_START
41bd17a4 2547 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
2548 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 2549DOC_END
2550
41bd17a4 2551NAME: buffered_logs
2552COMMENT: on|off
2553TYPE: onoff
2554DEFAULT: off
2555LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 2556DOC_START
41bd17a4 2557 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2558 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2559 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2560 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2561 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 2562DOC_END
0976f8db 2563
2b753521 2564NAME: netdb_filename
2565TYPE: string
2566DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2567LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 2568IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 2569DOC_START
2570 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
2571 To disable, enter "none".
2572DOC_END
2573
41bd17a4 2574COMMENT_START
2575 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
2576 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2577COMMENT_END
2578
2579NAME: ftp_user
2580TYPE: string
2581DEFAULT: Squid@
2582LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 2583DOC_START
41bd17a4 2584 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
2585 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
2586 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 2587
41bd17a4 2588 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
2589 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
2590 depending on how the cache is used.
2591 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
2592 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 2593DOC_END
0976f8db 2594
41bd17a4 2595NAME: ftp_list_width
2596TYPE: size_t
2597DEFAULT: 32
2598LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
6b698a21 2599DOC_START
41bd17a4 2600 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
2601 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
2602 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
6b698a21 2603DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2604
41bd17a4 2605NAME: ftp_passive
2606TYPE: onoff
2607DEFAULT: on
2608LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 2609DOC_START
41bd17a4 2610 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
2611 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 2612
2613 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
2614DOC_END
2615
2616NAME: ftp_epsv_all
2617TYPE: onoff
2618DEFAULT: off
2619LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
2620DOC_START
2621 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
2622
2623 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
2624 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
2625 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
2626
2627 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be useful.
2628 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
2629 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
2630
2631 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
2632 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
2633
2634 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default)
41bd17a4 2635DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2636
41bd17a4 2637NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
2638TYPE: onoff
2639DEFAULT: on
2640LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
2641DOC_START
2642 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
2643 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
2644 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
2645 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
2646 connection turn this off.
2647DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2648
41bd17a4 2649NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
2650TYPE: onoff
2651DEFAULT: on
2652LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
2653DOC_START
2654 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
2655 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
2656 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
2657 the FTP protocol.
2658
2659 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
2660 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
2661 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
2662 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
2663 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
2664DOC_END
2665
2666COMMENT_START
2667 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2668 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2669COMMENT_END
2670
2671NAME: diskd_program
2672TYPE: string
2673DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
2674LOC: Config.Program.diskd
2675DOC_START
2676 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
2677 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
2678 diskd as one of the store io modules.
2679DOC_END
2680
2681NAME: unlinkd_program
2682IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
2683TYPE: string
2684DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
2685LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
2686DOC_START
2687 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
2688DOC_END
2689
2690NAME: pinger_program
2691TYPE: string
2692DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 2693LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 2694IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2695DOC_START
2696 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
2697DOC_END
2698
cc192b50 2699NAME: pinger_enable
2700TYPE: onoff
2701DEFAULT: on
2702LOC: Config.pinger.enable
2703IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2704DOC_START
2705 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
2706 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple squid -k reconfigure.
2707DOC_END
2708
2709
41bd17a4 2710COMMENT_START
2711 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
2712 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2713COMMENT_END
2714
2715NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
2716TYPE: wordlist
2717LOC: Config.Program.redirect
2718DEFAULT: none
2719DOC_START
2720 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
2721 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
2722
2723 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
2724
c71adec1 2725 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
2726
2727 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
2728 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
2729 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
2730 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 2731
2732 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
2733 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
2734
2735 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
2736 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2737 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
2738
2739 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
2740DOC_END
2741
2742NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
2743TYPE: int
2744DEFAULT: 5
2745LOC: Config.redirectChildren
2746DOC_START
2747 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
2748 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
2749 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
2750 and other system resources.
2751DOC_END
2752
2753NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
2754TYPE: int
2755DEFAULT: 0
2756LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
2757DOC_START
2758 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
2759 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
2760 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2761DOC_END
2762
2763NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
2764TYPE: onoff
2765DEFAULT: on
2766LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
2767DOC_START
2768 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
2769 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
2770 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
2771
2772 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
2773 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
2774DOC_END
2775
2776NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
2777TYPE: acl_access
2778DEFAULT: none
2779LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
2780DOC_START
2781 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
2782 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
2783 are sent.
2784DOC_END
2785
2786NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
2787TYPE: onoff
2788LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
2789DEFAULT: off
2790DOC_START
2791 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
2792 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
2793 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
2794 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
2795 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
2796 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
2797 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
2798 users may have access to pages they should not
2799 be allowed to request.
2800DOC_END
2801
2802COMMENT_START
2803 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2804 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2805COMMENT_END
2806
f04b37d8 2807NAME: cache no_cache
2808TYPE: acl_access
2809DEFAULT: none
2810LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 2811DOC_START
240887f0 2812 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 2813 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
2814 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 2815
240887f0 2816 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
2817 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 2818
240887f0 2819 Default is to allow all to be cached.
41bd17a4 2820DOC_END
2821
2822NAME: refresh_pattern
2823TYPE: refreshpattern
2824LOC: Config.Refresh
2825DEFAULT: none
2826DOC_START
2827 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 2828
6b698a21 2829 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2830 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2831
41bd17a4 2832 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2833 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2834 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2835 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2836 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 2837
41bd17a4 2838 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2839 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2840 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 2841
41bd17a4 2842 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2843 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 2844
41bd17a4 2845 options: override-expire
2846 override-lastmod
2847 reload-into-ims
2848 ignore-reload
2849 ignore-no-cache
2850 ignore-no-store
2851 ignore-private
2852 ignore-auth
2853 refresh-ims
a0ec9f68 2854
41bd17a4 2855 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
9b2ad080
HN
2856 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
2857 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
2858 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
2859 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
6468fe10 2860
41bd17a4 2861 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
2862 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 2863
41bd17a4 2864 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2865 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2866 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2867 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 2868
41bd17a4 2869 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2870 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2871 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2872 it causes.
9bc73deb 2873
41bd17a4 2874 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2875 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2876 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2877 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2878 send it anyway.
2879
2880 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2881 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2882 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2883 liable for problems which it causes.
2884
2885 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2886 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2887 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2888 liable for problems which it causes.
2889
2890 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2891 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
2892 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
2893 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
2894 it causes.
2895
2896 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2897 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2898 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2899 if one is available.
2900
2901 Basically a cached object is:
2902
2903 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2904 STALE if age > max
2905 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2906 FRESH if age < min
2907 else STALE
2908
2909 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2910 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
2911 match the default will be used.
2912
2913 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2914 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2915 used.
2916
2917Suggested default:
2918NOCOMMENT_START
2919refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2920refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 2921refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 2922refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2923NOCOMMENT_END
2924DOC_END
2925
2926NAME: quick_abort_min
2927COMMENT: (KB)
2928TYPE: kb_int64_t
2929DEFAULT: 16 KB
2930LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2931DOC_NONE
2932
2933NAME: quick_abort_max
2934COMMENT: (KB)
2935TYPE: kb_int64_t
2936DEFAULT: 16 KB
2937LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2938DOC_NONE
2939
2940NAME: quick_abort_pct
2941COMMENT: (percent)
2942TYPE: int
2943DEFAULT: 95
2944LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2945DOC_START
2946 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2947 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2948 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2949 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2950 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2951 downloads.
2952
2953 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2954 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2955 then.
2956
2957 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2958 it will finish the retrieval.
2959
2960 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2961 it will abort the retrieval.
2962
2963 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2964 it will finish the retrieval.
2965
2966 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2967 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2968 to '0 KB'.
2969
2970 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
2971 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
2972DOC_END
60d096f4 2973
41bd17a4 2974NAME: read_ahead_gap
2975COMMENT: buffer-size
2976TYPE: b_int64_t
2977LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2978DEFAULT: 16 KB
2979DOC_START
2980 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2981 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2982DOC_END
53e738c6 2983
41bd17a4 2984NAME: negative_ttl
ac9cc053 2985IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 2986COMMENT: time-units
2987TYPE: time_t
2988LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 2989DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 2990DOC_START
ac9cc053
AJ
2991 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
2992 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
2993 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
2994 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
2995 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
2996 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
2997
2998 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
39956c7c
AJ
2999
3000 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3001 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3002 causes.
41bd17a4 3003DOC_END
53e738c6 3004
41bd17a4 3005NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3006COMMENT: time-units
3007TYPE: time_t
3008LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3009DEFAULT: 6 hours
3010DOC_START
3011 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3012 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3013 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3014DOC_END
c4ab8329 3015
41bd17a4 3016NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3017COMMENT: time-units
3018TYPE: time_t
3019LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3020DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3021DOC_START
3022 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3023 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3024 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3025 much below 10 seconds.
3026DOC_END
7df0bfd7 3027
41bd17a4 3028NAME: range_offset_limit
3029COMMENT: (bytes)
3030TYPE: b_int64_t
3031LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
3032DEFAULT: 0 KB
3033DOC_START
3034 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
3035 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
3036 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
3037 is NOT cached.
c4ab8329 3038
41bd17a4 3039 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3040 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3041 sending anything to the client.
a7ad6e4e 3042
41bd17a4 3043 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
3044 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
a7ad6e4e 3045
41bd17a4 3046 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
3047 client requested. (default)
3048DOC_END
d95b862f 3049
41bd17a4 3050NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3051COMMENT: (seconds)
3052TYPE: time_t
3053LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3054DEFAULT: 60 seconds
3055DOC_START
3056 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
3057 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 3058 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 3059 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
3060 is most likely better to make your server return a
3061 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
3062 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
3063 often be best set to 0.
3064DOC_END
c68e9c6b 3065
41bd17a4 3066NAME: store_avg_object_size
3067COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 3068TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 3069DEFAULT: 13 KB
3070LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3071DOC_START
3072 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3073 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 3074DOC_END
3075
41bd17a4 3076NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3077TYPE: int
3078DEFAULT: 20
3079LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3080DOC_START
3081 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3082 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3083 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
3084DOC_END
3085
3086COMMENT_START
3087 HTTP OPTIONS
3088 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3089COMMENT_END
3090
f04b37d8 3091NAME: request_header_max_size
3092COMMENT: (KB)
3093TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3094DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3095LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
3096DOC_START
3097 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
3098 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3099 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
3100 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3101 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3102DOC_END
3103
3104NAME: reply_header_max_size
3105COMMENT: (KB)
3106TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3107DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3108LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
3109DOC_START
3110 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
3111 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3112 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
3113 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3114 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3115DOC_END
3116
3117NAME: request_body_max_size
3118COMMENT: (bytes)
3119TYPE: b_int64_t
3120DEFAULT: 0 KB
3121LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
3122DOC_START
3123 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
3124 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
3125 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
3126 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
3127 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
3128 be no limit imposed.
3129DOC_END
3130
41bd17a4 3131NAME: broken_posts
cccac0a2 3132TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 3133DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3134LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 3135DOC_START
41bd17a4 3136 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
3137 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 3138
41bd17a4 3139 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
3140 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 3141
41bd17a4 3142 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 3143
41bd17a4 3144 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
3145 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
3146 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
3147 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 3148
41bd17a4 3149Example:
3150 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
3151 broken_posts allow buggy_server
3152DOC_END
cccac0a2 3153
41bd17a4 3154NAME: via
3155IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3156COMMENT: on|off
3157TYPE: onoff
3158DEFAULT: on
3159LOC: Config.onoff.via
3160DOC_START
3161 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3162 replies as required by RFC2616.
3163DOC_END
4cc6eb12 3164
41bd17a4 3165NAME: ie_refresh
3166COMMENT: on|off
3167TYPE: onoff
3168LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
3169DEFAULT: off
3170DOC_START
3171 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
3172 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
3173 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
3174 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
3175 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
3176 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
3177 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
3178 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
3179 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
3180 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
3181 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
3182 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
3183 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
3184 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
3185 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
3186 force fresh content.
3187DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 3188
41bd17a4 3189NAME: vary_ignore_expire
3190COMMENT: on|off
3191TYPE: onoff
3192LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
3193DEFAULT: off
3194DOC_START
3195 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
3196 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
3197 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
3198 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
3199 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
3200 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
3201 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 3202DOC_END
c4ab8329 3203
41bd17a4 3204NAME: request_entities
3205TYPE: onoff
3206LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
3207DEFAULT: off
3208DOC_START
3209 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
3210 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
3211 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 3212
41bd17a4 3213 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
3214 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
3215 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
3216 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
3217 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 3218DOC_END
6b53c392 3219
41bd17a4 3220NAME: request_header_access
3221IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3222TYPE: http_header_access[]
3223LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3224DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 3225DOC_START
41bd17a4 3226 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 3227
41bd17a4 3228 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3229 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3230 causes.
0976f8db 3231
41bd17a4 3232 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3233 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3234 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3235 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3236 mangling.
934b03fc 3237
41bd17a4 3238 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3239 client to the server.
5401aa8d 3240
41bd17a4 3241 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3242 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3243 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 3244
41bd17a4 3245 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3246 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 3247
41bd17a4 3248 request_header_access From deny all
3249 request_header_access Referer deny all
3250 request_header_access Server deny all
3251 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3252 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3253 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 3254
41bd17a4 3255 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3256 you should use:
5401aa8d 3257
41bd17a4 3258 request_header_access Allow allow all
3259 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3260 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3261 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3262 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3263 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3264 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3265 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3266 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3267 request_header_access Date allow all
3268 request_header_access Expires allow all
3269 request_header_access Host allow all
3270 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3271 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3272 request_header_access Location allow all
3273 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3274 request_header_access Accept allow all
3275 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3276 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3277 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3278 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3279 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3280 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3281 request_header_access Title allow all
3282 request_header_access Connection allow all
3283 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3284 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 3285
41bd17a4 3286 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3287 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 3288
41bd17a4 3289 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3290 performed).
5401aa8d 3291DOC_END
3292
41bd17a4 3293NAME: reply_header_access
3294IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3295TYPE: http_header_access[]
3296LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 3297DEFAULT: none
3298DOC_START
41bd17a4 3299 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 3300
41bd17a4 3301 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3302 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3303 causes.
934b03fc 3304
41bd17a4 3305 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3306 server to the client.
934b03fc 3307
41bd17a4 3308 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3309 direction.
6b53c392 3310
41bd17a4 3311 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3312 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3313 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3314 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3315 mangling.
cccac0a2 3316
41bd17a4 3317 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3318 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3319 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 3320
41bd17a4 3321 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3322 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 3323
41bd17a4 3324 reply_header_access From deny all
3325 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3326 reply_header_access Server deny all
3327 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3328 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3329 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3330
41bd17a4 3331 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3332 you should use:
cccac0a2 3333
41bd17a4 3334 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3335 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3336 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3337 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3338 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3339 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3340 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3341 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3342 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3343 reply_header_access Date allow all
3344 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3345 reply_header_access Host allow all
3346 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3347 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3348 reply_header_access Location allow all
3349 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3350 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3351 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3352 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3353 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3354 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3355 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3356 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3357 reply_header_access Title allow all
3358 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3359 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3360 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 3361
41bd17a4 3362 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3363 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3364
41bd17a4 3365 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3366 performed).
cccac0a2 3367DOC_END
3368
41bd17a4 3369NAME: header_replace
3370IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3371TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3372LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3373DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3374DOC_START
3375 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3376 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 3377
41bd17a4 3378 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3379 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3380 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3381 option.
cccac0a2 3382
41bd17a4 3383 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 3384
41bd17a4 3385 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3386DOC_END
cccac0a2 3387
41bd17a4 3388NAME: relaxed_header_parser
3389COMMENT: on|off|warn
3390TYPE: tristate
3391LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
3392DEFAULT: on
3393DOC_START
3394 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
3395 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
3396 what the sending application intended even if the message
3397 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
3398 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 3399
41bd17a4 3400 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
3401 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 3402
41bd17a4 3403 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
3404 or response to be rejected.
3405DOC_END
7d90757b 3406
41bd17a4 3407COMMENT_START
3408 TIMEOUTS
3409 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3410COMMENT_END
3411
3412NAME: forward_timeout
3413COMMENT: time-units
3414TYPE: time_t
3415LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
3416DEFAULT: 4 minutes
3417DOC_START
3418 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
3419 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 3420DOC_END
3421
41bd17a4 3422NAME: connect_timeout
3423COMMENT: time-units
3424TYPE: time_t
3425LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
3426DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 3427DOC_START
41bd17a4 3428 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
3429 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
3430 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 3431DOC_END
3432
41bd17a4 3433NAME: peer_connect_timeout
3434COMMENT: time-units
3435TYPE: time_t
3436LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
3437DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3438DOC_START
41bd17a4 3439 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
3440 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
3441 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
3442 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
3443DOC_END
7f7db318 3444
41bd17a4 3445NAME: read_timeout
3446COMMENT: time-units
3447TYPE: time_t
3448LOC: Config.Timeout.read
3449DEFAULT: 15 minutes
3450DOC_START
3451 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
3452 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
3453 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
3454 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
3455 default is 15 minutes.
3456DOC_END
cccac0a2 3457
41bd17a4 3458NAME: request_timeout
3459TYPE: time_t
3460LOC: Config.Timeout.request
3461DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3462DOC_START
3463 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
3464 connection establishment.
3465DOC_END
cccac0a2 3466
41bd17a4 3467NAME: persistent_request_timeout
3468TYPE: time_t
3469LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
3470DEFAULT: 2 minutes
3471DOC_START
3472 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
3473 connection after the previous request completes.
3474DOC_END
cccac0a2 3475
41bd17a4 3476NAME: client_lifetime
3477COMMENT: time-units
3478TYPE: time_t
3479LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
3480DEFAULT: 1 day
3481DOC_START
3482 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
3483 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
3484 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
3485 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
3486 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
3487 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
3488 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 3489
41bd17a4 3490 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
3491 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
3492 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
3493 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
3494 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
3495 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 3496DOC_END
3497
41bd17a4 3498NAME: half_closed_clients
3499TYPE: onoff
3500LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
3501DEFAULT: on
4eb368f9 3502DOC_START
41bd17a4 3503 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
3504 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
3505 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
3506 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
3507 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
3508 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
3509 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
3510 "no more data to read."
4eb368f9 3511DOC_END
3512
41bd17a4 3513NAME: pconn_timeout
3514TYPE: time_t
3515LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
3516DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 3517DOC_START
41bd17a4 3518 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
3519 proxies.
3520DOC_END
cccac0a2 3521
41bd17a4 3522NAME: ident_timeout
3523TYPE: time_t
3524IFDEF: USE_IDENT
3525LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
3526DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3527DOC_START
3528 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 3529
41bd17a4 3530 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
3531 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
3532 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 3533DOC_END
3534
41bd17a4 3535NAME: shutdown_lifetime
3536COMMENT: time-units
3537TYPE: time_t
3538LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
3539DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3540DOC_START
41bd17a4 3541 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
3542 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
3543 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
3544 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
3545 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 3546DOC_END
0976f8db 3547
cccac0a2 3548COMMENT_START
3549 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3550 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3551COMMENT_END
3552
3553NAME: cache_mgr
3554TYPE: string
3555DEFAULT: webmaster
3556LOC: Config.adminEmail
3557DOC_START
3558 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3559 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3560DOC_END
3561
abacf776 3562NAME: mail_from
3563TYPE: string
3564DEFAULT: none
3565LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3566DOC_START
3567 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3568 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3569 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3570 src/globals.h before building squid.
3571DOC_END
3572
d084bf20 3573NAME: mail_program
3574TYPE: eol
3575DEFAULT: mail
3576LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3577DOC_START
3578 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 3579 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 3580 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 3581 mail-program recipient < mailfile
3582
d084bf20 3583 Optional command line options can be specified.
3584DOC_END
3585
cccac0a2 3586NAME: cache_effective_user
3587TYPE: string
5483d916 3588DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 3589LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3590DOC_START
3591 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3592 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 3593 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 3594 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 3595DOC_END
3596
cccac0a2 3597NAME: cache_effective_group
3598TYPE: string
3599DEFAULT: none
3600LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3601DOC_START
64e288bd 3602 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
3603 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
3604 from the groups membership.
3605
e3d74828 3606 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3607 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3608 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 3609 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 3610 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 3611 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 3612 group.
64e288bd 3613
3614 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
3615 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
3616 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 3617DOC_END
3618
d3caee79 3619NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3620COMMENT: on|off
3621TYPE: onoff
3622DEFAULT: off
3623LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3624DOC_START
3625 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3626DOC_END
3627
cccac0a2 3628NAME: visible_hostname
3629TYPE: string
3630LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3631DEFAULT: none
3632DOC_START
3633 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3634 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3635 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3636 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3637 names with this setting.
3638DOC_END
3639
cccac0a2 3640NAME: unique_hostname
3641TYPE: string
3642LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3643DEFAULT: none
3644DOC_START
3645 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3646 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3647 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3648DOC_END
3649
cccac0a2 3650NAME: hostname_aliases
3651TYPE: wordlist
3652LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3653DEFAULT: none
3654DOC_START
7f7db318 3655 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3656DOC_END
0976f8db 3657
c642c141
AJ
3658NAME: umask
3659TYPE: int
3660LOC: Config.umask
3661DEFAULT: 027
3662DOC_START
3663 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
3664 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
3665
3666 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
3667 your value with 0.
3668DOC_END
3669
cccac0a2 3670COMMENT_START
3671 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3672 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3673
3674 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3675 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3676 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3677 create cache hierarchies.
3678
3679 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3680 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3681 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3682
3683 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3684 following information from this configuration file:
3685
3686 http_port
3687 icp_port
3688 cache_mgr
3689
3690 All current information is processed regularly and made
3691 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3692COMMENT_END
3693
3694NAME: announce_period
3695TYPE: time_t
3696LOC: Config.Announce.period
3697DEFAULT: 0
3698DOC_START
3699 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3700 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3701 messages.
3702
3703 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3704 below.
3705
3706NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3707#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3708#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3709NOCOMMENT_END
3710DOC_END
3711
cccac0a2 3712NAME: announce_host
3713TYPE: string
3714DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3715LOC: Config.Announce.host
3716DOC_NONE
3717
3718NAME: announce_file
3719TYPE: string
3720DEFAULT: none
3721LOC: Config.Announce.file
3722DOC_NONE
3723
3724NAME: announce_port
3725TYPE: ushort
3726DEFAULT: 3131
3727LOC: Config.Announce.port
3728DOC_START
3729 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3730 number where the registration message will be sent.
3731
3732 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3733 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3734 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3735 message.
3736DOC_END
3737
8d6275c0 3738COMMENT_START
3739 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
3740 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3741COMMENT_END
3742
cccac0a2 3743NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
f41735ea 3744IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3745TYPE: string
3746LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3747DEFAULT: unset-id
3748DOC_START
3749 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3750 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3751 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3752 an identification token.
3753DOC_END
3754
3755NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
f41735ea 3756IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3757COMMENT: on|off
3758TYPE: onoff
3759DEFAULT: off
3760LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3761DOC_START
3762 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3763 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3764DOC_END
3765
3766NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 3767IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 3768COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3769TYPE: string
3770LOC: ESIParser::Type
3771DEFAULT: custom
3772DOC_START
3773 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3774 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3775 encodings.
3776DOC_END
0976f8db 3777
9edd9041 3778COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3779 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 3780 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3781COMMENT_END
3782
3783NAME: delay_pools
3784TYPE: delay_pool_count
3785DEFAULT: 0
3786IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3787LOC: Config.Delay
3788DOC_START
3789 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3790 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3791 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3792DOC_END
3793
3794NAME: delay_class
3795TYPE: delay_pool_class
3796DEFAULT: none
3797IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3798LOC: Config.Delay
3799DOC_START
3800 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3801 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3802 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3803 and here would be:
3804
3805Example:
3806 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3807 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3808 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3809 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3810 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3811
3812 The delay pool classes are:
3813
3814 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3815 bucket.
3816
3817 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3818 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3819 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3820
3821 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3822 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3823 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3824 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3825 32 of the IP address.
3826
3827 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
3828 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3829 only takes effect if the username is established
3830 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3831 http_access rules.
3832
3833 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
3834 external_acl's tag= reply).
3835
3836 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3837 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3838 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3839 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3840DOC_END
3841
3842NAME: delay_access
3843TYPE: delay_pool_access
3844DEFAULT: none
3845IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3846LOC: Config.Delay
3847DOC_START
3848 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3849
3850 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
3851 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
3852 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
3853 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
3854
3855 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3856 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3857
3858Example:
3859 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3860 delay_access 1 deny all
3861 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3862 delay_access 2 deny all
3863 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3864DOC_END
3865
3866NAME: delay_parameters
3867TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3868DEFAULT: none
3869IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3870LOC: Config.Delay
3871DOC_START
3872 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3873 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3874 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3875
3876delay_parameters pool aggregate
3877
3878 For a class 2 delay pool:
3879
3880delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3881
3882 For a class 3 delay pool:
3883
3884delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3885
3886 For a class 4 delay pool:
3887
3888delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3889
3890 For a class 5 delay pool:
3891
3892delay_parameters pool tag
3893
3894 The variables here are:
3895
3896 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3897 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3898 delay_class lines.
3899
3900 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3901 (class 1, 2, 3).
3902
3903 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3904 buckets (class 2, 3).
3905
3906 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3907 (class 3).
3908
3909 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
3910 (class 4).
3911
3912 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
3913 (class 5).
3914
3915 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3916 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3917 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3918 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3919
3920 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3921 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3922 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3923
3924delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3925
3926 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3927
3928 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3929 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3930 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3931 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3932 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3933 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3934 large downloads more significantly:
3935
3936delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
3937
3938 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
3939
3940 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
3941 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
3942
3943delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
3944DOC_END
3945
3946NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3947COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3948TYPE: ushort
3949DEFAULT: 50
3950IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3951LOC: Config.Delay.initial
3952DOC_START
3953 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3954 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3955 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3956 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3957 "seen" by squid).
3958DOC_END
3959
cccac0a2 3960COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3961 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 3962 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3963COMMENT_END
3964
8d6275c0 3965NAME: wccp_router
3966TYPE: address
3967LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3968DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3969IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3970DOC_NONE
df2eec10 3971
8d6275c0 3972NAME: wccp2_router
cc192b50 3973TYPE: IPAddress_list
8d6275c0 3974LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 3975DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 3976IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3977DOC_START
8d6275c0 3978 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3979 Squid.
cccac0a2 3980
8d6275c0 3981 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 3982
8d6275c0 3983 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 3984
8d6275c0 3985 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
3986 which version of WCCP to use.
3987DOC_END
3988
3989NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 3990TYPE: int
8d6275c0 3991LOC: Config.Wccp.version
3992DEFAULT: 4
3993IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 3994DOC_START
8d6275c0 3995 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
3996 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
3997 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
3998 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
3999 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 4000
8d6275c0 4001 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4002 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4003 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4004 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 4005DOC_END
4006
8d6275c0 4007NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4008TYPE: onoff
4009LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4010DEFAULT: on
4011IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4012DOC_START
4013 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4014 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4015DOC_END
cccac0a2 4016
8d6275c0 4017NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
4018TYPE: int
4019LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
4020DEFAULT: 1
4021IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4022DOC_START
699acd19 4023 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 4024 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4025
8d6275c0 4026 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4027 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4028
8d6275c0 4029 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4030 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 4031DOC_END
4032
8d6275c0 4033NAME: wccp2_return_method
4034TYPE: int
4035LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
4036DEFAULT: 1
4037IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4038DOC_START
699acd19 4039 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 4040 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4041 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4042
8d6275c0 4043 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4044 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4045
8d6275c0 4046 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4047 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 4048
699acd19 4049 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 4050 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4051 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4052 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 4053DOC_END
4054
8d6275c0 4055NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
4056TYPE: int
4057LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
4058DEFAULT: 1
4059IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4060DOC_START
8d6275c0 4061 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4062 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4063
8d6275c0 4064 1 - Hash assignment
4065 2 - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 4066
8d6275c0 4067 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4068 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4069DOC_END
cccac0a2 4070
8d6275c0 4071NAME: wccp2_service
4072TYPE: wccp2_service
4073LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4074DEFAULT: none
4075DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4076IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4077DOC_START
4078 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4079 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4080 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4081 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4082 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4083 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4084
4085 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4086 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4087
4088 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4089 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4090
4091 Examples:
4092
4093 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4094 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4095 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4096 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 4097DOC_END
4098
4099NAME: wccp2_service_info
4100TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4101LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4102DEFAULT: none
4103IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4104DOC_START
4105 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4106 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4107
4108 The format is:
4109
4110 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4111 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4112
4113 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4114 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 4115 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 4116 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4117 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4118 + ports_source
4119
4120 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4121
4122 Example:
4123
4124 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4125 priority=240 ports=80
4126
4127 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4128 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4129DOC_END
4130
4131NAME: wccp2_weight
4132TYPE: int
4133LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4134DEFAULT: 10000
4135IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4136DOC_START
4137 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4138 hash proportional to their weight.
4139DOC_END
4140
4141NAME: wccp_address
4142TYPE: address
4143LOC: Config.Wccp.address
4144DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4145IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4146DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4147
8d6275c0 4148NAME: wccp2_address
4149TYPE: address
4150LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4151DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4152IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4153DOC_START
4154 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4155 interface address.
4156
4157 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4158DOC_END
4159
4160COMMENT_START
4161 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
4162 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4163
4164 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
4165COMMENT_END
4166
4167NAME: client_persistent_connections
4168TYPE: onoff
4169LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4170DEFAULT: on
4171DOC_NONE
4172
4173NAME: server_persistent_connections
4174TYPE: onoff
4175LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4176DEFAULT: on
4177DOC_START
4178 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4179 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4180 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4181 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4182DOC_END
4183
4184NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
4185TYPE: onoff
4186LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4187DEFAULT: off
4188DOC_START
4189 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4190 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4191 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
4192DOC_END
4193
4194NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4195TYPE: onoff
4196LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4197DEFAULT: off
4198DOC_START
4199 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4200 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4201 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4202 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4203
4204 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4205 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4206 after 10 seconds timeout.
4207DOC_END
4208
4209COMMENT_START
4210 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
4211 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4212COMMENT_END
4213
4214NAME: digest_generation
4215IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4216TYPE: onoff
4217LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4218DEFAULT: on
4219DOC_START
4220 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4221 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 4222 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 4223DOC_END
4224
4225NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4226IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4227TYPE: int
4228LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4229DEFAULT: 5
4230DOC_START
4231 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4232 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4233 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4234DOC_END
4235
4236NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4237IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4238COMMENT: (seconds)
4239TYPE: time_t
4240LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4241DEFAULT: 1 hour
4242DOC_START
749ceff8 4243 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 4244DOC_END
4245
4246NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4247COMMENT: (seconds)
4248IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4249TYPE: time_t
4250LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4251DEFAULT: 1 hour
4252DOC_START
749ceff8 4253 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 4254 disk.
4255DOC_END
4256
4257NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4258COMMENT: (bytes)
4259TYPE: b_size_t
4260IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4261LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4262DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4263DOC_START
4264 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4265 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4266 default swap page.
4267DOC_END
4268
4269NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4270COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4271IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4272TYPE: int
4273LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4274DEFAULT: 10
4275DOC_START
4276 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4277 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4278DOC_END
4279
1db9eacd 4280COMMENT_START
5473c134 4281 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 4282 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4283COMMENT_END
4284
5473c134 4285NAME: snmp_port
4286TYPE: ushort
4287LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 4288DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4289IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4290DOC_START
87630341 4291 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
4292 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
4293 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
4294 set to "0" (disabled)
4295NOCOMMENT_START
4296#snmp_port 3401
4297NOCOMMENT_END
8d6275c0 4298DOC_END
4299
5473c134 4300NAME: snmp_access
4301TYPE: acl_access
4302LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 4303DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4304DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4305IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4306DOC_START
5473c134 4307 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 4308
5473c134 4309 All access to the agent is denied by default.
4310 usage:
8d6275c0 4311
5473c134 4312 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 4313
5473c134 4314Example:
4315 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
4316 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 4317DOC_END
4318
5473c134 4319NAME: snmp_incoming_address
4320TYPE: address
4321LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4322DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4323IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4324DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4325
5473c134 4326NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4327TYPE: address
4328LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4329DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4330IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 4331DOC_START
df2eec10 4332 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 4333
5473c134 4334 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4335 messages from SNMP agents.
4336 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4337 agents.
cccac0a2 4338
5473c134 4339 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4340 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 4341
5473c134 4342 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
4343 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
4344 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4345 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 4346
5473c134 4347 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4348 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 4349DOC_END
4350
5473c134 4351COMMENT_START
4352 ICP OPTIONS
4353 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4354COMMENT_END
4355
4356NAME: icp_port udp_port
4357TYPE: ushort
4358DEFAULT: 0
4359LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 4360DOC_START
5473c134 4361 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
4362 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
4363 Default is disabled (0).
4364NOCOMMENT_START
df2eec10 4365#icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
5473c134 4366NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4367DOC_END
4368
5473c134 4369NAME: htcp_port
4370IFDEF: USE_HTCP
4371TYPE: ushort
87630341 4372DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4373LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 4374DOC_START
5473c134 4375 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 4376 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
4377 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
4378NOCOMMENT_START
4379#htcp_port 4827
4380NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4381DOC_END
4382
4383NAME: log_icp_queries
4384COMMENT: on|off
4385TYPE: onoff
4386DEFAULT: on
4387LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
4388DOC_START
4389 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
4390 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
4391 up or to simplify log analysis.
4392DOC_END
4393
5473c134 4394NAME: udp_incoming_address
4395TYPE: address
4396LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
4397DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
8524d4b2 4398DOC_START
4399 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
4400 caches.
4401
4402 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4403
4404 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
4405 a specific interface/address.
4406
4407 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4408 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4409
4410 see also; udp_outgoing_address
4411
4412 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
4413 have the same value since they both use the same port.
4414DOC_END
cccac0a2 4415
5473c134 4416NAME: udp_outgoing_address
4417TYPE: address
4418LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
4419DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
cccac0a2 4420DOC_START
8524d4b2 4421 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 4422 caches.
cccac0a2 4423
5473c134 4424 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4425
8524d4b2 4426 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
4427 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
4428 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 4429 caches.
4430
8524d4b2 4431 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4432 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4433
4434 see also; udp_incoming_address
4435
5473c134 4436 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 4437 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 4438DOC_END
4439
3d1e3e43 4440NAME: icp_hit_stale
4441COMMENT: on|off
4442TYPE: onoff
4443DEFAULT: off
4444LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
4445DOC_START
4446 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
4447 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
4448 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
4449 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
4450 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
4451 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
4452 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
4453DOC_END
4454
5473c134 4455NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 4456TYPE: int
5473c134 4457DEFAULT: 4
4458LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 4459DOC_START
5473c134 4460 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4461 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 4462DOC_END
4463
5473c134 4464NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
4465TYPE: int
4466DEFAULT: 400
4467LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 4468DOC_START
5473c134 4469 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4470 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 4471DOC_END
4472
cccac0a2 4473NAME: netdb_low
4474TYPE: int
4475DEFAULT: 900
4476LOC: Config.Netdb.low
4477DOC_NONE
4478
4479NAME: netdb_high
4480TYPE: int
4481DEFAULT: 1000
4482LOC: Config.Netdb.high
4483DOC_START
4484 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
4485 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
4486 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
4487 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
4488DOC_END
4489
cccac0a2 4490NAME: netdb_ping_period
4491TYPE: time_t
4492LOC: Config.Netdb.period
4493DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4494DOC_START
4495 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
4496 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
4497 network. The default is five minutes.
4498DOC_END
4499
cccac0a2 4500NAME: query_icmp
4501COMMENT: on|off
4502TYPE: onoff
4503DEFAULT: off
4504LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
4505DOC_START
4506 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
4507 replies, enable this option.
4508
4509 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 4510 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
4511 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 4512 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
4513 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
4514 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
4515 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
4516 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
4517DOC_END
4518
4519NAME: test_reachability
4520COMMENT: on|off
4521TYPE: onoff
4522DEFAULT: off
4523LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
4524DOC_START
4525 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
4526 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
4527 database, or has a zero RTT.
4528DOC_END
4529
5473c134 4530NAME: icp_query_timeout
4531COMMENT: (msec)
4532DEFAULT: 0
4533TYPE: int
4534LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 4535DOC_START
5473c134 4536 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
4537 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
4538 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
4539 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
4540 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
4541 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 4542
5473c134 4543 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 4544DOC_END
4545
5473c134 4546NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
4547COMMENT: (msec)
4548DEFAULT: 2000
4549TYPE: int
4550LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 4551DOC_START
5473c134 4552 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4553 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
4554 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
4555 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4556 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4557 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4558DOC_END
4559
5473c134 4560NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
4561COMMENT: (msec)
4562DEFAULT: 5
4563TYPE: int
4564LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 4565DOC_START
5473c134 4566 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4567 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
4568 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
4569 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
4570 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4571 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4572 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4573DOC_END
4574
5473c134 4575NAME: background_ping_rate
4576COMMENT: time-units
4577TYPE: time_t
4578DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4579LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 4580DOC_START
5473c134 4581 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
4582 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 4583DOC_END
4584
5473c134 4585COMMENT_START
4586 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
4587 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4588COMMENT_END
4589
4590NAME: mcast_groups
4591TYPE: wordlist
4592LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 4593DEFAULT: none
4594DOC_START
5473c134 4595 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
4596 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 4597
5473c134 4598 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
4599 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
4600 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
4601 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
4602 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
4603 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
4604 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 4605
5473c134 4606 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
4607 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 4608
5473c134 4609 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
4610 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 4611
5473c134 4612 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 4613
5473c134 4614 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
4615DOC_END
8c01ada0 4616
5473c134 4617NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4618IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4619TYPE: address
4620LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4621DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4622DOC_START
4623 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4624 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 4625
5473c134 4626 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4627 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 4628DOC_END
4629
5473c134 4630NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
4631IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4632TYPE: ushort
4633LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4634DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 4635DOC_START
5473c134 4636 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4637 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4638 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4639DOC_END
cccac0a2 4640
5473c134 4641NAME: mcast_miss_port
4642IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4643TYPE: ushort
4644LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4645DEFAULT: 3135
4646DOC_START
4647 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4648 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4649DOC_END
cccac0a2 4650
5473c134 4651NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4652IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4653TYPE: string
4654LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4655DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4656DOC_START
4657 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4658 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4659DOC_END
8c01ada0 4660
5473c134 4661NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
4662COMMENT: (msec)
4663DEFAULT: 2000
4664TYPE: int
4665LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
4666DOC_START
4667 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
4668 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
4669 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
4670 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
4671 seconds.
cccac0a2 4672DOC_END
4673
5473c134 4674COMMENT_START
4675 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
4676 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4677COMMENT_END
4678
cccac0a2 4679NAME: icon_directory
4680TYPE: string
4681LOC: Config.icons.directory
4682DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4683DOC_START
4684 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
4685 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4686DOC_END
4687
f024c970 4688NAME: global_internal_static
4689TYPE: onoff
4690LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
4691DEFAULT: on
4692DOC_START
4693 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
4694 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
4695 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
4696 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
4697 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
4698 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
4699 the server generating a directory listing.
4700DOC_END
4701
5473c134 4702NAME: short_icon_urls
4703TYPE: onoff
4704LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
4705DEFAULT: on
4706DOC_START
4707 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
4708 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
4709 it's own name and port in the URL.
4710
4711 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
4712 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
4713DOC_END
4714
4715COMMENT_START
4716 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
4717 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4718COMMENT_END
4719
4720NAME: error_directory
4721TYPE: string
4722LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 4723DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4724DOC_START
4725 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
43000484
AJ
4726 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
4727 the error/template files to another directory and point
4728 this tag at them.
4729
4730 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
4731 on error pages if used.
5473c134 4732
4733 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4734 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 4735 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 4736 contributing your translation back to the project.
43000484
AJ
4737 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
4738
4739 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
4740 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
4741DOC_END
4742
4743NAME: error_default_language
4744IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
4745TYPE: string
4746LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
4747DEFAULT: none
4748DOC_START
4749 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
4750 if no existing translation matches the clients language
4751 preferences.
4752
4753 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
4754
4755 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4756 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
4757 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
4758 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 4759DOC_END
4760
4761NAME: err_html_text
4762TYPE: eol
4763LOC: Config.errHtmlText
4764DEFAULT: none
4765DOC_START
4766 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
4767 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
4768 organizations Web page.
4769
4770 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
4771 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
4772 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
4773 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
4774DOC_END
4775
4776NAME: email_err_data
4777COMMENT: on|off
4778TYPE: onoff
4779LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
4780DEFAULT: on
4781DOC_START
4782 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
4783 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
4784 so that the email body contains the data.
4785 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
4786DOC_END
4787
4788NAME: deny_info
4789TYPE: denyinfo
4790LOC: Config.denyInfoList
4791DEFAULT: none
4792DOC_START
4793 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
4794 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 4795 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 4796
4797 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
4798 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
4799 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
4800 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
4801
4802 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
4803 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
4804 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
4805 the first authentication related acl encountered
4806 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
4807 acl processed on the last http_access line.
4808
43000484
AJ
4809 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
4810 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
4811 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 4812
4813 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
4814 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
4815 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
4816
4817 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
4818 by specifying TCP_RESET.
4819DOC_END
4820
4821COMMENT_START
4822 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
4823 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4824COMMENT_END
4825
4826NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4827TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4828LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4829DEFAULT: on
4830DOC_START
5473c134 4831 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4832 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
4833 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 4834
5473c134 4835 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
4836 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 4837
5473c134 4838 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4839 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4840 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 4841
5473c134 4842 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
4843 this directive.
8d6275c0 4844DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 4845
5473c134 4846NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4847TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4848LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4849DEFAULT: off
4850DOC_START
5473c134 4851 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
4852 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
4853 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 4854
5473c134 4855 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4856 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4857 fails.
4858
4859 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4860 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
4861 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 4862DOC_END
4863
5473c134 4864NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 4865TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 4866LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 4867DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 4868DOC_START
5473c134 4869 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 4870
5473c134 4871 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
4872 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
4873 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
4874 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
4875 something like:
0b0cfcf2 4876
5473c134 4877 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
4878 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 4879
5473c134 4880 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 4881
5473c134 4882 acl FTP proto FTP
4883 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 4884
5473c134 4885 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
4886 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
4887 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
4888 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
4889 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 4890
5473c134 4891 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4892 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4893 always_direct deny local-external
4894 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 4895
5473c134 4896 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
4897 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
4898 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
4899 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 4900
5473c134 4901 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
4902 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
4903 the replies see no_cache.
4904
4905 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
4906 and local_ip.
cccac0a2 4907DOC_END
0976f8db 4908
5473c134 4909NAME: never_direct
4910TYPE: acl_access
4911LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
4912DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4913DOC_START
5473c134 4914 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4915
4916 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
4917 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
4918
4919 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
4920 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
4921 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
4922 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
4923
4924 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 4925 never_direct deny local-servers
4926 never_direct allow all
4927
4928 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
4929 servers inside the firewall use something like:
4930
4931 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
4932 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4933 always_direct deny local-external
4934 always_direct allow local-intranet
4935 never_direct allow all
4936
4937 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
4938 and firewall_ip.
8d6275c0 4939DOC_END
0976f8db 4940
5473c134 4941COMMENT_START
4942 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
4943 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4944COMMENT_END
4945
cccac0a2 4946NAME: incoming_icp_average
4947TYPE: int
4948DEFAULT: 6
4949LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4950DOC_NONE
4951
4952NAME: incoming_http_average
4953TYPE: int
4954DEFAULT: 4
4955LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
4956DOC_NONE
4957
4958NAME: incoming_dns_average
4959TYPE: int
4960DEFAULT: 4
4961LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
4962DOC_NONE
4963
4964NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
4965TYPE: int
4966DEFAULT: 8
4967LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
4968DOC_NONE
4969
4970NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
4971TYPE: int
4972DEFAULT: 8
4973LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
4974DOC_NONE
4975
4976NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
4977TYPE: int
4978DEFAULT: 8
4979LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
4980DOC_START
5473c134 4981 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
4982 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
4983 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
4984DOC_END
4985
4986NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 4987TYPE: string
4988DEFAULT: none
4989LOC: Config.accept_filter
4990DOC_START
0b4d4be5 4991 FreeBSD:
4992
5473c134 4993 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
4994 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
4995 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
4996
4997 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 4998 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 4999 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
5000
5001 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
5002 to Squid until there is some data to process.
5003 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
5004
5005 Linux:
5006
5007 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
5008 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
5009 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
5010 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
5011 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 5012EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 5013# FreeBSD
5473c134 5014accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 5015# Linux
5016accept_filter data
5473c134 5017DOC_END
5018
5019NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
5020COMMENT: (bytes)
5021TYPE: b_size_t
5022DEFAULT: 0 bytes
5023LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
5024DOC_START
5025 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
5026 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
5027 the default buffer size.
5028DOC_END
5029
5030COMMENT_START
5031 ICAP OPTIONS
5032 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5033COMMENT_END
5034
5035NAME: icap_enable
5036TYPE: onoff
5037IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5038COMMENT: on|off
5039LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
5040DEFAULT: off
5041DOC_START
53e738c6 5042 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 5043DOC_END
5044
5045NAME: icap_connect_timeout
5046TYPE: time_t
5047DEFAULT: none
5048LOC: TheICAPConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5049IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5050DOC_START
5051 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5052 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
5053 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
5054
5055 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
5056 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
5057 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
5058DOC_END
5059
5060NAME: icap_io_timeout
5061COMMENT: time-units
5062TYPE: time_t
5063DEFAULT: none
5064LOC: TheICAPConfig.io_timeout_raw
5065IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5066DOC_START
5067 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
5068 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
5069 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
5070 failure.
5071
5072 The default is read_timeout.
5073DOC_END
5074
5075NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
5076TYPE: int
5077IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5078LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_failure_limit
5079DEFAULT: 10
5080DOC_START
5081 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
5082 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
5083 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
5084 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
5085 OPTIONS. The per-service failure counter is reset to zero each
5086 time Squid fetches new service OPTIONS.
5087
5088 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
5089 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
5090 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5091DOC_END
5092
5473c134 5093NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 5094TYPE: int
5473c134 5095IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5096LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_revival_delay
5097DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 5098DOC_START
5473c134 5099 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
5100 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
5101 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
5102 fetched.
cccac0a2 5103
5473c134 5104 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
5105 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 5106DOC_END
5107
5473c134 5108NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 5109TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5110IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5111COMMENT: on|off
5112LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 5113DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5114DOC_START
ac7a62f9 5115 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
5116 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
5117 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
5118 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
5119
5120 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
5121 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
5122 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
5123
5124 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
5125 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
5126Example:
5127icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 5128DOC_END
5129
5473c134 5130NAME: icap_preview_size
5131TYPE: int
5132IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5133LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
5134DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 5135DOC_START
53e738c6 5136 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
5137 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
5138 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5139DOC_END
5140
5473c134 5141NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
5142TYPE: int
5143IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5144LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
5145DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 5146DOC_START
53e738c6 5147 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 5148 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 5149DOC_END
5150
5473c134 5151NAME: icap_persistent_connections
5152TYPE: onoff
5153IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5154COMMENT: on|off
5155LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
5156DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5157DOC_START
5473c134 5158 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
5159 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 5160DOC_END
5161
5473c134 5162NAME: icap_send_client_ip
5163TYPE: onoff
5164IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5165COMMENT: on|off
5166LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
5167DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5168DOC_START
53e738c6 5169 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 5170DOC_END
5171
5473c134 5172NAME: icap_send_client_username
5173TYPE: onoff
5174IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5175COMMENT: on|off
5176LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
5177DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5178DOC_START
5473c134 5179 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
5180 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
5181 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
5182 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 5183DOC_END
5184
5473c134 5185NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 5186TYPE: string
5473c134 5187IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5188LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_header
5189DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 5190DOC_START
5473c134 5191 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 5192DOC_END
5193
5473c134 5194NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 5195TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5196IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5197COMMENT: on|off
5198LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_encode
5199DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5200DOC_START
5473c134 5201 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 5202DOC_END
5203
5473c134 5204NAME: icap_service
5205TYPE: icap_service_type
5206IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5207LOC: TheICAPConfig
5208DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5209DOC_START
53e738c6 5210 Defines a single ICAP service
cccac0a2 5211
53e738c6 5212 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
7d90757b 5213
53e738c6 5214 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 5215 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
5216 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
5217 are not yet supported.
53e738c6 5218 bypass = 1|0
f3db09e2 5219 If set to 1, the ICAP service is treated as optional. If the
5220 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
5221 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
5222 was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be bypassed.
5223 If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as essential and all
5224 ICAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
5225 HTTP client.
53e738c6 5226 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5473c134 5227
5473c134 5228Example:
5229icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
5230icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 5231DOC_END
5232
5473c134 5233NAME: icap_class
5234TYPE: icap_class_type
5235IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5236LOC: TheICAPConfig
5237DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5238DOC_START
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5239 This depricated option was documented to define an ICAP service
5240 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
5241 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 5242
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5243 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
5244 adaptation_service_set directive.
5473c134 5245
62c7f90e
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5246 If you need adaptation service chains, patches or sponsorship
5247 is welcome.
cccac0a2 5248DOC_END
5249
5473c134 5250NAME: icap_access
5251TYPE: icap_access_type
5252IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5253LOC: TheICAPConfig
cccac0a2 5254DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5255DOC_START
62c7f90e
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5256 This option is depricated. Please use adaptation_access, which
5257 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
5258 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 5259DOC_END
5260
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5261COMMENT_START
5262 eCAP OPTIONS
5263 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5264COMMENT_END
5265
5266NAME: loadable_modules
5267TYPE: wordlist
5268IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
5269LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
5270DEFAULT: none
5271DOC_START
5272 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
5273 preloaded module(s).
5274Example:
5275loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
5276DOC_END
5277
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5278COMMENT_START
5279 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
5280 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5281COMMENT_END
5282
5283NAME: adaptation_service_set
5284TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
5285IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5286LOC: none
5287DEFAULT: none
5288DOC_START
5289
5290 Defines a named adaptation service set. The set is populated in
5291 the order of adaptation_service_set directives in this file.
5292 When adaptation ACLs are processed, the first and only the first
5293 applicable adaptation service from the set will be used. Thus,
5294 the set should group similar, redundant services, rather than a
5295 chain of complementary services.
5296
5297 If you have a single adaptation service, you do not need to
5298 define a set containing it because adaptation_access accepts
5299 service names.
5300
5301 See also: adaptation_access
5302
5303Example:
5304adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
5305adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
5306DOC_END
5307
5308NAME: adaptation_access
5309TYPE: adaptation_access_type
5310IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5311LOC: none
5312DEFAULT: none
5313DOC_START
5314 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
5315
5316 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5317 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5318
5319 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
5320 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
5321 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
5322 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
5323
5324 - services serving different vectoring points
5325 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
5326 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
5327 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
5328
5329 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
5330 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
5331 adaptation_service_set for details.
5332
5333 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
5334 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
5335 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
5336 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
5337
5338 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
5339 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
5340
5341 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
5342
5343Example:
5344adaptation_access service_1 allow all
5345DOC_END
5346
5473c134 5347COMMENT_START
5348 DNS OPTIONS
5349 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5350COMMENT_END
5351
5352NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 5353TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5354DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5355LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 5356DOC_START
5473c134 5357 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
5358 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
5359 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 5360DOC_END
5361
5473c134 5362NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 5363TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5364DEFAULT: on
5473c134 5365LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 5366DOC_START
5473c134 5367 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
5368 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
5369 Squid to be strict about the standard.
5370 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 5371DOC_END
5372
5473c134 5373NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 5374TYPE: string
5473c134 5375IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
5376DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
5377LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 5378DOC_START
5473c134 5379 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 5380DOC_END
5381
5473c134 5382NAME: dns_children
5383TYPE: int
5384IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
5385DEFAULT: 5
5386LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 5387DOC_START
5473c134 5388 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
5389 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
5390 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
5391 is 32. The default is 5.
58850d15 5392
5473c134 5393 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
58850d15 5394DOC_END
5395
5473c134 5396NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
5397TYPE: time_t
5398DEFAULT: 5 seconds
5399LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
5400IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5401DOC_START
5473c134 5402 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
5403 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 5404
cccac0a2 5405DOC_END
5406
5473c134 5407NAME: dns_timeout
5408TYPE: time_t
5409DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5410LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
5411IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5412DOC_START
5473c134 5413 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
5414 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
5415 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 5416DOC_END
5417
5473c134 5418NAME: dns_defnames
5419COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 5420TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5421DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5422LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 5423DOC_START
5473c134 5424 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
5425 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
5426 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
5427 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 5428DOC_END
5429
5473c134 5430NAME: dns_nameservers
5431TYPE: wordlist
5432DEFAULT: none
5433LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 5434DOC_START
5473c134 5435 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
5436 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
5437 /etc/resolv.conf file.
5438 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
5439 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
5440 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
5441 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 5442
5473c134 5443 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 5444DOC_END
5445
5473c134 5446NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 5447TYPE: string
5473c134 5448DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
5449LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 5450DOC_START
5473c134 5451 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
5452 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
5453 default locations:
5454 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
5455 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5456 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
5457 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5458 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
5459 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
5460 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
5461 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 5462
5473c134 5463 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
5464 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
5465 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
5466 character are comments.
cccac0a2 5467
5473c134 5468 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
5469 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
5470 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
5471 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
5472 definitions.
cccac0a2 5473DOC_END
5474
5473c134 5475NAME: append_domain
5476TYPE: string
5477LOC: Config.appendDomain
5478DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 5479DOC_START
5473c134 5480 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
5481 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
5482
5483 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
5484 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
5485 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
5486
5487Example:
5488 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 5489DOC_END
5490
5473c134 5491NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
5492TYPE: onoff
5493LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 5494DEFAULT: on
5495DOC_START
5473c134 5496 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
5497 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
5498 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
5499 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
5500 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 5501DOC_END
5502
cc192b50 5503NAME: dns_v4_fallback
5504TYPE: onoff
5505DEFAULT: on
5506LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
5507DOC_START
5508 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
5509 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
5510 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
5511
5512 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
5513 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
5514
5515 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
5516 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
5517
5518 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
5519 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
5520 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
5521DOC_END
5522
6bc15a4f 5523NAME: ipcache_size
5524COMMENT: (number of entries)
5525TYPE: int
5526DEFAULT: 1024
5527LOC: Config.ipcache.size
5528DOC_NONE
5529
5530NAME: ipcache_low
5531COMMENT: (percent)
5532TYPE: int
5533DEFAULT: 90
5534LOC: Config.ipcache.low
5535DOC_NONE
5536
5537NAME: ipcache_high
5538COMMENT: (percent)
5539TYPE: int
5540DEFAULT: 95
5541LOC: Config.ipcache.high
5542DOC_START
5543 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
5544DOC_END
5545
5546NAME: fqdncache_size
5547COMMENT: (number of entries)
5548TYPE: int
5549DEFAULT: 1024
5550LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
5551DOC_START
5552 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
5553DOC_END
5554
a58ff010 5555COMMENT_START
5473c134 5556 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 5557 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5558COMMENT_END
5559
5473c134 5560NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 5561COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5562TYPE: onoff
5563DEFAULT: on
5564LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 5565DOC_START
5473c134 5566 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
5567 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
5568 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
5569 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 5570DOC_END
5571
5473c134 5572NAME: memory_pools_limit
5573COMMENT: (bytes)
5574TYPE: b_size_t
5575DEFAULT: 5 MB
5576LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 5577DOC_START
5473c134 5578 Used only with memory_pools on:
5579 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 5580
5473c134 5581 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
5582 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
5583 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
5584 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
5585 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
5586 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
5587 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 5588
5473c134 5589 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5590 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 5591
5473c134 5592 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
5593 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5594
5595 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
5596 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
5597 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
5598 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 5599DOC_END
5600
5473c134 5601NAME: forwarded_for
67c06f0d
AJ
5602COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
5603TYPE: string
5473c134 5604DEFAULT: on
5605LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 5606DOC_START
67c06f0d
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5607 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
5608 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 5609
5473c134 5610 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
5611
67c06f0d 5612 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 5613
5614 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
67c06f0d
AJ
5615
5616 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
5617 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
5618
5619 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
5620 X-Forwarded-For header.
5621
5622 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
5623 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place itself as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 5624DOC_END
5625
5473c134 5626NAME: cachemgr_passwd
5627TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
5628DEFAULT: none
5629LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 5630DOC_START
5473c134 5631 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 5632
5473c134 5633 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
5634
5635 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
5636 5min
5637 60min
5638 asndb
5639 authenticator
5640 cbdata
5641 client_list
5642 comm_incoming
5643 config *
5644 counters
5645 delay
5646 digest_stats
5647 dns
5648 events
5649 filedescriptors
5650 fqdncache
5651 histograms
5652 http_headers
5653 info
5654 io
5655 ipcache
5656 mem
5657 menu
5658 netdb
5659 non_peers
5660 objects
5661 offline_toggle *
5662 pconn
5663 peer_select
b360c477 5664 reconfigure *
5473c134 5665 redirector
5666 refresh
5667 server_list
5668 shutdown *
5669 store_digest
5670 storedir
5671 utilization
5672 via_headers
5673 vm_objects
5674
5675 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
5676 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
5677
5678 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
5679 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
5680 password to "none".
5681
5682 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
5683
5684Example:
5685 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
5686 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
5687 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 5688DOC_END
5689
5473c134 5690NAME: client_db
a58ff010 5691COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5692TYPE: onoff
5693DEFAULT: on
5694LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 5695DOC_START
5473c134 5696 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
5697 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 5698DOC_END
5699
5473c134 5700NAME: refresh_all_ims
5701COMMENT: on|off
5702TYPE: onoff
5703DEFAULT: off
5704LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 5705DOC_START
5473c134 5706 When you enable this option, squid will always check
5707 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
5708 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
5709 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
5710 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 5711
5473c134 5712 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
5713 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 5714DOC_END
5715
5473c134 5716NAME: reload_into_ims
5717IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 5718COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5719TYPE: onoff
5720DEFAULT: off
5721LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 5722DOC_START
5473c134 5723 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
5724 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
5725 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
5726 feature could make you liable for problems which it
5727 causes.
5728
5729 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 5730DOC_END
5731
5473c134 5732NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
5733TYPE: int
5734LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
5735DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 5736DOC_START
5473c134 5737 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
5738 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
5739 each address is tried once).
5740
5741 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
5742 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
5743 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
5744
5745 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
5746 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 5747DOC_END
5748
5473c134 5749NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 5750TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5751LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 5752DEFAULT: off
5753DOC_START
5473c134 5754 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
5755 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
5756 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
5757 control errors.
5f8252d2 5758DOC_END
5759
5473c134 5760NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 5761TYPE: string
5473c134 5762LOC: Config.as_whois_server
5763DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5764DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 5765DOC_START
5473c134 5766 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
5767 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 5768DOC_END
5769
5473c134 5770NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 5771TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5772LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 5773DEFAULT: off
5774DOC_START
5473c134 5775 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
5776 objects.
a58ff010 5777DOC_END
5778
5473c134 5779NAME: uri_whitespace
5780TYPE: uri_whitespace
5781LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
5782DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 5783DOC_START
5473c134 5784 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
5785 URI. Options:
a58ff010 5786
5473c134 5787 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
5788 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
5789 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
5790 Request" message.
5791 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
5792 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
5793 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
5794 are in use.
5795 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
5796 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
5797 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
5798 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
5799 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
5800 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
5801 violation.
5802DOC_END
a58ff010 5803
5473c134 5804NAME: coredump_dir
5805TYPE: string
5806LOC: Config.coredump_dir
5807DEFAULT: none
5808DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
5809DOC_START
5810 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5811 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5812 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5813 and coredump files will be left there.
a58ff010 5814
5473c134 5815NOCOMMENT_START
5816# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5817coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
5818NOCOMMENT_END
5819DOC_END
a58ff010 5820
5473c134 5821NAME: chroot
5822TYPE: string
5823LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 5824DEFAULT: none
5825DOC_START
5473c134 5826 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
5827 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
5828 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
5829 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will may get an
5830 error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5831DOC_END
a58ff010 5832
5473c134 5833NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
5834TYPE: onoff
5835LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 5836DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5837DOC_START
cc192b50 5838 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
5839 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
5840 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
5841
5473c134 5842 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
5843 found not to preserve user session state across requests
5844 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 5845
cc192b50 5846 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 5847DOC_END
5848
5473c134 5849NAME: pipeline_prefetch
5850TYPE: onoff
5851LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
5852DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 5853DOC_START
5473c134 5854 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
5855 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5856 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 5857
5473c134 5858 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
5859 reasons.
5860DOC_END
a58ff010 5861
5473c134 5862NAME: high_response_time_warning
5863TYPE: int
5864COMMENT: (msec)
5865LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
5866DEFAULT: 0
5867DOC_START
5868 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
5869 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
5870 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 5871DOC_END
5872
5473c134 5873NAME: high_page_fault_warning
5874TYPE: int
5875LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
5876DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 5877DOC_START
5473c134 5878 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
5879 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5880 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
5881 per second.
5882DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5883
5473c134 5884NAME: high_memory_warning
5885TYPE: b_size_t
5886LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 5887DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 5888DOC_START
5889 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 5890 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 5891 the administrators attention.
5892DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5893
5473c134 5894NAME: sleep_after_fork
5895COMMENT: (microseconds)
5896TYPE: int
5897LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
5898DEFAULT: 0
5899DOC_START
5900 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
5901 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
5902 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
5903 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
5904 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
5905 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
5906 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
5907 until all the child processes have been started.
5908 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
5909 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 5910DOC_END
5911
b6696974
GS
5912NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
5913COMMENT: on|off
5914TYPE: onoff
5915DEFAULT: on
5916LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
5917DOC_START
5918 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
5919 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
5920 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
5921 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
5922 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
5923 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
5924DOC_END
5925
cccac0a2 5926EOF